11: Leadership, Culture, and Building Organizations for Impact with Avary Kent

Do you feel psychological safety in your work environment? Avary Kent is a serial social entrepreneur and consultant who since the pandemic has focused on a crucial topic: mental and emotional wellbeing for business leaders and their teams. In this episode, Avary and I talk about why and how we as a society have dehumanized professional roles, how to build a healthy organizational culture and what paradigms we need to change to improve every leader’s and employee’s wellbeing.

Episode highlights: 

(01:37) - Who is Avary Kent? A serial entrepreneur who is now open to talking about mental health and wellbeing.

(04:59) - Effective philanthropy and burnout: The paradigms that need to change for healthy fundraisers and healthy work environments.

(12:07) - Can I do everything at the same time? The fundamental pillars of a thriving culture and what executive directors need to be healthier leaders.

(20:17) - What is holding us back from changing? Old management, entrenched culture, untrained leaders, and talking about discomfort and fears. 

(25:07) - The problem with untrained leaders + some techniques to disrupt power imbalance.

(32:17) - How we fundamentally changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the positive shifts this brought to work culture.

(40:13) - Why we have dehumanized professional roles: Ideas, beliefs, and ways of collaborating.

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