Heartship - The Now of Workplace, Diversity, Leadership & Us

Alen  Chao has been a workforce consultant, after getting his Master's degree  in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This field allows him to  look into the attitudes and behaviors across various organizations, and  shaped his professional views on why work can be awful sometimes and the  scientific (and humane) ways to make it better. Today, he joins  heartship to discuss the importance of a Psychologically-Safe Workplace.

Often  times, we coil up fretting that our voice is not welcomed in spaces  that isn't uniform. But these are the spaces we need to allow ourselves  to amplify our voices. Priyanka shares how we can lead with a voice.

What happens when your peers become your boss? Kate Nasser joins us and  explores the dynamics, change management, and how we can grow  collectively.

A lot of the times most do not realize how our society, communities are interrelated. Our behaviours, ideologies, practises, mindset and heart set insects the workplace we are in, our home, and our society. As we live in a more multi cultural and culturally intersectional society, it becomes our social responsibility to acknowledge and reform racial justice. Zainab shares how we can reform at grassroots level.

People become seeds at various stages in their lives and it is important  for us as leaders to become gardeners where we constantly plant them  and replant them to grow to bear fruits of their labour.

Charisse Fontes joins me to dismantle the lack of humanity at the  workplace. Humanity is the key to enabling and placing people in an  ecosystem.

Jeffrey Shapiro joins me on this imperative dialogue where we peel the  layer of why it is important to be the same authentic person we are at  all times.

Girish Venkat joins me to discuss the context behind being a team player  and how we have to reframe the narrative of being a team player.

We explored some key factors in what it means to be a team player now:

• Communication 
• Setting boundaries
• Understanding Flexibility
• Understanding Expectations 
• Supporting Decisions
• Understanding what strengths and weakness looks like for each individual 

Being a team player isn't about inviting someone to be part of the team and expecting them to prove themselves to earn a badge. Being a team player is about us as leaders being able to understand how each person can bring their unique skills, strengths and align with their purpose and being into the space are are creating.

CJ Johnson joins me to break down the inequities present in technology.  Thus, promoting dominant culture and monolingual voices of privilege. CJ shares how we can consciously become aware and take action to shift this to enable equity.

Conflict is inevitable but an important part of building relationships  and trust. Most of the time when conflicts occur, abuse arise. I invite  Roxanna Safdia, Conflict Resolution Expert, to chat on how we can  dismantle abuse in conflicts.

• Recognise what and how abuse can look like
• Find allies and success partners to help you navigate yourself when being in an abusive conflict

Scarcity mindset, privilege bullying - we chat on how we can dismantle toxic femininity with white women at the workplace. 

Honest conversations need to occur before we can find resolutions. Join me , Adam Rosenfield, and Annalee Sepanski dismantle toxic femininity with white women at the wworkplace. 

I invite Summer Watson to dive deep into the KORE of women. We will be  exploring the reason behind why she started her business KORE Women and  we can bring equity with women.

Discrimination cannot be dismantled overnight or through solutions that  come from a singular lens. I explore how solutions looks like from a  wholistic systemic approach. I got together with four fantatsic guests to explore how these solutions can look like to build for diversity. 

John Dunia , Dr Shame, will be joining me to explore how shame is inherently present in the spaces that we belong in and how it can impact us in detrimental ways.

I had the humble opportunity to sit with Jaime Casap, Education Evangelist from Google, and have a deep conversation on themes that surround around education, leadership, and more. 

His wisdom, insight on solving poverty is inspiring. Give this session a listen. 

The term diversity has been thrown around loosely and is tokenised in many ways. Kim and I chat about how diversity needs to become real and integral in our systems.

We each have been found guilty of this - immediately ostracizing someone or minimising someone just because they are polar opposite than us. On this episode, we explore how to foster relationships with those who are opposite than us.

I invite recruiters to join the discussion on humane and ethical  recruiting. The gaps in this area results in a stagnant culture and  impede diversity.

Monique Arrington and Audrey Watson share their insights, expertise, and thoughts on how we can each contribute to recruiting becoming humane and ethical. 

Decision making is inherently present in our lives - let it be at the workplace, school systems, nation etc. The decisions we make impacts people either positively or negatively. To be a conscious leader who practises heartship is to make decisions that are ethical and will care for our people's lives and well being.

We dig deep into Unconscious bias, conscious bias, and conscious discrimination on this episode. How these 3 biases can impact the way we exist in places we belong and are accepted in.  Our biases create privilege for the privileged and poverty for the underprivileged.

I invited Vivian to explore what success means in today's world and how we can redefine the term to allow ourselves to adopt a growth mindset. 

Dr Ai is a professor turned entrepreneur. She is redefining what education must become now in order to prepare our children for the future. We touch on how education's paradigms have to be challenged in order to understand how our children and adults learn today. Even educators need to relearn what being an educator means in today's world.

We interviewd Adam Posner before we renamed our podcast. Adam shares his experience on getting let go by Vayner media and how he flipped the narrative of shame.

****Disclaimer that the podcast content does not constitute legal advice

Keyana Laws is a Trial Attorney with the EEOC. She shared the space with us in how we can combat workplace discrimination through alternative options. Listen to the full episode.

We share the space with Miki Johnson on digging deeper on how we can reframe the workspace to become a fully actualized version of ourselves. 

She explore important facets of how one shows up - emotions being a key theme. 

Follow Miki Johnson for her amazing work on revolutionizing the workplace.: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikijohnson/

Jonaed Iqbal is the found of NoDegree.com. He is changing the landscape of the cultural norm of careers and education.

We sat wit Jonaed to find the why behind his effort. 

Dr Akindes has been an integral part of my growth process during my University days. Annalee and I sat with him to explore tap into his diverse perspective and experience on how music and behaviours in the classroom can shape our identity.

Teresa shares her insight on the importance of EQ and goes granular on the topic of empathy.

I sat with Oleg to do a quick pow wow on the importance of stories and overcoming odds. Oleg overcame many adversities and continues to make it his mission to make others visible of their struggles, achievements, and solutions.

Clint shares some valuable insights on how a past behaviour of someone does not define how a person will be in the future. Clint is a change optimist and believes in enabling people to come into their space of potential. Listen to the full episode and reach out to us on LinkedIn to share your thoughts. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clinthankinson/ 

Stephan, now my good friend, joins me in a dialogue on heartship Connection to talk about influencing others with a heart. Stephan explores some radical themes about integrity and more. Listen to this full episode and share your thoughts. 

Every generation is entitled in their own ways and entitlement isn't only exclusive to Millennials, Y gen, and Z gen. In fact, these generations do not display entitlement but they embody the essence of what growth mindset is and they embody the innovators and early adopters segment in the theory of Diffusion of innovations. Annalee Sepanski, a millennial, and myself , a Xennial, explore the misconstrued believes most hold towards these generations and the importance of truly understanding each generation from a point of evolution and resources. 

Marlo Anderson is the Founder at National Day Calendar, a Futurist, and is The Influencer to Influencers. I sat with him to dive into the importance of celebrating everyday.

It's not culture fit anymore. It is culture evolution for build a sustainable human first community regardless where we are in the world. Join me and Annalee Sepanski explore on the topic of an evolving culture.

I had the privilege of speaking with Stephan who is a Business Thinker, Personal Innovation Strategist, Speaker, Executive Coach, and a TEDx Speaker. We explore in depth of innovating the human self. 

Amy perkins is Clarity and Confidence Coach, Podcast Host, Award Winning Educator, and a Chief Dreaming Officer. She shares her keys to courage on this episode of #couragetalk

Doug is grateful for what life has taught him, along with the many lessons he has learned throughout his career.

One of the first jobs he ever had was as a lot attendant at The Home Depot.  He started out loading cars and scrubbing toilets, eventually, he worked his way up to becoming a department manager in a matter of two years.  This experience taught him how a combination of hard work, care for others, and a desire to be successful can propel someone towards achieving success.

Aside from his own love for personal evolution, he has a passion for helping others learn and grow.  This is evident in his career path, which included positions in leadership, corporate learning and development, and practicing clinical marriage and family therapy.

He currently works for Powerful U, a personal evolution company with the following mission statement:

We are seekers who find the state of humanity inadequate. We believe the unrealized potential of the individual is both the source and solution to this problem. Our goal is to inspire fellow seekers to tap into their unlimited potential, through a personalized combination of philosophy, science, technology, and community.

He has learned we are limited only by the self-imposed barriers in our minds, and our relationship with fear.  He truly believes fear is there to help keep us safe, but safety isn’t a place where we grow.

Being the Chief Inspiration Officer of Powerful - U, Doug plays an integral part in keep everyone in the organization inspired even if that means speaking to him on a heart to heart level minus the HR paper work BS. 

You can find Doug on the following platforms:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-scavezze-948709a7/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doug.powerful.u/

Powerful-U: https://powerful-u.com/

Aaric Guerriero, Director of Inclusion Education from University of Wisconsin- Madison,  join me to explore what inclusion looks like from a different lens. Aaric has over 10 years of experience in the inclusion space and has contributed to the rise of successful programmes on campus. 

You can connect with Aaric the following ways:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amguerriero/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guerr1am/

On today's episode, I shared the space with Cornell Thomas. Cornell is a global speaker, multiple title author, mindset coach, team builder, and corporate trainer. But more importantly than any of those titles he is a husband and father to my son Bryce (5) and my daughter Niya (3). 

Cornell is bringing positivity to the next level through his "Positivity" summit and his world. You can find him on these platforms:

http://cornell-thomas.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cornell-thomas-36689340/

https://www.instagram.com/cornellthomas34/

https://twitter.com/CornellThomas