Leading modern work and workforce: connecting to meaning and purpose with Professor Himanshu Tambe.

05/05/24 • 64 min

In S5 E5 I am delighted to welcome Professor Himanshu Tambe to the podcast. Himanshu's passion is to empower individuals and organisations to thrive through continuous education. He is currently Visiting Faculty at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Indian School of Business (ISB) teaching Design of Business, Organisation Design, Leadership and Workforce Analytics. He also operates an early-stage software product company focused on optimising operations. Prior to this, he held several senior roles with Accenture Strategy & Consulting, the last one being the Managing Director for the Talent & Organisation Consulting business in Southeast Asia and India. Before that he worked for Arthur D Little, the world's oldest consulting firm; established and operated a niche Strategy and Organisation Design company; and worked as an automobile manufacturing engineer at the very start of his career.
Over a 30-year career in consulting and industry, he has proudly served more than 100 organisations across Public Sector, Metals & Mining and Banking in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Australia, and Europe. His work has been focused on designing and implementing Business Models, Organisation Design, Process Models, and Large-Scale Behaviour Change to deliver measurable improvements in the performance of people and organization. Over this period, Himanshu has acquired deep experience facilitating senior executive teams to execute change through vision and values alignment. Beyond the workplace he is, like me, an avid yoga practitioner and meditator and is learning jazz dance.
In this conversation Himanshu shares his insights from the global business environment on the key trends shaping the future of work and workforce. We discuss modern work and role redesign, humans versus machine, data-driven change, the quest to reconnect with meaning and purpose and investing in "hinge" leadership and unfreezing the frozen middle or core work-unit leaders. Many themes will be familiar to regular listeners and ultimately we are left with more questions and a call to action to reimagine the work environment. Thank you Himanshu.
Episode links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshutambe/
Himanshu Tambe on The ISB Leadercast Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/leadercast/id1691914486?i=1000626210529
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Deep Listening, Brave Conversations and the goal of Connection with Dr Anna Baverstock

In S5 E4 I am delighted to welcome Dr Anna Baverstock to the podcast,
Anna is a consultant in community child health looking after children with complex neurodisability and their families. She has been an educational supervisor and Associate DME for support and wellbeing. She was invited to be a member of the NHS Staff and Learners’ Mental Wellbeing Commission in 2019 (Mental Wellbeing Report | Health Education England (hee.nhs.uk)). Currently she is lead for senior doctor wellbeing and leadership within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Anna is a trained coach, mediator and Schwartz round facilitator. Her philosophy is how do we ensure the first patient of the shift and the last get the same kind, safe care? We must look after ourselves and our teams during our working day. A big part of this is how we connect to self and others especially when under pressure. Can we form brave spaces to enable honest conversation that enable growth and change?
When not talking she loves to run, do yoga, read, draw and doodle often inspired by quotes or poems that resonate.
In this wonderful conversation we discuss Anna's wellbeing leadership, mediation and coaching work. Key themes discussed here include :
Deep listening - to understand and connect, not reply or control.
Brave conversations- how can we lean into the challenging conversations including where there is conflict or we need to give or receive difficult feedback. As Anna tells it "Difficult conversations don't get easier, but we get braver" with practice.
Connection- in her work to empower and support core work-unit leaders in healthcare and build kind, inclusive cultures where high challenge comes with high support, psychological safety is the means and the goal is connection and creating space for deep listening. Thank you Anna, this conversation is a masterclass in wellness centred leadership.
Links/References:
Dr Anna Baverstock on X ( see pinned BMJ wellbeing at work article series and her daily doodle!)
https://twitter.com/anna_annabav
Anna on the Being Better, Together Podcast :
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/being-better-together/id1603984431?i=1000650871466
Anna’s suggested reading list related to the topics in this conversation:
· Brené Brown – Atlas of the heart
· Listen to Anna's podcast about the book :⁠https://bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/11049191...⁠
· Kim Scott – Radical Candor
· Stone & Heen – Thanks for the Feedback
· Amy Edmondson – The Fearless Organisation
· Daniel Coyle – The Culture Code
· Marshall Rosenberg – non violent communication
· Adam Grant – Think Again
· Timothy Clarke – 4 stages of psychological safety
· Trzeciak & Mazzarelli – Compassionomics
Register to hear from Dr Bethan Richards, Australia's first Chief Wellbeing Officer and her team at Sydney LHD at the Pathways to Wellbeing conference 30.04.24
https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/workplace-wellbeing-conferenc

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The Water Well Project and Improving Health Literacy with Dr Linny Kimly Phuong

In S 5 E 6 I am delighted to introduce Dr Linny Kimly Phuong. Dr Phuong is Founder & Director of The Water Well Project. She is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Austin Health, Cabrini Health and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also a PhD candidate studying invasive pneumococcal disease in children. Prior to medicine, Linny was a qualified pharmacist and also holds a Master of Public Health. Linny has received recognition for her work with awards including the Australian Medical Association- Doctor in Training of the Year Award (2017), Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions’ Award- Leadership category (2016), Suncorp Hidden Local Heroes Finalist (2016) and Young Australian of the Year- Victorian State Finalist (2013).
In this episode Linny tells me the story of The Water Well Project from its grass root foundations to award-winning charity that improves the health and wellbeing of communities from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds by improving their health literacy. The organisation's core activity is the provision of free, interactive, community-based, health education sessions delivered by volunteer healthcare professionals across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales.
The Water Well Project utilises a community-centric model by working closely with refugee and migrant support organisations. Sessions are delivered upon requests from community groups and co-designed alongside community partners. This means that sessions are tailored to the needs of each community group and delivered in a culturally safe manner.
In this conversation Linny relates her own story driving her purpose driven mission to improve health literacy, healthcare access and culturally safe care for migrants, refugees asylum seeker seekers. We hear her fascinating founder story, which is undoubtedly one of innovation and entrepreneurship combined with a for-purpose vision, and her journey, lessons and the serendipity that has contributed along the way to becoming an award winning not for profit organisation. Crucially if you are a health care professional looking for a rewarding skilled volunteering opportunity you can learn more about the work of their programs and how to get involved. You can support and donate to the project via their website linked below.

Links and references:
Dr Phuong and The Water Well Project
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linny-kimly-phuong-76a9955a/
https://www.thewaterwellproject.org/about-the-project/
Related episode of the Mind Full Medic Podcast and work of Dr Raj Sundar
https://www.healthcareforhumans.org/
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414?i=1000600383923