Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, woke up in a pool of blood nursing a broken cheekbone after collapsing at her desk in 2007. Various stresses and pressures in her life had manifested themself into an episode of extreme mental exhaustion. This event was the catalyst for her to write a book on well-being as well as start the behavioral-change company Thrive Global. Many of us have, or will, experience burnout at some point. The build-up of stress, negative emotions, and internal tension may not result in the same shocking scene Huffington found herself in, but its effects are serious and permeate not just through our profession but into our home life as well. Stress and burnout are especially prevalent in working environments where there is an emphasis on urgency, and with the constant advancements we’ve seen in the data & AI sphere in the past year, leaders and practitioners working in the data space will need to know how to recognize the symptoms of burnout and create workplace cultures that prevent burnout in the first place.
Jen Fisher is Deloitte’s human sustainability leader. Previously, Fisher served as Deloitte’s first-ever chief well-being officer. She’s also a TEDx speaker, coauthor of the book, Work Better Together: How to Cultivate Strong Relationships to Maximize Well-Being and Boost Bottom Lines, editor-at-large for Thrive Global, and host of the “WorkWell” podcast series.
In the episode, Jen and Adel cover Jen’s own personal experience with burnout, the role of a Chief Wellbeing Officer, the impact of work on our overall well-being, the patterns that lead to burnout, defining well-being in the workplace, technology’s impact on our well-being, psychological safety in the workplace, how managers and leaders can looking after themselves and their teams, the future of human sustainability in the workplace and much more.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
#43 Election Forecasting and Polling
#42 Full Stack Data Science
#41 Uncertainty in Data Science
#40 Becoming a Data Scientist
#39 Data Science at Stitch Fix
#38 Data Products, Dashboards and Rapid Prototyping
#37 Data Science and Insurance
#36 Data Science and Ecology
#35 Data Science in Finance
#34 Data Journalism & Interactive Visualization
#33 Pharmaceuticals and Data Science
#32 Data Science at Doctors without Borders
#31 Chatbots, Conversational Software & Data Science
#30 Data Science at McKinsey
#29 Machine Learning & Data Science at Github
#28 Organizing Data Science Teams
#27 Data Security, Data Privacy and the GDPR
#26 Spreadsheets in Data Science
#25 Data Science for Everyone
#24 Data Science in the Cloud
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