{"podcast":{"title":"The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving","slug":"the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195","podcast_index_feed_id":431195,"rss_url":"https://strategyskills.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.firmsconsulting.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/b/b/8/dbb87cad4c06da1d/SS_art_4.png","author":"Kris Safarova for Firmsconsulting.com","episode_count":500,"summary":"CEOs and business leaders, management consulting senior partners, ground-breaking professors, thought-provoking writers and journalists, record-setting athletes and coaches, and award-winning actors and celebrities discuss the key issues facing the business world and broader society. Get free access to our newsletter, Monday Morning at 8 am, along with sample episodes from our training programs on www.strategytraining.com. Go to https://www.firmsconsulting.com/promo.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T22:22:19.528722+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195"},"episode":{"title":"632: Building Healthier Workplaces Through Attuned Leadership (with Nidhi Tewari)","slug":"632-building-healthier-workplaces-through-attuned-leadership-with-nidhi-tewari","published_at":"2026-03-02T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195/632-building-healthier-workplaces-through-attuned-leadership-with-nidhi-tewari","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195","url":"https://strategyskills.libsyn.com/632-building-healthier-workplaces-through-attuned-leadership-with-nidhi-tewari","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strategyskills/632_FSS_Nidhi_Tewari_e_lio_mio_192kb_compressed.mp3?dest-id=291244","summary":"Nidhi Tewari, a highly sought after wellbeing and work culture speaker who applies her experience as a licensed therapist to the work world, has spent more than a decade advising high-performing leaders on burnout, trauma, communication, and work culture. In this conversation, she brings a clinician's precision to a topic many organizations still treat superficially: why capable professionals disengage, shut down, or burn out and what leaders can do differently. Tewari's perspective is grounded in personal experience. After burning out multiple times and experiencing the sudden loss of her best friend, she recognized that burnout is not only psychological but physiological. Elevated stress markers, chronic exhaustion, and a dysregulated nervous system are not signs of weakness; they are signals. The first insight is simple but often ignored: professionals override subtle cues from their mind and body until the body forces a reset. Sustainable performance requires noticing those cues early. Second, she explains how nervous system regulation shapes leadership behavior. Many high achievers operate in a chronic stress state, alternating between hyper-vigilance and shutdown. Tewari introduces a practical framework, RESET: recognize reactions, identify emotions, soothe the body, explore the root, and tell the story safely, to move from reactivity to deliberate response. Techniques such as 4-7-8 breathing are not wellness trends; they are tools to regain cognitive control before making consequential decisions. Third, she addresses trauma directly. Workplace dysfunction, toxic leadership, and persistent undermining can create patterns that resemble clinical trauma. Drawing on her specialization in EMDR therapy, she explains how unresolved experiences shape beliefs such as \"it'…","meta_description":"Nidhi Tewari, a highly sought after wellbeing and work culture speaker who applies her experience as a licensed therapist to the work world, has spent mor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3274,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195/episodes/632-building-healthier-workplaces-through-attuned-leadership-with-nidhi-tewari/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strategy-skills-podcast-strategy-leadership-critical-thinking-problem-solving-431195/632-building-healthier-workplaces-through-attuned-leadership-with-nidhi-tewari.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}