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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
107: Tom Hunt — Leading with Intention in the New World of Work
Tom Hunt is the Founder and CEO of Fame which builds profitable podcasts. Tom is also host of the podcast "Confessions of a B2B Marketer". He leads a…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
106: Debbie Lovich — Co-creating, Iterating, and Enjoying New Ways of Working
Debbie Lovich is Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). She leads BCG's thinking on making work work. Debbie describes Harvard…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
105: Denise Brouder — A Systems Approach to De-risk Flexibility at Scale
Denise Brouder, Founder and Head of Data and Insights at SWAY Workplace. As a flexible work skills expert, researcher, and consultant—with a Wall St background…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
104: Phil Kirschner — Integrating Workforce Innovation and Workplace Strategy
Phil Kirschner, Senior Expert and Associate Partner, Real Estate & People and Organizational Performance at McKinsey where he advises executive teams on the…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
103: Michelle Coulson — Reflecting on Our Working Lives: Why, What, and Remotely?
Michelle Coulson is Founder and Chief Remote Rebel at Remote Rebellion whose mission is to enable people to live the life that they choose. Michelle shares her…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
102. Nick Bloom — Data-Driven Decisions to Make Hybrid Work
Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University and co-Founder of wfhresearch.com and wfhmap.com, has studied remote work for over two decades. Nick…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
101: Jeff Frick — Intentionally Evolving with Technological Transformation
Jeff Frick is the host of 'Work 20XX' and 'Turn the Lens' podcasts, a media entrepreneur—founder and principal of Menlo Creek Media, and a seasoned operator…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
100: Cecelia Girr -- Updating the Employee Experience for 2024 and Beyond
Cecelia Girr is the Strategy Director at TBWA\Worldwide and Director of Cultural Strategy at TBWABackslash. Cecelia's career has been focused on researching…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
99: Sophie Wade - 2024: Committing to the Human-centric Eco/System
Sophie Wade is a work futurist and strategist, workforce innovation specialist, keynote speaker, and host of this show. She is an author and authority on the…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
98: Josh Bottomley — Human-centric Leadership in Data-driven Businesses
Josh Bottomley is CEO of Dunnhumby (UK), a global leader in customer data science. Josh has led digital transformation initiatives at media and finance…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
97: Rob Sadow — The State and Future of Flexible Working
Rob Sadow is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scoop and Creator of the Flex Index. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice on Flexible Work and a Forbes Future of Work 50. Rob…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
96: Margaux Miller — Building Connective Communities for Modern Workers and Workplaces
Margaux Miller is the Global Director of Community at Toptal, a podcast host, emcee, and remote professional. She is focused on engaging Toptal's fully remote…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
95: Paul Wolfe - The People Journey to Human First Leadership
Paul Wolfe is Author of "Human Beings First - Practices for Empathetic, Expressive Leadership" and a Human First Leadership advocate. Paul was the long-term…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
94: Rekha Magon — Expanding Experiences for Our Working and Family Lives
Rekha Magon is the co-founder and Head of Education at Boundless Life and an ed-tech entrepreneur. Rekha shares her journey from accounting to combining…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
93: Barry O'Reilly — How Unlearning Leads to Progress
Barry O'Reilly is the author of the best-seller "Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results". He also co-authored best-seller "Lean…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
92: Danielle Farage — Connecting with Generation Z's Perspectives through Vulnerability
Danielle Farage is a Gen Z, digital native and nomad, and a work futurist. Danielle helps seasoned senior executives attract and better understand their young…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
91: Sophie Wade – The Strategic Approach to Modern Work: Co-Creating Outside the Box
Sophie Wade is a work futurist and strategist, author and authority on the Future of Work, instructor on Gen Z, empathy, and Future of Work skills, and host of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
90: Joe O'Connor — Aligning Process, People, Productivity, & Profits: The Four Day Week
Joe O'Connor is the Director and Co-founder of the world's first Center of Excellence in Work Time Reduction. Joe brings his previous experience as CEO and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
89: Fran Saele — Strategic Innovation of Business Districts, Offices, and Work Options
Francis "Fran" Saele is Managing Principal at Mortevita which provides specialty consulting on the new knowledge workplace and corporate real estate. Fran has…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
88: Paula Allen — How to Nurture Well-being and Mental Health at Work
Paula Allen, Global Leader and SVP of Research and Client Insights at Telus Health, brings her career-long expertise spanning health and productivity…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
87: Dan Mapes — General Artificial Intelligence and the Spatial Web at Work
Dan Mapes is the Founder and President of Verses.AI, an advanced artificial general intelligence and spatial web company, and Founder and Director of the…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
86: Chase Warrington — The Art and Craft of Work: Intentional Connection and Documentation
Chase Warrington is Head of Remote at Doist, a LinkedIn Top Voice on Remote Work, Global Top 20 Future of Work Influencer, Future of Work advisor, and host of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
85: Lata Hamilton — Change Leadership: Emphasizing People Co-Creating the Future
Lata Hamilton is a change leadership expert, change management consultant, and creator of the "Leading Successful Change" program. Lata has worked with some of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
84: Gary A. Bolles — Future of Work Report: Progress and Potential
Gary A. Bolles is Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University, co-founder of eParachute.com, and Author of "The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
83: Dave Cairns — Reenvisioning Commercial Space for Modern Work
Dave Cairns, SVP Office Leasing for CBRE, focuses on working with high growth companies in the tech sector. Dave is a futurist relating to the office market…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
82: Joanna Parsons — How Communication Strengthens a Modern Work Culture
Joanna Parsons is the Founder and Director of The Curious Route and one of the leading experts in internal communication across the UK and Ireland. Joanna's…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
81: Brian Elliott — "Redesigning Forward" for the Future of Work
Brian Elliott is a veteran executive leader, advisor, speaker, and best-selling co-author of "How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to the Best Work of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
80: Oscar Trimboli — Deep Listening for Enhanced Communication and Effective Meetings
Oscar Trimboli is a marketing and technology industry veteran who consults to multinationals with a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners. Over 28,000…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
79: John Lee — International Distributed Work is Growing: Why, How, Where, and for Whom?
John Lee is the CEO and Founder of Work From Anywhere and a serial entrepreneur. John describes his experiences living and working in multiple countries and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
78: Nina Bhatia - Transformation at Scale Enabled by Employee Ownership
Nina Bhatia is the Executive Director, Strategy and Commercial Development at the John Lewis Partnership (JLP). Nina discusses the business shifts that she and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
77: Alicia Serrani - Rising Millennials' Approach to Work, Values, Innovation, and Leadership
Alicia Serrani is a rising Millennial leader and serial entrepreneur. Alicia started at RBS and Morgan Stanley and got a law degree while launching several new…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
76: Elias Baltassis - Generative AI at Work: Truth, Changes, & Consequences
Elias Baltassis is a Partner and Senior Director at the Boston Consulting Group. He has deep expertise in AI- and data-enabled strategy, data operating models…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
75: Minter Dial — Purposefully Integrating Empathy and AI at Work
Minter Dial and the podcast's host, Sophie, discuss empathy at work in the new technology-driven era of business and work. They both draw from their…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
74: Kate Lister (Pt 2) — Remote Work is Helping Us Learn How to Work Effectively
Kate Lister, President of Global Workplace Analytic and seasoned expert on distributed work, returns for Part 2 of her interview about hybrid and remote…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
73: Kate Lister (Pt 1) — The Data-based Business Case for Remote Work
Kate Lister is President of Global Workplace Analytics and a veteran advocate of remote working—or teleworking as it was previously called. Kate brings almost…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
72: Jeffrey Shaw — Self Employment: A Popular Pathway in the New World of Work
Jeffrey Shaw has never had a traditional job. He started his entrepreneurial journey as a teen, grew a successful business for 25 years, then became a coach…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
71. Eric Ng — The Agile Mindset: Experimenting, Empowering, and Empathizing
Eric Ng, Senior VP of Marketing at Two Chairs, has an agile mindset which has enabled him to keep adapting to the significant changes brought about by…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
70: Winston Peters — Understanding and Preparing Our Future Workforce
Winston Peters is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurs@MC program and the new Entrepreneur Center at Manhattan College in New York. He is a co-founder of…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
69: David Stillman – Generations at Work: Shifting, Sharing, Parenting, and Pressures
David Stillman is a generational expert, researcher, consultant, and author of three best-selling books on generations. David explains how the major events and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
68: Will Ridgway — Using External Goals to Optimize Work Outcomes: Extreme Sports Case Study
Will Ridgway is a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft, an extreme athlete, and a Guinness World Record holder. Graduating from his Masters in Aerospace…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
67: Zoë Routh — Modern Leadership: Shifting Mindsets, Meta Skills & Sphere of Impact
Zoë Routh is a leadership futurist and multiple award-winning Author. Zoë discovered and developed her own leadership skills in the wildernesses of Canada and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
66: John Riordan -- Leading Remote (First): Learnings From A Pioneer
John Riordan, the so-called "Godfather of Remote" and Chairman of Grow Remote, an Irish-based social enterprise organization, has led fully remote teams and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
65: Allison Allen — The Strategic, Integrated Role of Human Resources in the New Era of Work
Allison Allen, worked at Twitter as Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition, through December 2022. She starts a new job at an as-yet-unnamed company in…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
64: Liam Martin – The Asynchronous Mindset & Methodology--Key to Working "Remote First"
Liam Martin, who co-founded and runs Timedoctor and Staff.com, is an avid proponent of remote work and co-organizer of the Running Remote conference. Liam…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
63: Steven Miller — Zillennial Insights on Work: Productivity, Impact, Security, Creativity, and Skills
Steven Miller is a Senior Growth Manager on Uber's product team, co-Founder of startup ChatSight, and an angel investor in early stage technology ventures…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
62: Sophie Wade - Let's Review '22: What's Working?
Sophie Wade, work futurist, Workforce Innovation Specialist, and host of this podcast, reflects on the past year and all that we have experienced and been…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
61: Meghan Grace – Gen Z: Who They Are, What They Think, How They Work
Dr. Meghan Grace leads Gen Z research at the Institute of Generational Research and Education and leads research and data strategies at learning and…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
60: Rowena Hennigan – Digital Nomadism: Enhancing and Expanding an Enriched Experience
Rowena Hennigan is a university lecturer at TU Dublin, published academic author and researcher, remote work expert, and digital nomad. She lives her ethos…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
59: J.R. Richards – Learning from the Music Industry: Evolving with Technology Disruption
J.R. Richards is a platinum selling American rock artist. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the band Dishwalla which achieved a major US No 1 hit…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
58: Adam Tuckwell - Leaders are Listening to the Voices of Change
Adam Tuckwell, Managing Director for Mobas, a brand transformation business in the UK, crafts, seeds, amplifies, and channels corporate messaging to affect…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
57: Dr. Grin Lord — Empathy and AI: Algorithms that Help Us Listen and Learn
Dr. Grin Lord is the founder and CEO of mpathic.ai, an AI-powered service bringing empathy to enterprises. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Grin describes…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
56. Colin Field - Transforming Financial Services with a Human-Centric Approach
KEY TAKEAWAYS [02:50] Colin started his career in accounting and then retail banking. [03:50] Colin discovers he enjoys seeing people win and developing their…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
55: Lou Diamond — How to Connect and Communicate - Be Curious, Be Fearless, Be Super!
Lou Diamond, growth consultant and CEO of Thrive, is the host of popular podcast Thrive Loud, a keynote speaker and author. Lou's new book "Speak Easy" is a…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
54: Haddy Davies - Thinking Outside the (Office) Box Innovating for the New Era of Work
Haddy Davies is the Global Procurement Leader and Black Employee Network Chair at Johnson Matthey, a British specialties chemicals and sustainable technologies…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
53: Trond Undheim — Flexibility for Fixed-Site Jobs Pt II: A Top Down & Bottom Up Approach
Trond Undheim, futurist, speaker, entrepreneur, venture partner, and the author of a new book, Augmented Lean in this second episode gets to the practical…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
52: Trond Undheim — Flexibility for Fixed-Location Workers Employing Human-Centric Innovation
Trond Undheim, futurist, speaker, entrepreneur, venture partner, and author of a new book "Augmented Lean". Trond draws on his technology-focused background…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
51. Jen Fox — Our Learning Journeys: To Attract, Hire, Empower, Develop, and Retain Talent
Jen Fox, Director of People Experience and Culture at Justworks, discovered her passion for training and developing people early on. She shares learnings from…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
50: Paul McKinlay – Going "Remote First" Part II: Focusing on Flexibility and Work/Life Harmony
Paul McKinlay, VP of Communications and Remote Working at Cimpress and Vista (prev. VistaPrint) had a series of transformative experiences working in…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
49. Robert Keane - Going "Remote First": Automate, Communicate & Document
Robert Keane, Founder and CEO of Cimpress and Vista (formerly VistaPrint) built a multibillion-dollar business from scratch starting more than 20 years ago. He…
- Transforming Work with Sophie Wade
48: Ali Azeem - Creating A "Human First" Business: Insights, Inclusion, and Impact
Ali Azeem, the Global Head of Growth at Ipsos Strategy3, has always believed in making an impact through involvement across the three professional…