The WorkWell Podcast™

When you think about success in your job, what do you think about? Meeting deadlines, outperforming targets, fixing systematic issues? All of these may point to high performance. However, they fall short of some of the vital and often overlooked ways we should measure success like our own happiness. On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, an international renowned teacher and author in the fields of happiness and leadership, about the science of happiness, what it is, how it improves personal and professional performance, and ways to pursue it.

We often overlook one of the most important relationships we have in our life. The relationship with ourselves. On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Nataly Kogan, emotional fitness expert, founder and CEO of Happier, and author of “The Awesome Human Project: Break Free from Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life”, about how to look at ourselves and others through the lens of our awesome humanity by strengthening five emotional fitness skills - acceptance, gratitude, self-care, intentional kindness, and compassion, and the bigger why. 

Relationships are vital to our health and well-being. However, with the rise of technology and social distancing in a worldwide pandemic, our human-to-human connections have suffered, especially in the workplace. On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Susan McPherson, serial connector, seasoned communicator, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, and author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships, about how to rekindle connections and build new, meaningful relationships in the remote and hybrid environment.

Think about some of the best leaders you’ve known in your career. Were they great listeners, empathetic, cared about your and others well-being, and had your back? On this episode, Deloitte Chief Well-being Officer Jen Fisher talks with Dr. Dan Goleman, psychologist and author of the bestseller, “Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, about the importance of emotional intelligence throughout the workplace. 

In the future of work, artificial intelligence will take on the more repetitive and routine tasks. On this episode, Deloitte Chief Well-being Officer Jen Fisher talks with Amelia Dunlop, Deloitte Digital Chief Experience Officer & author of "Elevating the Human Experience—THREE PATHS to LOVE and WORTH at WORK", about elevating the human experience by renewing our focus on fundamental human worth & investing in individuals to nurture growth, creativity, & innovation. 

On this episode, Deloitte Chief Well-being Officer Jen Fisher talks with Jenn Lim, CEO and cofounder of Delivering Happiness and author of “Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact”, about how teams and companies can integrate and embed happiness and purpose to help their people and organization to grow and thrive.

On this WorkWell episode, Deloitte chief well-being office Jen Fisher shares six of her favorite books and reflects on how the themes of the books mirrored her experiences of 2020 and 2021.

We all make mistakes and when we do, we're often quick to criticize ourselves. But self-criticism can take a toll on our mental and emotional health. On this episode, Deloitte chief well-being officer Jen Fisher talks with Kristin Neff, associate professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin and author of Self-Compassion, The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, about the components of self-compassion and how to develop it within yourself.

On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Ximena Vengoechea, a user researcher, writer, and illustrator, about really listening to develop stronger relationships and how to train ourselves to be better listeners.

Is your career ambition your North Star? Perhaps you are feeling or have felt burnt out by the time you reach your ambition. The problem isn’t that you are ambitious, the problem may be that your definition of success might not align with what you really value. On this episode, Jen Fisher talks with Milena Regos, founder and Chief Rebel Officer of Unhustle about how un-hustling can be your greatest asset in career success