Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast

This is a special two-part episode where we meet team members from YMCA Workwell, a social enterprise dedicated to creating better communities via better workplaces, and one of their clients, Rising Oaks Early Learning Ontario. In this we walk through senior leader buy in, gathering wellbeing data, teams meeting to analyze data and co-create solutions to reduce burnout, increase staff retention, and impact families with great childcare. We take this up a notch to apply to many organizations to show how shared accountability can impact employee wellbeing, workload, burnout, and staff retention.

This is a special two-part episode where we meet team members from YMCA Workwell, a social enterprise dedicated to creating better communities via better workplaces, and one of their clients, Rising Oaks Early Learning Ontario. In this we walk through senior leader buy in, gathering wellbeing data, teams meeting to analyze data and co-create solutions to reduce burnout, increase staff retention, and impact families with great childcare. We take this up a notch to apply to many organizations to show how shared accountability can impact employee wellbeing, workload, burnout, and staff retention.

Leadership is key to psychological health and safety experienced by workers. Leadership behaviours that are psychologically safe can be learned and in turn will spawn other healthy components of work and the workplace as leaders are inclusive, connect with employees, and create space for innovation. Jay Lamont walks us through leadership coaching in the field as a practitioner to help create psychologically safe workplaces.

In this conversation, guest host Erin O'Byrne and leading positive psychology expert, Andrew Soren discuss the importance of meaningful work and its impact on psychological well-being. They explore the concept of eudaimonia and delve into the challenges and hazards of meaningful work, as well as the role of leaders in creating psychologically healthy workplaces. They highlight the importance of ancient wisdom and modern science in shaping workplace well-being. They stress the significance of starting conversations and embracing variability in work-life balance. Also included are recommended reading and further resources.

In this episode Ian speaks with Kevin Mooney, Vice President of Prevention and Employer Services with the Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board. Kevin highlights different sources of motivation for companies to take serious action on safety. Serious incidents — fatalities, psychological injuries, and prolonged workplace absence — represent high costs for organizations and Kevin believes prevention efforts are on the right track with raising awareness and demonstrating low cost wins. The WorkSafe Saskatchewan Psychological Health and Safety Resource Centre (https://www.worksafesask.ca/resources/psych-health-safety-resource-centre/workplace-psychological-health-and-safety/) and 7 Step Psychological Health and Safety Road map (https://www.worksafesask.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Psychological-Health-Safety-PHS-Roadmap.pdf) are accessible methods to increase awareness and soon they hope to share the results of pilot projects in local small businesses that demonstrate a simple no cost/low cost approach to identifying and taking action on workplace psychosocial hazards and regular worker feedback. You can follow Kevin on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/kevinmooney76).

In this episode Ian speaks with Dr. Sandra Moll and they discuss why and how the peer support apps PeerOnCall (https://www.oncallapp.ca/) and Beyond Silence (https://www.beyondsilence.ca/) can provide game-changing early intervention for public safety personnel and healthcare workers. Early intervention can prevent a significant degree of harm and suffering. Sandra describes the design, implementation, and function of the apps. Currently the apps are in a research phase where they are researching "what works for whom in what context" to optimize efforts. In the podcast we review how peer support fits in the continuum of workplace mental health recommended by the WHO and why apps and the real people they connect can have a great impact. Peer support is one of many tools and having the right service at the right time can be critical to obtaining early support. PeerOnCall evaluation research was funded by Movember, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Beyond Silence research was funded by CIHR and PHAC. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Government of Canada.

In this episode guest host Ian Lewis speaks with Carlyn Neek in a "bottom up" perspective of workplace health by looking at what is happening at the individual level and how you can trace it back to problems in the person - environment - occupation fit. As an occupational therapist Carlyn has a front-row seat on workplace factors impacting individuals. However, when you look on a larger scale, workplaces have many levels that can be acted on. In this podcast they look at the various levels and their impact on the individual to help explain how macro level factors impact individuals at work.

THIS IS A REPLAY OF EPISODE #73 The Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast will be returning late January 2024! In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with guest Charmaine Hammond about her work with companies and organizations following traumatic events that change a community in unimaginable ways. When a natural disaster or disaster of human making happens, company leaders, employees, families, and friends find themselves under enormous emotional, psychological, physical, and financial stress. Finding a way back to normal and managing the impact of external factors on the workplace climate, working conditions, and mental health of employees, is a challenge many organizations are not ready to manage. Using the wildfires in Fort McMurray as a case study Charmaine will talk about the kinds of shifts that are needed in these circumstances, the psychological health and safety environment and risk factors that were impacted, and what organizations need to do to prepare when being trauma-informed becomes central to the daily operations. She will also share some of the best actions companies took and how they impacted mental health in the workplace and the company's role in managing during and in the years following the event. Here is a link to the incredible animated short that aims to raise awareness about mental health, through the eyes of woodland creatures coming back home after the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo wildfires, released in July 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD64fAEQnU

THIS IS A REPLAY OF EPISODE #66 The Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast will be returning late January 2024! Did you know that chronic pain is increasing in working adults in Canada? Do you know if your employees or your peers experience chronic pain? Or how their condition impacts their lived experience at work? Although chronic pain is a commonly studied topic in many fields, very little is known about the work experiences of employees experiencing chronic pain beyond return-to-work studies. In this episode, Podcast Host Kim MacDonald talks with Dr. Duygu Biricik Gulseren, an organizational psychologist and assistant professor in the school of human resource management at York University, about the new understanding of chronic pain and her research focus on employees who live with chronic illness, chronic pain and pain disability. Dr. Gulseren shares some of the findings from her two most recent published two studies on working with pain and leadership behaviour that supports psychological safety and positive employee psychological experiences at work. Dr. Gulseren also shares her work with York students mentoring them to develop a special platform aimed at providing practical, evidence-based resources for those working or interested in occupational health and safety and psychological health and safety, its progress and change. The student-led project is called theohsproject.ca.

THIS IS A REPLAY OF EPISODE #63 The Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast will be returning late January 2024! This episode explores the need for leaders and managers to broaden their understanding of inclusion, equity and diversity and question assumptions and conclusions when it comes to employees at work. Diversity does not always have a recognizable visible indicator. Host Kim MacDonald speaks to Wilma Li, founder of Business Knowledge Integration Inc. about her personal journey into EDI and her focus on advocating for interpersonal understanding and intercultural intelligence. EDI is evolving and better metrics of diversity and inclusion are required to reduce harms and business risks and create greater psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.

THIS IS A REPLAY OF EPISODE #62 The Psych Health and Safety in Canada Podcast will be returning late January 2024! Dr. Manju Varma is a nationally recognized expert in anti-discrimination. Before her current position at the Nova Scotia Community College, Dr. Varma was the Anti-Racism Commissioner of New Brunswick. Dr. Varma also serves on the Board of the Canada Race Relations Foundation. Psych Health & Safety Podcast Canada host, Kim MacDonald and Dr. Varma talk about her path from school teacher to anti-racism, human rights work and equity, inclusion and diversity specialist. She shares the challenges and opportunities in the work and offers advice on how to create workplace and classroom psychological health and safety, protection from harms to mental health, and the important role education and communications play in managing issues of equity, inclusion, fairness and safety.

Host Kim MacDonald's special guest in this episode is Mike Russo, a health and safety specialist, occupational hygienist and ISO health and safety auditor. Using a well known work health issue as the basis for the conversation, Kim and Mike demonstrate how you effectively apply the workplace Health & Safety RACE model, traditionally used in physical health and safety risk, impact and practice, to risks, hazards and harms from the two perspectives of physical and psychological and physical health and safety lens. They demonstrate and share practical considerations and the questions to ask at each stage of the model (recognition, assessment, controls, evaluation). They discuss potential risk factors, indicators and influences, the crossover of physical and psychological impact, and discuss some of the obstacles that can get in the way of introducing change.

In this episode host Kim MacDonald speaks with special guest Dr. Stefanie Ruel a professor at Cape Breton University in human resources and organizational behaviour. Dr. Ruel is a former space life sciences Mission Manager who historical and contemporary justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity (JEDII) challenges and opportunities in STEM and entrepreneurship. Dr. Ruel's latest research explores new understandings of grief, grieving, and work and their importance for health-oriented, workplace leaders, managers and supervisors who are interested in continuous improvement and applying newer research and understandings. Using the example of grief and grieving, Dr. Ruel also helps us understand how important it is to regularly review HR practices, policies, and benefits to ensure they are not creating invisible barriers to thriving and flourishing at work. Dr. Ruel shares how outdated, disproved research and models have and continue today to shape workplace beliefs and guide employee benefits and policies. The DSM-5 now recognizes complicated grieving as a mental illness. Dr. Ruel shares her thoughts on the role of workplace culture (one of the 13 psychological health and safety risk factors), the need for attention in supporting the area of grieving as a mental health concern and what all workplaces can learn from indigenous culture and practices.

Host Kim MacDonald's guest in this episode is Dr. Liane Davey, author of The Good Fight and specialist in workplace team leadership, behavioural dynamics, and team functioning. Liane works with global companies to not only change business success, but change mindsets, and build new skills that result in sustainable workplace change. They discuss the impacts of leader action and attention, communications and expectations, work design, workload and a new risk area called "thought-load". Each of these are essential considerations in executing either the Canadian National Standard for Workplace Psychological Health & safety or the ISO45003 standard. Liane shares how a leader's understanding of their own behaviour, including what they are rewarding, either intentionally or unintentionally, has a significant impact on psychological health and safety, the culture and outcomes. Liane shares a set of practical evidence-based actions that will make the biggest positive difference in team functioning, employee anxiety, and overall mental health, and your own productivity, along with the 1 thing she wants team leaders to do differently.

Host Kim MacDonald speaks with workplace recognition and reward author and specialist Nelson Scott about his niche, one of the 13 psychosocial risk factors in the Canadian National Workplace Standard for Psychological Health & Safety. They talk about perceptions and interpretations of a work topic that can be understood as simple common courtesy, or can be deeply linked to our experiences and perceptions of respect and organizational fairness, two additional workplace hazards embedded in both the National Standard and the global ISO 45003 standard. Nelson emphasizes shared responsibility and some of the known and unknown benefits when R&R is authentically delivered and becomes a part of workplace culture. He says that what can seem like a no-brainer in benefits to employees and the workplace, doesn't always get the attention it deserves. Operational demands, no expectations for the behaviour, and daily events can take a toll on our best intentions. Nelson's book, Thanks Again! offers even more simple and effective ideas to reset recognition habits, for both up-and-coming and seasoned managers: https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000020745519/Nelson-Scott-Thanks%2C-Again%21

Substance abuse in Canada is not often talked about at work. But it is a major crisis in human suffering, harm and risk to safety, health and death by suicide. It touches virtually every workplace, every family and every friend group. And the cold, hard costs to the workplace of that suffering, harm and risk? A 2020 study by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) and the University of Victoria's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) reported the cost to people in Canada at $49 billion, with the largest portion in lost workplace productivity at $22.4 billion. Nearly 74,000 substance use-attributable deaths occurred in Canada in 2020, more than 200 deaths a day. In this episode host Kim MacDonald explores this workplace issue with special guest Candace Plattor who will help us break down the myths, stereotypes, and misunderstandings that many of us have built about what enabling, protection and caring looks like in today's workplace environment. The type of substance use can vary from an employee drinking alcohol during a workplace or business lunch to an employee affected by an addiction to opioids. Employers and employees can feel the impact through lowered morale, through the climate it can create or when the workplace has a culture of acceptance and not participating results in exclusion. If reducing harm and risk at work is our collective objective, Candace believes we first have to unlearn a lot of what we believe are the most helpful actions. She believes that the crisis requires a new level of workplace education to more accurately reduce risk and protect mental health and psychological health and safety. Candace discusses how to eliminate unintentional enabling, and support it all by specific actions and policies, including around some of the new drugs that workplaces now have on-site to save lives when someone has overdosed. Organizations have a non-negotiable responsibility for health and safety at work, and Candace has surprising advice for human-centred, caring leaders. Check out Candace's TedX Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadN5wpk_-0 Love With Boundaries: https://lovewithboundaries.com/wp2022/

Kim speaks with guest Lisa Lounsbury about her work with companies in the mining industry.

In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with guest Charmaine Hammond about her work with companies and organizations following traumatic events that change a community in unimaginable ways. When a natural disaster or disaster of human making happens, company leaders, employees, families, and friends find themselves under enormous emotional, psychological, physical, and financial stress. Finding a way back to normal and managing the impact of external factors on the workplace climate, working conditions, and mental health of employees, is a challenge many organizations are not ready to manage. Using the wildfires in Fort McMurray as a case study Charmaine will talk about the kinds of shifts that are needed in these circumstances, the psychological health and safety environment and risk factors that were impacted, and what organizations need to do to prepare when being trauma-informed becomes central to the daily operations. She will also share some of the best actions companies took and how they impacted mental health in the workplace and the company's role in managing during and in the years following the event. Here is a link to the incredible animated short that aims to raise awareness about mental health, through the eyes of woodland creatures coming back home after the Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo wildfires, released in July 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJD64fAEQnU

In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with guest Linda Crockett about her work with organizations and employees navigating the negative impacts of workplace bullying, and harassment and how illness, and injury can be the result. Over the past 12 years, Linda has supported both employees and employers in navigating the impacts of complex and problematic workplace behaviour. Linda shares her thoughts on what organizations and employees can do to improve work conditions and move through this very human experience. Here is Linda's recommended reading list from the website she created to support public access to resources on workplace bullying; https://instituteofworkplacebullyingresources.ca/recommended-reading/

Mindfulness practice and leader coaching have had a significant boost in popularity and use over the last few years. If you have been working in or studying workplace psychological health and safety you may have even experienced your own workplace adding initiatives that are focused on self-care and resilience. They are sometimes offered in efforts to improve work-related stress. These initiatives are unlikely to affect the workplace conditions of psychological health and safety directly. They are not hazard controls to mitigate harm presented by a psych health and safety risk factor. But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. In this episode, host Kim MacDonald speaks with practitioner and entrepreneur coach, Corilee Fox, about its role in strengthening emotional literacy, personal stress management and understanding yourself as a workplace leader. Corilee shares the mindfulness principles and how leaders can observe their behaviours to support positive shifts in workplace culture.

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Early adopters in any emerging frontier can offer great practical learning and help pave the way for those who come after. Although many leading academics and behavioural scientists have been studying the connections among psychosocial stress and stressors, work conditions, leader influence, and mental health and wellbeing, we are still very much in the early stages of applying psychological health and safety management, strategies, and interventions into Canadian organizations. In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with special guest Adam Chomos about his experience developing and facilitating a workplace psychological health and safety education and training intervention with an early adopter. Listeners get a front-row seat to a thoughtful and open debrief on the project, including purpose, process, experience, challenging parts, the things that occur that you weren't expecting, and lessons learned.

In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with Dr. Alycia Damp, a behavioural scientist applying science with technology to change the way we work. Dr. Damp is currently working in a Canadian company, applying selection science to the important process and practice of workplace hiring. The company, HireGuide, is developing evidence-based and behavioural science-backed systems that help organizations mitigate the negative impacts of risk factors like human bias and unstructured interviewing, and improve hiring accuracy and job fit and achieve organizational transparency, equity, fairness, and inclusion goals. Dr. Damp offers her advice for the best place to invest your time in the hiring process to support your long-term psychological health and safety efforts. Read Dr. Damps's article to explore new considerations for hiring planning around job and culture fit: https://www.hireguide.com/blog-posts/hire-for-culture-fit

Canada Crisis Line: If you or someone you know is in immediate crisis or has suicide-related concerns, please call 1-833-456-4566 toll free (In QC: 1-866-277-3553), 24/7 or visit talksuicide.ca. 1-833-456-4566 (24/7) 1-866-277-3553 in Quebec (24/7) In this episode, host Kim MacDonald talks with Seana Jewer, the Nova Scotia community engagement leader in the Mental Health Commission of Canada's national Roots of Hope suicide prevention project about the role of workplaces, leadership, and each of us can play at work in suicide prevention. Suicide prevention is complex, but a healthy and safe, stigma-free workplace that creates safety for learning and talking about mental health, mental illness, and human struggle is a partner and stakeholder in all communities. Seana shares how workplaces can start, breaks myths, talks risk factors, and helps shed light on this topic which continues to carry a stigma.

Do you know if your employees or your peers experience chronic pain? If you did, would you know how to help? While chronic pain is increasingly common among employees in many industries, in this episode, podcast Host Kim MacDonald talks with Dr. Duygu Biricik Gulseren about this topic and explores what CEO's think about it, what it means to inclusion and mentally healthy workplaces. Dr. Gulseren's exploration of the experiences of employees who live with chronic illness, chronic pain and pain disability is her effort to ensure her research work has practical applications for those improving their work conditions and sustaining healthy and effective organizations. Kim and Dr. Gulseren will discuss her two most recent published two studies on leadership behaviour, pain and organizational justice and the intersection of these conditions with inclusion, psychological safety behaviour and employees psychological experiences at work. Dr. Gulseren is an organizational psychologist and assistant professor at York University in the school of occupational health and safety. Dr. Gulseren works with her students to create practical tools and resources for workplace practitioners of OH&S change. She holds unique conversations on her Occupational Health & Safety podcast and makes available practical resources developed by students. The student-led project is called theohsproject.

In this episode Host Kim MacDonald speaks with Dr. Kevin Kelloway, a professor of industrial organizational behaviour at St. Mary's University and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair about the role of workplace leaders today in the workplace and the impact they have on employee health. They discuss what we know today about mental health at work, workplace stress, and the leader behaviour that has positive influence and impact on wellbeing, motivation, and psychological health and safety at work. He challenges workplace leaders to connect the dots and not take the pedal off the gas in workplace mental health.

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the support provided to a person who may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or are in a mental health crisis. Host Kim MacDonald talks with Alison Butler a workplace mental health first aid trainer who has trained hundreds of employees in workplaces in Atlantic Canada and across the country. The Mental Health Commission of Canada reports that 1 in 5 Canadians experience a mental health problem within a given year and 35% of working Canadians are suffering from burnout. While we often know a lot about physical illness, knowledge and understanding about mental health and substance use problems have not caught up. This lack of understanding leads to fear and negative attitudes towards individuals living with these problems. In this episode we explore the purpose and role of mental health first aid training in the workplace environment and how it can open the door to deeper conversations of change.

This episode explores the need for leaders and managers to broaden their understanding of inclusion, equity and diversity and question assumptions and conclusions when it comes to employees at work. Diversity does not always have a recognizable visible indicator. Host Kim MacDonald speaks to Wilma Li, founder of Business Knowledge Integration Inc. about her personal journey into EDI and her focus on advocating for interpersonal understanding and intercultural intelligence. EDI is evolving and better metrics of diversity and inclusion are required to reduce harms and business risks and create greater psychologically healthy and safe workplaces.

Dr. Manju Varma is a nationally recognized expert in anti-discrimination. Before her current position at the Nova Scotia Community College, Dr. Varma was the Anti-Racism Commissioner of New Brunswick. Dr. Varma also serves on the Board of the Canada Race Relations Foundation. Psych Health & Safety Podcast Canada host, Kim MacDonald and Dr. Varma talk about her path from school teacher to anti-racism, human rights work and equity, inclusion and diversity specialist. She shares the challenges and opportunities in the work and offers advice on how to create workplace and classroom psychological health and safety, protection from harms to mental health, and the important role education and communications play in managing issues of equity, inclusion, fairness and safety.

Whenever we think about workplace processes and systems that help employers manage psychosocial risks and hazards to mental health at work, one area that is especially sensitive and connected to that process is how to manage internal disputes, complaints or workplace conditions that rise to the level of a workplace investigation. In this episode host Kim MacDonald talks to labour and employment lawyer and workplace investigator Andrea MacNevin, JD, about the purpose, outcomes and challenges in the work, how they can be trauma-informed and some of details that are key to the findings of fact.

Small organizations in Canada make up the bulk of the jobs in our economy. And are where most Canadians spend their working years. But those organizations often have to work with the constraint of not having full-time human resource teams to support the people function on the inside. Small management teams and owner-managers are juggling customer, competitive, financial and legal risk and workforce issues all at the same time. They want to create positive conditions but they too feel the pressure and impact on their mental health. In this episode host Kim MacDonald talks to small business human resource specialist Wendy MacIntyre about how people management has changed and how owner-managers can take care of their mental health as a way to take care of employees.

In this episode, Jason van Schie, FlourishDX Founder and Podcast Host Mary Ann Baynton welcome and chat with Kim MacDonald who is taking over the reigns as the new host of the Psych Health & Safety Canada Podcast. Kim shares her journey into the field and they discuss Canadian trends, workplace change, progress in legislation and the recent technical review of the Canadian National Standard for Workplace Psychological Health & Safety.

Heidi Hauver shares her extensive experience as an innovative and strategic people leader. Her passion for helping people in business and leadership is matched by her heart for volunteering and mentoring with many organizations supporting women in human resources and technology.

As a Certified HR Leader, Rosie Yeung shares her unique perspective on how she helps organizational leaders develop more equitable and inclusive workplaces. Her insight raises a lively discussion including colonization, racism, social injustice, trauma-informed coaching, and her personal liberation through mindset change and positive psychology.

As the principal contributor to the newly released resource in the trucking industry, "Psychosocial Hazard Control in Alberta's Trucking Industry" published by Alberta Motor Transport Association, Dave Elniski has a unique perspective and approach to bringing awareness and strategies to company leadership in how they can address this hazard type in their safety programs.

Angeline Ram shares her fascinating experiences within the world of Aviation. From being a Safety Manager to her current research where she is studying safety and the root causes of unhealthy and unsafe workplace environments, Angeline and Mary Ann's discussion covers many issues including bullying and post-traumatic growth.

With an interesting mix of education in both biology and music, Sonia Funk brings a delightful approach to her clients that proves to be engaging and successful. She is an expert in coaching and strategy and shares stories and tips on how she puts her self aside in order to ask the right questions to help her clients.

Treena Reilkoff shares practical tips and strategies for leaders to increase awareness of and provide support for individuals who may have been exposed to trauma. This goes beyond first responders to any employees who have experienced trauma in their lives.

Dr. Ian M. F. Arnold is one of Canada's foremost authorities on psychological health and safety. He chaired the Mental Health Commission's Workforce Advisory Committee and served on the technical committee of the National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace as well as on the committee for ISO 45003. Ian's wisdom has helped guide the evolution of psych health and safety in Canada.

With extensive experience in a variety of positions and a keen ability to understand both macro and micro level issues, Rohan Thompson shares how he has counselled leaders, individuals and couples on how to handle systemic racism, equity and racial trauma.

Former Fire Chief/Certified Safety Director/Speaker/Consultant/Thought Leader/Culture Warrior - speaks about how psychological health and safety intersects with inclusivity.

As a principal contributor to the original National Standard of Canada on Psychological Health and Safety, Roger Bertrand shares his philosophy and approach to help employers discover the benefits of engaging staff in the process of making continual improvements in the workplace. https://fdxanon.blob.core.windows.net/gpanon/uploads/roger-bertrand-costs-and-benefits-linked-to-health.pptx

Françoise Mathieu provides very practical strategies to provide what she calls Psychological PPE for employees, including first responders and those in high-stress, high-pressure jobs.

With over twenty years of experience as an Occupational Therapist, Ian Lewis brings an holistic approach to help people identify what they need to encourage a safe return to work. Ian shares his in-depth understanding of what it really means to foster a psychologically safe and healthy workplace. He encourages leaders to 'walk slowly through the halls' and to take notice of their staff when they may need help.

Speaking from experience with burnout, Céline Carment offers strategies that both employers and employees can use to encourage taking small steps toward better health in the workplace. As a coach, Céline advises everyone, "Do not hesitate to ask for help" and discusses how placing employees in their own 'field of genius' can help them flourish and feel valued.

Lauren Hundert has applied her expertise in wellness to connect employees with subject matter experts. This innovative online platform provides a variety of learning opportunities to encourage positive lifestyle change, and improve workplace productivity.

Catherine Gordon's career has taken her along many paths that have brought her to an expert understanding of human needs. From child abuse, to environmental grief, to her current role in human resources for a children's hospice, Catherine shares strategies that can be applied to any workplace.

As a Social Worker with many years of experience helping organizations and individuals learn to deal with trauma-exposure, François Legault shares stories, strategies and examples of how employers can strive to make improvements in the workplace, despite the difficult work they do. Trigger Warning – Discussion about specific traumatic events is included in this podcast. If you feel this may trigger anxiety or stress for you, please do not listen to this episode.

Kim MacDonald brings her personal and professional perspective and experience together in a unique way to bring solutions and strategies to her clients. This episode includes gems that you can take in to your own discovery of self-awareness.

Coming from a career in group fitness and personal training, Lydia Di Francesco shares how she has developed corporate wellness programs that help leaders learn the importance of 'doing' what they ask of employees and encouraging a shift in mindset from 'quick fixes' to adopting a healthy lifestyle.