Work Life by Design

Taking over the lease on a fitted out workplace to support your organisational growth often makes sense on paper however, I often see the intangible costs of this decision realised down line. In this episode I'll share with you how these intangible costs show up and the impact on the performance of your business and how you can begin to build the capability internally to transform your business. ...

One of the things that I observed during the last 12mths was how we likened the experience of the pandemic to the themes and realities of science fiction movies.  Some more positive experiences such as the opportunities that technology has enabled to connect us into a global community, and others less so, as we navigated the changes to our realities with the introduction of a virus that was beyond...

There has been much discussion about what the future of work will look like and the decisions that some organisations have already taken, and some at the extremes; to remain working remotely for good or mandated returns to the office. In this episode I'm taking you through Matt Mullenweg's, 5 Levels of Autonomy.  As the Founder of Automattic, the creators of Wordpress and a fully distributed workf...

The global pandemic has had a significant impact on the way we all work and live, and this impact has had a flow on effect to our wellbeing; physically, mentally and emotionally.  As you'll hear in this conversation, its not only our work and life that we need to be considering its also our wellbeing and performance. Today's guest is Dr Adrian Medhurst, the co-founder of Benny Button a  work-life...

We have recently celebrated International Women's Day with the theme #choosetochallnenge and I had the pleasure of sitting on the panel at Orange Digitals recent event, alongside Nicolette Baker and Brooke Jamieson moderated by Liz Ballantyne. This is a collection of my takeaways and thoughts from the event of where we could continue to choose to challenge and what this looks as both men and women...

Claudette is the Head of Property Strategy & Performance at Australia Post where she is responsible for managing their corporate property portfolio and the continual evolution of their workplace to support the highly dynamic and changing organisation. Claudette has worked in the property industry for 25 years, graduating from RMIT with a degree in Interior Design. Claudette's focus quickly centred...

The pandemic has changed the way we work forever. In Season 2 of Work Life by Design, we will be exploring what the future of work looks like and impact that COVID has had on how, where and why we work.  We will be looking at how workplace design has evolved, the expectations of employees and employers, the health & wellbeing agenda and our need to belong. I'll be bringing you guests from a wide r...

A question I am asked A. LOT!  But I can also tell you that many companies don't allow enough time! 😖 The answer is not that straight forward.... it depends 🤷‍♀️ Today I talk you through the variables that impact how long it takes to design and build the workplace of your dreams! So you can make sure you don't leave your run too late and need to compromise on one of your largest business investm...

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work!  If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. While many organisations have the best of intentions in supporting their employee's wellbeing, we need to be looking beyond offering a fruit box or introducing a s...

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work!  If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. It wasn't until we all packed up and went home during our first lockdown at the end of March 2020, that we realised the impact that having a daily routine and ritu...

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work!  If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. Purpose is the reason an organisation exists beyond making money. Finding our purpose as an organisation can be a difficult path to navigate.  Not because we don't...

To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I'll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work!  If you'd like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. To kick it off today I'm talking about reimagining our future of work.  What we need to be observing in our organisations, the data we need to be collecting and th...

Doors open to Your Workplace Future Ready next week!!! Tuesday 23rd February.   What is Your Workplace Future Ready? This is my signature 7 week online program where I guide you through the 5 pillars that underpin the workplace dynamics in every organisation. There is an art and a science to creating high performing workplace that people actually love and want to be in everyday and over the last 2...

Well, we didn't see that one coming, and like many I'm sure that we could all use a drink and good lie down after this year! This episode was a challenging one to record, because honestly it has been an incredibly difficult year, but none the less, here we are.  2020 has been the year that saw us switch to working from home overnight, achieving something that years of change programs have struggle...

Fiona is the Founder and CEO of Naked Ambition, a design-led innovation company.  She is also the host of Naked Ambition the Podcast where she interviews the people who are making an impact in leadership, Innovation and design, across the world. As a fellow design thinking and purpose led business owner I'm really excited to have been able to interview Fiona on how she has supported the transforma...

Gaining clarity on our own sense of purpose and the values that we wish to live by form the foundation from which we can then live out a life of alignment.  When we are unclear on these aspects of our life, we can get off course, make decisions that don't feel right and enable others to make decisions for us, as we have no real clarity on where we are heading, our North Star. By centring ourselves...

Cassandra Goodman is a coach, facilitator and the author of the newly realised book  Self-Fidelity .  With over three decades of business experience across multiple industries she has held many different senior leadership roles, including Global Director of Employee Experience at a healthcare company where she activated the organisation's purpose 'Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives' for their 86,000...

Have you ever considered the link between the values and the expected behaviours in your organisation?  When we set the values of our organisation, we need to go deeper in order to clearly communicate the expectations of our culture.  In going to that next level we are looking at the behaviours that we expect to see when we are living in alignment with the values of our organisation.  When we have...

In today's episode, the tables are turned and I'm being interviewed by Amanda Bulow from the Awesome Women Podcast.  We discussed; all things workplace design, how our workplaces have evolved, the different types of typologies and space settings that we have in our workplace environments, we debate whether or not the open plan office is dead, what we might be expecting to see in our workplaces in...

Creating a new workplace environment can be a really exciting, but also a pretty daunting time.  So it's important to get the right people on your team to guide you. This episode gives you a shopping list of the external advisors that you might want to have on your side and engaging with across your journey.  Designing and building your new workplace doesn't happen all that often and you want all...

Tom Price is the Founding Director of Aston Qld and Simon Backhouse is the company's Associate Director of Workplace Technology.  Aston are specialist building services engineers and technology consultants operating solely in the commercial workplace sector.  They are dedicated to delivering advice, design and technical support in the areas of engineering and workplace technology.  With clients su...

Achieving optimal results from your next workplace requires input from a variety of stakeholders. It requires a diverse range of opinions and view points to ensure that you have looked at the possibilities from the view point of each of the users, and you might even be a little surprised by what you learn about your organisation. In this episode I'll be guiding you through who you should be involv...

Does that "ping" of your email make your whole body tense?  Chances are you could be experiencing "digital stress".  Dr Kristy Goodwin is a speaker, author, researcher and media commentator exploring the impacts that our digitalised lives have on our physical health, mental wellbeing and productivity. She works with organisations, both big and small, to optimise employees' digital wellbeing and pr...

An organisations brand is far more than a logo, website or a suite of colours. It is the representation of the organisations purpose, why they exist, where they came from and where they are going. It is their story and personality. Your brand is much more than a logo and a suite of colours. Your brand is a representation of who you are, what you stand for and how you want people to experience you....

As humans we are hardwired for social connection in order to survive, a deep need to feel like we belong.  My guest in this episode helps us to understand the connection between organisational culture and the rules of belonging.  Fiona Robertson is a culture and leadership expert, she is also the author of R ules of Belonging - change your organisational culture, delight your people and turbo-char...