LFYC | S2 E10 – Obi Abuchi interviews Wendy Cartwright | Season Focus – Mental Resilience

On this week’s Leading from Your Core Podcast and Vodcast, Obi Abuchi interviews Wendy Cartwright.

Wendy Cartwright is the former HR Director for the Olympic Delivery Authority – the organisation responsible for developing and building the new venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. More recently she was HR Director of the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Programme, and Corporate Services Director at the University of East London.

Wendy has held senior HR roles in central government, financial services, energy and retail sectors, and now has a portfolio that includes a mixture of project and non-executive roles. She is Advisory Board Chair of Global Diversity Practice and a Trustee and RemCom Chair of the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust. She has a Master’s degree in Employment Strategy and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.

Wendy is particularly interested in major projects and in creating high-performing organisations with a focus on diversity & inclusion, and employee engagement & wellbeing. 

In this episode:

• Reflecting on leadership foundations
• Some of the most significant challenges leaders are facing in our world today
• Transitions in leadership styles in our post-covid world
• The role of resilience in navigating many of the current leadership challenges
• Our innate individual and collective resilience
• The importance of paying attention to your whole self as a leader
• Keeping a learning mindset as a leader
• Why some leaders abuse the power and authority that they have?
• Creating an environment of psychological safety as leaders
• How to keep our ego in check as leaders
• Embracing discomfort as a leader

You can find out more about Wendy via the link below:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-cartwright-ma-chartered-companion-cipd-6bbb6912/overlay/contact-info/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/WendyHall2012

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