Are you still feeling the lingering effects of the pandemic? We dive back into this topic as we noticed how much our earlier episode about Pandemic Fatigue still brings up for our listeners. We’re still finding our way, going from languishing to lingering. It may seem like we’re expected to go back to normal, but we can’t. We’re in a different place. It’s like we have dug a tunnel and come out on the other side to a different landscape. On the other side, it’s a different world. We put a lot of ...
Apr 03, 2023•26 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Ruben Brave loves exploring the unknown, with a curiosity that drives him to a wide variety of places and an innate talent for generating visions for the future. His story involves serial tech entrepreneurship: having set up several tech companies across Europe, Ruben has always been ‘one of the geeks’ (and a Spider-Man fan). Another side of him is fatherhood, living in Amsterdam, with roots in a big Surinamese family – providing him with cultural capital and a spiritual background that he bring...
Mar 10, 2023•30 min•Season 8Ep. 3
Ageing is the one thing we all share in common, if we’re lucky enough to have a long life. But is this on your radar for improving the diversity and inclusivity of your teams? This is a conversation with Mary Jane Roy , who is into her 50th career year. Her career – so far – has spanned from being a nursing officer in the Canadian Armed Forces to a corporate career and independent consulting. It was only recent that she first realised the effect ageing has on careers and the workplace – even alr...
Feb 17, 2023•25 min•Season 8Ep. 2
How do you distinguish between constructive behaviour and people pleasing? You may notice it in other people, and how they interact. And then there’s discerning your own people pleasing behaviour. People pleasing in teams can become a disadvantage because managers and team members don’t get the feedback and information that they need. Look at this as energy spent. Suppressing how you really feel ends up taking much more energy than dealing with saying no. Saying yes even when you don’t want to, ...
Jan 27, 2023•30 min•Season 8Ep. 1
When you’re the first DEI role in an organisation, not only are you starting a job from scratch, so is your employer: often they don’t yet understand what your role is. It’s not a plug and play situation but a new function inside an organisation without a lot of legacy to stand on. Moreover, expectations of what this work is like are often different than the reality – for both the DEI professional and the organisation. To share her own learnings, Sarah Cordivano wrote the book ‘Diversity, Equity...
Jan 04, 2023•30 min•Season 7Ep. 16
Holiday magic is made by women. The holiday season would be a lot less magical without the work that mostly women do to create it. In homes and in organisations, creating happiness for other people. It’s an additional mental load, without us realising that it is. At this time of year, most of us are dealing with end-of-year workload: having budget meetings, wrapping up performance reviews, aligning on 2023 strategy, plus lots happening in our social lives and personal lives. The dash to the end ...
Dec 16, 2022•29 min•Season 7Ep. 15
This is what makes Quiet Quitting such a drag. People that Quietly Quit can become a huge slower-down of the change that you need in the current environment. A roadblock to collaboration, creativity, innovation and any forward momentum. But Quiet Quitting is not the problem. It points to something else that is the actual problem. Let us give you a fair perspective on quiet quitting. Why are people Quiet Quitting and why does that make sense, from their perspective? “Going above and beyond just a...
Dec 02, 2022•39 min•Season 7Ep. 14
Grief will show up in your life, whether your own or for people around you – including people at work. That friendly sounding invitation to ‘bring your whole self to work’? It includes grief. Maaike Roseboom experienced a huge and sudden personal loss. Lisa was her HR manager at the time and they got to know each other at an intense level. Maaike’s personal journey dealing with grief and returning to work led her to making a difference for others going through this and becoming an expert speaker...
Nov 18, 2022•36 min•Season 7Ep. 13
This is our 100th episode! In fact, we’re triple celebrating, with four years of this podcast and over 10.000 downloads. These 100 and 4 and 10K have let us create a rich portfolio of topics, guests and perspectives for you, on the impact that you (can) have on real people in your organization. That’s 10K+ reminders sent out that people are real people, in the workplace. 10K+ additional perspectives on the future of leadership, self-leadership and how you choose to show up. And there’s more to a...
Oct 28, 2022•28 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Sometimes moving forward looks like standing still. So many more people than usual are picking up on big shifts going on, beyond our day-to-day practical things. It can be a floating feeling of unease that signals those bigger picture developments, or specific things that weigh on your mind. Zoom out and look at the bigger picture, at the water we’re swimming in. The world feels very chaotic at the moment. A big picture mess, bigger than most of us can map out and much of which is outside of our...
Oct 14, 2022•32 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Toxic workplace culture: this is what you can do about it, and why you want to. Let us take you from the experience of it (check our previous episode) to the big picture. Over the past 10 years, workplace culture has generally become more toxic. Research* has specified the main markers of toxic workplace culture: Non-inclusive Unethical behaviour, lack of integrity Disrespectful Abusive management Cut-throat, ruthless Moreover, your body will tell you. It knows way more than you think. The kind ...
Sep 30, 2022•36 min•Season 7Ep. 10
“I went from being this courageous person, willing and loving to challenge the status quo, to feeling I have to be compliant and I need to placate. It was a black hole that sucked me in, and I didn’t realise it was toxic.” “At what point did you recognise that?” “Well, when I hit my burnout.” This People Impact podcast episode gets both personal and insightful about toxic workplace culture, a meaty and meaningful topic that gets incredibly messy when you’re in the middle of it. That right there ...
Sep 16, 2022•41 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Seeing that lightbulb moment happen when people realise that they can be better as individuals in their organisations, *and* their organisations can be better, by really living into diversity, equity and inclusion - that is what lights James McKim up. James recognizes that organisations want to be diverse for social justice reasons, because it’s the moral thing to do. At the same time, DEI drives organisational performance. At managing consultancy Organizational Ignition , he aligns people, proc...
Sep 01, 2022•31 min•Season 7Ep. 8
When your reference point for how to be a leader comes from the leaders, managers and bosses you’ve had up to that point, that’s a really hit-and-miss affair. First-time leaders going through the rollercoaster of getting their new role frequently follow up their “Woohoo!” with “… now what?” Mick Spiers , founder of The Leadership Project, inspires leaders to challenge the status quo of what it means to be a leader. What do you do as a leader instead of repeating the mistakes you’ve seen your own...
Aug 12, 2022•26 min•Season 7Ep. 7
The biggest and best kept secret of life is… aliveness :) Sure, there’s being alive, your heart beating and your body breathing, that’s no big secret. But aliveness, that’s about feeling connected to the essential realness of your life and the tingle of possibility in the world around you. Feeling the sunshine. Listening to music. Being immersed in a fascinating read. Taking an intentional break. Feeling pain, grief or anger. Aliveness lives in all sides of being a living human being. Choosing l...
Jul 21, 2022•32 min•Season 7Ep. 6
We need to be talking about racism without people of colour present. The work Valerie Spain does - and the way that she does it - is pretty special. Valerie is a certified coach and antiracism educator, DEI consultant and group facilitator, particularly focusing on white people doing the inner work of racial justice and of developing an action plan. Affinity groups and employee resource groups have been around for marginalised groups and minorities. Valerie hosts them for white people, coming to...
Jul 07, 2022•30 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Life is messy. It’s a messy time to be alive in this world, with so much going on. Predictability is on the decline. Some (including us) would even call it a trend towards chaos. This is a long-term thing. As Dutch Professor (in Sustainability Transitions) Jan Rotmans noted, “We are living not in an era of change, but in a change of era.” You can’t keep your head down and wait until it’s over. You’re in the middle of it. We all are. So how do you show up with it? Which parts are happening to you...
Jun 23, 2022•32 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Wellness is about effective, healthy habits for life. Your life, all sides of it. Your workplace has a huge impact on your wellness, and vice versa: an organisation will run so much better when team members are well. Tarin Calmeyer makes this clear from various angles. She is a corporate wellness specialist, the founder of Remote Team Wellness, a multipassionate and multidimensional human being, and a global citizen. Wellness means so much more than a 15-minute workout or one-time meditation eve...
Jun 10, 2022•28 min•Season 7Ep. 3
The hierarchy of the classic pyramid org chart has very little added value for clients and, moreover, focuses your competitive spirit on beating your colleague to get the promotion, instead of on “we’re going to win or lose together”. So, Simon Dixon worked out a better way. When Simon set up Hatmill, a specialist logistics consultancy, “The starting point was doing the opposite of doing the stuff I didn’t like in previous places,” where the people management structures and processes weren’t set...
May 27, 2022•36 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Sometimes a new beginning can mark a bigger shift, from the old you to the new you. “Wait a minute. I changed my mind. But I’ve always done it this other way. Won’t I be labelled inconsistent, erratic, unpredictable or unreliable, if I suddenly change?” Sure, but it’s your life. You get to make your choices. It makes sense that with new information may come a change of mind: knowing what we know now, this is not taking us where we thought. What’s actually important is this other thing. We’re goi...
May 13, 2022•27 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Learning is the one consistent thing that happens in our lives. In small kids you can see the speed of learning, and in our continuing development as adults we thrive when we’re learning a new thing. Yet, we can get trapped in ‘this is the way things should be’ or ‘this is the way things are’. Give yourself space to learn. Seeing your own and other people’s development on a longer timeline, giving yourself and others the space to learn, is vital. From this viewpoint, it’s easier to be aware how ...
Apr 28, 2022•25 min•Season 6Ep. 17
It’s not always easy to be told about or recognize your own privilege. Or to show up and be your best person. We’re sharing the story of Ray Arata, who has dedicated his life to working with men on living and leading from the heart. Advancing healthy masculinity in the leadership conversation. Creating a safe space for men to move out of their heads and be whole humans. Ray shares his own experiences of recognising the rights, privileges and opportunities of being a (white) man. His man-in-the-m...
Apr 14, 2022•32 min•Season 6Ep. 16
“Hey, wait a minute. Maybe one the reasons why I’m exhausted all of the time is because I’m doing things that are out of alignment with my values.” Spend the time to find out what your values are and make decisions that are aligned with them. Values are about understanding your own internal compass: what are the things that you as an individual find important? What are the things that bring you energy and take energy away from you? Everyone has their own top-# list in their own particular order....
Apr 01, 2022•28 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Pause, for just a moment. What does your entire being know? We invite some special guests in this episode. And yet it’s just Lisa and Marjolijn talking – about checking in with a part of yourself that brings you calm clarity and helps you make decisions. There are different words for this, and for now we call this your Inner Leader. A deeper, more grounded sense of who you are, your internal compass. A way out of overwhelm. Tap into who you really are, your inner wisdom and knowledge. The safe, ...
Mar 17, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Celebrate what you’re grateful for. There’s war going on, refugee crises, racism, extreme weather and climate change, covid. Yes, and… amidst all of what is going on for you right now, as you read this and listen, celebrate. Celebrating can often be something that you skip over. And it’s also something that can really bring you a lot of sustenance through all the difficulty we’re living through right now. To lift up your spirits and get more energy. We recorded this episode when sunny days were ...
Mar 04, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 13
On a stormy day (with severe weather warnings) we’re staying indoors and talk about covid fatigue, pandemic fatigue, languishing. We noticed how something has quietly crept into our spirits. And we notice how talking about it helps. Dealing with our current covid reality is a permanent load to carry around. Covid takes up a big part of our already full plates. So many hoops to jump through – and they keep moving. With a pervasive undercurrent that makes it hard to recharge. What are your words a...
Feb 18, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 12
The complexity of situations, these days, is too high to use only one way of making decisions. You could follow Aristotle’s perspective, who said: obstacles are an opportunity to build character. Or Bruce Lee’s, instead: be water. Like a river hitting an obstacle, move around it like water. Which do you need right now? And what other perspectives are available? We talk about this with Kayvan Kian who, simply put, likes to create things that help. Kayvan’s an author, consultant and entrepreneur w...
Feb 03, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Think about the things you may hear when you’re in a toxic personal relationship. Would you say those same things to a friend in a toxic employment relationship? And what do you tell yourself? “You’re making this up. It can’t be that bad.” “You should’ve done more. You should’ve acted differently.” “You shouldn’t complain because they’re so nice in other ways.” “It’s ok for your boss to yell at you because it’s your boss.” “It’s professional to just suck it up.” “In the workplace I can be treate...
Jan 19, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Curious about the 10 top People Impact Trends for the coming year, and decade? This is where the world is turning. This is what our antennae are picking up on what will impact and improve the way people lead and work together. We smilingly noticed that several of our topics were showing up as trends, either ahead of time or simultaneously. So, let’s have some serious fun with this and intentionally look ahead with our own list of trends for the future of People Impact. Addressing major shifts an...
Jan 06, 2022•41 min•Season 6Ep. 9
There’s an age old question: Are Leaders born or made? In our latest People Impact Podcast we explore this question and the ins and outs of Leadership. Leadership is changing, evolving and being redefined. What used to be a small and privileged niche is now shifting, expanding and inviting us to reconsider some the old stories we used to buy into about Leadership. Let’s face it, today, no one inside an organization is an island. We are interconnected, interdependent, and working together with ot...
Dec 22, 2021•27 min•Season 6Ep. 8
