Lead Well with Paula Davis

LEAD WELL: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your TeamBy Paula Davis

A holistic, research-backed framework that helps leaders design healthier team cultures to unlock high-performance and increase well-being intelligence at work.

In the wake of the pandemic and on the cusp of the generative AI revolution, the world of work has undergone a seismic shift. Chronic stress, burnout, and employee disengagement have reached crisis levels, and leaders are struggling to keep their teams motivated and inspired amid relentless change and uncertainty. Conventional management approaches are no longer sufficient, demanding a new leadership framework to address the root causes of these challenges.

To meet this moment, Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team provides a timely and practical blueprint for a new era of leadership. Drawing on extensive research and workshops with thousands of leaders, Paula Davis, founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute and author of Beating Burnout at Work, offers a transformative approach to building high-performing teams that can adapt and grow, even in the face of persistent change.

 

Lead Well offers actionable tools and insights to help you and your team today, including:

 

·       Five mindsets that can transform your team’s well-being at work;

·       The business case for prioritizing both team performance and well-being;

·       The systemic factors driving a shift in the way leaders must think to help their teams thrive; and

·       Tiny Noticeable Things (TNTs) to improve workload management, create sustainable productivity, deliver "sticky” recognition, and promote values alignment and meaning at work,

 

Whether you’re a seasoned leader or an emerging manager, Lead Well will help you navigate today’s turbulent work landscape, which has never been more critical—or more achievable.

 

Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. For 15 years, she has been a trusted advisor to leaders in organizations of all sizes helping them to make work better. Paula is a globally recognized expert on the effects of workplace stress, burnout prevention, workplace well-being, and building resilience for individuals and teams.

Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. As part of her post-graduate training, Paula was selected to be part of the University of Pennsylvania faculty teaching and training resilience skills to soldiers as part of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program. The Penn team trained resilience skills to more than 40,000 soldiers and their family members.

 

Paula is the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience, which is about burnout prevention using a teams-based approach. Beating Burnout at Work was nominated for best new book by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Malcom Gladwell, and Daniel Pink.

Paula has shared her expertise at educational institutions such as Harvard Law School, Wharton School Executive Education, and Princeton. She is a two-time recipient of the distinguished teaching award from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

She has been featured in and on The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post and many other media outlets. Paula is also a contributor to Forbes, Fast Company and Psychology Today.

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INTERVIEW QUESTIONS/KEY TOPICS:

 

·       How can we learn to celebrate our wins at work, and why does it matter?

·       What advice do you have for anyone who is looking to get to the next step in their career?

·       What is a Lead Well mindset? How do you go about implementing it on your team?

·       Can you talk about the four factors impacting our experience at work—and why they matter?

·       How did the pandemic change work forever? As we enter into 2025, what should leaders be looking at in terms of hybrid, in-person, and/or remote workplace to make the experience more meaningful to employees?

·       Meaning and mattering at work means more to people than ever before. How can leaders help their teams flourish in a post-pandemic world?

·       We are at the intersection of human capital and GenAI. What do leaders need to get right and what are the risks of getting it wrong?

·       What is the case for prioritizing People + Performance Focused companies?

·       How can the “Me and We” approach save your team—and help it thrive?

·       How and why are the ABC’s (Autonomy, Belonging, and Challenge) the foundation of meaning at work?

·       What are the six leadership practices that foster meaningful work?

·       How can leaders prioritize sticky recognition and mattering on their team?

·       How and why is understanding generational views of meaning at work crucial to the future of work?

·       What is the role of resilience? And what are the four important resources resilient teams use to succeed?