Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Toxic by Design: How AI Surfaces the Risks Organisations Would Rather Not Name
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Toxic by Design: How AI Surfaces the Risks Organisations Would Rather Not Name
We tend to treat toxic workplaces as accidents. Jody, founder of Gentia, argues they are closer to design, and that the psychosocial hazards doing the most damage are the ones organisations are least willing to name.
In this episode we talk about what psychosocial hazards actually are, from crushing workloads and bullying to poor leadership and the slow loss of autonomy, and why they so rarely show up in standard engagement data. Jodie shares what she learned across more than a decade in workplace wellbeing, how helping build one of Australia's largest early education providers shaped her understanding of who pays the price for bad culture, and how Gentia uses AI to make hidden risk measurable, and therefore actionable.
A conversation about leadership, accountability, and the difference between saying you care about wellbeing and being willing to look at the evidence.
AI for Equity is hosted by Leah Garrett and Jenny Garrett OBE.
Jody Warren – Bio
Jody is the Co-Founder of Gentia and a long-time advocate for workplaces that help people thrive, not just survive. She believes work should leave people better off, not depleted, and has spent her career designing the systems that make that possible.
Before Gentia, Jody co-founded Australia's largest corporate early education group, driven by a mission to help more women return to the workforce. Running that business revealed a powerful truth: how people experience work shapes how they show up everywhere else.
That insight led her into psychological safety at work, the conditions that determine whether people are protected from harm like burnout, bullying, and chronic stress, or quietly damaged by them. She spent more than a decade learning what actually keeps people safe and well at work, and who pays the price when organisations get it wrong.
Now she's encoding that expertise into AI. Gentia is a platform that helps organisations protect their people from the hidden risks at work that quietly cause harm, things like burnout, bullying, and chronic stress. Most AI in this space guesses from survey data. Gentia is built the other way around, with deep human expertise encoded in first, so it can see these risks precisely, explain them clearly, and help organisations act on them before people get hurt.
View all episodes
By Jenny and Leah GarrettWe tend to treat toxic workplaces as accidents. Jody, founder of Gentia, argues they are closer to design, and that the psychosocial hazards doing the most damage are the ones organisations are least willing to name.
In this episode we talk about what psychosocial hazards actually are, from crushing workloads and bullying to poor leadership and the slow loss of autonomy, and why they so rarely show up in standard engagement data. Jodie shares what she learned across more than a decade in workplace wellbeing, how helping build one of Australia's largest early education providers shaped her understanding of who pays the price for bad culture, and how Gentia uses AI to make hidden risk measurable, and therefore actionable.
A conversation about leadership, accountability, and the difference between saying you care about wellbeing and being willing to look at the evidence.
AI for Equity is hosted by Leah Garrett and Jenny Garrett OBE.
Jody Warren – Bio
Jody is the Co-Founder of Gentia and a long-time advocate for workplaces that help people thrive, not just survive. She believes work should leave people better off, not depleted, and has spent her career designing the systems that make that possible.
Before Gentia, Jody co-founded Australia's largest corporate early education group, driven by a mission to help more women return to the workforce. Running that business revealed a powerful truth: how people experience work shapes how they show up everywhere else.
That insight led her into psychological safety at work, the conditions that determine whether people are protected from harm like burnout, bullying, and chronic stress, or quietly damaged by them. She spent more than a decade learning what actually keeps people safe and well at work, and who pays the price when organisations get it wrong.
Now she's encoding that expertise into AI. Gentia is a platform that helps organisations protect their people from the hidden risks at work that quietly cause harm, things like burnout, bullying, and chronic stress. Most AI in this space guesses from survey data. Gentia is built the other way around, with deep human expertise encoded in first, so it can see these risks precisely, explain them clearly, and help organisations act on them before people get hurt.