Lauren Garder is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She shares insights about having a trauma informed workplace. Lauren talks about the importance of relationships and connection as skill to help build resilience. She also gives advice on how organizations can overcome the stigma of mental health at work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ariel Moore is the Director for Center of Social Innovation at OSU-Oklahoma City. She shares her personal journey overcoming mental health issues. Ariel gives insight about her current position at the center for social innovation and the impact she is making on the students in the program. She also gives great advice about choosing a better life for yourself and how positive choices influences your family. Join the Flourish Community: https://www.dickersoncg.com/copy-of-services See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Herman Green is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. He shares his thoughts on the current state of black mental health. He gives insight to growing up in the black community and what it meant to deal with mental health stigma. Herman also gives advice to organizations about listening to their black employees pertaining to trauma and mental health issues. Join the Flourish Community: https://www.dickersoncg.com/copy-of-servicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dr. Susan Robinson is a stress management expert. She shares good strategies to tackle employee stress and burnout and what to do about it. Dr. Robinson talks about the importance of sleep and exercise to combat workplace burnout. She also shares how to implement mindfulness practices at work. She gives great insight about how leaders and managers can be more proactive about reaching out to their co-workers by a simple phone call. Join the Flourish Community: https://www.dickersoncg.com/copy-of-servicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Elizabeth Hunt has a conversation with Michael about building resilience during a pandemic. She shares several insights about emotional regulation, seeking support and positive psychology. Elizabeth talks her passion around mediation and mindfulness. She gives great insight on some mediation practices and the importance of breath technique. Elizabeth also shares about our need for human connection as we go through this pandemic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
David Skidmore is an Author, Speaker, Creative Entrepreneur. Davis shares insights from his book UNSTUCK. He gives great ideas about helping people from being stuck o living out their potential. David also shares how employees can use his foundational principles of clarity, commitment, and creating to achieve what they want out of life. He shares why having excuses will not help with becoming unstuck, and that it’s important to embrace personal responsibility and having good mentors around you to keep you grounded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michael Harris is a Career Development Specialist at Tulsa Community College. He shares about how students are dealing with corona on a college campus. Michael gives great advice on the do’s and don’ts of social media for future student professionals. He also encourages college students to be mindful about building a social media brand in the direction of their professional interest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Shona Elliott is a Senior Leader Expert and Author. Shona shares her experience as a CEO in the healthcare industry. She defines the qualities that make up servant leadership. She shares why leaders need to engage employees in order to have a more effective organization. Shona believes Senior Leaders have a responsibility to create an environment for individuals to do their best work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Gerald Goodridge is an Organizational Development Specialist for Paycom. He shares is passion about workplace coaching and organizational effectiveness. Gerald believes that coaching is about getting employees to reach their full potential at work. He also talks about training middle managers as coaches and how they impact the organization and clients. Gerald shares best practices for everyday coaching in the workplaceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Frank Smith is President of Mosaic Personnel Solutions and Business Consultant. He shares some insights about how trust in the workplace is built upon credibility, reliability, intimacy and self-orientation. Also, Frank details one of his fundamental business philosophies in creating trust in companies is employees having access to the business financials. He also shares about the conscious capitalism and the tenets the make up this movement in the workplace.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Matt Tipton talks with Michael Dickerson about how to communicate with remote workers. He shares about how communication is one of the keys to a successful organization. Matt also gives great insight about why some people don’t like remote working and how to deal with this issue. He talks about the impact of mental health on Gen Z and Millennials in the workplace as remote workers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Audrey Daniels has a conversation with Michael about having a positive mindset at work. She shares her passion for helping others in understanding how to think differently about work. Audrey calls herself the ultimate encourager to leaders and executives to have a growth mindset. Also she is an advocate for inclusion and diversity in the leadership positions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dixie Agostino is the Owner/Founder of Switchgear Recruiting. Dixie shares her story with Michael about how she started her business and came up with the name switchgear. She gives great advice on the best way to identify a person for the right job for an organization. Dixie also talks about how organization can hire more diverse candidates for leadership roles. She also shares her own struggles as a leader and what it means to be an entrepreneur. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Christine Laird is a thought leader on women in leadership. Christine shares with Michael on the what attributes makes a strong woman leader in the workplace. Christine talks about how organizations need to create mentorship and sponsorship programs to help create a pipe line to get women in more leadership positions. She also shares about that women can pursue a career, raise kids and having a healthy home life. She believes that ultimately organization have responsibility to build a flexible culture for women to be successful at work and invested at home. She provides clarity around sexual harassment in the workplace and what organizations can do foster a safe environment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Emily Longfellow is corporate wellness specialist for Wellbeats. Emily shares her passion about working in the total wellbeing and digital fitness space. She gives great insight into how she helps companies across the country empower their employees to take charge of their health. Emily also talks about why organizations have a corporate responsibility in investing into employee wellbeing. As a positive psychology enthusiasts she believe post traumatic growth is one the most important concepts in how people should be dealing with the current situation of covid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dereck Talkington is a Mental Health and Addiction Therapists. He talks with Michael about strategies to help cope with the stress of corona. He also shares about having a positive view on mental health to help people overcome anxiety and depression. Dereck shares the importance why businesses should value employee mental health in order for them to thrive and be productive employees. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bruce Waight Sr has a conversation with Michael about how he build an inclusive barbershop. Bruce shares how he was intentional about creating a healthy and positive barbering culture in his business. Bruce utilizes his barbering platform to invest into his community. He is passionate about giving back and has several nonprofits and sit on the local and national barber boards. You can reach out to Bruce at www.rootedokc.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michael talks with Adrian about creating positive organizations. She offers great insight about helping employees grow, thrive and exceed expectations within positive organizations. Adrian defines the difference between purpose and meaning. Adrian also talks with Michael about positive psychology and how understanding the broaden and build concepts helps leaders deal with corona crisis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Michael Harris has a conversation with Host Michael Dickerson about career development and preparing students for the workplace. He shared some great insight about how to develop leadership skills and what it takes to discover your field of interest. Michael also gave great insight about how employers look at social media to judge hiring future employees. Michael Harris is a Career Consultant and works as a Career Development Specialist for the Tulsa Community College. With over 25 years in post-secondary education, he has served in several roles within student affairs, enrollment, fundraising, training, research and outreach. In addition, he is the current Regional African American Knowledge Community Coordinator for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and recently started a term as the Community Relations Chair for the Tulsa Area Human Resources Association. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rose Royal has a conversation with Michael about the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She shares about being a passionate advocate for workplace equity personal accountability and respectfully challenging the status quo. Rose defines what it means to have a diverse and inclusive organization. She also gives her perspective on why having a diverse and inclusive organization effects the bottom line and profit for businesses. Rose Royal, born in Tulsa, OK, serves as the Director of HR Compliance andEmployee Relations at OGE Energy Corp. Rose works collaborative with the legaldepartment, employees and management to ensure compliance with federal andstate HR employment laws. Rose spearheads the company’s diversity andinclusion efforts and provides support for leaders with employee relations, ethics,HR compliance and conflict resolution. Rose earned a BS in Business Managementand holds an MBA with an emphasis in Human Resources. She holds both theSenior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and the SHRM-SCP certifications. Rose does not speak on behalf of OGE You can connect with Rose Roya here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roseroyal/ You can connect with Michael here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikedickerson10/ www.dickersoncg.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.