Simone Fenton-Jarvis

Author of The Human-Centric Workplace and Fellow Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management

Simone Fenton-Jarvis

You could say I’m a workplace thought-leader who's passionate about creating human-centric workplaces, but at its most basic, what I do is focus on people. I home in on the employee experience, workplace culture, and organisational performance and use data insights to deliver change and business improvement in regard to culture, space, process, and technology. I’m a fellow and non-executive director of IWFM, sit on the editorial boards for Facilitate Magazine and the Facilities Management Journal, along with the post-graduate advisory board at Nottingham Trent University. I’m the author of a published book, ’The Human-Centric Workplace’ which explores how to enable people, communities, and our planet to thrive.

· Future Of Work

The Short-Term Pain And Long-Term Gain Of Being Brave

Human beings are wired to avoid pain. We try to “fix” the pain, often papering over the cracks. When it comes to technology within the workplace, I see the papering over the cracks in ways like: You see, none of these are actually okay statements to make, and yet, for the last 17 years, these […]

· Human Flourishing

The Human-Centric Workplace

Before we discuss what a human-centric workplace is, we must define what it is to be human. From poets, philosophers, anthropologists, religious bodies, scientists, politicians, and artists. Despite the efforts, the answers are diverse and inconclusive, because believing in a single answer would create silos between the brain, emotion, the body and so forth; we […]

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