142: Workplace Culture And Supporting Mothers To Return To Work With Renee Barnes From The People Paradox

I'm honoured to welcome Renee Barnes to the podcast this week.

Renee is the founder of The People Paradox, an organisation that supports small to medium sized businesses to set up their people foundations for growth.

She has 20 years of strategic and operational People and Culture experience in both public and private organisations, spanning businesses like Marsh Insurance, Parks Victoria, Aesop, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Art Series Hotels and she is a Board Member of Aspergers Victoria.

She is passionate about creating engaging workplaces where people are enabled to succeed. Her clients range from Fin Tech, the Music Industry, the Courts, Research and Development Corporations, all the way through to contemporary retail businesses demonstrating her adaptable approach to shaping workforce strategies and people programs that suit her client’s needs. 

Renee also has a vision to reduce gender disadvantages experienced by mothers whilst on parental leave. She is developing the FOUND Program which is a digital education program that supports and empowers mothers to navigate their matrescence before returning to the workplace to achieve better outcomes for mothers, families, employers and communities.    

In this episode, Renee shares her business story. We talk about workplace culture, communication, leadership and how Renee is supporting, educating and coaching mothers to return to work. 

WE DISCUSS

• Meaningful living and Renee talks about what success means to her.
• Why Renee started The People Paradox.
• What workplace culture is, how it’s influenced and how it’s formed in businesses of all sizes.
• The specific channels that can be used to reform and change workplace culture.
• How communication is a primary lever of change. 
• What makes a great business leader?
• Renee explains matrescence, how it impacts women and the extraordinary work she is doing to support, educate and coach mothers through this period of significant change.
• How the current ways of working are not working and the importance of creating workplaces that are accessible, flexible and that help people turn up and be the best version of themselves.
• The importance of helping women step into their personal power and educating mothers on how to use language to make sure they exemplify the skills and capabilities they acquire during time away from the office. 

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SHOW NOTES  

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CONNECT WITH RENEE

• www.peopleparadoxhr.com

• Instagram @found_learningmotherhood

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