Mouthwash

Human Capital. The workers. The people. Whatever you want to call it, they’re integral to all businesses in some way or another. Increasingly fractured, snippy and, in some cases, angry, how can we bring people together who are apart? How do we strengthen the ties in the workplace? How do people lead when the world is so unknown? On this episode of Mouthwash, we’re going deep and exploring the human side of work.

ABOUT RIMMA (@rimmabosh)

Prior to founding DIALOGUE, Rimma was a strategic advisor to CEOs of emerging businesses and Fortune 500 companies (Apple, Aesop, Levi's, Lyft, Kraft Foods, and Chevron), and began her career at Deloitte Consulting’s Human Capital practice.

Rimma speaks globally on the importance of dialogue and human behaviour. As a regular contributor to Forbes, where she writes about the intersection of business and human connection. She sits on the Board of Trustees at Headlands Center for the Arts and the SECA Council Board at SFMOMA. She is an advisor to Stanford's Women in Design Program.

Find out more about Rimma here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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Inclusion, while people aren’t sitting next to one another, is hard…but shouldn’t be (and isn’t!) impossible. In this episode of Mouthwash we’re exploring what it takes to be inclusive in a distributed world along with what the issues are if we don’t keep our eye on the ball. Expect some hard truths and some actionable insights from an expert who is blazing the way for the next generation.

ABOUT DANIELLE (@Badassery_HQ)

Danielle Letayf (she/her) is obsessed with making the world a more connected and inclusive place through community, cultural experiences, and events.

She’s currently the CEO & Founder of Badassery, a marketplace for event organizers to book their perfect speaker in minutes. She’s on a mission to amplify as many voices as possible, while connecting them to each other along the way. In her past life she ran global community at Shine, a brand that makes it easier to take care of yourself. Previously, she was on the founding team as Head of Programs and Community for BUILT BY GIRLS, a social impact brand that’s creating the new wave of tech leaders—who just happen to be teen girls. She expanded the community from 5 to over 15,000 around the country through internships, competitions, events and digital experiences. She created unique programs like Girls Who Fund, an apprentice-based program that shows girls the ins and outs of being an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and the #BUILTBYGIRLS Challenge, a nationwide pitch competition for tech projects built by girls and judged by girls that she ran with Michelle Obama in 2016.

Danielle graduated from Boston University with a degree in marketing and business administration, and was voted one of 50 game-changing AOL/Verizon women at the MAKERS Conference. She’s also been selected for founder programs through Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and The Fund.

Find out more about Danielle here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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Coworking is a mid-way between the office and home. Increasingly, these spaces away from home, are places to focus, be creative, meet colleagues, network and generally not be at home. What’s the future of these spaces though? Is WeWork still king? What’s really making people buy space right now? We’ll explore all this and more on this episode of Mouthwash.

ABOUT HECTOR (@inztinkt)

Hector is a ‘flex workspace technologist’ – which is just a clever way of saying that he gets to work with a tonne of different people and technologies that support, run, market & connect thousands of flexible workspaces around the world. He created and curates This Week In Coworking, the bible of the coworking world. He also founded included.co.

Find out more about Hector here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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The pandemic is making a lot of people look forward…and back. A lot of regrets are surfacing and new decisions are being made. Multiple NYT bestselling author, Dan Pink’s new book is all about just that, regret. On this episode of Mouthwash, we’ll be exploring why a ‘no regrets’ philosophy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and exploring the World Regret Survey.

ABOUT DAN (@danielpink)

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, published in February. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

Find out more about Dan here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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The great resignation is/isn’t anything new depending on who you talk to. Dr. Tessa White doesn’t particularly mind either way. She’s helping millions navigate the new world of work on platforms like TikTok. From getting raises, managing up, managing out, Dr. Tessa is helping people make work work for them. On this episode of Mouthwash, we’re talking everything management, leadership, teamwork and more.

ABOUT TESSA (@jobdoctortessa)

Tessa is the founder of The Job Doctor, a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary,  and building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Tessa is recognized nationwide as a media expert on people strategy and career navigation, and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Apple News, and Inc.  Frequently used by investors to assess the people strategies of many companies, she has led multiple restructures, acquisitions, and prepared companies for initial public offerings.

She has worked at the highest levels in both small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. At United HealthGroup she led company-wide talent management and people strategy redesign project, which helped shape her ideas on creating an engaged workforce. In 2016, she helped lead the Vivint Solar team to be recognized as one of Glass Door’s Top 20 Companies to Work.  She is a frequent television guest on Career Navigation and is featured on Season 2 of The Social Movement on Amazon Prime. Tessa also won the President’s Award at PowerQuest /Symantec for Innovation, awarded only to the top 2% of the company.

She has led the company Human Capital interests on multiple Boards including Vivint Solar’s partnership with Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms Today, she is an active advisory board member to one of the nation’s top entrepreneur programs, Utah State University’s Huntsman School of Business; she also serves on the boards of Utah Valley University Women’s Center and Dahlia’s Hope (https://www.dahliashope.org), a center that helps sex-trafficking victims recover and rebuild their lives.

Find out more about Tessa here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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People have had to learn a new set of skills, norms and handle different conditions throughout the pandemic. For many, they’ll never step foot in an office again. How is this affecting things like leadership? Management? Are people really reevaluating everything or are we just traumatised after years of uncertainty? How do we move forward? Find out this and more on this episode of Mouthwash.

ABOUT RORY (@rorysutherland)

Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title that has allowed him to co-found a behavioural science practice within the agency.

Sutherland works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities’ in consumer behaviour – these are the often small contextual changes that can have enormous effects on the decisions people make – for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Put another way, lots of agencies will talk about “bought, owned and earned” media: we also look for “invented media” and “discovered media”: seeking out those unexpected (and inexpensive) contextual tweaks that transform the way that people think and act.

It is a hugely valuable activity – but, alas, not particularly lucrative. This is because clients generally do not have budgets for solving problems they did not know they had.

Before founding Ogilvy Change, Rory Sutherland was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of two books: The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don’t make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019.

Find out more about Rory here.

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Burnout is affecting record numbers of people thanks to increasing stress, illness, a fractured news cycle and a myriad of other factors. Life coach and author of ‘Energize’, Simon Alexander Ong, is going to talk about how to minimise the effects if avoiding it is impossible, along with having greater energy in general. In this episode of Mouthwash, we’re talking about making the workplace more bearable, identifying issues and finding solutions to those issues.

ABOUT SIMON (@SimonAlexanderO)

From a young age, Simon Alexander Ong has always been curious about learning and exploring the areas of personal fulfilment, human potential and organisational success. This curiosity was accelerated following his departure from the financial industry, in which he began his career following graduation from the London School of Economics. Studying the mindset and habits of successful leaders and organisations, Simon enjoys distilling his insights into lessons that can be easily understood and codifying the key principles that have had the biggest impact. 

He shares his insights, lessons and wisdom with all who are committed to upgrading their life and business to that next level. He speaks at international events, conferences and corporate events that have included those organised by Google, London School Of Economics, Barclays UK, The Institute Of Directors, Virgin, Salesforce, 10 Downing Street, Natwest, Enterprise Nation and Microsoft. 

As a life coach and business strategist, Simon also helps leaders, entrepreneurs, organisations and celebrities to transcend perceived limitations and experience extraordinary transformations through the power of insight, perspective and energy management.

Simon's views, from his work as a coach and speaker, has seen him featured in a wide range of publications that include the likes of The Financial Times, Women's Health, HuffPost, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Virgin StartUp and Harvard Business Review. He has also been interviewed on LBC radio's Business Hour show, BBC London Radio and for a Barclays UK advert on good financial habits that people can embrace in their daily lives.  

Find out more about Simon here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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What’s really going on at the office? How are people feeling? How are bosses feeling? What’s really going on under the hood now…and in the future? Leesman Index is the dataset that knows. In this episode of Mouthwash, we’re sorting the facts from the fiction.

ABOUT TIM (@leesmanceo)

Tim is the Founder and CEO of Leesman – the world’s foremost authority on employee workplace experience. He started his career in 1991 as a designer in the gritty world of transport design but by 2003 had developed a greater interest in the business strategy of workplace.

In 2009 while working as an independent advisor supporting several leading global organizations on the alignment of their workplace strategies, he spotted an opportunity to develop a new and technique that would properly test the ability of an organization’s places to support its employees. 10 years plus later, the Leesman Index is used by industry thought leaders around the world to measure, benchmark and improve the experience of their employees.

In March 2020 Leesman launched new tools that would also evaluate the experience of employees working from home and today sits on the largest employee home working experience benchmark dataset of its kind, positioning Leesman at the epicenter of the future of work debate.

Find out more about Tim/Leesman here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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Rob Walker notices things. Everything in fact. How? He wrote the book on it. ‘The Art of Noticing’ is a practical guide to getting more from…everything. We’ll be talking about his NYT column which discusses working trends, life and a lot more besides.

ABOUT ROB (@notrobwalker)

Rob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is The Art of Noticing (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.

Find out more about Rob here and get on the ‘Art of Noticing’ newsletter here.

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Gretchen Rubin is a happy soul. She should be too, she’s not just an expert in happiness but a multiple NYT bestselling author on the subject. We’ll be discussing happiness, the type of people in the working world, how you can break bad work habits and build a healthier work/life balance.

ABOUT GRETCHEN (@gretchenrubin)

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, Outer Order, Inner Calm, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, and The Four Tendencies. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She makes frequent TV appearances and is in much demand as a speaker. On her weekly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft. Rubin started her career in law and was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she wanted to be a writer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

Find out more about Gretchen here.

SPONSOR: Season 4 of Mouthwash is proudly sponsored by Workplace from Meta. To make your place of work a great place to work, visit workplace.com/human

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