Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. He was also a founding member, Vice-Chair and now Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management (www.cebma.org) which, through its teaching, training and dissemination activities aims to help managers make better decisions by adopting the principles of evidence-based practice. He conducts research into several areas of organizational psychology and HR such as work and well-being, the psychological contract, work-nonwork relationships and ethnicity. In addition, he is very active in developing evidence-based practice in management, HR and organizational psychology.

In this episode we discuss topics such as remote working, unlimited holidays, holiday stipends, and the impact of this on employees wellbeing.

Today’s guest is Dr. Lois P. Frankel. She is the President of Corporate Coaching International, a bestselling author, an executive coach, and an expert in the field of leadership development for women. She has appeared on Larry King Live, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Today Show, CNBC, and PBS to discuss her New York Times bestselling books, Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, and Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It. Her other books include See Jane Lead and Stop Sabotaging Your Career. Alex Trebek even asked the question on Jeopardy, “This is the prime piece of business real estate that nice girls don’t get.”

Listen to Psychologist Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic sharing his insights about evaluating leadership effectiveness and talk about his book "Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?". “I wanted to provide an alternative interpretation for the unequal distribution of gender in leadership to what Sheryl Sandberg had postulated with her ‘Lean In’ paradigm. Sheryl basically said when and if you want to be represented in the leadership rungs and become leaders as frequently as men do, you have to go for it, show assertiveness, lean in, put yourself forward for things. She fundamentally said the psychological reason for the lack of female leaders is they’re just not as confident. My view is that this is a mistake...”