Stress is an unavoidable part of life, especially when it comes to work. But the impact of that stress in our lives is manageable.

Research and data shows that when employees feel less stressed, organizations thrive. That’s why Trish Tutton is here to discuss why and how mindfulness practices can be implemented in the workplace to reduce stress and increase ROI. From what mindful leadership really is to how organizations and employees can each benefit from more mindfulness in the workplace, Trish gives actionable advice on how changes can be made.

But that change won’t happen unless we as leaders fully commit and model that behavior for our teams.

Tune in to learn from Trish’s expertise on how you can guide your teams to a more positive work environment through practicing mindfulness.

About Trish Tutton:

After years working in cultures where stress and burnout were seemingly the only way to success, Trish suffered a shocking loss and things became clear: stress is unavoidable, but it doesn’t have to dictate our lives. As a speaker and mindfulness teacher, Trish has taught the skills to live and work happier to thousands of professionals, and has created positive change for her clients to become happier, more productive, effective and successful without the busy badge of honour. 

You can find her as a teacher on the #1 free meditation app in the world, Insight Timer, and she is the author of the Mindful Mornings Journal.

To learn more, visit her website or connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• Visit Trish’s website
• Mindful Mornings Journal
• Hope Motivates Action podcast
• Sign up for the digital subscription
• Follow Mental Health In Minutes on Facebook

Compassion and mindfulness aren’t two words that are typically associated with the corporate world. But as we break into an era where employees are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, compassion and success go hand in hand.

Scott Shute joins me on the podcast today to discuss how compassion and mindfulness programs can fit into the corporate landscape, and why they’re so necessary for long term success. From changing the stigma around the language to operationalizing compassion in your organizations, Scott breaks it down in a way that’s easy to understand and implement. Not only will this change benefit your employees, but it will benefit your customers, your business, and your leadership journey.

As people leaders, it starts with us. Tune in.

About Scott Shute:

Scott Shute is at the intersection of the workplace and ancient wisdom traditions. He blends his experience as a Silicon Valley executive with his lifelong practice and passion as a wisdom seeker and teacher. In his most recent role at LinkedIn, Scott was the Head of Mindfulness and Compassion programs. He has been a pioneer in creating workplace mindfulness programs and advancing the discussion around compassion in the work context. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book The Full Body Yes.

To learn more, you can find Scott on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• Visit Scott’s website
• Firms of Endearment by Raj Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, and Jag Sheth
• Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia
• The Full Body Yes by Scott Shute
• Lindsay Recknell - Expert In Hope
• Sign up for the digital subscription
• Follow Mental Health in Minutes on Facebook

Who are you being as a leader?

These past 18 months have been tough, full of uncertainty and constant change. As leaders, we are exhausted, and unsure of how we can cultivate trust with so much trepidation in the workplace.

Wendy Ryan joins me today to discuss how we can rebuild that trust and support our teams through being authentic and vulnerable. We don’t know what tomorrow will look like, and we don’t need to pretend that we do. Our people will benefit more from our vulnerability and transparency than from putting on a show of what we think they want to hear.

Ready to better support your teams? Listen in!

About Wendy Ryan:

Wendy Ryan (she/her/hers), MHROD, is the CEO of Kadabra, an interdisciplinary team of leadership and organizational change experts based in Silicon Valley, California. With over 25 years of combined experience in human resources, organizational development, non-profit leadership and executive coaching Wendy has partnered with hundreds of individuals and organizations throughout the U.S. helping front-line through C-suite leaders and board members achieve success as individuals and in teams.

In her consulting work, Wendy’s ability to build trust and rapport with her clients, and her agility in assessing and engaging individuals and teams from “where they are,” facilitates breakthroughs and business results. She is an expert in organizational and individual assessments, leadership development, strategic visioning and implementing change from start-ups through the Fortune 500. Wendy customizes research-based best practices to work with each client’s unique culture and business model. She understands the dynamics of entrepreneurship, venture capital and private equity funding and seamlessly integrates those dynamics into her work for the benefit of her clients.

In addition to her work with Kadabra, Wendy is an active mentor, strategic advisor and angel investor in early stage, BIPOC, LGBTQ++ and womxn-led companies and an advocate for expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the investor and business ecosystem.

Wendy holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources and Organizational Development from the University of San Francisco and a post-graduate Certificate in Management and Innovation from Bentley College and dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Psychology and Spanish from the University of California at Davis. Wendy was previously certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.

Her first book, Learn Lead Lift: How to Think, Act, and Inspire Your Way to Greatness was released in May 2021. 

To learn more, visit Kadabra’s website and connect with them on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also connect with Wendy on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• Learn Lead Lift: How to Think, Act, and Inspire Your Way to Greatness by Wendy Ryan
• Creating Psychological Safety Through Personal Branding with Tracy Borreson
• Resources for The Learn Lead Lift Framework
• Follow Mental Health in Minutes on LinkedIn and Facebook
• Sign up for our monthly subscription

Since the beginning of 2020, personal wellbeing has been a hot topic in the world, especially when it comes to work. With the Great Resignation, we see the effects of workplace cultures where people feel undervalued and overworked.

The antidote to this?

Creating a psychologically safe workplace. You need to design a workplace that allows people to harness the best of themselves in order to do something amazing and important. You could consider this a eudaimonic organization, which is what Andrew Soren has joined me to discuss today. By implementing components of positive psychology, leaders can design the conditions where individuals, teams, and organizations can be their best selves and do their best work.

Tune in and start supporting the collective wellness of your organization today.

About Andrew Soren

Andrew Soren is the founder and CEO of Eudaimonic by Design. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked with some of the most recognized brands, nonprofits, and public sector teams to co-create values-based cultures, develop positive leadership, and design systems that empower people to be their best. 

Since 2013, Andrew has been faculty with the University of Pennsylvania’s internationally renowned Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program. He founded Eudaimonic by Design to harness the collective strengths of the most talented alumni from this program working at the intersection of organizational effectiveness, design thinking, and positive practice. 

Andrew is an ICF certified coach. He splits his time between Toronto, Canada, Philadelphia, USA, and Montevideo, Uruguay. To learn more you can visit his website and follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder
• Making Hope Happen by Shane Lopez
• Lindsay Recknell - Expert in Hope
• Book a 30-minute call with Eudaimonic by Design
• Follow Mental Health in Minutes on Facebook and LinkedIn
• Join our monthly digital subscription

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.

People leaders create the atmosphere for their teams, both consciously and subconsciously. That’s why it’s so important that leaders develop the skills necessary to improve and support workplace relationships. 

Do you have the skills necessary to build a resilient team?

Charmaine Hammond joins me today to talk about the importance of leaders developing these skills and holding themselves accountable. It may not always be easy, and you definitely won’t always get it right, so giving yourself room to learn and grow will be transformational for both you and your team. And if you don’t know where to begin or what skills to even work on, Charmaine covers that as well so you can get started right away.

Tune in!

About Charmaine Hammond:

Charmaine Hammond, CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker, entrepreneur, author, and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of collaboration, mental health, and healthy relationships. She has helped clients in many industries build resilient and engaged workplaces, develop high trust/high accountability relationships, and solve workplace issues and conflict that gets in the way of success and profitability. 

She is also Executive Producer of the Back Home Again movie. Responsible for heading up the collaborations, partnerships and sponsorship for the project, she is passionate about this film because Fort McMurray was her home for 15 years. She didn’t live there at the time of the fires however returned on contacts with the social profit organizations and school boards to work with the community on the recovery and resilience initiatives.

To learn more about Charmaine, you can find her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also visit her website and find Back Home Again on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Back Home Again
• Follow Mental Health in Minutes on Facebook and LinkedIn
• Join our monthly digital subscription

This far into 2021, we’re definitely seeing a shift towards more human centered workplaces. People are encouraged to show up to work as their authentic selves. And while this is great for both employees and organizations, it can bring about a new set of challenges. How can a team truly connect in a virtual or hybrid setting? What can leadership offer employees to make them feel recognized and safe?

Cathay Lim joins me on the podcast today to share her professional insight on how leaders can effectively take care of their employees, whether by offering employees resources and stress management, or just being open and honest with their teams. By taking small, simple steps, organizations can support employee wellness and foster more authentic connections within teams.

Listen in to learn more.

About Cathy Lim:

Cathy Lim is the Director of Human Resources for PopReach Games and the volunteer Executive Director for the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. Her passion to engage with employees and provide a safe and inclusive workplace has resulted in multiple Great Place to Work accolades, most notably Canada's 50 Best Workplaces, and Canada's Best Workplaces for Inclusion, for Women, and for Mental Wellness. Cathy also teaches workshops for multiple non-profits and schools year-round, she loves to educate and empower everyone around her, especially those from underrepresented groups.

To learn more, you can connect with Cathy on LinkedIn.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• Follow Mental Health in Minutes on LinkedIn and Facebook
• Sign up for our monthly subscription

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.

Creating a psychologically safe space for your team can seem overwhelming. So many team leaders think you have to suddenly know it all and have all the answers, which is, let’s face it, impossible.

You won’t know it all right away, and that’s okay. Ashley Cox joins me today to talk about authentic leadership and modeling the behavior that we want to see from our teams. She encourages us to have vulnerable conversations with employees and lead with humanity to help create open and honest relationships, where team members feel comfortable being human at work.

Listen in as Ashley not only shares how we can demonstrate the behavior we want to see from our teams, but why it’s so important that we support them in this way.

About Ashley Cox:

Ashley Cox is the Founder and CEO of SproutHR, a boutique firm that helps women-owned businesses hire and lead thriving teams with smart and simple strategies. 

At SproutHR, Ashley and her team help you hire the right people for your team (in the right way), with a focus on values-based hiring, compassionate and intentional leadership, and amplifying your impact. Their work has been featured on the Society for Human Resource Management, ABC, NBC, and Brit+Co. 

Ashley is also the author of Transform Your Stories, where she helps women overcome the stories that are holding them back so they can become confident and courageous leaders who impact the world.

For more information, visit her website, or find Ashley on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• At the Table Podcast with Patrick Lencioni
• Sign up for the monthly subscription

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.

Branding isn’t just about business marketing. Every single person has a personal brand, and after a year or more of working from home, employees are probably more in tune with their values and authentic selves than ever before. For business leadership, this brings in a new set of questions that need to be answered.

How are leaders supporting their employees in creating their personal brands? Is your personal branding true to the experience employees and clients have with you within the organization? How well aligned are your business values and personal values?

That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the conversation I had with brand identity coach Tracy Borreson today. Listen in as she digs deep into how leadership can use employees personal brands to create psychologically safe spaces, and how finding your own personal branding can help you find clarity and growth in your business.

About Tracy Borreson:

Tracy Borreson is a mompreneur and brand identity coach on a mission to help leaders who are invested in creating authentic human experiences create a culture that represents their personal brand. With 15 years of experience in corporate marketing, as an employee and leader, Tracy consistently witnessed an inability for corporations to even recognize the existence of personal brands. So now, she's helping leaders bring their authentic brand voices into their leadership strategies to create corporate cultures with the human experience at the core.

To learn more, you can visit her website and connect with her on LinkedIn.

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Tracy’s coaching website
• Read Tracy’s blog
• Follow Tracy on LinkedIn
• MHIM Digital Subscription

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.

We know that employee wellness is important, and that leaders need to be taking care of their people. But coming up with a wellness plan and actually integrating it into the workplace can be daunting, confusing, and leave leadership wondering if it’s worth it.

Today’s guest, however, has been able to successfully build and implement a workplace wellness plan for her organization, and she’s here to inspire you to create your own. Backed by numerous studies and personal experience, Karen Pearce is passionate about supporting the overall health and wellness of her people to improve employee satisfaction and productivity. Together we’ll discuss building resilience in teams and leaders, the importance of leadership buy-in when it comes to implementing these types of wellness programs, and different ideas you can use in your own workplace.

Listen in and discover the power a workplace wellness program can have at your own organization.

About Karen Pearce:

A Calgary native, Karen Pearce currently oversees business operations for all Western Canada, at McCann Worldgroup Canada, a global advertising network. She’s a leader who is not afraid to get her hands dirty, bringing an unbridled passion for ideas that move business forward.

Karen has always been drawn to companies that are building from the ground up; from opening the TAXI office in Calgary for their Westjet client, to building up the Vancouver office for the TELUS client, she knows what it takes to scale and that is to build from the inside out; start with your core purpose and align everyone to that vision.

Her personal purpose evolved as she brought together her interest in holistic, integrative health and seeing the gap in supporting advertising employees more holistically. This resulted in the launch of an unconventional resilience program at McCann called MFit, which supports wellness & work-life habits for the purpose of mental, physical, and emotional resilience.

To learn more, you can connect with McCann on LinkedIn.

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Aflac Report
• HBR: How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works
• WellSteps Research
• Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath
• Stanford Study Finds Walking Improves Creativity
• Join the monthly subscription 

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.

Are you aware of where you are along your personal leadership journey? Many people believe that those who are in leadership roles need to be doing all of the things all of the time. Today’s guest, however, strives to counter this point by teaching that we can all bring more value to our organizations by being self-aware human beings instead of overworked human doings.

This is a lot easier said than done, right? Fortunately, Susan Elford joins the podcast today to discuss how to actually do that so that you can live a more whole, satisfying life without sacrificing your impact in the workplace. Her biggest tip for self-aware leadership? Be a better leader by being better to yourself. Know what you need for workplace satisfaction and execute it! 

Listen in for more on how you can improve work-life integration in your leadership role so that you can more fully support and enrich your organization.

About Susan Elford:

Susan Elford is a Leadership Coach and Business Mentor to ambitious women. The women Susan serves are often called to get involved with many things – their careers, their businesses, their communities, and their families. Susan particularly enjoys empowering women to design careers and businesses they love to work in, in the context of whole and busy lives.

With a 28 year career in Public Relations behind her, Susan launched her first business, Elford Communications, about 18 years ago where she primarily served not for profits, businesses, and the energy industry. In 2015, Susan launched her second business, Susan Elford Coaching & Consulting, so she could better support women building their businesses and careers through powerful leadership coaching, business mentorship, and PR strategy for small business. Always involved in her community, through her volunteer work, Susan brought Lean in to Calgary and launched Lean in Calgary in 2019 to further her mission to support women in leadership. 

Susan is academically trained and holds two university degrees, one in English and the other in Public Relations. A life long learner, Susan is certified by the Canadian Public Relations Society, the International Association of Public Participation, the Coaches Training Institute, and the International Coach Federation.

On the personal side, Susan has lived in Calgary for over 20 years, is married and is the proud mother of two teenage daughters. As a family, they have enjoyed many global travel adventures together. Susan spends her free time outside as much as possible, running, hiking, skiing and walking her very friendly dog.

To learn more, visit her website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Visit Susan’s website

About Mental Health in Minutes:

Make hard conversations easy and meet your team where they're at in their mental health maturity with our monthly digital download subscription of done-for-you presentations. Designed to increase the well-being of your employees, let us focus on research and content creation and you can focus on delivery and employee support, the value-added activity that really makes the most impact with your teams! Download your FREE Training Tryout all about stopping the slide into Burnout HERE.