Ep. 8 Workload and wellbeing – walking the talk

In late August 2021 Mark Aspden, CEO of Sport Hawkes Bay, a Regional Sports Trust in the North Island of Aotearoa NZ posted on LinkedIn. copy of an email he had recently sent to his staff.

It was prompted by the tragic death of Olivia Podmore a well-known New Zealand high-performance cyclist and the impact her death had on many working in the sporting community.

In it he noted the following:

‘what I do know is while our work in the community is important and makes a real difference, there is nothing we do that is so critical that any one of us should be sacrificing our mental health for it. NOTHING’. 

This is a conversation about the link between workloads and wellbeing from a leadership perspective –the role of boards, management teams and funders – in walking the wellbeing talk.