Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 4
We hope that you are enjoying our Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. In episode four, we dive deep into the fourth dimension which is occupational health and the employee experience. COVID pushed many organisations into different ways of thinking about how and where we work. With employee attrition being a key challenge that many organisations are facing worldwide; this may be the most fundamental component of organisational health in our series.
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To help explain what design thinking is and how it can be used to design a good employee experience that engages and empowers an organisation's workforce, Rodger Watson joins us.
Rodger is the founding course director of the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at the University of Technology in Sydney.
If you have always wanted to understand design thinking and hear an example of how it has been used to solve a key societal challenge, then you won’t want to miss this!
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Rodger is an innovator for public good and has worked as a public servant, a strategic human centred design consultant, a bartender, a pizza kitchen-hand and deliverer, an emu farmhand, and the leader of a multi-award-winning academic research centre.
Rodger is the Founding Course Director of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at the UTS TD School and co-author of Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and Designing for the common good.
Rodger has an academic and practice background in Psychology, Criminology, and with his colleagues at the Designing Out Crime Research Centre pioneered the Designing for the Common Good approach to multi-stakeholder collaboration (2010-2018).
This body of work received many industry awards (including multiple Good Design Australia awards) and academic awards (UTS Vice Chancellor’s award for excellence in research collaboration). The work was assessed by the Australian Research Council as highly impactful.
In recent years Rodger has contributed to government strategy and policy across topics ranging from domestic and family violence, mental health, built environment, counter terrorism, night-time economy, waste & circular economy, environmental protection, cybercrime, transport innovation, and digital transformation.
Rodger’s UTS work is underpinned by a methodology developed under industry conditions, community engagement, and academic rigour since 2010. This body of work includes product, service and policy innovations that are experienced by millions of people each day in communities across the world.
Web: www.uts.edu.au/study/transdisciplinary-innovation/creative-intelligence-and-innovation
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rodger-watson/
Bispublishers: Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and