This episode features an interview with Hamza Khan, Future of Work and Leadership Expert. He is the best-selling author of Leadership Reinvented and The Burnout Gamble and is a two-time TEDx Speaker. Hamza challenges organizations to rehumanize their workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. His clients include Microsoft, Deloitte, and TikTok.

In this episode, Shawn sits down with Hamza to discuss why work is not working, how to make employees owners, and the no day work week.

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“If you invest in employee engagement and well-being, then it turns all the other priorities into guaranteed outcomes. That's where the work needs to be done. We actually need to do this work, at the individual level with every single leader in the world. We have to just overhaul our education system to produce more human-centric, values-driven, change-friendly, self-disrupting leaders. But, we also have to make connecting with other human beings an organizational imperative. That should be the only priority that leaders pursue at every level. The welfare, the well-being, the engagement, and actually, just summarize all that into the thriving of their employees.” – Hamza Khan

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Episode Timestamps:

*(05:09): Rapid fire questions

*(11:48): Hamza discusses his 2016 TEDx Talk and if it holds up today 

*(21:43): The history and influence of The Haymarket Affair on work today

*(26:57): Giving employees more say over their work

*(38:48): Will AI increase the amount of work for employees 

*(45:14): What Hamza is hopeful about

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Links:

Connect with Hamza on LinkedIn

Visit Hamza’s website

Read Hamza’s books

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