Our Podcast
Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion,
an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy. This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time. The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within. This is where the conversation needs to shift. On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity. Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice. If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

We are Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, the passionate minds behind Aurora, a trailblazing corporate culture consultancy. With “The Wellbeing Rebellion,” our podcast, we aim to redefine the paradigms of employee support. We invite you to challenge the status quo alongside us, exploring avenues to ensure every individual in the workspace feels genuinely valued and empowered. From unveiling leadership insights to addressing executive burnout and championing diversity, each episode with us is a deep dive into building an authentically inclusive, resilient, and thriving work environment. Join us in this transformative journey. Listen, follow, and become a catalyst for change in the realm of corporate wellbeing.

Our Latest Episodes

September has a habit of pulling us straight back into busy routines. Meetings return, inboxes fill up, and before long we’re back on autopilot. So rather than starting with targets, I’m asking a different question: what kind of leader do you want to be over the next few months? I share a few simple prompts […]
We tend to remember the big career moments. The promotion, the crisis, the major project, the thing that looked impressive from the outside. But some of the experiences that shape us most as leaders are much quieter. I reflect on a few of those moments from my own career, from getting performance concerns wrong, to […]
Good judgement isn’t about having complete certainty. It’s about using evidence, experience and other perspectives to make the best decision available, then taking responsibility for how it’s carried out. Vanessa Blackburn and I unpack what separates good judgement from great judgement, particularly when decisions affect people, careers and organisational change. We look at where instinct […]
Good intentions matter, but they don’t change much on their own. Joanne Vazquez-Kirby, a global DEI & HR Leader at Skyscanner, joins me to explore what helps organisations move from aspiration to something more tangible. We get into accountability, leadership, and the gap between saying inclusion matters and building it into how a business actually […]
Awareness of neurodiversity has grown, but understanding still has a long way to go. Too many workplaces still rely on narrow ideas of what neurodivergence is supposed to look like, who gets recognised, and who gets support. That leaves a lot of people misunderstood, missed entirely, or expected to fit a picture that was never […]
A lot of organisations still explain the lack of racial diversity in leadership as a pipeline problem. It sounds neat, but it doesn’t hold up. In this episode, I unpack why progress on race equity so often stalls the further up an organisation you move, even when there’s effort, investment, and a genuine desire to […]
Learning can’t be treated like an extra anymore. Not when the pace of change is this high. Kerri O’Neill, Chief People Officer at Ipsos UK & Ireland, joins me this week, and we look at what it takes to build capability in an intentional and useful way, especially when strategies, markets, and tools keep shifting. […]
Accountability sounds simple, but it gets complicated quickly in fast-paced, global organisations. In this conversation with Aaisha Knights-Ihediwa, we talk about what accountability actually looks like in practice. From hiring the right people to creating space for individuals to speak up when something isn’t working. We also explore how values hold up under pressure, and […]
Career progression is often presented as straightforward. Work hard, perform well, and opportunities will follow. For many professionals, especially women and migrants, the path is rarely that simple. In this conversation, I’m joined by Elham Fardad, founder of Migrant Leaders. We explore the hidden barriers that shape career mobility and why talent alone does not […]
Can business genuinely be a force for good, and if so, what does that actually require in practice? In this conversation, I’m joined by Anwar Ali OBE, CEO and co-founder of Upturn Enterprise. We explore what sustainable impact really looks like when you’re trying to balance commercial discipline with social purpose. Anwar shares how his […]