Future Work

Welcome to the next episode of our Future Work podcast with your host, Daan van Rossum. This episode welcomes Mark Birch, an expert in community building and author of the book Community-in-a-Box: How to Build Event-Driven Professional Communities.

Mark is a software entrepreneur, startup advisor, and community builder. He currently works at AWS as a Global Startup Advocate sharing how startups successfully build, grow & scale on AWS. Prior to AWS, Mark launched the SaaS business for Stack Overflow, founded an enterprise HR tech startup, was a software engineer, and worked for a number of leading technology companies.

Practicing building community for over a decade and proven successful with the Enterprise CIOs Forum of 30,000 members across 24 chapters globally, Mark brings lively insights about:

• The importance of community building in every organization
• Role of managers in connecting employees to the company
• How to address the challenges of building community in a distributed work environment.

Find Mark Birch on LinkedIn.

This podcast is sponsored by FlexOS, unleashing the full potential of hybrid and remote teams. Go to our website and grab your management toolkit today.

Welcome to the fourth episode of our Future Work podcast with your host, Daan van Rossum. In this episode, we have the privilege of hosting Chris Dyer, a world-renowned expert on remote leadership and productive company culture.

Chris is a recognized company culture and remote work expert. He has been a CEO with a workforce of thousands and consistently creates the "best place to work". Chris is an International Keynote Speaker ranked #1 by Forbes. He has two bestselling books The Power of Company Culture and Remote Work, and has been named #5 on the Leadershum Power List, a Top 40 Change Management Guru, a Top 50 Global Thought Leader, and a Top 50 leadership podcast just this year. In this talk, Chris offers valuable insights and practical advice for those who manage hybrid teams on how to navigate the challenges of remote work, which covers:

- How to measure team productivity

- How to build and maintain remote teams

- How to embrace a supportive environment where every team member is comfortable asking questions and offering help

- How to elevate AI and tools to create guidelines to help people get work done

- How to automate the onboarding processes and personalized learning experiences for team members.

Visit Chris Dyer website and connect with on LinkedIn or his channels.

This podcast is sponsored by FlexOS, unleashing the full potential of hybrid and remote teams. Go to our website and grab your management toolkit today.

Welcome to the third episode of the Future Work podcast with your host, Daan van Rossum. Our guest today is Stephanie Lee, Director of People Experience at Nansen and a leading expert in remote work in Asia.

Stephanie is passionate about helping people bring their best selves to life and work. She believes that the key to hybrid success is designing your operating system to be remote-first. With her background in building remote companies in Europe, the US, and now in Singapore, she has helped businesses adapt to work-from-home directives by teaching effective implementation of remote work.

In this episode, Stephanie reveals how Nansen, the first remote-first company of this scale in Singapore with a workforce from almost 40 countries, approaches remote work. She also discusses the importance of team composition, cross-function collaboration, and organic connections, all aimed at helping the company thrive in a remote-first world.

Find Stephanie on LinkedIn and Twitter.

This podcast is sponsored by FlexOS, unleashing the full potential of hybrid and remote teams. Go to our website and grab your management toolkit today.

Welcome to the second episode of the Future Work podcast with your host, Daan van Rossum. Today's guest is Alyssa Than-Stark, Group Well-being and Reward Manager at Singtel.

Alyssa is a passionate advocate for promoting a culture of "holistic well-being" in the workplace. Drawing on her extensive experience in behavioral health & neuropsychiatry, she discusses the importance of designing evidence-based strategies to meet the needs of Singtel's 20,000 employees at every level of the organization. Prior to joining Singtel, she spent the last 5 years working on the front line at various government hospitals in Singapore.

In this insightful conversation, Alyssa challenges the common understanding of workplace wellness practices and shares her firsthand experience in building comprehensive well-being initiatives. She also emphasizes the undeniable role of managers and on-the-ground champions in driving meaningful change.Being skeptical of on-the-surface solutions like mental health webinar culture or quick fixes like free food and massages, Alyssa brought to the table another practical approach to creating a sustainable well-being program.

Find Alyssa on LinkedIn.

This podcast is sponsored by FlexOS, unleashing the full potential of hybrid and remote teams. Go to our website and grab your management toolkit today.

Welcome to Future Work, a podcast by Daan van Rossum that dives into the people-centric future of work. In this episode, Daan is joined by Tracy Brower, VP of Workplace Insights at Steelcase and a Forbes and Fast Company contributor.

She is the author of “The Secrets to Happiness at Work” and “Bring Work to Life”.

Tracy is an award-winning speaker with over 25 years of experience working with global clients to achieve business results.

With profound research and experience on how we cultivate happiness at work, Tracy brings a beautiful discussion on defining happiness at work and how positive work culture should be.

She also discussed the role of leaders and managers in fostering employee engagement and well-being, which shed light on healthier team performance.

Find Tracy on tracybrower.com and LinkedIn.

This podcast is sponsored by FlexOS, unleashing the full potential of hybrid and remote teams. Go to our website and grab your management toolkit today.