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I am a writer and animator interested in work, power, inequality and the stories we tell ourselves to make uncomfortable realities seem ordinary.

Much of my writing examines the distance between what companies say and what people experience: the language that turns redundancy into reinvention, exclusion into a problem of confidence, economic insecurity into an individual responsibility. I am interested in the assumptions we accept, the explanations we inherit and the mechanisms that remain concealed when we mistake one for the other.

I have spent more than twenty years working across management consulting, financial services, technology and organisational transformation, including senior roles within and alongside some of the world's largest institutions. That experience has given me an unusually close view of how organisations operate, how decisions are made, how authority is exercised and how the consequences of those decisions are explained to the people affected by them.

I also know what it means to lose the institutional authority that once made professional experience relevant. Having experienced repeated redundancy, I began examining the gap between how the labour market describes itself and how it actually operates. My work critically examines the redundancy coaching and career reinvention industries, particularly the narratives that recast job loss as an opportunity for personal growth. I do not offer career coaching or reinvention advice. My interest is in questioning why people who lose their livelihoods are so often expected to transform an institutional decision into a personal development project.

My academic background is in English and Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, disciplines that continue to inform how I approach language, institutions and the distribution of power.

Stephanie Walsh

Writer and Animator

  • HSBC experience
  • Silverlake experience
  • IBM experience
  • Accenture business videos
  • Lloyds Banking experience
  • Barclays Bank experience
  • Sainsbury's experience
  • Open Banking videos
  • DWP videos
  • Hutchison Whampoa Limited experience
  • Tesco experience
  • New Look experience
  • Pfizer business videos
  • WH Smith experience

I am currently writing The Con of Redundancy: How Work Really Works and What It's Costing Us, a work of serious nonfiction examining redundancy not as an isolated career event, but as a structural condition whose effects accumulate across income, identity, relationships and future opportunity.

The book challenges the familiar proposition that redundancy is neutral, temporary and recoverable primarily through resilience, adaptability, reinvention or mindset. It examines what happens when institutional decisions are repeatedly translated into individual obligations and when the people experiencing exclusion become responsible for explaining, correcting and ultimately overcoming it.

My writing extends beyond redundancy to questions of age, gender, class, work, technology and the cultural narratives through which inequality is justified or obscured.

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Alongside my writing, I create animated films that make complex ideas accessible, engaging and memorable. My work has included technology, digital identity, financial services, organisational change and public-sector communications.

Writing and animation are different disciplines, but they share something fundamental in my practice: an interest in finding the story beneath the surface and making visible what might otherwise remain difficult to understand.

I continue to undertake selected animation commissions, particularly with established collaborators and on projects that interest me.

Ultimately, whether I am writing an essay, examining a public narrative or creating an animated film, I am interested in the same question:

What is really happening beneath the explanation we have been given?

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Many stories arrive looking helpful.

Be resilient. Reinvent yourself. Build your brand. Close the gap. Ride the wave. Treat the crisis as an opportunity.

But what happens when the advice itself becomes part of the problem?

When exclusion is repeatedly translated into a need for individual improvement, the institution responsible for the conditions disappears from the conversation. The person experiencing those conditions becomes responsible not only for surviving them, but for correcting them.

I am interested in what those stories conceal.

Not in producing another hot take, but in identifying the mechanisms through which responsibility is redistributed, disadvantage is normalised and institutional decisions become personal shortcomings.

Because once you recognise the story being handed to you, you can begin questioning whose interests it serves.

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