Meaningful Work Podcast

Join Nils and guest Victoria Vallström on the Meaningful Work Podcast as they explore the research behind meaningful work and workplaces, employee engagement, and avoiding burnout. With over 20 years of experience in software development, Victoria brings a wealth of knowledge from her various leadership roles and experiences working in diverse environments. As a lifelong learner, she shares her insights and findings on human interaction through her podcast, Bitcurious. Tune in to discover how connection may be the secret to unlocking meaningful work. To tag along and to get access to more extensive show notes as well as links and other things related to meaningful work, subscribe at: meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

In this episode of the Meaningful Work Podcast, Nils and Loïc Le Meur discuss the connection between meaningful work, inner work, and entrepreneurship. Le Meur is the founder of PAUA, an organization that brings together entrepreneurs, consciousness explorers, and conscious business leaders. Le Meur shares his journey from successful serial entrepreneur in the tech industry to exploring the intersection of consciousness, entrepreneurship, and technology through PAUA. The organization's mission is to rediscover ancient wisdom and unveil new technologies that offer a broader and richer perception of reality, while fostering a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion for personal growth, consciousness expansion, and positive change. Visit meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com for more content, links or to get involved.

Gestur Palmason is a coach working at Complete Coherence. Amit speaks to Gestur both around meaningful work and his journey into the craft of coaching and then turn their attention to the tool Complete Coherence has developed called Organisational Network Analysis. We speak of connection, the gurutre of the organisation, how agility and decision making is closely related, the relationship between heart rate variability and performance and how one can, through asking 9 simple questions and running them through some pretty sophisticated analytics can predict which employees are at the risk of quitting and who’s thriving. This is a really interesting conversation.

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Ted Rau is the operational leader of Sociocracy4All. He is an educator and consultant on the topic of implementing the system Sociocracy in organisations. What is Sociocracy? Why is it useful? Why now? What does it mean to consent? What is this thing with decentralised organisations and how can it work? How does it relate to meaningful work? What does it mean to be in a structure that invites diversity, empowerment and pushes for every voice to be heard?

This conversation is a deep and useful primer to sociocracy. If you are looking ti implement it in an organisation check out Sociocracy4All. To get a feeling for if it is something you would enjoy working in - listen to this! We talk about decision making, responsibility, what it is, how it operates in normal and more urgent conditions. As well as how sociocracy is neither fully decentralised nor hierarchical and how sociocracy has sovled for the challenge of building agile and responsive organisations. If you want to follow all our content. Get access to shownotes with links, newsletters and events subscribe to meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

Johan M. Reunanen is a true sustainability expert - not just in how corporations can become more climate friendly, but also how corporate climates can become more friendly. In this episode, Johan and Nils explore the importance of creating functional relationships in a workplace and how to make it happen. We circle through how the combination of honesty, respect, trust and acceptance can foster a culture of loving leadership and how that improves an organization. We explore how the workplace can move from being a zero-sum game of competition and transactions, to win-win relational cultures fostering value for all participants and their surrounding ecosystems. If you haven’t read or listened to Johan’s perspectives before, this is an opportunity not to be missed. 

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Giles Hutchins is an author of several books, an executive coach and a business professional that has dedicated his career to transforming the leadership paradigm into the regenerative. Amit speaks with Giles about what regenerative leadership actually is? What it means to change your mind and to step into the new paradigm? What does it mean that the world is interconnected and why is it important to understand and act from as a leader?

We speak of Giles latest book Learning by Nature as well as the previous book Regenerative leadership. The barriers to love. Why forgiveness, trust and flow are crucial parameters in the new leadership paradigm and what the heroes journey can mean in this context. If you want to stay updated with all episodes, extended shownotes, events and continue the dialogue subscribe to meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

Helena Önneby is a coach, author and HR professional. She is has written three books on topics like intuition, flow, love in the workplace. What is meaning at work? Why is it important? Does love and humanness belong at work? What is the relationship between love and curiosity? Why should we even bother with this stuff?

Helena is pointing to her experience that as we bring love and the perspective to be love in the room to the table as our foremost role then efficiency increases, trust goes up and we tap into more of the potential of our organisations. Instead of doing what Peter Senge calls the second job, managing politics, we can focus on doing what we were hired to do. To follow all our episodes, get more resources and links as well as take part in events subscribe at meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

Imran the founder of Kokoro. He is an employee-experience specialist with an expertise in strengthening and building belonging and psychological safe environments in groups and teams. What is the fundamental tension between meaning and work in the western world? What does it mean to have belonging to an organisation? What is the importance of structure, space and stories? What can we do with retro’s? Why should teams be left to figuring out their own goals and instead leadership’s responsibility is to cascade meaning?

This conversation is a hands on view into Imrans toolbox in organisational change. He speaks very little about culture because in his mind culture emerges form the actions of the people in the organisation. They need belonging, psychological safety and from that foundation we can start creating flow experiences. For more detailed shownotes including links to resources, all of our content including newsletters and events subscribe at meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com

Andrew Horn is a serial entrepreneur, speaker and writer based in Austin, Texas. Co-founder and CEO of Tribute.co He has been featured on TED.com, founded an INC500 company, keynotes for the Fortune 500 and serves as a personal coach to “second mountain” entrepreneurs. He is the man behind the four-question framework known as “Social Flow” - a simple method for becoming more self aware, creating deeper connections and fostering more meaningful work. In this episode, Andrew and Nils explore how we can find our individual purpose, ask better questions, create deeper connections, change ourselves using our social identity and help others feel comfortable being themselves. To come along for the full journey visit meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com.

Anna Katharina Schaffner (The Exhaustion Coach) did her PhD studying exhaustion and burnout. What is burnout? What is exhaustion? Why is it so pervasive in our society and what can we do about it? Are there positive aspects to burnout or exhaustion? What’s next? Are we more exhausted than we’ve been before or is this more of a human condition?

The conversation is far ranging and goes deep. It seems the challenge with burnout is not just complicated it is truly complex and systemic and touches deeply into the relationship about how we relate to our work.

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