AHRI: How is the leadership wellbeing shadow affecting your organisation?
AHRI features Audrey McGibbon’s own signature concept — the leadership wellbeing shadow. Her thesis: a leader’s personal wellbeing isn’t a soft, personal matter but a high-leverage variable that cascades through the whole organisation. When leaders are well, they cast a positive shadow — lifting morale, teamwork, psychological safety and business outcomes; when their wellbeing is […]
AHRI: New data reveals a decade-long slump in leadership wellbeing
AHRI recently reported on our latest benchmark data from 9600+ leaders, which reveals a decade of unbroken decline among professionals, with ‘life satisfaction’ falling faster since 2023 than any other dimension. Key takeaways: Every primary indicator of subjective wellbeing – from happiness and life satisfaction to the core metrics of ‘working well’ and ‘living well’ – has […]
HR Daily: Women leaders experiencing serious wellbeing decline
HR Daily reports on GLWS’s own research, The Gender Wellbeing Gap 2025, drawing on data from more than 8,000 respondents. The findings are stark: women in professional and leadership roles are around 25% more likely than men to report lower work-related wellbeing, and their wellbeing has been on a “concerning descent” since 2016 across all […]
HR Daily: Trust in teams held back by individual factors
In this HR Daily feature, Audrey McGibbon reframes a conversation most organisations get half-right. Trust in teams, she argues, isn’t only about interpersonal dynamics between managers and employees — it also depends on each person’s “headspace.” Someone who is overworked, burnt out, or feeling insecure may withhold trust no matter how much goodwill their team […]
HR Monthly Cover Story: Addicted to the Grind
In this HRM cover story, Audrey McGibbon is a lead expert voice on one of the workplace’s most under-recognised risks: work addiction. Drawing on her doctoral research, Audrey explains why between 12 and 15% of the working population — and around 25% in high-pressure fields like law, finance and health — struggle with a compulsion […]
AHRI: How to tell if you have a workaholic on your team
Published by the Australian HR Institute, this feature draws on Audrey McGibbon’s expertise to reframe work addiction as a genuine — and often invisible — psychosocial hazard. Between 12 and 15% of the workforce, Audrey explains, struggles with an uncontrollable compulsion to overwork, rising to around 25% in high-pressure fields like law, finance and health. […]
AHRI: How can HR support employees experiencing social anxiety
In this AHRI feature, Audrey McGibbon brings a psychologist’s eye to a widely under-recognised workplace issue: social anxiety. With anxiety now the most common mental illness affecting Australians, there’s a good chance a portion of any workforce is quietly navigating it — often invisibly. Audrey explains why it’s so easily missed (many outwardly confident professionals […]
HR Daily: Managing chronic underperformance has insidious impact on leaders
In this HR Daily feature, Audrey McGibbon turns a familiar management challenge on its head. Organisations invest heavily in training leaders to manage underperformance and hold difficult conversations — but the toll that repeatedly managing a chronic underperformer takes on the leader themselves is, as Audrey notes, barely investigated at all. Over time, a worn-down […]