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Welcome to Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing, produced by OOt Social Health and powered by the Global Wellbeing Council. Hosted by Thyagi DeLanerolle, Executive Director of the Global Wellbeing Council, this podcast explores the future of leadership through one core belief: when people and the planet thrive, organizations thrive. Each episode brings you conversations with forward-thinking executives, authors, and innovators who are redefining what high performance looks like in the age of AI — where human connection, creativity, and conscious leadership are the real drivers of people, planet, and profits. Together, we explore practical strategies to strengthen belonging, elevate wellbeing, and build cultures where people feel connected, energized, and equipped to do their best work. Our guests share research-backed insights and real-world practices spanning the employee lifecycle — from hiring to retirement — with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion. Join us as we turn wellbeing into action, and action into lasting impact. This is Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing — where conscious leadership becomes the catalyst for thriving people, thriving organizations, and a thriving planet.

  1. 1d ago

    The Wolf At the Door With Elizabeth Heider

    Physicist. Operations research analyst. Space scientist. Crime novelist. Elizabeth Heider doesn't have a career path — she has a pursuit. She holds a doctorate in physics from Tufts. She has worked with the US Navy, INTERPOL, Northrop Grumman, NASA, and the European Space Agency. She has operated alongside military personnel across Army, Navy, Marines, and Special Forces. And then, in 2024, she published May the Wolf Die — a crime novel set in Naples that the New York Times named one of the Best Crime Novels of 2024, the Washington Post named one of the Best Mystery Novels of 2024, and Publishers Weekly starred and named one of its Best Books of 2024. The sequel, Children of the Savage City, followed in February 2026 to immediate critical acclaim. Her protagonist, Nikki Serafino, asks a question that sits at the heart of this podcast: How do I remain ethical in a broken world? Is it possible to fight the wolves without becoming one? That question is not fictional. It is the question Elizabeth has been living across a career at the intersection of science, research, military operations, and literature. She has seen power up close. She has watched systems break people. She has studied how surveillance enables authoritarianism and how corporate greed reshapes the planet. And she has chosen, deliberately, to respond through story — because fiction, she believes, is one of the most honest ways we have of telling the truth.

    The Wolf At the Door With Elizabeth Heider

  2. Sep 3

    The Human Infrastructure with Aaron Minkovich

    Aaron Minkovich is a technology leader who has spent over two decades at the intersection of transformation, scale, and human complexity. As Chief Technology and Security Officer at Manulife, he oversees one of Canada's most consequential technology ecosystems — spanning cloud platforms, AI, DevSecOps, 5G, and global distributed teams — within a highly regulated financial services environment. But what makes Aaron a compelling voice for the Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing podcast is not just his technical range. It is the humanity that shows up alongside it. He walks for cancer research in honour of his father-in-law. He cheers his teams on charity rides. He champions the people behind the platforms. In a domain that often reduces humans to headcount and systems to tickets, Aaron seems to understand that the engine of great technology is, fundamentally, people — and that people run best when they are well. That mirrors Manulife's own mission of making decisions easier and lives better — connecting financial wellbeing directly to health, so people can live longer, healthier, more optimized lives. Aaron isn't just running the systems; he's building the infrastructure behind that mission at global scale. This conversation explores what wellbeing looks like at the top of one of Canada's most complex technology organizations: the weight of transformation, the pressure of responsible AI in a regulated world, the resilience required to lead global teams through constant change, and why the most powerful infrastructure a CTO can build might not be in the cloud — but in the culture.

    The Human Infrastructure with Aaron Minkovich

  3. Aug 26

    Technology and Heart with Eric Whaley

    Eric Whaley is a CIO who has spent three decades quietly doing something that most technology leaders only talk about: building cultures where people actually want to show up. Across Canada Trust, HSBC, IIROC, and now Wolseley Canada — part of Ferguson, the country's leading national distributor of plumbing, HVAC/R, and PVF products — Eric has led transformations of extraordinary complexity while consistently being described in one way: as someone who engages and motivates people and builds highly collaborative work cultures. Known as a business technology executive with a talent for leveraging technology and building inspired teams, Eric is recognized for his leadership in setting goals and fostering collaboration. Outside of his day-to-day work, he stays connected to the startup community and emerging technologies through partnerships with educational institutions and participation in community forums. This conversation explores what it means to lead technology transformation with a fundamentally human orientation — how collaborative cultures are built and sustained through change, what wellbeing looks like inside organizations navigating digital disruption, and why the softest skills in a CIO's toolkit may be the most strategically consequential ones of all.

    Technology and Heart with Eric Whaley

  4. Aug 19

    Sustaining High Performance with Amisha Miller

    Amisha Miller brings a rare perspective to the conversation on wellbeing at work — one forged over more than two decades of operational leadership within a single organization. Rising from Office Manager to VP of Services & Operations at Levata Canada, a global IT services and technology products distributor specializing in barcode, RFID, access control, POS, and networking solutions, Amisha has lived through every phase of organizational evolution: growth, restructuring, rebranding, and the ever-accelerating pace of technology change. Her journey is not just a career story — it is a masterclass in resilience, adaptability, and the kind of institutional trust that only comes from staying deeply committed to people and purpose over time. In a world that increasingly celebrates the new hire and the fast mover, Amisha represents something we rarely celebrate enough: the wisdom and wellbeing that comes from depth, loyalty, and staying the course. This episode explores what it takes to sustain personal wellbeing through decades of organizational change, how operational leaders can cultivate cultures where people genuinely thrive, and why the human infrastructure of a business matters just as much as the technology it deploys.

    Sustaining High Performance with Amisha Miller

  5. Aug 14

    When the Mission is Home with Brent Maney

    Brent Maney is an Air Force Pararescue veteran and Department of Defence Human Space Flight Support specialist, he has built his professional life around a single principle: when conditions are at their worst, you go in anyway. That creed That Others May Live, is not a motto. It is an operating system. But the most demanding mission of Brent's life didn't come with a uniform. In 2007, his wife Trudie was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease at 33. What followed wasn't a crisis to manage and resolve. It became the permanent structure of their life: cognitive changes, financial collapse, bankruptcy, foreclosure, and the compounding weight of full-time caregiving alongside full-time federal work. No exit ramp. No end in sight. What Brent did next is what makes him essential for this conversation. He didn't soldier through alone. He didn't perform resilience. He did the actual work: therapy, veteran programs, licensed counselling, coaching — and he sat, unflinchingly, with what sustained pressure had cost him. Out of that reckoning, he created HeldLight: a platform built on the radical premise that real strength isn't the absence of struggle. It's the willingness to name it. For executives who lead through uncertainty, carry invisible weight, and are expected to project composure while absorbing pressure, Brent doesn't offer a model for avoiding discomfort. He offers something far more valuable: a hard-won, battle-tested framework for moving through it and emerging more capable, more grounded, and more genuinely fit to lead.

    When the Mission is Home with Brent Maney

  6. Aug 6

    Leading Through Complexity with Tyler Chalk

    Tyler Chalk, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at Southlake Health, a large healthcare organization that is embarking on one of the most significant healthcare transformation efforts in Canada—shifting from a traditional hospital-centric model toward a Distributed Health Network model that redefines how care is designed, delivered, and scaled. At its core, his work is about strategic system redesign under extreme complexity—balancing population growth, resource constraints, infrastructure pressure, and evolving community needs. While grounded in healthcare, the principles extend far beyond it. This conversation is designed for leaders across sectors who are navigating transformation, scale, and uncertainty. It explores how Tyler’s approach to system-level strategy, execution discipline, and cross-sector collaboration can inform how executives think about strategy, operating models, and long-term value creation in their own organizations.

  7. Jul 17

    Seeing Human Potential with Dr. Ulrich Vogel

    Dr. Ulrich Vogel has spent more than 25 years helping organizations understand what truly drives people. As the founder of profilingvalues, he has conducted over 7,000 assessments using a values based approach that reveals the deeper structures shaping how we think, lead, and relate to others. In this conversation, Uli challenges the assumptions we make about talent, performance, and potential. We explore why behaviours can be misleading, how blind spots emerge, and what happens when organizations fail to recognize the qualities they say they value most. Together, we examine what it means to see people more clearly and why doing so may be one of the most powerful ways to strengthen wellbeing, build healthier cultures, and unlock human potential.

    Seeing Human Potential with Dr. Ulrich Vogel

  8. Jul 9

    Growth Through Trust with Jeff Schwartz

    Jeff Schwartz is a CEO who believes that how you treat people — customers, employees, partners — is not a soft consideration sitting alongside the business strategy. It is the strategy. His leadership journey began not in a corporate boardroom, but around a campfire at Camp Timberlane in Haliburton, Ontario, where his time as a camper, counsellor, and unit head instilled in him lessons of teamwork, resilience, and community that became the foundation of his leadership style. From there, nearly two decades at Bell Canada and a high-growth run at Brookfield Infrastructure's Enercare brought him to Go Lime — Canada's leading digital first provider of home and commercial services — where he has led one of the most interesting business transformations in the Canadian consumer market: dismantling an opaque, high-pressure rental industry and replacing it with radical transparency, digital access, and genuine customer trust. Go Lime was founded to restore transparency, trust, and choice to the home comfort industry — and under Jeff's leadership, it has done exactly that, earning nearly 7500 five-star reviews and closing a transformational partnership with Basalt Infrastructure Partners in 2025. He also holds a Workplace Mental Health Leadership certification from Queen's University — a quiet but telling signal that his people-first language is more than positioning.

    Growth Through Trust with Jeff Schwartz
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Welcome to Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing, produced by OOt Social Health and powered by the Global Wellbeing Council. Hosted by Thyagi DeLanerolle, Executive Director of the Global Wellbeing Council, this podcast explores the future of leadership through one core belief: when people and the planet thrive, organizations thrive. Each episode brings you conversations with forward-thinking executives, authors, and innovators who are redefining what high performance looks like in the age of AI — where human connection, creativity, and conscious leadership are the real drivers of people, planet, and profits. Together, we explore practical strategies to strengthen belonging, elevate wellbeing, and build cultures where people feel connected, energized, and equipped to do their best work. Our guests share research-backed insights and real-world practices spanning the employee lifecycle — from hiring to retirement — with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion. Join us as we turn wellbeing into action, and action into lasting impact. This is Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing — where conscious leadership becomes the catalyst for thriving people, thriving organizations, and a thriving planet.

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  • Creator
    Global Wellbeing Council
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    80
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Employee Wellbeing Council OOt Inc.
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