Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing

About Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing

Welcome to Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing, produced by OOt Social Health and powered by the Global Wellbeing Council. Hosted by Thyagi DeLanerolle, Executive Director of the Global Wellbeing Council, this podcast explores the future of leadership through one core belief: when people and the planet thrive, organizations thrive. Each episode brings you conversations with forward-thinking executives, authors, and innovators who are redefining what high performance looks like in the age of AI — where human connection, creativity, and conscious leadership are the real drivers of people, planet, and profits. Together, we explore practical strategies to strengthen belonging, elevate wellbeing, and build cultures where people feel connected, energized, and equipped to do their best work. Our guests share research-backed insights and real-world practices spanning the employee lifecycle — from hiring to retirement — with a strong commitment to equity and inclusion. Join us as we turn wellbeing into action, and action into lasting impact. This is Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing — where conscious leadership becomes the catalyst for thriving people, thriving organizations, and a thriving planet.

Publisher

Global Wellbeing Council

Category

business · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Aug 2024

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

80 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   The Wolf At the Door With Elizabeth Heider

   Physicist. Operations research analyst. Space scientist. Crime novelist. Elizabeth Heider doesn't have a career path — she has a pursuit. She holds a doctorate in physics from Tufts. She has worked with the US Navy, INTERPOL, Northrop Grumman, NASA, and the European Space Agency. She has operated alongside military personnel across Army, Navy, Marines, and Special Forces. And then, in 2024, she published May the Wolf Die — a crime novel set in Naples that the New York Times named one of the Best Crime Novels of 2024, the Washington Post named one of the Best Mystery Novels of 2024, and Publishers Weekly starred and named one of its Best Books of 2024. The sequel, Children of the Savage City, followed in February 2026 to immediate critical acclaim. Her protagonist, Nikki Serafino, asks a question that sits at the heart of this podcast: How do I remain ethical in a broken world? Is it possible to fight the wolves without becoming one? That question is not fictional. It is the question Elizabeth has been living across a career at the intersection of science, research, military operations, and literature. She has seen power up close. She has watched systems break people. She has studied how surveillance enables authoritarianism and how corporate greed reshapes the planet. And she has chosen, deliberately, to respond through story — because fiction, she believes, is one of the most honest ways we have of telling the truth.

2. 

   3 Sept 2026

   The Human Infrastructure with Aaron Minkovich

   Aaron Minkovich is a technology leader who has spent over two decades at the intersection of transformation, scale, and human complexity. As Chief Technology and Security Officer at Manulife, he oversees one of Canada's most consequential technology ecosystems — spanning cloud platforms, AI, DevSecOps, 5G, and global distributed teams — within a highly regulated financial services environment. But what makes Aaron a compelling voice for the Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing podcast is not just his technical range. It is the humanity that shows up alongside it. He walks for cancer research in honour of his father-in-law. He cheers his teams on charity rides. He champions the people behind the platforms. In a domain that often reduces humans to headcount and systems to tickets, Aaron seems to understand that the engine of great technology is, fundamentally, people — and that people run best when they are well. That mirrors Manulife's own mission of making decisions easier and lives better — connecting financial wellbeing directly to health, so people can live longer, healthier, more optimized lives. Aaron isn't just running the systems; he's building the infrastructure behind that mission at global scale. This conversation explores what wellbeing looks like at the top of one of Canada's most complex technology organizations: the weight of transformation, the pressure of responsible AI in a regulated world, the resilience required to lead global teams through constant change, and why the most powerful infrastructure a CTO can build might not be in the cloud — but in the culture.

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Technology and Heart with Eric Whaley

   Eric Whaley is a CIO who has spent three decades quietly doing something that most technology leaders only talk about: building cultures where people actually want to show up. Across Canada Trust, HSBC, IIROC, and now Wolseley Canada — part of Ferguson, the country's leading national distributor of plumbing, HVAC/R, and PVF products — Eric has led transformations of extraordinary complexity while consistently being described in one way: as someone who engages and motivates people and builds highly collaborative work cultures. Known as a business technology executive with a talent for leveraging technology and building inspired teams, Eric is recognized for his leadership in setting goals and fostering collaboration. Outside of his day-to-day work, he stays connected to the startup community and emerging technologies through partnerships with educational institutions and participation in community forums. This conversation explores what it means to lead technology transformation with a fundamentally human orientation — how collaborative cultures are built and sustained through change, what wellbeing looks like inside organizations navigating digital disruption, and why the softest skills in a CIO's toolkit may be the most strategically consequential ones of all.

Who has been a guest on Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Anna Turrell
• Mark Patterson
• Wade Smith
• Roger Barlow
• Dr Connie Noonan Hadley

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

35

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

Contact Wellbeing Ignites Welldoing

Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.