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One of the UK’s greatest ever athletes and now a corporate wellbeing consultant, Sally Gunnell discusses with Kate Usher the challenges faced by women in the second half of their lives. Kate is a menopause and relationships coach and the author of a new book: Your Second Phase: Reclaiming Work and Relationships During and After Menopause.

In the third in our series of podcasts looking at different aspects of workplace wellbeing I am in conversation with Derek Clements Croome, one of the world’s leading experts on wellbeing and sustainability in the workplace. We look at the increasingly powerful links between personal wellbeing and green sustainable building design and consider some of the most important yet last talked about wellbeing and productivity issues such as temperature and air quality.

Derek also talks about his new Flourish model which offers an unparalleled framework for considering the complexities of wellbeing and its links to engagement, productivity and creativity. The model also explores the links between green building design and personal wellbeing and the importance of offering people the chance to work in buildings with the WOW factor.

This is the second of six special episodes of the podcast in which we consider what are the most important facets of workplace wellbeing. We are incredibly grateful to Wellworking for making the series possible. Not only with their sponsorship but in their role as one of the UK’s leading organisations in the field and their commitment to an informed debate on what is a complex and changing issue.

Today’s guest is Anna Davison who is head of workplace wellbeing at ukactive, one of the driving forces behind a new approach to physical activity and wellbeing in people’s lives. It draws on the expertise and energy of such high profile figures as Dame Tanni Grey Thompson and Dame Carol Black and works with people and organisations across the UK. Anna talks about the ways that organisations can help to improve the wellbeing of people in the workplace, looking at the vital role of ergonomics as well as the growing emphasis on movement and physical activity and the role that workplace design and working cultures can play. Enjoy.

Elina Grigorou is the author of a fantastic new book called Wellbeing in Interiors: Philosophy, Design & Value in Practice. The book looks not only at the ways organisations can use design to address the wellbeing of individuals, but also the impact this approach has on them as individuals in terms of their creativity and productivity. This in turn can have a transformative impact on the organisations for which they work.

Crucially the book also looks at the philosophical underpinnings of wellbeing as well as the hardwired physical and psychological characteristics of people that mean many of the things we know about wellbeing have been apparent for hundreds or even thousands of years.

In this episode, Elina is in conversation with Mark Eltringham in the first of a series of Wellbeing Matters podcasts in partnership with Wellworking. The idea for the series came about because of a debate that took place in 2018 and hosted by Wellworking featuring several of the people who have taken part in this series. What became apparent during that discussion was that while wellbeing is one of the most talked about workplace issues it is also one of the most complex, nuanced and yet misunderstood. This series aims to consider the facets of that issue in a sophisticated, informed and provocative way.

Is there a crisis of leadership in the 21st Century? And if so, what can we do about it? Mark Eltringham addresses the issues in conversation with Chris Lewis, the co-author along with Dr Pippa Malmgren of the book The Leadership Lab, diverting briefly to talk about the golden age of football and its lessons for the modern day leader.

Mark Eltringham talks to Sandra Gritti of Edge Technologies about the experiences of creating what is widely regarded as the most advanced and green office building in the world and what happens next.

James Woudhuysen talks to Mark Eltringham about the future of work, its myths and realities and the potential for the next generation of technology to completely transform workplaces and the world.