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 

Richard is the Managing Director of startup company GoodPAYE, a payroll giving platform. 

GoodPAYE are 100% charity owned and are committed to revolutionising charity donations through payroll giving. 

In today’s podcast Richard talks us through:

• The background of GoodPAYE and how it came to be.

• Payroll giving, what it is, how it works and what the benefits and tax implications are.

• What are the obstacles faced? 

• How do GoodPAYE make payroll giving accessible to all sizes of company. 

• The benefits of working with GoodPAYE when choosing a payroll giving scheme. 

• The future look of payroll giving

 Richard Packman LinkedIn

GoodPAYE website

Leanne is the Network Lead at the cross government volunteer network and for the past 10 years has been the CSR Manager at Companies House. 

In today’s podcast Leanne talks about: 

• Her personal journey, how her life was upended by a serious health diagnosis and how this journey fuelled her passion for CSR.
• The CSR accomplishments she has achieved while at Companies House, including inspiring the high level of engagement in the community.
• How she addressed challenges along the way, How she overcame the constraints of driving CSR forward in a government agency. 
• The successful initiatives that she implemented that were based around the four pillars of CSR at Companies House. How she encouraged a pay it forward culture. The benefits that can be achieved in the workplace by encouraging employees to engage with local charities and encourage collaboration across the company. 
• How government agencies can work together to encourage wellbeing in the workplace, social, emotional and financial, to enable employees to flourish in an inclusive environment. 
• How the new Hybrid or Remote working environment impacted CSR at Companies House.
• Where she sees CSR heading in the next 10 years. What does the future look like?
• Her proudest achievement since being an advocate for CSR. 

LinkedIn Leanne Hugglestone

https://www.bitc.org.uk/

https://mattcallanan.co.uk/

LinkedIn Matt Callanan 

https://linktr.ee/matt.callanan

Today we are joined by Clare Eason who is the Global Head of Corporate and Social Responsibility at the company Lumanity, who are in the healthcare space. 

Back in 2008 Clare joined the company (then known as Cello Health) as an Executive Assistant working with CEO'S. With her background of dealing with Mental Health providers and her passion for wellbeing, culture and charity she was the perfect choice to drive forward CSR. 

After undertaking a specific project for CSR, the role evolved culminating in Clare's latest position as Global Head of CSR, responsible for more than 1250 employees across 40 locations. As a business, Lumanity operate in more than 50 countries.

In today’s podcast we talk through the following questions: 

• As a Global company what cultural differences are found in how CSR is recognised?

• What are some good examples of countries that are fully supportive of CSR and what initiatives have been successfully implemented by them. 

• How can successful local initiatives be replicated across the company? 

• How can connections, wellbeing and high levels of engagement be maintained in today's hybrid working environment? What changes, initiatives and policies have helped? 

• What internal structure and delegated roles do Lumanity use to support and drive forward CSR, including integrating new businesses acquired? 

• What is the framework used to support CSR and what are the CSR key pillars at Lumanity? 

• Why is it important to take a holistic approach to Wellbeing and not just look at Wellbeing in the workplace. Why does a consultative approach work? .  

• Looking at the importance of buy-in from Senior Management and Leadership Teams, what strategies can be adopted to bring them on board. 

References 

Clare Eason LinkedIn

Ed Gillespie LinkedIn

https://markstevenson.org/futurenauts/

Dave Goulson LinkedIn

https://www.thebuzzclub.uk

The Trussell Trust

https://www.timetothink.com

Ellen’s background has primarily been working in mental health or in caring roles. 

Having started out in a caring profession, she has always felt a passion to help, support and care for people in whatever role she was in. 

Ellen has worked for charities, and taken on volunteer roles and after taking a year out to focus on her own well-being, she returned to a role in the private sector being employed by DPD as a well-being manager.

A role then followed at RSK, a sustainable engineering consultancy firm, where she was initially employed as the wellbeing manager but was swiftly promoted to the Wellbeing, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager. Ellen is now responsible for ensuring fair treatment and opportunity across the globe for all RSK employees. 

In today’s podcast we discuss .

• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Ellen explains what it is and how it creates a positive working environment, whilst supporting employee wellbeing.   
• The unique challenges of having responsibility for the wellbeing of employees across 15 countries, maintaining inclusiveness across different cultures.  
• The initiatives that RSK have specifically created to support EDI and wellbeing, including the creation of employee networks. How do they operate, what value do they bring and how do they relate to the 5 wellbeing pillars? 
• The importance of holding employers accountable for new wellbeing initiatives, but at the same time being honest and clear with expectations. Also, how to maximise engagement of new initiatives.  
• What the future looks like in terms of wellbeing in the workplace, both emotional and financial. 
• Wellbeing strategies to support work/life balance and the necessity to take a pro-active approach.  
• How to use data to create a business plan for a new wellbeing service or benefit. How to sell the potential value to senior management.   

References 

Ellen Lapworth-Maisey LinkedIn

The Mental Health Foundation

https://thehummingbirdproject.org.uk/

Beginning her career in hospitality operations and sales, Jane progressed into roles where she was able to mentor and develop others. This included teaching life skills to those that were unemployed or underemployed.

She moved back into the Corporate sector working in talent management and organisational development and

Jane has now been at Delt Shared Services for 5 years and is currently their Chief People and Culture officer. She is passionate about employee wellbeing and creating that great place to work.

In today’s podcast we discuss 

• What initiatives have Delt Shared Services implemented to create the best culture. How do they get the best out of people through employee and leadership development? 
• The importance of investing in people, through performance management, making people feel valued and having the ‘right’ training and development in place. 
• The value of ‘in person’ wellness check ins in an organisation, from employees to senior management.   How to ask the right questions to record meaningful results and identify changes/improvements required. 
• The importance of integrating Charity activity within an organisation to support the community, as well as encouraging employee engagement. 
• How Hybrid/Remote working successfully operates within the Delt Shared Services organisation. How to get that  ‘buzz’ back in the workplace and the challenges of remote employee engagement. 
• The essential role of leaders to ensure psychological safety in the workplace. 

References 

Delt Shared Services Ltd - Primary Schools Challenge?https://m.facebook.com › ... › Videos

Jane White LinkedIn

Skillsoft E Learning

https://brenebrown.com