About Dr. Jen Frahm

Who is Dr Jen Frahm?

Dr Jen Frahm

I’ve had a ‘snakes and ladders’ career with experience in small business, large corporations, government and NGOs. My past as an academic brings integrity and rigour to the work I do. My enthusiasm for delivery and future readiness meant academia was a short stint. My current is the epitome of a portfolio career, and I don’t take it for granted!

Keynote Speaker

I am a sought out speaker on the topics of change leadership, change management, business agility, the future of work, and modern leadership.

Entrepreneur

I'm the co-founder of the Agile Change Leadership Institute, a training and development company. We build capability and confidence in leading and delivering change in a fast-moving, uncertain world. We’re now in 67 countries, have 14000+ students through our doors, and benefiting 124 companies.

I’ve also developed the Busting Silos program with Melissa Dark for better collaboration inside and out of the organisation.

Author

I’ve now written three books, and over 200 blog posts, articles & whitepapers. I’m lucky to love writing and usually have something to say!

Interim change director / lead

People sometimes engage me to design change well, build capability with leadership teams around change, be a ‘pinch hitter’ and fill short term change lead gaps, sometimes longer contracts. I’m big on trauma informed, compassionate practice and positive psychology as an approach, a committed agnostic with respect to methodology. I remediate problem change initiatives and help set up new change practices.

Outside of work

I find joy in playing with paint and charcoal and cooking for friends. I top up with walks in the bush.

You’re welcome to follow me on Instagram! (@jenfrahm)

Why do I do what I do?

I grew up in a household with a mother who was a successful science fiction writer, and a father who was a serial entrepreneur. I was immersed in conversations of disruptive change and opportunity. Fast forward and in the first 10 years of my work life I worked for 13 companies. I was subjected to relentless change and the control freak within did not like it. My superpower in creating stability was flexibility and adaptability.

I hacked the system by becoming an organisational change manager so I was the one introducing the change not receiving the changes. My recall of the stress and pressure of that time of constant mergers and acquisitions, downsizings, and working in businesses that could not change is visceral. I never want my clients to feel that – I want every leader to feel in control, confident and calm when it comes to disruptive change.

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Testimonials

  • Portrait of Daniel Tobin

    “Jennifer Frahm is an expert change and communications professional. Her understanding of the interactions of audience and communicator allows her to create quality outcomes in a multitude of activities including change management, research, analysis and collaboration. I have been privileged to work with Jen on each of these activities and her knowledge and intuition have been invaluable.”

    Daniel Tobin | Director of Brand Marketing, The University of Melbourne

  • Portrait of James Shirley

    “Jennifer has a unique ability to guide people towards an outcome. Her incisiveness and directness are mixed with a deep understanding of human nature and decision making.”

    James Shirley | Project Manager, Digital Projects, Ridley

  • Portrait of Kelsey Miller

    ”Jennifer has an uncanny knack of getting to the heart of what matters when it comes to making change stick.”

    Kelsey Miller | Director, Stocka

  • ”Implementing Workday was a major transformation for Aurecon as we had no single HR system and planned to go live across all 25 countries on one day. Therefore the change management on the project was critical. Jen did an amazing job engaging with stakeholder in the project team and also with end users across all countries. Jen was able to develop simple engagement and communication methodologies that gave the various stakeholders the information they required at the appropriate time. As a result the uptake of Workday and feedback from end users was positive.”

    Liam Hayes | Chief People Officer, Aurecon

  • Portrait of Amanda Boland-Curran

    ”The retreat allowed us to explore the challenges and opportunities in our businesses. As a group, we assisted each other to draw out concrete insights specific to each participant, and yet common to many of us, which we could immediately implement in our own businesses.”

    Amanda Boland-Curran | Australasian CRC for Interaction Design