Episode 56

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29th Feb 2024

How To Engage Your Workforce: Turning Wellbeing Intention Into Action with Jon Davies

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking to Jon Davies. Jon is a behavioural science expert and the founder of Leafyard, a platform that motivates people to take control of their own mental health using behavioural science. In the last 15 years, Jon has co-founded a series of successful startups, and he continues to champion mental health wellbeing in the workplace.

In this episode, we're exploring the reasons why we don't do the things we should and how we can actively change that.

Here are the highlights:

(07:36) If we just understand each other a bit better, we can solve problems without relying on technology all the time.

(10:26) What are the things that work to make you feel better?

(12:53) If you don't make habits, habits make you.

(19:02) What are the financial implications of poor mental health and mental fitness within business?

(38:25) It’s got to be about lasting change.

Useful links:

Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence & Morality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVl5kMXz1vA

Leafyard: https://www.leafyard.com/

Is Your Company Wellbeing Washing? Podcast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-wellbeing-rebellion/id1675517581?i=1000629448465

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Website: https://aurorawellnessgroup.co.uk/

Ngozi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-weller-aurora/

Obehi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obehi-alofoje-psychologist-aurora/

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About the Podcast

The Wellbeing Rebellion
Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion, an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy.

This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time.

The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within.

This is where the conversation needs to shift.

On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity.

Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice.

If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

About your hosts

Obehi Alofoje

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Obehi is a psychologist and culture change consultant who helps senior HR and business leaders reduce employee burnout, absenteeism & talent attrition through mental wellbeing strategy, training & coaching.

Ngozi Weller

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Ngozi Weller is a culture change consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive.