“Kindness can look different to different people as well. Kindness for me is very specific around boundary setting; by setting clear and not rigid but I’m very strict with my boundaries around my time, my emotional energy, my energy levels, my mental bandwidth around what I will and won’t take on and what I will and won’t keep."

This episode of the humans at work podcast features conversation with Sophie Bretag, Kindness guru and CEO and Founder of Metta Leaders.

Sophie and I talk about what kindness looks, feels and sounds like in the workplace, the value of the Human Resources function within organisations, and the challenges and opportunities of adaptive parenting.

Sophie and I talk about:

• Our journeys to not drinking alcohol


• Adaptive strategies and applying them to parenting


• Parenting opportunities and challenges


• Choices and conscious risk taking


• Change and opportunities to use scenarios to demystify the future


• Organisational change processes and people impacts


• The invisible value of Human Resources for the system that is the workforce of an organisation


• Taking responsibility for your own health and wellbeing


• The shift that COVID brought to organisations’ view of the value of HR


• The intersect between HR and leadership, behind common purpose


• Jules’ views on the true definition of an organisation


• The return on investment from kindness in the workplace


• Understanding what kindness looks like


• The importance of personalising purpose and values


• Modern offices that don’t encourage connection with nature


• Opportunities to partner with nature in the design of healthier workplaces


• The value of daydreaming

Resources and Links:

To learn more about Sophie:

Visit Sophie at mettaleaders.com/  

Follow Sophie on LinkedIn

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