Beyond Wellbeing - Leading a thriving, generative and conscious workplace culture: Recent Episodes
Daryl Brown & Lina Mbirkou
Wellbeing is the most misunderstood, misaligned, and undervalued asset in business today. This needs to change. To address this, Daryl Brown and Lina Mbirkou are igniting conversations around measurable and accountable methods and processes for developing a thriving, generative, conscious workplace culture. Here they will interview other industry leaders about workplace wellbeing, who understand the critical nature of working with how humans thrive and are motivated to give of their best, as well as how to harness the exponential power of collaboration.
How do we frame the year that's been? Daryl and Lina talk through the key issues, themes, highlights and trends from 2020's thought leader discussions in the Wellbeing space.
We discuss diversity and inclusion in this episode with Stephanie Zuniga-Maher. What are the benefits for an organisation that embraces a truly inclusive culture, and how are we progressing as a society in this area.
Vivek Iyyani is a global keynote speaker and consultant on all things Millenial. He shares his understandings today around the nuances and specific challenges faced by millennials and provides keys to see them flourish and contributing their talents fully within our enterprises.
Annie Harvey takes us through her two burn-out stories and her learnings from those episodes. Her traumas have turned her into a Ted-x speaker, a writer, and a coach with a powerful message for today's society.
In this episode we talk with Sean Hall, a Productivity & Mental Wellbeing Consultant who specialises in Burnout Prevention - and developing higher capacity humans. He explains us what his term "energist' means, and how by modifying our approach to wellbeing we can increase our staff capacity by a stunning 30%.
Dan Haesler from Cut Through Coaching & Consulting gives us the next step after you know what you need to do regarding wellbeing, but find yourself not doing it. He also reflects on COVID and what it might have to teach us, as well as what coaching top athletes has to do with high performance in the corporate space.
In this episode, we talk with Jenny George - CEO of Converge International, and discover 'the best mental health service that no-one knows about'! We also discuss the common root cause of a toxic workplace, and some great practical tips on how to combat this
*so it would be a special form of leave. We speak to Jack Heath, CEO of Sane Australia about his recommendations here, as well as get to understand what those suffering mental illness can teach us during COVID.
Finding living examples of developing Wellbeing cultures in organisations is an important part of our process here at Beyond Wellbeing. In this ep, we talk to Talent and Leadership lead at Accenture, Claire McCaffery. We discuss the changes in culture and what that looks like today across the organisation. Be encouraged, fellow wellbeing champions!
In this episode, Lina and Daryl talk with Phillip Wolffe of Kinex Health. Phil gives us the lowdown on the business case for workplace physical health programs. We explore the relationship between health and productivity and dig up examples of health-based workplace practices and actual outcomes.
In his search for a new perspective on what makes for the good life, Brock Bastian has studied why promoting happiness may have paradoxical effects - Lina and Daryl have a chat with him about that. Also, we discuss Psychological safety and the workplace. Psychological safety is an essential part of a mentally healthy workplace, but it is also critical for team problem solving, creativity and innovation and ensuring shared identity and understanding within and across teams.
Lina and Daryl bring you the highlights from the recent Sydney Summit. The Wellbeing @ Work Summit is a senior-level event for HR, Wellbeing, Benefit & Business Leaders to discover how to create compassionate cultures, design and implement holistic wellbeing & mental health programmes and deliver healthier outcomes & more productive organisations.
Scott Bidmead is the co-developer of a cutting edge corporate wellbeing monitoring software. He shares his background in martial arts which grew into an interest in psychology. Scott also shares his approach to the measures of workplace wellbeing based on key positive psychology principles and the PERMA model.
A jam packed conversation with former CMO turned Workplace wellbeing evangelist, Lawrence Mitchell. Amazing energy and awesome insights, as Lawrence tells his journey with workplace wellbeing, as well as how the virtual Wellbeing@Work Summit Sydney developed and the contribution it is making to the growing Wellbeing community.
Workplace Wellness Festival Day 1, Part 2 - Daryl and Lina work their way through Lina's highlights and gems from this amazing festival
Workplace Wellness Festival Day 1, Part 1 - Daryl and Lina work their way through Lina's highlights and gems from this amazing festival
Organisations can become very complacent about wellbeing. The MACRO model provides a good framework for implementing change in a way that has people do their best work. In this overview, Lina chats to Daryl about the components of her model and the benefits of introducing it to a workplace culture.
Corporate wellbeing is more than a fruit bowl and Tuesdays yoga classes. Daryl Brown and Lina Mbirkou talk through the genesis of their thinking around the Beyond Wellbeing Podcast