Empowering Workplaces

What does your company stand for? As your business grows and experiences significant change, it is important to start rethinking your values, and being more explicit about defining what behaviors drive your organization. This will help you and your teams better understand what makes your company’s culture unique and what will fuel future success.

Joining us in this episode is Michelle Armer, Chief People Officer at C.A. Fortune, who shares her journey about redefining their values, aligning them with business outcomes, and driving behaviors through them.

Self-care has been even more top of mind for many of us lately. How do we effectively take care of ourselves while we take care of the many other responsibilities we have? There are as many approaches to self-care as there are people, there is no one-size-fits-all. When it comes to engaging in activities that can help our wellbeing we often feel guilty: but why?

How do we combat that nagging feeling that we should be spending all of our time being productive, and on others? Join Maddie Grant and Sanja Licina, PhD, in this conversation about self-care and how to build the best journey for yourself.

Today, there are more leaders that care than ever before, but the data shows they can still be a lot better in many ways they support their teams. Our task at hand is clear: we need to bring more humanity to our interactions, and to make communication more effective. The good news is that there is one key role in this equation, the frontline manager, so helping them learn to me more authentic in the way they lead will make a world of difference.

Join us and our very special guest Cecil Puvathingal, Vice President of Sales at On The Stage, for this conversation about authenticity and empathy in the workplace.

The truth is crystal clear: workplace conflict is inevitable, given that we’re humans, first and foremost— and it’s certainly nothing new for managers and leaders.

Whether it’s a product of miscommunication, a result from working in silos, unresolved tension, or lack of direction… conflict shows up when you least expect it — and, for that reason, it’s important for HR Departments to address new factors of workplace discord and prevent additional issues from arising among employees.

Join our discussion with Jamie Notter, Co-Founder and Culture Strategist at PROPEL, to learn more about how can companies manage conflict in today’s changing work environment.

One of the first things we learn as workers is that in many organizations talking about how much we earn is not something that happens — and, unfortunately, this old taboo only hides the fact that some companies have a huge pay gap, as well as other economic and gender-based inequities. That is why, for a long time, organizations and thought leaders have asked themselves: “Should we have full transparency about pay? Is purpose and the greater good more important than pay? Or is pay simply king?”

In today’s episode, Sanja Licina, PhD, and Maddie Grant, tackled the concept of pay from the increasingly important angles of recruiting, attracting, and retaining talent — and, of course, building a sense of community at work.

While many organizations strive to have a unified culture, employee experience can be anything but uniform.

In today’s episode, hosts Sanja Licina, PhD and Maddie Grant, highlight relevant datapoints from a survey study of over 3,000 workers across the globe, and why it’s important to understand the differences between how managers and individual contributors may experience a company culture to make well-informed decisions about your strategy.

In this episode of Work@Life, we are joined by a very special guest, Andrea O’Leary, Ph.D., Chief People Officer at Enterprise Client Group and Innovation at Aon, as we look at how critical the current moment is for companies' in regards to their diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategy, and how it can be best embedded into their plans and objectives.

We are at a pivotal moment where we can create truly innovative and sustainable DEIB programs, focused on four main employee lifecycle pillars: recruitment, development, promotion and retention. All the changes we are experiencing in the labor market truly provide The Great Opportunity to make a significant mark on these initiatives. Are you ready to accelerate your progress?

More than 2/3 of US workers say that the pandemic has changed their perspective on what’s important to them in life. This revelation, coupled with the sentiment that over half of workers say they feel like they have a greater ability to craft their own working circumstances now than before the pandemic starts to explain the major shifts we are seeing in the labor market, not only in the US but across the globe. 

Our special guest Arti Pullins, CEO of Pundit Consultantz, joins us for this very special episode of Work@Life to share her perspective on what people, and organizations, can do to make this stage we're going through a long-term win-win for both parties.

Workers have said it loud and clear, flexibility is one of their key considerations as they evaluate employers moving ahead. For organizations who are hoping to get their people back in the office at least some of the time, it means rethinking their office layout and corporate architecture to make the best of the peoples' time while in person. Join our discussion with Colleen V. Scott at Work @ Life to learn more about how companies are redefining and redesigning who they are, what are the key needs of their people, and their organizational goals, and how these are impacting the changes happening in the office architecture today.

It’s true that every major challenge in life could also be seen as an opportunity, and the workplace surely won’t be the exception. That’s why even with all the movement in the labor market, Season 3 of Work@Life will be all about The Great Opportunity! We're kicking the season off with Brendan Sweeney, CEO and cofounder of Popmenu— an exciting startup that has tripled in employee size in the last year, in an industry that was hit particularly hard by covid. How did they do it? Not only by empowering restaurants to tell their story digitally, but also by putting their employees first, creating an unbeatable culture, and making sure they stay true to their mission all the way from recruitment to delivering on their promise to their employees every day.