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Engineering Emotional Inclusion

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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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