What is your truth? What are the systems that get in the way? And what will be your way to build unconditional belonging, nonetheless? In this episode we explore the sincere insights and genuinely beautiful approach of Matthew Reynolds to create a fundamental impact on the intersectionality of oppression (systems of racism, colonialism, sexism, capitalism). Matthew is a recent author, former teacher, artist. He is a facilitator and consultant in the DEI space with a deep perspective on the human...
Dec 02, 2021•32 min•Season 6Ep. 7
People have a life beyond their work desk. They have a mental health beyond the smile in your Zoom call. And they have a measure of success that is not, and should not be, the same measure of success for the organisation as a whole. Our guest Susanne Grant , Dutchie living in Scotland, is an award-winning work-life balance expert and bestselling author of the book Drop the Motherf*cking Struggle . She supports organisations and individuals around the world to redefine success. With that new defi...
Nov 19, 2021•31 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Fitting in is not the same as belonging. In this new People Impact podcast episode, Lisa and I discuss a shift and a deepening in perspective around this useful distinction. Belonging is not, does not look like or feel like fitting in. This is an intentional levelling up beyond ‘cultural fit’. Belonging means not trying to ask a square peg to cut off its corners to fit into a round hole – because those corners are part of who they are. No one should be expected to cut off parts of who they are. ...
Nov 04, 2021•28 min•Season 6Ep. 5
There is something kind of really genuinely dramatic going on. We’ve faced exceptional stress over the past year-and-a-half and it’s breaking open something that’s been simmering below the surface for a long time. This is about facing a moment of reckoning. People are choosing to leave jobs; it’s harder to find new people for certain roles. The Great Resignation, what’s actually happening? Feeling * sigh * resigned (pun intended) about that? That passive energy may come from organisations having...
Oct 21, 2021•28 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Tap into your true resilience in order to cultivate your impact – in your organisation and in the world. We had a great talk with Meg Mateer about her old definition and new definition of resilience: From thinking resilience is about powering through, pushing yourself beyond your limits, “just get over it” and letting work be the ultimate priority in order for yourself to grow. To acknowledging what is going on with you, understanding yourself as a system, with parts that are both ambitious and ...
Oct 08, 2021•34 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Beyond the static caused by assumptions and cliche, what is authenticity, really? And how does it infuse your people impact? Authenticity comes from a really good understanding of yourself. It is about the impact you choose to make from a deep, grounded place, that doesn’t feel quick. A quiet clarity. “Sometimes I can really feel it in my toes, bubbling up from my feet,” Lisa says. In our brand-new People Impact Podcast episode, we address what authenticity is and what it isn’t. How to get there...
Sep 23, 2021•29 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Getting fresh insights about working together just got even better for you, because the HR Matters Podcast is no more! 😮 We’re now the People Impact Podcast. 😊 Because People Matter. Have a listen to the first episode of season 6 to hear more about the space this opens up to expand your perspective. To grow your vision. To have actual, purposeful, useful impact on the way people lead and work together in organisations. Pick up new ideas and views on (personal) leadership and how human beings i...
Sep 09, 2021•17 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Hey HR professional, do you think you may be underpaid for the value you bring to your organisation and its people? This episode is for you. It’s our final episode of season five, and the last one specifically for you HR pros out there. We’re going out with a bang :) We applaud the high standard of integrity of HR professionals to not misuse their knowledge of confidential information about other employee salaries. We clear up a bunch of misconceptions about HR salaries. We recognise that the ge...
Aug 26, 2021•29 min•Season 5Ep. 17
In the best led businesses, leaders are actively in the game, and they connect with people: heads up, engage. You can do that pragmatically – and easily – once you look through the right lens. Pamela Hackett , our new guest, offers you a new perspective. She is CEO of Proudfoot, a firm that does meaty transformation processes. The people element is always at the backbone of this work. “We always start with the people side,” Pam states. “Because that’s going to pay back in spades.” She talks abou...
Aug 13, 2021•26 min•Season 5Ep. 16
“I had to learn to create my own brave space.” Madhu Mathoera is bicultural: born and raised in The Hague (The Netherlands) by parents from Surinam. Her mission is to make organisations in The Netherlands more inclusive. We’re a diverse country, almost 25% have a diverse background – but we don’t see that in organisations. Being bicultural as part of Madhu’s identity brought her a lot: she learned how to comfortably switch between contexts but also to create her own place in the world. This epis...
Jul 29, 2021•29 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Let’s be honest, we live in a world where change is the only constant. However, the level of change in the world of work that we’ve collectively experienced since early 2020 has been unprecedented. Now that we’re on the back side of second waves and more businesses and services are opening up (in most places), we’re seeing some powerful and unique shifts in employment. People who are in high power jobs are leaving them without an immediate alternative to go to. People without work are choosing t...
Jul 17, 2021•27 min•Season 5Ep. 14
People aren’t ‘resistant to change’. Each human being simply has a natural response to change. That’s what Rishita Jones is crystal clear on. Rishita’s an HR transformation expert and change manager extraordinaire who enables teams to evolve and businesses to modernise. In this new HR Matters Podcast episode, Rishita explains what makes teams come together to make change happen. Spotting how all elements of a change dynamic are interconnected; looking at the whole system instead of just the oper...
Jul 01, 2021•30 min•Season 5Ep. 13
10.9 trillion dollars’ worth of work in this world is invisible. That invisibility has real life financial and psychological consequences. What’s the deal here? Marieke Mooijen coaches people on leading themselves and making women more aware of what they have to pull off every day. She’s our guest in this new episode on economically invisible work. Economically invisible work includes work around raising children, informal care work, managing a household. In some parts of the world includes thin...
Jun 18, 2021•28 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Creating architecture: the structure for organisations and people to work together effectively. And creating cultures: the interaction between humans and the organisations they work in. That’s the real purpose of HR work. Our wish for this field (that hopefully soon won’t be called HR anymore) is to make it lighter, faster, more constructive. Continuously improving, with meaning and purpose. All those check-the-box exercises of what your textbook says HR should be doing? Konmari your way through...
Jun 03, 2021•28 min•Season 5Ep. 11
The value of feeling seen and heard. We know it matters. Making that happen, genuinely seeing and hearing others, and doing that in a conscious and intentional way - that’s a piece of personal growth with real life impact. This episode is about the ability to notice others. To slow down and see the whole person, not just the deliverables that we needed done yesterday. See that they have a life beyond the role they play in your organisation. Asking, noticing, remembering what it is that this pers...
May 21, 2021•30 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Feedback. We all know it’s important. We know people benefit and grow from really great feedback. So why is really good feedback so scarce in our workplaces? Feedback in its purest form is an act of vulnerability on the part of both the giver and receiver. And this makes it uncomfortable. Still despite the discomfort it is valuable. Consider the cost of the mental load you carry around each day thinking or worrying about people, situations and their behavior / impact. It’s likely huge. By redefi...
May 07, 2021•26 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Imagine you’re trying to bring more diversity and inclusion to the Canadian forestry sector: a sector where the traditional image of diversity used to be a woman in heels holding a saw. Kelly Cooper, the founder and CEO of the Centre for Social Intelligence, is excited about the changes she is seeing in Canada. She was able to realise an industry-wide initiative and created the first public-private partnership on diversity and inclusion in the natural resources sector. She built this step by ste...
Apr 22, 2021•28 min•Season 5Ep. 8
It has profound impact on how people show up at work and yet it hardly ever gets addressed. It’s all that is not on paper, but that is implied, assumed and perceived. Alongside the legal employment agreement there is the psychological contract: the actual relationship between organisation and employee. And just like the relationships in your personal life it takes work that is worth the investment. The psychological contract has lots more impact on our day-to-day behaviour at work than that piec...
Apr 09, 2021•28 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Bernice Feller-Thijm is an inclusion strategist who helps organisations truly create a diverse and inclusive culture. Especially after the surge of the BLM movement, conversations started happening within organisations that hadn’t been had before. What became all the more apparent is that right now, not everyone gets to participate in the same way. What helps is firstly to have a lot of conversations, to grow our understanding: we all have different lived experiences. Every organisation and grou...
Mar 26, 2021•27 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Are you literate in reading all the relevant information? With all that’s going on around us, and inside you, it’s high time to process and digest. All that’s in your head and in your heart – and also in your body. Neuroscience shows that the nerves in our entire body are constantly picking up, and giving off, signals. A whole rich field of information that’s available to you. What are you noticing? Weight on your shoulders, carrying a lot on your back, your belly full of this? Slow down and jus...
Mar 12, 2021•29 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Eden Whitcomb is not just any tech recruiter in Berlin. In our new HR Matters podcast episode, Eden tells us how he started out with great sales skills (as you do, in recruitment) and then got curious to grow further. He started to work out the patterns and trends in the work that he’d been doing. In one year, he recruited 97% men and 3% women. What was happening here, he wanted to figure out, and is that really what clients – and he himself – wanted? Organisations that want to diversify ask for...
Feb 26, 2021•30 min•Season 5Ep. 4
If you work in HR, you’ll recognise this. If you don’t, this may be an eye opener for you. As HR professionals, we are the vault for a lot of secrets. We hold so much information for other people. Life happens right in our workplaces, and HR professionals take on a big part of dealing with that. Hiring to firing – for right or wrong reasons. New life to health issues and death. Financial troubles. Harassment, discrimination. Politics. Too often, we get little space to process that. And it dramat...
Feb 12, 2021•35 min•Season 5Ep. 3
When you’re wishing and actively aiming for big picture change around diversity, inclusion, equity, equality and justice, that means you’re making long-term behaviour change happen, from personal awareness to large systems. And you can’t fix that all with a snap of the finger. The topic of our newest episode can play a vital role in your journey: communities. They’re the place where you can get support, offer support and boost each other keep making steps on a regular basis. This is where real r...
Jan 29, 2021•29 min•Season 5Ep. 2
The first thing we want to start off our brand-new season with is a tandem of two tools to help you feel lighter and see new possibilities. Looking ahead at 2021, we are more than eager to go forward and get out of the heavy, sticky place that is right now. Logical problem solving doesn’t always get you there. In times like these, what you need is a deeper resourcefulness that we all have inside of us. First: Gratitude. Taking a pause and figuring out what is the gift in this moment, amongst all...
Jan 13, 2021•26 min•Season 5Ep. 1
He was having a great life and career path, yet Garry Turner felt a heartache. So he got curious. “This is not the whole of me,” he realised. “There are more sides to me that I want to bring out.” Garry is an interpersonal catalyst who combines commercial expertise with a deep understanding of culture and people - and increasingly, inclusion. From his international sales job he upskilled to organisational development and added that to his role in the same organisation. In this episode, Garry tel...
Dec 23, 2020•25 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Cash flow, creativity and compassion are not mutually exclusive. Our new HR Matters podcast guest Maria Ross discovered how empathy is the superpower of marketers while working as a brand strategist, researched the competitive advantages of empathy to customers and employees, and poured it all into her book ‘The Empathy Edge’. This episode is about putting empathy to work. Empathy is a mindset, a method of perspective taking: seeing the world from another person’s point of view. It doesn’t mean ...
Dec 10, 2020•28 min•Season 4Ep. 15
This year’s been busy for remote working enthusiast – we’d say guru, really – Lisette Sutherland ! She opens up her treasure chest to share her insights on how to keep this remote working adventure going well. Because it looks like we’ll be working from home for a longer time, both by necessity and choice. Lisette’s first and biggest tip: get comfortable in your workspace. Wherever you’re working, figure out what you (and your team) need to be productive and design your work around that. Remote ...
Nov 26, 2020•32 min•Season 4Ep. 14
It is the only safe and solid ground for the diversity of thinking that is essential to create a solidly successful business: Trust. And yet, creating it is something that leaders tend to skip over. We’ve seen that strong teams with a high level of trust are created after they have worked together for an extended time span, or gone through a galvanising crisis. Our guest Jason Treu talks us through how to replicate that creation of trust. How do you build bridges with different people and compet...
Nov 10, 2020•26 min•Season 4Ep. 13
When you commit to being an ally at work and want to take meaningful antiracist action, there are various roles you can take on, to fit with who you are, where you are and what you are particularly good at. We talk about some good examples of this in our new episode: Recommending Black people and people of colour, actively talking about their expertise and skills. Inviting an investment in the person you’re recommending. Inviting people to be visible with their knowledge and expertise, creating ...
Oct 28, 2020•27 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Viktória Pikovská , a professional photographer and art business owner, tells us her personal leadership story. Viktória’s journey brought her from Slovakia, where she captured human emotion in photography, to the art scene in Rotterdam, where she started her own art business. Starting a business that connects to her purpose, and providing a human-centred work environment for her own team, has proven as important as the purpose of the business itself: Finding just the right piece of art for thei...
Oct 16, 2020•29 min•Season 4Ep. 11
