In today's episode, we catch up with Derrick Franco, an engineer and an entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in startups and software engineering. With a track record of building successful products, he is currently the Lead Engineer at Counterpart as well as the host of the Future of Work Project podcast.

In part 1 of this series with Derrick, we dive into what products and engineering can be teaching the rest of the business world and the business team inside the company. 

Welcome to Episode 44 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future, featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.

In this episode we catch up with Marc Reifenrath, one of the original founders and the current CEO of Spinutech. Spinutech has grown from a University Dorm start up over 20 years ago to a multinational digital agency with 170 team members. Marc is passionate about culture and believes it has been, and continues to be, essential not only to Spinutech’s success but the success of their clients, as well.

In this culture based conversation we will discover:

• The three pillars Marc has built the culture on and why.
• How to align your organisation using culture and how to bring it back if the culture is fractured.
• And what Marc has learnt as a leader after 20 years building and running his own business.

Welcome to episode 43 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.

In this episode we catch up with Nathalie Marquez Courtney an award-winning writer and photographer who loves getting inspired by creative people and how they work. She writes and shoots stories for Ireland's leading publications and her photography work has been published in a wide variety of national and international publications, including The New York Times and The Guardian. Nathalie is also a self-confessed tech nerd and when not shooting or writing, she can usually be found on a beach in her new hometown of Galway in the west of Ireland.

• Today we’ll find out how Nathalie’s Mexican birthplace, growing up in a circus and moving to Ireland all shaped her outlook on work today.
• We’ll delve into imposter syndrome and how it affects both men and women,
• and why visual story telling is critical skill for the future

Welcome to episode 42 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.

I’m Doug Foulkes and this week with WNDYR CEO, Claire Haidar, we catch up with Michael Solomon, an established entrepreneur and the co-founder of 10x Management a premier tech talent agency, and 10x Ascend a boutique compensation negotiation service. 

Today we will explore:

• What is 10X talent and why you should be using it
• How some people manage to self sabotage their own work seeking efforts
• What the blind spots are in current talent management in terms of identifying and retaining top talents

But first, after Claire expresses dismay at the similarity of the questions being asked to Michael about human resource strategy, we dive into the questions that should be asked in and around HR leaders.

Welcome to Episode 41 of The Future of Work,  the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future brought to you by WNDYR and Pattyrn. We release 2 podcasts a month featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.

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This week we meet Todd Jick, a professor at Columbia Business School and a leading expert in Leadership and Organizational Change. Todd has twice received the Singhvi Prize for Teaching Excellence with popular MBA courses on Change Management. He has co-authored Managing Change and The Boundaryless Organization, and actively consults with companies on leadership and transformation.

in a packed show today we

• look at what has actually changed in the past 4 decades
• practically what is the starting point when an organization wants to change
• and the positive and negative reactions leaders have taken post pandemic

Welcome to Episode 40 of The Future of Work, the podcast that looks at every aspect of work in the future. We release 2 podcasts a month featuring industry experts and thought leaders discussing how work is changing and evolving. The Future of Work is NOW.

This show is brought to you by WNDYR and Pattyrn for their blog Chaos & Rocketfuel. WNDYR are productivity and human behavior specialists whose mission is to break legacy behaviors before they destroy your teams’ professional productivity and personal health. Pattyrn is the only people-first solution built to help your employees thrive within your organization's existing work management tools. 

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This week we met with Abbey Donnell, the Founder, and CEO of Work & Mother, a network of 'amenitized' full service, fully equipped Mother's Suites that support working moms. Before devoting her work full time to Work & Mother, Abbey spent her career in marketing and brand strategy. Abbey has a BS and BA in Advertising and Spanish Language from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MBA from Rice University, and is a Certified Lactation Counselor. She is also a working mother herself, with firsthand experience of the challenges that today's working families face.

This is not a podcast just for our female listeners. As we will find out, the lack of amenities in the workspace is something that can affect everyone.

• Today we will discover what problem Work & Mother is solving for
• What legacy Abbey would like to leave for the future workplace
• The legal obligations employers face when supplying amenities for their workforce

Today we meet up with Ilan Kasan, Co-founder and CEO, at Exceed.ai

With deep expertise in AI,  user experience, and SaaS, Ilan has had a 20-year career in engineering, general management, and product management for leading global technology companies including, Cisco, WebEx, Comeet, and others.

Exceed is a company that is disrupting traditional marketing and sales by using AI to reduce the cost of acquiring sales leads by up to 79%, and saving up to 35% of sales reps costs, and trust me, we’ll find out how they do that shortly. We will also:

• get Ilan’s experience of working in both Silicon Valley and Israel’s Silicon Wadi

• why Ilan thinks AI is here to help humans and not replace them

• and where, in general the future of work is heading

but first, let’s explore the difference between a technologist and a product engineer...

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In this episode we meet Mike O’Toole, a widely respected and vastly experienced photographer, film maker and creative tutor. Twice recognised by The Lürzers Archive as one of the 200 Best Advertising Photographers Worldwide.

Mike’s work has drawn accolades from The Association of Photographers (Uk) and his work recently received an award of excellence at 62nd Annual Communications Arts Competition in the US. His commercial photography is regularly featured in the highest profile publications internationally.

Mike lives in County Kildare, Ireland and is a family man, married with 2 daughters.

As we will discover Mike has found a way to remain relevant in an ever changing work environment. It’s these insights we will explore in this podcast: specifically

• it’s about following a passion

• always looking to make more from what you have

• be interested in everything and not necessarily an ultra specialist

• finding strength by looking inwards rather than searching outwardly for acceptance

• and being prepared to do the hard work.. especially early in your career.

But first, Mike tells us what has helped link the various stages in his work career:

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This week we catch up with Laura Stebbing, Laura is Co-CEO of accelerateHER, an organisation focused on addressing the under-representation of women in technology. She builds global partnerships that drive impact for purpose-driven organisations, on issues from technology and gender to entrepreneurship and human rights.

Laura was Partnerships Director for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and works extensively in the field of human rights;

• In the next 45 mins we find out about growing up in an unstable Zimbabwe,

• The important difference between mentorship and sponsorship

• how Laura’s work at ExcellerateHer is changing gender equality

• and how gender roles have been set back due to the pandemic

But first Laura explains why diversity is so important:

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In today’s podcast we have a critical conversation about the very essence of the future of work, with Ananth Avva, President and COO of Pipefy. Pipefy is a no-code workflow automation platform that empowers citizen developers to transform the way they work. Ananth brings over 15 years of leadership and experience in the tech industry, including executive roles for Wrike, cybersecurity leader Lastline, and cloud-based contact center solution LiveOps (now Serenova). Ananth’s prior experience also includes positions at Google, Voyant Advisors, and KPMG.

In the next 40 minutes we will discuss:

• the expectation of knowledge workers to become citizen developers

• the evolution from RPA (bots), to iPaaS to process orchestration

• the need for chief people officers to groom future operational leaders

• and the implications for companies and individuals in the ever more challenging workplace

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