The Edge of Work (Al Dea)
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| 20 Sep 2022 | Trailer: Welcome To The Edge of Work Podcast | 00:09:20 | |
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| 20 Sep 2022 | S1:E1: Career Exploration and Job Searches in Today’s World of Work | 00:39:48 | |
Dave Fano is the CEO and Founder of Teal, a company that provides thousands of employees tools, skills and recommendations to accelerate job searches and help people grow their careers. During his time as Chief Growth Officer at WeWork, Dave became aware of the lack of tools and infrastructure to support career professionals and started Teal to help solve that challenge. During our conversation, we spoke to Dave about why he decided to found Teal, how it helps job and career explorers, and his own observations about how employees view jobs and careers as a result of his work. We also covered some of the changes and trends in today’s workplace, the changing view on careers, and what Teal hopes to accomplish in the future by serving professionals. You Might Enjoy This Episode If You:
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| 20 Sep 2022 | S1:E2: Reskilling, Tech Career Paths, and Rethinking Hiring Practices with Aspireship | 00:31:54 | |
Corey Kossack is the Founder and CEO of Aspireship, a learning and talent platform for the SaaS industry. Through cohort-based learning and industry-focused guidance coaching, Corey and his team help high potential sales and customer success candidates build the skills and capabilities needed to transition into in-demand jobs in sales and customer success. In this conversation. Corey spoke about how he and his team are helping professionals upskill and find new careers in sales and customer success, as well as what it takes to build a curriculum and set of services to help employees get to career outcomes. He also spoke about some of the challenges in terms of getting employers to think differently about their hiring practices, and the opportunities he sees ahead for Aspireship. Links
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| 20 Sep 2022 | S1:E3: Expanding Our Views on Career Growth and Evaluating our Relationship with Work | 00:43:36 | |
Shana Lebowitz Gaynor is a columnist at Insider and the author of Don’t Call it Quits: Turn The Job You Have into The Job You Love. Shana has been covering the workplace, careers and leadership at Insider and recently published her book as a guide to employees who are struggling with their current role but don’t necessarily want to quit or leave their company on how they can make changes or take action to improve the day to day lives in the workplace. During our conversation, we spoke about topics ranging from Shana’s own experience navigating a challenging workplace situation and how she was able to overcome and find a better alternative without quitting, to everything from quiet quitting, the role that meaning in the workplace, and the role that managers play in understanding facilitating dialogue around career development and growth for employees. Shana also provided some tactical advice from her book, on what employees can do who don’t want to quit, but who want to improve their current workplace situation.
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| 27 Sep 2022 | S1: E4: Roleshare, and Creating Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Career Pathways | 00:34:06 | |
Sophie Smallwood is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Roleshare, a job sharing platform that connects individuals looking for fractional roles with companies looking to hire diverse talent. With Roleshare, employees can co-apply to full-time roles, and work flexible schedules and employers can get access to high quality talent. After working for tech companies like eBay and Facebook, Sophie Co-Founded Roleshare as a way to enable professionals who want to part-time pair up for full-time jobs. Much of the inspiration for Roleshare came from some of Sophie’s lived experience when she and her husband Dave, her Co-CEO and Co-Founder, were expecting their own first child, as well as her desire to create more opportunities for people who want to balance careers and life. During our conversation, we spoke about Sophie’s inspiration for starting Roleshare, how Roleshare works on both sides of the platform, the ups and downs of starting a company, and encouraging both investors and prospective customers about the potential of their platform. We also spoke about some of the early pilots that Roleshare has run, the types of individuals who sign up for the platform, and what Links
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| 04 Oct 2022 | S1: E5: How Companies Should Evolve Their Approach To Attracting, Communicating, and Engaging Early Career Talent | 00:27:19 | |
Ben Siegel is a Co-Founder at Scholars, a technology platform that helps employers manage their communication, employer brand and retention of new hires. In the quest to attract and retain top early in career talent, companies that want to hire top talent must go beyond posting roles and hiring top talent, and also focus on ensuring that new hires have the resources and information they need from the moment they meet the company to when they show up on the first day. During our conversation, Ben shared how Scholars is helping companies improve their communication and engagement with prospective candidates through their platform. He also spoke about the importance of fostering community, belonging and engagement between candidates and employers, and some of the ways top companies are evolving their approach to hiring Gen Z talent by focusing on improving their employer brand, and using technology and analytics to nurture candidates and new hires. Links:
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| 11 Oct 2022 | S1: E6: How Leland Connects Early Career Talent With Experts To Help Professionals Achieve Their Career goals | 00:25:58 | |
Today’s Guest is John Koelliker. John is the Founder and CEO of Leland, an expert marketplaces that matches ambitious professionals with coaching, classes, and community needed to reach their educational goals. After working at two tech companies as a Product Manager managing marketplace type products, John decided to apply his learnings and start Leland, a marketplace that helps young professionals who are looking for expert guidance + advice in the education and career find the exact expert they need to unlock the next step in their education and career journey. Topics covered include:
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| 18 Oct 2022 | S1:E7: What First Round Capital Can Teach Us About Talent | 00:37:01 | |
Venture Capital Firms are all about investing in what’s new and next in innovation and technology. But while a deep understanding of technology is important, just as important is a keen eye for talent. Whitnie Narcisse is an Operating Partner at First Round Capital, and oversees their talent, operations and ecosystem programs. With the help of her team, First Round has invested in a number of talent and community programs ranging from helping re-train and reskill professionals into sales and recruiter roles, growing the next set of angel investors that can help First Round scout the next talented set of founders and entrepreneurs, and expert matching programs to help their founders solve specific problems and gain expert guidance from the most talented operators in the First Round Network. Listen in to Learn About:
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| 25 Oct 2022 | S1:E8: How Continuum Connects Companies with On-Demand Executive Talent | 00:41:18 | |
Nolan Church is the Founder and CEO of Continuum, a marketplace that connects world-class executives with venture-backed companies for fractional and full-time opportunities. After leadership roles at companies including Doordash and Carta, Nolan founded Continuum to bring fractional opportunities to executives, and to help high-growth tech startups find the expertise and talent they need to solve specific challenges for their business. During our conversation, we spoke about:
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| 01 Nov 2022 | S1:E9: Navigating Transitions and Intersections of Work and Life with Coaching | 00:36:16 | |
Anita Hossain is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Grand, a group coaching platform. During our conversation, Anita spoke about the observations she made as an Executive Coach working with Founders and how that inspired her and her team to start The Grand. As a coach herself, Anita has seen the power of coaching and how it can help employees unlock their full potential in the workplace, and she shared how The Grand is helping employees navigate these challenges through coaching and a group community. We also spoke about the challenges with transitions in the workplace, small and large, how it is hard to separate an individual’s work and life, and how she sees The Grand evolving and growing as they help to provide people more chances to improve their skills to do their best work. Links
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| 15 Nov 2022 | S1 E:11: Our Relationship with Work, With Aki Ito | 00:46:38 | |
Aki Ito is a reporter and columnist with Insider. Aki writes and covers issues that are topical and timely around workplace and careers, and has written about a number of workplace trends that have picked up in the modern media around topics including the great resignation and quiet quitting. During our conversation, Aki spoke about some of her thoughts on the workplace, and we delved in depth into evaluating the topic of “our relationship with work” as well as what is changing, and what is new about today’s state of the workplace. Links | |||
| 08 Nov 2022 | S1:E10: Gen Z and Freelancing with Raffi Salama (PassionFruit) | 00:35:54 | |
Raffi Salama is the Co-Founder of PassionFruit, a talent marketplace that connects fast-growing companies with independent talent and freelance workers. While talent and freelance marketplaces are not new, their acceptance and usage is growing, and PassionFruit takes a unique approach as many of their independent workers are younger professionals. In addition to matching freelance talent to opportunities, PassionFruit also provides a community and wrap-around services to their freelancers to ensure they have the skills, support, and guidance they need to thrive as independent professionals. During our conversation, we spoke about the reasons for building a talent marketplace, the evolution of the workplace from the working world of the Victorian era to the modern day workplace, and the opportunities that exist for employers and independent workers through the use of independent and freelance talent. We also spoke about some of the biggest challenges companies face with hiring more freelance talent, and what PassionFruit is focused on to scale their ambitions and business.
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| 22 Nov 2022 | S1: E12: Reimagining Career Exploration and Hiring For Students & Early Career Professionals | 00:45:04 | |
Nancy Soni is the CEO at Pathmatch, a talent marketplace that helps students explore and identify potential career paths and then matches them with employers for internships and full-time job opportunities. Her inspiration for building Pathmatch comes from her own experience navigating career choices when she was in college, as well as after working for almost 2 decades in the corporate recruiting and hiring space.
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| 29 Nov 2022 | S1:E13: How Forage is Connecting Students and Employers Through Virtual Career and Learning Experiences | 00:38:58 | |
Thomas Brunskill is the CEO of Forage, a technology and recruiting platform that provides free and accessible education and opportunities to connect with employers and to learn about potential fields, functions and roles. Currently, they work with employers like Lululemon, Wal-Mart, Bank of America and Visa, and are expanding rapidly across the globe. Links
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| 06 Dec 2022 | S1:E14: The Critical Role of Talent Development in Today’s World of Work | 00:31:58 | |
Ann Parker is the Associate Director of Talent Consortiums for the Association For Talent Development (ATD). ATD is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees around the world. Talent, and attracting, developing and retaining it, has become front and center to helping organization’s thrive in today’s world of work, and ATD’s members are on the front lines of this. During our conversation, Ann spoke about some of the key trends and observations she’s seeing and hearing from her work with some of the most innovative and forward-thinking talent development leaders. We also spoke about the role that talent development plays in organization’s today, how leaders are navigating the short and long term goals and strategies for learning, and how ATD is helping talent development leaders build a better future of work. Links:
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| 13 Dec 2022 | S1: E15: How Salesforce is Identifying, Investing, and Developing Untapped Talent | 00:36:50 | |
Salesforce, the CRM software company has long been an innovator in technology, but it’s also a pioneer when it comes to looking for, hiring, and developing diverse talent into its company. In this episode, we spoke to Jennifer Stredler, VP of Untapped Talent at Salesforce. Jennifer has extensive experience working in workforce development, leads many of the efforts at Salesforce to identify diverse talent, bring them in the door, and provide opportunities for them within the organization in meaningful and impactful roles. During our conversation, Jennifer spoke about the Untapped Talent team she leads at Salesforce, and some of their programs and initiatives they run within their organization, as well as sharing with us some of the ways in which she and her team have helped galvanize the rest of the organization to embrace new and different ways of hiring and providing more opportunities to individuals of different and diverse backgrounds.
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| 17 Jan 2023 | S2 E1: Using Data to Improve The Way You Develop Your Employees | 00:51:58 | |
Fresia Jackson is a Lead Researcher For Culture Amp, an employee experience software company that helps organizations capture and use data to create impactful employee experiences. With over 6000 clients, Culture Amp has a significant data set that gives them a unique set of perspectives on the state of the workplace, employee experience, and what is and isn’t working between the relationship of organizations, managers and employees. During our conversation, Fresia spoke about some of the current trends and insights she and her team at Culture Amp are seeing on what’s going on in the workplace right now, as well as some overall thoughts on company culture. We also spoke in depth about some their latest research based insights including:
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| 24 Jan 2023 | S2:E2: Growing Talent and Organizations in High-Growth Startups with Jim Conti | 00:46:24 | |
Jim Conti is an experienced talent and people leader, and is currently a Talent Partner for Hyde Park Venture Partners, a Venture Capital Firm based in Chicago, Illinois. In his role as a Talent Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners, Jim partners with emerging startups at the earliest stages to consult on various talent, people and hr strategies so these early stage companies can set the foundation for success and growth as they scale their organization. During the conversation, Jim spoke about his journey from working in house in talent and people roles to working across numerous companies within a venture firm as well some of the common talent and people related opportunities that early stage startups face. We also had an expansive discussion around current challenges with attracting and retaining talent in today’s economic conditions, the opportunity to think more strategically and expansively around talent retention and mobility, and some of Jim’s thoughts on the future of talent within the current economy. Jim Conti Talent Partner Hyde Park Venture Partners https://www.linkedin.com/in/contijc/ | |||
| 31 Jan 2023 | S2:E3: Building a Human-Centered Culture To Unleash The Potential of Your People | 00:36:44 | |
Larry McAlister is a Talent Transformation Strategist and the Author of the upcoming book: The Power to Transform: A field guide to build a human-centered, tech enabled work culture. As a former talent leader at organizations including NetApp and Equinox, Larry has a demonstrated track record of helping organizations transform their business through an investment in technology and talent. As the Founder of the Consultancy The Corporate Humanist, Larry spends his time advising People and HR Executives on talent transformation challenges, and how they can use tech and talent to create human-first organizations. During our conversation, Larry spoke about some of his experiences building successful talent strategies inside organizations, and also shared some of his insights from his latest book. Links:
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| 07 Feb 2023 | S2:E4 Unleashing the Potential of Talent through Career Mobility and Career Pathways | 00:50:20 | |
Matthew Daniel is a Principal of Talent Strategy & Mobility at Guild Education, and an experienced talent strategist. With deep research and practical experience in career mobility and talent strategy, Matthew has extensive experience in understanding the importance of career mobility and what career pathways can do to unleash the potential and create economic opportunity for professionals. In his work at Guild Education, he leads a research team that works each day in thinking about how they can find more ways to help their clients create better career outcomes through career pathways and development. Links
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| 14 Feb 2023 | S2:E5: Building and Scaling Career and Leadership Development Programs That Unleash The Potential of Your People | 00:53:34 | |
Ryan McCrea is the Head of Learning & Leadership Development at Ameren. Throughout his career, Ryan built and scaled career and leadership development programs successfully across multiple industries and functions. During our conversation, Ryan shared with us his experience around developing a career development function and strategy at multiple companies, and how career development can be successfully implemented in an organization. Links
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| 21 Feb 2023 | S2: E6: Investing in the Development of Early Career Talent in Your Organization | 00:31:22 | |
Jeremy Schifeling is a Marketing Director at Khan Academy and a Career Development author and instructor. After starting his career as a teacher, Jeremy has since worked in marketing roles at various tech companies including Apple and Linkedin. Through his work, Jeremy has coached, advised and mentored thousands of early career professionals to learn more about their attitudes, preferences and aspirations for what they are looking for out of their jobs and out of their careers. During our conversation, Jeremy spoke about some of the insights and trends he’s seeing from the early career & Gen Z talent who have recently entered the workforce. We spoke about some of the implications of entering the workforce and a professional job throughout the pandemic, challenges and opportunities around onboarding, employee experience, mentoring and learning, and professional development in a hybrid workplace, and some of the ways in which Jeremy hopes the workplace can evolve to empower early career professionals in the workplace. Links:
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| 28 Feb 2023 | S2 E7: Improving Employee Retention and Internal Mobility Through Career Development | 00:36:44 | |
Nick Holmes is the Head of Career Experience at Fishawack Health, a healthcare organization based in the United Kingdom. As the head of Career Experience, Nick’s role is to build an organization that not only attracts great employees, but develops them, retains them and provides them opportunities to grow so they can contribute to Fishawack Health. Upon taking the role, Nick had a bold mandate, which was to develop and implement a new strategy around career development and the transformation to enable it so Fishawack Health could compete for top talent in a very competitive labor market. During this conversation, Nick spoke about the “why” for going under this massive transformation. Nick also shared some of the feedback that employees provided on the new programs, technologies and pathways, how they were able to change the culture and behaviors around career development in “drumbeats, not lightning bolts.” Nick also spoke about how the various technologies and programs that were a part of the transformation engage and interact with employees, Nick’s own learnings to date from leading the transformation, as well as his advice to others who are thinking about developing and implementing a career development strategy for their organization. Links:
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| 07 Mar 2023 | S2: E8: How to Strategically Align Your Company Around Career Development | 00:39:28 | |
Melanie Naranjo is the VP of People at Ethena, a global compliance training platform based in the United States. As the VP of People at a fast-growing startup, Melanie and her people team have made career development a critical priority of the company, and have codified a definition along with programs, resources and support for career development that helps their employees identify opportunities for career growth as the company grows. During this conversation, Melanie spoke about how reviewing the employee engagement survey date gave her and her team an opportunity to really dig into employee’s challenges with career growth to identify how they might be able to come up with a solution. | |||
| 14 Mar 2023 | S2 E9: How Talent Academies Can Help Develop and Retain Employees | 00:31:50 | |
Jen Collins is a learning strategist, and currently the Senior Director of Client Experience at Learn In. As a passionate talent and learning facilitator, Jen uniquely understands the importance of meeting learners where they are, and providing them with opportunities to learn and grow. In her current role at Learn In, Jen partners with leading edge companies who want to invest in their talent by providing them with programs to learn and grow, and ultimately, drive business results. During our conversation, Jen spoke about the importance and emergence of employee talent academies, and how they help employers upskill talent, and employees develop and grow the skills they need to be successful in their roles. Jen also shared some of the observations she’s made about companies who are prioritizing investing and thus retaining talent, as well as sharing her advice for how leaders can prioritize the development and growth of their people
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| 21 Mar 2023 | S2:E10: How Learning Fuels Culture, Leadership, and Thinking and Working Differently at Moderna | 00:40:26 | |
Noah Rabinowitz is a VP of Learning and Development at Moderna Research, and The Head of Moderna University. As a company with a mission to impact the lives of people through medicine and with an organizational culture that values thinking and doing things differently, learning, and creating a culture of learning is the fuel for innovation at Moderna. As a result, Noah and his team are taking a unique approach to learning, from everything from creating Moderna University, to looking for ways to make their knowledge accessible and open to the public, and making time and space for employees to learn ast part of their jobs. During our conversation, Noah spoke about the role that Moderna’s culture plays in fostering this culture of learning at Moderna, as well as why they decided to build a university, and how that is fueling their own learning and outside the organization
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| 28 Mar 2023 | S2 E11: Strengthening Your Workplace Culture | 00:32:44 | |
Jennifer Reimart is the SVP of Consulting at Workhuman, a leading employee engagement and performance software company. In her role, Jennifer spends a lot of her days working with HR and People leaders around strengthening workplace cultures especially as many of these leaders are adapting to this new world of work. During our conversation, we spoke about what’s happening in the workplace today and some of the key trends and issues that Jennifer spends her time talking to people and HR leaders about in her work. She also shared some of the benefits of the power of recognition-based cultures, and her ideas for how we can make the world of work better for humans. Links:
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| 04 Apr 2023 | S2 E12: Creating Language For a New World of Work | 00:45:42 | |
Steve Cadigan is an Author, Speaker and Talent Strategist. He is the former CHRO of LinkedIn, and the author of Workquake, Embracing The Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working. Prior to the pandemic, Steve began noticing fractures in the world of work, and began researching and preparing to write a book. Before he could finish, the pandemic happened, and he began to look more intently to figure out why our model of work was failing, and what we could think and do differently in order to make a better workplace for people. Drawing on his experience as the former CHRO of LinkedIn as well as an HR leader at many organizations, Steve published his book and spends his time advising organizations on talent strategies. During this conversation, we spoke about the observations Steve made about the challenges with the workplace prior to the pandemic, and how we need to think differently and more expansively about what work can be. We also spoke in depth about the challenges and limitations of the ways and words we use to talk about work, and why we should be thinking more expansively about the words we use to describe what work can be, in order to create a better world of work. Links: | |||
| 11 Apr 2023 | S2:E13: EZRA Coaching, and Helping Leaders Develop The Human Skills Needed For Today’s Workplace | 00:39:31 | |
Nick Goldberg is the CEO of EZRA Coaching, a digital coaching platform that provides executive and leadership coaching to companies. After serving in a number of learning and development companies, Nick started his own company and got coaching for his employees, and began to see the power in how it helped employees unleash their leadership skills to drive results. Now, as the CEO of a leading executive and leadership coaching platform, Nick works with Chief Learning and Talent Officers around the world and has a sense of the challenges leaders are facing, as well as the opportunities that exist to help companies build leaders with the skills needed to thrive in today’s modern workplace. During our conversation, Nick spoke about the benefits of working with a coach, and what we can learn from athletes and performers about finding opportunities to “practice” in the workplace. Nick also shared some of the learnings and challenges Learning, People and Talent leaders are facing, as well as some examples of key leadership skills that today’s formal and informal leaders can develop to be effective Links:
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| 18 Apr 2023 | S2:E14: The Portfolio Life: New Models For Careers Fit For Today’s World of Work | 00:47:05 | |
Christina Wallace is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, an HBS MBA Graduate, entrepreneur and author. In her most recent book, The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card, Christina reminds us that employees are multi-dimensional individuals, and can reframe their relationship with their job and career, and to use portfolio and diversification theory to de-risk and explore multiple paths and opportunities. She also makes the case, for how in the future of work, The Portfolio Life can can be a more expansive way for employees to manage their career in today’s modern world of work, and how employers can benefit and bring out the best talents and skills in their employees, while improving their ability to attract talent and drive business results. | |||
| 25 Apr 2023 | S2:E15: Attracting Talent and Fostering an Inclusive Workplace in Today’s Modern World of Work | 00:32:19 | |
Leslie Neiztel is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Carrot Fertility, a leading global fertility platform for women+. After leading people/hr teams at a number of organizations including Pendo and SAP SuccessFactors, Leslie came to Carrot to head up the HR/people function and scale their business. During our conversation Leslie spoke about how the workplace and workforce is changing, and how as a result, how Carrot Fertility is helping create a more diverse, inclusive and human workplace by helping companies provide fertility benefits and care support to all. Links
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| 02 May 2023 | S2:E16: An Update on The Edge of Work | 00:19:50 | |
Welcome to The Edge of Work Podcast! In this week’s episode, The Edge of Work Host, Al Dea covers new updates to the podcast, synthesizes key themes from season 2, and offers a glimpse into season 3 of The Edge of Work. Links
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| 09 May 2023 | S2:E17: Career Exploration in Today’s World of Work | 00:40:37 | |
Note: This is part of our “best hits” and a replay episode from Season 1 of the Podcast. Dave Fano is the CEO and Founder of Teal, a company that provides thousands of employees tools, skills and recommendations to accelerate job searches and help people grow their careers. During his time as Chief Growth Officer at WeWork, Dave became aware of the lack of tools and infrastructure to support career professionals and started Teal to help solve that challenge. During our conversation, we spoke to Dave about why he decided to found Teal, how it helps job and career explorers, and his own observations about how employees view jobs and careers as a result of his work. We also covered some of the changes and trends in today’s workplace, the changing view on careers, and what Teal hopes to accomplish in the future by serving professionals.
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| 17 May 2023 | S2 E18: Designing and Evolving Your Company Culture in a Changing World of Work | 00:42:34 | |
Note: This is an audio recording from a LinkedIn Live with Melissa Daimler, Chief Learning Officer at Udemy, and Author of Reculturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success. An experienced executive in learning and people, Melissa has been a student and practitioner of culture and has seen and led cultural transformations at leading companies including Adobe and Twitter. But while designing a great culture is a good start, in a complex and ever-changing world, setting a static culture is no longer enough, in fact, companies can and should re-culture their organizations, as their people, customers, and business evolves. During this conversation we spoke about the importance of company culture in today’s changing world of work, lessons from Melissa’s experiences at leading companies like Adobe and Twitter, and key aspects of both designing and re-designing company culture. Links:
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| 23 May 2023 | S2:E19: What’s a Good Enough Job? | 00:45:08 | |
Simone Stolzoff is the Author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work. Through his diverse experiences in advertising, tech, journalism, and design, Simone has developed a unique understanding of the evolving world of work. In his book, "The Good Enough Job," Simone explores the idea of an alternative path to fulfillment in work and in your career, and instead of striving for a job you love, you just find a good enough job. By exploring this topic and featuring the stories of a handful of individuals who have lived this concept in real-time, Simone offers some insights to others navigating their jobs and careers in a complex world of work. In this episode, we explore thoughtful questions about the changing world of work, including:
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| 26 May 2023 | S2 E20: Live From ATD '23: Talent Development and The Future of Work | 00:31:56 | |
I spent the last week at the ATD ‘23 Annual Conference in San Diego, California with 9,000 of my peers in the talent and learning and development profession talking all about the role of talent and learning in creating a better world of work. What's Covered in This Episode | |||
| 30 May 2023 | S3 E1: Learning From Gen-Z to Attract and Retain Talent and Build Better Companies and Workplaces | 00:42:20 | |
Meghan Grace is Speaker, Consultant, and Researcher that studies generations. She works at the Institute For Generational Research and Education and also the Host of the #GenZ Podcast. Through her work with Institute for Generational Research , Meghan has provided valuable insights to organizations looking to attract and retain top talent from this emerging generation. During our conversation, we spoke about Gen-Z in the workplace, some of the common misconceptions of generational data, and some of the observations from her own research on Gen-Z about work, culture, and careers. Meghan also shared some of the ways leaders can take the time to better understand and listen to the Gen-Z employees, attract & retain Gen-Z talent, and how companies can build better companies for all employees.
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| 06 Jun 2023 | S3 E2: How Leaders Can Attract, Develop, and Retain Gen-Z Talent | 00:26:31 | |
Amelia Dunlop is the Chief Experience Officer at Deloitte Digital. In her role, Amelia takes a data-driven approach to understanding the human experience, and working with leaders to create better experiences for employees, customers and partners. Amelia and her co-authors have taken a data-driven quantitative and qualitative approach to studying and understanding what Gen Z talent wants out of a job, company, and manager and as well with conducting interviews with managers on the same topics, and published some of their findings in a recent research study. During our conversation, Amelia shared some of the findings of this report, honing in on some of the disconnects they found between Gen Z Talent and their managers, some of the nuances and “why”s they found when digging deeper into the motivations and ideas from Gen Z employees, as well as some of Amelia’s own observations and learnings from her own research and experiences working with Gen Z Talent. Links
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| 13 Jun 2023 | S3:E3: How Microsoft Develops Managers Fit to Lead in Today’s World of Work | 00:39:55 | |
Joe Whittinghill is Corporate Vice President of Talent, Learning and Insights at Microsoft. As an experienced talent and OD leader, Joe played a critical role in assisting in the cultural transformation at Microsoft. In this conversation, Joe spoke about the journey of Microsoft’s cultural transformation, and the importance of defining leadership behaviors and frameworks to empower their managers to lead teams in a digital world of work. Joe also spoke about how Microsoft redefined expectations for their people managers, how they try to develop a consistent framework and approach to management across their entire organization as well as how they encourage and employees to lead regardless of their title, rank and role. Links | |||
| 20 Jun 2023 | S3:E4: Identifying, Training, and Developing Managers For a Better World of Work | 00:50:26 | |
Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale are Co-Founders and Partners at Raw Signal Group, a management training company. After working in startups and tech for over a decade, Melissa and Johnathan began blogging about their experiences with people management, which ultimately led them to starting a management training company. Now, in addition to training and coaching hundreds of managers each year on how to be effective managers in today’s world of work, they also co-author a management newsletter, and in our conversation we spoke about their journey to founding a management training company, some of the challenges that managers face, and how they believe we can train managers to be more effective and valuable in today’s modern world of work. The Raw Signal Newsletter: https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter Melissa’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shappy/ Johnathan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnath/ | |||
| 26 Jun 2023 | S3:E5: The State of the Manager in Today’s World of Work | 00:43:21 | |
Jason Rosoff is the CEO of Radical Candor Inc, and a Co-Host on the Radical Candor Podcast. After working as a product management executive, Jason teamed up with Radical Candor author Kim Scott to teach managers and leaders how to be more effective managers and leaders. Between his podcast and the training that he does, Jason has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities for managers in the workplace. During our conversation, Jason shared some of what he felt were the challenges that managers face today, why management training goes wrong, and how he would rewrite and redesign the role of the manager fit for purpose in today’s world of work. Links
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| 28 Jun 2023 | S3:E6: How LinkedIn Prioritizes Career Mobility, Skills, and a Culture of Growth to Develop and Retain Employees | 00:41:18 | |
Linda Cai is the Vice President of Talent Development at LinkedIn. While now a talent development leader, Linda started her career working at the intersection of technology and change management, and has used this background to design and lead holistic talent development strategies inside of LinkedIn. During our conversation, we reviewed some of the most recent findings of the 2023 Linkedin Global Talent Trends report and got Linda’s perspective on topics like reskilling, internal mobility, and career development. Linda also spoke about how the talent development team at Linkedin has used a strategic and integrated approach across their organization to talent development initiatives around internal mobility, job shadowing and reskilling programs, and manager development. Finally, Linda also spoke about their intentional efforts to focus on embedding career mobility and a "next play" mantra into the cultural fabric of the organization to help LinkedIn employees grow and thrive in today's changing world of work. Links:
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| 11 Jul 2023 | S3:E7: Thinking Differently About How Employers Attract, Develop, and Retain Diverse Talent | 00:42:58 | |
Cat Ward is a Vice President at JFF (Jobs For the Future) a non-profit committed to equitable economic impact. In her role, Cat works with employers to help them think creatively and innovatively in order to recruit, retain, and grow diverse talent. During our conversation, Cat spoke about the work JFF is doing to create economic opportunity for all by working with employers to rethink their approaches on talent attraction and development so that they can recruit and retain diverse talent, and why specifically in today’s workplace in 2023, these topics are so critical and relevant. Cat also shared examples of “Impact Employers” who were using new approaches to recruiting and retaining diverse talent, some of the challenges that come with trying to transform your talent strategies, and the importance of fostering career mobility to unlock the potential of diverse talent and create a better world of work for all. Links: | |||
| 18 Jul 2023 | S3:E8: Why Middle Managers Are Critical To The Future of Work | 00:30:41 | |
Emily Field is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and a Co-Author of the book: Power to The Middle: Why Managers Hold the Keys to the Future of Work. As a Partner in McKinsey’s Talent and Organization Practice, Emily works with companies to implement best in class talent management strategies, and as a Co-Author of this book, has spent a great deal of time researching the state of the manager in today’s workplace, what is challenging, and what needs to change. During our conversation, we spoke about the challenges of the modern manager today, as well as some of the realities that Emily and her co-authors uncovered in their research, including a time study of how managers spent their time each day.
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| 25 Jul 2023 | S3:E9: What The Next Generation of Talent Wants out of a Job and Employer | 00:39:54 | |
Christine Cruzvergara is the Chief Strategy & Education Officer at Handshake, a technology platform that connects early career talent with jobs and internships at 650,000+ employers. In her role, Christine spends time connecting, advising and listening to employers, students, and Career Development offices on college campuses and has a keen sense of the labor market for early career professionals. During our conversation, Christine spoke about some of the recent trends in preferences about work, careers, and employers from Gen- Z talent, including:
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| 01 Aug 2023 | S3:E10: The Importance of Human Leadership in The Future of Work | 00:46:20 | |
Note: This is a recording of a LinkedIn Live. Stephen Bailey is the CEO and Co-Founder of ExecOnline, a leadership development platform that works to make leadership development accessible to more leaders. In this conversation, Stephen spoke about some of the trends and insights he’s seeing from the companies he speaks to about leadership development, as well as from the insights he and his team are seeing from the completion of programs on their platform. As the world of work continues to evolve and change, so too must the way we think of and train our leaders inside of organizations who are responsible for leading it. Stephen spoke what's new and different about leading in today’s workplace, why the it’s important to learn faster than the rate of change, the impact that technology like data, analytics and generative AI has on learning and the world of work and what it means to leaders. And finally, Stephen also spoke about why leaders need to also focus on the human skills in order to lead and empower people in the workplace. Links:
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| 08 Aug 2023 | S3:E11: Leadership in a Complex World of Work | 00:41:35 | |
Muriel Wilkins is an Executive Coach, Managing Partner at a Leadership and Coaching Firm, and the Host of the HBR Podcast Coaching Real Leaders. After graduating from Harvard Business School and pursuing a career to become a CMO, Muriel realized she had other aspirations, and through the guidance of an Executive Coach, decided to become an Executive Coach herself. Now, she runs a successful Executive Coaching Practice, and spends her time coaching executives and sharing her learnings on her podcast, Coaching Real Leaders. During our conversation, Muriel spoke about some of the changes and adaptations she has seen leaders navigate over the past few years, and how she has seen the desired qualities of leaders change as a result of our changing world of work. She also shared some of her thoughts on what is different about leadership today, why leaders need to embrace complexity, and how we might rethink and reframe leadership for and what we look for from our leaders so that we can create a better world of work.
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| 15 Aug 2023 | S3:E12: The Role of the Manager in Delivering a Great Employee Experience with Angela Cheng-Cimini | 00:29:50 | |
Angela Cheng-Cimini is the Chief Human Resources Officers at Harvard Business Publishing. As a seasoned HR Leader, Angela is passionate about creating employee experiences that unleash the purpose and potential of each employee. And critical to that individual employee experience is the role of the manager. During our conversation, Angela shared her definition of why in today's evolving workplace, a new employee experience, or hyper-personalized employee experience is critical to meeting and exceeding employee expectations. She also shared a number of critical elements of this experience including employee onboarding, career pathing, and pay transparency. Links:
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| 24 Aug 2023 | S3:E13: How Technology is Reshaping the Workplace with Dan Nieves | 00:36:28 | |
Note: This is a recording from a LinkedIn Live. Dan Nieves works in Global Executive Engagement at Reality Labs at Meta. Over the course of his career, Dan has worked at the intersection of emerging technology, people and the future of work. During this conversation, Dan spoke about how technologies including AR/VR (Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality) are reimagining how we think about work, and shared some examples and ideas for how companies can use emerging technology to truly reimagine and rethink the way they work. Links
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| 27 Aug 2023 | S3:E14: Empowering Managers to Lead in a Changing World of Work with Adam Hickman | 00:37:55 | |
Adam Hickman is the Vice President of Learning and Org Development at Partners Federal Credit Union, a Walt Disney Company. In addition to this role, Adam is an author and professor and writes and speaks regularly on topics related to management and leadership. During our conversation, Adam dove into some of the changes in the workplace and the implications of those changes (ex: technology) for what companies need out of their people managers so that they can have engaged and productive employees. Adam also shared some of his team’s strategy and approach at his organization around manager effectiveness, the approaches they are taking in redesign the role of the manager and develop good managers, and his own to recruit and empower effective managers, and some of his own thoughts on how you can create a better world of work through better managers. Links:
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| 30 Aug 2023 | S3:E15: Designing Mentoring Programs That Work with Emily Goligoski (SVP, CharterWorks) | 00:40:03 | |
Today’s episode is about the opportunity and importance of designing mentoring programs for employees in today’s changing world of work. Joining me is Emily Goligoski is the SVP of Research at Charter. Drawing on research that Emily and her team at Charter led to evaluate mentoring in the hybrid workplace, Emily shared some of their key findings from the report, including how mentoring is impacted by work style (hybrid, in-person, and remote) how great mentor-pair relationships work, and some of the key characteristics of well run mentoring programs. Emily also shared some of her observations on some of our shortcomings with mentoring programs and how to overcome them, and her ideas for how to build a great mentoring program inside your organization.
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| 04 Sep 2023 | S3:E16: New Ways of Working with Kelly Monahan (Managing Director, Upwork) | 00:42:58 | |
Kelly Monahan is the Managing Director at Upwork, and leads their Future of Work research efforts. Having conducted and led future of work research efforts at leading organizations, Kelly has been studying the workplace and how it’s changed and evolved over the years, and is currently leading efforts at Upwork to identify Workplace innovators who are truly thinking and working about the workplace and designing organizations. During our conversation, Kelly spoke about some of her observations about how she has seen the workplace change, and some examples of how companies and leaders have adapted new ways of working and thinking as a result of those changes, ranging from how companies hire, think about work, and design work. Links:
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| 06 Sep 2023 | S3:E17: How Leaders can Help Their People Thrive in a Constantly Changing World of Work | 00:42:21 | |
Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman is the Chief Innovation Officer for BetterUp Labs, as well as the Co-Author of the book Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work, Now and In an Uncertain Future. As a psychologist, Gabriella has studied the workplace and works each day in her role to help envision and create a better world of work. During our conversation Gabriella spoke about the history of work back from the hunter-gather days until present day, as well as the challenges that leaders and employees face in navigating a constantly changing and evolving world of work. Drawing on the concepts, research, and ideas, from her book as well as from her work at BetterUp Labs, Gabriella provided us with some ideas about the key skills that leaders and managers should both develop in order to lead effectively in today’s world of work, and how they can help their employees navigate the complexities and uncertainties of a constantly changing workplace, ranging from navigating uncertainty, mattering and purpose, and developing social connection regardless of location. Using the PRISM model, Gabriella also shared five key skills that all employees can develop and use to thrive in today’s world of work so that they can thrive Links
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| 11 Sep 2023 | S3:E18: Why Leaders Should Focus on Trust and Experimentation to Create Better Workplaces | 00:48:36 | |
Brian Elliott is a Co-Founder of Future Forum, Co-Author of How The Future Works, and a former VP at Slack. During our conversation, Brian spoke about some of his observations about what he’s seen change and evolve in the workplace over the past few years, and some of the challenges that hold leaders back from experimentation in the new world of work. Brian also shared what innovative leaders from companies like Slack, Hubspot, Atlassian, and Cotapaxi are doing differently to embrace this new world of work, as well as his own guidance to how leaders can focus on improving key business goals around productivity and engagement by focusing on better team dynamics and focusing on outcomes rather than outputs.
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| 13 Sep 2023 | S3:E19: Designing Work For Humans | 00:48:24 | |
Dart Lindsley is the Host of The Work For Humans Podcast, and a People and HR Leader who has spent time at tech companies including Cisco and Google. Through hosting the Work For Humans podcast, he has further shaped an innovative philosophy which can reinvent how we think about work. Instead of treating workers as "inputs to production" Dart believes that we should be treating employees as customers, upholding the importance of understanding their needs, and then designing a product (ex: their job or role) that provides a satisfying work experience. During our conversation, Dart spoke about his observations of why work is not working, and what we can do to fix it. He also walks through his concept of thinking of work “as a product” and how by using concepts of product marketing and design, the feedback he's received from using this approach, and how managers can reinvent work that actually works for employees, so they can be engaged, fulfilled and do exceptional work. Links:
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| 19 Sep 2023 | S3:E20: Tips and Best Practices For New Managers with Eric Girard | 00:27:38 | |
Eric Girard is the CEO of Girard Training Solutions, and a management development expert, and the author of Lead Like a Pro, The Essential Guide For New Managers. During our conversation, Eric spoke about the transition and changes people managers must navigate when moving from individual contributor to people manager, as well as some of the common pitfalls new managers make, and some critical skills all managers must learn, including goal setting, feedback, and coaching. Eric also shared some thoughts on what is different about being a manager in today’s world of work, and why empathy is a superpower each manager can tap into in order to build a great team.
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| 25 Sep 2023 | S3:E21: Reimagining Retention with Erica Keswin | 00:39:28 | |
Erica Keswin is a consultant, podcast host, and author of the newly released book, The Retention Revolution: 7 Surprising (and Very Human!) Ways to Keep Employees Connected to Your Company. As a longtime HR leader, consultant and researcher on workplace trends, Erica has been observing the changes in employee expectations out of work and the workplace, as well as identifying opportunities to truly rethink the way that we work. During our conversation, Erica spoke about some of the changes in the world of work that she has observed that have only grown over the past few years, as well as what prompted her to look at the employee experience and specifically rethinking some traditional norms of the workplace. We also spoke in depth about how to rethinking some of the traditional norms of the of the employee experience, around onboarding, flexibility, retention, and people managers, along with ideas and best practices Erica found from her work and research that she’s seeing companies implement to attract, engage, and develop employees in today’s world of work. Links:
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| 28 Sep 2023 | S3:E22: Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking Myths to Create a Better World of Work With Mita Mallick | 00:39:56 | |
Mita Mallick is the Head of Inclusion, Equity, and Impact at Carta, and the Author of Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking 13 Myths to Transform Your Workplace. As a child, Mita grew up not seeing or hearing stories of people who looked or talked like her, and now, as a former brand management executive turned DEI leader, Podcast Host and author, Mita spends her time using her voice to amplify voices and people like her, and creating workplaces that accurately reflect and represent the people in those communities. During our conversation, Mita spoke about her own journey into the corporate workplace and the challenges and successes that she faced along the way, and how those experiences and others factored into her upcoming book, and why it’s so critical to debunk these myths to create a better world of work. We also spoke about three specific myths that are covered in the book, and some practical and specific actions we can take in order to create a greater sense of belonging and more inclusive workplaces. Links:
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| 04 Oct 2023 | S3:E23: Building a More Human Workplace with Melissa Swift | 00:38:58 | |
Melissa Swift is the US Transformation Leader at Mercer, and the Author of the book Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace. With expertise in leading human capital transformation across multiple industries, Melissa has a keen eye into what is and isn’t working about work, and in her book, offers a look into the ways in some of the broken and challenging components of the underlying fundamentals of work and the workplace, especially for knowledge workers and what we can do about it to think differently about work. During our conversation, Melissa dove into a history of work, including how elements of work, including the history of human resources, accounting, and performance management impact our workplace today, and how those negatively impact employee engagement, belonging, well-being, and productivity. We also spoke about some of the mindsets and constructs of work, such as “greedy work” and the “anxiety monster” harming companies and organizations, and ultimately, what leaders and organizations can start to do in order to fundamentally shift the way of thinking about how to construct work and create better workplaces. Links:
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| 10 Oct 2023 | S3:E24: The New Employee Relationship: The Evolution of the Employee Relationship, and What it Means For Attracting and Retaining Talent | 00:43:30 | |
Susan Lamotte is the CEO of exaqueo, an employer branding consultancy. With extensive experience in helping companies develop strategies that attract and retain talent, Susan has extensive experience and insight into the state of the workplace, what has changed, and the critical dynamics and relationships that exist between employees and organizations. During our conversation, Susan spoke about the changing landscape of work, the evolution of employer branding and the employee value proposition, as well as some of the common challenges employers face when they struggle with attracting and retaining their top talent. Susan also spoke about the importance of understanding the key relationship dynamics of the employment relationship, identified four critical dimensions of that relationship, and offered advice for how employers can construct and deliver upon employer value propositions that attract talent in today’s changing world of work. Links
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| 13 Oct 2023 | S3:E25: New Playbooks to Shape a New World of Work | 00:28:39 | |
In early October, I had the chance to attend Linkedin’s Talent Connect Summit in New York City. During this 2 day event, I had the chance to chat, learn and connect with 1500 talent and HR leaders from across the globe, and to hear from speakers including The Reverend Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern (Former PM of New Zealand) Spike Lee, to Donna Morris (Chief People Officer, Wal-Mart) and Sherry Cassano (SVP Talent, Pfizer) and April Rinne (Author, Flux: 8 Superpowers For Thriving in Constant Change) In this episode, I share some of my takeaways and learnings from the event, and talk about trends including generative AI, career development and internal mobility. I also share some examples of how companies like Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Cisco, Canva, and NBC Universal are embracing new playbooks to create a better world of work. | |||
| 17 Oct 2023 | S3:E26: How Verizon uses technology to improve learning and leadership development for 115,000 Employees | 00:33:38 | |
Lou Tedrick is the VP of Global Learning and Development at Verizon. With a remit of overseeing learning that helps employees grow and deliver on business outcomes for 115,000 employees, Lou and her team are constantly thinking ahead about how learning can support hundreds of thousands of employees across diverse businesses to be more productive, effective and engaged in their work. During our conversation, Lou spoke about the diverse roles and needs of the various business units, and how she and her team have identified ways to scale learning and leadership development experiences for their more than 115,000 employees. Lou also spoke about how her philosophy for creating workplaces where people can thrive, the importance of supporting employee’s personal and professional growth, what Verizon looks for and expects out of their leaders, and how Lou and her team approach using cutting edge technology (ex: AI, AR/VR) to help their employees develop the skills they need to deliver in a changing world of work. | |||
| 24 Oct 2023 | S3:E27:Measuring The Impact of Learning to Create a Better Workplace | 00:33:34 | |
Kevin Yates is a Speaker, Consultant, and Expert on measuring the impact of training and learning inside organizations. During our conversation, we spoke to Kevin about the role of training and learning in a changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities with measuring the impact of training and learning, and Kevin’s own perspective on how companies can better measure the impact of training and learning initiatives inside their organization so that they can elevate the potential of their people and achieve business goals. Links:
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| 31 Oct 2023 | S3:E28: The Role of Talent Development in Creating a Better World of Work | 00:40:40 | |
Michelle Braden is the VP of Global Talent Development at WEX Inc, a global payments processing platform. As a talent development leader, Michelle has held a number of talent development leader roles and has a keen understanding of how talent development can facilitate business outcomes and performance. Here are three key themes from this episode:
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| 07 Nov 2023 | S3:E29: Driving Business Results Through Talent Development: Unlocking the Potential and Performance of People Managers | 00:40:11 | |
David Landman is the Former Managing Director of Talent Development at Goldman Sachs, and the Head of Community for PeopleTech Enterprise. With experience leading talent development at Goldman Sachs for over two decades, David has first-hand experience in developing an enterprise talent strategy that aligns technology, people, and organizational systems that unleash the potential and performance of each individual employee so that companies can achieve their desired business results. During the conversation, David spoke about some of his philosophies on talent management & development, ranging from performance management, manager development, to identifying and developing the right kinds of behaviors of managers in his role at Goldman Sachs. David also spoke about what he thinks great management looks like in today’s world of work, the process of aligning individual career goals with organizational goals, and how David sees technology and talent working together to create a better world of work. Links
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| 14 Nov 2023 | S3:E30: Reimagining The Role of The People Manager For Today’s World of Work | 00:28:14 | |
The Edge of Work has been exploring the role of the manager as well as the emphasis on manager development throughout its three seasons. During this episode, Al breaks down the role of the people manager in today’s world of work. During this episode, Al will cover:
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| 21 Nov 2023 | S3:E31: Why We Need Responsible Companies to Create a Better World of Work | 00:34:35 | |
Vincent Stanley is the Director of Philosophy at Patagonia, and the Co-Author of the book, The Future of The Responsible Company. In order to create a better world of work, it’s clear that organizations, and leaders specifically have a role to play in creating cultures and environments that drive performance and empower people. Patagonia has long been viewed as a leader of companies who are trying to blend people, purpose, and profits, and “do well while doing good” but the journey has not always been easy nor straightforward. During our conversation, Vincent spoke about the history of Patagonia, and how they think differently about their role as an organization, in the world, in their community and with their customers. Vincent spoke about some of the ways that Patagonia views their culture, their secrets to creating work that fuels their people, and his guidance on how other organizations can embrace becoming a responsible organization. Links
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| 28 Nov 2023 | S3 E32: Prioritizing Human Sustainability in the Workplace | 00:51:45 | |
Jen Fisher is the Head of Human Sustainability at Deloitte, a Best-Selling Author and TEDx Speaker. As one of the leading experts on well-being, Jen has spent the most recent part of her career helping leaders think differently about how they can improve the performance of their people through investing in the well-being and relationships of their people. During our conversation, Jen shared her perspective on the state of well-being, as well as the definition of human sustainability, and why it’s critical to any leader who wants to create an organization that drives high performance. Jen also spoke about her own journey with well-being, success, and high performance has informed her views on human sustainability, what leaders can do to prioritize human sustainability, and Jen’s ideas about how we can create a better world of work by focusing on our people. Note: This is a recording from a LinkedIn Live. Links:
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| 05 Dec 2023 | S3:E33: How Lifelong Learning enables agility and performance in a changing world of work | 00:29:57 | |
Rose Sheldon is the Chief Learning Officer at KeyBank. With 20+ years in the financial services industry working in roles across functions and departments, Rose understands how technology, innovation and customer preferences require organizations to rapidly adapt and evolve to a changing world of work. In her role as the Chief Learning Officer, Rose sees the importance of creating an organizational culture that enables a company to sense and spot emerging trends, and help employees from the front line to the executive level build the skills and capabilities the organization needs to be successful in a changing world of work. During our conversation, Rose spoke about how she has helped guide Key Bank to driving performance in a changing world of work by focusing on a culture of lifelong learning, and dispelling common myths about how learning works in an organization. Rose also spoke about how in her role as Chief Learning Officer, she thinks about aligning her own learning and culture strategy to the business strategy, the importance of change agility, and how other organizations can think about intentionally and strategically using learning as a driver of organizational success. Links
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| 12 Dec 2023 | S3:E34: Talent Tectonics: Redesigning Jobs to Create a Better World of Work | 00:44:04 | |
Steve Hunt is a chief expert at SAP, an organizational psychologist, and the author of "Talent Tectonics: Navigating Global Workforce Shifts, Building Resilient Organizations, and Reimagining the Employee Experience." With his background in organizational psychology and extensive experience working with various diverse organizations and industries, Steve has a keen understanding of how the workplace is changing, and what organizations can do to craft better work experiences that attract and develop talent, and unleash the purpose and potential of each employee. During our conversation, Steve shared his perspective on how two key shifts are reshaping the world of work, and what that means for organizations. Steve also went into detail on how organizations can create a better workplace for their people by improving the way we design jobs and create better organizational environments. Steve also spoke about the importance of leaders truly understanding the experiences of their frontline employees, the role of managers in the employee experience, and the importance of equipping managers with the right support and tools to help them better engage with their own employees. Links:
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| 22 Dec 2023 | Best Hits: Improving Employee Retention and Internal Mobility Through Career Development | 00:36:44 | |
Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes from S2 of The Edge of Work. As the head of Career Experience, Nick’s role is to build an organization that not only attracts great employees, but develops them, retains them and provides them opportunities to grow so they can contribute to Fishawack Health. Upon taking the role, Nick had a bold mandate, which was to develop and implement a new strategy around career development and the transformation to enable it so Fishawack Health could compete for top talent in a very competitive labor market. During this conversation, Nick spoke about the “why” for going under this massive transformation. Nick also shared some of the feedback that employees provided on the new programs, technologies and pathways, how they were able to change the culture and behaviors around career development in “drumbeats, not lightning bolts.” Nick also spoke about how the various technologies and programs that were a part of the transformation engage and interact with employees, Nick’s own learnings to date from leading the transformation, as well as his advice to others who are thinking about developing and implementing a career development strategy for their organization. Links:
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| 26 Dec 2023 | Best Hits: Empowering Managers To Lead Teams in Today's Workplace | 00:37:00 | |
Note: This is a replay of one of our most popular episodes from Season 3 of The Edge of Work. During our conversation, Adam dove into some of the changes in the workplace and the implications of those changes (ex: technology) for what companies need out of their people managers so that they can have engaged and productive employees. Adam also shared some of his team’s strategy and approach at his organization around manager effectiveness, the approaches they are taking in redesign the role of the manager and develop good managers, and his own to recruit and empower effective managers, and some of his own thoughts on how you can create a better world of work through better managers. Links:
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| 02 Jan 2024 | Best Hits: Designing Your Company Culture For a Changing World of Work | 00:42:09 | |
Note: This is a replay of a popular episode of Season 2 From The Edge of Work with Melissa Daimler, Chief Learning Officer at Udemy, and Author of Reculturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success. An experienced executive in learning and people, Melissa has been a student and practitioner of culture and has seen and led cultural transformations at leading companies including Adobe and Twitter. But while designing a great culture is a good start, in a complex and ever-changing world, setting a static culture is no longer enough, in fact, companies can and should re-culture their organizations, as their people, customers, and business evolves. During this LinkedIn live, we spoke about the importance of company culture in today’s changing world of work, lessons from Melissa’s experiences at leading companies like Adobe and Twitter, and key aspects of both designing and re-designing company culture. Links:
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| 18 Dec 2023 | S3 E35: Season 3 Wrap Up, HR and Talent Trends for 2024 That We're Watching | 00:15:28 | |
In the season finale, Al shares some of the research HR, talent and the future of work that he's reading this holiday season, highlights and insights from season 3, and some ideas about what's ahead for season 4 in The Edge of Work. Happy Holidays! | |||
| 09 Jan 2024 | Building High Performing, Flexible Organizations with Cali Williams Yost | 00:38:35 | |
Cali Williams Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group. With over three decades of experience advising companies on flexible work strategies, Cali has a keen understanding of how flexible work fuels high performing organizations. During our conversation, Cali spoke about some of the current challenges and bright spots with flexible work policies, the importance of training managers and leaders to work in flexible ways, and some of the latest research she and her team have uncovered in building high performing, flexible organizations. Links: | |||
| 16 Jan 2024 | The Future of HR in The Future of Work with Rodney Evans | 00:38:52 | |
Rodney Evans is a Partner at The Ready, a future of work consulting firm, as well as the Co-Host of the Podcast Brave New Work. After working as a leader in HR for over a decade, Rodney has been advising organizations to think and work in new ways to adapt to a complex and ever changing world of work. During our conversation, Rodney spoke about some of the challenges organizations are facing both today and how new ways of thinking and working around HR can help us create a better world of work. She also shared some of her thoughts around how leaders and organizations that want to create a better world of work, can get started today. Links:
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| 23 Jan 2024 | Reinventing Your Career in a Changing World of Work with Herminia Ibarra | 00:30:53 | |
Herminia Ibarra is a Professor at London Business School, and the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Herminia's book came out over 20+ years ago, and helped pioneer a new way of thinking about career reinvention, and since then, has gone on to help and inspire many professionals looking to transition into new careers by tapping into their multiple selves. It was recently updated, and the second edition was published in the fall of 2023. During our conversation, Herminia spoke about what’s changed in the workplace and how we think about career reinvention since she first published her book in 2003, as well as what still remains. She also shared her perspective on why career reinvention is so hard, why we expect more out of our work and our careers, and how using exploration and experimentation can help us iterate, reinvent and evolve amidst a changing world of work. Links:
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| 30 Jan 2024 | How Penn State Health Thinks About Career Development and Employee Retention | 00:28:38 | |
Hillary Miller is the Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health. In her role as the Chief Learning Officer, Hillary is focused on driving employee retention and career development for the organization. During our conversation, Hillary spoke about some of the strategic approaches that she and her team have taken around focusing on employee retention to deliver a great experience both for employees as well as for patients of the hospital. Hillary also spoke about the organization’s strategy and philosophy around career development, and some of the tools and programs they have put in place to help employees at Penn State Health build their own careers inside of the organization. Links
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| 06 Feb 2024 | Cognitive Apprenticeship in the New World of Work | 00:31:12 | |
In this episode, we spoke with Andrea MacKechnie, a leader in talent and leadership development. With a track record of leading talent and leadership teams, Andrea has a keen sense of how the workplace is changing, and the role that talent development plays in unlocking the potential and performance of people. Links:
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| 13 Feb 2024 | Your Relationship With Work, with Dr. Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson | 00:49:10 | |
Dr. Nayla Bahri and Eric Johnson are Leadership Coaches and Co-Hosts of The Inside Job Podcast. As coaches and podcast hosts, Nayla and Eric spend their days helping people navigate the complexities of work, leadership and life, and provide their clients and listeners with tools, support and coaching to explore the intersection of creating healthy, self-directed, and sustainable work and careers. During our conversation, Eric and Nayla spoke about the changes they are seeing in work and the workplace, and how this has impacted employees in how they think about their relationships with work and their peers. We also spoke about the role that managers and leaders play in helping their employees develop and grow, and what Eric and Nayla think leaders can and should do, to create a better world of work for their people.
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| 20 Feb 2024 | The Future of Talent with JP Elliott | 00:42:28 | |
JP Elliott is a People and Talent Leader, and the Host of the Future of HR Podcast. With a career spanning 2 decades of talent and HR leadership roles, JP has both passion and expertise in understanding how talent plays a critical role in business strategy and value creation within an organization. During our conversation, JP spoke about his perspectives on the importance and opportunities in using talent in a strategic way in today’s world of work. JP also shared his perspective on key talent foundations and his own experiences around talent philosophies, investing in critical roles, and the importance of investing in high performers and high potential talent. JP also shared some of his own lessons and learnings from speaking with dozens of senior HR and people leaders on his own podcast, and his own advice on how HR leaders can lead in shaping the future of work. Links
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| 27 Feb 2024 | How Executives and Culture Influence Leadership Development at Intuit | 00:34:39 | |
Joel Constable is a Director of Talent Development at Intuit, where he leads a portfolio of talent and leadership development offerings. Throughout his career, Joel has always been curious and interested in the intersection of culture, leadership development and driving lasting behavioral change from leadership programs. During our conversation, Joel spoke about some of the common challenges with leadership development programs, and how he and his team have taken those into account as they’ve developed leadership programs at Intuit. Joel also spoke about the culture at Intuit and the culture informs and drives leadership behaviors as Intuit, and finally, Joel also spoke in depth about how he has been able to partner with leaders at Intuit into helping create leadership development programs that behavioral change and business impact. Links
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| 05 Mar 2024 | Leading From The Middle: The Impact of The Middle Manager with Scott Mautz | 00:38:53 | |
Scott Mautz is a keynote speaker, researcher and author of the book Leading From The Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization. Drawing on his research on middle managers and his work as a keynote speaker, Scott makes the case for why middle managers are more important than ever, but are still overlooked and underinvested in, despite their importance and value delivered inside organizations. During our conversation, Scott spoke about how middle managers have become even more critical as a result of how the world of work has changed and evolved since the pandemic. Scott also shared how the best middle managers manage the complexity of the role, so that they can lead from the middle in today’s world of work. Links
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| 13 Mar 2024 | Live From Transform: Mutual Mentorship with Katya Laviolette (CPO, 1Password) | 00:11:18 | |
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| 13 Mar 2024 | Live From Transform: Culture at Hubspot in The New World of Work | 00:09:45 | |
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| 14 Mar 2024 | Live From Transform: Hebba Youssef, and HR in The New World of Work | 00:13:18 | |
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| 19 Mar 2024 | The State of The Workplace with Rob Sadow | 00:38:44 | |
Rob Sadow is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scoop Technologies, a software company that helps organizations use data and insights to build workplace strategies. With a vast array of data and insights, Rob and his team have a keen pulse on the state of the workplace, and the challenges and opportunities that come with it.
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| 26 Mar 2024 | Wrong Fit Right Fit with Andre’ Martin | 00:40:39 | |
Andre’ Martin is the author of Wrong Fit Right Fit, Why How We Work Matters More Than Ever. As a former talent and learning Executive at companies like Nike and Google, Andre’ has spent a lot of time thinking about how to help employees unleash their talent and abilities within their roles to do their best work. During our conversation, Andre’ spoke about the state of the workplace today, and why he thinks that while companies want to hire great talent and everyone wants a great job, we sometimes miss the mark in matching people to the right roles. Andre’ also spoke about the importance of when searching or evaluating a potential opportunity, the importance of learning on how work gets done, and what companies can do to be more effective and transparent so they can hire the right people for fit for the right jobs. Links
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| 02 Apr 2024 | Why Companies Should Invest in Career Development with Carina Cortez | 00:33:00 | |
Carina Cortez is the Chief People Officer at Cornerstone OnDemand. Throughout her career as a People and HR leader, Carina has been an advocate and supporter of career development and mobility programs throughout her career. During our conversation, Carina spoke about what she’s seeing with how career development is changing and why it is a business imperative to invest in career development and talent mobility strategies today. Links:
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| 09 Apr 2024 | Developing Better Managers With Ashley Herd | 00:24:37 | |
Ashley Herd is the CEO and Founder of The Manager Method and a Co-Host of the HR Besties Podcast. A former lawyer turned HR leader, Ashley now runs a training company focused on developing effective managers and creating helpful content through multiple channels that is helpful toward managers in today’s workplace. During our conversation, Ashley spoke about her journey to founding The Manager Method, as well as some of her own management experiences that helped shaped her abilities to do this work. Ashley also shared some of what she observes are the common challenges we face in preparing managers to manage, the most common questions she gets in her DMs and her own thoughts on how we can better develop and grow managers to be effective in today’s workplace Links
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| 16 Apr 2024 | The State of Workplace Culture with Jessica Kriegel | 00:34:02 | |
Dr. Jessica Kriegel is an author, speaker, and the Chief Scientist at CulturePartners. Through her research background, her work at CulturePartners and in speaking with many workplace experts on her podcast, Jessica has a keen understanding of workplace culture in what it is, and how it’s shifting in today’s world of work. During our conversation, Jessica spoke about what she’s seeing in trends in workplace culture, as well as the role of culture in remote, hybrid and in person settings. Jessica also spoke about some of the ways in which we can approach managing and collaboration across generations in the workplace, and how she sees the social contract of work evolving and shifting. Links:
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| 23 Apr 2024 | Understanding Generations in the Workplace with Kim Lear | 00:40:43 | |
Kim Lear is The Founder of InLay Insights, a keynote speaker, consultant, and expert on generational research. Over the past 15+ years, Kim has studied, researched and advised on topics related to generations and the implications for culture, society and the workplace. During our conversation, Kim spoke about the challenges and opportunities with understanding generational data, and how it can be effectively used to build better workplaces. Kim also shared her thoughts and observations on the changing role of the employee-employer contract, remote work, as well as some of her own findings from her own studies of Gen Z workers from the past few years. Links:
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| 30 Apr 2024 | Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning at Comcast with Sara Dionne | 00:33:44 | |
Sara Dionne is the VP of Learning and Development at Comcast. In an organization with over 80,000 employees with diverse backgrounds, skills, and roles, learning plays a critical role in enabling employees to effectively do their jobs today as well as position themselves for success in growing the business in the future. During our conversation, Sara spoke about her team’s efforts to develop a comprehensive and tailored learning strategy that prioritizes personalization and experiential learning to help make employees successful. Sara also spoke about how Comcast is thinking about skills, and how they are using skills within the organization's efforts for employee learning and development. Sara also spoke about how she, as a learning leader, works with her partners in the process of rolling out programs related to skills and learning to different parts of the organization, as well as how leaders should and can embrace building a culture of continuous learning and growth. Links
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| 07 May 2024 | The Problem With Change, Featuring Ashley Goodall | 00:40:16 | |
Ashley Goodall is former HR executive at Cisco and Deloitte, and the author of The Problem With Change. While Ashley believes that change is important for any organization that wishes to thrive over the long term, Ashley also believes that we must be more measured and skeptical about change, and more cognizant about the impact that change has, on people and focus more on promoting stability. During our conversation, Ashley spoke about the common traps we fall into when we think and talk about change today, and the overlooked impacts change has on people and organizations, especially as it relates to their ability to not just survive, but thrive. Ashley also shared a healthier and more balanced approach to change, why he thinks it's important to see humans for their individual strengths and, and how managers and leaders can promote stability and workplaces where their people can contribute and flourish.
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| 14 May 2024 | A Boundaryless World of Work: Insights From the 2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report | 00:25:35 | |
Sue Cantrell is the Vice President for Products and Strategy at Deloitte, and a Lead Author of the 2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report. Each year, Sue and her colleagues at Deloitte conduct research into what’s new and next to help their clients stay at the forefront of how the world of work is changing, and what it means for evolving human capital and talent strategies. During our conversation, Sue spoke about the theme of work in a boundaryless world, and shared some insights around key trends in the report including the importance of prioritizing human and business outcomes, the role of microcultures, and redefining productivity. Sue also spoke about the role of imagination, curiosity, and creativity, and her ideas for what leaders can do to create a better workplace for their people. Links:
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| 30 May 2024 | Voices from ATD '24: Kimberly Currier (Vice President, Learning, AECOM) | 00:14:12 | |
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| 21 May 2024 | Designing Better Workplaces with Nathan Manuel | 00:47:19 | |
Nathan Manuel is a Workplace Strategy Leader and Co-Founder of PM2 Consulting, a Workplace Strategy Consulting firm. After leading workplace strategy at a number of organizations including most recently at PagerDuty, Nathan has a keen sense on the designing forward thinking and intentional workplace experiences for employees and organizations. During this conversation, Nathan spoke about how organizations can effectively use office spaces to foster productivity, trust, and culture in a flexible and evolving work environment Nathan also spoke about the need for leaders to focus on outcomes rather than actions and to create an equitable and inclusive work environment, as well as his ideas for how leaders can intentionally design better workplaces for their people. Links
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| 23 May 2024 | Voices From ATD ‘24: Tiffany Poeppelman (Director, Career Development, LinkedIn) | 00:14:54 | |
Tiffany Poeppelman is a Director of Career Development at LinkedIn. Fresh off presenting at her talk at ATD’ 24 titled “Talent Development in the Age of AI,” Tiffany spoke to us about some of the trends and data from the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index around AI, career development and learning. During the conversation, Tiffany also shared insights and observations about the gap between AI interest and implementation, and the need for upskilling employees, as well as some examples of how companies including Kraft-Heinz and NBC Universal are learning about AI through experimentation. Tiffany also shared her own thoughts as a talent development leader about how to elevate the Talent and learning profession. Links:
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| 28 May 2024 | Building The Future Workforce: How Liberty Bank is investing in Developing and Retaining Talent Through Apprenticeships and Beyond | 00:34:34 | |
Paul Young is the Chief Financial Officer at Liberty Bank. Established in 1825, Liberty Bank is the largest and oldest independent mutual bank in the United States. Links
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| 04 Jun 2024 | A Conversation About Work, With Mitch Joel | 00:35:59 | |
Mitch Joel is a Keynote Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Host of the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Through his podcast and keynote speaking, Mitch regularly speaks with entrepreneurs, leaders, founders and executives about the workplace, and has diverse and keen insights into the world of work. During our conversation, Mitch spoke about his own observations from his many conversations on key topics in the workplace ranging from changing employee expectations, organizational culture and the value of connection. Mitch also spoke about the expectations around remote and hybrid, the importance of continuous learning, and the opportunities for employees who embrace a squiggly career in today’s world of work. Links
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