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| Season 7 | Thats a Wrap! | 05 May 2025 | 00:35:42 | |
From solo reflections to rich guest conversations, this season was about designing a work life that actually works for you. 💫 Whether you're craving inspiration or seeking real change, this episode offers a powerful close to a transformational season—and a beautiful springboard for what’s next. 🎧 Tune in now and let’s keep evolving, together.
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EXHALE | THE RETREAT Come join me for 4 days immersed in nature as we reconnect to our body, heart and soul, reigniting your fire within!
NEW WHITEPAPER DOWNLOAD | Leveraging Place - The importance of building community - not just culture - at work. Get your copy of Mel’s new Book “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential”
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| Following awe and wonder in our lives with Meg Hooper | 28 Apr 2025 | 00:43:47 | |
When was the last time you let yourself be swept away by the sheer beauty of the world around you?
In this special conversation, Dr. Meg Hooper and I explore the concept of awe, inspired by Julia Baird’s remarkable book Phosphorescence — a guide to finding light and wonder even in life’s darkest times. In this episode, we explore: This conversation is an invitation to seek out the extraordinary hiding in the everyday — and to rediscover the vibrant, luminous energy within yourself.
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DATE ANNOUNCED - BUSINESS PLANNING DAY Step out of the day to day, create goals with soul and design a business that lights you up! Gain clarity on how you, as the leader of your business and life, want to FEEL this new financial year. Create your own sustainability plan to enable you to FEEL this way the whole year through. Tuesday 17th June, 9am - The Calile Hotel, Fortitude Valley
EXHALE | THE RETREAT Come join me for 4 days immersed in nature as we reconnect to our body, heart and soul, reigniting your fire within!
NEW WHITEPAPER DOWNLOAD | Leveraging Place - The importance of building community - not just culture - at work. Get your copy of Mel’s new Book “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential”
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| Season 6 - Wrap Up | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:28:53 | |
When I kicked off this season it was with the intent to reconnect to the roots of our namesake COMUNiTI, and it has not disappointed!
This season was to encourage us to take a broader look at what we should be focusing on to encourage people back to our workplaces. After first answering the pre-vailing question “Why?” we need to then consider that creating a workplace worth going to, requires more than a fantastic fitout!
Across this season I have shared a framework for building Community within your workplace, the role of place, and in turn its own detailed framework.
I have deepened my own understanding of what it means to design for community. And what I have learned from my guests is that when we lean into creating places that support people in this way, we are far more likely to build communities than we are to just building businesses.
This episode is a recap of the thoughts I’ve been left to ponder from each guest and how I can play with these ideas in my own work and life.
Whilst we are living in a highly complex and challenging time, it is also one of the most exciting! Togeher, we are reshaping the world of work. Reimagining what work looks like. What our workplaces will look like. And the role that both need to play in enhancing our experience of work and building communities. I’m going to be taking a few months break from the podcast now, but I’ll be back later this year with a fresh new season! | |||
| Navigating the Messy Middle with Keri Krieger | 31 Aug 2021 | 00:34:40 | |
One of the things that I have noticed as I have grown is that the experiences that we have are not unique to us and that if we look around often many of us are challenged by the paths that our lives have taken. While we may not be openly and outwardly shouting it from the roof tops or even whispering it to our closest of friends, there is for many of us a period of breakdown which leads to break through. And this is where today’s guest Keri is here to share what she has learned from both personal experience and from working within Health Retreats how we can reconnect with our midline and move forward in alignment with our own personal path. Keri Krieger is a modern-day mystic, fusing her passion for spirituality with the ancient remedies of Chinese medicine and acupuncture to guide women in coming home to themselves. Keri acknowledges that our daily lives are filled with so many responsibilities and overwhelm, so she is on a mission to provide women with the tools they need to bring things back to basics so they can thrive as they are destined to do This is a very conversational chat between two women navigating the messy middle covering everything from burnout to finding a slower pace of life, exploring the cycles and seasons of life to wisdom that comes with age. Keri even shares with us some of her own rituals for reconnecting with her midline, along with the challenges that can come when we let our ego chime in. Keri Krieger Website | Facebook | Instagram Melissa Marsden | |||
| Do You Know Your Why? | 24 Aug 2021 | 00:19:46 | |
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” Ask yourself this; Knowing why you do what you do is just as important, if not more important than, doing what you do. Knowing what you do and how you do it is the logistics, the functional and the logical part of your day to day. Knowing why you do it, is what connects you to your greater purpose in life. Your whole reason for being. The impact that you are going to have on those around you, your community, and the world at large. It is the legacy that you will leave for having been here on this earth. In today’s episode, I unpack three reasons knowing your ‘why’ is important ranging from the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai to business coaching to aligning your moral and decision-making compass. Knowing your why is just one of the factors that forms part of the ability to live your life by your own design. When you know why you want to achieve the things that you do you can then make more informed decisions about who you want to work for, the type of work that you want to do and, most importantly, who you want to be. If you are looking for more help on understanding your why, head to my website and download my free ‘Setting your North Star’ workbook. It has useful tools and tips to help you align your purpose and values to your life. Visit melissamarsden.com.au/northstar for your copy. Melissa Marsden | |||
| A Life of Gold & Dust: Alchemy, Authenticity & Courage with Samantha Wills | 16 Aug 2021 | 00:37:02 | |
In this week’s chat, I am incredibly excited to bring you our guest; the beautiful Samantha Wills. For those of you who are not familiar with Samantha, she is the creative powerhouse behind the Samantha Wills jewellery brand. Starting this business in 2004, as a fresh face 21-year-old from her dining room table, she grew it into a successful global business. She lived in New York for 10 years, had production houses in Asia and India, and offices in France and Japan. She then famously announced its closure in mid 2018, when it was continuing to enjoy widespread commercial success. Because there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. Samantha is an incredibly talented and intuitive businesswoman; she has come up with some genius ways of creating business partnerships and staying true to herself. So, in today’s conversation, we dive into all of this and cover everything from the rise of her business, to how she felt in some of those darkest times navigating very personal and professional challenges that she encountered, along with the resilience that you can find when you're sitting in the rubble of your life. And most importantly, the power that comes from rising out of that. We also dive into how the strength of her values guided her exit from the business and the courage and integrity that comes with that through to a fearful moment as she started to turn 30. And she was realising that she had been sacrificing so much for her business, she hadn't been ticking life's boxes or the boxes that we're told that we should be ticking. This is a conversation that will really going to get you thinking about your own life choices. It's going to have you nodding along in agreement, and it's really going to give you a good laugh along the way. She is a beautiful person both inside, generous with her energy and wisdom. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.
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| Is Your Life in Balance? | 10 Aug 2021 | 00:21:43 | |
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Balance is BS. There is no work/life balance. You can’t have a work persona and a life persona. It’s all about integration. In today’s episode, I’m going to be discussing The Balance Wheel – the most useful tool I’ve found in examining and evaluating all the different segments of our lives and identifying where our time and energy needs to be spent. I’ll go through:
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| Designing your One Beautiful Life with Tina Tower | 02 Aug 2021 | 00:48:25 | |
One person that I believe optimises the idea of creating a work life they love is Tina Tower. Tina is a self-confessed professional development junkie and lover of work, but has also learned the hard way that continuing to push through is not always the best way. Deciding to test out her newfound freedom with online course creation, Tina set off to travel the world for a year with her husband and two children visiting 28 countries, whilst growing the online business a few hours a day. Since returning her online empire has continue to grow and she know runs her “little’ online business from her small farm on Australia’s East Coast. In today’s chat, Tina shares with us both the ups and downs of business, but more importantly how her mindset and approach to her work life has morphed and evolved to match the seasons of her life. She shares how her purpose for her life and her business fuels her drive every day and the routines and rituals that she has embraced to ensure that she is showing up in a way that delivers massive value to those that work with her. As a member of Tina’s Her Empire Builder, I have had the great pleasure of working closely with Tina over the past 12mths and seen the passion that she has for her business but also the foundations that she has laid for herself to ensure she’s living her best life in alignment with her vision. Melissa Marsden | |||
| Who Are You? … No, Really. | 27 Jul 2021 | 00:19:24 | |
You’re probably thinking, ‘Mel, don’t be ridiculous, I know who I am’. But do you really, truly know who you are? How you work, what makes you tick? What values you stand for or stand against? Could you tell me these things if I asked you? And the reason I asked this question is because until we truly know who we are, I believe that we are just really reacting to the expectations and requests of others, whether that be our family, our friends, our boss, our colleagues, our clients, or even just society in general. Just like I did. Today, I unpack why it’s important to understand what makes you tick, how this helps you show up in work and life and how having this knowledge and insight can help you maximise your strengths and help you work towards what you want. I cover:
LIVE A LIFE BY DESIGN In this six week program, I take you through the tools and the frameworks that I have curated over the last 10 years to live a life by my own design. Plus, I've also then taken the steps of how to put it into action and provided a framework to help you start designing your dream life. Learn more about the Live a Life by Design experience here, and join the waitlist. FREE DOWNLOAD If you’re interested in the first tools in the workbook to see if this is for you, download the Setting Your North Star exercise! Melissa Marsden | |||
| Taking your own Powerful Steps with Tory Archbold | 19 Jul 2021 | 00:35:59 | |
Do you trust your gut instinct? Maybe you only trust it in certain aspects of your life like work or relationships? Sometimes our gut feeling is our best indicator of which direction to take, but learning to tune in to it can be a journey. Today I am joined by Tory Archbold the Founder and Director of Powerful Steps. Prior to 2019 Tory was running the Global PR agency Torstar, launching big brands, celebrities, and influencers such as Megan Gale, Nespresso, Victoria’s Secret and Drew Barrymore in the Australian market. However, while she was getting everyone else’s message out to the world, she realised she had her own story to tell. Launching Torstar in her twenties, she had built a fabulous life as a single mum, running a global business with a team of 22 including two executive assistants. It was a near death experience and 10 years of being stalked that gave her a fresh perspective. She wanted a life with more purpose. Today, Tory is the CEO of Powerful Steps where she is on a mission to share her toolkit with high octane businesswomen to plot their personal roadmap to success. This was such a fabulous conversation with Tory where we journeyed through her previous business Torstar and the possibilities and opportunities that she has embraced to see her create Powerful Steps. She shares with us the importance of trusting your gut instinct, the power of clear values and her mantra for life, as well as her 3 pieces of advice for anyone wanting to live a life by design. Tory Archbold Website | Email | LinkedIn | Instagram | Powerful Steps Podcast Melissa Marsden | |||
| Designing a Work Life you Love! | 13 Jul 2021 | 00:08:45 | |
Welcome to Season 3! Work life by Design has just celebrated its 1st birthday so a BIG thank you for tuning in and listening in; I appreciate the support and love. This season I want to dive deep into what this podcast says on the tin; designing a work life that you truly LOVE. Today, I’m going to tell you a bit about my story; how I ended up here, including the parts where I blew up my life on purpose and how I searched high and low for my true purpose and the meaning of a life truly authentic to me. I’m talking self-help books, philosophical paradigms, conferences and retreats, life coaches; you name it, I did it. This journey over the past 10 years has led me to explore various tools, frameworks and ideologies around people, culture, leadership and business, that have supported me to design this work life that I love and this is what I’ll be sharing with you with the help of some incredible guests! If you’re interested in getting started right away, you can download my FREE mini workbook on purpose and values; activities that will help you set your North Star. Go to: www.melissamarsden.com.au/northstar to get your copy! I am very excited to be bringing you this season because it is one that is very close to my heart. It has been a personal journey that I have lived and I want to share that with you so that you can have it too, whether you are an entrepreneur or you are climbing the corporate ladder – you can get where you need to go if you have the right tools. As always if you have any questions, want to know more get in touch on Instagram @melmar or send me an email, melissa@melissamarsden.com.au I look forward to bringing our first guest to you next week!
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| Season 2 Wrap Up | 06 Jul 2021 | 00:34:28 | |
Is the office dead? Does productivity come at the expense of wellbeing? How do you manage Zoom fatigue? How do you maintain connection in a remote workplace?! It’s been a huge season of Work Life By Design as we’ve explored all the big questions around what the future of work looks like after the impact of COVID. We’ve had some incredible guests from a wide range of backgrounds and industries all with different ideas on how to navigate the future of work and manage the expectations of their people with the bottom line of the business. This week I take you through a summary of each episode to give you the key takeaways and actionable strategies from topics such as:
If any of the highlights spark your interest, listen to the full episode and let me know what you think and what you’d like to hear more of via Instagram @melmar, LinkedIn or on my website. I’ll be back next week with a brand new season, with a focus to helping you develop the skills and strategies design the life you love. Thanks for joining me! Melissa Marsden | |||
| Why Your Workplace Doesn’t Work! | 29 Jun 2021 | 00:15:11 | |
It may be beautiful but it just doesn't work.... There many reasons why your workplace doesn't work; layout, lack of understanding, doing what you’ve always done. Often clients underestimate the impact of interrogating their brief. It’s common for them to approach a designer or a builder with a wish list, layout and design in mind and the builder complies. But there is so much more to it. This week I discuss:
If you are experiencing challenges in your workplace and you like the sound of how a great workplace can begin to transform your business, there are few options;
If you're not sure which one you need, book a call and I’d be happy to have a chat and discuss your options with you. Let’s design a workplace that works! Melissa Marsden | |||
| Optimising Real Estate to Build Community - with Jeremy Pollak | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:33:31 | |
| Technology: Enhancing Our Experience of Work with Cameron Douglas | 22 Jun 2021 | 00:39:00 | |
Take a moment and think back to the beginning of 2020. How has your interaction and use of technology changed? I would hazard a guess that at the start of 2020, you rarely worked from home, you may have done the occasional Zoom call [if you even knew what zoom was] and there was no way you would have entertained presenting to a client on it. All your team meetings were done in person. Life looks pretty different right now. Today’s guest is Cameron Douglas, the newly appointed CEO of Videopro. Cameron has been a long standing employee of Videopro who has worked his way to the top and is now proudly leading the organisation into an exciting new technology enabled world. As the name suggests, they are the professionals when it comes to video, servicing the professional services and education sector along with their retail stores open to the public. Cameron and I discuss the opportunities and challenges that technology has afforded us, as well as taking a look at where the future of workplace technology is going and how it is shifting our experience of work. We often think of workplace technology as our laptops, the servers and the connectivity of these, however the world of workplace technology can be far more expansive from recognising your number plate as you enter the building, to assigning you a desk and ordering your coffee. It has the ability to transform our experience of work. | |||
| Are we just creating Digital Silos? | 15 Jun 2021 | 00:24:27 | |
More productivity = less innovation? Communication with our immediate teams has increased with the move to remote working styles, however interactions outside our team or with distant networks has significantly diminished. We’ve been able to increase our productivity, but our hybrid communication structures, water cooler conversations, impromptu brainstorming sessions and incidental interactions have been lost. So, have we created digital silos, or as I call it, the cubicle of 2021? In today’s episode, I look at how the rise of digital communication has impacted us and how to tackle the delicate balance between digital overload and digital silos. I cover:
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| Managing Cognitive Overload with The Third Space with Dr Adam Fraser | 08 Jun 2021 | 00:46:30 | |
The ability to transition from one event to another has a significant impact on how we show up in those spaces. The mindset and mental state that we approach each task, activity, conversation or moment with ultimately defines how that situation turns out. As more of us are continuing to work from home or engage in a hybrid work style, the conscious awareness that we know need to bring to these moments has become increasingly important. So, who better to chat to about the impact of these moments than Dr Adam Fraser; researcher, speaker and the author of “The Third Space” just one of his four best selling books. Dr Adam Fraser is a human performance researcher and consultant who studies how organisations adopt a high-performance culture to thrive in this challenging and evolving business landscape. In this time, he has worked with elite level athletes, the armed forces and business professionals of all levels. In the last 10 years he has delivered more than 1500 presentations to over half a million people in Australia, US, New Zealand and worldwide. In today's episode we chat about;
Adam’s research is peppered throughout this entire conversation providing a data driven response to his thoughts and giving many of our “feelings” a valid and scientific explanation. Dr Adam Fraser Melissa Marsden | |||
| Feeling overwhelmed and exhausted? You’re not alone... | 01 Jun 2021 | 00:21:40 | |
Feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. It’s the big conversation at the moment. I’m seeing it in the people I’m coaching, the people I’m connecting with and I’m hearing it from colleagues in the industry. It seems that many of us that are feeling this way - and turns out there is a LOT of data that explains why. Research shows we’ve been working longer hours during COVID, but to me, this doesn’t seem like anything new because certain industries and professions have always carried these expectations. Regardless this is something that we need to be paying attention to. The World Health Organisation has released a report stating that we are at a 35% higher risk of stroke and 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease when we work 55 hrs or more, compared to working 35-40hrs a week. So in this episode I want to share with you some of the research around why we are feeling this way, examine the science behind it and provide you with some ideas to manage your work life to reduce your feelings of fatigue, overwhelm and exhaustion. Let’s jump in! LINKS | |||
| Can we design work 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style? with Dr Meg Hooper | 25 May 2021 | 00:35:15 | |
Today I’m joined by Dr Meg Hooper, Organisational Psychologist and change specialist. Meg is a registered psychologist with a PhD in organisational psychology and she brings an academic thought process to a very similar world that I tend to work in. Meg looks at work and our work lives from a very different angle, but with the same intentionality around what the outcome should be. Today, we have a really interesting conversation around how systems within our organisation support the type of work that we need to do and us as individuals, how we can promote self-leadership and self-determination so that we can really start to build our own ways of working and how that actually needs to feed into our individual resilience responses. So the context of what we discussed today is around what can be described as ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’; how can we enable, support and empower our people to determine how and where they work and within the predefined parameters of the organisational culture and policies? We also discuss:
I thoroughly enjoyed this chat; Meg and I have very similar ideas about how our world of work can operate in a very positive and proactive manner. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording it. Dr Meg Hooper LinkedIn | Carousel Consulting | Facebook Melissa Marsden | |||
| It's all about the Chemistry | 17 May 2021 | 00:17:11 | |
"People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel" Maya Angelou In today’s episode, I delve into the relationship between clients and designers and why a fundamental connection is essential for success. This is a topic I’m incredibly passionate about and one of our core values at COMUNiTI is "it's all about the Chemistry". Essentially, that means we seek to work with people we gel with; people who get us, what we do and how we do it. We've been tested on these a few times and we've had to make some tough calls, but I’ve learned that trying to make chemistry work on a job is far harder. I’ll touch on:
I’ll also touch on how chemistry in your business translates into your customer experience, an exceptional example of this I recently experienced and how important this is when designing your space. Ready? Let’s jump in! Melissa Marsden | |||
| Shaping Work Lives with Kursty Groves | 11 May 2021 | 00:45:06 | |
As Australians we have been relatively insulated from the impact of COVID unlike the rest of the world, so as part of this season and understand the future of work, I was keen to understand what “work life” looks like on the other side of the globe. In today’s episode I chat with Kursty Groves a workplace strategist and innovation consultant based in the UK. Kursty helps workplace leaders reinvent the future of work and spaces that support connected cultures. With a background in innovation consulting, capability development and design, Kursty’s approach to workplace is grounded in coaching and co-creation, putting people at the heart. Her passion lies in seeking to understand what makes work work, and how environments can inspire people to perform their best and you will hear this shine through in this conversation. She is also the author of two books, a postgraduate professor and an award-winning designer with over 20 years experience facilitating innovation and design thinking, as well as the host of The Office Chronicles podcast. I feel very privileged to have been able to have this conversation with Kursty, to understand her perspective as a fellow workplace strategist and advisor to some of the worlds largest brands. In today’s chat we discuss;
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| How Persona Profiling Shapes your Workplace Design | 04 May 2021 | 00:13:26 | |
When we talk about persona profiling, we usually think of psychometric testing and other sorts of personality profiling tests. In the workplace, we generally use these in the context of recruitment and understanding a candidate’s personality before we hire them to understand if they are a cultural fit for our organisation. What you may not have thought of is personality profiling is incredibly useful from a workplace design perspective. Understanding personal preferences of teams, and individuals within those teams allows us to design a workplace that aligns with different ways of working. Join me as a break down how we can use persona profiling to make workplace design intelligent. I’ll go through the four role types that exist within organisations, how each role behaves and how you can navigate the opportunities that exist in the design of your workplace to enhance your employee experience and commercial outcomes. If you are interested in beginning this journey in your business, you can join the Your Workplace Future Ready Program and begin to transform your workplace from the inside out.
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| Making Work Absolutely Human with Rhonda Brighton-Hall | 27 Apr 2021 | 00:42:10 | |
Work is an incredibly important aspect to the lives of many of us and finding a workplace that enables us to thrive and to contribute forms a large part of our personal feeling of purpose and of belonging. Rhonda Brighton-Hall is CEO of mwah. Making Work Absolutely Human, Chair of the AHRI Institute, National D&I Advisory Panel, a Patron for ASPECT (Autism Australia) and recognised as a game changer in the future design of organisations, HR, leadership, diversity and inclusion and work. Having worked, lived and lectured in Asia, Europe and the USA, Rhonda is a former AHRI HR Leader of the Year and Telstra Businesswoman of the Year. Launched in 2017, mwah. is a determinedly optimistic Think Tank about the future of work, a growing community, and a tech and analytics business changing the way we understand people and culture; designing a future of work that works for more of us. Rhonda is a beautiful soul with an obvious passion for disrupting workplace with the intention of helping them be better so they can do better. In today’s chat we discuss:
A passionate yet light-hearted conversation, Rhonda is a joy to speak to and you will glean an alternative lens through which you can begin to look at your organisation. Rhonda Brighton-Hall MWAH | LinkedIn | MWAH LinkedIn | Newsletter Melissa Marsden | |||
| The Real Cost of a Fitted Out Workplace | 19 Apr 2021 | 00:12:46 | |
Taking over the lease on a fitted out workplace to support your organisational growth often makes sense on paper however, I often see the intangible costs of this decision realised down line. In this episode I’ll share with you how these intangible costs show up and the impact on the performance of your business and how you can begin to build the capability internally to transform your business.
Your Workplace Future Ready Program https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/your_workplace_future_ready
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| Building Community with SMART Work Design - with Sharon Parker | 17 Jun 2024 | 00:54:19 | |
The role that our workplaces play in encouraging and enabling our relationships at work, was largely taken for granted, until they were taken away from us. A silver lining of the pandemic, we realised the impact of our workplaces and the role they play in our establishing and supporting the social & support networks in our lives. And social connection is a foundation for building any community. Today’s guest ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker. I was first introduced to Sharon and her work through my friend and Colleague Dr Meg Hooper of Carousel Consulting, and her S.M.A.R.T Work Design Model, to develop meaningful and motivating work. This piece of work has been instrumental in underpinning our approach to work design and workplace design, a difference that Sharon will elaborate on in today’s podcast. Meg has been following Sharon’s work for a very long time, and such I’ve invited her along to co-host today’s episode! ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design at Curtain University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Sharon has published more than 250 internationally refereed articles on topics such as work design, proactive behaviour, mental health, and job performance, has over 46,500 citations, and is ranked in the top .15% of global scholars in her field.
With the breadth of research that Sharon has done, this podcast could go in any direction, but as we are focused on the role of community in the workplace this season, we’ve narrowed in on this topic and explored how the work she does overlaps with this ability to build community. So today, we are exploring;
Sharon’s perspective on this is fascinating and Meg & I were loving this conversation - we honestly could have chatted for hours. So, I hope you love listening to this episode as much as we loved recording it!
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| Decoding Tomorrow: a futurist perspective | 13 Apr 2021 | 00:48:00 | |
One of the things that I observed during the last 12mths was how we likened the experience of the pandemic to the themes and realities of science fiction movies. Some more positive experiences such as the opportunities that technology has enabled to connect us into a global community, and others less so, as we navigated the changes to our realities with the introduction of a virus that was beyond our ability to control. Today’s guest is Futurist and Founder of the think tank and trend analysis firm, Thinque, Anders Sorman-Nilsson. Thinque provide data-based research, foresight and thought leadership assets for global brands across 4 continents with a vision to disseminate and decode “avant garde ideas which expand minds and inspire a change of heart. Working with clients such as Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and McKinsey to name a few, Anders is an awarded keynote speaker, author and the host of the 2nd Renaissance Podcast.
Through our conversation today we explore
As someone who likes to explore the opportunity the future presents with my clients as we reimagine the work environment, I found this conversation both insightful and human. Anders Sorman-Nilsson Melissa Marsden | |||
| 5 Levels of Workplace Autonomy: Reimagining a remote workforce | 06 Apr 2021 | 00:22:22 | |
There has been much discussion about what the future of work will look like and the decisions that some organisations have already taken, and some at the extremes; to remain working remotely for good or mandated returns to the office. In this episode I’m taking you through Matt Mullenweg’s, 5 Levels of Autonomy. As the Founder of Automattic, the creators of Wordpress and a fully distributed workforce of over 1200 people in 57 countries, he has a clear view of these 5 levels that organisations can move through to achieve what he describes as Nirvana. I’ll then share with you my thoughts on some of the considerations that we will need to contemplate and potential hurdles that we will need to overcome as we move through these 5 Levels from our previous IRL [in real life] workplaces. This is a new landscape for us all and I’d love to know what conversations you’ve had in your workplace as you begin to navigate the way forward and the future of work in your organisation.
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| The Impact of Wellbeing on Business Performance with Dr Adrian Medhurst | 26 Mar 2021 | 00:37:13 | |
The global pandemic has had a significant impact on the way we all work and live, and this impact has had a flow on effect to our wellbeing; physically, mentally and emotionally. As you’ll hear in this conversation, its not only our work and life that we need to be considering its also our wellbeing and performance. Today’s guest is Dr Adrian Medhurst, the co-founder of Benny Button a work-life wellbeing and performance business. Adrian explains the inherent link between our wellbeing and our performance and how this impacts our ability to perform at work. Adrian is a Doctor of Organisational Psychology, a speaker, author, educator and thought leader on a mission to optimise performance and wellbeing for people and organisations. He specialises in performance psychology, wellbeing science, stress mastery, mindfulness, behavioural change and innovation. The conversation around wellbeing in our workplaces is not a new conversation however what we have observed is that it is now a more prominent one. In today’s chat with Adrian we discuss;
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| Workplace Equality #choosetochallenge | 22 Mar 2021 | 00:14:55 | |
We have recently celebrated International Women's Day with the theme #choosetochallnenge and I had the pleasure of sitting on the panel at Orange Digitals recent event, alongside Nicolette Baker and Brooke Jamieson moderated by Liz Ballantyne. This is a collection of my takeaways and thoughts from the event of where we could continue to choose to challenge and what this looks as both men and women in our organisations from;
Plus I also share a section from Glennon Doyles book Untamed, around how as women we can have an instinctual response that we can choose to challenge. You can find the book HERE How can you continue the conversation? | |||
| Returning to the Workplace: Optimising Space for People with Claudette Leeming | 15 Mar 2021 | 00:31:29 | |
Claudette is the Head of Property Strategy & Performance at Australia Post where she is responsible for managing their corporate property portfolio and the continual evolution of their workplace to support the highly dynamic and changing organisation. Claudette has worked in the property industry for 25 years, graduating from RMIT with a degree in Interior Design. Claudette’s focus quickly centred on workplace design and strategy where she spent 20 years delivering workplace projects for a broad range of clients and industries. In today’s chat, Claudette and I discuss:
Claudette provides an insightful and considered approach to workplace management and how the pandemic has shifted mindsets and the opportunities that we are now presented to reimagine our future of work.
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| The Future of Work: The Impact of Covid | 09 Mar 2021 | 00:11:58 | |
The pandemic has changed the way we work forever. In Season 2 of Work Life by Design, we will be exploring what the future of work looks like and impact that COVID has had on how, where and why we work. We will be looking at how workplace design has evolved, the expectations of employees and employers, the health & wellbeing agenda and our need to belong. I’ll be bringing you guests from a wide range of expertise surrounding our world of work, including one of Australia’s largest employers, wellbeing and performance experts, futurists and workplace strategists from the other side of the globe. I’ll also be peppering in my research and musings on the future of work and how it has forever changed in light of the pandemic.
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| How Long Does It Take To Design and Build A New Workplace | 01 Mar 2021 | 00:14:42 | |
A question I am asked A. LOT! But I can also tell you that many companies don’t allow enough time! 😖 The answer is not that straight forward.... it depends 🤷♀️ Today I talk you through the variables that impact how long it takes to design and build the workplace of your dreams! So you can make sure you don’t leave your run too late and need to compromise on one of your largest business investments. 🤗 Doors are closing TOMORROW to the Your Workplace Future Ready program. Join the program to build your own internal capability and save your organisation $$$ managing the transformation of your organisation from the inside out. DOOR CLOSE Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below
Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March
Read more about who you need on your team; https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/blog/whotohireandwhen
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| Your Wellbeing Strategy, More than just a Fruit Box | 26 Feb 2021 | 00:11:42 | |
To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I’ll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you’d like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. While many organisations have the best of intentions in supporting their employee’s wellbeing, we need to be looking beyond offering a fruit box or introducing a step challenge. The health and wellbeing of our employees is an employers responsibility, as Gallup say; “People with thriving wellbeing simply do better in life. And companies with thriving employees do better business.” We need to be looking at the three elements of wellbeing and how our workplace environments are supporting them. I'm going live at 10am every day to celebrate the doors to the Your Workplace Future Ready program opening. This is my 7 week online program to build your internal capability and empower you to transform your workplace from the inside out. The doors to the program are open, until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.
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| Why Flow, Routines & Rituals Are Important In Workplace Design | 25 Feb 2021 | 00:16:03 | |
To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I’ll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you’d like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. It wasn't until we all packed up and went home during our first lockdown at the end of March 2020, that we realised the impact that having a daily routine and rituals had on structuring our day. The act of getting up, getting dressed and "going" to work, all work together to shift us mentally and physically into "work" mode. The ability to consciously shape that energy shift and guide people through the routines and rituals that are important in your workplace, is an opportunity many organisations don't know they have. The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below.
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| Translating Your Purpose into Culture | 24 Feb 2021 | 00:12:57 | |
To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I’ll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you’d like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. Purpose is the reason an organisation exists beyond making money. Finding our purpose as an organisation can be a difficult path to navigate. Not because we don't have one, but because as an organisation we may find it difficult to articulate or communicate in a way that engages our employees. However, when we know our purpose, we can begin to enable a clear line of sight for our people on what it means for us to be living our purpose as an organisation. In this episode I share with your why it all starts with purpose and how it informs your brand experience. And when your brand experience is infused throughout your whole business it leads your culture. The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below. I’m also hosting a FREE Masterclass on Thursday 25th Feb at 10.30AEST, “How to transform your workplace and become an Employer of Choice”. You can register for that one below.
Melissa Marsden Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Tomorrow, 25th February Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March | |||
| Using place to connect to the hearts, bodies & minds of your people | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:19:33 | |
Using Place to connect to the Hearts, Bodies and Minds of your People
Often when we look at our workplaces, we think of them as property. As real estate. And sadly, often as a balance sheet liability. But they have the potential to be so much more than that!
Your work place is an underutilised asset in attracting and connecting to your people.
Often spoken about in the terms of “People, Place & Technology” our workplaces should not be devoid of our humanity.
They are created for our people. That means that they need to Personal. Human.
LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential”
Connect with Mel; Email Melissa@melissamarsden.com.au Website melissamarsden.com.au Website comuniti.com.au Instagram @melmar
Whitepaper – The Road Map to Employee Experience Book a 30min Complimentary Discovery Call with Mel https://calendly.com/melissa-marsden/30min
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| Reimagine Your Future of Work | 23 Feb 2021 | 00:17:17 | |
To celebrate the launch of the Your Workplace Future Ready program, I’ll be going LIVE daily discussing all things work! If you’d like to join and have a question you can find me on Instagram, Facebook & Linkedin – see the links below. To kick it off today I’m talking about reimagining our future of work. What we need to be observing in our organisations, the data we need to be collecting and the trends and opportunities that we can be looking to, in order to imagine what our future of work looks like. The doors to the program are now open, but only until Tuesday March 2nd, 3pm AEST. You can sign up at the link below. I’m also hosting a FREE Masterclass on Thursday 25th Feb at 10.30AEST, “How to transform your workplace and become an Employer of Choice”. You can register for that one below.
Melissa Marsden Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Thursday, 25th February Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, 2nd March | |||
| IS YOUR WORKPLACE FUTURE READY? | 19 Feb 2021 | 00:10:09 | |
Doors open to Your Workplace Future Ready next week!!! Tuesday 23rd February. What is Your Workplace Future Ready? This is my signature 7 week online program where I guide you through the 5 pillars that underpin the workplace dynamics in every organisation. There is an art and a science to creating high performing workplace that people actually love and want to be in everyday and over the last 20 years I have been developing the tools and methods that I share through this program. Imagine a workplace that not only enabled productivity but enhanced wellbeing...without the need to engage with multiple consultants costing your organisation $$$ There are a number of opportunities that organisations can act on to enhance the experience of work for their people, and I want to empower you to build your own internal capability to navigate these opportunities, enhance your employee experience of work and position your organisation as an employer of choice. HERE'S A GLIMPSE INTO YOUR FUTURE...
YOUR WORKPLACE FUTURE READY IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED:
Melissa Marsden Instagram | LinkedIn | Facebook Free Masterclass, How to Transform Your Workplace to Become an Employer of Choice | Thursday, 25th Feb Your Workplace Future Ready Program | Doors Close Tuesday, March 2nd | |||
| Drink Anyone? The sh*tstorm that was 2020 | 20 Dec 2020 | 00:37:15 | |
Well, we didn’t see that one coming, and like many I’m sure that we could all use a drink and good lie down after this year! This episode was a challenging one to record, because honestly it has been an incredibly difficult year, but none the less, here we are. 2020 has been the year that saw us switch to working from home overnight, achieving something that years of change programs have struggled to do! It saw us embrace “top dressing” and introduced us to a raft of new skills that we didn’t know we needed or possessed. In this episode I’ve taken a look back over the year that was and recapped on the lessons and learnings that we’ve all had to learn as well as how this year has shown up for me personally and all that I set out to achieve. We dive in to understanding
On Jan 12th 2021, I’ll be sharing my annual planning routine in an intimate workshop in Brisbane. If you’re around would love for you to join me and lay the groundwork for you to live your life by design in 2021. Live a Life by Design - Workshop | Learn more | |||
| Business Innovation, Enabling Work That Matters with Fiona Triaca | 06 Dec 2020 | 01:00:48 | |
Fiona is the Founder and CEO of Naked Ambition, a design-led innovation company. She is also the host of Naked Ambition the Podcast where she interviews the people who are making an impact in leadership, Innovation and design, across the world. As a fellow design thinking and purpose led business owner I’m really excited to have been able to interview Fiona on how she has supported the transformation of organisations through her work and the positive impacts that she has seen this bring to individuals, clients and businesses. This episode unpacks what innovation is within our organisations and Fiona explains the three horizons that organisations can consider in creating and leading more innovative companies, the outcomes that can be achieved and how enabling these skills internally can sustain greater long term innovation within in the organisation long after the consulting team have left the building. We also discuss the transformation that we have witnessed by great leaders and how their raw humanity has led their organisations through what has been arguably one of the toughest periods of our lifetime, and the initiatives that have been rapidly implemented to respond to the needs of their people. We discuss;
We also mention a couple of books and podcasts through the episode, you can find the links to those below: Naked Ambition with Amy Childs Matthew McConaughey with Ryan Holiday Such an enjoyable conversation that really gets to the heart of personal awareness and reflection on why we do what we do and, our own personal work styles.
Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au Naked Ambition | www.naked-ambition.com.au Fiona Triaca | www.linkedin.com/fionatriaca/ | |||
| Setting Your North Star | 06 Dec 2020 | 00:16:57 | |
Gaining clarity on our own sense of purpose and the values that we wish to live by form the foundation from which we can then live out a life of alignment. When we are unclear on these aspects of our life, we can get off course, make decisions that don’t feel right and enable others to make decisions for us, as we have no real clarity on where we are heading, our North Star. By centring ourselves around our purpose and being able to articulate what it is that we stand for and stand against, we are empowered to make decisions confidently, to communicate what it is important to us and to attract people into our lives that align with our desire. This episode will take you on journey to prompt contemplation of what your north star looks like and the actions you can take to re-orientate yourself in its direction. You can download a copy of the worksheets I mention in the episode at the link below. Download Ikigai & Values Template
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| Self Fidelity, How to Thrive at Work with Cassandra Goodman | 30 Nov 2020 | 00:51:32 | |
Cassandra Goodman is a coach, facilitator and the author of the newly realised book Self-Fidelity. With over three decades of business experience across multiple industries she has held many different senior leadership roles, including Global Director of Employee Experience at a healthcare company where she activated the organisation’s purpose ‘Longer, Healthier, Happier Lives’ for their 86,000 employees across the world. In addition to growing her own business, Cassandra is a Thrive Global facilitator and executive coach. Thrive Global is an organisation founded and led by Arianna Huffington with the mission to end the global epidemic of stress and burnout. Cassandra is passionate about contributing to this mission. In this episode we discuss;
You can connect with Cassandra on LinkedIn and if you’d like to learn more on Self Fidelity you can purchase a copy of her book at the link below. Use the code DESIGN at the checkout for FREE shipping. Cassandra Goodman LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/cassandra-goodman/ Cassandra Goodman Website | www.CassandraGoodman.com Self Fidelity | www.Self-Fidelity.com | |||
| The Link Between Values & Behaviours | 23 Nov 2020 | 00:11:27 | |
Have you ever considered the link between the values and the expected behaviours in your organisation? When we set the values of our organisation, we need to go deeper in order to clearly communicate the expectations of our culture. In going to that next level we are looking at the behaviours that we expect to see when we are living in alignment with the values of our organisation. When we have clarity of the behaviours, we can then begin to use our environment to encourage people to do more of the things that align with the expected values of the business. This episode is going to give you a sneak peak into what we cover in this module in the Your Workplace Future Ready program. In the program we dive into this topic looking at the science that sits behind our workplace design, and how you can uncover the values and then articulate the behaviours that you’d like to observe in your workplace. You’ll also understand how to use your workplace to reinforce the desired behaviours to enable your organisation to live out its values.
Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au Your Workplace Future Ready program | Join the wait list | |||
| The Business of Design | 16 Nov 2020 | 00:27:01 | |
In today's episode, the tables are turned and I'm being interviewed by Amanda Bulow from the Awesome Women Podcast. We discussed;
Amanda wraps up the episode with a dive into my career history, discussing how I came to be an Interior Designer and the Founder & Director of COMUNiTI plus I share some of my thoughts on what it takes to run a successful business and what I wish I'd known when I first started out. Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au Amanda Bulow | www.awic.org.au/ Awesome Women Podcast | Click here to listen | |||
| Who to Hire & When | 09 Nov 2020 | 00:18:14 | |
Creating a new workplace environment can be a really exciting, but also a pretty daunting time. So it’s important to get the right people on your team to guide you. This episode gives you a shopping list of the external advisors that you might want to have on your side and engaging with across your journey. Designing and building your new workplace doesn’t happen all that often and you want all the help you can get to make this as enjoyable and as fun as possible, while making sure that you're getting the right advice. We cover everything from leasing through to building your new dream workplace and who you’ll need at each step of the way. Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au | |||
| Workplace Technology, It's More Human Than You Think with Aston Consulting | 02 Nov 2020 | 00:49:02 | |
Tom Price is the Founding Director of Aston Qld and Simon Backhouse is the company's Associate Director of Workplace Technology. Aston are specialist building services engineers and technology consultants operating solely in the commercial workplace sector. They are dedicated to delivering advice, design and technical support in the areas of engineering and workplace technology. With clients such as Atlassian, Zoom & Dropbox in their portfolio, Aston are at the forefront of what’s happening in workplace design and technology and the impact on our future of work. I was fortunate enough to get an insight into how they see the future of work playing out in technology space in this interview. We cover everything from our desire for intuitive technology to the impact that working from home has created on the technological infrastructure of our organisations. In this episode you’ll learn about;
Whilst this conversation is a lot about the technology of organisations we also get a little philosophical about us as humans and leaders and how technology is not necessarily the answer to everything. Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au Aston Consulting | www.astonconsult.com.au | |||
| Shifting Culture with Everyday Actions - with Meredith Wilson | 03 Jun 2024 | 00:35:34 | |
How can we create workplaces where our people are empowered? Where they are given autonomy and choice?
It all starts with culture.
Now that might sound overly simply, but at the grassroots of this, it’s the everyday actions that leaders take that shift and create culture in their teams and organisations. And it really is the simple things that make the difference.
And today’s guest, Meredith Wilson has written the book, on how you too can you use GRASS in your workplace to shift your culture.
Meredith makes culture simple and actionable. Working with executives, CEOs and leadership teams to shape, shift, strengthen and lead cultures. Having led culture at the Executive and Board level for more than 15 years, with ASX10 and global teams, Meredith is a published Author and recognised Culture Expert. Meredith works as a Culture Strategist, Speaker, and Mentor, building cultures that work.
In today’s episode Meredith shares with us; 1. Her G.R.A.S.S model and the simple ways that we can start to rethink culture and how we can then take action everyday 2. The impact of Hope & Safety and how this is foundational in building any culture 3. The 4 things that you need to build a culture worth belonging too 4. The importance of symbols and rituals and how these show up in your workplace
Meredith and I have a shared passion for building communities and thriving cultures, with much of our work and language overlapping in various area’s of workplace design and organisational leadership and culture, so it was an absolute privilege to have the opportunity to explore our ideas of what works more deeply in this episode.
LINKS Get your copy of Mel’s new Book “The Next Workplace; Designing Dynamic Environments that Inspire Human Potential”
Connect with Meredith; Email | Insta | LinkedIn | Website |
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| Designing Your Future Workplace | Who Needs to be Involved | 26 Oct 2020 | 00:16:22 | |
Achieving optimal results from your next workplace requires input from a variety of stakeholders. It requires a diverse range of opinions and view points to ensure that you have looked at the possibilities from the view point of each of the users, and you might even be a little surprised by what you learn about your organisation. In this episode
If you are looking to transform your workplace for the future, YOUR WORKPLACE FUTURE READY can support you in laying the foundations you need. A 6 module online program covering the 5 pillars of the Workplace Dynamics Blueprint. www.melissamarsden.com.au/programs Melissa Marsden | https://www.melissamarsden.com
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| Digital Wellbeing and The Impact on Productivity with Dr Kristy Goodwin | 19 Oct 2020 | 00:52:14 | |
Does that “ping” of your email make your whole body tense? Chances are you could be experiencing “digital stress”. Dr Kristy Goodwin is a speaker, author, researcher and media commentator exploring the impacts that our digitalised lives have on our physical health, mental wellbeing and productivity. She works with organisations, both big and small, to optimise employees’ digital wellbeing and productivity as they navigate remote working arrangements. Kristy makes understanding the why of how we engage with technology and how we can counteract our dependencies with it, easy and tangible. Using scientific research, Kristy works with individuals and organisations to tame their tech in order to consciously manage their digital distractions to enhance mental wellbeing and productivity. In this episode we discuss the impact that our technology is having on our physical health and particularly our eyes, the side effects of being tethered to technology and how we need to balance our “screentime with greentime”. We also get a bit nerdy discussing neuroscience and the chronotypes that guide us in finding our most productive work time. One of the most challenging situations for us all at the moment with the shift to remote working, is the setting of what Kristy calls “techspectations”, the rules that underpin the use of technology and the expectations that we have within our organisations. Kristy shares with us the three most important things we can do as leaders in our organisations to move the needle for our employees and their relationship with technology. Passionate about changing our relationship with technology this is one chat that we can all take something actionable away from. Melissa Marsden | www.melissamarsden.com.au Dr Kristy Goodwin | www.drkristygoodwin.com Your Workplace Future Ready | https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/your_workplace_future_ready | |||
| The Importance of Brand in Workplace Design | 12 Oct 2020 | 00:19:28 | |
An organisations brand is far more than a logo, website or a suite of colours. It is the representation of the organisations purpose, why they exist, where they came from and where they are going. It is their story and personality. Your brand is much more than a logo and a suite of colours. The brand of an organisation runs deeper than its logo and colour pallet. It's the stories that have shaped it through history and the impact that the business is making in the world. The secret is in exploring this and then infusing it into the built environment so you can feel it, touch it and see it. Every business has a unique brand personality and when this is infused into the very fabric of the environment, it elicits emotion, a feeling of connection and leads to the creation of culture. With all the challenges that 2020 has delivered to us, I’m witnessing the need of many organisations to revaluate their workplace environments and how they wish for their people to engage. And that means that the space we need to facilitate those engagements also needs to change. As many of us are still navigating this time, I’ve decided to share my 20+ years experience in creating environments that enable high performing teams in my new program “Your Workplace Future Ready”. This program will dig deep into the psychology of work, look at the science of how we work and help you unpack the intelligence that already exists in your organisation to guide you towards your future of work. Click on the link below to join the Waitlist. Doors open 20th October. Your Workplace Future Ready | https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/your_workplace_future_ready Melissa Marsden | https://www.melissamarsden.com.au/ | |||