Human-Centric Work & Leadership with Leanne Holdsworth

Leanne Holdsworth joins The Future of Teamwork and host Dane Groeneveld for a spirited discussion on creating more human workplaces. Leanne is the co-author of "Human Work: Five Leadership Mindsets for Humanising Workplaces", with Naryan Wong, and the author of "A New Generation of Business Leaders." Outside of writing, she spends her time helping organizations and their individuals reach their full potential. During this conversation, Dane and Leanne discuss aligning personal purpose with an organization's purpose, the social outcomes of modern leadership strategies focusing on people's well-being and individuality, and how businesses can explore the journey toward empowering communities and teams. Discover how leaders can embrace autonomy, foster purpose and belonging, and humanize the workplace for a more meaningful and successful future.

Key Takeaways

• [00:12 - 02:52] Introduction to Leanne Holdsworth, co-author of Human Work
• [03:29 - 05:44] Who you are when you walk into the home at the end of the day, growth around personal purpose
• [05:46 - 10:09] What social outcomes look like if a company is leading well and individuals are investing in their communities
• [10:18 - 12:17] Activating and engaging communities to help, regardless of for- or not-for-profit, the impact of AI
• [12:18 - 14:43] AI, automation, and existential crises for communities
• [14:52 - 21:50] Leanne's book and her interviews with 11 leaders
• [15:34 - 17:17] Varied approaches to leadership and creating human workplaces
• [22:25 - 25:53] Belonging, and Human Systems
• [25:54 - 27:55] Autonomy, mastery, and purpose — finding imagination for our sense of meaning
• [27:57 - 31:06] Thankless but important work, humanizing work, emphasizing learning and growth
• [31:07 - 35:50] The next wave of understanding social outcomes for driving human work, gathering and interpreting data on creating more human workplaces
• [32:44 - 35:41] Leanne's sense of purpose after having her first child and deciding to volunteer and help victims of domestic violence
• [35:51 - 38:04] Psychological safety and constantly iterating, embracing learning and growth
• [38:05 - 42:43] The struggle of data capture for teams vs. individuals, bringing the idea of human work to a team level
• [39:17 - 42:17] What can we do to enable teams to try things without centralizing people? Safe spaces and pilot projects, trying new things
• [42:45 - 44:09] Nudging the business community towards talking about the relationship between human beings, the organization, and the way things are done to help the human community
• [44:09 - 45:42] Eliminating the complaint conversations, shifting towards collective purpose and empowerment
• [45:43 - 46:43] Closing, visit Leanne at humanworknetwork.com