Work Life by Design

Welcome to Work Life by Design a podcast for People & Culture leaders, C-Suite Execs, Entrepreneurs, Designers and anyone who is interested in elevating their experience of work! I’m your host, Mel Marsden, the Founder, and Director of COMUNiTI a Workplace Strategy and Design Studio focused on collaboratively, re-imagining and designing high-performance workplaces for our clients across Australia. Over the last decade I have refined my workplace toolkit to create our signature strategy offering, the Workplace Dynamics Blueprint, exploring the 5 pillars that underpin every high performing workplace. 1. Reimagining the Future 2. Brand &Culture 3. Values & Behaviours 4. Wellbeing 5. Employee Experience This process has seen my clients’ employees achieve results of;  84% employees feeling more productive  91% with increased job satisfaction  100% of employees feeling more collaborative I believe that our environments have the power to positively influence our behaviour and our performance at work. So much so, that I’ve written a book about! “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential” connects the concepts of modern day management theory to the structural design of our physical workplace environments, aligning, enabling and inspiring the human potential of every organisation. If the last few years have taught us anything it’s that change is inevitable, and we no longer need to “go to work” to “work! Through this podcast we explore what it takes to make work, work! I draw back the curtains on my own business, the clients, and projects that we deliver, along with tapping into the knowledge and insights from academics, business leaders and champions of change. Together, let's elevate our experience of work.

Season 6 - Wrap Up 07/01/2024

Optimising Real Estate to Build Community - with Jeremy Pollak 06/24/2024

Building Community with SMART Work Design - with Sharon Parker 06/17/2024

Building Community with SMART Work Design - with Sharon Parker The role that our workplaces play in encouraging and enabling our relationships at work, was largely taken for granted, until they were taken away from us. A silver lining of the pandemic, we realised the impact of our workplaces and the role they play in our establishing and supporting the social & support networks in our lives. And social connection is a foundation for building any community. Today’s guest ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker. I was first introduced to Sharon and her work through my friend and Colleague Dr Meg Hooper of Carousel Consulting, and her S.M.A.R.T Work Design Model, to develop meaningful and motivating work. This piece of work has been instrumental in underpinning our approach to work design and workplace design, a difference that Sharon will elaborate on in today’s podcast. Meg has been following Sharon’s work for a very long time, and such I’ve invited her along to co-host today’s episode! ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtain University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Sharon has published more than 250 internationally refereed articles on topics such as work design, proactive behaviour, mental health, and job performance, has over 46,500 citations, and is ranked in the top .15% of global scholars in her field. She is the founder of the S.M.A.R.T model, cofounder of the Thrive at Work Initiative, and has contributed to policy on work design in Australia and internationally. With the breadth of research that Sharon has done, this podcast could go in any direction, but as we are focused on the role of community in the workplace this season, we’ve narrowed in on this topic and explored how the work she does overlaps with this ability to build community. So today, we are exploring; Her view on the relationship that exists between our workplaces and the role they play in building community Her S.M.A.R.T work design model and what the important factors are to consider in building community and where organisations could be letting themselves down The role of autonomy in buffering the effects of poor workplace design The definition of work design and the overlap to workplace design Some of the key consideration that designer, Culture Leaders and property managers/specialists should be looking at when it comes to workplace design Sharon’s perspective on this is fascinating and Meg & I were loving this conversation - we honestly could have chatted for hours. So, I hope you love listening to this episode as much as we loved recording it! /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/31641712

Using place to connect to the hearts, bodies & minds of your people 06/10/2024

Shifting Culture with Everyday Actions - with Meredith Wilson 06/03/2024

Corner Offices don't build Community | The Evolution of the Workplace 05/27/2024

Creating Memory in Place through Community - with Imelda Miller 05/20/2024

Creating Memory in Place through Community - with Imelda Miller Curating a community is not a passive activity. It takes conscious effort, care, and a respect for the people that you are embracing in this community. But when you bringing together a community with no traditional “place” how can you engage with a place temporarily and make it your own? This is exactly the work that today’s guest, Imelda Miller, does in her role as the Curator of First Nations Cultures at Queensland Museum Kurilpa. A third generation Vanuatu woman, Imelda is a proud South Sea Islander and responsible for bringing together communities of origin through her work with the museum. Working with material culture an archival collections, Imelda’s collaboration, and curatorial approach, combines cultural practice, community engagement and community lead research and development into her projects. Hosting exhibitions, running workshops and leading teams in these activities, Imelda is consciously curating places for communities to come together to share their stories and create new ones. Today’s conversation is one of possibility and Imelda shares so many of her secrets in how she fosters this sense of community, to establish belonging, a sense of connection and storytelling that can be directly applied back to our building our own communities in our workplaces. In today’s conversation Imelda shares with us; How she uses place to create community, even when there is no ownership or relationship to place How objects enable people to connect, share stories and develop memory in place The fundamentals of curating a community atmosphere are The healing power that connection and community can create Throughout this conversation I hear direct correlations to how I think about fostering community in our workplaces and the role that place plays. Establishing connection, creating belonging, and sharing stories, by communicating social contracts and norms and engaging in routine and ritual. Imelda is a warm-hearted woman with much wisdom to share on how we can take even a little bit of this approach back to our workplaces. Mel LINKS Join the Waitlist for the Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with the Imelda; You can engage with Imelda’s work here; Connect with Mel; Email Website Website Instagram Linkedin Whitepaper – The Road Map to Employee Experience To listen to more of my episodes, head to my !!! /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/31346237

The Art of Gathering, a placemaking perspective 05/13/2024

The Art of Gathering, a placemaking perspective Hey! Have you read Priya Parkers book, ? If you haven't yet, I highly recommend you do, it's a good read! In her book Priya shares: "gatherings in our lives are often vague & unproductive" And I would argue that our workplaces are in fact a place where we gather, rather than places we "go to" to "work", and if we want people to come to the workplace, we need to be offering them an experience. It needs to be a purposeful, and productive contribution to their lives. In today's episode I'm expanding on the framework that I share with you in , to dive deeper into the final layer of the framework, Placemaking. Because the art of placemaking is a complex task, that requires its own framework to fully optimise the creation of a plan that builds community. Plus, I share with you some tangible examples of how place has been used for centuries as a central hub, an anchos, a container for holding and creating community. If you're ready to learn more about creating your community in your workplace, you can either; Grab a copy of my book Join me in the Waitlist now OPEN! Or book a with me to chat more! Until next time, Mel x USEFUL LINKS: Workplace Dynamics Blueprint | The Program - DOORS OPEN! Are your ready to learn the Art & Science of creating your next Workplace?!?! Creating your next workplace is a complex task! It requires the input of multiple players within your organisation and the expert guidance of specialist consultants. BUT it also presents an incredible opportunity for your organisation! Typically, businesses only refresh their space every 10 years. That's a long time in today's fast paced world. So many changes, from technology, to operational delivery, organisational structures, ways of working and more. Optimising this unique opportunity requires a plan. In this self-paced program, you will learn about the five pillars that underpin the dynamics in your organisation, how to leverage them against your organisations strategic objectives and gain the confidence you need to embark on this journey armed with the knowledge and know how to optimise your next workplace. Enabling you to inspire the human potential in your organisation. Join the waitlist and be the first to know when doors open! Join the waitlist here - Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Mel; Email Website melissamarsden.com.au Website comuniti.com.au Instagram @melmar Whitepaper – The Road Map to Employee Experience Book a 30min Complimentary Discovery Call with Mel /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/31208887

Working your M.A.G.I.C at Work - with Sharon Darmody 05/06/2024

It's not about RTO Mandates. It's about Fostering Community 05/01/2024

Season 6 Fostering Community 04/29/2024

That's it for Season 5! The highlight reel from 48 episodes 10/02/2023

The Art of Focus in a World of Distraction with Angela Lockwood 09/25/2023

The Art of Focus in a World of Distraction with Angela Lockwood The art of focus in our modern worlds has become just that. An art. With books like Johan Hari’s Stolen Focus and past guest Dr Kristy Goodwin's, Dear Digital we need to talk, the constant disruption, distraction mulit-tasking and task switching that we are all succumbing to is impacting our ability to truly focus. Add to this all the pressures and competing demands of daily life and we are quickly looking at fatigue, exhaustion and burnout. And whilst the rise of flexible working has given us more freedom to design our days and work lives, it’s a bit of a double edged sword. As many of us have relied on the routine, ritual and structure that our daily to commute has given to us to support our cognitive function and the daily need to “do our job”. We now need to develop a new skill. The ability to distinguish what is worth our attention, to do this intentionally and then to be able to focus. And that’s what today’s guest is here to share with us. Angela Lockwood is on a mission. To empower individuals to thrive amidst the distraction of modern life. As an Occupational Therapist with a wealth of real-world experience working alongside both children and adults, she has developed a unique approach to unlocking the power of our thinking and actions in ever-changing environments. After sustaining a life-changing head injury she became obsessed with learning how we can use our time and energy to thrive and has focused her career on helping others do the same. She is the author of two business self-help books, "The Power of Conscious Choice" and “Switch Off and Find Calm” and the engaging host of "A Kid's Life" Podcast. She’s been featured on Channel 9 Today EXTRA, The Australian Financial Review, Good Health magazine, Huffington Post, Mamamia, Radio 2UE and numerous parenting and lifestyle publications. She also has a regular segment on The Luke and Susie Show which is syndicated across Australia. Angela has an infectious energy and she’s highly relatable. So in today’s episode Ange and I are going to look at; Why the conversation about focus has become such a prevalent one Intentional Focus – what it means and how to manage it The importance of switching off The difference between time management and energy management Plus she’s also sharing with us some tools to get us started A great conversation on how to focus your attention on the things that really matter so that you have more energy for life! LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Angela; | | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/28075194

Why you need to guide your people through change 09/18/2023

The Pilgrim's Guide to the Workplace with Dr Agustin Chevez 09/11/2023

The Pilgrim's Guide to the Workplace with Dr Agustin Chevez Is the workplace really just a ‘task’ place? This is one of the thought-provoking questions that today’s guest poses, for us to ponder about our reality of work and the workplace. Dr Agustin Chevez is the author of . It was after reading a book on the diversity of Iguana’s in the Galapagos Islands, that Gus set off on a pilgrimage from Melbourne to Sydney, to explore the impact that isolation has on the diversity of our idea’s. Fast forward a few years and Gus is sharing his insights as 34 signposts from this exploration in his book, inviting us to reimagine our workplaces. As an Architect and researcher, Gus has dedicated his career to understanding the notion of work and uncovering environments that best support our working lives. His interest in the relationship between people, space and technology saw him pursue a PhD on the evolution of workplace architecture as a consequence of technology development. His work has been presented at various international forums and publications. As a sought-after speaker, Agustin has delivered international keynotes and is a TEDx speaker. He has also contributed to workplace strategies in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Gus is the Workplace Futures Lead at the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. In this episode we are going to find out How Gus took this idea that he had to explore diversity of thinking to actually, walking from Melbourne to Sydney What the distinction is between a Pilgrimage and a Walk and how this applies to the workplace How the introduction of absurdity to the workplace enables us to bring more human traits to our experience of work Why removing friction from our environments can impact our ability to be innovative and its impact on our personal resilience as we overcome adversity How the conversation and questions we’re asking when approaching the design of workplaces need to change in order to create an enhanced environment for work A fascinating conversation with someone who has incredible mind to explore ideas in a new way to challenge biases and see new opportunity. You are going to love this conversation with Dr Gus Chevez. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Gus; | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27953901

What I Thought Everyone Knew But Doesn't 09/04/2023

To own a Desk or not to own a Desk? What you need to consider when adopting desk sharing with Dr. Jenna Mikus 08/28/2023

To own a Desk or not to own a Desk? What you need to consider when adopting desk sharing with Dr. Jenna Mikus With more of us embracing the opportunity to work from home, it’s leaving our workplaces underutilised as occupancy levels in the workplace drop. The impacts of this vary from workplace ot workplace depending on the design style and approach ranging from limited variety in the spaces available for employees to perform their work through to a lack of energy and “buzz’ that comes from bringing people together in the space. As someone who engages with organisations daily in this delicate dance of who gets to own their desk and who doesn’t, weighing up the commercial realities of leasing costs vs underutilised floor area and the opportunity to provide variety and choice to employees in where and how they work within the workplace, this is a topic of conversation that I am keen to explore. So, when today’s guest Dr Jenna Mikus shared an article written by , questioning if the hybrid office will ever feel like home, with her view of the impact of this approach I was keen to engage her in a friendly debate on the pros and cons of the “to own a desk or not to own a desk”. Jenna shared; While this sounds ideal in theory, this Choose Your Adventure approach to daily working could backfire, as it introduces the risk of proving exhausting and therefore off-putting to workers often already overwhelmed with work obligations. Not everyone embraces change, let alone adventure...especially on a daily basis. As an advocate of creating workplaces that respond to the unique and individual needs of organisations, their teams and their people, my view is that by relinquishing individual ownership of our workpoints, we can inturn optimise our work environments to cater to a greater variety of work styles and activities, further enhancing our experience of work. Dr Jenna Mikus is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Eudae Group, which advises clients on organizational and spatial (both physical and digital) transformational change relating to built environments curated for health and wellbeing. Her clients have included commercial office owners, operators, and tenants as well as military, government, healthcare, higher education, aged care, and more on a global scale, with particular emphasis on the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. As an advocate for bridging industry practice with academic theory/research, Jenna is also a Visiting Fellow with QUT's Centre for Decent Work & Industry, an Honorary Fellow with the Centre for Conscious Design, a former Health Equity and current Research Advisor for the International WELL Building Institute, and a contributor to Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program's Flourishing at Work Interest Group. Jenna leverages her education across engineering, architecture, and design with her depth and breadth of work experience relating to strategy, change management, and design thinking to encourage multidisciplinary cross-pollination in theory and practice and to guide the creation/curation of intelligent, sustainable, and flourishing environments for all. Jenna is well versed in supporting organisations to create environments that support us all in flourishing at work, having worked in organsiational change and recently completing her PhD focused on flourishing health and wellbeing, so I was pleased when she agreed to engage in this conversation, so that we could explore it from a few angles and see where we land. This is an interesting conversation exploring the role of workplace design on the individuals that occupy them. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Jenna; | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27816516

Mindwandering, Flow and Spaciousness - the key to innovation and creativity 08/21/2023

A Community Approach to Building a Company, Culture & Employee Experience with Damon Klotz 08/14/2023

A Community Approach to Building a Company, Culture & Employee Experience with Damon Klotz Establishing a strong and purposeful employee experience in your organisation can take an incredible amount of time, dedication, and invested energy. So, if you could find all the People tools and resources that you needed packaged up in one platform, backed by science and data, how much easier would that make your life as a leader and give you the confidence to know that you were giving your organisation the best possible advantage? Well, today’s guest is here to tell us that this is possible. Damon Klotz, who has what could be described as one of the coolest titles, is a Work Culture Evangelist at Culture Amp, a market-leading employee experience platform. I first discovered Damon and his podcast Culture First, in the midst of the pandemic tuning into his episode with Jen Sauer-Klein, an experience designer in the States. This singular episode gave me a new perspective on the role of our environments in how we influence experiences consciously through design, adding another tool to my tool kit. Jen is among a number of incredible guests that Damon has had the opportunity to engage in conversation on his podcast, so I was incredibly happy when he agreed to join me here to learn more on what have been some of the most impactful conversations that he has had. What I also learnt through this episode is the diverse career that Damon has had that led him to his current role as Work Culture Evangelist. As you’ll hear Damon is quite the overachiever, prior to Culture Amp he was leading community HR groups, through to being the Global Manager of Digital Strategy for Ramsay Health Care, a keynote speaker on the future of work, and the Co-Founder of Spur Projects, a social enterprise dedicated to reducing the suicide rate of men in Australia. And he shares how a desire to be a sports manager and leverage the community of teams has found its way through to the work he and the team at Culture Amp do. You’ll also learn more about Culture Amp and the wealth of data that they have accumulated from supporting the employee experience across numerous countries since launching in 2009, How the platform supports organisations to leverage this “data lake” to continue to enhance the employee, manager and team experience And how taking a community focused approach to building Culture Amp has been a key foundation in its success, growing the company from 100 to 6500 customers, and the role that Damon played in establishing it Plus what Damon has learned about communication, transparency and trust from his conversations about People & Culture throughout the pandemic So many interesting highlights in this episode, along with some great additional listening recommendations over on the Culture First podcast. Damon also leaves us with some insights into how he has consciously continued to grow with the organisation from start up to now and its various iterations, all great self-reflection points for us to consider in our own growth mindset and experience of comfort. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Damon; | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27689598

How a Journey Map Can Design Your Employee Experience 08/07/2023

Building your Leadership Capability with Rebecca Christianson 07/31/2023

Building your Leadership Capability with Rebecca Christianson No doubt throughout the course of your career, you’ve experienced moments where you’ve questioned yourself and your ability to lead not only your team through the next transition, but also leading yourself. Stepping up into a new role, guiding your team through a new project or perhaps you’ve just been swallowed up by the overwhelming wave of pressure of work. I can empathise with you at each of these points, because I’ve been there too. I also know, from the work that we’ve been doing at COMUNiTI across organisations, that many managers and leaders are also facing similar challenges. With our need to manage our teams in new ways due to remote and hybrid work practices, one of the key challenges we consistently identify that requires greater support, is leadership capability. And it's an area that today’s guest, Rebecca Christianson specialises in. Rebecca is an Executive Coach, Facilitator, Speaker and the Founder of Thriving People. Throughout her career, she has partnered with Executive Teams globally to build leadership capability and implement organisational change. One of her many superpowers is stretching leaders to the edge of their thinking to support mindset shifts, with a view to increase self awareness, influence, effectiveness, focus and wellbeing. With her purpose to support senior leaders to love life at the top of business. Having been an executive leader herself, Rebecca brings her lived experience to her work, having walked in the shoes that she now supports. In today’s episode, you’ll hear some of the common challenges that Rebecca observes in the leader she supports along with the one thing that we can all do to start building our own leadership capability, so that we can each build our toolkit to navigating the uncertainty of the world we work in with more confidence and ease. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Rebecca; | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27558051

4 Ways to Redesign Work with Empathy 07/24/2023

Permission to Pause | The impact of one simple action with Dr Ali Young 07/17/2023

Permission to Pause | The impact of one simple action with Dr Ali Young In last weeks episode I spoke about wellbeing rhythms in the workplace and the need for us all to be building in moments of self-care. I then read an article in the by author Greg McKeown, who’s written two of my favourite books and are recommended reading at COMUNiTI; Essentialism & Effortless. In this article Greg says that for organisations to build top performing teams, they should only be asking for 85% effort. The premise that when we consistently perform at 100% we burn out. Prior to this Dr Meg Hooper and I discussed the recent legislative changes around psychosocial hazards in the workplace. I see a theme emerging… the conversation as to the health and wellbeing of our people is being elevated in our workplaces and is at the core of all business performance. So, this week I’ve invited Dr Ali Young to join me, to better understand what is that we can be doing to support ourselves individually, and what we can be doing as teams and organisations to practically support the health and wellbeing of our people. Dr Ali Young is a health strategist, who works with mums owning and operating health practices. After recovering from burnout in 2019 and writing a book about it, she has become passionate about supporting other health practitioners, particularly mums, to navigate the same stressors with a different outcome. In this episode Ali shares with us not only the science that backs up why we should be taking better care of our health, but if we are not giving ourselves the permission to pause, no amount of sleep, trips to the gym or healthy eating is likely to change our perception of stress and impact our wellbeing. We discuss how a simple conversation with your team can uncover opportunities to support everyone’s wellbeing and the simple changes in schedule that have led to increased performance in her own practice. She also shares with us her three tips to ensuring maximum wellbeing in our work week. So, why not take a walk, tune in and use this 30mins as your permission to pause. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with Ali; | | Connect with Mel; | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27428277

Wellbeing Rhythms for Work & Life 07/10/2023

Pyschosocial Risks at Work with Dr Meg Hooper 07/03/2023

COMUNiTI Turns 10!! 🥳 On the Couch with Dr Meg Hooper 06/26/2023

Rehumanising the Workplace with Deanne Boules 06/19/2023

Rehumanising the Workplace with Deanne Boules As we approach the mid-point of the year, I would hazard a guess that you’re already feeling like the tank is near empty! And you are not alone! Thanks to the events of recent years, COVID, lockdowns, floods, new ways of working, to name a few, what’s resulted is a lack of physical and emotional connection. Which has been at the expense of our human relationships, our creativity, and our emotional intelligence. A situation that today’s guest is all too familiar with. Deanne Boules is the Founder of Insync Workplace Solutions & a highly respected People, Safety, & Culture Consultant, Coach, Facilitator, & keynote speaker. With over 30 years of experience, she has developed a proven track record of building high-performing, inclusive, physically & psychologically safe workplaces that enable individuals to bring their authentic selves to work, feel valued, have a sense of purpose & belonging, thrive & go home safe & well each day. Dee is passionate about supporting organisations to rehumanise their workplaces, by putting people back at the core of the business. Having started her career as a police officer with the NSW Police Force, she traversed a number of other roles, before founding Insync Workplace Solutions in 2012. A specialist WHS and HR Consulting and Training Practice, fulfilling her passion for redefining and re-humanising how human resources, workplace safety, and all things people, safety, and culture-related are practised worldwide. During her career, Dee has experienced first-hand the devastating impact of workplace fatalities & serious injuries, attending more than most. Through these experiences, Dee started to question why people do what they do & why they make the decisions they make. Dee and I could have easily talked about this concept for hours, as fostering community is at the core of humanising our workplaces. We discuss the benefits of taking a human-centred approach in the workplace, some of the barriers and mindset shifts to be overcome along with simple ways that organisations can take the first step. LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with the Deanne; | Connect with Mel | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/27144132

What is your workplace telling your people is important? 06/12/2023

Redesigning Work Before Place with Dan Mottau 06/05/2023

Redesigning Work Before Place with Dan Mottau As organisations are navigating this new landscape of “hybrid” work, a conversation that is happening more and more, is one that centres around “how do we work?” and “how do we want to work?”, before we start talking about, “what does our office look like?”. Today’s guest, Dan Mottau, did just that. Dan was introduced to me by a mutual colleague when I was looking for thought leaders in the People & Culture space to join me for my book launch panel in Melb. From the first conversation I had with Dan, I was completely blown away with his approach to work and workplace. This was someone who spoke my language and absolutely understood the impact of how a workplace design NEEDS to respond to the operations of the business. So much so, that when the opportunity arose for Dan and the team at Redbubble to create a new workplace, rather than heading straight out to market and chatting with leasing agents, though took a moment to really think about “how do we want people at Redbubble to work?” That simple question set them off on a journey that completely transformed, not only the way they work, but then also the place that would best support that way of working. So, I’ve invited Dan to join me here for a conversation, to share what really is a progressive, insightful and in some ways quite a radical approach to the whole process, and one that I would welcome more organisations to consider when embarking on the opportunity of creating a new workplace. To first, really question the nature of work, the way their people work and then what they truly want from their workspace to facilitate and enable that work. What I find fascinating about this approach, is that it was a people led approach. As Dan shares with us, the project lead was their head of DBI. This was not a project that was handed down to the facilities team, via finance, it was entrusted to the People teams to deliver, hiring in the support they needed, when they needed it. This is an approach that I want to highlight, as taking this approach to creating your next workplace, leads your business to creating a very different outcome. An outcome that puts you people at the centre, and a focus on create a space that optimises the performance of your people, not just the performance of your building. Dan is a senior people, organisation development, learning and communications leader, who enjoys examining the underlying motivations and patterns of thinking that elicit amplifying and diminishing behaviours within and between teams. His approach is heavily influenced by behavioural psychology and anthropology, especially as their principles may be applied to team functioning and the cultivation and sustainment of psychological safety and high performance. With a passion for accelerating the growth of leaders, and for increasing their personal impact through the success of their people. As you’ll hear him say, he’s a people geek! So, let’s jump into today’s conversation! LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book Connect with the Dan; Connect with Mel | |  | | | /episode/index/show/melissamarsden/id/26982777

Use Your Space to Tell Your Story 05/29/2023

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