GLWS® in the media
When Australia’s HR and business press need an expert view on leader wellbeing, they come to us. Audrey McGibbon is a regular expert voice for the Australian HR Institute, HR Daily and HRM — sought out for analysis on burnout, work addiction, psychological safety and the changing demands of leadership. A selection of that coverage is below.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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