Leadership Means Advocating for Others w/ Nadine Fakhoury

In this episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast by Unity & Company, Scott and Monica Arrieta sit down with Nadine Fakhoury, an executive coach and former Vice President at Cisco. Nadine shares her remarkable journey from engineer to executive, where she became the only female VP in her division, leading a global team of 350 people and managing billions in revenue.

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Leading Through Burnout, Trauma and Stress

In this deeply human episode of The Workplace Therapy Podcast, we’re joined by renowned trauma clinician and leadership mentor, Anna Pinkerton. With over 30 years of experience helping high-performing leaders recover from chronic stress, burnout, and emotional collapse, Anna invites us to look inward—at the patterns of self-cruelty many of us carry silently through our professional lives.

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Weaponized Words: Productivity

We’re starting a new series here on The Workplace Therapy Podcast called Weaponized Words, where we examine the lexicon we use in the workplace and try to unpack how certain words and phrases might have and unintended impact in our organizations. This week, my co-host Skylar Lewandowski and I take a look at the often-weaponized word, “productivity.” We discuss what productivity is, what it isn’t, where leaders commonly trip up when evaluating productivity and what we can learn to do differently.

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How understanding my strengths changed my life with Scott Arrieta, CEO @ Unity & Co.

In this week's episode of Workplace Therapy, our hosts discuss an assessment developed by Gallup called Clifton Strenghts (formerly known as Strengths Finder). The Clifton Strengths assessment shines a light on the strengths and talents that make you unique and helps you to understand how to lean into your strengths to accomplish your goals instead of focusing on mitigating your weaknesses. This week, Scott Arrieta, CEO of Unity and Company shares his Clifton Strengths results and reflects on how those insights have changed his perspective on work and life.

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How discovering my strengths changed my perspective on work and life with Skylar Lewandowski, Director of Special Programs @ Unity & Co.

In this week's episode of Workplace Therapy, our hosts discuss an assessment developed by Gallup called Clifton Strenghts (formerly known as Strengths Finder). The Clifton Strengths assessment shines a light on the strengths and talents that make you unique and helps you to understand how to lean into your strengths to accomplish your goals instead of focusing on mitigating your weaknesses. This week, Skylar Lewandowski, the Director of Special Programs at Unity and Company shares her Clifton Strengths results and reflects on how those insights have changed her perspective on work and life.

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