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:
#219 Building a Data Platform that Drives Value with Shuang Li, Group Product Manager at Box
#218 Designing AI Applications with Robb Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO at Onereach.ai
#217 Data & AI at Tesco with Venkat Raghavan, Director of Analytics and Science at Tesco
#216 Perplexity & the Future of AI with Denis Yarats, Co-Founder and CTO at Perplexity AI
#215 Seeing the Data Layer Through Spatial Computing with Cathy Hackl and Irena Cronin
#214 Learning & Memory, For Brains & AI, with Kim Stachenfeld, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
#213 Building Trust Through Data with Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan
#212 The History of Data and AI, and Where It's Headed with Cristina Alaimo, Assistant Professor at Luiss Guido Carli University
#211 What is AIOps? With Assaf Resnick, Co-Founder & CEO of BigPanda
#210 Trust and Regulation in AI with Bruce Schneier, Internationally Renowned Security Technologist
#209 Effective Data Engineering with Liya Aizenberg, Director of Data Engineering at Away
#208 Monetizing Data & AI with Vin Vashishta, Founder & AI Advisor at V Squared, & Tiffany Perkins-Munn, MD & Head of Data & Analytics at JPMC
#207 Data Driven Venture Capital with Andre Retterath, Partner at Earlybird VC
#206 The Venture Mindset with Ilya Strebulaev, Economist & Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business
#205 The 2nd Wave of Generative AI with Sailesh Ramakrishnan & Madhu Iyer, Managing Partners at Rocketship.vc
#204 Data & AI Trends in 2024, with Tom Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures
#203 How a Chief AI Officer Works with Philipp Herzig, Chief AI Officer at SAP
#202 Making Data Governance Fun with Tiankai Feng, Data Strategy & Data Governance Lead at ThoughtWorks
#201 The Database is the Operating System with Mike Stonebraker, CTO & Co-Founder At DBOS
#200 50 Years of SQL with Don Chamberlin, Computer Scientist and Co-Inventor of SQL
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