In This Episode

Bill Duane, wellbeing expert, engineering executive, and organizational consultant and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft, discuss the intersection of individual resilience and organizational effectiveness.

Bill Duane works at the intersection of individual resilience and organizational processes and culture, creating ways of working and being that increase effectiveness, innovation, adaptability and happiness at scale. As a long time engineering executive, Bill is passionate about providing practical, specific skills and management methods to allow people and organizations to meet the challenges of being a human today.

Before becoming Google’s Superintendent of Well-being, Bill ran several groups with the Site Reliability Engineering organization at Google.  He also has 10 years of consulting experience in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, telecom and media with studies in neuroscience, team effectiveness, mindfulness and the latest in well-being science.

Conversation includes: reaching the individual in times of stress, how to best implement mindfulness in the workplace, the importance of giving attention to organizational resilience, the power of leadership modelling, and the need for connection and understanding in corporate settings.

Links:

Research on Working Additional Hours

Dr. Tania Singer

Greater Good

The Science of Well-Being

Research on Compassion and Empathy

Show Notes

2:48 – Bill’s Story From Stressed to Resilient

4:52 – What Does My Community Need?

5:50 – Bill’s Time at Google

6:38 – Hope is Not a Strategy

7:13 – Mindful Mediation

7:35 – Wellbeing Advice as Organizational Advice

9:18 – The Importance of Organizational Resilience

10:19 – What Behavior Are You Rewarding?

11:23 – The Power of Leadership Modelling

13:58 – Our Responsibility to Desired Narrative and Values

15:55 – Creating a New Narrative Culture

16:28 – Failing Intelligently and Magnificently

17:08 – Rewarding Intelligent Failure

17:55 – Orienting New Team Members on Organizational Culture and Values

18:33 – Encouraging Core Values on a Daily Basis

19:27 – The Beauty of a Good Workplace Culture

20:33 – The Mindfulness Pushback

22:12 – The Importance of Skilled Teachers and Values for Mindfulness at Work

23:13 – Cultivating Values and Connection for Mindfulness Programs

25:44- The Transactional Door to Mindfulness as an Entry Point

26:41 – A Wise Teacher Meets the Student Where They Are

28:54 –  The Next Unfolding of Mindfulness in the Workplace

30:25- Compassion and Empathy vs. Connection and Understanding

WW006 – Building a Resilient Organization – Bill Duane
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In This Episode

Parneet Pal, MBBS, MS, a Harvard and Columbia-trained Physician and Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, and her Wisdom Labs colleague, Meghna Majmudar, discuss the workplace as part of a long-term health plan. Parneet explains epigenetics and the powerful link between adversity and health decline, as well as the importance of finding meaning and purpose in work and life.

Conversation includes: How to create wellness programs that work, positive behavior changes and the limits of willpower, the value of psychological safety in the workplace, and how the essence of compassion is courage, not kindness.

Links:

Dr. Steve Cole and Wisdom Lab Study

Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity

Prefrontal Cortex

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Psychological Safety

The Aristotle Project

Amy Curry – Women in Leadership

Show Notes

1:31 – The Power of Lifestyle Medicine

3:15 – The Lifestyle Medicine Movement

3:50 – The Evolution Public Health

4:31 – The High Cost of Stress in the Workplace

5:41 – Creating Wellness Programs That Work

7:15 – The New Field of Epigenetics

9:07 – Your DNA is Not Your Destiny

9:50 – The Effects of Stress and Adversity on Gene Expression

11:15 – Epigenetics and Illness in the Workplace

12:10 – Mindfulness Can Lower Inflammation and Increase Connection with Others

14:31 – The Limits of Motivation and Will-Power

16:27 – Creating Positive Behavior Changes

17:43 – Mindfulness and Compassion Are Key for Creating New Options

19:17 – Meaning and Purpose Protect Your Health

20:00 – Finding Purpose and Meaning In and Out of the Workplace

21:34 – Compassion is Good for Your Health and Your Company

23:09 – Building Psychological Safety

24:04 – Lead By Example with Vulnerability

25:05 – The Responsibility of Leaders

26:29 – New Leaders and the Importance of Warmth

27:59 – Trust and Mindful Listening

28:48 – “Let’s Do This Together”

29:15 – Compassion is Courage

31:43 – Acts of Courage in the Workplace

WW005 – Can Going to Work Be Good for Your Health? – Parneet Pal, MBBS, MS
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In This Episode

Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft, explore workplace burnout and the cutting edge solutions, as well as the ancient wisdom practices, that can help you avoid that trap.

Conversation includes: how empathy fatigue can lead to suffering and burnout, the power of curiosity and mindfulness, and how to expand into positivity and flow day to day in your work. Judson also shares knowledge on overcoming anxiety and “the joy of not knowing.”

Links

Judson Brewer

Default Mode Network

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Empathy Fatigue

Flow

Judson’s New App Unwinding Anxiety

Show Notes

1:07 –  Workplace Burnout and Empathy Fatigue

4:20 – What’s Going on with Empathy and Empathy Fatigue?

5:54 – The Contraction of Empathy

7:45 – The Mindfulness of Letting Go

9:19 – Taking on Other’s Pain vs. Acceptance and Compassion

10:36 – Being Instead of Doing

11:25 – The Power of Curiosity

13:30 – Being with Suffering without Taking It On

15:02 – Taking Self Out of the Way

17:08 – Calibrating the System for Compassion and Resiliency

19:13 – Unwinding Anxiety

21:50 – Expanding into Positivity

22:20 – Moving Toward Flow Moment by Moment

22:52 – Exploring the Conditions that Create Flow

25:27 – The Joy of Not Knowing

26:09 – Curious Awareness

WW004 – The Joy of Not Knowing – Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
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00:00 / 27:58

 

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WW003 – Does Being Busy Make You More Productive? – Christine Carter
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WW001 – Love and Loss in the Workplace – Michele Bousquet
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WW002 – Change Your Life, One Tiny Habit at a Time – B. J. Fogg
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00:00 / 27:11

 

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