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“Sophie brings the energy of her passion about the Future of Work and in-depth knowledge from her book to her speeches and other types of collaboration with our organization. If you want someone to challenge and encourage your audience to embrace the future; hire Sophie.”


“Sophie has the unique ability to make you feel like she’s talking directly to you, regardless of how many people are in the room. She connects seamlessly with her audience and covers complex topics with a simplicity that makes them digestible.”


NEW BOOK "EMPATHY WORKS"

How to Compete in the New Era of Work

We are in a period of change. The new world of work is significantly more digitized and decentralized than before. We need to orient ourselves differently to be successful, shifting from transactional to human-centric management, mindsets, and methods to deal with the faster pace of business developments, continuing uncertainties, more complex issues, and an increase in multidimensional projects. Sophie shows you why empathy is a critical corporate value, mindset, and skill for improving engagement and productivity, and achieving sustained growth as we emerge from the pandemic.

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“With an engaging style, thoughtful research, and wisdom, Sophie articulates the most critical skill of great leaders and companies – how they listen to, empathize with, and react to their employees and customers. A highly recommended read for leaders and aspirational leaders of tomorrow.”

NORMAN DE GREVE

Chief Marketing Officer, CVS Health

“Sophie is a catalyst. She both explains the new working circumstances clearly as well as giving thoughtful direction about what to expect going


KEY WORKSHOPS

WORKING WITH EMPATHY

Interpersonal skills are increasingly in demand internally and externally as evolving business needs demand more from talent. Have executives, managers, and teams practice empathy to improve their communication, collaboration and performance.

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BRIDGING GENERATIONS

Miscommunications between generations that negatively impact results are avoidable. Benefit from data-driven insights and surprising exercises to increase coworkers' understanding, improve interactions, and bridge generational gaps.

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MANAGING HYBRID TEAMS

Distributed teams need updated management practices to work effectively. Understand and experience how modern work methods combine with individualized working styles and empathetic communication and collaboration to achieve business goals.

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STRATEGIC FACILITATOR

Sophie combines her multinational work history and background in strategy and finance with over a decade helping companies adapt for increasingly digitalized environments.

She contributes her uniquely informed perspectives in session with executives to assess your organization's situation and priorities, provide strategic advice, and facilitate action steps.

Benefit from Sophie’s data-driven approach and rich relevant experiences to help your company transform and succeed in the new business and work environment.

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TRANSFORMING WORK
PODCAST

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 to drive significant, multidimensional changes in all our working lives.

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RECENT INSIGHTS

The Strategic Impact of Modern Work

Transformation to embrace MODERN WORK must be a strategic imperative across your organization. Your business can only be proactive, not reactive, if it is to remain competitive especially as new (AI-related) powerful technologies are impacting EVERYONE’s job and tasks.

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Five Key Steps if Your Company Plans to Revise the Hybrid/Remote Policy

How is your company preparing to hit the ground running in September? Are executives looking to ramp up days at the office or optimize flexible hybrid/remote arrangements? How are leaders planning to unite, empower, and upskill talent to meet future business needs and build strategic competitive advantage?

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(Un)intended Consequences, Continuity, and Competitiveness

We had determined intent developing industrial production lines, digital platforms, and software tools to be more efficient and effective, communicating and working faster and better.

Our primary objectives were to develop more adaptability and flexibility to ensure business continuity (e.g. staying connected on the road) and growth by facilitating responsiveness.

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