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Global Business✦London✦New York✦San Francisco✦Edinburgh✦Supporting organisations globally across transformation, growth, customer experience and AI-enabled change✦

Meet the Founder

Emily Walters, founder of EMM Studio
hello, I’m Emily
20+ years leading change
transformation & growth specialist
advised FTSE & global enterprises
energy & reinvention
creative disruption
for teams who know they need to change
but feel exhausted by the scale ahead

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Emily Walters

Founder · EMM Studio

I help growing businesses cut through complexity, create clarity and build the systems, services and ways of working they need to scale. I'm known for leading difficult customer, colleague and employee experience challenges, bringing an outside-in perspective that helps leadership teams get out of the weeds and see what really needs to change.

Whether you're scaling up, operating at enterprise level, or navigating the next stage after investment, I help make your organisation more efficient, effective and ready for growth. I do this through design thinking, systems thinking, rapid prototyping and practical workflow redesign — turning difficult, complex problems into clearer priorities, better experiences and faster execution.

With a career spanning operating model transformation, organisational design, experience-led growth and AI modernisation, I partner with leadership teams to translate ambition into action. The approach is strategic, commercially intelligent and human-centred — combining systems thinking, lean operational practice and creative problem solving to help businesses simplify complexity, accelerate decisions and build the structures that support sustainable, scalable growth.

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A gorilla in a turquoise suit holding a delicate teacup, representing powerful technology that requires careful human handling.

The world has gone wild with AI.

Powerful technology. Human handling required.

AI can carry enormous force. It still needs judgement, care and someone accountable for how it lands.

The Sweet Spot

The EMM Studio Sweet Spot.

Over the years, I’ve realised that the most successful transformation programmes sit at the intersection of three disciplines.

Most organisations are strong in one or two. Very few successfully combine all three.

The Studio Promise

What

Technology

How

Creativity

Why

Speed

EMM Studio

Expect Momentum

Strategy in Motion.

Three disciplines, one studio — where ambition becomes execution.

Technology

Understanding systems, platforms, AI, data and delivery. Turning complexity into practical solutions that can be implemented and scaled.

Creativity

Applying design thinking, customer experience, innovation and problem-solving to reimagine how organisations operate and grow.

Speed

Creating clarity, prioritisation and momentum. Helping organisations move from discussion to action and from ambition to execution.

Centre intersection

Where strategy becomes action.

EMM Studio sits at the intersection of Technology, Creativity and Speed. Where AI becomes practical. Where transformation creates measurable outcomes.

This is the space where EMM Studio operates — helping organisations simplify complexity, accelerate change and unlock growth through a unique combination of strategic thinking, operational experience and practical implementation.

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Who we work with

AI CAN ROAR.
IT STILL CAN’T LEAD.

EMM Studio partners with executives, transformation leaders and founders who need clarity, alignment and a deliverable next move.

01

Modernise

Simplify legacy operations, redesign operating models and restart transformation that has lost momentum.

02

Scale

Build the decisions, structures and ways of working needed for the next stage of growth.

03

Make AI Practical

Move from experimentation and noise to measurable opportunities that people can understand, trust and deliver.

Find your next move
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Ideas in the Spotlight

The conversations leaders can’t afford to avoid.

From the decline of women in technology leadership to the human side of AI and transformation, Emily has consistently spoken about the issues shaping how organisations—and their leaders—need to change.

Emily Walters, founder of EMM Studio
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Women in Technology

Why are women disappearing from technology leadership?

Speaking out about the worrying decline in female representation—and why progress cannot be taken for granted.

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Women in Leadership

Breaking the glass ceiling isn’t enough.

Calling for organisations to move beyond good intentions and create the conditions in which more women can reach—and remain in—senior leadership.

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Human-Centred Transformation

Technology is only half the transformation.

Emily explores why meaningful transformation depends on people, culture, relationships and clear leadership—not simply adopting the latest technology.

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Emily Walters on stage at the Women in Tech Scotland panel
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Speaking · 2026 Cohort

The human side of AI belongs on bigger stages.

Emily speaks about AI readiness, transformation, leadership, creativity and turning ambitious ideas into action.

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The world has gone wild with AI.

Turn the wild
into momentum.

For executive teams who feel AI moving faster than their operating model. Tell us where the pressure is building and we'll help you direct it — before another strategy deck collects dust.

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