The Happy at Work Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Happy at Work Podcast
We speak with organizational leaders including founders, CEOs, human resources professionals, and positive psychology researchers, on how to create a more positive workplace.
As we close out 2022, we wanted to bring back some of our favorite conversations from this year! First up is Laura's favorite episode:
In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Nance Lucas, the Executive Director of George Mason University's Center for the Advancement of Well-Being.
Dr. Lucas is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Integrative Studies, an affiliate faculty member of the Higher Education Program, and former Associate Dean of the School of Integrative Studies (formerly New Century College) at George Mason University. Her teaching and scholarship passions focus on the intersections of science and applications of leadership and well-being.
Learn more about the Center here: wellbeing.gmu.edu
In this episode, Tessa, Laura, and Michael spoke with Julie Gettys, VP of People Operations at Therapy Brands about leveraging employee feedback, career transitions, and the importance of investing in learning and development.
Uniquely, Julie Gettys started her career in finance and accounting before a previous manager supported her career transition into human resources and people operations. She has spent close to two decades in the field and currently leads People Operations for Therapy Brands, a therapy practice management software company.
Are you a practicing therapist? Learn more about Therapy Brands.
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In this episode, Laura spoke one-on-one with Leigh Nicholas, Senior Learning Partner at CarGurus, about designing your role to spark joy, self-advocacy in the workplace, and staying creative as you grow in your career.
Leigh Nicholas is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through Co-Active Training Institute, and currently creates internal learning solutions as the Sr. Learning Partner at CarGurus. Prior to this role, Leigh spent +5 years at Hult International Business School working with international business and marketing students as a coach and advisor.
We know you'll love this chat with Leigh - enjoy!
What's one thing you're grateful for in the past week?
This is a special episode, listeners... are you ready?!
As we begin to round out the year, we wanted to take some time reflect and express our deep gratitude for this platform, past guests, each other and YOU. In this bonus episode, Michael, Tessa, and Laura chat amongst themselves all about gratitude.
We dive into the science behind gratefulness - how it affects our minds, work, and relationships with others - and take a look back at the fantastic suite of guests we've been lucky to host on the Happy at Work Podcast.
Special shout-out to Steve Pemberton at Workhuman, Jay Tuli at Leader Bank, Dr. Bob Langer at Moderna, Otmar Szafnauer at Alpine F1 Racing.
To our listeners - thank you for being a part of this community and we hope you enjoy the conversation!
In this episode, Tessa and Laura speak with Désirée Pascual, Chief People Officer at Headspace about radical compassion, the importance of rest, and lifting up others as you grow yourself.
Désirée Pascual has been an HR leader in healthcare and startups for over 20 years. She is currently the CPO of Headspace Health, the world’s leading provider of mental health and wellbeing solutions. Prior to Headspace, Désirée was in People leadership roles at Ginger (merged with Headspace Health, 2021), Carrot (now Pivot), and Kaiser Permanente.
Earlier in her career, she studied clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and focused on working with marginalized and vulnerable populations. Désirée brings her unique experiences as a psychologist, business leader, first-generation immigrant, and HR professional to increase wellbeing, productivity, and resilience through change and uncertainty throughout the organization at Headspace Health.
There are so many insightful gems in this episode - we hope you enjoy!
In honor of Veterans Day this Friday, we have a very special episode to share with our listeners! Tessa, Michael, and Laura spoke with JP Sniffen and Charlan (Charlie) Poirson about their unique experiences as both veterans and employees in the corporate sector.
JP Sniffen began his professional career as an Infantry Officer in the US Marine Corps, and is a 3rd generation Marine. After active duty, JP transitioned to military talent recruitment before moving into the corporate sector, and has been with Korn Ferry in veteran talent solutions since 2022.
Charlie Poirson is an Air Force officer and pilot and served as an Instructor Pilot and Flight Examiner at the United States Air Force Academy. During her 32 years in active duty, she conducted military transport, humanitarian relief, and airdrop missions around the world, flying the C-141B Starlifter. At Korn Ferry, Charlie provides leadership and expertise for the military senior officer division of Professional Search in North America.
We'd like to thank both Charlie and JP for their service and sacrifice, and appreciate their candor in this special episode.
Thank you to all our veterans this Veterans Day!
In today's episode, Michael and Laura spoke with Mike Zani, CEO of The Predictive Index. The Predictive Index (PI) is a software company founded in 1955 that offers psychometric assessments, surveys, and workshops, aimed to help organizations optimize talent, develop leaders, improve performance, and enhance engagement. Mike Zani has been the CEO of the Predictive Index for over 8 years, and is also an investor, author and avid sailor. You can take a free demo version of the PI-Behavioral Assessment in just under 6-minutes here: https://go1.predictiveindex.com/free Enjoy!
In this episode, Tessa spoke with Melina Palmer about how our brains process decision-making and change management in both life and work. Melina Palmer is an Applied Behavioral Economist, which means she helps people understand how the brain really works when it comes to how humans act, choose, change and buy. She is also an author, podcast host and professor at Texas A&M.
As a special treat, Happy at Work listeners can read an exclusive preview of Melina's next book, The Brainy Business, here: www.thebrainybusiness.com/happyatwork Enjoy!
In this episode, Tessa and Laura spoke with Dr. Margarida Rafael about culture fit, personal and professional well-being, and hiring lessons from the pandemic.
Dr. Margarida Rafael is the Head of Psychological Sciences at Workzinga. Using a Culture Fit Assessment, Workzinga helps companies identify the best hiring fit based on cultural alignment between organizations and employees. Learn more about Workzinga here!
In addition to this important work, Dr. Rafael is also a trained clinical psychologist, and runs her own private practice from Lisbon, Portugal.
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This week, Laura and Michael spoke with Jason Rosoff about candor in the workplace and cultivating psychological safety amongst teams. Jason Rosoff is the CEO and co-founder of Radical Candor, an executive education company focused on helping organizations move from a culture of command and control to one of collaboration. By leveraging co-founder Kim Scott's proven Radical Candor framework to develop a feedback-first culture, Jason helps companies develop real human relationships between team members, and through those relationships, achieve results collaboratively.
Learn more about the Radical Candor framework and books here: www.radicalcandor.com Enjoy!
In this episode, Michael and Tessa spoke with Brant Cooper about humility, the power of teamwork, and outcome-based management.
Brant Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. Brant's area of expertise lies in turning uncertainty into competitive advantage. An avid proponent of collaborative problem-solving, Brant works with organizations and teams to drive value and change across the enterprise. Learn more about Brant's books here. Enjoy!
In this episode, Laura and Tessa spoke with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr, behavior change scientist, mother, and self-proclaimed burnout survivor.
Dr. Jacqueline Kerr is in the top 1% of Most Cited Scientists worldwide, and her work has informed the US Center for Disease Control Community Prevention Guide. Previously a public health professor, Dr. Kerr left her faculty role in 2018 due to severe burnout, and has since pivoted her career towards helping others prevent similar experiences before they begin.
She now hosts the 'Overcoming Working Mom Burnout' podcast, where she interviews researchers, diversity experts, and leadership coaches, focusing on mental-illness.
Follow Dr. Kerr's work via her LinkedIn profile or website! You can also watch Dr. Kerr's TEDxMcMasterU talk, 'How To Stop Burnout Before It Starts' here.
Enjoy!
Welcome to Season Three! In this episode, we spoke with President of Leader Bank, Jay Tuli. Jay chatted with Michael, Tessa, and Laura about experimenting during COVID-19, adapting to remote work, and staying nimble within the finance industry. Jay Tuli has been the President of Leader Bank for 16+ years, and is deeply involved in all aspects of the business. Leader Bank has experienced high growth for the last 2.5 years, and Jay has been instrumental in improving institutional culture, engagement, and belonging. Enjoy the show!
This week's episode features Daniel Oppong, Founder of The Courage Collective about solving human-centered problems as a consultant, DEI interventions, and the impact of identity and intersectionality.
Daniel is a successful founder of three organizations: The Courage Collective, Boundless, and OhanaHealth.
The Courage Collective is a consultancy and conversation and education series focused on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the modern workplace: https://thecouragecollective.co/
Boundless, is a fellowship program designed to create access pathways for BIPOC in Marketing, Consulting and Technology industries: https://boundlessfellows.co/
OhanaHealth is a professional development fellowship that connects high-achieving graduates with healthcare organization seeking to solve the world's most pressing issues: https://www.ohanahealth.co/
We really enjoyed this insightful conversation with Daniel, and hope you do too!
This week's episode features Samantha Lane, founder of Origami Day. We spoke with Samantha about work-life balance, productivity, and the concept of time.
After experiencing a life-changing health crisis, Samantha changed her workaholic ways and founded Origami Day where she now helps individuals be present in their lives while still being productive. Samantha offers training, coaching and speaking services through her organization.
Check out Samantha's amazing time-mangagement and productivity resources here: https://bit.ly/3bGNO6j
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This week, we spoke with Sophie Bretag, founder of Metta Leaders, about self-kindness, leading with kindness, and getting clear on your values and boundaries.
Based in Adelaide, Australia, Sophie is a speaker, consultant, coach, and meditation teacher. Through Metta Leaders, Sophie works with businesses, teams, and individuals around topics including kindness, well-being, and mindfulness.
Learn more about Sophie's work here: https://bit.ly/3zRrRur
This week's guest is Erayna Sargent, founder of Hooky Wellness. We spoke about burn-out, mental wellness, and how to combat the guilt that often comes with hitting pause.
Erayna is a mental wellness advocate, speaker, facilitator, and founder of Hooky Wellness - a workplace-burnout organization. She has worked with teams across the organization at places like Google, Deloitte, Molson Coors, P&G and Teach for America, about the power of being proactive with well-being.
Erayna is an MBA alum of Indiana University, an initiative member at the Global Wellness Institute, a columnist for Well+Good, and founder of BLEND, a non-profit for professionals of color.
Learn more about Hooky Wellness here: https://bit.ly/3v8Ks2k
This week's episode features Andrew Soren, founder and CEO of Eudaimonic by Design. Andrew spoke with us about the unique origin story of his organization's name, positive psychology, and the relationship between work and well-being.
Eudaimonic by Design is a global network of facilitators, coaches and advisors 'who share a passion for well-being and believe organizations must be designed to enable it'. For +20 years, Andrew has worked with some of the most recognized brands, non-profits and public sector teams to co-create values-based cultures, develop positive leadership, and design systems that empower people to be their best.
Here is a link to the positive psychology + resilience resource Andrew mentioned in the episode: https://bit.ly/3B3AfYK
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This week's episode features Pedro da Fonseca, CEO of the largest red wine producer in Portugal, Vicente Faria Vinhos. Pedro shares his experience running a family-owned business and navigating the industry as a young leader.
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In this week's episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Marty Martinez, CEO of Reach Out and Read, about creating moments that matter, combating the impacts of stress, and building meaningful relationships.
Marty Martinez has been the CEO of Reach Out and Read since February 2022. Reach Out and Read is a national nonprofit founded in 1989 to help families make reading a part of their routines, and to supply the books they need to get started. Their initiatives are in all 50 states, with 6,100 program sites that provide 6.4 million books each year.
Previous to his current role, Marty was the Chief of Health & Human Services for the City of Boston, and led the city's COVID-19 response efforts.
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In this week's episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Adunola Adeshola about owning your career journey, professional self-advocacy, and finding purpose in your work.
Adunola is a Career Strategist and founder of employeeREDEFINED, where she helps high-achieving professionals take their careers to the next level and develop the self-confidence to achieve their professional goals. In addition to her work as a coach, Adunola has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, Bloomberg, and other publications.
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Carsten Bruhn, President and CEO of Ricoh North America.
Prior to his leadership role at Ricoh, Carsten served as Corporate VP for Ricoh Global Services. During a two-year assignment in Japan, at Ricoh’s global headquarters, Bruhn led the global services transformation for Ricoh Business Solutions. Prior to joining Ricoh, he managed Lanier's Northern Europe region. After the acquisition of Lanier by the Ricoh Group in 2001, Bruhn successfully integrated Lanier's businesses into Ricoh's Operating Companies.
Originally from Denmark, Bruhn moved to the United States in 2021 after living in Great Britain for 23 years with a two-year assignment in Japan and extensive international travel supporting customers throughout the world, including North America. Bruhn attended Henley Management College with a focus on management studies and INSEAD with a focus on finance.
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Nance Lucas, the Executive Director of George Mason University's Center for the Advancement of Well-Being.
Dr. Lucas is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies in the School of Integrative Studies, an affiliate faculty member of the Higher Education Program, and former Associate Dean of the School of Integrative Studies (formerly New Century College) at George Mason University. Her teaching and scholarship passions focus on the intersections of science and applications of leadership and well-being.
Learn more about the Center here: wellbeing.gmu.edu
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, Laura and Tessa speak with Sam Willing, SVP, People and Culture at Neoleukin Therapeutics.
Sam Willing is an HR executive, podcaster, coach, speaker and entrepreneur. Her mission 'is spreading a message of encouragement, grace and authenticity in an effort to elevate others to be their best selves'.
Learn more about Sam's work here: https://samwilling.com/
Interesting in supporting The Compassion Collective and having an imperfect heart of your own? Learn and shop here: https://thecompassionatecollective.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Adrian K. Haugabrook about equity and access in education, and centering around a point of resonance with others.
Dr. Adrian Haugabrook is the Executive VP and Managing Director of the Social Impact Collective at Southern New Hampshire University. The Social Impact Collective at SNHU offers programs and initiatives to create pathways to college for the learners who need new ways of accessing education the most. In addition, Dr. Haugabrook sits on the Board of Directors at UpSwing, City Year New Hampshire, and the Postsecondary National Policy Institute.
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Today's episode features Dr. Delvina Miremadi-Baldino, a positive psychology and resilience expert.
Dr. Delvina Miremadi-Baldino specializes in fostering resilience in both adults and children. She is a 'change agent through education, research, and developing innovative tools to help increase resilience and improve the lives of adolescents and adults'.
Delvina is currently the Director of Research and Program Development at Life Advantages in addition to being the founder of Realize Your Resilience. Previously, Delvina worked for the Boston Children's Hospital Department of Psychiatry, developing innovative depression and suicide prevention tools and curriculum for the Swensrud Depression Prevention Initiative.
Learn more about Delvina's work here: https://www.realizeyourresilience.com/
In this week's episode, Michael, Tessa and Laura spoke with David Youssefnia, Ph.D. about the future of work.
David was recently the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Uplevel, where he was responsible for infusing organizational science into the Uplevel platform so managers and engineers can do their best work.
Previously, David founded and sold the successful consulting firm Critical Metrics, retained by leading companies to help improve engagement and manager and team effectiveness. He has also served as an advisor to several technology companies in the HR and Consumer Analytics space.
Earlier in his career, he helped build an employee research practice at Mercer, a global consulting firm. David holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the City University of New York.
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In this episode, Michael, Laura, and Tessa spoke with Dr. Yukun Zhao, a positive psychology researcher.
In his role as the Administrative Director of the Positive Psychology Research Center at Tsinghua University, Dr. Zhao organizes events, develops positive psychology programs, and oversees the Positive Psychology Certificate Program, which has trained more than 2000 people.
Dr. Zhao is a member of International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) board of directors, International Positive Education Network (IPEN) global representative to China, and co-founded the Beijing Positive Psychology Association. He received his PhD from Tsinghua University, and the Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from University of Pennsylvania. He also holds Master degrees of Computer Science and Chemistry from Rutgers University. Yukun has published five books in China, and co-edited/co-translated four books.
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In this episode, Michael, Laura, and Tessa spoke with Armond S. Kinsey, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Atlantic Health System.
In his role, Armond is charged with leading a transformational agenda to infuse diversity and inclusion throughout the organization. Perviously, Armond served as the Chief Diversity Officer at Kaiser Permanente, Mid-Atlantic States, where he oversaw equity, inclusion and diversity efforts for the region. His vast experience also includes having worked for Korn Ferry International, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies.
Over his career, Armond has produced several policies, practices and programs that aided in those companies being listed as premier organizations for diversity an inclusion, including being listed in the DiversityInc. Hall of Fame.
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In this episode, Michael, Laura, and Tessa spoke with Diana Chapman, a co-author of 'The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership'. Diana shares wisdom from her book, some key conscious leadership lessons and practices, and how all this can be applied in the workplace.
Diana Chapman has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams, and is a founding partner at Conscious Leadership Group. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen.
In addition to facilitating CLG Forums in the Bay Area for founders, venture capitalists, and CEOs, Diana facilitates YPO Forums and Chapters worldwide. She also trains coaches in conscious leadership in the CLG training program she and Jim created.
Diana co-authored the best-selling book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, in 2015. She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Haas School of Business, YPO, and Kauffman Fellows.
Resource mentioned in the podcast: 'Locating Yourself' Video: https://youtu.be/fLqzYDZAqCI
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Omer Glass about the impact of one-on-one, specialized career coaching on employee success and retention.
Omer Glass is the Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthSpace. GrowthSpace is the first employee development platform that brings the power of data to personalized learning and development (L&D).
Learn more about GrowthSpace here: https://www.growthspace.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Alex Bennett about the upcoming and current trends when it comes to the future of work.
Alex Bennett is currently the Global SVP of NTT, a global technology services company. Through a full range of unparalleled capabilities, NTT empowers people, strategy, operations and technology, while the platforms provides a single view across hybrid environments. This gives NTT clients better insight to make the right decisions at the right time and achieve business modernization and transformation goals.
With over 20 years' experience specializing in sales management and go-to-market execution, Alex is an expert in all areas of the modern workplace, engaging regularly with clients, analysts and press to communicate how technology underpins transformation and empowers individuals and teams for competitive advantage.
Learn more about NTT here: https://services.global.ntt/ Enjoy this episode?
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In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we'd like to share this particularly special episode featuring Larraine Segil.
Larraine Segil is a South African-born entrepreneur, attorney, adviser, lecturer, author, board member, and cheesemaker! She is renowned as the leading Guru in Strategic Alliances having written 5 books on the topic and built (and sold) the leading Consultancy in the area after being CEO of entrepreneurial companies in Health Care and Aerospace Advanced Materials Distribution.
She taught Executive Education on Alliances at Caltech for 24 years. She is a Professor at Southwestern Law School on Business Alliances and has been a Professor in the Straus Center Masters Program in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University. Larraine was a member of the Board of Frontier Communications, and now serves on the public board of CalPrivate Bank Bank as well as on Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, and as Board Emerita at UCLA Anderson School of Management Entrepreneur's Advisory Board, and NACD PSW. Larraine serves on the Fast Company Impact Council.
Larraine is the embodiment of exceptional. Learn more about her work, experience, and ethos here: http://www.lsegil.com/
Learn more about the Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation here: https://www.exceptionalwomenawardees.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Evan Hock about the value of remote workers, building community in new places, and the future of flexible work.
Evan Hock is the Co-Founder of MakeMyMove. MakeMyMove is a marketing platform for communities to recruit new residents. They connect move-ready talent with the cities and towns that are competing for their relocations, with a concentration in commercial development, construction, hospitality, medical device/pharma, financial services, and high-end performance sales arenas.
Learn more about MakeMyMove here: www.makemymove.com
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Mahe Bayireddi about transforming the candidate experience, and helping a billion people find the perfect job.
Mahe Bayireddi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Phenom People. A passionate entrepreneur, Mahe has co-founded several successful technology companies, drawing on his extensive knowledge in predictive intelligence and machine learning.
Phenom is a global HR technology company with a mission to help a billion people find the right job. Phenom accomplishes this task through an AI-based SaaS platform called TXM, which redefines the entire talent experience through a single platform approach. This provides companies with a unified solution built on AI that drives personalization, automation, and accuracy for candidates, recruiters, employees, and management.
Learn more about Phenom People here: www.phenom.com
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Kenzo Fong, CEO and Founder of Rock.
Kenzo Fong is CEO & Founder of Rock, which is on a mission to enable anyone to work from anywhere. From Google Maps to Android, and Uber, Kenzo has helped build and grow products that have ended up delighting billions of people. In all of these cases, he joined early on and helped these products find product market fit by building and leading product marketing, brand and growth teams through different stages of maturity and scale.
Kenzo has extensive experience building platforms through Android -- the world’s most popular mobile platform, defining and bringing to market local and hardware products through Google Maps & Google hardware and growing three-sided marketplaces through Uber Eats.
Learn more about Rock here: https://rock.so/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Rick Chen and Kyum Kim about transparency in the workplace and real, verifiable feedback.
Blind is a community app for the workplace where more than 5-million verified professionals communicate anonymously. Blind's vision in creating this space was to break down professional barriers and hierarchies to openly and honestly share views, opinions, and offer advice to other members.
Rick Chen is the Head of PR at Blind.
Kyum Kim is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer at Blind.
Learn more about Blind here: https://www.teamblind.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Mathieu Stevenson, CEO of Snagajob.
Mathieu Stevenson has 15 years of experience in corporate marketing strategy, and has worked in multiple industries straddling both B2C and B2B as well as marketplace businesses. Mathieu is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and attended the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University receiving his Masters of Business Administration.
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Nadia Vatalidis, VP of People at Remote.
Nadia Vatalidis is the VP of People at Remote, where she works on all things people and continues to enable Remote as a great place to work. She is exceptionally passionate about the onboarding journey in a remote-first environment and creating a self-enabled culture to ensure everyone is set up for success. She came from GitLab, leading People Operations and Experience, People Engineering and International Expansion and helped scale GitLab from 75 to 1300 employees.
Learn more about Remote here: https://remote.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Cher Scarlett, a software engineer and workers'-rights activist.
Cher Scarlett is well-known for her workers'-rights activism and organizing at Apple and other technology companies. She was a leader of the #AppleToo movement, which gathers and shares stories of mistreatment from current and former Apple employees.
Learn more about Cher here: https://cher.dev/about
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Steve Pemberton the Chief Human Resources Officer of Workhuman.
At Workhuman, Steve Pemberton works with HR leaders and senior management executives worldwide to help build workplaces where every employee feels recognized, respected, and appreciated for who they are and what they do. Steve is a Boston College graduate and serves on several nonprofit boards, including UCAN (Chicago), Boys Hope Girls Hope, and The United States Business Leadership Network.
Learn more about Steve's work here: https://www.workhuman.com/leadership/steve-pemberton/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Alain Dehaze, CEO of The Adecco Group.
Alain Dehaze is the CEO of Adecco, one of the largest, diversified international talent staffing firms in the world. Previously, Alain held senior positions in a number of European countries at Henkel and ISS. In 2000, he became Managing Director of Creyf’s Interim in Belgium (now Start People). From 2002 to 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of Solvus. Following the acquisition of Solvus by USG People, the Netherlands, in 2005, he became the Chief Operating Officer of USG People, with overall responsibility for operations, including the integration of Solvus. From September 2007 until 2009, he was CEO of the staffing services company Humares, the Netherlands.
Alain was on the board of the Global Apprenticeship Network (GAN) and previously served as its Chairman. Furthermore, Alain Dehaze was Vice President of the Board of the World Employment Confederation Europe and member of the Board of the World Employment Confederation between December 2010 and December 2015. Since August 2017 he has been a member of the newly formed ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work.
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In this episode of the Happy at Work podcast, we spoke with Josh Brenner of Hired.
Josh Brenner is the CEO of Hired, an AI-driven marketplace that matches tech and sales talent with hiring managers.
Salary Calculator: https://hrd.cm/3FujcO7
State of Tech Salaries Report: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2021
Learn more about Hired here: https://hired.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Yong Kim and Katie Evans-Reber about the importance of empathy in the workplace.
Founded in 2014, Wonolo is a marketplace that connects companies with workers, primarily within the industrial industry. Yong Kim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wonolo. Katie Evans-Reber is the VP of People and Talent of Wonolo.
Learn more about Wonolo here: https://www.wonolo.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Vivek Sharma about talent retention, up-skilling, and investing in the education of employees.
Vivek Sharma is the CEO & Co-Founder of InStride, a strategic enterprise education™ company, enabling leading employers to provide career-boosting online degrees, certificates and credentials to their employees, through leading global education partners. In 2020, InStride was recognized with Inc.’s Best in Business award and as one of Fortune’s Impact 20 companies globally. Vivek graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.
Learn more about InStride here: https://www.instride.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Laura Hamill, PhD about mitigating burnout in the workplace.
Laura Hamill, PhD, is an organizational psychologist and owner of Paris Phoenix Group, a consulting firm specializing in the intersection of science and HR. Laura also was a co-founder of Limeade, an employee experience software company, holding the Chief People Officer and Chief Science Officer roles, and she continues her work with Limeade as their Chief Science Advisor. Before Limeade, she worked at Microsoft as the Director of People Research and has worked at various other companies in employee research roles.
Dr. Hamill earned her Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Old Dominion University and a B.S. in psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Learn more about Limeade here: https://www.limeade.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Ginnie Carlier about creating an empathetic work environment, from the top down.
In her role, Ginnie leads efforts to create exceptional and transformative experiences for over 80,000 EY people across 31 countries. She serves as the executive sponsor for College MAP (Mentoring for Access and Persistence), a multiyear, group-mentoring program focused on enabling and empowering students in underserved high schools so that they can gain access to college and succeed in higher education. Carlier also chairs the EY Americas Talent Executive Committee and is a member of the US Executive Committee, Americas Operating Executive Global Talent Executive and Americas Inclusiveness Advisory Council.
Learn more about Ginnie's work at EY here: https://www.ey.com/en_us/people/ginnie-carlier
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Representative Mark Takano to discuss workplace policy, culture, and his vision for the 4-day-work week.
Rep. Takano is an American politician and academic who has been the United States representative for California's 41st congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Takano became the first openly gay person of Asian descent in Congress upon taking office. Additionally, Rep. Takano has made history for legislation he's put forward that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Learn more about Rep. Takano's district and legislature here: https://takano.house.gov/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we speak with Nikki Salenetri, VP of People at GymPass, about the importance of building a healthy work environment.
Nikki Salenetri has licenses and certifications from reputable organizations including, Talent Acquisition Strategist Certification from Human Capital Institute and Behavioral Interviewing Certification from ZERORISK HR, Inc. Previously, she worked at Rodale Inc, a global health and wellness content company as a Senior Director of HR. She also spent more than two years working at Equinox as the Regional Director of HR. She graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology and received her bachelor’s from Franklin & Marshall College in Biological Foundations of Behavior.
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In this Happy at Work Podcast, we speak with the Founder of OfficerTogether - Amy Yin.
Amy Yin founded OfficeTogether in 2020 for companies who want to empower their employees with the flexibility to work how they are most productive while also honoring the magic of in-person time. With 10+ years of experience in software engineering, and previous roles at Facebook, Coinbase, and Hired, Amy is a leader in the hybrid workplace industry.
Want to work with Amy at OfficeTogether? Learn more here: https://careers.officetogether.com/
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Zak Brown about the importance of building strong teams.
Zak Brown acts as Chief Executive of McLaren Racing, where he's responsible for strategic direction, operational performance, marketing and commercial development. Mr. Brown brings 10 years of professional racing experience to McLaren Racing, and has deep knowledge of motorsport marketing having founded JMI (now CSM, a division of Chime Communications) over 27 years ago.
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In this episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Dr. Robert Langer about how impact-driven work yields high-performing and resilient teams.
Dr. Robert Langer holds degrees from Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds around 1,400 patents and is one of the most published and cited scholars of all time. Additionally, Dr. Langer is one of 5 living individuals to have received both the United States National Medal of Science (2006) and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2011).
Learn more about Dr. Langer's accolades and current work here: https://langerlab.mit.edu/langer-bio/
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In the inaugural episode of the Happy at Work Podcast, we spoke with Otmar Szafnauer to learn how he's made his organization a happy place to work.
Mr. Szafnauer was most recently the CEO and team principal of Aston Martin F1 Racing.
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