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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.

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LATEST EPISODE
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 Spatial Web Foundation enabling the 3D Internet. He also co-authored the best-selling book, The Spatial Web. Dan explains what globally networked artificial general intelligence can do now, what will become possible soon—especially with AI-run operations—and his vision of our AI-empowered planet in 2100. Dan discusses augmented working capacities, our ongoing butterfly-like metamorphosis, and how we can all benefit by learning about and leaning into our growing capabilities. Read more
Recent Episodes
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 Australia’s largest companies on operating model changes, global cultural transformations, and digital transformations. She shares her insights about leading people to achieve long-lasting change, especially paying attention to offline process elements. She discusses learnings from pandemic pivots, change leaders’ examples, and a winning top-down/bottom-up combined approach. Lata describes the emphasis shifting from tasks and roles to skills and expertise contributing value to deliver results. Read more
Listen to the episodeFuture 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, Skillset and Toolset to Lead Your Organization through Uncertainty”. After a first interview in April 2020, Gary returns to the show to report on how he sees the Future of Work progressing and our ongoing adjustments for it. He shares insights about important work trends, mindsets, behaviors, and balance. Gary describes how concurrent waves of old work rules, transitional models, and the next rules of work are impacting leaders and our multigenerational workforce with its shifting weighting of employees and non-employees. Read more
Listen to the episodeEarlier Episodes
How Communication Strengthens a Modern Work Culture
with Joanna Parsons
July 21, 2023
Listen to the episodeDeep Listening for Enhanced Communication and Effective Meetings
with Oscar Trimboli
June 30, 2023
Listen to the episodeInternational Distributed Work is Growing: Why, How, Where, For Whom?
with John Lee
June 23, 2023
Listen to the episodeTransformation at Scale Enabled by Employee Ownership
with Nina Bhatia
June 16, 2023
Listen to the episodeRising Millennials’ Approach to Work, Values, Innovation, and Leadership
with Alicia Serrani
June 9, 2023
Listen to the episodeGenerative AI at Work: Truth, Changes, and Consequences
with Elias Baltassis
May 19, 2023
Listen to the episodeRemote Work is Helping Us Learn How to Work Effectively
with Kate Lister (Part 2)
May 5, 2023
Listen to the episodeSelf Employment: A Popular Pathway in the New World of Work
with Jeffrey Shaw
April 14, 2023
Listen to the episodeThe Agile Mindset: Experimenting, Empowering, and Empathizing
with Eric Ng
March 24, 2023
Listen to the episodeUnderstanding and Preparing Our Future Workforce
with Winston Peters
March 17, 2023
Listen to the episodeGenerations at Work: Shifting, Sharing, Parenting, and Pressures
with David Stillman
March 10, 2023
Listen to the episodeUsing External Goals to Optimize Work Outcomes: Extreme Sports Case Study
with Will Ridgway
February 24, 2023
Listen to the episodeModern Leadership: Shifting Mindsets, Meta Skills, and Sphere of Impact
with Zoë Routh
February 17, 2023
Listen to the episodeLeading Remote (First): Learnings From A Pioneer
with John Riordan
February 10, 2023
Listen to the episodeThe Strategic, Integrated Role of Human Resources in the New Era of Work
with Allison Allen
January 27, 2023
Listen to the episodeThe Asynchronous Mindset & Methodology — Key to Working “Remote First”
with Liam Martin
January 19, 2023
Listen to the episodeZillennial Insights on Work: Productivity, Impact, Security, Creativity, & Skills
with Steven Miller
January 13, 2023
Listen to the episodeReviewing ’22 – How Are We Doing? What’s Working?
with Sophie Wade
December 28, 2022
Listen to the episodeGen Z: Who They Are, What They Think, How They Work
with Dr. Meghan Grace
December 28, 2022
Listen to the episodeDigital Nomadism: Enhancing and Expanding an Enriched Experience
with Rowena Hennigan
December 2, 2022
Listen to the episodeLearning from the Music Industry: Evolving with Technology Disruption
with J.R. Richards
November 25, 2022
Listen to the episodeLeaders are Listening to the Voices of Change
with Adam Tuckwell
November 18, 2022
Listen to the episodeEmpathy and AI — Algorithms that Help Us Listen and Learn
with Dr. Grin Lord
November 11, 2022
Listen to the episodeTransforming Financial Services with a Human-Centric Approach
with Colin Field
October 28, 2022
Listen to the episodeHow to Connect and Communicate – Be Curious, Be Fearless, Be Super!
with Lou Diamond
October 21, 2022
Listen to the episodeThinking Outside the (Office) Box Innovating for the New Era of Work
with Haddy Davies
October 14, 2022
Listen to the episodeFlexibility for Fixed-Site Jobs Pt II: A Top Down & Bottom Up Approach
with Trond Undheim
September 30, 2022
Listen to the episodeFlexibility for Fixed-Site Workers Employing Human-Centric Innovation
with Trond Undheim
September 23, 2022
Listen to the episodeGoing “Remote First” Part II—Focusing on Flexibility and Work/Life Harmony
with Paul McKinlay
August 26, 2022
Listen to the episodeGoing “Remote First”: Automate, Communicate, and Document
with Robert Keane
August 19, 2022
Listen to the episodeCreating A “Human First” Business: Insights, Inclusion, and Impact
with Ali Azeem
August 12, 2022
Listen to the episodeRising Millennial Leaders: Insider Tips, Insights & Issues
with Jenn DeWall
August 7, 2022
Listen to the episodeTackling Underlying Issues: Straight Forward, but Not Simple, Solutions
with Dominic Price
June 24, 2022
Listen to the episodeHow Empathy Enables the Transformation of/at Work
with Sophie Wade
June 10, 2022
Listen to the episodeThe Evolving Roles of Leaders and Revisiting Holacracy
with Pascal Dulex
May 26, 2022
Listen to the episodeSelf Expertise, Avoiding Burnout, and Focusing on “How” to Work
with Dr. Amanda Crowell
May 13, 2022
Listen to the episodeTransforming Career Trajectories for Women of Color at Work
with Deepa Purushothaman
April 30, 2022
Listen to the episodeMaking Hybrid Work – Focusing on the Employee Experience
with Reid Hiatt
March 25, 2022
Listen to the episodeCareers in transition: Why are you leaving?
with Claire Harbour
March 11, 2022
Listen to the episodeAdapting Product Design and Innovation for the Future of Work
with Kapil Kane
February 25, 2022
Listen to the episodeThe Great Resignation, Burnout, & How to Fix It
with Susan Inouye
February 11, 2022
Listen to the episodeHow A/Synchronous & Distributed, Digitalized Work is Optimized
with Neil Miller
January 28, 2022
Listen to the episodeNEW 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
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Expert intelligence and insights on Future of Work topics. Curated articles shared biweekly with updates on the latest trends.