Mark launched Run Grateful in 2020 during the Pandemic. He wanted to encourage people to embark on a mindful journey, inspiring and connecting runners and walkers across the world through gratitude.

Today Mark shares the inspiration behind Run Grateful and how it came about. He talks about his own personal journey, including the positive results he was able to achieve from finding a mindful way of moving, particularly running

During lockdown, he used social media to share his own experience, and he launched the initiative of running ‘A grateful mile’ 

Specifically Mark shares with us

• The power of running and movement whilst practicing mindfulness and gratitude 

• Run Grateful’s mission, including how they hope to promote gratitude and mindfulness in the corporate world through movement. 

• The initiatives that have been successful 

• What makes Run Grateful unique and a great partner to work with

• The challenges they have faced on their journey so far 

• What the future plans, initiatives and strategies are for Run Grateful 

References 

https://www.rungrateful.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/meusrungrateful/

Joe is currently a student at Edinburgh University. Whilst pursuing his studies in Politics he has developed and launched a start up business providing a platform to support sustainable choices when shopping.. 

Today Joe talks us through

• the journey of the platform including the development of an App with a niche around sustainable shopping.
• the research needed to identify a target market of potential purchasers, and a build a values based customer base 
• the tech and team involved in keeping the platform constantly up to date 
• the passion and drive he has to move his relationship forward with sustainability 
• his ambition to grow the business to be revenue generating whilst supporting consumers to consider their sustainability choices. 
• the importance of collaboration with sustainable partners and companies 
• the tracking of data and results based on progressive KPIs

Joe Lipman LinkedIn

Name App: Watch, Earn, Shop

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/name-watch-earn-shop/id1638106199

Sapling Spirits 

Greta Thunberg

Daniel is currently in the role of Global Workplace & Wellbeing Lead at Dentsu International who are a global marketing and advertising agency.

Although Daniel’s current role is within the global HR team he started out working for the NHS in the UK and also worked in the private sector. He was employed as both a nurse and health consultant to businesses, supporting employee wellness with his health knowledge. 

He then went on to explore other cultures and countries, including Hong Kong. He began at this time to act as a consultant to companies where he was able to explore and advise on the wellbeing propositions being offered. 

Daniel now has an in-house role at Dentsu responsible for the wellbeing of employees across the global organisation.

In today’s podcast Daniel talks us through:

• The experience of working in the wellbeing/wellness sector in other countries, 
• The specific initiatives that have been successfully introduced at Dentsu to support employees, and the importance of collecting data
• The cultural differences that exist when looking at wellbeing/wellness propositions in a global organisation and how these are managed
• How wellbeing initiatives have been affected by the Hybrid and Remote working environment
• What he sees as the current wellbeing challenges facing leaders   
• The wellbeing key pillars and principles at Dentsu
• What the future opportunities look like for wellbeing in the workplace and what advice he would give to wellbeing leaders    

 References and links 

  Daniel Chan   

Jen Fisher Deloitte LinkedIn

   instagram.com/jenfish23 

Adam Grant 

Harvard Health Education