Mar 27 2024 58 mins
Josh Allan Dykstra is a TEDx speaker, author, and CEO, who is "generally obsessed with creating a better future of work."
He is one of the people I would like people to know about if they are in the business of helping people love work (more).
Josh is on a mission to help people in the work place to understand how central work is to our lives. We spend a lot of our time at work and yet 70 and 80% internationally feel a bit "meh" about it.
Work is at the centre of how we organise our days. And now, with the planet the way that it is, we could all do with feeling like our work can help - rather than hinder us - to feel that we have agency to make a positive change.
I talk to Josh about how work can give us energy and a sense of purpose in the world. We address the concepts of Privilege and Climate Change and we also narrow the cultural gap between the United States and the UK, making this bigger work place that is Earth feel a lot more like a close-knit community, where we are all in it together. We talk about how to re-write the apocalyptic dystopian story that we are listening to into a more hopeful "Song of Significance" as Seth Godin calls it - an opportunity for creative and joyful collaboration.
This podcast episode follows on beautifully from one I recorded with Lucy Vignola about Eco-Anxiety and how to empower your people to leave a long-lasting and meaningful legacy.
Lucy, Josh and I are all in the business of helping Founders, Leaders, Custodians and Change-Makers help those in their employment to feel totally involved and really important in their workplace. Work doesn't need to - and indeed shouldn't - "suck", to use Josh's words. AND it can mean so much more than that.
Listen to this to learn how to love your work, and to be able to use it to build great habits. You can shine and give back to the world THROUGH your work, and with the support of inspirational guides, new technology and a NEW WORK REVOLUTION.
Josh has worked with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Chanel, UCLA and many other employers. So he's in a great position to give smaller organisations a sense of hope and also a chance to punch with and above the big boys and girls in terms of how they can play a role in creating big change in the world, one happy employee at a time.