Value Through Vulnerability

“If you’re not in a job that is making you happy or you feel that you are in an environment that is not feeding your passions, directly or able to step towards embracing your passions, are you in the right role?” – 11.30 “You have to meet people where they are at. There is no point you trying to take them down a route they are not ready for” – 20.30 “No matter who you are talking to, no matter what you are trying to achieve, you have to consider who your audience are and you have to meet them where they are at” – 20.40 “Being uncomfortable is part of growth, there is now way to grow in any sense without putting yourself in a position of discomfort” - “I think had we not had such a focus on developing culture, developing trust, developing a genuine interest and engagement in our people over that time, hypothetically we may not have fared as well” – 35.00 “Individually we are passionate, collectively we are powerful” – 38.30 “Sometimes you have just got to say I can, and I will” – 42.15 Luke can be contacted v

Olga can be contacted via: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-piehler-86241057/ Website https://www.mywy.io/ Vivian can be contacted via: Website: https://vivalavive.com/workplace-wellness-blog/ Let’s Humanize The Workplace videos: https://bit.ly/htwlive Let’s Humanize The Workplace podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-humanize-the-workplace-real-talk/id1505138189 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianacquah/ Twitter https://twitter.com/VivalaViveNL Hung can be contacted via: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunglee/ Recruiting Brainfood   https://www.recruitingbrainfood.com/subscribe-now/ You can also find out more about Garry as follows: Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com Email - garry.turner@hexochangenow.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/ Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry Mike can be found via the following means: Email - mike@mjvacanti.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjvacanti/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MJV

You can signup for the summit here -> https://go.amplifydei.com/?sc=gaRMoR3f&ac=HCFf1Tzc - “I almost lost my life because of racism, because of discrimination” – 02.47 - “It’s a product of having me in the workplace and me not being seen for my potential” – 03.50 - “Being the only one, the only woman, the only black person, its not easy. It’s not easy at all” – 04.25 - “When he (Orlando) was about 4 years old he started going to school and he was talking about ‘that’s a fixed mindset’” – 09.15 - “It took me awhile to see my power, it took me a while to see my strength, and it took me a while to see the gifts in me and what I can do for the world” – 10.20 - “Without these lessons I wouldn’t be here, without these lessons I wouldn’t be doing what I am doing now” – 16.15 - “Every time I am having a down day I just look into his eyes (Orlando) and his eyes are the mirror to my commitment, that’s what I see” – 17.15 Vivian can be contacted via the following means: Website: https://vivalavive.com/workplace-w

You can pre-order Julie's new book Confessions of a HR Professional here -> https://publishizer.com/confessions-of-an-hr-pro/ “I wanna be the opposite of those people that I’ve encountered who have caused me pain at some point in my life – 05.10 “What I have to offer people is bigger than restricting myself to one company, and working for that company for the rest pf my life, and knowing that every single person that I touch, no matter where I am, no matter who they are, that I have something valuable to offer that is going to change someone’s life” - 05.20 “I’ve developed a saying recently which is ‘I am not for everyone, and everyone is not for me, and that is ok” – 08.20 “There is a point where you have to say ‘let it go’ in order to be able to give and in order be your best self.” – 13.35 “What would happen if I did rock the boat? What would happen if I said this isn’t right and I give my reasons, and they make sense?” – 18.40 “Everything is a day by day basis. If you do it one day at a time at least

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Elizabeth Lembke is Chief Talent Navigator at Transforming Talent, a globally and virtually active consultancy specializing in people and culture solutions. She has 15+ years of experience in strategic and hands-on human resources, a background in work, pedagogical and cultural psychology, and is a certified Systemic coach. Her work has been honored with multiple Innovation Awards, deemed a FranklinCovey benchmark, and led to the highest increase in Employee Engagement ever measured by Aon Hewitt. Prior to her consultancy work, Elizabeth was Global Director of HR: Talent and Learning for BorgWarner, leading the talent charge for 7000 employees across 11 countries and through five major M&A integrations. Cordelia Gaffar is the Emotions Opener Transformation Strategist guiding leaders to use their darkest and most difficult emotions to show up power

- “I want to set the conditions and not condemn them by their worst behaviour, but to interact with their best behaviour” – 08.08 - “Teams that celebrate that uniqueness and set the conditions for the uniqueness will thump the sameness. It has a beautiful moral imperative for me, but I am also ridiculously competitive and it also have a beautiful competitive imperative to it”  - 09.00 - “The part of competition that isn’t good is when you get to go and make a relationship with the referee and rig the rules. I think competition is a beautiful thing. That’s for the people who can compete” – 10.35 - “There are two ways to compete. One is to be better than everyone else, better and faster, the other is to lobby for special rules. My heart is not in that at all” – 11.30 - “Those of us that are feeling comfortable, it’s our job to open our arms for everyone else and in any aspect of our lives” - 13.00 - “Leadership is about making others better as a result of our presence, but in a way that lasts into our abse

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Beth Killough is the owner of The Circle Up Experience, a consulting firm which provides leadership training and culture development to corporations, universities, teacher groups, first responders, and non-profit organizations. Circle up has trained thousands of leaders all over the country and has designed long-term culture programs to transform workplace relationships. A life-long cowgirl, writer, professor, and a licensed psychotherapist, Beth has 30 years of experience working with people to awaken their innate leadership gifts so they can live and work with more authentic relationship and connection. Circle Up’s model of Natural Leadership and experiential learning with horses integrates human psychology, animal behavior, and natural systems to offer a unique approach to personal and professional development. This approach moves quickly through th

Jackie Kindall bio: Jackie specializes in coaching and consulting executives and leaders (Director level and above) who are leading significant change within their organizations, building an inclusive organizational culture, and/or creating high level, sustained individual/team performance. She also works with teams to up-level team dynamics and collaboration. Her clients describe her style as inspiring, supportive and engaging. Jackie's clients encompass a wide range of industries such as media and entertainment, insurance, professional services, engineering, manufacturing, consumer products, non-profit, higher education, associations, financial services, and real estate. She is a certified coach through the International Coaching Federation, Center for Creative Leadership and John Maxwell International. She has a Master of Science in Organization Development and Leadership from Saint Joseph’s University, and a BA in Sociology from UCLA. She is certified to administer a wide variety of leadership 360 tools

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “I think authenticity and vulnerability go hand in hand”- 16.50 “Recruitment is a low barrier to entry business, anybody could do it, but people buy from people, people want to work with people, people work on relationships” – 17.30 “I put out a high-quality, high-touch product” – 17.45 “Your people are the lifeblood of your company, the recruiter is your ultimate brand ambassador” – 19.20 “A good organisation, the culture is really is a fabric and the fabric is made up of different coloured threads and it is important for those threads to be unique, different strengths, different weaknesses, and that all starts with recruiting” – 19.40 “Tenacity is what is going to pull you up during these tough times” – 27.10 “One of the big things about being a business owner is understanding when to outsource” – 33.00 “We get most of the gains by stepping outside o

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “Innocently enough I was looking to the outside to make me feel happy” – 09.15 “I was trying to create what I imagined were the right conditions for happiness, and that is made up, it doesn’t work like that, it didn’t come true” “We think it is the career that will make us happy, but it is not” – 10.15 “The way the world is set up is as a very outside-in world” – 11.30 “We come into the world as pure consciousness if you like, without any of the conditioning, in a state of being and that never goes away. All of us have got the capacity to see through that illusion, to fall out of that conditioning” – 12.30 “Life is only ever happening now, there is nothing else but the present moment, it's never happening anywhere else”– 14.40 “If we slow down to the present moment, we can see that we are ok we are alive, we are breathing. It’s when our thinking takes u

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Bios: Dr Charlie Easmon trained at St George's. London. He did his elective in Ghana (his country of birth) and has since worked with, among others, Merlin, Raleigh International and Save the Children in Rwanda, and ECHO in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. He has been privileged to work in and visit 75 countries. Charlie’s interest in mental health in the workplace came late through his occupational health work in which he saw the consequences of poor work environments, late referral, lack of mental health support resources or poor management. He lectures in schools to children, parents and teachers on mental health. He has built his own private medical business through various (at times stressful) ups and downs over the last 15 years and has counted 12% of the FT100 amongst his clients. The current business is called Your Excellent Health Service www.y

“Success is not what you do, it is why and how you do it, the strengths and passions you bring to the table, no matter where you are seated” – 03.20 “I am on a mission to help raise self-consciousness” – 03.40 “What roles or characters do you play on the stage of your life?” – 07.50 “We are inspiring people to lead their growth and success by experimenting, by empowering and by collaborating” -  17.40 “I love the quote by Einstein, everyone is a genius, but if we ask a fish to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it is stupid. We are always being asked to climb a tree in organisations, but what if we are the fish?”   - 22.30 “Humans are not meant to be the same, we are meant to be connected, we just need to be inclusive” – 24.50 “Why do you need that certification? Why don’t we look at your best qualities, maybe you don’t need to take that certification, ask questions” – 33.20 Nazli's bio: Authentic, Resilient, Passionate Global People Leader who has worked in different ind

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ “It comes down to how I view the world and I see people as individuals and I respect individuals, it does matter where they’re form, what’s their first language, what colour their hair is, it does not matter, what matters is the individual when I speak and listen to them” -  10.30 “What don’t I want to do today?” – 25.50 “Its not selfish to be alone” “How do often do you say no without saying no” – 29.15 “Someone shared an experience of receiving an email very late at night and the implications on that person was they had no idea what the meeting was for, they thought they were in trouble ad nearly took their own life”  – 32.30 “We are going to put the human back into technology and we are going to treat everybody as an individual” – 43.05 “When they work in the office they leave on time, when they are working at home, they have to account for

Bios: Barke F Kamuss is the CEO and founder of BarkeBeYouOwnHero Entrepreneur. She has spoken at the Inspired Ted, The Best You Expo, Global Women Club, Fearless Speaking Academy, featured in Podcasts and Radio Station and received an award for the Best Table Topic Speaker at Toastmaster. She has collaborated with Job Centre London, Speaking Internationally at ZAFAYCO, Be Inspired Be Blessed Tanzania. Barke is a certified Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, Mindfulness Master Practitioner and Parent's Emotional First Aid. Barke F Kamuss believes that everyone has the ability to choose to live life on their own terms and be their own hero., Barke Faraj Kamuss empowering women and youth turn their dreams to reality and live life on their terms. https://www.linkedin.com/in/barkekamuss/ Unisa Kamara is the former C.E.O, founder of Black Lion Entertainment and Kamara Homes in America. I opened Kamara & Kamara WorkShops, hosting two shows on Amazetv (a psychological and a political show) and a member of Kamara youths

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Bio: Enrique is an HR, Tech and Future of Work expert and keynote speaker and founder of Hacking HR, a global learning community at the intersection of future of work, technology, business and organizations, with thousands of members of all over the world. He came to the United States from Venezuela as a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to coming to the US, Enrique was the CEO at Management Consultants, a firmed specialized in Human Resources in Venezuela. Before Management Consultants, Enrique worked in the telecommunications sector as a Senior Project Engineer for Telefonica. He is also the cofounder of Cotopaxi, a recruitment platform focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Enrique is a guest author in several blogs about innovation, management and human resources. Most recently Enrique worked as an advisor to the Chief Human Resources Officer at the Int

You can also find out more about Garry as follows: Web – Sign up for updates at www.hexochangenow.com Email - garry.turner@hexochangenow.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryturnerstrategicadvisor/ Clubhouse - @vulnerablegarry - “Your word is your wand, the things you are saying you need to be conscious of” – 34.20 - “Change is the spice of life. Change will always be happening, and you can take control of your own narrative. The story of your life is your story, I want people to feel empowered”  – 37.80 Bio: Rachel Harington is the founder of Well & Calm Studios. She helps wellness businesses in the offline space get online with their services and offers. Well & Calm Studios came about after Rachel was frustrated working long hours on set in studio television production. By taking a holistic approach to technology and incorporating mind, body, and spirit techniques she takes the overwhelm out of running an online business. She knew there could be a way to make great content and stil

Today Mike Vacanti hosts a stunning hue-man conversation with Heather Younger, Brooke Erol and Cordelia Gaffer. Bios: Brooke O. Erol started her career at IBM following the traditional path she was given to be "successful". She quit her "great job" on paper after 11 years, feeling she is not aligned with it. She started her journey to find her purpose in life. She started her first business in 2003 YourBestLife to help professionals who don’t like their jobs and want to find more meaning at work. After being around so many unhappy people at work as her clients, she decided to help the organizations and leaders who employed them. She started her second business Purposeful Business to help leaders catch up with our times and grow their businesses without sacrificing the well-being of their people; where profit becomes a by-product rather than the main goal . She believes life is too precious to live only for weekends and retirement.She is the author of Create a Life You Love. She is also the co-author of

Kim is a multi award winning Mind Body Coach with over 20 years experience, fusing wellness and performance coaching to help you stop self sabotage, believe in yourself, and achieve the goals you dream about. Whatever you age, size, background or conditions, Kim has the tools, experience and empathy to help you make it happen with consistency, courage and care.   She has competed for Team GB age group triathlon, ridden horses for Scotland and worked with Team GB athletes & Strictly Come Dancing Professionals, as well as thousands of GP referrals for disordered eating, body dysmorphia and final stage rehab post operations, as well as people with Spina Bifida, Autism, Diabetes, M.E, C.F.S & neurological conditions.  Kim has run 10 marathons around the World, often in remote place whilst also doing charity work, raising over £86k for many charities.  Kim became really ill in 2013, with leptospirosis and secondary viral encephalitis, so as much

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events Find the Aequip team at https://www.aequip.co.uk/ Mike and I spoke with Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D today on what was a wonderful exploration. “When we have an inward mindset, we see ourselves as more important than others. When we see ourselves as more important than others, we see others as objects. An outward mindset is when we see others being as important as ourselves” – 23.35 “Where is the focus when we have the desires to look good, be right, avoid problems and get ahead? On ourselves. If we are a leader and we are incentivised to look good, be right, avoid problems and get ahead, where are we focused as a leader, on the person we should be least focused on as a leader” – 31.00 Ryan can be contacted via the following means: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangottfredson/ Web - www.ryangottfredson.com Bio: Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge mindset author, researcher, and consultant.

We are pleased to share the second of our truly hue-man conversations which included Brian Kelly, Rishita Jones, Kate Griffiths and Tanya Obeng in conversation as we had a wide-ranging conversation taking in race, leadership, education,  self-leadership and so much more. The reason that Tanya, Brian, Rihsita, and Kate took part in this conversation was: - “Seeing colour, seeing diversity. Too often people say that they don’t see colour and I know it is meant on a human level, but it is really about connecting with people, seeing people’s differences, appreciating peoples differences and connecting with people on a soul level   and appreciating them for who they are” -  02.00 Tanya - “I am excited about the opportunity to expand my perspective, to help us all expand our perspectives, to listen and learn from one another, so that we can come at creating change and taking purposeful action together, from a different place” - 02.55 Brian - “I feel that up until now people have either been acti