EP 12: Making Work Not Suck with Dr. Melissa Steach

Today’s interview is with Dr. Melissa Steach. Melissa is an award-winning artist, best-selling author, certified ergonomist andI-O Psychologist with certifications in positive psychology interventions. She's also the Workplace Wellbeing Knowledge Lead for the western U.S. and west Canada at Herman Miller Group.

In this episode, Melissa and I are talking about authenticity, about pursuing happiness in your personal and professional relationships, about wellbeing and about how to make it so your work place doesn’t suck.  

Episode Highlights

• Melissa’s personal story and her entrepreneurial spirit 
• What is authenticity 
• Finding her way out of the projects 
• Melissa’s sacred contracts 
• Industrial Organizational Psychology 
• Making work not suck
• The intangible environment
• A shift in work and workplace 
• Your authentic self at work

About Melissa

Melissa is a visionary who combines art with research. She explores personal,  organizational culture and behaviors to understand how our environment can better engage, empower, even shape how we engage ourselves and each other. 

Above any education, Melissa considers her life experience her most valuable credential; including growing up in housing projects in the South and her subsequent search for self through trying on many different careers. Melissa has worked over 65 jobs, all of which contributed to the person she is today...someone who is compulsively curious and always learning and growing through research and life experience. 

Connect With Melissa

• https://www.melissasteach.com
• Instagram https://www.instagram.com/DrSteach/ 
• Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissasteach/

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