Episodes

  • 23 | Four Essential Ingredients for Effective Leadership with Candice Seiger
    Apr 1 2024

    The most valuable lessons about business and leadership are not learned in the classroom. When it comes to developing the next generation of high-impact leaders, there is simply no substitute for experience and mentorship. On this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, our guest Candice Seiger gives us a healthy dose of both.


    Candice is a seasoned strategy and operations executive who has worked for major brands like Carnival, Hyatt and AAA. She currently sits on the board for American Public Television and holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In this week's episode, Candice shares the four essential ingredients to her success as a leader and offers advice to deveoping leaders on how to scale their impact by focusing on what matters most - the people.

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • 22 | Why Didn't I Get That Promotion? w/ Annie Brown, Head of People at Fi
    Mar 25 2024

    The promotion process at most companies can be frustratingly opaque. In this week's episode of the Workplace Therapy Podcast, Annie Brown - Head of People at Fi gives us an insider's peek behind the veil of performance reviews and promotion decisions and gives some invaluable advice to employees and managers navigating the process.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 21 | Developing Adaptable Leaders with Dr. Susan Bernstein, CEO of Shift Beyond Strategies
    Mar 18 2024

    We expect a lot of things from leaders in the modern workplace and perhaps chief among them is the expectations that leaders maintain resilience, composure and stability during times of uncertainty and change. That can sometimes be a tall order as today's workplace experiences a volume and velocity of change that is often times overwhelming.


    In this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, certified somatic coaches Scott and Monica Arrieta from Unity & Company interview Dr. Susan Bernstein, CEO of Shift Beyond Strategies. Dr. Bernseitn holds a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology and an MBA from UC Berkley. She leverages her unique blend of business acumen and deep expertise in somatic psychology to work with organizations to produce more adaptable and self-aware leaders who in turn serve as catalysts for organizational growth.

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    1 hr
  • 20 | Extinguishing Workplace Burnout with the Creative Arts - With Azizi Marshall, CEO Center for Creative Arts Therapy
    Mar 11 2024
    Burnout in the workplace is one of the most costly business problems in the workplace today. Mass layoffs and increased productivity expectations have left workers feeling unappreciated, unseen and emotionally and physically depleted. Burnout fuels employee disengagement, attrition, lost productivity and a host of other negative business outcomes. On this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, we speak with Azizi Marshall, CEO of the Center for Creative Arts Therapy on how the cure for burnout might come from an unexpected place - the creative arts.
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    53 mins
  • 19 | The Absurdity of Being Yourself in The Workplace with Janine Dennis of Talent Think Innovations
    Mar 4 2024
    True innovation comes from a place of authenticity. How then, can organizations hope to cultivate and harness innnovation in a time where it feels more difficult than ever to be yourself in the workplace? In this week's episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, Scott Arrieta (CEO of Unity and Company) and Skylar Lewandowski speak with Janine Dennis of Talent Think Innovations on the elusive goal of being yourself in the workplace and reaping the benefits of embracing authenticity versus conformity.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 18 | Weaponized Words: Productivity
    Jul 10 2023

    We’re starting a new series here on The Workplace Therapy Podcast called Weaponized Words, where we examine the lexicon we use in the workplace and try to unpack how certain words and phrases might have and unintended impact in our organizations. This week, my co-host Skylar Lewandowski and I take a look at the often-weaponized word, “productivity.” We discuss what productivity is, what it isn’t, where leaders commonly trip up when evaluating productivity and what we can learn to do differently.

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    53 mins
  • 17 | How understanding my strengths changed my understanding of my life and my mission with Scott Arrieta, CEO of Unity and Company
    Jul 3 2023

    Deep down, we know that we as humans are all different. We know that we don't all have the same perspectives, abilities and desires. And yet, in so many aspects of our lives, we're encouraged or sometimes even required to foresake our natural strengths and propensities and are instead directed to work tirelessly on mitigating our weaknesses so we can become like everybody else. This approach is exhausting and futile.


    In this week's episode of Workplace Therapy, our hosts discuss an assessment developed by Gallup called Clifton Strenghts (formerly known as Strengths Finder). The Clifton Strengths assessment shines a light on the strengths and talents that make you unique and helps you to understand how to lean into your strengths to accomplish your goals instead of focusing on mitigating your weaknesses.


    This week, Scott Arrieta, CEO of Unity and Company shares his Clifton Strengths results and reflects on how those insights have changed his perspective on work and life.

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    43 mins
  • 16 | How discovering my strengths changed my perspective on work and life with Skylar Lewandowski, Director of Special Programs @ Unity & Co
    Jun 26 2023

    Deep down, we know that we as humans are all different. We know that we don't all have the same perspectives, abilities and desires. And yet, in so many aspects of our lives, we're encouraged or sometimes even required to foresake our natural strengths and propensities and are instead directed to work tirelessly on mitigating our weaknesses so we can become like everybody else. This approach is exhausting and futile.


    In this week's episode of Workplace Therapy, our hosts discuss an assessment developed by Gallup called Clifton Strenghts (formerly known as Strengths Finder). The Clifton Strengths assessment shines a light on the strengths and talents that make you unique and helps you to understand how to lean into your strengths to accomplish your goals instead of focusing on mitigating your weaknesses.


    This week, Skylar Lewandowski, the Director of Special Programs at Unity and Company shares her Clifton Strengths results and reflects on how those insights have changed her perspective on work and life.

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    41 mins