Fulfilment at work is often treated as a soft idea. Preeti D'mello argues it is the condition that keeps performance, judgement and human energy alive. In this Wocult Voices conversation, she examines why senior leaders are the most underserved by the systems they lead, why middle managers quietly become the culture their teams experience, and why wellness programmes fail when the work itself remains poorly designed.

Preeti D'mello has built coaching architecture for 6,50,000 people across 49 countries. Her central argument is not that fulfilment at work is desirable. It is that the absence of it is expensive, measurable, and largely a design problem. She does not offer a framework. She offers a reckoning: with the unexamined senior leader, with the gap between what organisations say about care and what they actually reward, with the wellness industry that treats symptoms while leaving conditions intact. Eleven questions. No softening. Read it slowly.