CLASSROOM 5.0
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
Season 2, Episode 3: Anna Sheppard
CLASSROOM 5.0
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
SEASON 2
Episode 3: Anna Sheppard
Why Kindness is the New Cool for Learners and Leaders with Anna Sheppard
The next generation is going to blow your socks off.
Just ask Anna Sheppard and the community of compassionate leaders she’s growing through Bambuddha Group, a social enterprise she founded for existing and emerging leaders who see and are responding to a rising call for kindness in the future of work. In this episode, Anna shares pieces of her own childhood story and identity to explain how kindness served as a cure against feeling like the ‘odd one out’ as a neurodiverse, gay woman who grew up in a caravan park.
If diversity and inclusion, belonging, and future thinking is your jam, then listen up. In time for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Anna has some important lessons to share about how we can all create kinder homes, learning spaces and workplaces for a better world, together.
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About Anna
Anna believes in a future where every leader and organisation is committed to creating a sustainable world of equality and opportunity for everyone.
Anna Sheppard, Founder and CEO of Bambuddha Group strongly believes the power of Kindness is world changing. With a deep commitment for creating equality based on her lived experience, Anna began Bambuddha Group to empower corporate leaders and their teams how to ‘work kinder’. The team at Bambuddha developed an evidence informed kindness curriculum which minimises risk and improves outcomes across all organisational areas. Bambuddha Group is a multi-award winning social enterprise that provides leadership coaching and corporate kindness programs.
Anna has added value to thousands of companies and inspirational leaders by showing them how to ‘work kinder’ and is also the founder of several other major initiatives, including The Corporate Kindness Awards, Working Kind Collective (the world’s first kind business centre), the Impact Studios and The Corporate Kindness Project, which is an Australian-based research study focusing on the business benefits of working kind. The first white paper was released in 2019 and is now an upbeat, honest and feel-good podcast show called ‘Project Good Boss.’
Anna Sheppard and Bambuddha Group have won multiple awards for work in this space, including being recognised as one of the ‘Top 10 Leadership Development Training and Coaching Companies 2021 in APAC’, ‘Top 50 leading light for APAC’, ‘Top 50 most impactful LinkedIn Influencers’, a 2021 NSW Business Awards finalist and currently, a finalist for 2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards.
‘If you can’t shift hearts and minds with the stats and the facts and the figures, then the story and the emotional connection to a story is something that can really shift people’s mindsets. ‘
~ Anna Sheppard
Keen to take a deeper dive?
Find links to the resources and reads recommended by Jeff:
- Read more about Barbara Fredrickson’s Broaden and Build Theory
- Read more about Bambuddha Group
- 'How do you add play to grown-up life - even now' - NY Times
- Read more about social sensitivities in autism
- Read about pattern spotting in neurodiversity
- Encourage solution focused conversations in your classrooms with our Teacher Toolkit Creative Activation lesson plans and student activities
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‘To see other people find their purpose and lean into that, that’s transformation. And it’s beautiful to watch’.
~ Anna Sheppard
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