Casey Wahl, guest on Vol. 3 of Diversity rocks innovation! grew up in Saudi Arabia and was later expelled from boarding school as a high school student in the US. In Japan, he experimented with several failed startups but kept persevering towards innovation. He went on to found Wahl+Case, a successful tech recruiting firm he designed with a view to transforming the industry. Through his efforts building EQIQ, we learn about Casey’s passion for the concept of “intrinsic motivation” and how his platform, Attuned, is fostering wellness at work. In this episode, Casey shares his view of a future where we are more aware of the values and intrinsic motivations of our team members and are able to work with mutual trust and respect for diversity and individuality. 

In this episode you’ll hear:

• Casey’s fascinating early life from the desert of Saudi Arabia to being expelled from boarding school in the US
• Why Casey’s startups failed - multiple times and how this experience turned into a book
• The over emphasis in the tech industry on STEM and IQ vs. EQ and human wisdom
• The danger of extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation and its effect on creativity 
• Where our values come from and how we develop and evolve them over time 
• Why intrinsic motivation is like a fingerprint and how Casey is harnessing this information
• Casey’s hopes for the future and the pain points his company is solving in the workplace

About Casey:

Casey wants to change recruitment. He’s deeply passionate about the issue, and immensely frustrated with the reputation of the recruitment industry. Little innovation has happened in recruitment agencies over the last decades, with the industry often self-inflicting its negative perception by the plethora of indistinguishable recruiters with short-term outlooks. Casey is out to change all that. Globally. Analog (agency recruitment – Wahl+Case) and digitally (Justa, Attuned). It’s a big problem, worth a lifetime of work. Casey is a long-term resident of Japan with fluent Japanese and somehow got an Executive MBA from IE Business School. 

Connect with Casey:

Website: https://www.eqiq-group.com/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaseyDai2Asa9sa 

Connect with Jackie:

Website: https://en-joi.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enjoidiversityandinnovation

https://www.facebook.com/jackiefsteelephd 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackie-f-steele-phd/