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Our guest is Kay McDonald. Full disclosure, this is the first episode we recorded, and we were all finding our way, AND, it is well worth watching because it helps identify why well-being is a hot topic right now in organizations. Our thanks to Kay for helping get this train rolling!!

Kay is Principal of KM Human Resources Consulting where she does HR consulting and Executive Coaching for large and Small companies. Kay has over 20 years in HR leadership across multiple global industries including names we all know like Intel and American Express, as well as start-ups and smaller businesses.

Kay explains why it is in a company’s interest to care about well-being. She shares positive and negative examples of attending to well-being based on her experience as an HR Executive and a consultant running well-being programs.

A theme that comes up multiple times is the necessity for finding balance in organizational policies to both achieve company goals and attend to the well-being of employees.

Kay mentions the Gallup Polls in multiple contexts. Gallup has been polling on well-being for several years running in addition to their even longer running surveys on employee engagement. Here is a link to their website page with Well-being resources: https://www.gallup.com/topic/category-wellbeing.aspx