Leading Responsibly with Integrity & Purpose

In this conversation, Thom Dennis interviews Dean Carter, Chief People and Purpose Officer at GUILD, about purpose-driven organizations, healthy work culture, the ROI of caregiving and onsite childcare programs, the adoption of AI in HR technology, and the potential of VR technology. The conversation explores the value of flexible work and the challenges and benefits it brings. It emphasizes the importance of creating a sense of belonging in a flexible work environment and expanding the talent pool by allowing remote work. The discussion also touches on mitigating loneliness and depression in remote work through community groups. The pushback against flexible work is discussed, along with the importance of diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) in organizations. The conversation concludes with a focus on the authenticity of a company's purpose and the challenges faced by CHROs in navigating paradoxes. Takeaways • Purpose-driven organizations focus on the human experience, engage employees, and reward productivity and performance. • Onsite childcare programs can have a high ROI, benefiting employee retention, diversity, and upskilling. • HR needs to take a leading role in the adoption of AI, ensuring it is used ethically and inclusively. • VR technology has the potential to revolutionize work experiences, but careful consideration must be given to its impact on addiction and mental health. Flexible work provides numerous benefits, including increased productivity, reduced commuting time, and access to a larger talent pool. • Creating a sense of belonging in a flexible work environment is crucial for employee engagement and well-being. • Remote work can be mitigated by implementing community groups and fostering connections among employees. • The pushback against flexible work highlights the need for organizations to adapt and embrace new ways of working. • Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential for creating a thriving and authentic workplace culture. • CHROs face the challenge of navigating paradoxes and making decisions that consider trade-offs and consequences. Sound Bites 00:00 Introduction 02:02 Purpose-driven Organizations and Guild 04:39 Determining Factors of a Healthy Work Culture 06:45 ROI of Caregiving and Onsite Childcare Programs 11:03 Adoption of AI in HR Technology 15:56 AI and Human Intelligence 22:54 Creating Belonging in a Flexible Work Environment 24:19 Expanding the Talent Pool with Flexible Work 25:24 Mitigating Loneliness and Depression in Remote Work 25:56 The Positive Impact of Community Groups 29:33 The Pushback Against Flexible Work 31:44 The Importance of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) 38:07 Authenticity and a Company's Purpose 41:21 Navigating Paradoxes as a CHRO Visit our website, https://www.serenityinleadership.com

🌟 Explore the dynamic world of leadership with Tania Carriere, a globally renowned life and leadership coach, in this insightful interview hosted by Thom Dennis, CEO of Serenity in Leadership. 🌎✨ Dive into a conversation focused on co-creation, self-awareness, and purposeful leadership, offering valuable insights for navigating the challenges of leadership in 2024. 🚀 Tanya shares her expertise on leading extraordinary retreats and creating transformative experiences, emphasizing the importance of co-creation in facilitating meaningful dialogues. Discover the keys to designing impactful experiences that stimulate both the mind and body, fostering a holistic approach to leadership. 💡 As the discussion unfolds, Tania and Thom explore the evolving needs of leaders in the current landscape, addressing essential skills such as resilience, adaptability, and relationship building. Gain valuable tips for fostering self-awareness, emotional resilience, and encouraging self-reflection among leaders. 🔍 Join us on this journey of discovery and gain practical insights to enhance your leadership skills. Whether you're a seasoned leader or aspiring to lead with purpose, this interview provides actionable strategies for navigating the unseen challenges of leadership in this incredibly challenging world of 2024. 🌐 For more inspiring content and information about Tania Carriere and her transformative retreats, visit Advivum Journeys at advivumjourneys.ca or search for Tania Carriere online. 👍 Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on leadership, integrity, and purpose! #Leadership #CoCreation #SelfAwareness #PurposefulLeadership #LeadershipSkills #TransformationalRetreats #TanyaCarer #SerenityInLeadership #2024Leadership #LeadershipInsights

We’re in an exciting and pivotal moment for leadership and community inside the workplace. There are ways to foster a positive and productive workplace culture and the pitfalls are real if this undertaking is mismanaged. We’re determined to shed light on the best practices when it comes to creating relationships, understanding, empathy, and productive management. Join us on Tuesday 30th January for a roundtable conversation led by Executive Coach and Veteran Meeting Facilitator Thom Dennis with: Tania Carriere, a globally renowned life and leadership coach, and transformational retreats host. Viviane Vicente, a Cultural Intelligence (CQ®) Master Facilitator and global professional with a legal background, and extensive experience in domestic and international management and leadership training. Louise Goss, Founder of The Homeworker magazine, journalist and work-life, remote and WFH expert Charmain Bucho, Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at City & Guilds, and executive coach. We will cover topics like: How human collaboration will interact with technology in the future Challenges of the hybrid work environment and how industry is responding Cultural intelligence and the impact of psychological safety and empathy Creating inclusive spaces, encouraging diverse perspectives, and mitigating biases Please sign up to join us live Find out more at www.serenityinleadership.com

Life Without a Tie: Finding your path amidst the noise, chaos and pressure to conform. We don't always recognise the subtleties at play in our reality. Even when we do, we don't necessarily validate them as being significant. In this podcast between Thom Dennis and Ray Martin, they discuss the nature of synchronicity - why and how events that are unexpected can sometimes have a Universal perfection. They explore how committing to acts of service, however small, can lead to new beginnings and how life can provide us with 'confirmation signals' when we face difficult decisions, connecting with a higher form of guidance. Thom asked Ray to expand upon his 'Six Rules for Happiness', which include taking ownership for everything that happens to us, and the benefits of building powerful and sustainable relationships. It takes courage to live consciously, and Ray has discovered that trends such as minimalism and experientialism are on the rise as people try to simplify life in a complex world. They also touch on the leadership crisis of our generation, the nature of purpose and how it might find us, if and when we surrender to it, and what it means to be present. A lot to enjoy! Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Psychiatry, Mental Wellbeing, Empathy & Power Skills in the Workplace. What made you become a psychiatrist? You're the founder and CEO of Clip Global, which is a workforce, wellbeing and development service where you provide employees with personalized holistic. science-backed plans so they can lead healthier, fulfilled lives. It sounds incredible, but how do you go about fulfilling that brief? I guess you're using AI now and developing it if you're using an app, how do you see that developing with AI? Do you think that mental health is the new pandemic? Do you think really that there's an increasing number of leaders who are beginning to genuinely care more about their employees and see why that is so important to the business for preventing people from being off sick, but for things that you can't necessarily see? Can you say a little bit more about the key life indicators, what they are and how you're monitoring and keeping a close look on them? You'd like to think that there are more leaders taking the right action. What do you think we need to do to persuade those that perhaps don't really see the need for this, in spite of the fact that the stats as far as the bottom line are concerned are pretty persuasive? It seems there's a lot of leaders who still don't want to really engage with that. So how could we persuade them to be more involved and take a greater level of responsibility? Do CEOs find it a bit scary to engage with an organization which is led by a psychiatrist? How important do you think being empathetic is now for people in positions of responsibility? Have you come across the fact that there are reports of AI showing more empathy than humans? Is hybrid working detrimental to the need to belong to a community? What do you think it is that's making people (managers) resist the hybrid working as a model? There are two types of leadership, the older more directive style and the newer servant leader style. So do you see the latter style of leadership emerging more today? How important is the skill of presence in leadership? So just to round things up, can you give us say three tips on how leaders can improve, how they help employees with their mental health?

Ray Arata is the author of two books, Wake Up Man Up, Step Up: Transforming Your Wake Up Call to Emotional Health and Happiness and Showing Up: How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace. As an expert in leadership, inclusion, allyship, and emotional literacy, Ray leads from his heart and practices what he teaches in his own businesses and personal life. In this interview, he describes what first made him interested in the field of men and masculinity. Thom & Ray then go on to the term 'toxic' and explore how unhelpful it is in terms of masculinity; 'unhealthy' is a much better description which doesn't close everyone down. They discuss how important is it not to shame and blame men in order to get them to engage. There is enormous pain in so many men and shaming has only negative consequences. On the other hand gender equality will make men better and happier. Ray connects through the heart, and speaks about what love means to him. Finally they discuss allyship and the fundamental importance of accountability. The Better Together Conference will be held online Oct 18-19, 2023 and those liking this video and contacting us at hello@serenityinleadership.com will be offered a 10% reduction in the cost of attendance. Contact us!

This episode is now live, here is a blurb about the podcast that Thom guested on: Men feel more lonely, lost and not useful in society than ever in history. Men are more likely to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant and friendless. Only 40% of men have higher education and educated women don’t date uneducated men. Males are not attaching to school, work or women. What it is to be a man appears lost. ‘What is Manly?’ host Damian Andrews searches for the framework to be Manly. "There was an anger that came out and frankly, it was very scary being in that room at that time, as a man."

Trez Ibrahim and Thom Dennis come together to discuss some of the challenges that men and women experience in the workplace. These are influenced by many distinctions such as upbringing, social standing, nationality and age.

How ExCos deal with Ageism, Gender, D & E, What was 'Normal' is not OK Now Join us for a fascinating interview with the CEO of Serenity in Leadership, Thom Dennis and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. Avivah is a thought leader specialising in gender and generational balance and speaks on leadership, the future of work, the longevity economy and the consequences of 60-year careers. As she says: “I have always thought that the 20th century saw the rise of women, and the 21st century will be about whether men accept that rise or backlash. Right now, what you see is both.” 00:00 Introduction 01:06 The Longevity Revolution 03:03 Birth Rates 04:37 Utilizing Generational Skills 06:47 Modernizing Against Ageism 07:55 Gender Balance 12:23 Men, ExCos and Leadership 17:10 Role Models 18:40 Managing Across Difference 22:35 LGBTQ+ and Global Differences 28:06 Equality 28:36 Diversity & Gender 30:18 The Concept of 'Normal' 33:26 Conclusion

00:00 Introduction 01:34 Is empathy a skill we can learn? 03:00 Can there be too much empathy? 04:38 The fear of losing respect 06:04 What can leaders do to make sure their people are OK? 08:45 You have to orient around the customer 10:30 Leaders as balancers 13:22 Future-proofing for the next disruption 16:15 Meaningfulness & Purpose 19:24 Therapeutic AI 24:13 The effects of generative AI 28:00 Heartificial Empathy & "Be You" 31:14 The Serenity in Leadership retreat, Leading Through the Void & being human 32:49 What makes a good leader in 2023? 38:02 Closing

Thom Dennis and Jessica Ball take a deep-dive into today’s most talked about – and uncomfortable – topics in the workplace. From gender equality and male-dominated boardrooms to embracing our female qualities – hear their plea for a more tolerant, collaborative and inclusive world of work. Culture Change Management Consultancy, Serenity in Leadership, is embarking on a journey to understand what it takes to be an effective leader of the future. We interview some of the world’s most esteemed business owners and influencers to capture their honest reflections and perspectives on leadership – the good, the bad and the transformative. Listen in and learn from the doers themselves, what it takes to succeed today, in tomorrow’s fast-changing business climate. Share your thoughts in the comment section down below!

Empathy expert, Anita Nowak is an author, podcaster, speaker, facilitator, certified coach and award-winning educator. Her TEDx Talk on 'The Power of Empathy' has reached nearly 100,000 people. Anita holds a doctoral degree from McGill University, where she was named Professor of the Year in 2014 and 2019. With our CEO, Thom Dennis, Anita discusses what empathy actually is, why the world needs more of it and workplace solutions for how we can be more empathetic. Connect with Anita Nowak: Website: https://www.anitanowak.com/ Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh... Serenity in Leadership: Website: https://www.serenityinleadership.com/

Chris Hemmings is a coach and psychotherapist who works exclusively with male clients. After a decade of working as a journalist at the BBC, Chris began to run a programme around healthy masculinity and men's emotional well-being. He runs a business called M-Path which goes into workplaces and schools to challenge, educate and support men and boys to hold difficult conversations and to create empathetic environments for themselves. During their discussion, Serenity in Leadership CEO Thom Dennis and Chris discuss why using the phrase 'toxic masculinity' isn't helpful, why Andrew Tate is not the problem (but rather the symptom), why we need to create spaces for men, and the problem with men feeling as though they have to be more feminine to be accepted today. Serenity in Leadership: https://www.serenityinleadership.com M-Path: https://m-path.co.uk/#leadership #mentalhealth #masculinity #mentalhealthawareness #leadershipdevelopment #management #dialogue 00:00 Introduction 02:37 Masculinity vs Toxic Masculinity 05:57 The influence of Andrew Tate 13:33 What color is your Bugatti? 15:42 Patriarchy, Feminism & Victimhood 18:06 Good Man vs Real Man 18:54 Male Spaces in Organisations 25:30 Role Models 35:16 Men & Mental Health 37:45 Men Talking 47:30 Be Better for Yourself First 48:30 Finding Organisations That Want to Work with Men As Well 50:40 Conclusion

Sally Penni MBE is a high-profile award-winning barrister as well as Joint Vice Chair of the Association of Women Barristers. She’s also the founder of Women in the Law UK and hosts the remarkable podcast “Talking Law”. Sally sits as Non-Executive Director on a variety of boards bringing her experience and expertise in many areas including governance, employment law & cyber security. She is a keen fundraiser supporting numerous local & national charities, a patron, diversity leader, radio broadcaster & contributor and, as she puts it, most importantly a proud mother of three. In aid and recognition of IWD 2023, Sally spoke to Thom Dennis, CEO of Serenity in Leadership and explored important questions: - How we can empower people to be a catalyst for positive change? - Who for Sally stands out as a key role model? - How can love conquer hate? - What are the trends in leadership today? - How important is it for men to be involved as allies for women? - How can we improve workplace culture?

Join us for a fascinating interview with our CEO, Thom Dennis and Dr Claude Bertrand. Claude is the Executive Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer at Servier - an independent, international pharmaceutical company governed by a non-profit foundation. During the conversation, they discuss how to lead in a fast-paced world, how leaders can attract and retain the best talent, crucial leadership traits to hone right now, and Claude reveals how Servier distinguishes itself from other pharmaceutical giants

In a wide ranging conversation, Thom Dennis and Jim Peal explore aspects of leadership, risk taking and self-awareness. An in-depth, and highly positive exploration based on the combined experiences of both Thom and Jim. 00:00 Introduction 01:58 The Need for Leaders to Change 06:25 The coming challenges and skills needed 13:24 Vulnerability 16:23 Planning for Inevitable Surprises 21:32 NLP 24:51 Check your 'Tude 31:17 Dialogue and Discrimination 34:08 Diversity, Inclusion & Racism 45:13 Are we going in a positive direction? 47:22 Message to Leaders today 49:46 Addiction & Choice 54:29 Networking & ending

Musician, Brand Expert, Healer and Business Coach Christina Courtright Jenkins explores her motivations, what burnout can mean and how important personal brand is, whatever we do. She highlights the crucial importance of self-reflection, combined with an understanding of personal essence.

Thom Dennis talks to Dean Carter, a director at Griffith foods, the global, traceable and sustainable food ingredients experts. Previously he was a corporate officer leading Global HR and Shared Services at Patagonia. Dean is passionate about climate, purpose, culture and leadership and has been pushing the edge of HR conversation for a long time. He has also been recognized with multiple awards for innovation.

Thom Dennis and Helen Argyrou explore aspects of Femininity, how they have been misrepresented and affirm that if we focus on the pain and loss we continue to suffer. If we focus on the lesson and the truth we will continue to grow and reveal life's deepest teachings. This is an in-depth, and highly positive exploration which touches into what many would say are taboo subjects.

What neuroscience can tell us about change and how to bring change about. Thom Dennis, CEO of Serenity in Leadership interviews Reut Schwartz-Hebron on what we've learnt about difficult change through the eyes of neuroscience.