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Productivity catalyst, highly sensitive executive coach, and international speaker Clare Kumar examines the intersection of productivity and inclusivity – paying attention to both being and doing. She inspires individuals to design for well-being and cultivate sustainable performance while encouraging leaders to invite the richest contributions from every member of their team. Clare explores this topic with innovative thinkers as host of the Happy Space Podcast.

 

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Productivity catalyst, highly sensitive executive coach, and international speaker Clare Kumar examines the intersection of productivity and inclusivity – paying attention to both being and doing. She inspires individuals to design for well-being and cultivate sustainable performance while avoiding exhaustion and burnout. Clare encourages leaders to design inclusive performance to invite the richest contributions from every member of their team. This is a topic Clare explores with innovators as host of the Happy Space Podcast.

Clare draws on a diverse corporate career that took her from Toronto to Tokyo and Montreal, with equal experience as an entrepreneur. She is a sought-after media contributor to news and lifestyle shows including the Huffington Post, Fast Company, the Globe and Mail, CBC Radio, The Social, and the Marilyn Denis Show. Whether speaking to one person or thousands, Clare loves inspiring massive shifts by inviting you to pay attention to little things that make a big difference. She welcomes all highly sensitive professionals as well as those who want to love and support them to find community in the Happy Space Pod.

 

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Productivity catalyst, highly sensitive executive coach, and international speaker Clare Kumar examines the intersection of productivity and inclusivity – paying attention to both being and doing. She helps professionals achieve sustainable performance - improving productivity and well-being while avoiding exhaustion and burnout. She draws on her superpowers as an HSP, (a highly sensitive person) to be an engaging speaker and very effective coach. She’s thrilled to be on stage or screen talking to thousands or speaking to individuals, inviting them to notice the little things that make a big difference.

Clare's fifteen-year corporate career includes leadership roles spanning marketing, business development, finance, internal communication, and culture change, sales support, and product development. She has served in a variety of environments from start-ups to leading multi-national companies both in Canada and abroad, working flexibly in several cultures with everyone from front-line staff to the C-suite. Since starting her own company, Streamlife®, Clare has become one of Canada's most renowned organizing and productivity thought leaders offering insights, inspiration, strategies, and tools to support leaders, employees, and entrepreneurs to have greater efficiency, effectiveness, and... enjoyment. Yes, Clare believes in having fun while getting things done!

She is proud to have served sectors including education (McMaster University, University of Waterloo, Niagara College, Ryerson University, MaRS, Ontario Centres of Excellence), professional services (Crowe Soberman Chartered Accountants LLP), technology (Facebook Canada), banking (TD Canada Trust), health (Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Institute of Health Services), food (Mars) and non-profits (the MS Society, Developmental Services Ontario).

Frequently sought after for her organizing and productivity expertise, Clare has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living, and Reader's Digest. A regular on lifestyle and news television she has appeared on The Social (regular), The Marilyn Denis Show (regular), e-talk, Breakfast Television, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The Morning Show, and CityNews. Drawing on her marketing experience and love of performance, Clare has served as a brand ambassador or spokesperson for brands such as Intel, Samsung, Canadian Tire, Ford, Whirlpool, Acco Brands, Staples, Rubbermaid, and Neatfreak.

Clare co-created the patented and widely distributed clothing organizing system, Pliio®. She has also written The Organized Family – Planning Calendar, and The Balanced Life Wall Calendar.

She holds a B.Sc. in biology from McMaster University, a Diploma in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University.  Clare is a proud member of CAPS - the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and is an Associate Certified Coach with ICF - the International Coaching Federation and a longtime member of both Professional Organizers in Canada and the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals.

She welcomes all those interested in designing inclusive performance and especially her highly sensitive friends to find community in the Happy Space Pod.

 

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Our speaker today dances at the intersection of productivity – getting things done – and inclusivity – inviting everyone to participate. Clare Kumar is a highly sensitive executive coach, international speaker, and host of the Happy Space Podcast - where productivity meets inclusivity.

Clare is an award-winning entrepreneur and sought-after media contributor regularly sharing insights on CBC Radio and appearing on news and lifestyle shows such as The Social and The Marilyn Denis Show. She has appeared in Fast Company, The Huffington Post, the Report on Business, Macleans, the Toronto Star, and more.

Clare works with companies you’ll know such as Facebook, Staples, Whirlpool, and TD Bank, and organizations such as CPA Ontario, Queen’s University, and McMaster.

Clare's highly sensitive temperament is behind her superpower of noticing little things that make a big difference. She invites you to do the same today!

 

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I have deep expertise and love to talk about the following:

  • personal productivity (happy habits for time and task mastery)
  • sustainable performance (well-being, ergonomics, #nosleepshame, the #dailymove)
  • work-life integration (return to work, work from home, work from anywhere)
  • getting organized at home and work
  • inclusivity especially around neurodiversity (ADHD, the Highly Sensitive Person, Sensory Processing Sensitivity) and invisible illness (multiple sclerosis)

With two kids of my own, I can happily provide a parenting perspective. I have lived in the UK, southern Ontario, Toronto, Tokyo, and Montreal. I've had a wide range of work experience - working for bootstrapped entrepreneurs, energized startups, leading-edge marketing companies, and multi-national tech companies both as an individual contributor and as a remote and local team leader.  I've worked from the office and from home, both full and part-time. I am proud to be a member of Staples Work From Home Advisory Council and committed to helping design a kinder, more effective future of work.

My formal studies include biology, business, and executive coaching.

 

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Productivity catalyst, highly sensitive executive coach, and speaker, Clare Kumar cultivates sustainable performance in busy professionals so they can keep making rich contributions in all areas of life and achieve greater fulfillment.

She inspires leaders, professionals, employees and entrepreneurs to respect humanity and boost performance through marrying productivity and pleasure. After all, why shouldn’t you have fun while getting things done?

 

From the Blog

How Can a Watermark Be a Human Rights Matter?

Informed Consent – As an HSP, how much information do you want to health professionals to share?

The SEED Model™ of High Sensitivity

The tension is real. With employees being more in The tension is real. With employees being more in tune with and wanting to hold onto the ways they work best, how do we design the way we work together?

If you're a leader or HR specialist this *complimentary* conversation is for you. We'll be exploring: 

- how to understand what invites a person's best performance
- employee challenges around disclosure
- leader concern about inviting difficult conversations
- support you would find helpful
- how equity is understood
- the variety of design parameters that shape how we work

Work and life have become more complex but the drive to get things done is stronger than ever. How do we reconcile this and design around what's most important? It's important to Ask! these questions and better understand each other.

Register at www.HappySpaceHotTopics.com

#productivity #inclusivity #design #futureofwork
how do you choose a hair salon? clearly, the qua how do you choose a hair salon? 

clearly, the quality of cut goes without saying, but what else goes into it?

you’re looking at a pic of the salon i have been visiting for at least 14 years. 

i can count on the cut, but it’s the light that locked me in as a customer. it even makes me forgive water temperature inconsistencies. 

known as Rico of Italy after the original owner, it has been given a complete refresh by owners Oliviera and Enza and is now known as @olenzabeautyloft 

if you want to hear about another fab salon that gets customer service, check out episode 3 of the Happy Space Podcast to meet @sjhairdesign and learn about their “silent service”. 🔗 in bio. 
#customerservice #light #peace #hsp
have you ever felt debilitated by something you ca have you ever felt debilitated by something you can’t control?
😊😊😊what if it was excessive blushing...that left you anxious, not smiling?

“I found that the more people knew the less of a secret I had to carry around anymore. So I worried less about people noticing that I was blushing once more people knew about it, but the response, in general, has been, ‘I had no idea this affected you so much.’”

🎙these are powerful words from the author of “Red Face”, Russell Norris, in our conversation on the latest episode of the “Happy Space Podcast”.

Russell shares 

👨‍🍼 how his children changed his life

💊 how he moved from addiction to strategic use of medication

🧘🏼‍♀️ the journey to find peace with social anxiety

We have a fascinating discussion about what his struggle was really like, some of the strategies that he tried and found successful, and some that didn’t work so well. I invite you to not only listen to our conversation today but also to check out his book. It’s a wonderful view of this challenge which afflicts many, many people, and is also useful for anybody looking to build self-regulation skills.

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio
 
#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#productivity #leadership #inclusivity #productivityforall #redfacebook #blushing #socialanxiety
it might sound trivial, but a watermark did indeed it might sound trivial, but a watermark did indeed become a matter of human rights. 

read the full story in my blog where i share the context, learning, and opportunity. 

find out:

- how was the watermark used?
- what problem did it cause?
- is a low threshold to visual sensory input simply a preference or can it be considered a disability/impairment?
- what did disability rights groups and a US lawyer looking at ADA have to say
 
i would love to know your thoughts. 

🔗 link in bio

#inclusivity #intellectualproperty #parkbias #staycurious #watermark #humanrights #disabilityrights #sensitivity #proudhsp #hsp #adhd #dyslexia
kicked out of class for the first time in my life. kicked out of class for the first time in my life. gah! 

when can a watermark be a human rights matter?

come find out why in the next episode of "Happy Space - the museletter"

sign up at www.clarekumar.com right on my homepage

or find a 🔗 in my bio.

#inclusivity #expelled #kickedout #seeyoulater #watermark #IP #newsletter
does connecting on a personal level help employees does connecting on a personal level help employees connect professionally?

author, speaker, and advocate for humanity, Joe Mull, CSP, M.Ed. joined me on the Happy Space Podcast and shared these wise words:

🙂 Clare: in 2001 I was working in a telecom company and my team was in three different cities. I was in the fourth city, and I came up with the idea, I think we need an intranet. We need an internet where we can share personal information. so now I can know more about Joe because then I’m going to care and it’s almost like you’re building this under this fuller understanding of someone so you actually care about them first as a human, and then you’ll support them as a colleague. 

📣 Joe: and this is something that has been studied for years. social science researchers call it distance, right? the distance that we have from someone influences the degree to which we will modulate our behaviour in their presence and the degree to which we are willing to be forgiving of them, right? if you think about comments on a facebook post or your local online newspaper, when we don’t know anyone, there are no consequences for showing up as the worst version of ourselves. but when you start to connect with people and you find those things in common, you’re actually creating an environment where you care a little bit more too about how that person sees you. and it doesn’t have to be really complex things. It doesn’t have to be sophisticated team retreats. even just giving people a chance to work together on something for 10 minutes can be a game changer in terms of those relationships.

🙂 Clare: it’s small, but intentional actions to build that understanding of each other as people.

❓ what‘a one way you invite connection with employees?

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#productivity #leadership #inclusivity #productivityforall #employalty #commitment #trust
today’s read. loving the humanity baked into thi today’s read. loving the humanity baked into this approach. 

immediately thought of you @joemull77 as you probably already know this but @kimmalonescott favours the word “boss”, too 

#leadership #humanity #talktoeachother #ASKmodel
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how do you foster a trusting environment in a work how do you foster a trusting environment in a work setting?

author, speaker, and advocate for humanity, @joemull77 , CSP, M.Ed. joined me on the Happy Space Podcast and shared these wise words:

✨ “when you create an environment where people experience trust, when you create an environment where people get their ideal job doing meaningful work for a great boss, you dramatically lower the chances that you’re going to trigger active disengagement in a person.” 

🔥 “you’ve got to almost trust first in order to eventually get to a place where your organization cultivates that higher level of commitment and integrity among people. they maybe need to have a little bit of faith in people and you know, are you going to get burned every once in a while? probably…”

😃 “but people generally do a great job when they believe they have a great job. people tend to treat their employers well when their employers treat them well. And if we can operate that from that basic system, if we can ask ourselves what would make this place the very best place to be a blank, you know, whoever it is you’re employing, that actually starts you down the path of solving the right problems.”

❓ should leaders be more open when it comes to trusting their employees? do leaders need to be brave enough to trust their employees?

🔗link to listen/watch/read the podcast is in the bio 

#everyonedeservesaHappySpace

#productivity #leadership #inclusivity #productivityforall #employalty #commitment #trust
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