The People Impact Podcast
by Lisa Dempsey and Ann Betz
Welcome to the People Impact Podcast!We are currently diving deep into Toxicity in the Workplace. We intend to leave no stone unturned when it comes to deepening and expanding our understanding of how toxicity ACTUALLY works inside organisations. This podcast is for you if you are curious about better understanding the humans you work with and how some toxic traits may have made their way into your workplace and what you might be able to do about it. …For all of you out there who are curious about how you can make your workplace better today. Featuring Ann Betz & Lisa Dempsey
Episodes
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Gaslighting: The Silent Saboteur in Your Workplace
Have you ever been told something, but felt deep in your bones, “hummm I’m not sure about that?”, but didn’t dare question it because it came from you boss or someone in power and you thought “oh, they must be right”. Or maybe been told something and immediately felt small or less than and then...
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Notes from the Field - Social Contract
This week, we're exploring a concept that is fundamental yet often overlooked in our daily interactions— the Social Contract. This idea, though abstract, plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of toxic leadership and the subtle ways it can manifest in organizations. ”In the gray areas...
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Notes from the Field - Power Over vs Power With
“True leadership isn't about wielding power over others; it's about harnessing the collective strength of a team to create a thriving ecosystem where everyone can shine." Welcome to the second bonus edition of Notes from the Field. This week I've been reflecting on the dynamics of leadership and...
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Notes from the Field - Chaos and Control
"In a world where chaos reigns, toxic leaders thrive. It's time to unveil the truth behind the power grab and reclaim effective leadership." As we navigate through these challenging times, it's crucial to understand the patterns of toxic leadership and how they can impact our organizations. I've...
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Toxic Workplace: Are You Swimming in Poisonous Waters?
Have you ever been in an organization where things felt off, but you just didn’t know why? You complained and vented, and no matter how much you vented, it just stuck to you? You felt like it wasn’t safe to speak your mind, but you weren’t sure why? You felt exhausted and taken advantage of, but...
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Unmasking the Toxic Workplace: The Hidden Patterns of Toxicity
Have you ever felt like the rug was ripped right out from under you at work? Things were going well, really well…then boom you are left on the curb blindsided and dismayed. Hero to zero? It’s possible it may have just been bad luck, or it may have been a part of a toxic workplace pattern. In this...
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Dealing with Toxic Traits: The Workplace Challenge
Welcome to the first full episode of the new season of the People Impact Podcast! We are so excited to start taking this deep dive into exploring toxicity in the workplace. We are even more excited to welcome our new co-host Ann Betz!! Please join us in welcoming Ann to the podcast and share your...
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A New Season and New Reason!
It is a New Season and we’re thrilled to finally bring you some exciting updates! Today marks a significant transition for our podcast. After months of anticipation, we are ready to unveil our new direction. Marjolijn Vlug, our beloved co-host, has decided to step down as she has decided to shift...
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Empowering Work: A Life-Centric Approach, with Wouter Smeets
It’s ok to work hard, but what if working hard wasn’t the ONLY option? In this People Impact Podcast episode, Lisa had the pleasure of hosting Wouter Smeets, founder of Life-Centric Work Lab, as our special guest. Wouter shared his unique perspective on work and life, challenging traditional...
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Embracing Relational Intelligence in Leadership with Alita Watson
It’s really difficult to be a leader in the world right now. One of the things that can really make it easier: increasing relational intelligence in organizations. In this People Impact Podcast, Lisa Dempsey and Alita Watson dive into the world of embedded coaching and how it can increase...
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Embracing Discomfort: The Key to Growth with Jesse Hernandez
We often talk ourselves into believing that growth is something that just happens. Almost as if growth is automatic and just unfolds - like magic. ✨ In this episode, Lisa Dempsey sits down with Jesse (Jesus) Hernandez to discuss his transformative journey and what he has learned about what real...
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The Human Element: Culture, Collaboration, and Connection with Drew Jones
Have you ever felt like you are working in a complex, yet primitive place? You are not alone. Drew Jones is a cultural anthropologist and workplace strategy consultant who studies workplaces through the lens of anthropology. In this episode we explore the overlap between business and cultural...
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Unlearning Limits: The Power of Naiveté with Joshua Berry
Have you ever paused and asked yourself “where did I learn that belief” with the powerful follow up of “AND IS IT TRUE?” In this insightful episode Joshua Berry and Lisa dive into the concept of limiting beliefs and the impact they have on personal and professional growth. Joshua shares his...
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Listener Note!
Hey Listeners! Lisa here with a quick update and important request. Tune in to fund out more!
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Developing Leadership, with guest Paul ter Wal
“How did you feel when you realised that?” “I must say, I finally felt happy with it. This is making me happy because this makes sense.” In this new episode we dive deep with Paul ter Wal, a former lawyer turned leadership developer and professional speaker who is reshaping the workplace through...
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Exploring Radical Candor
The right words at the right time can make all the difference—not just in business but life itself. On this episode, we unravel the concept of radical candour developed by Kim Scott. Radical candour isn't a tool as much as a commitment to authentic conversations that drive meaningful change. It...
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From Burnout to Balance, with guest Julian Reeve
The thing with burnout is… you’re largely unaware of it until it happens to you. When we’re ambitious, we’re driven by goals and metrics. Financial success denoted by things and the balance in your bank account. Who are you, in the journey towards that result you’re aiming for? Julian Reeve…
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Toxicity Unveiled: Deep Dive into Reality and Leadership
In today's fast-paced corporate world, the term ‘toxic work culture’ is more than just a buzzword; it's a reality that can deeply impact both individual well-being and organizational health. This deep dive into workplace dynamics ties together the recognition that toxicity isn't just about...
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Culture, Leadership and Authentic Self, with guest Irene Riad
What is your work in the world? Irene Riad is a multinational, multicultural executive coach and organizational culture coach (ICF PCC) who specializes in leadership transformation, complex drama recovery coaching and Jungian psychology coaching. She is also the founder of SIGHTcet, the Self...
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Diverse Leadership in Focus, with guest L. Michelle Smith
“My mission is to pick apart what women did who have succeeded – and success is defined by making it to the C-suite at these very, very large companies where the deck is stacked against her, but she still made it. And what I found is, these women, even if they don't call it positive emotion…
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Baking DEI into Your Organization, with guest Maria Morukian
Embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) isn't about isolated targets; it needs to be intertwined into every action we take as an organization. The broccoli gets bakes into the casserole to make the whole better and healthier. Maria Morukian works with with people who, whether it's their...
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Taking the Grief Out of Grievance, with guest David Liddle
David Liddle doesn’t beat about the bush as he identifies the root cause of toxicity in organisations: organisations get the culture and behaviours they deserve. In order to create a turnaround, transformational justice is what David works towards. David is the Chief Exec and founder of a...
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What is going on? Unveiling Workplace Bias, with guest Buki Mosaku
How can we look at unconscious bias in the workplace from a different perspective, so that we can address it more effectively? Buki Mosaku is the founder of DiverseCity Think Tank, workplace bias expert, and author of ‘I Don’t Understand: Navigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace’. We talk…
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Dealing With Toxic People At Work, with guest Ann Betz
Ann Betz is an expert on evidence-based neuroscience, human development and coaching, and she’s here to talk about toxic workplace culture and toxic personalities. On the one hand, when coaches work with a coachee sitting in front of us, we focus on that person and what they want do differently…
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Dance Your Way to Sustainable Leadership, with guest Irene Anggreeni
Irene Anggreeni is a dedicated coach who specializes in mental health topics, fostering better self-care and sustainable success for both leaders and their teams. As an advocate for mental health, she works to remove the stigma surrounding it. Her own life experiences have been formative in…
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Mastering Change Through Creativity, with guest David Chislett
So many people in this world do not perceive themselves as creative, and yet our creativity is the primary tool that we use to navigate change. You are actually being creative, every day. David Chislett helps us understand how creativity is our primary tool for embracing change and unlocking new...
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From FOFO to GO-fo!
Let’s get honest about FOFO. No, not fomo, the fear of missing out (not even jomo, the joy of missing out). We’re talking about FOFO: The Fear Of Finding Out. The fear of finding out what’s actually going on. The fear of finding out what’s actually going on rather than how it should be happening...
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How To Have Coach-Like Conversations
A great way to improve the quality – and effectiveness – of your conversations is to have more coach-like conversations. In this episode we give you five essential skills and tools that will change the quality of your conversations, your work communications and interactions. The simple fact is…
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New Shapes of Masculinity, with guest Yaniv Shein
In a world where societal expectations for men – to be strong, confident, composed, capable – are still prevalent, it can be challenging to break away and courageously embrace authenticity. Life coach Yaniv Shein works mainly with men, facilitating men's groups for youth and adults. In this new...
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Creating Space to Speak
Be intentional about inviting everyone to speak in your group meetings and reap the reward. Yep, that’s the gist of this episode. It’s that simple. To help you start and keep doing this, we talk about how and why this works – and how to make it a habit. Work results are better when people get to...
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Navigating the Post-Pandemic Landscape
Are you still feeling the lingering effects of the pandemic? We dive back into this topic as we noticed how much our earlier episode about Pandemic Fatigue still brings up for our listeners. We’re still finding our way, going from languishing to lingering. It may seem like we’re expected to go…
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Changing the Narrative, with guest Ruben Brave
Ruben Brave loves exploring the unknown, with a curiosity that drives him to a wide variety of places and an innate talent for generating visions for the future. His story involves serial tech entrepreneurship: having set up several tech companies across Europe, Ruben has always been ‘one of the...
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Don’t Forget About Ageism, with guest Mary Jane Roy
Ageing is the one thing we all share in common, if we’re lucky enough to have a long life. But is this on your radar for improving the diversity and inclusivity of your teams? This is a conversation with Mary Jane Roy, who is into her 50th career year. Her career – so far – has spanned from being…
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The Sunk Cost of People Pleasing
How do you distinguish between constructive behaviour and people pleasing? You may notice it in other people, and how they interact. And then there’s discerning your own people pleasing behaviour. People pleasing in teams can become a disadvantage because managers and team members don’t get the...
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How To Succeed at Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Work, with guest Sarah Cordivano
When you’re the first DEI role in an organisation, not only are you starting a job from scratch, so is your employer: often they don’t yet understand what your role is. It’s not a plug and play situation but a new function inside an organisation without a lot of legacy to stand on. Moreover,...
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Leadership in Holiday Magic
Holiday magic is made by women. The holiday season would be a lot less magical without the work that mostly women do to create it. In homes and in organisations, creating happiness for other people. It’s an additional mental load, without us realising that it is. At this time of year, most of us...
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Why Quiet Quitting Is Such a Drag
This is what makes Quiet Quitting such a drag. People that Quietly Quit can become a huge slower-down of the change that you need in the current environment. A roadblock to collaboration, creativity, innovation and any forward momentum. But Quiet Quitting is not the problem. It points to…
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When Grief Enters the Workplace
Grief will show up in your life, whether your own or for people around you – including people at work. That friendly sounding invitation to ‘bring your whole self to work’? It includes grief. Maaike Roseboom experienced a huge and sudden personal loss. Lisa was her HR manager at the time and they...
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100 Lightbulbs
This is our 100th episode! In fact, we’re triple celebrating, with four years of this podcast and over 10.000 downloads. These 100 and 4 and 10K have let us create a rich portfolio of topics, guests and perspectives for you, on the impact that you (can) have on real people in your organization....
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How To Swim In Muddy Water
Sometimes moving forward looks like standing still. So many more people than usual are picking up on big shifts going on, beyond our day-to-day practical things. It can be a floating feeling of unease that signals those bigger picture developments, or specific things that weigh on your mind. Zoom...
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Detoxing Your Workplace Culture
Toxic workplace culture: this is what you can do about it, and why you want to. Let us take you from the experience of it (check our previous episode) to the big picture. Over the past 10 years, workplace culture has generally become more toxic. Research* has specified the main markers of toxic...
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Disentangling Toxic Work Culture
“I went from being this courageous person, willing and loving to challenge the status quo, to feeling I have to be compliant and I need to placate. It was a black hole that sucked me in, and I didn’t realise it was toxic.” “At what point did you recognise that?” “Well, when I hit my burnout.”…
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Making the Case for Diversity & Inclusion, with guest James McKim
Seeing that lightbulb moment happen when people realise that they can be better as individuals in their organisations, *and* their organisations can be better, by really living into diversity, equity and inclusion - that is what lights James McKim up. James recognizes that organisations want to…
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Challenging Leadership, with guest Mick Spiers
When your reference point for how to be a leader comes from the leaders, managers and bosses you’ve had up to that point, that’s a really hit-and-miss affair. First-time leaders going through the rollercoaster of getting their new role frequently follow up their “Woohoo!” with “… now what?” Mick...
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The Secret to Life is Aliveness
The biggest and best kept secret of life is… aliveness :) Sure, there’s being alive, your heart beating and your body breathing, that’s no big secret. But aliveness, that’s about feeling connected to the essential realness of your life and the tingle of possibility in the world around you.…
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Spaces for Anti-Racism, with guest Valerie Spain
We need to be talking about racism without people of colour present. The work Valerie Spain does - and the way that she does it - is pretty special. Valerie is a certified coach and antiracism educator, DEI consultant and group facilitator, particularly focusing on white people doing the inner…
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How To Choose In Chaotic Times
Life is messy. It’s a messy time to be alive in this world, with so much going on. Predictability is on the decline. Some (including us) would even call it a trend towards chaos. This is a long-term thing. As Dutch Professor (in Sustainability Transitions) Jan Rotmans noted, “We are living not in...
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Wellness Across the Board, with guest Tarin Calmeyer
Wellness is about effective, healthy habits for life. Your life, all sides of it. Your workplace has a huge impact on your wellness, and vice versa: an organisation will run so much better when team members are well. Tarin Calmeyer makes this clear from various angles. She is a corporate wellness...
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Turning Teal, with guest Simon Dixon
The hierarchy of the classic pyramid org chart has very little added value for clients and, moreover, focuses your competitive spirit on beating your colleague to get the promotion, instead of on “we’re going to win or lose together”. So, Simon Dixon worked out a better way. When Simon set up...
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Consistency In New Beginnings
Sometimes a new beginning can mark a bigger shift, from the old you to the new you. “Wait a minute. I changed my mind. But I’ve always done it this other way. Won’t I be labelled inconsistent, erratic, unpredictable or unreliable, if I suddenly change?” Sure, but it’s your life. You get to make...
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Welcome to the People Impact Podcast!We are currently diving deep into Toxicity in the Workplace. We intend to leave no stone unturned when it comes to deepening and expanding our understanding of how toxicity ACTUALLY works inside organisations. This podcast is for you if you are curious about better understanding the humans you work with and how some toxic traits may have made their way into your workplace and what you might be able to do about it. …For all of you out there who are curious about how you can make your workplace better today. Featuring Ann Betz & Lisa Dempsey
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