My guest this week is Dr Melissa Steach, the author-artist-researcher based in LA, California. She has achieved a Doctorate in Industrial Organisational Psychology and is also a human factors and ergonomics specialist at Herman Miller, Inc. She uses her varied life experience as her most valuable asset as she intertwines the magic of art with the world of research to explore personal behaviours and organisational culture.
Ep7, Dr Melissa Steach, Author-Artist-Researcher - Compassion in business & avoiding burnout
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Release Date: 01/27/2020
Ep23, Peter Hopwood, International Speaker & TEDx Coach - Public speaking with confidence & storytelling through emotion
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In this episode of Rebel In Progress, I'm joined by Peter Hopwood. We talk about public speaking, leadership communication and moments of emotion to guide storytelling.
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Ep22, Egbe Manton, Manton Legal - Startup legals & healthy client relationships
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Egbe Manton is a commercial lawyer and commercial director of Manton Legal Consultancy. This episode is for business owners that struggle with the legal aspect of the business. Egbe shares practical contract tips, how to ensure a healthy client relationship and how she aims to do things differently in the legal profession.
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Ep21, Caroline Hughes, Lifetise - Money, Authenticity & Being An Agitator
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Caroline Hughes is the CEO of Lifetise, she shares her relationship with money and her role as an agitator in work.
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Ep20, Tommy Ludgate, Brightly Imagine - Overcoming Fear & Rituals to Aid Performance
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My guest this week on Creative Connections is the coach for creatives, Tommy Ludgate of Brightly Image. She uses a blend of coaching, mentoring and teaching to help her clients overcome the challenges holding them back in their careers and lives.
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Ep19, Ben Foulkes, Hoxby - Futureproofing & redefining the way we work
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My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Ben Foulkes, the MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby. Hoxby Futureproofing provides coaching and consulting services to help clients build their own future of work.
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Ep18, Nancy Evbuomwan, Unikable - Importance of biz strategy & being unemployable
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My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Nancy Evbuomwan. Nancy is the high energy (and hilarious) founder of Unikable. Unikable specialises in business strategy, agility and empowering uniqueness.
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Ep17, Katy Murray, Catalyst Collective - Acting without permission & rest as a competitive advantage
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My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Katy Murray.
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Ep16, Lara Hayward, Oxford University - Follow your curiosity & learning from high-performance environments
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This week my guest is Lara Hayward.
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Ep15, Jess Salamanca, Banana Scoops - Creative problem solving and crafting the perfect supermarket pitch
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My guest this week is Jess Salamanca, the Founder of Banana Scoops. Banana Scoops makes ice cream from creamy bananas and other natural and plant-based ingredients with no additives, preservatives, refined sugars or sweeteners.
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Ep14, Anne Ditmeyer, Creative Consultant - Design-thinking & create your own rules
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My Creative Connections guest this week is Anne Ditmeyer, an American creative entrepreneur based in Paris. She is a designer, creative coach and consultant, and founded her blog Prêt à Voyager (translation: ready to travel) in 2007 to explore the intersection of design and travel. She attributes her successes to her platform saying it remains the best business card to this day.
info_outlineMelissa joins me to explain how we can use our leadership and environment to better engage, empower and shape our working lives. She discusses the fundamental connection between work and life, including how we should be treating our work relationships in the same manner as those we hold dear in our personal lives.
In this episode, Melissa beautifully creates digestible analogies that stem from complex ideas to encourage positive change - the golden rules for any leader, the first date behaviours for all in business and how to be compassionate in the workplace without airing our dirty laundry.
I'm so appreciative to have the opportunity to chat with an expert in the I-O Psychology space, to talk candidly about boundaries, burnout, identity, compassion, as well as the essential work tools that we should invest in. Melissa mentions that we are all bumbling through life and it's not until you hit those pivotal 'ah-ha!' moments that you look back to see a clear path has formed. I find her words extremely relatable and I have no doubt that many of you will too.
I hope you enjoy this week's episode and a big thank you to my fabulous guest, Dr Melissa Steach.
You can find out more about Melissa and her work on her website at www.melissasteach.com and LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissasteach/.