E5: Mark Kelly
The Future of Wellbeing Podcast:
Join us as we delve into the world of workplace wellbeing with a focus on where we are headed in the years to come. We will explore the relationship between wellbeing, performance, and commitment to the organisation, as well as the significance of measuring wellbeing.
Episode 5 Guest:
Mark Kelly, Global Head of Benefits & Wellbeing at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Arctic Explorer | Ancestral Health Coach
Topics:
00:00 How are you today?
4:00 Nasal Breathing as a natural regulator [Reference to Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art By James Nestor, and Mark's sleep kit]
8:13 Similarities between athletes training in sports, and corporate athletes, conducting business in the corporate world)
9:58 Not all stress is bad and the idea behind burnout being a physiological condition as opposed to a mental health condition [reference to James Hewitt]
12: 29 High cognitive-performance-environments and the importance of getting "World-class Basics". [Reference to The High Performance podcast]
15:38 Giving ourselves the gift of self-reflection. Controlling the controllable. Accepting that sometimes "It is what is it".
18:26 Lessons learned from the Artic Circle Expedition. [Mark's post, Reference to Geoff McDonald]
26:00 Music as a Mood Booster [Children by Robert Miles]
29:13 If the Future of Wellbeing were…
39.36 What does the future of wellbeing look like for you?
42:28 And it's not just about raising awareness and education. And it's definitely not about making people change. It's about enabling people to make the change they want to make. It's about enabling them to embrace wellbeing and be intentional about it. It's about lifestyle change. Sustainable change and how better wellbeing fuels performance.
46:06 The Corporate social responsibility to change ways of working by normalising mental health conversations, and the personal responsibility to bring our honest self forward. The power of rethinking Teams. [Reference to Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (also a movie)]
48:30 Focus on leadership: inspiring leaders to make their own change and the ripple effect it creates; helping line managers help themselves. [Check out FormScore for Leaders and FormScore for Managers]