Change - how do you make sure you don’t stop? | Jean MacAskill Kerr | TEDxGlasgow

When it comes to change – getting started and taking those first steps can be the hardest thing to do. In Jean MacAskill Kerr’s experience, she found sustaining change was, in fact, much harder than starting. Thirteen years of fresh starts built a pretty strong starting muscle. What Jean really needed was a sustaining muscle! Only when Jean had a total rethink of her beliefs on change, success and failure did she have a breakthrough moment. In her talk, Jean will take you through her journey of fear, discomfort, joy, setbacks and occasional minor victories. Instead of constantly starting – Jean has found a “get back up and keep going” approach has completely changed not only her health and wellbeing but also how she tackles life challenges with a new found sense of resilience. Jean MacAskill Kerr has spent over 20 years working in the tech industry developing a deep fascination with change and how people react to it – in today’s’ increasingly chaotic and unpredictable world the need for resilience and strength in the face of change has never been more critical. Through Jean’s day job, supporting leaders and teams in Cisco as they transform the business, her passion to learn more about wellbeing and resilience become strong enough to have her step forward and volunteer to learn more deeply about wellbeing first hand. By becoming an early pioneer for the Cisco Pavelka initiative Jean had the opportunity to work closely with international health and wellbeing expert Jessie Pavelka who is partnering with Cisco to re-imagine how we tackle wellbeing in the workplace. Always an enthusiastic student, Jean threw herself into the experience and learned how to completely rethink her approach to health and most importantly how to put small and sustainable changes in place to make a real transformation that can “stick” – even when things get challenging. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx