Simone says: "You could say I’m a workplace thought-leader who’s passionate about creating human-centric workplaces, but at its most basic, what I do is focus on people."

"I home in on the employee experience, workplace culture, and organisational performance and use data insights to deliver change and business improvement in regard to culture, space, process, and technology."

In this episode, Simone Fenton-Jarvis explores her human-centred approach to the workplace, and indeed to life. We talk about being an outside consultant coming into an organisation, the gaps between C-Suite perceptions and front line staff, confusion between company policy and what local managers expect and being the catalyst, not the expert.

17 year's experience - MBA in FM - Fellow and NED of IWFM - Author of 'The Human-Centric Workplace – Group Director Workplace Consultancy at Vpod Smart Solutions.

Annabel Harper’s experience of coaching women leaders in the Middle East may surprise many who work in Europe or America.

In this broad-ranging episode, she explores the dynamic and exciting changes in the region, the challenges of traditional societies, the role of faith, family and relationships, and the excitement (and frustrations) of working in countries with rapidly evolving attitudes and expectations.

She compares this with management and leadership generally and the nuances of coaching in global organisations.

More about Annabel Harper:
Annabel is a best-selling author, speaker and experienced international Leadership and Executive Coach. She works internationally with senior leaders from a variety of global multi-nationals and SMEs. Annabel has been coaching in the Middle East extensively for the past ten years and has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies.

Her book, “Shujaa’ah: Bold Leadership for Women of the Middle East” was a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2021. ‘Shujaa’ah’ means ‘’bold’ in Arabic. She is currently studying for her Doctorate of Professional Studies. She has an MA in Coaching and tutors on the coaching portfolio at Cambridge University.

Chris Croft is known to thousands of trainees and followers around the world. Over 600,000 students have attended his online Udemy training and he has over 190,000 LinkedIn followers. When you hear this podcast, you will understand why!

In it, Chris explores the content of his new book ‘Seven Paths to Happiness – and 2 Dead Ends’ (which hadn’t been published when we recorded the podcast). As always, he is relaxed, amusing and engaging with some major insights into how you might choose to live your life.

Have you ever wondered why you get on really well with some people and others just annoy you as soon as they walk in the room?

Recognising the traits and behaviours that you and your colleagues (and friends and family) display will help you get on better together and understand how small changes in behaviour by all parties can transform teams and relationships.

In this episode, Giles Miskin explains more about how this works in a work context and how it leads to new ways of working together.

Giles Miskin
Giles founded The Colour Works International Ltd in 2003, now the largest distributor in the world of the Insights Discovery personal profiling system. The company specialises in team and leadership development programmes for clients large and small all over the world.

Vulnerability-based leadership is what he espouses – having the courage to accept your own fallibilities is a prerequisite to showing the necessary humility that not only allows others in but also enables you to ask for help and value what others bring. Only when we’ve built those respectful, trusting relationships can we truly be said to lead.

Giles loves promoting the interdependence of the ‘hard’ and the ‘soft’ – good emotional intelligence creates constructive working relationships that produce healthy tangible outcomes. For him, this applies to the leaders and leadership teams of large corporates just as much as to those of small start-ups, or indeed to the socially-disadvantaged youngsters he’s chosen to work with through The Colour Works Foundation.

If you are not familiar with the ‘colour energies’ of the Insights programme, you will find this page useful: https://bit.ly/colour-energies

In this episode, we discuss Change Management, especially in a real estate context.

Drawing on his military background our guest Christopher Allen describes his approach to culture, vision and values and asks why businesses are so half-hearted about providing management training and devastatingly poor at addressing leadership.

We also talk about who really knows what an organisation’s culture is? Often, it’s not the C-suite!

Then, there’s that thorny issue of whether Gen-Z workers are just entitled and lazy – or are they already living a different life that their line managers simply don’t understand?

About our guest

Chris Allen is the Founder and Chief Change Officer at MONTROC Consulting. Their projects have spanned all sectors and ranged from Global Research to EMEA Location Strategy

He was born in London, educated at Cairo American College, Egypt, Trinity School, Croydon, Loughborough University and Manchester Business School. Chris is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the CMI and IoL. He has been redesigning and renovating houses for many years. Chris played Water Polo for Great Britain and has swam the English Channel. He lives in Bath with his wife, Leah and their 4 young children,

Is DSE still an H & S issue or should it be absorbed into the EDI process? Employers talk about wellbeing as a key part of corporate strategy but it’s often an ill-defined term

Guy Osmond and Kim Hutton are joined by special guest Matthew Trigg to discuss this topic. Matthew is a Director at Human Applications. He works primarily in safety risk management, where he successfully hides his opinion that everything to do with people is ergonomics. His interests are in the area of risk decision-making, and the way that, by improving risk literacy, organisations can have honest discussions about how safe they want to be. He thinks everything is funny.

#HumanFactors #Ergonomics #Risk #HumanApplications

Dan Williams has a well-earned reputation for quality consultancy and support for the sight- and hearing-impaired community.

His company, Visualise Training & Consultancy, offers a range of

He talks here about ‘doing the right thing’, whether labelling individuals following a diagnosis can be more of a hindrance than a help, holistic support and using the right language.

#Accessibility #SightLoss #Language #Management #OccupationalHealth #Consultancy #Inclusion #Labels

Katie Knapton introduced virtual physiotherapy appointments long before the pandemic.

Her company, PhysioFast Online, offers same-day appointments between 8:00 am and 9:00 pm.

With a fascination for innovation and technology, Katie leads the discussion about digital transformation in healthcare – from health apps on your phone to using AI for data analysis.

She talks about the potential for technology to empower individuals to take responsibility for their own health.

We also explore how employees have been impacted by home working and the changing attitudes of employers to hybrid working.

#HealthAndHappiness #TechApps #Physiotherapy #Wellbeing #GoodPractice #Management #LeadershipConversations

This short 4 minute trailer will give you but a glimpse of what to expect from our podcast!

#Trailer #StoryTelling #Management #GuyOsmond #Ergonomics