Making Positive Psychology Work
280 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsIf you believe as we do that by uncovering tested, practical ways to help people move from functioning to flourishing at work, we can better navigate the incredible challenges and opportunities our world faces, then this podcast is for you. Our goal each week is to give you access to the world’ leading positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship and neuroscience researchers and practitioners to explore their latest research findings on how you can improve wellbeing, develop strengths, nurture positive relationships, make work meaningful and cultivate the grit to accomplish what matters most. If you want evidence-based approaches to bringing out the best in yourself and others at work, then consider this podcast your step-by-step guide.
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Can Resilience Be Cultivated? Podcast with George Bonanno
December 20, 2019 14:31 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBGeorge Bonanno is professor of clinical psychology, Director of the Lost Trauma and Emotion Lab, and Director of The Resilience Center for Veterans and Families at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. George’s research focuses on resilience in the fact of loss and traumatic events. Most of us have the natural tools to deal with extreme adversities in our lives. We cope well when extreme things happen to us. To deal with the world around us, it takes a repertoire of behaviors. Somet...
A New Model For Change - with David Cooperrider
December 05, 2019 23:00 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBMy guest today is David Cooperrider, renowned for his research in appreciative inquiry, a strength-based approach to creating change. In this interview, you will hear how appreciative inquiry is being used to build a better world. David explains how organizations can align strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant. He also shares how individuals and organizations can use this life-centric approach to go through the steps of his new P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E change model. This ...
A New Model For Change - Podcast with David Cooperrider
December 05, 2019 23:00 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBMy guest today is David Cooperrider, renowned for his research in appreciative inquiry, a strength-based approach to creating change. In this interview, you will hear how appreciative inquiry is being used to build a better world. David explains how organizations can align strengths in ways that make the system’s weaknesses irrelevant. He also shares how individuals and organizations can use this life-centric approach to go through the steps of his new P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E change model. This ...
Do You Need To Ask For Help More? Podcast with Wayne Baker
November 28, 2019 23:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBDr. Wayne Baker is a professor of business administration and professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and faculty director of the Centre for Positive Organizations. The author of the forthcoming book, 'All You Have to Do Is Ask', as well as five other books and many scholarly articles. Wayne's research focuses on social capital, social networks, generosity, and positive organizations. He's also the co-founder and board member of Give...
Do You Need To Ask For Help More? with Wayne Baker
November 28, 2019 23:00 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBDr. Wayne Baker is a professor of business administration and professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and faculty director of the Centre for Positive Organizations. The author of the forthcoming book, 'All You Have to Do Is Ask', as well as five other books and many scholarly articles. Wayne's research focuses on social capital, social networks, generosity, and positive organizations. He's also the co-founder and board member of Give...
Can You Profit By Putting People First? with Stephen Carter
November 21, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBStephen Carter is the founder of one of Australia's fastest-growing, privately-owned recruitment firms, Sharp and Carter, who have five offices and more than 120 staff around the country. In this week’s podcast, we explore how putting people first by using positive leadership approaches has helped one workplace grow their revenue by 55% per annum for the last five years. Connect with Stephen Carter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencarter1/ You’ll Learn: [02:13] - Carts explains ho...
Can You Profit By Putting People First? Podcast with Stephen Carter
November 21, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBStephen Carter is the founder of one of Australia's fastest-growing, privately-owned recruitment firms, Sharp and Carter, who have five offices and more than 120 staff around the country. In this week’s podcast, we explore how putting people first by using positive leadership approaches has helped one workplace grow their revenue by 55% per annum for the last five years. Connect with Stephen Carter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencarter1/ [free_product_purchase id="71306"] You’l...
Do You Need A Tiny Wellbeing Habit? with BJ Fogg
November 14, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBDr. BJ Fogg teaches good people how behavior works, so they can create products and services that benefit everyday people around the world. A behavioral scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching, BJ runs a research lab at Stanford University, and trains innovators to use his work, so they can create solutions that influence behavior in health, financial well-being, learning, productivity, and more. He's personally coached over 40,000 people informing new habits using his brea...
Do You Need A Tiny Wellbeing Habit? Podcast with BJ Fogg
November 14, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBDr. BJ Fogg teaches good people how behavior works, so they can create products and services that benefit everyday people around the world. A behavioral scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching, BJ runs a research lab at Stanford University, and trains innovators to use his work, so they can create solutions that influence behavior in health, financial well-being, learning, productivity, and more. He's personally coached over 40,000 people informing new habits using his brea...
Do You Know the 4 Stages of Psychological Safety? with Dr. Timothy R. Clark
November 07, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBDr. Timothy R. Clark is the founder and managing partner at LeadFactor and a highly sought after advisor, coach, and facilitator to CEOs and senior leadership teams around the world. He's the author of four books with his newest, The Four Stages of Psychological Safety due out in early 2020, and he's written more than 150 articles on leadership, change, strategy, human capital, culture, and employee engagement. In this week’s podcast, we explore the four stages of psychological safety and ...
Are You Eating, Moving & Sleeping Well? Podcast with Tom Rath
October 31, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBTom Rath is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and wellbeing. His 10 books including, "Strengths Finder 2.0", "Wellbeing", and "Eat Move Sleep", have sold more than 10 million copies, and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists. During his 13 years at Gallup, Tom was the Program Leader for the development of Clifton Strengths Finder, which has helped over 20 million people to uncover their talents, and went o...
Are You Eating, Moving & Sleeping Well? with Tom Rath
October 31, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBTom Rath is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and wellbeing. His ten books including, "Strengths Finder 2.0", "Wellbeing", and "Eat Move Sleep", have sold more than ten million copies, and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists. During his 13 years at Gallup, Tom was the Program Leader for the development of Clifton Strengths Finder, which has helped over 20 million people to uncover their talents, and went...
Can You Build High-Quality Connections? Podcast with Jane Dutton
October 24, 2019 23:00 - 36 minutes - 59.7 MB[smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/michellemcquaid/MPPW_165_-_Steven_Rogelberg.mp3" social="true" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_gplus="true" artist="Michelle McQuaid" title="MPPW #165 - Steven Rogelberg"] Jane Dutton is a Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology at the University of Michigan. Jane's research focuses on how organizational conditions enable human thriving, and in particular, how the quality of connection between people...
Can You Build High-Quality Connections? with Jane Dutton
October 24, 2019 23:00 - 36 minutes - 59.7 MBJane Dutton is a Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology at the University of Michigan. Jane's research focuses on how organizational conditions enable human thriving, and in particular, how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research explores compassion in organizations, resilience in organizations, as well as energy in organizations, and she's published over 100 articles and book chapters, edited 12 bo...
Are Meetings Draining Your People? with Steven Rogelberg
October 17, 2019 23:00 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBDr. Steven Rogelberg is an organizational psychologist who holds the title of Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He's an award-winning teacher and recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research with over 100 publications, addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee wellbeing, meetings at work and organizational research methods. His latest book,...
Are You Working Your Strengths Muscles? with Alissa Daire Nelson
October 10, 2019 23:00 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBAlissa Daire Nelson is a certified strength strategy coach who gives people the tools and guidance to put their strengths to work. She's the host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast, and author of From Frustrated To Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For. Alissa's work has been featured in media outlets all over the world. In this week’s episode, we explore the practical steps we can take to spot and develop people’s strengths – the things we’re good at and en...
The 3 Easy Steps For Creating Good Habits with Wendy Wood
October 04, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBWendy Wood is a professor at the University of Southern California and visiting faculty at Insead Business school in France. Wendy has spent the last 30 years studying people's habits and understanding how to change them, and her research has been featured in media publications all over the world and is the focus of her forthcoming book Good Habits, Bad Habits. In this week’s episode, we explore what the latest research is finding out about how we can create and sustain good habits to supp...
Are You Leaking Emotional Waste At Work? with Cy Wakeman
September 27, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBCy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author, recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Cy has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, and many others to navigate our rapidly changing world, using good mental processes to harness energy wasted in workplace drama, and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results. Her work has been featured in several media outlets around the...
Can You Make Wellbeing Ripple Throughout Your Workplace? with Rachael Powell
September 20, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBRachael Powell is the Chief Customer, People and Marketing Officer at Xero, a cloud-based accounting platform for small and medium businesses around the world. She's an experienced business executive with a demonstrated success across strategy, marketing, and human resources. Rachael has a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne and is passionate about enabling people to do the best work of their lives. In this week’s episode, we explore how Xero, a cloud-ba...
The 8 Steps To Finding A Purpose That Pays Off - with Bob Quinn
September 13, 2019 00:00 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBRobert Quinn is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, one of the co-founders of the field of positive organizational scholarship, and a co-founder of the Ross Centre for Positive Organisations. Bob's research and writing focuses on purpose, leadership, culture and change,and he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behaviour textbooks. The recipient of multiple teaching awards, Bob was recently named one of the top speakers in the worl...
Are You Being Called by the Future? with David Yaden
September 06, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBDavid Bryce Yaden is a Research Fellow and PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works in the Positive Psychology Centre. David's research focus is on the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual, self-transcendent and other positively transformative experiences. Specifically, he's interested in understanding how these experiences can result in longterm changes to wellbeing. And how they alter fundamental faculties of consciousness, such as the sense of time, space, and sel...
Can You Turn On Your Happy Chemicals? with Loretta Breuning
August 30, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBLoretta Breuning is the founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, which helps people manage the ups and downs of their mammal brain. As professor emerita of management at California State University East Bay, Loretta's research explores how people can discover the power of their mammalian operating system. The author of several books, including Habits of a Happy Brain, Loretta had shared her research, and talks all over the world. In this week’s podcast, we explore our brain’s happy chemicals...
What Makes Work Meaningful? with Michael Steger
August 23, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBMichael Steger is the founder and director of the Centre for Meaning and Purpose, and a professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Endlessly curious about learning how to create a life worth living, Michael has spent the better part of two decades studying the vital role that meaning and purpose play in our work, health, relationships, growth, and happiness. His research has been featured in academic and general publications around the world, and he's also written several books on...
Are You Being Sucked Into A Negativity Vortex? with Ethan Kross
August 16, 2019 00:00 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MBEthan Kross is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan's top-ranked social psychology programme. He's an award-winning scientist and teacher who studies how the conversations people have with themselves impact their health, performance, decisions, and relationships. And his research has been published in academic journals and featured in the New York Times, the Economist and the New Yorker, to name just a few. In this week’s episode, we explore how we can avoid being sucked...
How Do You See The World? with Jeremy Clifton
August 09, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBJeremy Clifton is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Martin Seligman, who is often regarded as the founder of positive psychology. After an initial career in urban economic development strategy, Jer has spent five years creating a foundational, empirically-derived typology of primal world beliefs, and his research examines many of these variables and their impact on well-being, personality traits and character strengths, professional success, depre...
Is Loneliness Hurting Your Organization? with Prof. Sigal Barsade
August 02, 2019 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBSigal Barsade is a professor of management at the Wharton School of Business and focusses her research on emotional intelligence, organizational culture, unconscious bias, teamwork, leadership, and organizational change. Having consulted for organizations of all sizes across a myriad of industries, including Cisco, Coca Cola, Deloitte, Google, the NBA, and the United Nations, Sigal’s research has been featured in leading academic research journals and in media outlets around the world. In t...
Can You Flex Your Stress Mindset? with Kelly McGonigal
July 25, 2019 19:30 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBDr. Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. As a pioneer in the field of science help, her mission is to translate insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support personal wellbeing and strengthen communities. Kelly is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, The Willpower Instinct, The Upside Of Stress, and her upcoming book, The Joy Of Movement. Her TED Talk, How To Make Stress Your Friend,...
Is An Individual Approach To Wellbeing Enough? with Peggy Kern
July 12, 2019 00:00 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBDr Peggy Kern who is an associate professor at the Centre for Positive Psychology at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. Her research is collaborative in nature and draws on a variety of methodologies to examine questions around who thrives in life and why. She is the world’s leading researcher on measuring wellbeing using the PERMAH pillars, and has published 2 books and over 80 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. In today’s episode, we explore how systems informe...
Does Your Leadership Need A Reboot? with Jerry Colonna
July 05, 2019 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBJerry Colonna is the CEO and Co-Founder of reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to the notion that better humans make better leaders. After many years as a partner and founder of private equity firms, Jerry has spent the last 20 years using the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations, to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity to overcome the psychological b...
Do You Have These 5 Happiness Skills? with Nataly Kogan
June 28, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46.7 MBNataly Kogan is the creator of the Happier Method, and an entrepreneur, speaker, and author, whose mission is to help millions of people optimize their emotional health through science-backed practical skills, so they can thrive in work and life. She's the founder of Happier, whose online courses, Happier@Work Training Programmes, and her book Happier Now, have helped more than a million people live their best life. In this week’s episode we explore why happiness is a set of skills that w...
Do You Have An Emotional Culture Strategy? with Mandy O'Neill
June 21, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBMandy O'Neill is an associate professor of management at the George Mason University School of Business. Mandy's research focuses on how conceptualizing organizational culture as a function of emotions and gender enhances the link between culture and a number of individual teams, organizational processes, and outcomes, including decision making, attitudes, career success, health behavior, corporate strategy, and financial performance. Her research has been featured in journal and media publi...
Are You Maximizing Your Learning Experiences? with Chris Myers
June 14, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBChris Myers is an assistant professor in the management and organization discipline, the academic director of executive education at the John Hopkins University Carey Business School and holds a joint appointment in anesthesiology at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. Chris' research and teaching focuses on individual learning, leadership development and innovation with particular attention to how people learn vicariously and share knowledge and his work has been recognized with...
Are You Getting Enough Recovery Breaks As You Work? with Johann Berlin
June 07, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBJohann Berlin is the CEO of the T-lex Institute, who work with fortune 500 companies to create resilience in businesses by using restorative techniques and authentic engagement to strengthen the energy and connections between individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve a greater purpose. Featured in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times and Washington Post among many other publications. Johann, who shared his work at Tedx in London and with leading universities all over the wo...
Are Your Change Efforts Hitting the Mark? with David Bright
May 31, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBDavid Bright is a professor of organizational behavior and organizational development, and Chair of the Department of Management and International Business at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. An award-winning teacher with over 20 years of experience as a professional facilitator and executive coach, with expertise in organizational development, strategic planning, and change management, David is the co-author of Becoming a Master Manager, a textbook that features a values-based appro...
How Do You Beat the Afternoon Slump? with Thea O'Connor
May 24, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBThea O'Connor is a senior workplace wellbeing advisor, presenter, journalist, and coach. Thea has more than 20 years experience in the health sector, including her background as a dietitian and workplace health consultant, she is the founder of Nap Now and a committed nap-tivist. In this week’s episode, Thea O’Connor explains why we need to raise people’s levels of body intelligence at work and the simple steps workplaces can take to help workers connect, listen, and respond to their bodie...
Is Perfectionism Wearing You Down? with Dr. Toni Noble
May 17, 2019 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBDr. Toni Noble who is an adjunct professor in the Institute for positive psychology and education at the Australian Catholic University and is widely known in education as the coauthor of the multiple award-winning positive education programme, Bounce Back. Toni's government projects include the national safe schools' framework, the scoping study on student wellbeing and resourcing the student wellbeing hub. And she's worked with an international expert group in Bhutan to develop a new parad...
Is Your Organization Committed To Strengths? with Elise Morris
May 10, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBElise Morris, who is a disruptor of conventional leadership and people management practices and co-founder of the Strengths Lab. With more than 25 years of global and local human resources experience in corporate and public sector organizations and a masters of applied positive psychology, Elise's diverse background allows her to straddle the commercial realities of organizations while forming deep human connections to facilitate positive change and extraordinary outcomes. In this week’s e...
The Truth About Building On People's Strengths - with Ashley Goodall
May 03, 2019 00:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBAshley Goodall is a senior executive, talent expert, and author who spent his career exploring large organizations from the inside. Ashley currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco, a new organization that is built to focus entirely on serving teams and team leaders. He is also the coauthor with Marcus Buckingham of the wonderful new book Nine Lies About Work: A Free Thinking Leader's Guide to the Real World, and they've recently published two...
Are You Powering Your People with Strengths? with Dr. Jillian Darwish
April 26, 2019 00:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBDr. Jillian Darwish currently serves as President and CEO of Mayerson Academy, a non-profit dedicated to transforming individuals, teams, and organizational performance. Under her leadership, the Academy has become the exclusive education partner to the VIA Institute, working with schools, universities, organizations, and communities to utilize the science of character strengths to transform cultures. The Academy’s work has been featured in EdWeek, Live Happy, and US News and World Report an...
Is Competitive Spirit Killing Your Workplace? with Dr. Margaret Heffernan
April 12, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBDr. Margaret Heffernan is an entrepreneur who mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations and is lead faculty for the Forward Institute’s responsible leadership programme. She is the author of five books including Willful Blindness which was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times, and in 2015 she was awarded the transmission prize for her book A Bigger Prize. Margaret’s Ted talks have been seen by over seven million people. ...
Do You Need to Tame Your Anxiety? With Prof. Loretta Breuning
April 04, 2019 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBAs Professor Emerita of Management at California State University East Bay, Loretta's research explores how people can discover their power over their mammalian operating system(laughs). The author of several books, including her newest one Tame Your Anxiety which is being released shortly, she has shared her research and talks all over the world In today’s episode, we explore, how we can tame the anxiety our mammalian brains when facing challenges at work. Connect with Loretta Breuning:...
Does Your Organization Need An Energy Boost? with Wayne Baker
March 28, 2019 23:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBToday we're talking to Wayne Baker, who's a professor of business administration at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and faculty director of the Centre for Positive Organisations. Wayne's teaching and research focuses on social capital, social networks, generosity, positive organizational scholarship, and values. And his latest book is Permission to Ask, which is coming out in 2020. He's also a founder and board member of Give and Take Inc., developers of the Givitas colla...
Do You Need A New Design For Change? with Michelle Etheve
March 21, 2019 23:00 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBToday we're talking to Michelle Etheve, who specializes in enabling people to create purposeful, strength-based change. With a Master's of Science in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney, post-graduate studies in Positive Psychology and Education, and experience utilising human centred design and appreciative inquiry, Michelle is sought around the world for her ability to create and deliver highly engaging learning and positive change experiences that enable people and teams to ...
Is The Pace Of Change Burning Your People Out? with Jon Berghoff
March 14, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBToday we're talking to Jon Berghoff, who is the co-founder and managing partner of the Flourishing Leadership Institute, and has designed and facilitated whole system change efforts through large group collaborative summits for the U.S. Navy, the United Nations, BMW and businesses and institutions of all sizes. Known for bringing out the "group genius" in high stakes, complex environments, with speed, ease, and playfulness, Jon is sought around the world for his ability to create powerful le...
Do Your Questions Spark Positive Change? with Ronald Fry
March 07, 2019 23:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBToday we're talking to Ron Fry, who's a professor of organizational behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and former chairman of the Department of Organizational Behaviour, which has been consistently ranked one of the best in the world by the Financial Times. With 11 books and over 45 articles and chapters, Ron is widely published in the areas of organizational development, appreciative inquiry, team building, change management, executive develo...
Could Kindness Help Your Work Community Flourish? with Marie McLeod
March 01, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBToday we're talking to Marie McLeod who fuses her qualifications in social work, adult education, and positive pschology with her extensive experience in community culture change. As the director of PoPsy, Marie makes positive psychology practical for individuals, organizations, and families, and as the founder of The Kindness Company, she uses kindness and compassion to cultivate community level wellbeing. In this episode, we explore why and how community-level kindness can be an active i...
Are You Resisting Change? with David Zeitler
February 21, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBToday we're talking to David Zeitler who uses the latest research in neuroscience, adult development, and leadership development to help people find ways to embrace the process of change and create transformations for themselves and others. After beginning as a psychotherapist and later spending two years as a lay monk, David went on to train executives and life coaches in the Immunity for Change Coaching Program at Mind Works with Harvard Professor Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan. In this epi...
Can You Support Wellbeing In Emotionally Charged Workplaces? with Tegan Davies
February 14, 2019 23:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBToday we're talking to Tegan Davies, who's a self-professed wellness geek, who has embedded positive psychology practices in the not-for-profit sector for over 10 years. Previously the head of Learning Development and Culture at Camp Quality, Australia's leading childhood cancer charity, Tegan is now the manager of operations at The Oranges Toolkit, a social enterprise dedicated to helping individuals and teams to realize their potential. She's also a board member for Action for Happiness in...
Is Purpose your Compass at Work? with Nick Craig
February 07, 2019 23:00 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBToday we're talking to Nick Craig, who's the author of the newly published book Leading From Purpose, and President of the Core Leadership Institute where he guides executives at companies including Ben & Jerry's, Heineken, ING Bank, Lego, Unilever, and more, on the journey to discover and lead with purpose. In 2007, Nick began collaborating with Professor Bill George at Harvard Business School and this led them to co-author 'Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide', which became the cours...
Can Writing Things Down Improve Your Wellbeing? with Jamie Pennebaker
February 03, 2019 09:36 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBToday we're talking to professor James Pennebaker, who is the region's centennial chair of psychology at the University of Texas, an avid researcher, and teacher. Jamie is the originator of expressive writing and has received numerous research and teaching awards and honors for his work. He has published more than 300 articles and has been the author or editor at the 12 books, including Opening Up By Writing It Down How Expressive Writing Improves Health and is emotional pain In this episo...