Kate is HubSpot’s EMEA Culture Manager, managing a Culture Team across European offices in Dublin, Berlin, Paris, and Ghent to create a remarkable remote 1st employee experience. The Culture team is on a mission to inspire people to do their best work, how, when, and where they work best.

Kate is also one of HubSpot’s Global ‘Energy Project’ facilitators where each quarter, she helps teach employees how to make the most of their time and energy at home and work. In the last ten years, she has established four successful businesses in property, leisure, childcare, and coworking.

Want to find out more about Kate Moran’s initiatives at HubSpot? Follow her on LinkedIn and take a look at hubspot.com. Their careers page talks about the different programmes they are running and their diversity and inclusion initiatives. It’s a great, great place for resources and information.

Are you interested in learning more about workplace wellbeing and educating yourself in this area? Head on over to www.workwellinstitute.org, where I'm launching my online education programmes. You can learn all about my 8-step framework for developing a workplace wellness programme that lasts.

If you have any suggestions for future topics you'd like to hear on the show, email me directly, [email protected]

Toni has had a varied career in AIB, working mainly in operations areas managing large teams. Now, as Head of People Engagement in Customer Services, one of her critical areas of responsibility is driving the Wellbeing agenda for a diverse multi-location workforce of over 1,000 staff. Toni chairs the AIB Wellbeing Governance council who decide the areas of wellbeing AIB focuses on. Toni is responsible for ensuring that the 120 AIB Wellbeing Advocates are fully aware of all wellbeing initiatives.

Want to connect with Toni? Follow her on LinkedIn.

Are you interested in learning more about workplace wellbeing and educating yourself in this area? Head on over to www.workwellinstitute.org, where I'm launching my online education programmes. You can learn all about my 8-step framework for developing a workplace wellness programme that lasts.

If you have any suggestions for future topics you'd like to hear on the show, email me directly, [email protected]

Janet Buckley is Head of Organisational Development with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). In this role, she is responsible for all elements of OD, HR, L&D, including wellbeing.

She has over 24 years' experience across the civil and public service with additional expertise in the private and charity sectors. She has been in OD roles for the last 16 years, where her passion for workplace wellbeing emerged. As Head of L&D in her previous Civil Service position, she became very interested in making work life more rewarding and fulfilling for her colleagues.

During the recession, she realised that it was the perfect time to bring wellbeing front and centre. It was essential, and it was necessary. She set about achieving an ambitious challenge of creating a wellbeing culture in a civil service organisation with a minimal budget. By her own admission, her ambition was for the organisation to be able to stand up and hold their own next to the googles and facebooks.

Her passion for wellbeing continued in her current role where she is overseeing the final year of their 3-year strategy (on a budget). The foundations created by the strategy in the first two years has advanced them in responding to Covid-19. With the assistance of the Wellbeing Committee, they have provided ongoing support and engagement initiatives to help people find their way through the pandemic.

She joins us today to debunk the myths that wellbeing is expensive and time-consuming and that it's HR's responsibility.

Are you interested in learning more about workplace wellbeing and educating yourself in this area? Head on over to www.workwellinstitute.org, where I'm launching my online education programmes. You can learn all about my 8-step framework for developing a workplace wellness programme that lasts.

If you have any suggestions for future topics you'd like to hear on the show, email me directly, [email protected]

Tracey Carey is the Global Benefits Manager at Indeed. Tracey has managed employee benefits for over ten years across different industries. She has been in charge of the benefits strategy, harmonisation projects for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in markets from Canada to Turkey. She joined Indeed in 2019, with a primary focus on the EMEA region. Indeed, was one of the first companies to close all offices globally in response to the COVID19 pandemic. On March 6th Indeed requested that all 10,000 colleagues work from home.

Want to connect with Tracey Carey? Follow her on LinkedIn or Twitter. For more information about Indeed, you can go to their LinkedIn page.

Are you interested in learning more about workplace wellbeing and educating yourself in this area? Head on over to www.workwellinstitute.org, where I’m launching my online education programmes. You can learn all about my 8 Step Framework for developing a workplace wellness program that lasts.

If you have any suggestions for future topics you’d like to hear on the show, email me directly, [email protected]

Clodagh Logue is Vice President of International HR at Fitbit. She leads Human Resources for Fitbit’s growing global business, which includes its EMEA headquarters in Dublin, where she’s based, and also their locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, and China. Clodagh is also responsible for the global people operations function at Fitbit. In today’s episode, we talk about the impact the pandemic has had on how Fitbit operates, and also how Fitbit is promoting activity, health and engagement in today’s remote work environment.

Want to get more information about Fitbit’s programmes and upcoming devices? Go to www.fitbit.com

A born-and-bred Galway woman, Sheila Greaney has had a lengthy career working in the engineering space. Her role as Site Engagement Lead for Cisco Systems Galway is all about the 'people experience'. She makes sure that all employees are happy, content, productive and most of all, maintain a healthy work/life balance. At Cisco, giving back to society is seen as equally important and is celebrated as much as their contributions in work itself. Sheila has worked hard on many aspects of the Cisco Culture and helped enormously to get Cisco Ireland to where it is now. Cisco ranked Number 1 in the Great Place to Work for 2016, in the top 3 after that, and is now back in the number one position in 2020.

Cisco globally is well known for its 'giving back' culture. Sheila takes pride in running the CSR team at the Galway office. The site has raised over €25K a year on average for the last 12 years for local charities from a working population of fewer than 200 people. One of her most recent projects was setting up an on-site gym for the site, turning what was once an unused data-centre into a daily used space for anyone and everyone on-site to exercise and improve their overall fitness and wellbeing. It has given everyone a huge added benefit of being able to work out at their convenience. Ensuring people are happy and enjoy coming to work is something Sheila takes very seriously.

Clare has been working with Food Choice for over 9 years now, right since its inception. She initially worked as project manager for the Food Choice trial, where she was extensively involved in implementation, data collection, analysis, and expansion of Food Choice. Clare has co-authored many Food Choice publications, and she currently manages the Food Choice team and clients. Clare has a BSc in Nutritional Sciences from UCC, and not one but two Masters. The first is in Environmental Health and Safety Management, and the second is in Public Health. Clare's research interests include public health, nutrition, and diet-related diseases.

Want to get more information about Clare and Food Choice? Go to www.foodchoiceatwork.com to go through publications, programs, and get in touch with the team.

On October 8th, 2013, Brian Pennie experienced his first day clean after 15 years of chronic heroin addiction. Instead of perceiving his addiction as a failure, however, he embraced a second chance at life and decided to study the intricacies of human behaviour. Since then, he’s become a keynote speaker, PhD student, a lecturer in Trinity College and University College Dublin, a life change strategist, a radio presenter, an author and the creator of an online course called “Master Your Self-Talk”.

As we are all aware by now, working remotely carries a lot of challenges. One of the most topical right now is how our work life has become so intertwined with our personal life as we are forced to transform our homes into a working space. On this episode of the podcast, Dr Malie Coyne discusses how the lockdown has changed the way we relate with our family and how we can manage our working day and home life.

Dr. Coyne is a Clinical Psychologist and N.U.I.G. Lecturer with 20 years experience of working therapeutically with children and families. She is very passionate about promoting wellbeing and increasing awareness of mental health issues, which she achieves through her work on the A Lust for Life mental health advisory panel, public speaking and media contributions. Dr. Coyne believes that the solid foundations for emotional and mental wellbeing begin in early childhood and that staying well involves looking after your mind on a daily basis.

In this episode, we’ll discuss the most frequent questions parents have during lockdown, how we can manage time with family, how to deal with children’s fears and anxiety, and how the future will look in terms of the balance between working hours and family time.

2020 has been the year in which the majority of the workforce transitioned to a remote and digital work environment. We’ve learned how to work remotely with support from all the online tools available to us today. Since this is all so very new to so many people, there are difficulties that some individuals and organisations are struggling to handle.

In today’s episode, we’ll address some of those challenges in a conversation with Chris Flack, co-founder of UnPlug, a behaviour change consultancy with a focus on digital wellbeing. Since 2016, UnPlug has worked with over 60 organisations globally to help staff work smarter in the always-on world by improving digital habits and digital culture. Chris comes from a background of 15 years in tech consulting and behaviour change, he has experienced first hand many of the negative impacts of information overload and witnessed how distraction and an always-on culture has changed the lives of many people.

We discuss topics such as zoom fatigue, distractions in the workplace, and excessive technology usage to understand how they impact performance and wellbeing, as well as what we can do to avoid the negative impact of these.

You can connect with Chris on LinkedIn or visit the UnPlug website www.unplughq.com