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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
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 CHRO of Indeed with a seasoned career in HR leadership. Paul shares how he transferred skills from Customer Service to Human Resources and built his expertise across different cultures and industries. He explains the value of transparency during periods of transformation and offers new career paths options as we transition from career ladders. Paul describes why flexibility is important for every employee and the difference human first leadership makes. Read more
Recent Episodes
Expanding Experiences for 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 homeschooling and entrepreneurship before and during the pandemic, incorporating mindfulness as a key component. She describes the genesis of Boundless Life and explains their transformative approach to combine education, work, and community. Rekha shares the accelerating expansion of the lifestyle network as hundreds of families join Boundless to experience the multiple destinations—enabled for remote work, cultural immersion, and a forward-thinking education system for children. Read more
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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 Enterprise” — part of the Eric Ries series. Barry is also Co-Founder and Chief Incubation Officer at venture studio, Nobody Studios, and faculty at Singularity University. Barry brings insights from his career at the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. He describes how we can learn, but not make progress, and how some discomfort enables breakthroughs. He explains what questions can help you identify where you get in your own way, and what small iterative changes can do for you. Read more
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Earlier Episodes
The Strategic Approach to Modern Work: Co-Creating Outside the Box
with Sophie Wade
October 20, 2023
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Aligning Process, People, Productivity, and Profits: The Four Day Work Week
with Joe O'Connor
October 13, 2023
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Strategic Innovation of Business Districts, Offices, and Work Options
with Francis Saele
September 29, 2023
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How to Nurture Well-being and Mental Health at Work
with Paula Allen
September 15, 2023
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General Artificial Intelligence and the Spatial Web at Work
with Dan Mapes
September 8, 2023
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Change Leadership: Emphasizing People Co-Creating the Future
with Lata Hamilton
August 18, 2023
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Future of Work Report: Progress and Potential
with Gary A. Bolles
August 11, 2023
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How Communication Strengthens a Modern Work Culture
with Joanna Parsons
July 21, 2023
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Deep Listening for Enhanced Communication and Effective Meetings
with Oscar Trimboli
June 30, 2023
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International Distributed Work is Growing: Why, How, Where, For Whom?
with John Lee
June 23, 2023
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Transformation at Scale Enabled by Employee Ownership
with Nina Bhatia
June 16, 2023
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Rising Millennials’ Approach to Work, Values, Innovation, and Leadership
with Alicia Serrani
June 9, 2023
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Generative AI at Work: Truth, Changes, and Consequences
with Elias Baltassis
May 19, 2023
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Remote Work is Helping Us Learn How to Work Effectively
with Kate Lister (Part 2)
May 5, 2023
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Self Employment: A Popular Pathway in the New World of Work
with Jeffrey Shaw
April 14, 2023
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The Agile Mindset: Experimenting, Empowering, and Empathizing
with Eric Ng
March 24, 2023
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Understanding and Preparing Our Future Workforce
with Winston Peters
March 17, 2023
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Generations at Work: Shifting, Sharing, Parenting, and Pressures
with David Stillman
March 10, 2023
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Using External Goals to Optimize Work Outcomes: Extreme Sports Case Study
with Will Ridgway
February 24, 2023
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Modern Leadership: Shifting Mindsets, Meta Skills, and Sphere of Impact
with Zoë Routh
February 17, 2023
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Leading Remote (First): Learnings From A Pioneer
with John Riordan
February 10, 2023
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The Strategic, Integrated Role of Human Resources in the New Era of Work
with Allison Allen
January 27, 2023
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The Asynchronous Mindset & Methodology — Key to Working “Remote First”
with Liam Martin
January 19, 2023
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Zillennial Insights on Work: Productivity, Impact, Security, Creativity, & Skills
with Steven Miller
January 13, 2023
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Reviewing ’22 – How Are We Doing? What’s Working?
with Sophie Wade
December 28, 2022
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Gen Z: Who They Are, What They Think, How They Work
with Dr. Meghan Grace
December 28, 2022
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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
with Jenn Fox
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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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
theworkinprogressreport
Expert intelligence and insights on Future of Work topics. Curated articles shared biweekly with updates on the latest trends.