Today on the Work Well Podcast, our host, Brian Crooke interviews Dr Mark Rowe, a practicing GP for over 20 years, whose area of expertise is lifestyle medicine. Dr Rowe advocates lifestyle change as the best medicine for burnout prevention and real vitality by incorporating his principles of self-care with his extensive medical experience, he enables lasting positive change in people and their organizations. His work with organizations started unexpectedly when a patient asked him to talk at their company’s annual wellness day. Since then he has completed a one-man show called “A prescription for Happiness”, written a book with the same title, and is regularly hosting workshops with leadership teams in different organizations.

Want to connect with Dr Mark Rowe? Reach out to him on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter

In this podcast episode, we are looking at the employment and recruitment industry in today’s climate. How are recruitment professionals coping in the midst of the global pandemic?  What type of businesses are seeing a negative impact from this situation and how are they dealing with the uncertainty of the future?

Donal O'Donoghue, our guest today, is the Managing Director of Sanderson, a recruitment business that focuses on placing people from graduate level up to a senior level in different organizations in marketing, finance, H.R. procurement, IT, and business change. He is also President of the National Recruitment Federation, the representative body for most of the recruitment companies and employment agencies around the country. Today he is going to share with us his take on the state of the employment market and on the future of this sector.

Want to find out more about our guest?  Go to www.nrf.ie or www.sanderson.ie

Want to connect with Donald O’Donoghue? Find him on Twitter or LinkedIn

Today we are talking about mental health with Barbara Brennan, Programme Coordinator with See Change Ireland, the national stigma reduction partnership. See Change focuses on changing people's attitudes, perception and the whole conversation related to mental health. Their work is informed by people with lived experiences of mental health difficulties, who are best placed to give insight into mental health stigma.

Barbara has been promoting mental health awareness and stigma reduction for a decade. She is a public speaker, facilitator and trainer who has a passion to support people, communities and workplaces to challenge their attitudes, and change their culture for a more positive, inclusive and open one. Through her work with See Change, she helps give a voice to people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, brings thought-provoking sessions on mental health to workplaces and sparks a national conversation on reducing stigma. Her desire to bring a message of hope and share the knowledge that people who have struggled with their mental health can and DO recover is at the heart of her work and comes from her own lived experience of overcoming severe and enduring mental illness. Barbara believes strongly in personal responsibility, empowering people to achieve their potential, and that by working together a society free of stigma can be created.

Want to learn more about See Change Ireland? Go to www.seechange.ie or reach out on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

Want to connect with Barbara Brennan? Email her at [email protected]

The COVID pandemic has changed our daily routines, and it is crucial that we stay focus and productive while we remain in lockdown. Remote work is a new way of working for many people, and it can get hard. Today we are joined by Dr Sarah-Jane Cullinane to speak about what thing we can do to overcome the challenges that come with the lockdown.

Dr Cullinane works in the Trinity Business School and has ten years’ experience in teaching and researching the areas of HR, Organisational Behaviour, and well-being at work. She has a PhD in Organisational Behaviour focusing on well-being and job design, and a diploma in teaching mindfulness-based Interventions. She brought her passions together and established her own business, The Place to be, in 2018 to complement her academic work by helping organisations build a culture which fosters and promotes well-being. Sarah-Jane believes that leaders drive well-being in the organisation and act as role models for healthy behaviour, which is why most of her current work involves developing and researching mindfulness-based leadership development programmes which allow leaders to build resilience by developing self-insight and strategies for self-care.

Join me while I interview experts about how to cope with the challenges that come with living in lockdown.