Better, Faster, Happier

In this episode, we discuss with Happify's science advisor and Head of Behavioural Science at Vervoe Orin Davis. Orin shares his thoughts on what it takes for organizations and startups to create a better, faster and happier organizational environment. We cover a wide range of topic from working smarter to psychological safety and authentic innovation.  Personally I learned a lot from Orin and hopefully, you will get value from this episode as well.  Find out more about Orin via his website: http://qllab.org/pi/

In this episode, we discuss with FatFree Media's founder and Director Kate Rostance. Kate shares her thoughts on monitoring your business health both from a financial and mental health perspective. We talk about a wide range of topics from saying no to projects that don't bring value to not needing to abide by the same rules as big businesses.  Kate does a great job at reminding us that we make the rule book when it comes to better, faster and happier.  Find out more about Fat-Free Media here: https://www.fatfreemedia.co.uk/      

In this episode, we discuss with Chris Lacinak, the founder and president from AVP.  We explore the topic of continuous improvement and the shadow of perfectionism. In particular, Chris does a great job in providing examples of how AVP is trying to embed continuous improvement and balance of happiness into their DNA. Find out more about AVP here: https://www.weareavp.com    

In this episode, we discuss with Dr Aneika Simmons and her husband, Anjuan Simmons, are public speakers who operate at the intersection of business and technology. They share their thoughts about how managing stress can help organisations achieve better business outcomes, deliver faster value to customers, and create a happier workforceHere's the link that covers the topic of their talk at The Lead Developer conference in New York back in April https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/managing-the-burnout-burndown/here's a direct link to a video of us giving the talk: https://youtu.be/e2dgOfedI3A  

In this episode we have an awesome chat with Gidion from Organize Agile, who are based in The Netherlands and New York. We explore what happens when we adopt agile or other tools such as OKRs without a clear sense of what culture we want to build. Moreover we also explored the idea of a leadership team working like a scrum team, imagine the mayhem and awesomeness that would come out of it. Then we also dive into the impact broken relationships have on organisation culture.You may also want to know that Organize Agile are doing a world wide investigation into the state of Agile HR across businesses and sectors. You can access more information on this via their website, right here.Had a light bulb moment on how we can improve the podcast or want to appear on the show as a quest? Then drop me an email: Nancy.evbuomwan@gmail.com

I had the honour to speak to Shar and Frank from Plural Futures lab on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations.Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:🔍 The challenge is to find a balance between efficiency and effectiveness.🎁 We often work based on assumptions, what happens when we get the customer in the room and get them to define what better, faster and happier means and look like.🙏 What happens when a team is able to understand the uniqueness and strengths that each individual brings.Had a light bulb moment on how we can improve the podcast or want to appear on the show as a quest? Then drop me an email: Nancy.evbuomwan@gmail.com