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Special Guest: Suzana Mihajlovic: Author of Your2Minds Suzana Mihajlovic is the founder of Your2Minds Pty Ltd. She is a multiple best selling author and elite level performance and success coach. Her expertise has been featured in many prestigious podcasts and business magazines and most recently in Times Square, New York. Suzana Mihajlovic has had a wide calibre of experience and expertise all of which distinguish her from the ordinary. She has been referred to by her clients as the “missing link between success and failure”. Professional Development can be an expensive investment for many organisations. Even though millions are spent every year on training and development, leaders often feel frustrated because even with the best training, often the return on the investment for professional development is not as great as anticipated. This is because staff will learn new skills in the training and professional development but their behaviour does not change leaving a large gap between knowing what they should be doing and actually doing it. The concept of self-image on performance has been studied for decades. It Is one of the most valuable mindset upgrades that any leader can implement. Basically, self-image is about creating the image of success – or an image that aligns with workplace performance – within each individual and as a team. By upgrading each individual’s self-image and then the overall team’s self-image to match corporate goals, staff are more likely to meet KPIs, to enjoy their work, and to make a positive contribution to the overall culture of the organisation. Join us as we discuss the effect of self-image on performance. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Alison Green: Director of WOMBA More than 80% of parents in the UK are in employment yet there’s remarkably little research. The research that has been conducted tends to disregard the experience and role of working dads – perhaps reinforcing the notion that this is a ‘woman’s issue’. We have started with a unique, binary gender equal piece of research to explore the perspectives of both working mums and working dads. The aim of our research is to help parents returning to work thrive – for the benefit of the organisation, the individual, their family and wider society. WOMBA (Work, Me and the Baby) is a specialist coaching practice, which provides practical and psychological support, for working parents. They help organisations build inclusive cultures, supports working parents as they manage their careers and upskills accredited coaches to add Diversity & Inclusion to their coaching practice. They have worked with organisations across the public and private sectors including Tesco, The Government Legal Department, Universal Music Group and AND Digital. Alison Green is one of the directors of WOMBA (Work, Me and the Baby) and is an experienced, Masters qualified, executive coach. She specialises in supporting professionals as they make the transition to becoming a working parent whilst managing their careers. She has two grown children and now she has a little more time she’s developing her yoga practice. Join us as we discuss how organisations can drive equal opportunities for working parents. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Andy Goram
Special Guest: Jo Moffatt, EFS Advisory Board Member & Strategy Director, MD Woodreed We will be discussing the topic of workplace culture: what it is, how it is defined and why it matters, not only for organisational and corporate success but also for health, wellbeing and engagement of the wider workforce. This is in advance of Jo speaking at the Health & Wellbeing @ Work conference at the NEC in Birmingham on 12 March. Join us as we discuss workplace culture. Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Jeffrey Klubeck: Author of The Integrity Game®️ Jeffrey Klubeck is retired Professor of Communication and author of The Integrity Game®️ which is evolving into a comprehensive soft skills development company. As a world class coach, Jeffrey has worked with entrepreneurs and high performance teams in 12 countries across 4 continents. He is also the founder of Get A Klu, Inc. which serves small/micro businesses and solo-preneurs with productivity and accountability frameworks. Klubeck is also author of the Get A Klu in 52 Soft Skills Book series. As a speaker he is fast paced, humor-laced and a little bit in your face … always challenging audiences to look within! Join us as we discuss the 10 question sets that make up “The Integrity Game®️ Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Andy Goram
Special Guests: Mike Pounsford, Kevin Ruck and Howard Krais Leading the Listening Organisation was published in December 2023. This book explores tapping into employee voices for better decisions, innovation, and performance. ‘Leading the Listening Organisation’ offers practical strategies, based on global research across 500 organisations, to create resilient workplaces where open communication and fresh ideas thrive. Essential reading for leaders, HR, and communication professionals. Topics covered include why listening matters, barriers to listening, creating listening climates and leadership’s role in listening. There will be three of us in this episode. Mike Pounsford founded Couravel, an organisation development consultancy specialising in change communication, in 2001. He works internationally for private, public and third sector organisations and is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator. Kevin Ruck is the co-founder of PR Academy, the largest provider of Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) qualifications and the editor of Exploring Internal Communication, also published by Routledge. Howard Krais co-founded True,, an employee experience and engagement consultancy, in 2023 following several senior roles in large global organisations and two years leading the UK chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Join us as we discuss leading the listening organisation. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Special Guest: Sharn Kleiss: Internal Comms & EX Strategy and Gary Moss: Internal Communication Director at Gallagher’s Communication Practice Sharn Kleiss (she/her) is Strategy Partner: Employee Experience & Insights at Gallagher’s Communications Practice, and has worked in the employee engagement field for a decade. Sharn’s expertise is focused on the interplay between internal communication and employee experience, and this comes to life in Gallagher’s annual State of the Sector report, which she is leading in 2023/24. In its 16th year, Gallagher’s State of the Sector is the definitive internal communications trends report. A record 2,300 communicators took part in this year’s survey, and the 2024 report aims to answer the big comms questions, like: ⁃ How are communicators using and feeling about AI? ⁃ Who is actually responsible for the people manager ‘problem’? ⁃ As communicators, how much strategic influence do we really have? ⁃ Communication channels: what’s changing and why Our research looks at the benefits of being a strategic communicator (and how that affects your wellbeing), and uncover the four key documents that increase satisfaction, effectiveness and understanding. In this episode, we’ll discuss the findings of the 2024 report and what it means for communicators – both as humans and a business function. Join us as we discuss the benefits of strategic communication
Special Guest: Joey Havens: Author of Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture Joey Havens has a 30+ year history of growing leaders and elevating others based on a personal purpose of helping people see and realize their full potential. He recently retired from HORNE, a top 25 CPA firm, after serving in several roles since joining them in 1984, including as an executive partner where he led more than 2,000 team members to build the Wise Firm, HORNE’s people-first culture. Joey actively challenges the mainstays of business culture and strategic planning. He advocates for growing leaders faster using holistic approaches and intentional sponsorship. In addition to his weekly beBetter blog, he is the author of numerous white papers and articles, including “Becoming the Firm of the Future,” published by AICPA. He has co-authored four books during his career at HORNE, including his newest Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture. Joey is an active member of CPA Practice Advisor’s Top 30 Thought Leaders, where he works with other accounting professionals to help lead and shape the industry. Joey is a frequent presenter/teacher/facilitator on creating a culture of belonging, strategic planning, and leadership development and loves to teach young professionals the “ABCs to Outstanding.” He is a past board member of HORNE LLP, Friends of Children’s Hospital, JDRF, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and AICPA Women’s Initiative Executive Committee. Joey earned a bachelor of business administration from the University of Mississippi. He attends St. Francis Catholic Church with his wife, Cathy. Join us as we discuss the future of work. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Geoff McDonald: Geoff McDonald Consulting Limited Geoff’s background in teaching, HR, marketing, communications and sustainability is considerable. His experience during his 25 years with Unilever (a global corporation with a turnover of £50 billion and 170,000 employees in 90 countries worldwide), has taken him around the world, working across Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, Australasia and Asia, Europe and the Americas. His HR experience has spanned leadership and talent development, organization change, capability development with a particular reference to marketing, and business transformation with purpose at its core. Early in his career he was responsible for graduate recruitment and development, talent, acquisitions and development across Unilever’s emerging markets. Under his leadership he developed Unilever’s global talent and leadership centre of expertise. More recently he devoted his time, energy, and effort to leading ground-breaking work where the HR function has played a central role in transforming Unilever’s business model with purpose at its core. Geoff is devoting a significant amount of time to consulting to organizations, helping them define and embed Purpose as a driver of growth and profitability. He also advises companies, organizations and global multi-nationals in the area of Mental Health and Wellbeing. He consults on how to address the stigma linked to depression and anxiety in the workplace, and on how to elevate Wellbeing to a strategic priority in the Boardroom. Join us as we discuss mental health in the workplace. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Special Guest: Catherine Chabiron Catherine Chabiron is an established expert in Lean management with a professional journey spanning over 40 years. Her expertise in Lean thinking has been largely shaped by her experiences within the automotive industry, where she has lived and breathed the Lean philosophy. Catherine is not only a Lean executive coach but also a renowned author. Her notable contribution, “Learning to Scale at Theodo Group: Growing a Fast and Resilient Company,” exemplifies her unique know-how and offers practical advice to leaders seeking growth without compromising on core values and employee engagement. As companies expand, bureaucratic practices often disengage employees, making it difficult to maintain a healthy and fun culture. Individual roles can seem disconnected from the company’s larger challenges, eroding trust and job satisfaction. This issue is further exacerbated when employees are expected to execute tasks that seem meaningless or unrelated to major challenges, stripping away the fun and happiness in the workplace. On this podcast, Catherine will share strategies to improve employee engagement in growing businesses. She’ll discuss the importance of rebuilding trust by simplifying tasks and promptly resolving employee issues. Moreover, she’ll explain how management can listen effectively, making employees feel valued by linking their roles to the company’s larger challenges, thereby transforming work into a more meaningful and fulfilling experience. Join us as we discuss making employees feel valued. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: TBC
Our guest for this show cancelled so we are replaying our most downloaded show... Special Guest: Phil Sherwood, Head of Volunteering and Workforce Training. London 2012 Olympics In this 'blast from the past' Show #20, Find out how the Games Makers programme for London 2012 fits with the Engage for Success Four Enablers. 70,000 volunteers in 860 roles across 80 venues working 8 million hours for free - here's your chance to find out how they did it from an engagement perspective. Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Melissa Hackmeier: Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, Sustainability & Social Business Innovation at Merck Life Science Education and engagement are fundamental to all Melissa Hackmeier does at Merck Life Science. As Global Head of Employee and Community Engagement, she leads the development and implementation of employee and community engagement strategy, programs and nonprofit partnerships, as well as communications to raise awareness about these initiatives. She launched the company’s first-ever SPARK global volunteer program focused on science education, with employee participants volunteering more than 112,000 hours to engage more than 310,000 students in 41 countries to date. She is also responsible for leading Merck’s flagship science education programming, including the Curiosity Labs program, which educates and inspires students around the world through hands-on, interactive science lessons led by employees, and the Curiosity Cube, a retrofitted shipping container turned mobile science lab that travels across North America and Europe to spark curiosity in visitors of all ages through hands-on learning. Join us as we discuss best practices to get employees involved with volunteer initiatives and maintain the program’s impact Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Maria Marukian: Speaker and Host of ‘Culture Stew’ Maria Morukian is a recognized organizational development practitioner specializing in training, coaching, and facilitation with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and intercultural competence. Maria is the President of MSM Global Consulting, and an adjunct faculty member at American University’s School of International Service. She previously served in leadership and organizational development positions at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Executive Institute and the U.S. Department of State. She has also served in leadership positions at Management Concepts and the National MultiCultural Institute. Over the last two decades, Maria has trained and coached thousands of individuals around the world to build practices for better communication, foster competent and respectful workplaces, and navigate conflict for meaningful culture change. She has worked with such diverse clients as PBS Distribution, the National Park Service, National Institutes of Health, the World Bank, and the Association for Animal Welfare Advancement. Maria is host of the podcast Culture Stew, which focuses on the multidimensionality of identity and best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Join us as we discuss fostering competent and respectful workplaces. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Andy Goram
Special Guest: Chris Turner: Consultant in Emergency Medicine Radio Show #521: The Impact of Behaviour on Performance Have you ever had a professional interaction that has left you feeling disrespected? Left you feeling distracted and not performing at your best? It turns out that this isn’t just you, it’s all of us. Chris is consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He is interested in governance and highly performing teams, and this has led him on a journey from being blame and process focused to something completely different, Civility Saves Lives, a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the impact of behaviour on performance. Over the last few years this idea has gained momentum and traction across healthcare and beyond. Join us as we discuss going from blame and process focused to something else. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
Join our host Andy Goram sharing his 10 retention tips (his guest couldn't connect and will be rebooking for next year!).
Special Guest: Paul ter Wal: Founder of ANDARE Training & Education Paul ter Wal and his consulting company Team ANDARE make healthy businesses better with the belief that happiness makes money. An organization expert with a lot of experience as a lawyer in the field of social security and employment law, Paul saw first hand the ways that social security failed human beings. He was surprised to learn that despite the millions of dollars and euros spent to support people when they become ill or disabled, nothing was invested to keep people employable and engaged. He was disappointed that no one was taking the time to ask workers what they needed to live a good life; not a million dollar salary, but a fair salary and support in healthcare and wellbeing. 22 years ago Paul left the legal side, and moved further into improving humanity. Leading with his core values, Paul now establishes consulting engagements that help companies identify and truly live their own values. He shows companies that when they see every employee’s full potential, and facilitate them to achieve, absenteeism decreases while enthusiasm and productivity increases. Join us as we discuss the 7 keys of engagement and profitability. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Andy Goram
Special Guest: Gerald Leonard: Founder of the Leonard Productivity Intelligence Institute Gerald offers a unique productivity approach to accomplishing more every day. Gerald J. Leonard PMP, PfMP, and a C-IQ Coach; he's the Publishing Editor, CEO, and Founder of the Leonard Productivity Intelligence Institute, as well as the CEO of Turnberry Premiere, a strategic project portfolio management and IT governance firm based in Washington, DC. Gerald is also an Author, TEDx Speaker, Management guru, and a Bass player. He brings all these traits and skills into his presentations and interviews. Gerald is the author of A Symphony of Choices (A Business Parable), Culture Is The Bass, and Workplace Jazz. During the last 25+ years, Gerald has worked as an IT Project Management consultant and earned his PfMP, PMP, MCSE, and a Certification in Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) Coaching. He has acquired Project Management and Business Intelligence certifications from the University of California, Berkeley; Theory of Constraints Portfolio Management from the Goldratt Institute, Executive Leadership from Cornell University; and The Wharton School: Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program. Find out more at https://productivityintelligenceinstitute.com/productivity-smarts-podcast/ Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Special Guest: Paul Reid: Founder and CEO at Trickle Paul started his career as a software engineer, before launching a market-leading tech business that became well known for being a great place to work – with a real focus on putting its people first. The culture that Paul and his team rooted in the business was key to its success, which saw them repeatedly win customers against globally recognised brands with 1000x more staff. Paul’s business was acquired after 15 years, and the subsequent integration of his company into an organisation of 70,000 people was a lesson in how organisations must engage with their people around their feelings, wellbeing and employee experience, in order to be successful. From that journey through 20 years in the Scottish startup world, Trickle was born, and Paul’s focus is now firmly fixed on helping organisations to engage on what really matters to their people. Join us as we discuss how ground-up communication differs from traditional top-down approaches, and what unique advantages it offers in a workplace setting Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Cathy Brown, EFS Advisory Board Member, Former Exec Director What's it like being a neurodivergent leader? How do you lead and manage neurodivergent employees? Cathy speaks about her own personal experience of late diagnosis with ADHD and how she asked for reasonable adjustments and got practical help through Access to Work. Join us as we discuss neurodivergence as a leader and as an employee. Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Cathy Brown, EFS Advisory Board Member, Former Exec Director What's it like being a neurodivergent leader? How do you lead and manage neurodivergent employees? Cathy speaks about her own personal experience of late diagnosis with ADHD and how she asked for reasonable adjustments and got practical help through Access to Work. Join us as we discuss neurodivergence as a leader and as an employee. Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Alex Eade: Marketing Manager at Footprint Digital Lifelong learning and keeping education at the core of everything we do is paramount to the team at Footprint Digital. Our industry, digital marketing, has often been seen as smoke and mirrors, with clients confused about what agencies are actually doing for them, and agencies using this confusion to their advantage. Footprint Digital was set up to be the antithesis to this, demystifying and humanising marketing to help clients make more confident decisions. As part of this attempt to spread information rather than gatekeep, we began lecturing to university students in 2015 and soon realised that there was a gap between the theory students learnt, and the practical understanding they’d need for a successful start to their career. We set up the Footprint Academy to help them with the skills they’d need in the real world. Alex Eade is the Marketing Manager at Footprint Digital, and after a master degree in Business Management, in 2016 she began her digital marketing career by joining the Footprint Academy. Since then she has managed content teams, developed new digital marketing products, worked in-house in branding, email marketing and CRM for a global restaurant group, and returned to Footprint Digital in 2020 where she set up an online course to complement the Footprint Academy.’ Join us as we discuss bridging the gap from academia to the real world. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Join our three hosts - Jo Dodds, Andy Goram and Jo Moffatt - in conversation. Catch up on the latest from the world of employee engagement and Engage for Success.
Join two of our three hosts - Andy Goram and Jo Moffatt - in conversation. Catch up on the latest from the world of employee engagement and Engage for Success.
Special Guest: Rosie Tomkins: Founding Partner of N-Stinctive, Leadership Development & Executive Coach & Author In this episode, we’ll explore the essence of her upcoming book, “Let Nature Be Your Compass,” set to launch on October 31st. Rosie’s passion for rekindling our connection with nature and harnessing its invaluable lessons will come alive as we discuss real-life anecdotes and actionable strategies from her book. Tune in to discover how you can revitalize your innate strengths, sharpen your intuition, and embark on a transformative journey guided by the natural world. Rosie Tomkins, a trailblazing Executive Coach, Leadership Facilitator, and accomplished author, channels her passion for nature into transformative leadership principles. Her latest book, “Let Nature Be Your Compass,” set for release on October 31st, offers a distinctive perspective on human-nature connectivity and its implications for personal and business development. In “Let Nature Be Your Compass,” Rosie intricately weaves the wisdom of the natural world into practical self-help and leadership strategies. By delving into the attributes animals have harnessed for millennia—purpose, adaptability, resilience—readers are guided to reconnect with their innate strengths and intuition. Rosie advocates for a return to simplicity, enabling individuals to navigate the complexities of modern life with newfound clarity. Join us as we delve into a captivating conversation with Rosie, a trailblazer with over 30 years of experience in unlocking the profound wisdom of nature for personal growth and professional success Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: Josh Drean: Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute Josh Drean is Co-founder & Director of Employee Experience at The Work3 Institute, Web3 Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and Co-author of Employment is Dead (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024) He is an HR Transformation and Metaverse expert who marries web3 technologies with workplace strategies. As Co-founder of The Work3 Institute, a research, and consulting agency focused on human-centric digital transformation, Josh’s aim is to help companies thrive in the rapidly changing world of work. Josh’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Economist. Josh earned his undergraduate degree in I/O psychology and a masters degree at Harvard University, where he incubated and sold an HR Tech startup pioneering sentiment analysis in real-time. To understand the impact of the Metaverse on the future of work, look no further than the current pains of the distributed workforce and observe the solutions a virtual world of work will provide. Realizing these possibilities will require an entirely new mentality. It’s not about the antiquated concepts of employee engagement or even designing a better employee experience, that’s like adding Ford Mustang car parts around a Model T chassis. The fundamental structure of work is outdated. We are clogging Industrial Age systems with Information Age speeds. The Metaverse and web3 technologies have the power to drive work forward new levels of productivity and growth by offering individual contributors greater ownership, flexibility, and agency over their work. Join us as we discuss how the current pains of employees are driving forward a new model for work that allows greater ownership, flexibility, and ownership over their work. The future of work is decentralization. Host: Jo Dodds
Special Guest: David Liddle: The TCM Group At a time where the terms culture, climate and conflict are hot topics for every organisation, David Liddle will be examining these three areas through the lens of his 30 years work as a facilitator, a mediator, a coach, a leader and an accomplished author. Having completed a degree in race relations in the early nineties, David went on to set up one of the first specialist mediation and restorative justice organisations in the UK. For 7 years he pioneered the use of mediation and restorative practices for resolving intractable and often complex issues in communities, schools and between gangs. In 2001, having completed his MBA with distinction, David began to offer mediation and restorative practices to UK organisations. One of the first to do so, he quickly recognised that dialogue, compassion, empathy and engagement were far more effective at resolving issues at work than retribution, blame, shame, punishment and fear. His company, The TCM Group, has grown rapidly since those early days and David has created a unique ecosystem of services to organisations across the UK and beyond. His ground breaking and award winning Resolution FrameworkTM is being used to replace grievance and disciplinary procedures in organisations across the globe and his Transformational Culture ModelTM offers a blueprint for a purpose driven, values based and person centred workplace. David has been a longstanding supporter of E4S and he is president of the People and Culture Association (www.peopleprofessionals.org). He is the founder of International People and Culture Week which launches on 01st of May 2024. Join us as we discuss culture, climate and conflict in organisations Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Andy Goram
Special Guest: Simon Fanshawe: Co-Founder of Diversity by Design Simon will be exploring the value of diversity…not the clichéd version so many of are routinely subjected to in our work by so-called diversity experts, but rather the core of human difference that lies at the heart of it. We only talk about diversity and inclusion because we are different and we cannot understand each other. It is our attempts to do so, and our frequent clumsiness with each other, that makes this journey so interesting and vital. We learn from positions of ignorance, so we need to be able blunder and explore and deal well with the consequences to each other. Simon will attempt to rescue this work from the excluding jargon that has grown up around it and find ways to engage everyone’s differences in pursuit of our common goals at work. No rules, no lecture from the gays about what not to say. Just some tools and suggestions as to how we work best together, defeat discrimination and disadvantage for groups of people and how we can do it still laughing and causing each other as much joy as inevitable occasional upset. He co-founded and currently runs a consultancy business, Diversity by Design which supports organisations to truly diversify their senior people. His latest book “The Power of Difference” was published in December 2021 by Kogan Page. It was a finalist in both The Business Book Awards and the Chartered Management Institute Book of the Year Award. He is Number Two on HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinker of 2022 list. He is married to Adam and they have no children or dogs. Join us as we discuss the value of diversity Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Special Guest: Jane Sparrow: Author and Founder of The Culture Builders and Tuddl Jane is a business culture, people and performance expert. Author and thought leader in culture and wellbeing, she provides advice and support to some of the best known brands (and the emerging ones) including OVO Energy, BBC Studios, Costain, Selfridges, HSBC, Rugby Premiership and Salesforce. She’s well known for creating and sustaining high performing teams and cultures. Jane is passionate about enabling others to perform at their best to achieve both organisational and personal goals. Her personal vision for Tuddl is that it helps large numbers of people live more productive, healthier and happier lives in cultures that become more progressive. Join us as we discuss creating and sustaining high performing teams and cultures. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
Cigna Healthcare, a global health service company, is calling for CEOs and business leaders to make a public commitment to allocate five percent of their annual working hours to changing organisational cultures while addressing the issue of staff well-being in an ‘action-oriented manner’. The initiative aims to support and inspire leaders to place more focus on the mental health of their employees in order to break the stigma of mental health in the workplace and help staff feel safe and supported. Cigna Healthcare is motivating business leaders globally to take the 5% Pledge so we can create a community of like-minded leaders to work together to drive positive change. Arjan is responsible for the overall management, growth and profitability of Cigna’s operations in the UK and all markets across Continental Europe. Arjan leads this combined structure, which spans International Organisations (IGO’s and NGO’s) and governments, European employers and globally mobile individuals. As part of these responsibilities, he maintains close relationships with intergovernmental organisations such as UNICEF and the World Health Organisation and non-governmental organisations such as the Red Cross and Save the Children International. Arjan is a champion of employee mental health and is committed to ensuring the workplace culture at Cigna is one where it’s ok for employees not to be ok, and where they can talk openly about how they’re feeling. Join us as we discuss mental health and why it’s crucial that employers build a supportive workplace, one where it’s sometimes ok not to be ok. Host: Andy Goram
Special Guest: Jane van Zyl: CEO of Working Families Working Families mission is to remove the barriers working parents and carers face in the workplace. They do this by empowering working parents and carers to understand and use their workplace rights, by supporting employers to create, build and sustain flexible and family friendly workplaces and by advocating for practical positive policy change. The majority of the employer members employ more than 250 people. Coming into the charity in 2018, Jane’s challenge was how to make the charity as flexible and family friendly as possible, while being aware they didn’t have the same HR support or budget of the employer members they support. With the Senior Leadership team, they’ve introduced a number of different things to ensure the team feel valued, connected and informed. Some work better than others… it’s always a work in progress. Jane joined Working Families as CEO in September 2018. She has 18 years’ experience working in the third sector and has held senior leadership positions at a number of UK charities, including Samaritans and Sands. She believes in the value of a fulfilling, balanced working life and its transformative power to create social connections, build self-esteem, and impact the wider community. She is a passionate advocate of equal opportunity for all. She spent her childhood in the UK (Norfolk) and South Africa (Cape Town & Johannesburg). Join us as we discuss creating and sustaining family friendly workplaces. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Moffatt
Special Guest: Lorna Leeson, Executive Coach Lorna is founder of Little Tent – a Coaching and Culture Consultancy that partners CEOs and their teams to help make positive cultural change happen. Working one on one and with senior teams focusing on how their behaviour and dynamics shape the business culture, and as a result drive their success. Join us as we discuss the importance of leaders showing vulnerability. Listen Live (Archive Available) Host: Jo Dodds
