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Episode 15: Wellbeing in the Workplace with Faye Green from eBay
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Episode 15: Wellbeing in the Workplace with Faye Green from eBay

How personal challenges led Faye to establish the eBay WeMind Community and continues to develop opportunities for her colleagues.

We’re taking a slight pivot for this episode, to start a series of talks exploring ‘Wellbeing in the Workplace’. Corporate Consultancy is a main component of Soulhub, where we connect with businesses, schools, organisations and charities and deliver bespoke programmes for their staff and employees.

We start the series with Carmen Rendell in conversation with Faye Green, Principle Recruiter at eBay.

Over two years ago we reached out to Faye Green at eBay to understand if there was an opportunity for us to work together. Faye and Carmen had previous corporate history at Jack Wills where Carmen as Head of Brand Campaigns interfaced with Faye as Global Talent Acquisition. Prior to Jack Wills, Faye’s career was mostly in HR and recruitment within recognisable brands such as Arcadia and Selfridges before becoming Principal Recruiter at eBay.

It’s clear that people are at the heart of what she cares about.

Faye shares her experience in creating the WeMind community at eBay just before the pandemic with her co-lead Shani Verber, and how they’ve navigated the ever-changing landscape of mental and physical wellbeing within a large business. She shares why it’s felt important for her to lead, given her own experiences of a miscarriage and bereavement and how they shaped what she felt was missing in organisations. She didn’t want others not to be in the position of not being able to ‘be not okay’ within their business.

They talk about the initiatives the team (with some help from Soulhub) have created such as ‘Get eBay Talking Campaign’, ‘Get Walking Campaign’ and how they need to flex and learn with new recruits and changes happen within the wider world and business. How they look outwards for inspiration, but tend to trust what they’ve created as an organic offering for those who are ready and willing to be part of the process.

This is an exclusive behind the scenes exploration of what it takes to lead an organisation to start putting wellbeing at the heart of a business, whilst listening deeply to what people need and want from their employees. That’s the hardest, but most rewarding part.

We hope you enjoy the conversation, and we look forward to sharing others further examples from other business leaders. If you’re inspired by the work Faye and her team are doing at eBay, then please do share this episode with friends and colleagues, and get in touch if you want to know more.

If you’d like to feature in the Soulhubber’s Podcast for ‘Wellbeing in the Workplace’ please contact Carmen at Carmen@soulhub.co.uk.

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