For the twenty-ninth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Dr. Alan Watkins!

Dr. Watkins is recognised as an international expert on leadership and human performance. Over the past 24 years, he has been a coach to many top business leaders and worked with the GB Olympic squad, coaches, and athletes before London 2012 and Rio 2016. Originally trained as a medical doctor at Imperial College in London, he worked for 11 years in the UK’s National Health Service, in primary care in Australia, and for a year in academic medical research in the USA. He ended up in Neuroscience research before leaving medicine to work with global business leaders.

He founded Complete in 2004, drawing on his background as a physician and neuroscientist. Since it began, Alan and the Complete team have helped thousands of leaders, teams, and organisations to grow with transformational coaching and development programmes.

Dr. Watkins has recently added to his impressive portfolio in writing the book “Step Change: The Leader’s Journey”. With change being such a topical discussion point that has fascinated so many at the moment, there was no better time to invite him back to delve into a fascinating discussion.

Our conversation delved into areas including why we avoid change, why we need to get better at making people comfortable with change, resistance and the imposition of change, the nature of change, the four phases of change in our lives, getting out of your comfort zone, the disease of meaning, and how to upgrade yourself in creating a more effective and sophisticated version of ourselves.

For the twenty-eighth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we interviewed Michael Jenkins!

Michael is an Adjunct Associate Professor (Management and Organisation) at the National University of Singapore Business School. He has been named as one of the UK’s ‘Most Influential Thinkers in HR’ by HR Magazine and named this year as one of HR’s top HR Influencers in APAC by The Economic Times. He authored Expert Humans: Critical Leadership Skills for a Disrupted World (2021) and Toxic Humans – Combatting Poisonous Leadership in Boards and Organisations (2024).

In this episode, you will discover what a toxic human is, and whether you might be one! Could you be a monster, a mouse, or even a moaner? We discuss systemic toxic collusion and fragile masculinity, along with why boards need to meet regularly and have more direct engagement between their members and employees to better understand their organisational culture.

For the twenty-seventh episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we had the pleasure of interviewing Marcelo Chiavone Pontes

Our conversation delved into several key themes: energy, heart, and passion; performance and innovation; feedback; discipline and teamwork; the vital role of fun and celebration in maintaining individual commitment; and the significance of diversity, inclusion, ownership, and loyalty. Leaders have much to learn from Samba, particularly in creating a vibrant and high-performance culture within their organisations.