Value through Vulnerability podcast from HEXO Change
181 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsValue through Vulnerability which is dedicated to helping put the human back into humanity with a particular focus on inclusion, improving voice for all, and designing work to support everybody thriving at work is brought to you by HEXO Change.
We catalyse ideas, opinions & challenges around courage, self-awareness, vulnerability, inclusion, listening, trust, values, mindset etc
Join Garry Turner with co-host and HumansFirst founder Mike vacanti from Ep 100, as they host conversations where leaders share stories and insights as to what has worked well, what hasn't and ideas to reimagine.
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Episodes
Episode 138 - Luke O' Mahoney, People & Operations Manager at The Fuel Store
September 28, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes - 48 MB“If you’re not in a job that is making you happy or you feel that you are in an environment that is not feeding your passions, directly or able to step towards embracing your passions, are you in the right role?” – 11.30 “You have to meet people where they are at. There is no point you trying to take them down a route they are not ready for” – 20.30 “No matter who you are talking to, no matter what you are trying to achieve, you have to consider who your audience are and you have to meet t...
Episode 137 - A truly hue-man conversation with Vivian Acquah, Olga Piehler & Hung Lee
September 24, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBOlga can be contacted via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-piehler-86241057/ Website https://www.mywy.io/ Vivian can be contacted via: Website: https://vivalavive.com/workplace-wellness-blog/ Let’s Humanize The Workplace videos: https://bit.ly/htwlive Let’s Humanize The Workplace podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-humanize-the-workplace-real-talk/id1505138189 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianacquah/ Twitter https://twitter.com/VivalaViveNL Hung can be con...
Epsiode 136 - Vivian Acquah, Workplace Wellness Advocate & creator of the AmplifyDEI summit
September 21, 2020 06:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBYou can signup for the summit here -> https://go.amplifydei.com/?sc=gaRMoR3f&ac=HCFf1Tzc - “I almost lost my life because of racism, because of discrimination” – 02.47 - “It’s a product of having me in the workplace and me not being seen for my potential” – 03.50 - “Being the only one, the only woman, the only black person, its not easy. It’s not easy at all” – 04.25 - “When he (Orlando) was about 4 years old he started going to school and he was talking about ‘that’s a fixed mindset’” – 09....
Episode 135 - Julie Turney, People Champion
September 14, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBYou can pre-order Julie's new book Confessions of a HR Professional here -> https://publishizer.com/confessions-of-an-hr-pro/ “I wanna be the opposite of those people that I’ve encountered who have caused me pain at some point in my life – 05.10 “What I have to offer people is bigger than restricting myself to one company, and working for that company for the rest pf my life, and knowing that every single person that I touch, no matter where I am, no matter who they are, that I have someth...
Episode 134 - A truly hue-man conversation with Eric Henderson, Elizabeth Lembke & Cordelia Gaffar
September 10, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Elizabeth Lembke is Chief Talent Navigator at Transforming Talent, a globally and virtually active consultancy specializing in people and culture solutions. She has 15+ years of experience in strategic and hands-on human resources, a background in work, pedagogical and cultural psychology, and is a certified Systemic coach. Her work h...
Episode 133 - Frances Frei, author of 'Unleashed' & Professor at Harvard Business School
September 07, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB- “I want to set the conditions and not condemn them by their worst behaviour, but to interact with their best behaviour” – 08.08 - “Teams that celebrate that uniqueness and set the conditions for the uniqueness will thump the sameness. It has a beautiful moral imperative for me, but I am also ridiculously competitive and it also have a beautiful competitive imperative to it” - 09.00 - “The part of competition that isn’t good is when you get to go and make a relationship with the referee ...
Episode 132 - Beth Killough, owner of The Circle Up Experience
August 31, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Beth Killough is the owner of The Circle Up Experience, a consulting firm which provides leadership training and culture development to corporations, universities, teacher groups, first responders, and non-profit organizations. Circle up has trained thousands of leaders all over the country and has designed long-term culture programs to...
Epsiode 131 - A truly hue-man conversation with Mike Vacanti, Jackie Kindall and Lorie Corcuera
August 27, 2020 16:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBJackie Kindall bio: Jackie specializes in coaching and consulting executives and leaders (Director level and above) who are leading significant change within their organizations, building an inclusive organizational culture, and/or creating high level, sustained individual/team performance. She also works with teams to up-level team dynamics and collaboration. Her clients describe her style as inspiring, supportive and engaging. Jackie's clients encompass a wide range of industries such a...
Episode 130 - Adam Posner, Founder @ NHP Talent Group & #Podcasthost of #thePOZcast
August 24, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “I think authenticity and vulnerability go hand in hand”- 16.50 “Recruitment is a low barrier to entry business, anybody could do it, but people buy from people, people want to work with people, people work on relationships” – 17.30 “I put out a high-quality, high-touch product” – 17.45 “Your people are the lifeblood of your company,...
Episode 129 - Dr Giles P Croft, Healing, Coaching, Speaking
August 17, 2020 06:14 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “Innocently enough I was looking to the outside to make me feel happy” – 09.15 “I was trying to create what I imagined were the right conditions for happiness, and that is made up, it doesn’t work like that, it didn’t come true” “We think it is the career that will make us happy, but it is not” – 10.15 “The way the world is set up is as a...
Episode 128 - A truly hue-man conversation with Dr Charlie Easmon, Roz Savage MBE & Toni McLelland
August 13, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Bios: Dr Charlie Easmon trained at St George's. London. He did his elective in Ghana (his country of birth) and has since worked with, among others, Merlin, Raleigh International and Save the Children in Rwanda, and ECHO in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. He has been privileged to work in and visit 75 countries. Charlie’s interest i...
Episode 127 - Nazli Yenis, founder of Blink Minds
August 10, 2020 05:39 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MB“Success is not what you do, it is why and how you do it, the strengths and passions you bring to the table, no matter where you are seated” – 03.20 “I am on a mission to help raise self-consciousness” – 03.40 “What roles or characters do you play on the stage of your life?” – 07.50 “We are inspiring people to lead their growth and success by experimenting, by empowering and by collaborating” - 17.40 “I love the quote by Einstein, everyone is a genius, but if we ask a fish to climb a tr...
Episode 126 - Sabrina Ellis, Director of Operations and Wellbeing, Mental Health Specialist & Volunteer
August 03, 2020 05:07 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “It comes down to how I view the world and I see people as individuals and I respect individuals, it does matter where they’re form, what’s their first language, what colour their hair is, it does not matter, what matters is the individual when I speak and listen to them” - 10.30 “What don’t I want to do today?” – 25.50 “Its not selfish ...
Episode 125 - Truly Hue-Man Conversation by HumansFirst - Unisa Kamara, Barke Kamuss & Teresa Quinlan
July 30, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBBios: Barke F Kamuss is the CEO and founder of BarkeBeYouOwnHero Entrepreneur. She has spoken at the Inspired Ted, The Best You Expo, Global Women Club, Fearless Speaking Academy, featured in Podcasts and Radio Station and received an award for the Best Table Topic Speaker at Toastmaster. She has collaborated with Job Centre London, Speaking Internationally at ZAFAYCO, Be Inspired Be Blessed Tanzania. Barke is a certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Mindfulness Master Practitioner and Par...
Episode 124 - Enrique Rubio, Founder of Hacking HR & Co-Founder of Cotopaxi
July 27, 2020 06:40 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Bio: Enrique is an HR, Tech and Future of Work expert and keynote speaker and founder of Hacking HR, a global learning community at the intersection of future of work, technology, business and organizations, with thousands of members of all over the world. He came to the United States from Venezuela as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to coming...
Episode 123 - Rachel Harington, founder of Well & Calm Studios
July 20, 2020 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBYou can also find out more about Garry as follows: Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com Email - [email protected] LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/ Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry - “Your word is your wand, the things you are saying you need to be conscious of” – 34.20 - “Change is the spice of life. Change will always be happening, and you can take control of your own narrative. The story of your life is your story, I want peop...
Episode 122 - Truly Hue-Man Conversation by HumansFirst - Cordelia Gaffer, Heather Younger & Brooke Erol
July 16, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBToday Mike Vacanti hosts a stunning hue-man conversation with Heather Younger, Brooke Erol and Cordelia Gaffer. Bios: Brooke O. Erol started her career at IBM following the traditional path she was given to be "successful". She quit her "great job" on paper after 11 years, feeling she is not aligned with it. She started her journey to find her purpose in life. She started her first business in 2003 YourBestLife to help professionals who don’t like their jobs and want to find more meaning a...
Episode 121 - Kim Ingleby, TEDx speaker, author & founder of Energised Performance
July 13, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBKim is a multi award winning Mind Body Coach with over 20 years experience, fusing wellness and performance coaching to help you stop self sabotage, believe in yourself, and achieve the goals you dream about. Whatever you age, size, background or conditions, Kim has the tools, experience and empathy to help you make it happen with consistency, courage and care. She has competed for Team GB age group triathlon, ridden horses for Scotland and worked with Team GB athletes & Strictly Come Dan...
Episode 121 - Kim Ingelby, TEDx speaker, author & founder of Energized Performance
July 13, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Kim is a multi award winning Mind Body Coach with over 20 years experience, fusing wellness and performance coaching to help you stop self sabotage, believe in yourself, and achieve the goals you dream about. Whatever you age, size, background or conditions, Kim has the tools, experience and empathy to help you make it happen with consi...
Episode 120 - Ryan Gottfredson, author of Success Mindsets and Assistant Professor of Leadership at California State University
July 06, 2020 06:02 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBThe weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Mike and I spoke with Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D today on what was a wonderful exploration. “When we have an inward mindset, we see ourselves as more important than others. When we see ourselves as more important than others, we see others as objects. An outward mindset is when we see others being as important as ourselves” – 23.35 “Where...
Episode 119 - Truly Hue-Man Conversation by HumansFirst - Tanya Obeng, Brian Kelly, Rishita Jones & Kate Griffiths
July 02, 2020 06:36 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBWe are pleased to share the second of our truly hue-man conversations which included Brian Kelly, Rishita Jones, Kate Griffiths and Tanya Obeng in conversation as we had a wide-ranging conversation taking in race, leadership, education, self-leadership and so much more. The reason that Tanya, Brian, Rihsita, and Kate took part in this conversation was: - “Seeing colour, seeing diversity. Too often people say that they don’t see colour and I know it is meant on a human level, but it is rea...
Episode 118- Brian Kelly, founder of Brian Kelly Leadership Coaching
June 29, 2020 06:01 - 44 minutes - 41 MB“The whole dynamic of the workforce I was in (corporate) did not have this connection and that people mattered” – 01.20 - “It’s not just having a job, its contributing to something that matters and when we have that meaning attached to how we contribute, there is a different impact and energy that we can create” – 02.15 - “Action circles are about moving from insight to impact no matter what that is for you” – 06.50 - “We get to better, together” – 10.30 - “How do we get to connection i...
Episode 117 - A Truly Hue-Man Conversation with Raphael David, Consultant for law enforcement agencies, tactical training & ethical leadership & Dawna Jones, author, speaker & systems expert
June 25, 2020 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis was the first recorded truly hue-man conversation that has been created by myself and HumansFirst founder Mike Vacanti as we seek to develop regular, sustainable conversations around intentional inclusion by design, especially around systemic challenges such as that around race. - “What bothers me a lot is that I hear, in business in particular, ‘we are rational decision makers.’ If that were the case, there would be no need for diversity quotas, no need for quotas around women, none o...
Episode 116 - Imran Rehman, founder of Kokoro & Najib Rehman, Data Strategy Lead at Farmatrust podcast
June 22, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBImran and Najib can be contacted via the following means: Imran bio: Imran Rehman is an organisation and performance specialist, with an expertise in measuring and developing high performance. Based in Vienna, Imran is a leadership coach as well as co-founder of Kokoro, an intuitive app to measure emotions in teams, in real-time. CONTACT METHOD You can follow and connect with Imran via: Twitter: @ImsRehman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imranrehman/ Website: https://bekok...
Episode 115 - Deborah Abbott, facilitator of human-centered working and Rhys Thomas, founder of TruSELF coaching podcast
June 15, 2020 05:36 - 57 minutes - 53.5 MB“Having the human at the centre of everything, for me, is the only way to go forward” -02.55 Deborah - “Change out of necessity is good, change out of responsibility and accountability is better” – 16.25 - Rhys “Does it really how to take that long to change? What if you just get the right people in the room and start from the beginning” – 28.00 Deborah Deborah and Rhys can be contacted via the following means: Deborah - https://www.linkedin.com/in/theleadershiptrainer/ Rhys - https:/...
Episode 114 - Heather Hanson-Wickman, author and founder of Untethered Consulting & Perry Timms, author and founder & CEO of PTHR
June 08, 2020 06:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MB- “I am trying to untether human spirit as it is in a cage quite often in organisations, locked down and restricted” – 02.30 Perry - “This is a perfect time to for us to leverage this opportunity to grow and grow quickly. DDOs are one of the few, if not the only, accelerated change methodologies that works well and at scale and it is done from love” – 05.50 Heather Heather and Perry can be contacted via the following means: You can find Perry online at www.pthr.co.uk or on Twitter (@Perr...
Episode 113 - Pauline Crawford, CEO of Corporate Heart International
May 31, 2020 11:48 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB- “There is something wonderful about the quietness at the moment. I am actually feeling really positive about the future as we were in desperate need of some kind of shock, some kind of jolt. It is a pandemic pause and we need pandemic patience and passion. I know that the world can be a better place than it was” - “The challenge I believe (as we emerge post-crisis) is that we all have a different view of what that might be, and that is what we have to explore” - “You are not leading to c...
Episode 112, Purdeep Sangha, Author, Coach & Strategist For Men In Business
May 25, 2020 13:25 - 49 minutes - 46.3 MB- “I was doing very well on paper, I had it all, had the cushy job making good money travelling the world, had all the perks that came along with it, but I just wasn’t happy with life, I wasn’t fulfilled with life, I felt like I was going through the motions” – 1.40 - “Today I help men in business not only transform their lives, but also their businesses as well” - 04.20 - “Men everywhere are looking for leadership. When men step up that is when things will change” – 07.10 - “A lot of t...
Episode 111 - Roz Savage, Author of the 'Gifts of Solitude,' motivational speaker and 4 x Guinness record world record holder
May 17, 2020 12:05 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB“There was a lot of surrender to what is, a need to refocus on the things that I could control like just showing up and to reframe the situation as I couldn’t change reality, but I can change my attitude to it” – 06.45 - “When you can't change what is happening around you, then the last power left to us is to choose our attitude (ref: Victor Frankl)” – 08.35 - “The beauty of curiosity is that it helps us be less attached to any particular outcome” – 12.40 - “Think about what we want t...
BONUS Episode - Brooke Erol, author and founder of Purposeful Business hosts Garry Turner, Interpersonal Catalyst as they explore purpose & people-centered design
May 14, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBI have written about the impact of people-centered design as follows: https://www.hrzone.com/perform/people/do-we-really-need-to-measure-the-roi-of-our-people HumansFirst rally talk -> https://vimeo.com/414682973 Brooke can be contacted via the following means: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlemerol/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BoErol1 You can also find out more about Garry as follows: Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com Email - [email protected]...
Episode 110 - Joanne Lockwood, Founder & CEO of SEE Change Happen, keynote speaker and founder of TruInclusion
May 10, 2020 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBMike and I had a wonderful conversation with inclusion specialist Jo Lockwood. - “I decided about three and a bit years ago that I needed to make a change, so I not only made a change of career, I also took the opportunity to gender transition at the same point. I came out of that with a passion for inclusion, belonging and trying to make the world a better place” – 2.10 - “As I got to the world around the HR and D&I space, I realised that it is not just about me or people like me, it is ...
Episode 109 - Doug Kirkpatrick, US partner, NuFocus Strategic Group, author, keynote speaker and self-management expert
May 04, 2020 06:50 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBI loved this conversation with Doug Kirkpatrick as we explore deeply human, self-management organisations and practices. - “Working with our founder (during 1980s) we had some reservations about the organisation structure because we had kind of defaulted to the traditional command and control organisational structure that every other company used” – 02.10 - “We started collecting observations. One of the observations was that people drive into the parking lot, park their car and come into...
Episode 108 - Cali Williams Yost, founder & CEO of Flex+Strategy Group, 'One The Radar' Thinkers 50, futurist, author & speaker
April 27, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MB“That organisation that did that work to shift to high performance flexibility, for the talent purposes, for the productivity reasons, for the leveraging of resources etc they are able to switch on a dime when they needed to in response to this crisis. I have heard this time and time again” - 21.25 “This man across the desk from me said ‘oh, I give my people flexibility and they stay with me forever, and it is all about good business.’ One of those moments where the angels sang, and everyth...
Episode 107 - Kimberly Davis, author, speaker and founder of OnStage Leadership & Heather Younger, author, speaker and founder of Customer Fanatix
April 23, 2020 05:58 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBA beautiful wide-ranging conversation was had today touching on bravery, vulnerability, leadership, culture, future of work, connection, growth and so much more. Bio: Heather Younger is the best-selling author, international TEDx speaker on adversity, podcast host on leadership, facilitator and coach, she has earned her reputation as “The Employee Whisperer”. Her experiences as a CEO, entrepreneur, manager, attorney, writer, coach, listener, speaker, collaborator and mother all lend thems...
Garry Turner - Solo episode - Role modelling vulnerability (my cancer journey)
April 21, 2020 22:49 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBDuring this solo episode, I share my experience of diagnosis, surgery and follow up of my testicular cancer journey, some of the lessons I have learned and my hopes for the future. The two articles referenced can be found as follows: https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/a-true-test-of-mind-over-matter/ https://www.bizcatalyst360.com/taking-my-own-advice/ You can also find out more about Garry as follows: Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com Email - [email protected]...
Episode 106 - Hilton Barbour, Marketing Provocateur & Mark Edgar, founder of Goat Rodeo project
April 20, 2020 06:24 - 1 hour - 64.3 MB“This experience will create more buying power for employees, a positive pressure on organisations that could be once leverage, if responded to you well” - Mark “If it isn’t serving you, it is holding you back. If we don’t recognise that this is the time to let go of it, I am not sure when that will be” - Hilton Mark's bio: Mark Edgar is a people-centric, strategic and innovative consultant, facilitator and coach with global experience developing and delivering impactful and business foc...
Episode 105 - Saki Arkoudopoulos, Global Portfolio & Program Manager
April 16, 2020 04:37 - 45 minutes - 42 MBSaki is a wonderful high-energy, people-centered human. We meander through self-awareness, culture, navigating the current crisis, remote work and so much more. - “The division I am working in is open to new ways of working, experimenting with ways of working and I love it as it brings people much closer together, it diminishes team boundaries artificial boundaries and in the end we all have a common call and need to work towards a common goal” – 04.05 - “What you are seeing right now is...
Episode 104 - Samantha Suppiah, Sustainability Strategist & Alexandra Enke, Igniting People's Unique Genius
April 13, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB- “This is a collective meditation (C-19 crisis) A taking away of all of the layers of how people have wanted us to see the world, how people have wanted to keep us in control, have wanted to maintain our tunnel vision. This has taken all those layers away” – 16.15 (Sam) - “It’s not just about the egoistic self, bottom line, finance and money, suddenly it becomes about humanity, the planet, how we are all together as one contributing for a better world” – 03.00 (Alex) - “It’s not about fi...
Episode 103 - Rina Goldenberg Lynch, founder and CEO of Voice At The Table
April 06, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBI just loved this conversation with the inspiring Rina Goldenerg Lynch. Pragmatic, hopeful and challenging of the status quo, Rina has offered some of the most inclusive insight around the inclusion agenda I have come across so far. - “I realised that a lot of people around me have lots and lots to offer, yet the organisation wasn’t equipped with identifying what that extra value was that the individuals have to offer, therefore were not able to tap into it” – 01.20 - “Every disaster, if...
Episode 102 - Tom Ven Der Lubbe, Viisionair & Co-Founder of Viisi
April 02, 2020 07:15 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBWhat a way for the first collaborative podcast to lift off. Mike Vacanti and I had the pleasure of hosting a conversation with Viisi co-founder Tom Van Der Lubbe. We meandered across such a wide range of topics including culture, self-management, leadership, vulnerability, innovation, talent and so much more. Some of the key insights include: - “I wanted to become a diplomat, but I found out pretty quickly that I am not that diplomatic” – 01.40 - “We became entrepreneurs by accident aft...
Episode 101 - Ian Braid, MD of DOCIAsport Ltd
March 30, 2020 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBI enjoyed this really insightful and impactful conversation with Ian Braid, founder of DOCIAsport. We meandered through mental health, vulnerability, self-awareness and so much more with some of the key insights being: - “Who’s looking after the people looking after the people?” – 03.35 - “A lesson I had to learn the hard way was that duty of care belongs to the individual first and foremost” - 05.50 - “I’m making it up as I go along. When I set up DOCIA Sport I was still poorly. If I ha...
Episode 100 Celebratory podcast with Mike Vacanti & Garry Turner - Value through Vulnerability (boosted by HumansFirst)
March 23, 2020 08:00 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBI absolutely LOVED this conversation with my friend and HumansFirst founder Mike Vacanti who kindly joined me to reflect ad signpost the next 100 episodes. The podcast will remain as it has the past 99 episodes, grounded in our humanity, yet we wish to make an open invitation to the HumansFirst community and beyond to use the platform and myself/Mike to host meaningful conversations, whether 1-1 or multi-person. bring your ideas, innovation and challenges, and let's keep mending the often...
Episode 99 - John Featherby, Founder of Shoremount and a founding B Corp
March 16, 2020 07:14 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBI really enjoyed this conversation with John Featherby who is a founding UK B Corp and speaks so eloquently and with such clarity about the opportunity that ay in front of us to become more humane, people-centric orgs that serve people, planet and profit. Some of the key reflections for me included: - “I spend as much time as I can in the countryside. I get most of my peace and my thinking when connected to natural landscapes” – 01.00 - “Problem-solving can only iterate the current reality...
Episode 98 - Renee Smith, Founder and CEO of A Human Workplace
March 08, 2020 16:30 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBI really enjoyed this conversation with Renee Smith who opens our conversation with one of the most vulnerable personal stories of vulnerability shared on this podcast so far. Renee really does role-model the change she wants to see in the world, bringing the importance of love to the workplace, however, people wish to name or adopt that. We also discuss leadership, culture, vulnerability, courage and much more. Some key highlights include: - “We want to contribute; we want to matter. W...
Episode 97, Arlene Mendoza - Re-imagining life and Sr Innovation Program Manager @ Alluma
March 02, 2020 07:14 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBI was moved during this conversation with Arlene. She epitomises humanity and oozes a desire to leave the planet and people in a better place than which she found them. We discuss human-centered design, innovation, her sabbatical, #HumansFirst, community, awareness and so much more. Some of the key highlights for me include: - “I’ve seen how the business idea, developed in isolation, iterated, but not always with the information of the user with that information of the user coming late ...
Episode 96 - Jeff Ikler of Quetico Leadership Coaching & Consulting and Kirsten Richert of Richert Innovation Consulting
February 24, 2020 08:00 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBI thoroughly enjoyed my first 3-way conversation on this platform and it really added some extra value. We discuss education, innovation, leadership, culture, language, purpose and so much more. Please find some of the key highlights as follows: - “One of the central, underlying themes of our book is the balance between smart and healthy. Smart is what we typically have a lot of training in. Yet much of our enjoyment, success and ability to pull off those things on the smart side, are rea...
Episode 95 - Toby Mildon, founder of Mildon, D&I expert, & author of Inclusive Growth
February 17, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.4 MBI absolutely loved this conversation with Inclusion Architect and export Toby Mildon. In what was a hopeful, constructive and forward-looking conversation, we touched on inclusion, belonging, awareness, culture, leadership and so much more. Some key insights included: - “Diversity includes everybody. We need to make sure that everybody, every single person, is included and taken on the journey because it is only when businesses reflect the communities in which they’re based and the talent...
Episode 94 - Laura Storm, Founder of Regenerators, TEDx speaker & co-author of Regenerative Leadership
February 10, 2020 07:56 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBI am so humbled and grateful to Laura for sharing such depth of wisdom and such hope in a challenging time. This is a direct talking, insight-sharing and optimistic conversation, but please engage with an open heart and mind. I am also grateful to Jenny Andersson for her leadership and connection to Laura. “Once I surrender to healing completely, I slowly started to see progress happen.” – 05.15 - “We see a massive collapse when we look around. Breakdown after breakdown of financial s...
Episode 93 - David Marquet, International speaker & author of 'Leadership is Language'
February 03, 2020 08:21 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBI absolutely loved this conversation with David who is the first person to come back onto the Value through Vulnerability for a 2nd time. Please fond as follows some of the rich insights and their timings in the podcast: - “The realisation I had was all of my leadership training was about telling people what to do; telling them nicely, telling them precisely, telling them so they thought it was there idea, but fundamentally about telling people what to do” – 02.45 - “First of all, I had t...
Episode 92- Brooke Erol, Founder of Purposeful Business, co-author of From Hierarchy to High Performance and author of Create A Life You Love
January 29, 2020 16:48 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThis was a beautiful conversation with my friend and peer Brooke who has dedicated the past decades to her drive to bring more purpose to the world of work. The upcoming #HumansFirst event in San Diego can be booked here -> https://humansfirst.club/the-sandiego-experience Brooke's wonderful end of 2019 article / 2020 reflection scan be found here -> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/9-practices-can-make-us-happier-2020-ozlem-brooke-erol/ Some of Brooke's key insights can be found as followed:...