Dr. Angela Jackson, Author of The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success

Episode 106 May 21, 2025 00:27:30
Dr. Angela Jackson, Author of The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success
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Dr. Angela Jackson, Author of The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success

May 21 2025 | 00:27:30

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Show Notes

While it’s customary for companies to claim that ‘people are our most important resource’, today’s WorkforceRx guest, Dr. Angela Jackson, knows that amounts to lip service at many firms. In her new book The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success, Dr. Jackson shares what it looks like when a company walks the talk. In researching 1,700 companies for the book, and based on countless meetings with business leaders, Dr. Jackson spotted commonalities among the most successful workplaces. “I saw investments around centering worker voice, I saw that the leadership was doing deep employee training -- not just for the skills for today, but really looking around the corner and seeing the skills of tomorrow -- and many of these thriving workplaces had a very specific initiative around measuring this so they could actually tell you how those had a correlation to lift on the bottom line,” says Dr. Jackson, who is also a lecturer at Harvard University and CEO of Future Forward Strategies. In this super informative conversation with Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan, Dr. Jackson shares many examples of how companies effectively incorporate worker input, track employee wellbeing, and build trust, all while achieving strong financial performance. “We looked at real ROI and saw increased share price. It's not fluffy. It's not soft. These are real results.” Tune in for a deeply-informed look at how to unlock organizational potential by redefining traditional approaches to human capital, and also learn how companies are navigating pushback on DEI programs in this high stakes environment.

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