“Kindness can look different to different people as well. Kindness for me is very specific around boundary setting; by setting clear and not rigid but I’m very strict with my boundaries around my time, my emotional energy, my energy levels, my mental bandwidth around what I will and won’t take on and what I will and won’t keep."

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Sophie Bretag, Kindness guru and CEO and Founder of Metta Leaders.

Sophie and I talk about what kindness looks, feels and sounds like in the workplace, the value of the Human Resources function within organisations, and the challenges and opportunities of adaptive parenting.

Sophie and I talk about:

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Visit Sophie at mettaleaders.com/  

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“One of those examples is, we talk about articulating strategy, because strategic thinking is no good if it just stays in your head.  So, we talk about articulating strategy and how you can get clear on that in your head, in order to communicate it and articulate it. That’s not just how do you write a strategy document, that’s how do you have day to-day conversations where you’re being clear with people, you’re leaving space for them to come up with their own solutions.”

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Nina Field, Business Psychologist.  Nina shares her journey from her love of water to joining the Navy and then designing her own highly successful strategic thinking programme.

Nina and I talk about what its really like in the Navy, how organisational psychology and a love of strategy led to Nina designing a programme to help people translate the process of strategic thinking into tangible actions, and the value of understanding how you think.

Nina and I talk about:

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Visit Nina at ninafield.co.nz/

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“I think that’s where we need to use our power as global citizens and keep putting that pressure on Governments and corporates. I believe that corporates are driven by profit and Governments are driven by votes. That’s what they want, so it’s us that we can actually force them to change. If we start putting pressure and being loud about what we want, ultimately, when we build this critical mass of people, they’ll have to change.”

“But if you can connect with three, four, five people in your street, in your neighbourhood who has aligned values to you and want to change the world, that gives you a really special power that virtual connections can’t give you. Suddenly you can go for a walk and have a chat face-to-face; you can have a meal together, talk about it, come up with ideas, brainstorm and start running things locally. I think once we tap into that power of seeing how many people there are around you that want to change the world, I think we will change the world much, much faster.”  

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Carlos Terol, Impact Entrepreneur, owner of Terol Engineering and Good Ripple champion.

Carlos and I talk about what it takes to make change happen, how to be an active change maker, and what drives him to champion the concept of community collaboration and community action. We dive into his personal journey to knowing his purpose, and how incentives need to be rethought to drive innovation and regenerative approaches to building, infrastructure, government spending among other things.

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“That led me to believe that, no, there has to be a better way for us to do marketing because marketing has the power to change behaviour. Marketing is really important in society.  And instead of perpetuating stereotypes, instead of promoting scarcity tactics or fear-based marketing strategies, there is a way to use marketing for change, for positive change.”

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Cláudia Guerreiro [Conscious Marketing Freelancer, Master of Chaos], who brings incredible optimism and creativity to the world of conscious and ethical marketing.

Cláudia is a positive force for rethinking push marketing in favour of pull marketing – storytelling, value-driven work and organically developing communities of customers who share your ethics.  Cláudia offers 1-1 consulting support and workshops on conscious marketing, content development and personal branding, helping entrepreneurs and solopreneurs to take that leap, and have that positive impact.. 

Cláudia and I talk about:

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Visit Cláudia at claudia-guerreiro.com

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“For me, strategy is a company’s or an organisation’s unique way of sustainable value creation.  In my approach, in the very definition of strategy, there is this word “sustainable” and the way I mean this is not just planet proof but also sustainable from a commercial perspective, from a strategic point of view. If that’s the core, if sustainable value creation is your core and not competitive advantage, growth, profits and so on and you at least start with the right attitude, the right mindset.

Because it’s about contribution. It’s about thinking, who is this for? Who’s the customer? Who’s the target group? How do I create value for that customer? So how do I solve the real problem, how do I really help them?  How do I do that in a sustainable way which means I take into account the interest of different stakeholders, I take into account the limited resources, the boundaries of our planet?”

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, author of The Strategy Handbook: The Secret Sauce to Daily Business Success and The One-Hour Strategy: Building a Company of Strategic Thinkers, and consultant supporting organisations around the world with more effective strategic thinking.

Jeroen is a powerhouse of strategy and leadership content development, using his repository of concepts and models and turning them into practical advice. Jeroen and I talk about strategy as a collective sense-making process, and the benefits of using strategic tools across all aspects of your life. And we talk about challenging our mindsets for sustainable value creation, and the need for ‘unlearning’ or rethinking.

Jeroen and I talk about:

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To learn more about Jeroen:

Visit Jeroen at https://www.jeroenkraaijenbrink.com/

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To dive into the concept of Strategy: 

The Strategy Handbook: The Secret Sauce to Daily Business Success

The One Hour Strategy: Building a Company of Strategic Thinkers

Certified Strategy & Implementation Consultant Certification course

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“That was probably the most formative 18 months, the best education I could’ve got was those 18 months in terms of what it took to launch a business. But crucially understanding that it is okay to fail if you fail for the right reasons. If your morals and values are in the right place, it is absolutely fine to test something out and fail.” 

This episode of the humans at work podcast features Jules’ conversation with Dan Sherrard-Smith, Founder of MotherTree, a ground-breaking social impact organisation giving its customers the information they need about how their money is used within the banking and pension industries, and giving them the control to use their money for good. 

Dan has been focused on social impact and climate change since he was a child, through trying and not succeeding with this first charitable organisation targeting loneliness, to his success with Look After My Bills. He talks candidly about his responses to initial failure, lessons learned, and his inspiration for founding mymothertree.com, which is using the old adage ‘money talks’ to send big messages to global systems about humans and our focus on a positive life worth living. 

Dan and I talk about:

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Visit My MotherTree

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To learn more about Mother Trees or hub trees, visit the MotherTree project website or Suzanne Simard’s website www.suzannesimard.com 

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“I think it’s not just up to one person, everyone needs to know about this, realise what’s really going on.  You know, you don’t need to be a scientist to be in. Even in Fiji, ask any local people in any village, they’ll tell you.  Climate change is real.”

“The question is what’s more important – the environment or the economics?  We can live without the economics but the environment, we need it. It sustains us in multiple ways.”

This episode of the humans at work podcast features a thought-provoking conversation with Johnny Singh, Marine Biologist at the Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort in Fiji. 

Johnny is the first Fijian marine biologist employed at the resort and talks about his passion for all things nature.  From running a kid’s educational programme to grow budding ecologists, to coral nurseries and mangrove replanting, its clear that Johnny is an example of the kind of care for biodiversity and balance between humans and nature so often characterised by island-based communities. 

Johnny and I talk about:

Note: Jules travelled to the Jean-Michel Resort Fiji as a paying guest.  The recording of this podcast was made possible by the management of the resort and generosity of Johnny himself. 

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To learn more about Johnny, follow him on LinkedIn on https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-singh-074a0553/

For more information the Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort Fiji: https://www.fijiresort.com/

To understand more about how the Jean-Michel Cousteau resort focuses on sustainability https://www.fijiresort.com/sustainability/

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“So, hearing a company purpose and talking about this, that might sound great, but that may not be what I need to access and understand consciously before I can really give myself to this organisation.

All of these different purposes, even in a great organisation, don’t mean we all share the same thing. That’s the, I think, the hard part with working with purpose and helping teams acknowledge it, is that everyone will have a different one and it’s really hard for an individual to put their finger on what theirs is.

If you can help them do that, then you can find some common ground to create that shared purpose for the team.” 

This episode of the humans at work podcast features a conversation with Andy Longley, founder of Psych-io, a boutique leadership, training, and culture consultancy that brings deep expertise from psychology and neuroscience to help people create engaging, motivational and inspiring environments. 

From working as a performance psychologist the New Zealand Navy, spending a year as a United Nations unarmed peacekeeper in the Middle East, and working with Emirates Airlines as a performance psychologist and coach to both pilots and cockpit teams, Andy has travelled the world supporting leaders and teams to be their best.

Andy is also the co-founder and CEO of the CoachUp Academy, through which he combines his love of sports for sports sake, with applied neuroscience to develop high-performing sports teams.

Andy and I talk about:

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This episode of the humans at work podcast features a Postscript Moment – a special follow-up conversation with one of our previous podcast guests.  For those of you who can remember letter-writing, after you’d signed off your letter, you could write P.S. and add in one last story or commentary that you knew would appeal to your letter recipient!  You wouldn’t have much space left on the paper, so you’d need to be more succinct and often P.S. information was the most informal and ‘juicy’ part of your news.

I think sustainability has been an organisational or a corporate responsibility for a long time. Just look at all of the, we call them continuity plans in case of an emergency. But most organisations that I know, and I work with, are looking beyond, say, quarterly returns.

Again, while there are those market pressures, I think organisations recognise they want to be a going concern. I think I saw a statistic recently where a certain number of CEOs were wondering, maybe the majority were wondering if their organisations were even going to be in existence in 10 to 15 years, given the rate of change.

This episode of the humans at work podcast features a short(er) follow-up conversation with Jeff Mike, Head of Insights and Impact at FlexTrack, a global company providing an extended workforce solution that aims to support organisations to acquire, engage, and manage their contingent workforce.  It builds on the full podcast with Jeff in episode 4.

Jeff and I talk about:

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To learn more about Jeff:

Visit Flextrack at https://www.flextrack.com/

You can read Jeff’s blogs at https://www.flextrack.com/author/jeffadmin/

Follow Jeff on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-mike/

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This episode of the humans at work podcast features a Postscript Moment – a special follow-up conversation with one of our previous podcast guests.  For those of you who can remember letter-writing, after you’d signed off your letter, you could write P.S. and add in one last story or commentary that you knew would appeal to your letter recipient!  You wouldn’t have much space left on the paper, so you’d need to be more succinct and often P.S. information was the most informal and ‘juicy’ part of your news.

I'm seeing that I've got my happy place or my preference and where I feel most comfortable in the style of leadership. That works for a certain number of people, but there are other situations and other people that need something quite different from me. And, it's actually the ability to adjust my leadership style for different contexts and different people, I think, is the next big challenge.

This episode of the humans at work podcast features a short(er) follow-up conversation with Diane White, Director – Strategy and Transactions, at EY, Melbourne Australia.  It builds on the full podcast with Diane in episode 3 (insert link please)

Diane and I talk about:

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To learn more about Diane:

Find Diane on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-white-8039b249/

And to find out more about the services EY Australia provides, check out: https://www.ey.com/en_au

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