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A Cure for the Common Company: A Chief Medical Director’s Prescription for a Healthier Workforce
with Richard Safeer, MD Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Speaker, Author. I had the gift of meeting Dr. Richard Safeer when facilitating a panel on Understanding the Principles of Wellness and Wellbeing for the Hacking...
Tragedy as Our Teacher: Life Lessons, Affirmations, and Making a Difference
with Detective Dave Sweet Senior Investigator, Author, and Public Speaker Advocating for a better world is one of my podcast themes, and I’m grateful to have connected with a person who exemplifies making a difference in many ways. I met Detective Dave Sweet in an...
Wellness, Wellplayed: The Power of Music
with Jennifer Buchanan, MBA, MTA Author, Music Therapist, Keynote Speaker Music is very near and dear to my heart, having played flute and piano to an advanced level and taught private lessons into my 20s. I like to explore many ways to help human beings thrive, and...
Burning Ladders and Building Bridges in Your Work and Life: The True Meaning of Success
with Dr. Alan M. Patterson Organizational Development Consultant and Author As you may know, I founded a career psychology practice in 2009 that now extends throughout Canada. It’s called Canada Career Counselling and since 2009 we’ve been helping 1000s of Canadians...
Too Bad to Stay, Yet Too Good to Leave: Making Purposeful Career Pivots
with Meghan Reid Registered Psychologist, Co-Founder and Practice Lead of Canada Career Counselling Interviewing a psychologist I truly admire, Meghan Reid, was a conversation that I hope helps many of you who feel stuck. Meghan co-founded Canada Career Counselling...
Living Happy in a Messy World: Keys to Contentment
with Cy Wakeman global thought-leader and New York Times best-selling author I was delighted to welcome Cy Wakeman as a return guest to the podcast. Cy is among my favourite business authors, with No Ego being a book I have recommended countless times to my coaching...
Healthy to Destructive: Exploring Narcissism
with Dr. Nina W. Brown Professor, Author: Working with the Self-Absorbed In my quest to help myself and others better understand how to navigate narcissism at work and in life, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Nina Brown, distinguished researcher on narcissism and...
Navigating Narcissism in Life and Work
with Wendy T. Behary Author, Disarming the Narcissist Wendy Behary has spent the past 20+ years working as a therapist with narcissists, and is a sought after writer and trainer on this topic. I have personally experienced narcissists in various roles in my life,...
Being Yourself at Work to Create Better Work-Life Wellness
with DDS Dobson-Smith (They & He) In a quest to further explore inclusion and belonging, I had the opportunity to speak with DDS Dobson-Smith, who recently published You Can Be Yourself Here: Your Pocket Guide to Creating Inclusive Workplaces by Using the...
You Can Be Yourself Here: Creating Inclusive Workplaces Through the Psychology of Belonging
with DDS Dobson-Smith (They & He) Last month the podcast and blog focused on the evolution from inclusion to belonging with Lorne Rubis, co-founder of Belongify. I was inspired to continue diving deeper into this topic area, as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is...
The Culture of Belonging
Lorne Rubis, co-founder of Belongify and April’s podcast guest, has much to say on the subject of belonging and culture. In the last blog post I explored some of his work and ideas around belonging. Now, as I continue learning about his current work around the...
Belongify and the Evolution from Inclusion to Belonging
Anyone who has worked in a toxic workplace culture can relate to how draining and frustrating it feels. When we don’t feel we belong or “fit” in a team or culture, it drains our energy and reduces our ability to contribute. I first met Lorne Rubis almost a decade ago...