Podcast Articles

Laurie Santos: Yale’s Star Professor Brings the Science of Happiness & Well-Being to Work

    Laurie Santos is one of the world’s leading voices on the science of happiness and well-being. She’s a psychology professor at Yale University, where her course Psychology and the Good Life became the most popular class in Yale’s 300-year history. So...

Amy Gilliland: A CEO Who Puts Employee Well-Being at the Center of Success

For the second half of this podcast season, we’ve been focused on employee well-being—why it matters, how to foster it, and what happens when leaders fail to take it seriously. Our new guest, Amy Gilliland, shows what it looks like when a CEO makes well-being a true...

Angela Jackson: What If Thriving Employees Were The Key To Thriving Companies?

That’s the groundbreaking case made by Dr. Angela Jackson, Harvard University professor and New York Times bestselling author of The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success. Angela’s journey is remarkable. After losing her mother at age...

Nick Foster: What If Most Predictions About the Future Are Just Noise?

    Nick Foster, former head of design at Google X — the "moonshot factory" — and author of Could, Should, Might, Don’t: How We Think About the Future, joins us to discuss his stunning conclusion that human beings are terrible at predicting the future,...