Welcome to the Wellbeing Designers Podcast! We discover how we can design the future of well being together so we can create human-centric organizations and a sustainable work life. In the first season of the podcast, I talked with the first generation of wellbeing leaders in big organizations. Usually, they were the very first ones in their organization ever to have the title of head of well being or similar. In the second season, starting with episode nine, you will meet similar people again. And I invited some other interesting profiles as well. All these people work on wellbeing on a systemic level. Their mission is related to make the world a better place through focusing on wellbeing. In the past years, especially since COVID, employee well being got on the top of the agenda, not only for companies worldwide, but even some countries and other official institutions started to call for action. In the Wellbeing Designers podcast-conversations, I would like to highlight the work of those sometimes invisible people, leaders, who are either in charge of well being in organizations and trying to navigate amongst the growing amount of well being offerings while connecting efforts. to business impact, and most importantly, create real value for employees. Or, they are those leaders who are doing their best to create international forums to exchange, raise awareness, and take action on wellbeing and people's sustainability. They might be the ones whose responsibility is to take care of hundreds, thousands, or ten thousands of people's wellbeing. They might be the ones who keep decision makers and CEOs engaged about the topic of well being. They might be the ones. who are proving that employee well being is a strategic enabler of sustainable performance and business success. They might be the connectors between well being leaders across companies and countries. I call these people wellbeing designers. Enjoy listening to them and learning from them. Together we can design a human centric work life and the future of well being.
In this inspiring conversation, we sit down with the incredible Sarah Cunningham, Managing Director of World Wellbeing Movement. WWM is an impact-driven charity registered in England and Wales. Their mission?
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"I was going from one patient to the next in 15 minutes, and it was frustrating because it wasn't enough time to make a difference with my patients. ... I need to be where they are. They're spending almost 2000 hours a year at work. And I think I can have a bigger impact if I'm at the workplace. So that started my journey to Johns Hopkins Medicine."
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"Wellness is about going to the gym after you finish work. Wellbeing is about the things that you can do within the normal work day." Episode 14 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out! Tune into the fascinating conversation between Dr. Steven MacGregor and Reka Deak. Steven has been on a wellbeing journey for over 20 years, from his time as a visiting researcher at Stanford through pioneering wellbeing teaching at some of the world's best business schools to help tens of thousands of leaders change their approach to a busy business life. The new version of his third book, The Daily Reset was just launched now in January 2024. He is also the host of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast and he published a book with the same title. Today Steven is an international speaker, a professor at the Glasgow School of Art and Advisor at McKinsey & Company.Highlights of the conversation:- How a PhD in engineering and design management has been inspiring his work in the wellbeing space since the very early days- Why the role modelling of leaders is so critical to make wellbeing successful in an organisational context - Clearly defining and distinguishing wellbeing vs wellness- Why he thinks that Wellbeing still has that opportunity, more than ever, to show its real worth and to show its business case- How the future wellbeing leader is challenged: having humility, empathy while looking at the science and the numbersListen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3G6XFhZListen on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3jh6BsmOr via our website: https://lnkd.in/epTRdTW5What resonated with you? Share your highlights in the comments below!
❗️"Focusing on not trying to fix people, rather creating the space where they can self serve and fix, because there is a deal of dual accountability." - The big day has come! Episode nr. 13 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast has been out since yesterday! Our guest is one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in the topic of wellbeing: Ryan Hopkins on a mission to ENGAGE 1 BILLION people in the betterment of wellbeing. Hopefully I can contribute to this number though our podcast
⛔ "Measurement and impact is really important. We can't be spendingmillions and billions of dollars on developing wellbeing strategies that are just not having an impact."
Episode 10 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out today! Our guest is the one and only Karen Guggenheim, founder of WOHASU ® and the World Happiness Summit.When we recorded this, we were not aware that it will be launched just after the #worldmentalhealthday. What a great coincidence!
"If we don't take care of the people taking care of our patients, our patients are going to suffer." - Episode 9 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out today! Our guest is Jonathan Fisher, MD FACC a cardiologist, wellbeing leader and author of the book, "Just One Heart" based in the US. This is a very special episode for me in many ways. When I discovered Jonathan's work few years ago, I felt that his approach towards health finally manages to make peace in me and in the world between the traditional Western medicine and the more spiritual Eastern one. Jonathan has been a cardiologist for more decades Novant Health. Nowadays he works 60% as a cardiologist and 40% he is a wellbeing leader. Some of the thought provoking topics we are talking about: 1. What if we say that someone as a doctor can truly care about their patients only if they care about themselves? How is this possible in the current health care system? 2. How can a doctor after facing burnout go back to the same system as a new person and contribute to a systemic change? 3. Even if healthcare is considered as one of those "lucky" industries where people are most connected to the meaning and purpose of their work, these days healthcare workers are so exhausted that they are often disconnected from the results of their work. What to do about this? 4. And what about trauma? We talked about our common favourite physician, Gabor Mate and his work in this field. 5. How can a doctor embody a mindful approach in practice? And... If you are interested in reading Jonathan's upcoming book, "Just One Heart - a cardiologist's guide to healing, health, and happiness, is a practical guide to inner workings of the mind heart connection, helping readers master their stress and develop a healthy and joyful heart, make sure you get on the waiting list: https://jonathan-fisher.presale.manuscripts.com/registration/select Jonathan and I are very much looking forward to hearing about your feedback on this conversation!
In this bonus episode Reka Deak, the host of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast changes her seat. She is interviewed by one of her good friends Isabel Steinhoff. Reka shares about her vision and mission with Wellbeing Designers, a bit about her story how she got here, about the community that started to form around Wellbeing Designers and the work that they are doing and planning to do with organisations. Connect with them:https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelsteinhoff/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/ www.wellbeing.design www.wellbeing.design/podcast
"One of the things we have got to fix is CEOs and CFOs have to understand that GROWTH is dependent on wellbeing. They can't sacrifice wellbeing for growth ...... I think wellbeing is gonna be part of the overall corporate SUSTAINABILITY agenda in companies over time. if companies are more and more dependent on the innovation and service and creativity and productivity of the individual people, wellbeing is a financial metric almost..."❓ How does this resonate with you
In Episode 7 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast we get to know the work of Lisette de Jonge and Julia Cornu, the two Global Health and Wellbeing Leaders at Ingka Group / IKEA based in Sweden.As a big fan of the Scandinavian way of living, working and BEING:) I was very keen on to bring them into this conversation and to share about their work with you and the world. In close collaboration with the local wellbeing leads in each country they are co-creating global wellbeing initiatives to deliver value for more than 170k employees worldwide .My three highlights from our conversation:
In Episode 6 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast we get to know the work of Newton Cheng who is a husband, father, competitive power lifter and Director of Health + Wellbeing Google based in California. Newton's vulnerability got my interest. He openly shares about his mental health struggles while working in the organisational wellbeing space of a famous organisation. I really enjoyed talking also about spiritual wellbeing with him as this is a topic that we sometimes rename, reframe and very few people dare to put it out there in a corporate environment.My three highlights from our conversation:- Talking about Charles Vogel and how communities can impact social and mental wellbeing- How to approach spiritual wellbeing at work using secular, non-secular and research based approach in engaging people- Measuring the impact of all the work done towards wellbeing in organisations is not easy, we need to be honest about this. Still, there are frameworks like the one from Christina Maslach that can be a good base to experiment. And an extra learning: showing up as a credible influential business (not only wellbeing) leader is key to success for future wellbeing leaders!❓ What are YOUR take aways? Share them in the comments or reach out via PM.We are curious about your story, your learnings and feedback.
Jake Sanders shares about his role as Global Wellbeing Initiatives Lead at Philip Morris International. He gives insight into their work and the learnings along the way.I owe you a short explanation how this conversation started...
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