Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation
25 episodes
1 week ago
The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
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The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
Listen and subscribe to The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer wherever you get your podcasts.
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is produced by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Professors.fm.
How’s Your Battery? Calm CEO David Ko on Normalizing Mental Health at Work
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer
48 minutes 2 seconds
1 month ago
How’s Your Battery? Calm CEO David Ko on Normalizing Mental Health at Work
With the majority of our waking life spent at work, conversations around mental health are crucial for a healthy workplace culture. But how do you open the conversation at work? How can leaders build the trust and psychological safety needed for these conversations?
On this special episode, David Ko, CEO of the sleep and meditation app Calm and author of the book Recharge, shares his leadership journey from investment banking to purpose-driven leadership. Since 2022, he’s guided Calm’s work in over 190 countries, supporting millions of people seeking to improve their wellbeing.
Ko describes “the battery check,” a simple framework for starting conversations about mental health, describes how burnout happens when leaders don’t explain the “why” behind decisions, and shares some candid personal anecdotes.
The conversation is hosted by Professor Sameer Srivastava and led by UC Berkeley Haas students Avanika Lal and Esa Tilija, both MBA 26. The joint Dean’s Speaker Series and Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation event took place at the Haas School of Business on September 30, 2025.
*The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is a production of Haas School of Business and is produced by University FM.*
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer
The world of work is a work in progress, from keeping remote teams engaged to integrating new AI tools to fostering feelings of belonging among all employees. UC Berkeley Haas Professors Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava—experts who have dedicated their careers to studying and advancing workplace culture—answer questions about the most vexing problems your organization is struggling with today. Jenny & Sameer share insights and tools based on evidence from the latest research, and offer concrete steps you can take to fix your company’s culture.
Listen and subscribe to The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer wherever you get your podcasts.
The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer is produced by UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Professors.fm.
