Insights from this episode:
- Emotional inclusion is distinct from emotional intelligence: it’s about integration and practice, not just awareness.
- The average person spends 81,396 hours working throughout their lifetime — making sleep, the one thing we do more than work. Workplaces must make those hours meaningful and human.
- Neuroscience shows that we emote before we even reason; emotions are biological facts, not weaknesses.
- Burnout and disconnection are at alarming levels:
- 80% of people will experience a diagnosable mental health condition.
- 60% of employees report being emotionally detached; 19% are outright miserable.
- 48% of workers and 53% of managers report being burned out.
- Five key actions to engineer emotional inclusion:
- Prioritize mental health support.
- Build action-oriented platforms for wellness.
- Educate teams on naming and regulating emotions.
- Leaders go first in modeling vulnerability.
- Challenge false assumptions and create psychological safety.
- Investing in emotional inclusion leads to stronger performance, innovation, retention, and trust.
- Personal wellbeing habits such as sleep, movement, meditation, and micro-moments of pause fuel sustainable performance.
Quotes from the show:
- “Emotional intelligence is the knowing. Emotional inclusion is the doing.”
- “81,396 — that’s how many hours the average person spends working. Shouldn’t those hours be positive, meaningful, and human?”
- “Emotions are not soft. They’re biological facts.”
- “There is no such thing as splitting our home self from our work self — that’s a false dichotomy.”
- “When leaders open up, they give others permission to do the same.”
- “If you’re not making a difference in people’s lives, you shouldn’t be in business.” – Richard Branson
- “Workplaces with greater psychological safety and emotional inclusion will make it possible for everyone to contribute and thrive.” – Amy Edmondson
- “Let’s not just build bridges and technologies. Let’s build cultures of compassion, resilience, and humanity.”
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