Kenny Whitelaw Jones

Catch Kenny on DO Radio's Making Stuff Up with Emma Warren from 19 October

Kenny Whitelaw Jones knows his way around a spreadsheet. And the things a spreadsheet can’t tell you.

Based in Dubai, he co-founded Gridlines, a project finance advisory and financial modelling firm, and wrote the Financial Modelling Handbook. He also teaches AI for project finance modelling through the Project Finance Institute.

But numbers are only part of his story.

Kenny is a qualified Deep Process Psychotherapist. His work explores the hidden parts of ourselves we bring into meetings, decisions and relationships. The fear behind the perfectionism. The anger beneath the polite reply. The need to prove ourselves, long after we’ve forgotten who we’re trying to impress.

Because work would be easy if it were just about the work.

He works with leaders who have spent years building an identity around success, and are beginning to wonder what they left behind. Their voice, perhaps. Their ambition. Their capacity for joy.

Through his Substack, The Shadow at Work, and a book of the same name due in spring 2027, Kenny explores what our working lives can teach us about ourselves.

And what becomes possible when we stop hiding parts of who we are.