Zach Mercurio: Creating a Mattering Movement

About this episode

Zach Mercurio discusses the importance of mattering in the workplace and shares practical methods for implementing it.

On this episode of the Growing with Purpose podcast, host Paul Spiegelman speaks with Zach Mercurio, a researcher, author, and leadership development facilitator specializing in purposeful leadership, mattering, meaningful work, and positive organizational psychology. His latest book, The Power of Mattering, is available now. Zach is an expert in the importance and implementation of mattering in the workplace, but it’s a path he had to carve out for himself. The desire to explore this topic was sparked in him after his first job out of college. Working in advertising sales, he noticed the jarring fact that he and his team treated their clients as a resource rather than people with their own lives and interests. When he went on to complete his PhD research, he befriended the custodians who were in the school buildings late at night like him. This led him to focus his research on people in overlooked (and often underinvested in) professions like cleaning, and how they experience meaning in their work. Listen to this episode to learn Zach’s practical methods for scaling mattering in the workplace, the difference between mattering and belonging, and why Zach sees now as a time when…

People in this episode

Guest: Zach Mercurio

Topics covered

• purposeful leadership
• mattering
• meaningful work
• organizational psychology
• workplace culture

Keywords

• The Power of Mattering
• workplace mattering
• belonging
• PhD research
• cleaning professions

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Power of Mattering

Books & works: Creating a Mattering Movement, Growing with Purpose, The Power of Mattering, PhD

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