Ep. #26 Workplace Wellbeing with Bianca Stringuini

Covid-19 brought workplace wellbeing to the fore in organisations. The combination of the sudden change in ways of working along with the pandemic led to an urgent need to take employees' physical, emotional and mental health seriously.

In this episode of Making Sense of Work, Bianca Stringuini shares her experience of leading through Covid.

Bianca and Jean discuss

• How the lack of boundaries between work and life during the pandemic took a toll on people’s health
• The tension between our individual responsibility to look after ourselves and the role leaders and managers play creating inclusive and psychologically safe environments. 
• How psychological safety is key to enabling employees to discuss their wellbeing. 
• The connection between wellbeing and inclusion at work
• The very personal nature of both well being and inclusion

For the past 15 years Bianca has been responsible for creating and implementing Inclusion, Diversity (I&D), Wellbeing, Engagement and Change Management strategies for Fortune 500 companies across multiple markets.

Most recently she led the People Experience and Culture team at KPMG in Singapore. Their aim was to create the best employee value proposition and experience to everyone in an inclusive and human centric manner.

Prior to this Bianca led Inclusion, Diversity and Wellbeing for Visa Asia Pacific, and prior to that, led I&D at JP Morgan Chase, AIG and American Express across Asia. She also headed the I&D practice for Mercer in Asia and has spearheaded strategy, business development and branding, as well as change, talent and performance management projects throughout my career.

Bianca is a certified facilitator in cultural awareness, change management and cultural transformation, an I&D and wellbeing thought leader speaker.

She is also an example of diverse experiences, originally from Brazil, Bianca has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and South America. Her background is in trade and international affairs and her passion continues to be global inclusive growth and impact.

You can find Bianca here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianca-stringuini-3245592/

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