Headspace for the Workplace with Dr. Sally: Helping Leaders Build Human-Centered Workplaces
Headspace for the Workplace – A Podcast on How to Cultivate a Vibrant and Psychologically Safe and Healthy Workforce with your host Dr. Sally Spencer-ThomasIn our brain-based economy, we depend on fully engaged, mentally healthy teams.
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When the Bet Comes to Work: What Employers Need to Know About Problem Gambling with Saul Malek (opens the original)
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In this episode of Headspace for the Workplace, I sit down with Saul Malek, a speaker, educator, and problem gambling prevention advocate who travels the world delivering practical programs to workplaces, behavioral health organizations, and schools. Saul brings both professional expertise and deep personal credibility: he developed a gambling addiction as a young college student and has channeled that lived experience into a prevention mission that is, as I note in the episode, reaching people
Silence Is Not Neutral: How to Welcome Employees Back From Mental Health Leave With Dignity with Jennifer Moffett (opens the original)
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In this episode of Headspace for the Workplace, I sit down with Jennifer Moffett, a senior technology leader who has spent over 22 years at PayPal, a national suicide prevention advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a volunteer leader on the Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition, and a suicide loss survivor. We are covering one of the least-discussed parts of the mental health continuum at work: not identification, not crisis intervention, but what happens after. Ho
Are You What You Do? Supporting Early-Career High Performers Before They Burn Out with John Brown (opens the original)
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In this episode of Headspace for the Workplace, I sit down with John Brown, a licensed marriage and family therapist, executive coach, and sports psychology specialist who works with early-career professionals, faculty, and athletes at Stanford University and in private practice. John brings a rare combination of backgrounds: years in corporate leadership at Apple, graduate training in therapy, and a practice that sits at the intersection of performance, identity, and wellbeing. Our conversation
From Awareness to Action: How Construction Is Leading the Way on Workplace Mental Health with Sonya Bohmann (opens the original)
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In this episode of Headspace for the Workplace, I sit down with Sonya Bohmann, Executive Director of the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention (CIASP), an organization that has quietly become one of the most effective workplace mental health movements in the country. The opening framing of this episode is one I stand behind completely: construction, not tech, not healthcare, not corporate America, has led the way on workplace mental health. It has done something different, making
Beyond Narcan: How to Build Overdose Prevention Into Your Workplace Safety Culture (opens the original)
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In this episode of Headspace for the Workplace, I sit down with Dr. Virna Little, co-founder and CEO of Zero Overdose, a national initiative bringing overdose safety planning into workplaces, healthcare systems, schools, and communities. Dr. Little and I share a long history through the Zero Suicide Initiative, which aspires to eliminate suicide deaths in healthcare systems. This episode brings that same upstream, systems-level thinking to one of the most urgent and underaddressed safety crises
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