Workplace Therapy Scott Arrieta, Sarah Gould, Skylar Lewandowski

The most valuable lessons about business and leadership are not learned in the classroom. When it comes to developing the next generation of high-impact leaders, there is simply no substitute for experience and mentorship. On this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, our guest Candice Seiger gives us a healthy dose of both.



Candice is a seasoned strategy and operations executive who has worked for major brands like Carnival, Hyatt and AAA. She currently sits on the board for American Public Television and holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In this week's episode, Candice shares the four essential ingredients to her success as a leader and offers advice to deveoping leaders on how to scale their impact by focusing on what matters most - the people.

The promotion process at most companies can be frustratingly opaque. In this week's episode of the Workplace Therapy Podcast, Annie Brown - Head of People at Fi gives us an insider's peek behind the veil of performance reviews and promotion decisions and gives some invaluable advice to employees and managers navigating the process.

We expect a lot of things from leaders in the modern workplace and perhaps chief among them is the expectations that leaders maintain resilience, composure and stability during times of uncertainty and change. That can sometimes be a tall order as today's workplace experiences a volume and velocity of change that is often times overwhelming.



In this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, certified somatic coaches Scott and Monica Arrieta from Unity & Company interview Dr. Susan Bernstein, CEO of Shift Beyond Strategies. Dr. Bernseitn holds a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology and an MBA from UC Berkley. She leverages her unique blend of business acumen and deep expertise in somatic psychology to work with organizations to produce more adaptable and self-aware leaders who in turn serve as catalysts for organizational growth.

Burnout in the workplace is one of the most costly business problems in the workplace today. Mass layoffs and increased productivity expectations have left workers feeling unappreciated, unseen and emotionally and physically depleted. Burnout fuels employee disengagement, attrition, lost productivity and a host of other negative business outcomes.

On this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, we speak with Azizi Marshall, CEO of the Center for Creative Arts Therapy on how the cure for burnout might come from an unexpected place - the creative arts.

True innovation comes from a place of authenticity. How then, can organizations hope to cultivate and harness innnovation in a time where it feels more difficult than ever to be yourself in the workplace?

In this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, Scott Arrieta (CEO of Unity and Company) and Skylar Lewandowski speak with Janine Dennis of Talent Think Innovations on the elusive goal of being yourself in the workplace and reaping the benefits of embracing authenticity versus conformity.

We’re starting a new series here on The Workplace Therapy Podcast called Weaponized Words, where we examine the lexicon we use in the workplace and try to unpack how certain words and phrases might have and unintended impact in our organizations. This week, my co-host Skylar Lewandowski and I take a look at the often-weaponized word, “productivity.” We discuss what productivity is, what it isn’t, where leaders commonly trip up when evaluating productivity and what we can learn to do differently.