Business Daily meets: Russ Glass
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Can an app, founded by a former monk, become one of the biggest tech companies in the world?
Russ Glass, the chief executive of Headspace Health, takes Leanna Byrne behind the scenes in one of the biggest mergers in mental health technology.
We get an insight into Headspace Health’s global expansion plans both online and offline; how people turned to mental health technology with the uncertainty of Covid; and how employers could soon be using its staff’s mental health data to make company wide policies.
Presenter/producer: Leanna Byrne
(Image: woman listening to headphones whilst meditating. Credit: Getty)
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| 0:00.0 | Untold Legends, ORA, a podcast from the BBC World Service and BBC Sounds, explores the remarkable story of a forgotten sporting legend, ORA Washington. |
| 0:12.0 | Search for Untold Legends wherever you found this podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | Let's begin this business daily by taking a few deep breaths. |
| 0:25.6 | Close your eyes and in and out. |
| 0:35.8 | If you feel your mind wandering, come back to Business Daily. |
| 0:50.8 | Now that you're nicely refreshed, let's get to the program. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome to another edition of Business Daily Meets. |
| 0:59.3 | This is where we bring you in-depth interviews from people all over the world |
| 1:03.2 | who've had huge success or who've made their mark in some way in the business world. |
| 1:09.2 | Today we're talking to Russ Glass, the recently appointed |
| 1:12.5 | Chief Executive of Headspace Health. He's overseen one of the biggest mergers in mental |
| 1:18.4 | health technology. We support over 100 million across the world and over 3,500 companies who |
| 1:25.7 | use our platform in order to support their employees. |
| 1:29.1 | Russ gives us an insight into Headspace Health's global expansion plans, both online and |
| 1:34.9 | offline, how people turn to mental health technology with the uncertainty of COVID, |
| 1:40.9 | and how employers could soon be using its staff's mental health data to make company-wide |
| 1:46.1 | policies. Bringing data together so that an organization can see what's happening with my employees. |
| 1:51.9 | How is the specific division, let's say, or specific area doing compared to others? And then as we |
| 2:00.5 | roll these solutions out, how are they |
| 2:02.8 | improving over time? I'm Leanna Byrne. And this is the story about how an app, founded by a former |
| 2:08.8 | monk, aims to become one of the biggest tech companies in the world. |
| 2:20.6 | So did you practice any meditation today, Ross? |
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