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.

For the twenty-sixth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we interviewed 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.

For the twenty-fifth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast series, we interviewed MVN Rao, along with our co-presenter Joyoti Banerji!

MVN Rao is the Head of Corporate Learning and Development at Larsen & Toubro (L&T) group of companies who employ nearly 250, 000 people! Headquartered in Mumbai, L&T is one of the largest and most respected companies in India’s private sector. With over 80 years of a strong, customer-focused approach and a continuous quest for world-class quality, L&T has unmatched capabilities across Technology, Engineering, Construction, and Manufacturing, maintaining leadership in all its major lines of business.

Throughout our discussion, we talk about new world competencies, changing career paths, the real-life application of AI in L&D, the hyper-personalization of the learning experience, how L&D can be a critical differentiator of your employer brand and much more.

For the twenty-fourth episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we interviewed Sujoy Banerjee!

Sujoy Banerjee is the Group Chief People Officer & Group Head of Marketing, Communication & PR at Gainwell Group. He is a HR professional with 31 years of experience across industries like Automobile, Tyre, Chemical, Gases, Consumer Goods, Industrial Products, IT, Pharmaceutical, FMCG and Infrastructure & Construction, and has been named as one of the 100 most influential Global HR professionals by the World HRD Congress. Gainwell employs over 3,500 people with offices in West Virginia in the US, and offices in Newcastle in New South Wales Australia, and their HQ is in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) India.

During our discussion, we discussed India and its demographic dividend, the changes that have occurred post-pandemic, the Gainwell company culture, why their values are the glue that keeps the organisation and its people connected, what the alpha generation is demanding and why he gives them a direct access hotline to his desk and much more.

For the twenty second episode of The Work Healthy Podcast, we interviewed Professor David A. Clark - Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology in the University of New Brunswick, Canada and a practising clinical psychologist with over 30 years in providing cognitive behavioural treatment for depression, anxiety and OCD.

In our interview, Professor Clark compares and contrasts stress and anxiety, discusses triggers and symptoms, categorises the main forms of anxiety and shares the main treatment approaches including CBT and exposure therapy, and shares his advice to organisations wishing to support their people with their mental health, and much more.