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Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
Sophie addresses current business conditions and explores ways to navigate the disruption. She shares informative insights and interviewing leading innovators who are providing or benefiting from transformative solutions that will allow companies to emerge with sustainable models, mindsets, and business practices. Find out how to transition to more effective, productive, and supportive new ways of working—across locations, generations, and platforms—as we harness these challenging circumstances…
Episodes
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
167: Alison Ettridge - Reengineering Work: Putting Humans in the Lead of AI Transformation
Alison Ettridge, Founder of AmpliTask, is focused on reengineering work so organisations and the next generation can thrive. Alison draws on her background in…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
166: Peter Miscovich - The Future of Work Marathon: Facing Unprecedented Complexity, Change & Uncertainty
Peter Miscovich is Global Future of Work and AI Transformation Americas Consulting Leader at JLL. He explores how AI is reshaping the future of work…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
165: Patrick Regan - Managing Overwhelm: Creating Space, Living Values, Leading Differently
Patrick Regan OBE is author of Sunday Times bestseller "Small Steps for Big Change", Director of Brighter Days, and a wellbeing advocate. Patrick shares…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
164: Angeliki Galanopoulou - The Millennial Career Reckoning: Adaptability and Agency in the Age of AI
Angeliki Galanopoulou is Founder and Host of "the adaptive times" podcast, meanwhile taking a purposeful career break after more than seven years at Google…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
163: Ayelet Segal - Cultivating Human-centered AI & Ai Change Makers
Professor Ayelet Segal, Human-Computer Interaction and UX expert and Head of the "AI & I" Lab of Bar Ilan's Faculty. Drawing on decades of experience in…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
162: Thomas Arnett - Disruptive Innovation: How AI Is Changing the Game for Education and Careers
Thomas Arnett is Senior Research Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, focused on disruptive innovation in education. He is author of research on "What…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
161: Subramanian Rangan - Capitalism 2.0: Cultivating Leaders with Character
Professor Subramanian (Subi) Rangan, Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD and Endowed Chair in Societal Progress, explores "Capitalism 2.0". He…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
160: Maya Middlemiss - Remote Readiness: How to Realise Distributed Work's Full Potential
Maya Middlemiss is Founder of Remote Work Europe, a Remote Work Strategist, and author of 'Remote Readiness for Jobseekers'. With over two decades of remote…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
159: Matt Poepsel - Leading Through Entropy: Building Cohesive, Human-Centered Teams
Matt Poepsel, PhD is author of "Expand the Circle: Enlightened Leadership for Our New World of Work", VP of Talent Optimization at The Predictive Index, and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
158: Anthony Slumbers - From Buildings to Experiences: How AI is Powering Space as a Service
Antony Slumbers is a global keynote speaker on AI in real estate and pioneering voice behind 'Space as a Service.' He explores how different tiers of office…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
157: Cali Williams Yost - Workplace Flexibility: Addressing Competitive & Talent Realities
Cali Williams Yost, CEO and Founder of Flex+Strategy Group, has pioneered workplace flexibility since 1995. Cali shares her journey from banking to becoming a…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
156: Andrew Mawson - Increasing Productivity: Key Factors, Brain Capacity, and Mental Load
Andrew Mawson, Founder and Managing Director of Advanced Workplace Associates, explores how organizations can enhance performance, especially by helping…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
155: Sara Escobar & Corinne Murray - Intentional Design for Modern Work/Place Experiences
Corinne Murray, Director of Global Workplace Experience Strategy at American Express, and Sara Escobar, Founder of Wielding Workplace, are co-authors of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
154: Trond Aas - How Gamified Learning Motivates Sustainable Upskilling
Trond Aas is CEO and Co-Founder of Attensi, a leader in AI-powered gamified simulation training. Trond shares his background spanning quantum physics…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
153: Will Sentance - How Empathy Empowers Coding, Connection, and Communication
Will Sentance, Founder at Codesmith and Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, explores why empathy is a foundational skill in engineering. He explains how…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
152: Ginger Dhaliwal - Developing Human-centric Technology Solutions for Work Problems
Ginger Dhaliwal is Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Upflex. A long-time tech entrepreneur and investor, she shares her human-first orientation which…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
151: Noel McNulty - Curating Workplace Experience to Support Flexible, Distributed Work
Noel McNulty, Global Real Estate and Workplace Director at Twilio, brings learnings from hospitality to facilities and workplace experience in the tech and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
150: Brian Robertson - Organizational Clarity to Manage Work Not People
Brian Robertson is Founder and CEO of GlassFrog and creator of the decentralized management and organizational governance system, Holacracy. Brian brings a…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
149: Frederic Tshidimba - Global Work Nets: Labor Becomes More Liquid
Fréderic Tshidimba is the Co-founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at Empleyo, an Employer of Record (EOR) that helps businesses navigate international…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
148: JJ Reeder - Thriving in Distributed Work: Self-Managed and Digital-First
"JJ" Jessica Reeder, a workplace innovation and culture transformation leader, shares insights from her deep experience designing communications systems…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
147: Mark Dixon - Making Offices Work for Today's Distributed Workforce
Mark Dixon, Founder and CEO of IWG, which he started in 1989 as Regus, discusses workplace evolution and flexible work trends. He shares insights from building…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
146: Steven Puri - Redesigning Work Learning from Hollywood's Proven Production Model
Steven Puri, Founder and CEO of The Sukha Company and former Academy Award-winning CGI producer and Hollywood executive, shares his insights from movie…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
145: Prithwiraj Choudhury - Designing Work Around People Not Places
Prithwiraj 'Raj' Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, shares insights from years of research included in his newly released…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
144: Kamber Parker Bowden - Adapting Leadership for the Modern Multigenerational Workforce
Kamber Parker Bowden, Founder and CEO of Generational Performance Solutions, explains how leadership must evolve to integrate a multigenerational workforce in…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
143: Stephen Dooley - Solving for Flexibility: A Creative, Cost-Saving Business Travel Model
Stephen Dooley is Founder of Roamr, a corporate travel accommodation platform built for distributed teams. Merging insights from trust dynamics and the sharing…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
142: Kelli Lester - Leadership in Transition: Embracing Change, Vulnerability, and Feedback
Kelli Lester is the Co-founder and Partner at Onyx Rising, a change management consulting firm. Kelli discusses how leaders can navigate uncertainty, empower…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
141: Phil Kirschner - Strategic Productization of Work Experiences
Phil Kirschner, Founder of PK Consulting, is an innovator at the intersection of employee experience, corporate real estate, organizational effectiveness, and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
140: Ashley Proctor - Coworking: A Movement and Catalyst for Innovation and Community
Ashley Proctor, Founder of Creative Blueprint, Coworking Canada, and COHIP, is one of the founders of the coworking movement. She shares her experiences…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
139: Dan Bladen & Dave Cairns - The Rhythm and Flow of People, Work, Place, and Space
Dan Bladen, CEO and co-founder of Kadence, and Dave Cairns, Future of Work Strategist at Kadence, each discuss aspects of the evolving dynamics of modern…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
138: Darcy Marie Mayfield - Benefit from Remote Workers by Codifying Culture and Engineering Serendipity
Darcy Marie Mayfield is a specialist in culture architecture and experience design. Darcy shares her experiences in hospitality at Airbnb and designing systems…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
137: Sophie Wade - Reframing Change to Integrate, Design, and Upskill for AI at Work
Show host Sophie Wade welcomes 2025 focusing on the natural dynamic of modern work to facilitate executives' and employees' abilities to adapt. She outlines…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
136: Mehmet Baha - Showing Curiosity and Sharing Mistakes: Cornerstones of Psychological Safety
Mehmet Baha is the author of "Creating Psychological Safety at Work" and a psychological safety trainer and speaker. Baha, as he is known, discusses the…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
135: Helen Lee Kupp - Experimentation to Co-create High-Tech Human-centric Flexible Systems
Helen Lee Kupp is Founder and CEO of Women Defining AI and co-author of best-selling book "How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to do the Best Work of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
134: Michael Todasco – Upskilling for AI Integration: Rethinking Work and Learning
Michael (Mike) Todasco, Visiting Fellow at the James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence at San Diego State University. He shares insights from…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
133: Henrik Jarleskog - From Building-Centric to People-Centric: Ongoing Workplace Evolution
Henrik Jarleskog, Head of Future of Work at Sodexo, shares his multinational perspective transforming workplace strategies, services, and experiences to…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
132: Stephan Meier - Behavioral Economics at Work: Endorsing Employee Centricity
Stephan Meier is Professor of Business Strategy at Columbia Business School and author of The Employee Advantage: How Putting Workers First Helps Business…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
131: Heather McGowan - Empathy Meets AI: Expanding Cognitive Capacity and Workplace Potential
Heather E. McGowan is a keynote speaker and author of The Empathy Advantage and The Adaptation Advantage with deep experience in the Future of Work field. She…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
130: Luis Velasquez - Every Day Resilience in a Evolving Work Landscape
Luis Velasquez Ph.D. is the author of Ordinary Resilience, an executive leadership coach, and former research scientist. He describes his journey after a brain…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
129: Vidya Krishnan - Strategic Systems-based Upskilling to Enable Internal Talent Mobility
Vidya Krishnan, Chief Learning Officer at Ericsson, combines her engineering experience, systems thinking, and love of learning to connect core upskilling with…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
128: Mark Ma - RTOs: Research-backed Realities and Recommendations
Mark Ma, a research professor at the University of Pittsburgh, studies social and economic issues including Return To Office (RTO) mandates, AI, and tax…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
127: Mika Cross - Learning from Public Sector Distributed Teams, Telework, and Wellness
Mika Cross is a Workplace Transformation Strategist at Strategy@Work. She discusses her military career and years federal government agency experience…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
126: Paul J. Zak - The Neuroscience of Employee Engagement and Satisfaction
Paul J. Zak is a Professor and Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. Paul is the Founder of Immersion…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
125: Kelly Monahan - Up-leveling Leaders for the Blended Distributed Workforce
Kelly Monahan, Ph.D., is Managing Director of Upwork's Research Institute, with research published in applied and academic journals. Kelly is the author of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
124: John Hopkins - Flexibility, Flow, Bottlenecks, and Boundaries: Modern Ecosystem Dynamics
John Hopkins PhD is Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Swinburne University of Technology. He is also Founder of WorkFLEX which helps people…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
123: Dan Smolen - The Sea Change for Talent and Recruiters—Evolving Expectations
Dan Smolen is the host and executive producer of the "What's Your Work Fit?" podcast and a veteran executive recruiter. He explores how talent dynamics are…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
122: Annie Dean - Updating the Culture of Work for Modern Distributed Organizations
Annie Dean is Vice President and Global Head of Team Anywhere at Atlassian. She oversees their Real Estate and Workplace Experience teams and Team Anywhere…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
121: Daan van Rossum - Asking 'What If' at Work: Intentional Orientation and AI Augmentation
Daan van Rossum is Founder and CEO of FlexOS where they are building a 21st Century work experience that enables people to learn, grow, connect, and thrive at…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
120: Corinne Murray — Measurement Driving Momentum: Effecting Experiential Change
Corinne Murray is Chief Strategist and Founder of Agate, an organizational transformation and workplace strategy consultancy. Corinne brings her formative…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
119: Tim Oldman - Measuring the Impact of Workplace Design on Performance
Tim Oldman is the CEO of Leesman and Founder of the Leesman Index - the world leader in measuring and analyzing the experiences of employees in their places of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
118: George Bradt - Onboarding—Culture First—for the Modern Workforce
George Bradt is the Founder and Chair of PrimeGenesis, an executive onboarding and transition acceleration consultancy. He has authored many books including…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
117: Allison Vendt - Virtual First: Research-based Intentional Reinvention for Modern Work
Allison Vendt is Senior Director, People Operations (Virtual First, People PMO, People Analytics) at Dropbox. She shares key reasons and research behind…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
116: Ryan Anderson – Evolving Workspace Landscaping Un/Tethered by Technology
Ryan Anderson is Vice President of Global Research and Insights at MillerKnoll leading research and providing workplace strategy and application design…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
115: Jenny He - Pursuing Productivity Managing Distributed Teams
Jenny He is the Founder, CEO, and licensed contractor at Ergeon, a construction company making home renovation easier for consumers and contractors. Jenny…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
114: Dart Lindsley – Reframing Work as a Product and Employees as Customers
Dart Lindsley is Strategic Advisor, People Experience at Google. He is also a writer, speaker, and host of the Work for Humans podcast – on a mission to…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
113: Melissa Puls - Leading From Anywhere: Trust, Purpose, and Results
Melissa Puls is the Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Customer Success at Ivanti which provides software solutions that elevate and secure EverywhereWork…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
112. Juliette Powell - Co-creating with AI: Creative Friction, Trust, and Transparency
Juliette Powell is Founder and Managing Partner of Kleiner Powell International, a consultancy working at the intersection of responsible technology and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
111: David Abrams — Office Building Owners and Occupiers Co-creating New Experiences
David Abrams is the co-founder and CEO of HILO, a platform that is digitizing customer experience to create connected communities of people in buildings. David…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
110: Dr. Zofia Bajorek — Are Your Employees Doing Good Work?
Dr Zofia Bajorek is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Employment Studies (UK). She was HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinker in 2022 and 2023…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
109: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky — Making Good Decisions At and About Work
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, a consulting, coaching, and training firm. Gleb is a behavioral scientist and best-selling author…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
108: Amina Moreau — Offering Flexibility: The Essence of Modern Work
Amina Moreau is the CEO and co-Founder of Radious, an online marketplace offering companies flexible work locations to give their employees commute-free…