Welcome to the Diverse Minds Summer Shorts, a quick-fire guest series featuring different voices on mental health and inclusion. Today, I’m speaking with Jenny Chen, CEO and founder of Catalyst Consulting based in Ottawa, Canada, who helps organisations redesign their workplace systems so business performance and people strategy actually work together.
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- 00:55 Jenny’s immigration story.
- 01:30 How we find identity and true belonging
- 02:52 Why COVID pushed us to reconnect
- 04:13 Why we must fix systems, not the people in them
- 05:27 How to handle pushback without losing your cool
- 07:13 How setting boundaries protects your wellbeing
- My cultural heritage shaped my view on how complex identity really is, and how much I actually hid to fit in.
- We were trying to fix the people, but what I actually do is fix the system itself
- Unless you have lived experience, you cannot possibly have the full human empathy and compassion required to understand someone else’s lived experience.
- My husband says money is a renewable currency, but our time and energy are something we can’t ever get back.
- Learning how to prioritise, learning boundaries, not saying yes to everything, has definitely been a game changer.
- Catalyst Consulting
- Jenny’s podcast: Tune Up Your Warrior
- Jenny’s LinkedIn newsletter – CEO Corner
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- Check out my TEDx talk: The Connection between Culture, Race and Mental Health
- Leave me a message on my SpeakPipe
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