Michelle McQuaidis a best-selling author, workplace wellbeing teacher and playful change activator. With more than a decade of senior leadership experience in large organizations around the world, she’s passionate about translating cutting-edge research from positive psychology and neuroscience, into practical strategies for health, happiness, and business success. An honorary fellow at Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education, she blogs for Psychology Today, Huffington Post and Live Happy and her work has been featured in Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Boss Magazine, The Age and more.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Professor Martin Seligman
Marie Forleo
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I’d never grown up in a family of entrepreneurs so I had no role models. I left university and worked for large companies, so when I was looking at leaving that corporate my family didn’t understand, it was a risky thing to do, why would you leave that and take a chance when it might pay off, so being able to make that leap of faith was definitely a challenge for me when I started”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Oh, The Places You’ll Go! – Dr. Seuss
Favourite Quote:
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up someplace else” – Yogi Bear
Recommended Online Resources:
The Permah Workplace Wellbeing Survey – The word ‘wellbeing’ gets thrown around a lot these days. … So in this tool we’ve added Health to Martin’s framework, making it ‘PERMAH’. … (This test is based on the PERMA Workplace Profiler which was developed by Margaret L. Kern at …
B-School – Curious about Marie Forleo’s B-School program? Here’s everything you need to know including our curriculum, grad reviews and next enrollment dates.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Just do it, just leap, often we hesitate, it’s just life so get in there and play with it and see what works, take some reasonable risks and see how they pay off and then take the next risk”…[Listen for More]
More About Michelle McQuaid:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Shane Carruth “It’s interesting because I don’t ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Michelle McQuaid:
- “There is greatness to be found in each and every one of us”
- “I can accelerate a lot of the pain of the learning journey but also a lot of the wasted cost and energy by buying in good help”
- “Our brain is wired to feel first and think second”
- “Just focus on doing good work in the world and the rest will sort itself out”
- “You have to be well in order to do well”
- “I call it a tah-dah list instead of a to-do list because then you get to say tad-dah every time you tick something off”
- “As you try to help the business exist beyond just you, culture becomes really important so you can explain to other people what it is you stand for, the experience you want people to have as they interact with you and what’s the value you want to deliver and the difference you want to be making”
- “Initially what we do is bring people in for short controlled projects and ju8st see that it fits right, then if it’s not quite the right fit for them or us there’s not a lot of investment or damage done at that stage, and if it is well how do we grow it from there and where do we want to take it to next”
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