Wellbeing Designers
Welcome to the Wellbeing Designers Podcast!
We discover how we can design the future of well being together so we can create human-centric organizations and a sustainable work life.
In the first season of the podcast, I talked with the first generation of wellbeing leaders in big organizations. Usually, they were the very first ones in their organization ever to have the title of head of well being or similar.
In the second season, starting with episode nine, you will meet similar people again. And I invited some other interesting profiles as well. All these people work on wellbeing on a systemic level. Their mission is related to make the world a better place through focusing on wellbeing. In the past years, especially since COVID, employee well being got on the top of the agenda, not only for companies worldwide, but even some countries and other official institutions started to call for action.
In the Wellbeing Designers podcast-conversations, I would like to highlight the work of those sometimes invisible people, leaders, who are either in charge of well being in organizations and trying to navigate amongst the growing amount of well being offerings while connecting efforts. to business impact, and most importantly, create real value for employees. Or, they are those leaders who are doing their best to create international forums to exchange, raise awareness, and take action on wellbeing and people's sustainability.
They might be the ones whose responsibility is to take care of hundreds, thousands, or ten thousands of people's wellbeing.
They might be the ones who keep decision makers and CEOs engaged about the topic of well being. They might be the ones. who are proving that employee well being is a strategic enabler of sustainable performance and business success.
They might be the connectors between well being leaders across companies and countries.
I call these people wellbeing designers.
Enjoy listening to them and learning from them. Together we can design a human centric work life and the future of well being.
- Update frequency
- every 34 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 23
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Sarah Cunningham : Designing Wellbeing as Managing Director at World Wellbeing Movement | S4 Episode 20
In this inspiring conversation, we sit down with the incredible Sarah Cunningham, Managing Director of World Wellbeing Movement. WWM is an impact-driven charity registered in England and Wales.
Their…
Tina Steck : Designing Wellbeing as Global Head of Employee Wellbeing at Unilever| Episode 19
🎠 "My purpose statement comes from my favourite children's book, which is about a girl that wants to become a knight. But of course, because she's a girl, that's impossible. Only boys can become knig…
Dr. Miriam Baumgärtner : Designing Wellbeing as Former Head of Wellbeing and Sustainable People Performance at PWC Switzerland| Episode 18
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜? ... 𝙬𝙚'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠...
... Is it really true that the client expects …
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Richard Safeer MD: Designing Wellbeing as Chief Medical Director, Employee Health and Well-being at Johns Hopkins Medicine| Episode 17
"I was going from one patient to the next in 15 minutes, and it was frustrating because it wasn't enough time to make a difference with my patients. ... I need to be where they are. They're spending …
Nasrin Oskui: Designing Wellbeing as Global Well-being Lead, Director @Deutsche Bank | Episode 16
How many people at your company would answer YES to this question: "D𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝?"
At a recent survey Deutsche Bank 79 % 𝙤𝙛 employees said yes,…
Adina Avram, Dallas FitzPatrick, Shlomit Gruman-Navot: Designing Wellbeing as global HR and DEI Leaders | Episode 15
💡"Reka, you have a podcast! Why don't we continue our conversation there?" - this is what they asked when we finished our panel discussion together with Shlomit Gruman- Navot Dallas FitzPatrick Adina…
Dr. Steven MacGregor: Designing Wellbeing as Professor, Speaker, Author, Advisor | Episode 14
"Wellness is about going to the gym after you finish work. Wellbeing is about the things that you can do within the normal work day."
Episode 14 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out! Tune into t…
Ryan Hopkins: Designing Wellbeing as Author, Chief Impact Officer, TEDx Speaker | Episode 13
❗️"Focusing on not trying to fix people, rather creating the space where they can self serve and fix, because there is a deal of dual accountability." - The big day has come! Episode nr. 13 of the We…
Chris Cummings: Designing Wellbeing as Group CEO @Wellbeing at Work World | Episode 12
⛔ "Measurement and impact is really important. We can't be spending
millions and billions of dollars on developing wellbeing strategies that are just not having an impact."
🔇 Episode 12 of the Wellbein…
Kacy Fleming: Designing Wellbeing as Head, Global Well-Being @Takeda | Episode 11
🔇 Episode 11 of the Wellbeing Designers with Kacy Flaming, Head of Global Wellbeing at Takeda is out today!
🎙️ To make you even more curious to tune in and listen to our conversation, let's do a sma…
Karen Guggenheim: Designing Wellbeing as Founder @WOHASU | Episode 10
Episode 10 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out today! Our guest is the one and only Karen Guggenheim, founder of WOHASU ® and the World Happiness Summit.
When we recorded this, we were not awar…
Jonathan Fisher, MD: Designing Wellbeing as Cardiologist and Wellbeing Leader @Novant Health | Episode 9
"If we don't take care of the people taking care of our patients, our patients are going to suffer." - Episode 9 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast is out today! Our guest is Jonathan Fisher, MD FACC…
Wellbeing Designers Season 2 Intro
In this bonus episode Reka Deak, the host of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast changes her seat. She is interviewed by one of her good friends Isabel Steinhoff. Reka shares about her vision and mission…
Josh Bersin: Designing Wellbeing for Irresistible Organisations | Episode 8
"One of the things we have got to fix is CEOs and CFOs have to understand that GROWTH is dependent on wellbeing. They can't sacrifice wellbeing for growth ...
... I think wellbeing is gonna be part of…
Lisette de Jonge & Julia Cornu: Designing Wellbeing as Global Health & Wellbeing Leaders | Episode 7
In Episode 7 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast we get to know the work of Lisette de Jonge and Julia Cornu, the two Global Health and Wellbeing Leaders at Ingka Group / IKEA based in Sweden.
As a big…
Newton Cheng: Designing Wellbeing as Director of Health + Performance | Episode 6
In Episode 6 of the Wellbeing Designers Podcast we get to know the work of Newton Cheng who is a husband, father, competitive power lifter and Director of Health + Wellbeing Google based in Californi…
Jake Sanders: Designing Wellbeing as Global Wellbeing Initiatives Lead | Episode 5
Jake Sanders shares about his role as Global Wellbeing Initiatives Lead at Philip Morris International. He gives insight into their work and the learnings along the way.
I owe you a short explanation …
Maurice Wery: Designing Wellbeing as Global Wellbeing Manager | Episode 4
Enjoy listening to and learning from Maurice Wery who is
💬 sharing his story how he became the Global Wellbeing Manager of The Adecco Group
💬 giving us some very valuable insights into the details of h…
Nick Davison: Designing Wellbeing as Head of Wellbeing | Episode 3
Enjoy listening to and learning from Nick Davison who is
💬 sharing his story how he became Head of Wellbeing at John Lewis Partnership and held this position for 10 YEARS, 2011-2022
💬 giving us some ve…