Mindset & Wellbeing
Resources to help you look after your wellbeing while you make a positive impact.
Mindset, personal sustainability, and happiness habits are key things you need for success… but are often neglected. I strongly recommend starting here to build and maintain positive practices.
Active Recovery
Building the integrated workflows, rhythms, and habits with just enough structure to create sustainable momentum is one of the key things I help people with.
Build the Habits for Regenerative Momentum & Success with Ben Pecotich – BFGN Webinar #13
This webinar will help you start the year with optimism backed by intent and direction… and build the habits for regenerative momentum and success.
Build Empathy
Design thinking is built on empathy. It’s the bedrock on which all good design happens. It’s a word we use a lot, but what is it?
Share Your Story
Sharing your story is an important part of any change journey. A good story will resonate with your audience, engage their curiosity, and generate conversation. What’s your story?
AICD Essential Director Update 2024
The AICD Essential Director Update 2024 with a strong focus on genAI, cybersecurity, mandatory climate reporting, company culture, and NFP financial resilience.
Mindset
My focus is leadership, design, and innovation for happier communities. It’s important to me that you enjoy the journey of solving problems that matter, and stay healthy and well… ideally feeling even healthier as you do work that gives you meaning and fulfilment.
Happiness Habits
How do you create your happiness? There are simple actions we can take that literally change our brain chemistry and make us feel good – they also activate the learning centres in our brain, and make us more creative and open to new ideas.
Your Purpose
Clarity of purpose makes decisions easier. It gives us a clear filter to assess and prioritise options. Let’s explore this at a personal and organisational level.
Your Strengths & Assets
What are your strengths & assets? By focusing on our strengths and taking a strengths-based approach we increase our performance, productivity, and wellbeing.
Your Personal Wellbeing Plan
What helps keep you feeling happy and healthy? Create your personal wellbeing plan to look after your emotional, mental, physical, and financial health… with a backup plan.
SydDT #97: Designer: Lost & Found with Nirish Shakya
Nirish Shakya visited from London
and shared some of what he’s learnt from interviewing 50+ designers, leaders, and changemakers about self-awareness, creative confidence, and meaning on his Design Feeling podcast… and a lot of reflections on his own journey and practice at Sydney Design Thinking #97.
Balanced Achievers Podcast – Ben Pecotich
It was awesome to have a chat with Phoebe Zhang early this year for her Balanced Achievers podcast.
Social Enterprise Day 2023
Happy Social Enterprise Day 2023! A time to raise the profile of social enterprise around the world and celebrate the amazing work they do. It’s also a good time for a healthcheck.
AICD Essential Director Update 2023
The AICD Essential Director Update 2023 with a strong focus on Company Climate Policy & Reporting, Psychosocial Risks, and Stakeholder Engagement.
SydDT #86: World Interaction Design Day 2023: Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility
Happy World Interaction Design Day! The theme this year is Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility. Another Sydney Design Thinking in collaboration with IxDA Sydney. I got to talk about one of my favourite things: Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities. How do we design for regeneration, be financially successful, and increase our wellbeing while we do it?
Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities – UXA 2023
Let’s collaborate to solve problems that matter for our teams, customers, and life on our planet – with regenerative business models, products, and services that are financially successful and increase our wellbeing while we do it.
Impact Boom 400th Episode – Preventing Burnout
Congrats to Tom Allen and the rest of the team on the 400th episode of Impact Boom – focused on the critically important topic of “How To Prevent Burnout For Impact Entrepreneurs And Purpose-Led Leaders”.
Inner Development & Accelerating Innovation in the New World of Work
A couple of events yesterday… Miro’s Accelerating Innovation in the New World of Work at The Rocks and then Inner Development & Sustainability at Sydney Uni.
SydDT #74: Design Thinking in Social Enterprise Startups
Naomi Tarszisz (Founder & CEO of rePlated), Andrew Akib (Co-founder & CEO of Maslow), and Frances Atkins (Co-founder & Director of givvable) shared a bit about their social enterprise startup journeys with key insights and lessons at Sydney Design Thinking #74.
Greater Good in Action
Over 90 practices to improve your social and emotional wellbeing.
Design Feeling Podcast – Solving Problems That Matter
In June 2022 I had the pleasure of being a guest on Nirish Shakya’s Design Feeling podcast. We spoke about happiness habits, design frameworks for creating our purpose and happiness… and solving problems that matter.
Perseverance & Giving Up
Startup lessons from the film Breathtaking K2: The World’s Most Dangerous Mountain. An accurate metaphor for the startup/social enterprise journey. What is often a journey of many years working on a startup idea compressed into a 46-minute film.