What If Starting Over Is Costing Businesses More Than They Realise?
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Starting over is often celebrated as a fresh beginning. But for businesses and organisations, a reset can also mean losing something that took years to build.
That is the question explored by Yemi Oluseun, Transformation Executive, Researcher and Founder of The Change Hive, in her new TEDxGosport talk, “What We Lose Every Time We Start Over.”
Oluseun challenges a familiar pattern in organisational life: replacing systems, people, processes and approaches in the name of transformation without first asking what is already working, and what valuable knowledge or relationships could be carried forward.
Her central argument is simple but consequential: progress is not always about starting again. Sometimes, it is about knowing what to keep.
For business leaders, entrepreneurs and transformation professionals, the distinction matters. When knowledge is not transferred, relationships are not retained and organisational capability is repeatedly rebuilt from scratch, businesses can lose continuity, experience and institutional memory along the way.
The idea draws on Oluseun’s experience leading major finance, treasury and organisational transformation programmes across global institutions and international organisations, as well as her research into retention and organisational continuity in small businesses.
A TEDx speaker and Freeman of the City of London, Oluseun has worked across organisations including HSBC, Barclays, JPMorgan and the United Nations system. Her work increasingly focuses on a question facing organisations navigating constant change: what is worth continuing?
Her TEDxGosport talk invites leaders to rethink the relationship between transformation and continuity, and to consider whether the next breakthrough may come not from replacing what exists, but from learning how to build on it.
About Yemi Oluseun
Yemi Oluseun is a Transformation Executive, Researcher and Founder of The Change Hive. She has led major finance, treasury and organisational transformation programmes across global financial institutions and international organisations, including HSBC, Barclays, JPMorgan and the United Nations system. A TEDx speaker and Freeman of the City of London, Yemi was also recognised in the Computing AI Leadership Index 2026. Her research explores retention and organisational continuity, with a focus on helping businesses preserve, transfer and build on valuable knowledge, relationships and capabilities.
Watch Yemi Oluseun’s TEDxGosport talk:
https://youtu.be/Ibt18Tv5ITQ
Connect with Yemi Oluseun:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yemioluseun
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