Wellbeing Designers Newsletter

Designing a wellbeing culture via Strategic Wellbeing Education for Human-Centric Organisations and Leaders

Hi Wellbeing Designers,

October passed aways so quickly that I am writing the October newsletter beginning of November! I know... 

Let's start with a recent news that many of you might have seen. I took on an additional role as a Senior Advisor at The Josh Bersin Company. I have been excited about the work of Josh and his team for many years! I shared a bit more about it in the podcast episode we did together. I am super happy to be part of the team on the mission together towards more and more irresistible and human-centric organisations. In my advisory role I will be combining my professional experience in culture transformations and leadership development working in management consulting for several years, with my expertise and work in the wellbeing space that I gained in the past few years.  

Talking about combining backgrounds... nowadays I enjoy the most to add the greatest value by connecting the dots between individual wellbeing practices and the systemic strategic wellbeing in organisations. On a recent event I talked about the Wellbeing Index and how organisations measure wellbeing. On the other hand being an avid practitioner and teacher of various wellbeing techniques leads me still quite often to give keynotes on individual wellbeing and sustainable performance. I enjoy the combination of these two angles. It keeps me grounded and reminds me how important my own practice is to do this work. Trying to walk the talk while talking the walk! (related to this see a post dedicated to the World Mental Health Day, 10 October)

Wishing you an energizing day,

Reka
Founder of Wellbeing Designers

The Podcast - Wellbeing Designers

Season 2 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast  continued with two new episodes during October. 

In Episode 10 our guest was Karen Guggenheim, founder of the World Happiness Summit and CEO of wohasu. She shares about her journey to created this world wide movement, an international forum to exchange and an educational platform for wellbeing, happiness and longevity. 

Join the conversation about this episode on our LinkedIn page!
And... don't forget to book your tickets to wohasu 2024 in London;)

In Episode 11 our guest was Kacy Flaming, Head, Global Well-Being at Takeda, based in the US. Kacy has an extraordinary journey to get into this role, starting from being an actress and moving up the corporate ladder as a strategy leader in pharmaceuticals. 

Join the conversation about this episode on our LinkedIn page!

Voices from the Wellbeing Designers Community

In this month's Community highlight is Sheila Piper, Health and Wellbeing Lead at Accenture UK & Ireland, who was our 1000th follower on LinkedIn back in the summer. So I reached out to her to connect! This continued with a great conversation and hopefully we will get the chance to do even more work and fun together with her in the wellbeing space in the future. 

We are super grateful for two shout outs in our community about the Wellbeing Designers podcast in their newsletters. One is putting us in the top three podcasts along Huberman and Bruce Lipton, and in the other list we are mentioned together with Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast and with Deloitte's Work Well podcast by Jen Fisher!!!

More to come from other wellbeing experts from the Wellbeing Designers Community! If you would like to contribute, contact us!

Insights into our work

This month we connected with some German speaking Wellbeing Designers during the very first Health & Mind Festival in Bregenz, Austria that attracted nearly 900 people.

Read some of my impressions in this post.


 

I was super happy about the audience feedback received after the event in various formats. Let me share some of the posts here as well by Dornbirner Sparkasse Bank AG, by Verena and by Marina and by Sabine who was also my fellow panelist on the main stage where we talked about Working Culture vs. Wellbeing Culture. 

We also kicked off a piece of work with a company piloting different wellbeing approaches. They are very clear on the connection between wellbeing and ways of working. This means that it is not about a big bang employee wellbeing program but about tools built into the everyday processes. Very excited to see the reactions and results!

Wellbeing Designers is ready to work with you!
If you or your organisation needs inspiration in terms of keynotes, inspirational workshops, a holistic and strategic up-skilling, advisory supporting your leaders, wellbeing managers and employees on your Wellbeing Culture Journey, connect with us here!

Where to meet us

In November these events are on our list:

Aktív Munkahelyek Konferencia, in Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺

Horizon Summit by the HR Congress in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Disrupt HR in Zürich, Switzerland 🇨🇭 are on our list.

Wellbeing insights on our reading and listening list this month

Reframing Employee Health, moving beyond burnout to holistic health by The McKinsey Health Institute (Jacqueline Brassey,  Brad Herbig,  Barbara Jeffery, and Drew Ungerman)

The Diary of the CEO Podcast episode with dr. Tara Swart by Steven Bartlett