Wellbeing Designers

In this inspiring conversation, we sit down with the incredible Sarah Cunningham, Managing Director of World Wellbeing Movement. WWM is an impact-driven charity registered in England and Wales. Their mission? 𝗧𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. We explore: ✅ How academic research is translated into real-world action ✅ Why wellbeing is a measurable science and how it links to productivity, longevity, and national progress ✅ What governments and businesses can do to improve wellbeing ✅ Insights from the Work Wellbeing Playbook and what truly works in the workplace ********* 🎧 Explore more on this topic with these resources: Visit their website: www.worldwellbeingmovement.org → 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁: https://www.youtube.com/@worldwellbeingmovement → 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: https://worldwellbeingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Work-Wellbeing-Playbook.pdf → 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 "𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀" 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 https://www.amazon.com/Why-Workplace-Wellbeing-Matters-Organizational/dp/1647826357

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜? ... 𝙬𝙚'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠...... Is it really true that the client expects me to be available 24 7 or is it my implicit expectation? Or is it the partner's expectation that the client will not accept that I'm off a certain time?"

🎉 Excited to share the newest episode of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast featuring the insights of Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine, hosted by Reka Deak, founder of Wellbeing Designers Dr. Safeer shares his journey from being a family doctor to focusing on corporate health, driven by his desire to impact more people’s lives as they spend most of their time at work. 5 highlights from our conversation: 💡 Integrating Health into Company Culture: We discuss how to embed health and wellness into the core of corporate culture, making it an integral part of daily operations and organizational mission. Work is where people spend most of their time in their life. 🌿 Leadership's Role in Promoting Wellness: Effective leadership is crucial in advancing wellness programs. We get some insights on how leaders can exemplify healthy behaviors and support their teams' well-being. 🤝 Emotions Travel: Rich highlights how the emotional states of individuals can influence the entire workplace environment, underlining the importance of a supportive and positive work culture. 📚 The Soda Project: A symbolic innovative initiative aiming to reduce sugary drink consumption among employees by providing healthier alternatives, reflecting a practical approach to promoting health at work. At the end it is all about an organisational transformation! 📋 The Six Building Blocks of a Healthy Workplace Culture: Dr. Safeer outlines the essential components for fostering a culture of health in the workplace: Peer Support Leadership Engagement Norms Social Climate Culture Connection Points Shared Values

💡"Reka, you have a podcast! Why don't we continue our conversation there?" - this is what they asked when we finished our panel discussion together with Shlomit Gruman- Navot Dallas FitzPatrick Adina Avram after the Horizon Summit The HR Congress in Amsterdam last November where we only had 30 mins to delve into the theme "Enhancing People Wellbeing Through Creating Inclusive Workplaces as Cornerstone of Psychological Safety." ⚡️And so many questions came from the audience! Now we answer all of them exclusively for you:) 🚀 Season 3 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast kicking off with this special episode with 3 guests on the show! Wow! Wellbeing though the lenses of a CHRO at OLX and the DEI Director of Teleperformance and Head of DEI Trivium Packaging. 🎙️ If you want to know more about the work of these amazing HR leaders and their insights on the questions below, tune into Episode 15 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast! ❓What responsibility do you see the companies have for the wellbeing of the employee vs the responsibility of the employee? ❓How DE&I can promote wellness at the workplace? ❓Many companies encourage psychological safety and wellbeing but speaking up or asking hard questions is still often career limiting. How do you deal with this? ❓How would you recommend to deal with people who do not see wellbeing being an issue (despite the data) or employees feeling DEI is forced on them? ❓How do we secure the wellbeing of the HR professionals themselves in the challenges they face of balancing the well-being initiatives vs the business pressure? https://www.linkedin.com/in/shlomit-gruman-navot-7236873/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dallasfitzpatrick/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adinaavram/

❗️"Focusing on not trying to fix people, rather creating the space where they can self serve and fix, because there is a deal of dual accountability." - The big day has come! Episode nr. 13 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast has been out since yesterday! Our guest is one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in the topic of wellbeing: Ryan Hopkins on a mission to ENGAGE 1 BILLION people in the betterment of wellbeing. Hopefully I can contribute to this number though our podcast 😃 When we recorded the podcast Ryan was still at Deloitte UK, leading projects focusing on Wellbeing for their clients worldwide. Today he switched and took on a role as Chief Impact Officer at JAAQ. He has an impressive story about his own well-being journey that he shares in a TEDx talk (link in comments) and he just published his book 52 Weeks of Wellbeing (link in comments). Most importantly though he is an authentic and fun human being 💯 Highlights of our conversation: 🤔 We were contemplating a bit about the fact how much you can learn resilience vs how much you have to go through your own sometimes painful experiences in order to understand that. 🟰The dilemma between attrition and engagement. Why lower attrition is not necessarily mean higher engagement and wellbeing. ⚖️ The upcoming trend of human sustainability and its implications. ✋ Why we need a reality check when ideating about wellbeing solutions: "I just want to put healthy hot food on the, on the table for my family." 💫 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3G6XFhZ 💫 Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3jh6Bsm or via our website: https://lnkd.in/epTRdTW5 ⁉️What are your highlights? We would love to hear from you! Please leave them in comments! 💙 Share this episode with someone who would love this today:) Reach out to us if you have any questions or feedback: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanhopkinsuk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

🔇 Episode 11 of the Wellbeing Designers with Kacy Flaming, Head of Global Wellbeing at Takeda is out today! 🎙️ To make you even more curious to tune in and listen to our conversation, let's do a small quiz! Guess which of the following is NOT true! 1 - 2 - 3 ? Kacy... 1 - ... started her career as an actress before climbing the corporate ladder in pharmaceuticals as a strategic director and recently wellbeing leader 2 - ... considers the ways of working as the main problem to tackle in organisational wellbeing and in society 3 - ... is convinced that up-skilling individuals with wellbeing skills is the way to go because it's a quick fix 😎 To find out the right answer, you need to tune in;) My personal highlight of our conversation was: ✨ learning about the dimensions of wellbeing, an approach Takeda developed in collaboration with Thrive Global and Arianna Huffington ✋ hearing her way of taking care of her own wellbeing: setting boundaries! This is my mantra as well. And it is so difficult - we agreed on this! 🙋🏾 she is one of the first ones amongst the wellbeing leaders who I have been talking to, who proactively highlights gender health (including menopause, female health) at the workplace as one of the focus areas of their work Reach out to us via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasingact https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

"If we don't take care of the people taking care of our patients, our patients are going to suffer." - Episode 9 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out today! Our guest is Jonathan Fisher, MD FACC a cardiologist, wellbeing leader and author of the book, "Just One Heart" based in the US. This is a very special episode for me in many ways. When I discovered Jonathan's work few years ago, I felt that his approach towards health finally manages to make peace in me and in the world between the traditional Western medicine and the more spiritual Eastern one. Jonathan has been a cardiologist for more decades Novant Health. Nowadays he works 60% as a cardiologist and 40% he is a wellbeing leader. Some of the thought provoking topics we are talking about: 1. What if we say that someone as a doctor can truly care about their patients only if they care about themselves? How is this possible in the current health care system? 2. How can a doctor after facing burnout go back to the same system as a new person and contribute to a systemic change? 3. Even if healthcare is considered as one of those "lucky" industries where people are most connected to the meaning and purpose of their work, these days healthcare workers are so exhausted that they are often disconnected from the results of their work. What to do about this? 4. And what about trauma? We talked about our common favourite physician, Gabor Mate and his work in this field. 5. How can a doctor embody a mindful approach in practice? And... If you are interested in reading Jonathan's upcoming book, "Just One Heart - a cardiologist's guide to healing, health, and happiness, is a practical guide to inner workings of the mind heart connection, helping readers master their stress and develop a healthy and joyful heart, make sure you get on the waiting list: https://jonathan-fisher.presale.manuscripts.com/registration/select Jonathan and I are very much looking forward to hearing about your feedback on this conversation! https://www.linkedin.com/in/happyheartmd/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

Josh Bersin shares about his insights on organisational wellbeing in a context of other HR and business topics reflecting on his book Irresistible and the recent Irresistible experience organised by The Josh Bersin Company. The book Irresistible: https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Secrets-Enduring-Employee-Focused-Organizations-ebook/dp/B0B1VQL9ML https://www.linkedin.com/in/bersin/ https://www.wellbeing.design/podcast https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

Newton Cheng shares about his role as Director of Health + Performance. He gives insight into their work and the learnings along the way. https://www.linkedin.com/in/newtoncheng/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

Maurice Wery shares about his role as Global Wellbeing Manager at The Adecco Group. He gives insight into their work and the learnings along the way. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricewery/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rekadeak/

Urs Karkoschka shares about her role as Head of Performance Innovation at Novartis. He gives insight into their work and the learnings along the way.

You are invited to listen to this short intro episode about my why. Why I started the Wellbeing Designers Podcast.