Creating Belonging & Community in the Workplace with Susan Sanders & Rae English - Part 2
Welcome back to Part 2 of our inspiring conversation with Susan Sanders and Rae English. Human first, employee second. This is the approach that our guests Susan and Rae take in their work: Improve the employee experience to build better organizations.
Susan and Rae are on a mission to create space for positive change on the individual, organizational, and structural levels. They remind us that we don't have to know everything, we just have to contribute what we can and allow others to do the same.
In this inspiring two-part episode of Uncover the Human, we discuss creating space to show up as our authentic selves in the workplace, building community and fostering belonging in organizations, and so much more.
Listen now and embrace positive change in your life and organization.
Credits: Raechel Sherwood for Original Score Composition.
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Susan Sanders
Founder & CEO
Susan currently leads Spinderok, helping customers expertly engineer and sustain the employee experience, harnessing workplace technology. She is passionate about enabling inclusive, compassionate and sustainable workplaces where both employees and the business thrive.
She’s spent over 15+ years in the trenches alongside senior HR, IT and Communications execs, including 8 years at Willis Towers Watson and 3 years leading Velaku – a communications technology start-up. Susan is a member of the People Intelligence Alliance and BARC (a radical collaborative focused on business sustainability).
She currently serves as the Advocacy Chair for IAMCP Chicago Chapter and on the advisory board for IAMCP Tech Equity Committee. She is also an avid sailor and an advocate of Women’s and adaptive sailing. She earned her MBA from Arizona State University.
Susan can be reached via her website:
https://spinderok.com/
or via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susansanders/
Rae English
Psychotherapist In Private Practice
After graduating with Phi Alpha Honors in Social Work from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in Saint Louis, I completed a one-year clinical fellowship at the Schiele Clinic, a community mental health clinic of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. In May 2020, I graduated from the Institute's Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program as a Schiele Scholar.
Before entering social work, I studied literature at Southern Utah University as an undergrad, and literature and creative writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as a graduate. I worked as a copy editor for academic publications and in university writing centers as an intern director and tutor.
Though my tenure as a supervised clinical social worker and psychotherapist is new within the past five years, my broad life experiences and diverse formal education combine to offer a safe place for people to explore their thoughts and feelings.
Work is not who I am; work is a space for me to be curious about others, the world, and to participate meaningfully in this great community of human beings. When I’m not working, I’m reading, writing, watching film, listening to music, and getting outside as much as possible.
Rae can be reached via her website:
https://raeenglish.com/
or via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raeenglishpsychotherapy/
