E2: Mia Kyricos
The Future of Wellbeing Podcast:
Join us as we delve into the world of workplace wellbeing with a focus on where we are headed in the years to come. We will explore the relationship between wellbeing, performance, and commitment to the organisation, as well as the significance of measuring wellbeing.
Episode 2 Guest:
Mia Kyricos, Chief Love Officer™ at Kyricos & Associates (K&A)
First, you might be thinking: What’s a Chief Love Officer? Mia recently studied and published findings on the power of LOVE as a business strategy, resulting in the development of a master class and a title upgrade to the world's first Chief Love Officer™.
Recently named the Leading Woman in Wellness, and Cornell University’s Alumna of the Year, Mia’s work and expertise has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Skift, Smart Money, Hotel Business, Travel Weekly, Market Watch and more. She sits on the advisory boards of Wellness for Cancer, Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, and the Global Wellness Institute™, a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation she helped to found. Her mission is to help people live well, and based on her latest research, to love more.
Topics:
00:00 Love as a Business strategy, how it can manifest into positivity management and its impact on the bottom line
02:15 About Kyricos Associates
03:40 Mia's story and calling to improve human health and business performance
05:49 Mapping wellbeing in the workplace to performance as a business objective
07:53 Shining light on the impact of wellbeing on performance through data
08:57 Reinventing the future of work
10:38 Let's stop trying to fix people and let's start trying to fix work
11:43 Return on Investment compared to Return on Impact
12:13 The domino effect: The importance of leaders and line managers in role-modelling wellbeing
13:42 Wellbeing non-negotiable and managing expectations
16:23 How are you today?
18:03 Go-to strategies to ‘empty you head’ the night before and start your day well
20:23 If you’re broken down and tired… (Rise up)
24:57 Wellbeing compared to Wellness.
26:37 Is the state of wellbeing a privilege?
29:33 Future of wellbeing and our shared responsibility to realise wellbeing first
31:14 The power of community in supporting each other’s wellbeing
33:20 Systemic wellbeing and helping wellbeing become part of every organisation’s DNA
36:05 How to start a ripple by targeting the cause of the issue
39:50 How to catalyse a sea-change when it comes to wellbeing (and not just in the workplace)
41:45 Exciting work in progress