On this episode, we unpack how to better utilize recruiting programs and find people that are the best fit for your company and its culture. The discussion covers culture setting trending in Onboarding and how to better find a cultural fit alongside well-being and wellness programs to better connect with your people and their families.  Keywords: Mental Wellness, Corporate Wellness, Employee Well-Being, Employee Enrichment, Community Engagement, Mentorship, Coaching, Compassion Management, Leadership, Employee Recruiting, Culture Building, Onboarding, Employee Assistance Programs, EAP’s ..read more

During this episode we talk with Carin Isabel-Knoop author of her latest book entitled, Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace. This episode will expound on some critical areas from her book on how to best manage and lead a workforce by promoting better mental health and emotional wellbeing practices at the workplace. This episode will identify critical “micro-signals” of mental instability within your employee base while outlining best practices on how to follow up with individual employees. How to identify early and often, while putting a practice in place that’s p ..read more

During this episode, we discuss how change and kindness are critical during the new era of work and education with Doreen Lorenzo, former CEO of Frog Design and current Assistant Dean at the University of Texas, School of Design & Creative Technology. Doreen Lorenzo is a successful leader of global creative firms; as the former president of Frog Design and Quirky she has advised companies on design and innovation issues for decades. In September of 2017, she was appointed Assistant Dean of the new School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin. It has sinc ..read more

In this episode we look at how to obtain stronger employee satisfaction and eNPS through best practices in the feedback loop. Braven and Sophie discuss better methodologies for listening and utilizing powerful HR analytics tools like Peakon to reduce attrition and upkeep employee engagement. On this show we discuss what it should look like to instill values at every level of your organization and how leaders need to be accountable to those values to ensure the success of the company as a whole. Keywords: Employee Satisfaction, HR, HCM, Policy Making, Success. PeopleFirst, Management, Values, T ..read more

In this episode, we discuss critical areas of mindfulness, relational empathy, and how to better enrich the employee experience and improve the way your team works together.  Our Guest: Our guest is Brigit Ritchie, Founder and CEO at We. For the past 10 years, Brigit Ritchie has been facilitating personal and professional development for women, and now co-ed groups globally. As the founder of WE, Brigit’s vision is to develop Relational Mindfulness® to equip teams to thrive at work. Her custom curriculum equips people across the world with powerful and effective emotional intelligence to ..read more

In this episode we unpack how to better utilize marketing to build a vibrant culture. The discussion quickly unpacks some practical methods for rewards, recognition, collaboration, and communication all through the lens of marketing, technology and gamification to amplify your HR programs alongside increased employee engagement best practices. Keywords: Leadership, HR, Management, Business, HCM, Culture Building, Internal Branding, Rewards and Recognition, Gamification Our Guest: Tuck Ross, SVP of Marketing at CareCredit. Tuck Ross is an award-winning Marketing Executive with over 18 years of ..read more

In this episode we talk with Dave LeVan, CEO of Life Water about how to harvest a culture of giving and we hear stories from his life and how he has practiced opportunity-based leadership. Our Guest: Dave is a committed Christian, husband, and father. He is passionate about bringing hope and transformation to the underserved. He is an experienced entrepreneur, speaker, and advisor. Before serving as the CEO of Lifewater, Dave served on the Lifewater Board of Directors and as Senior Director at Walmart. His earlier work experience includes Advantax, a consulting firm he founded, Kraft Foods, an ..read more

Our Host: Braven Greenelsh is currently the Founder & CEO at Three Good, and Chairman of the Board for La Visual. Over the past twenty years, Braven has founded six technology and agency businesses in several verticals: two of which he has successfully exited. Braven graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Management while subsequently growing his first company La Visual, 700% year-over-year for 3 consecutive years. Show References: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289 Dangers of McMindfulness - https://community.chronicle.com/news/1348-the-danger ..read more

 Learning from a woman who has had massive influence in the area of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We discuss everything from her father’s influence, navigating corporate america as a Black woman and establishing best practices for better teams through JEDI. The reasons why diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to growing organizations. We go deeper into the definition of and the negative impacts of DE&I done the wrong way. Petrina Gooch has served as HED’s Corporate Human Resources Leader since 2008.  She is a Principal and serves on HED’s Board of Directors.  Petr ..read more

Our Guest: Mark has pioneered energy and sustainability solutions across academic, private, public and non-profit sectors. As the Rob and Melani Walton Chair for Sustainability Solutions at Arizona State University, Mark leads an effort to make measurable impacts on sustainability and influence decision making toward global solutions. Mark was at the forefront of developing environmental markets including the acid rain emissions trading program and early markets for carbon credits. He also led strategy and marketing with Midwestern BioAg. Recently, Mark has been involved in sustainable agricul ..read more