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About the podcast
About the 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.
Discover Sophie’s new book
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LATEST EPISODE
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 draws on much personal experience learning the asynchronous mindset and optimizing designing processes to enable “deep work” by distributed teams. For the new book he co-authored, Running Remote, Liam researched how remote pioneers built their businesses. He shares high level and granular advice, including useful tools and practices for organizations interested in improving their hybrid models or going fully remote. Read more
Recent Episodes
Zillennial Insights on Work: Productivity, Impact, Security, Creativity, & 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. Steven wants his work efforts to have impact as so many young employees do—he is a “Zillennial” on the cusp of Millennial and Gen Z generations. Steven offers his and his friends’ views and learnings from experiences at multiple startups and large corporations about emerging realities and preferences—the new what, why, where, when, and how of work—sought by younger cohorts of workers. Read more
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Reviewing ’22 – How Are We Doing? 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 adjusting to as we emerged from pandemic conditions. Sophie considers the wide-reaching effects of increased digitalization, changing customer behaviors, and evolving talent management dynamics and needs. She invites you to review your successes, sharing context and a framework for understanding what worked and why. She also encourages analyzing areas for improvement, identifying reasons and what aspects to focus on so as to have the necessary data and priorities to move forward with clarity and confidence in 2023. Read more
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Earlier Episodes
Digital Nomadism: Enhancing and Expanding an Enriched Experience
with Rowena Hennigan
December 2, 2022
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Learning from the Music Industry: Evolving with Technology Disruption
with J.R. Richards
November 25, 2022
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Leaders are Listening to the Voices of Change
with Adam Tuckwell
November 18, 2022
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Empathy and AI — Algorithms that Help Us Listen and Learn
with Dr. Grin Lord
November 11, 2022
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Transforming Financial Services with a Human-Centric Approach
with Colin Field
October 28, 2022
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How to Connect and Communicate – Be Curious, Be Fearless, Be Super!
with Lou Diamond
October 21, 2022
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Thinking Outside the (Office) Box Innovating for the New Era of Work
with Haddy Davies
October 14, 2022
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Flexibility for Fixed-Site Jobs Pt II: A Top Down & Bottom Up Approach
with Trond Undheim
September 30, 2022
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Flexibility for Fixed-Site Workers Employing Human-Centric Innovation
with Trond Undheim
September 23, 2022
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Our Learning Journeys: To Attract, Hire, Empower, Develop, and Retain Talent
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September 9, 2022
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Going “Remote First” Part II—Focusing on Flexibility and Work/Life Harmony
with Paul McKinlay
August 26, 2022
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Going “Remote First”: Automate, Communicate, and Document
with Robert Keane
August 19, 2022
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Creating A “Human First” Business: Insights, Inclusion, and Impact
with Ali Azeem
August 12, 2022
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Rising Millennial Leaders: Insider Tips, Insights & Issues
with Jenn DeWall
August 7, 2022
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Tackling Underlying Issues: Straight Forward, but Not Simple, Solutions
with Dominic Price
June 24, 2022
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How Empathy Enables the Transformation of/at Work
with Sophie Wade
June 10, 2022
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The Evolving Roles of Leaders and Revisiting Holacracy
with Pascal Dulex
May 26, 2022
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Self Expertise, Avoiding Burnout, and Focusing on “How” to Work
with Dr. Amanda Crowell
May 13, 2022
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Transforming Career Trajectories for Women of Color at Work
with Deepa Purushothaman
April 30, 2022
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Making Hybrid Work – Focusing on the Employee Experience
with Reid Hiatt
March 25, 2022
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Careers in transition: Why are you leaving?
with Claire Harbour
March 11, 2022
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Adapting Product Design and Innovation for the Future of Work
with Kapil Kane
February 25, 2022
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The Great Resignation, Burnout, & How to Fix It
with Susan Inouye
February 11, 2022
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How A/Synchronous & Distributed, Digitalized Work is Optimized
with Neil Miller
January 28, 2022
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How Transforming Work Relationships Improves Outcomes
with David Nour
January 14, 2022
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2021’S ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS: EMOTIONS, EXCUSES, AND INSIGHTS
with Sophie wade
December 24, 2021
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The Hybrid Customer Journey and Creating Compelling Experiences
with YuChiang Cheng
December 10, 2021
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How Decentralized Organizations Profit from a Human-Centric Approach
with Mikael Sorensen
November 26, 2021
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Inclusive Employee Experiences Start with Leaders
with Gena Cox
November 12, 2021
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The Office of the Future — Shaping a More Human Experience
with Matthias Hollwich
October 29, 2021
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How Purpose and Values Make a Difference in Business
with Lisa Morton
October 15, 2021
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Shifting Skills and Scope for Growth and Resilience
with Jeremy Fleming
October 8, 2021
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Remote & Hybrid Models – Realities, Recommendations, Rewards, & Risks
with Laurel Farrer
September 17, 2021
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The Empathy Factor Driving Small Business Success in the New Era of Work
with Ramon Ray
August 27, 2021
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How to Succeed as a Remote Leader: Inclusion, Innovation, & Iteration
with Sacha Connor
July 23, 2021
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Marketing Internally to Effect Change, with Empathy
with Neil Bedwell
June 25, 2021
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Triggering Trust and Engagement through Anonymity and Action
with Paul Reid
May 28, 2021
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The Unbundling and Re-bundling of Jobs in the Future of Work
with Laetitia Vitaud
April 23, 2021
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Skills versus Jobs: Talent Mapping, Mobility, and Management in the Future of Work
with Muriel Clauson
March 26, 2021
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Reforming Capitalism, Promoting Human Capital Strategy, and Embracing the Future of Work
with Matthew Bishop
February 26, 2021
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2021: Forecasting and Planning a Foundational Year
with Rob Tercek
January 29, 2021
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Reframing Leadership: Shifting from Transactional to Inclusive
with Simone Sloan
December 18, 2020
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Transforming with Empathy: From Awareness to Application
with Michael Ventura
November 20, 2020
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On-Demand vs Remote Workers: Regulation, Opportunities, & Skills
with Jeff Wald
October 23, 2020
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Leaning into Diversity and Inclusiveness with Empathy
with Karyn Twaronite
August 28, 2020
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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.
Learn more“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 IN THE NEWS
Remote Work Junkie: Top 50 Remote Work Experts & Leaders to Follow
“Sophie Wade is on the curated list of the top experts and leaders that contribute to and innovate the remote work space.” August 2022
Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast: Empathy is the Master Leadership Skill
“Zoë Routh interviews Sophie Wade” August 2022
Winning Teams Podcast: When Empathy is a Key Competitive Advantage
“John Murphy interviews Sophie Wade” July 2022
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Expert intelligence and insights on Future of Work topics. Curated articles shared biweekly with updates on the latest trends.