Inevitable: The Future of Work

Understanding the brain and the body better to enable us: optimize the work day, enhance connection, and promote efficiency. As a bonus, we explore how to hod onto the best lessons and adjustments we've made during the pandemic as we create our post-pandemic process and reality

Dr. Mary Rensel (a neuroimmunologist) and Ali Hively (a lifestyle coach) are business partners who help clients understand how their brains and bodies work in order to help them optimize their work days. They are advocates of acknowledging that - of course - we bring our whole selves to work; so we need to better access what we bring to enhance connection and promote efficiency. Easier said than done, which is why we need to incorporate their medically-valid and experientially-tested advice into our effort to better activate ourselves and others.

Andrew Herr, Founder and CEO of Fount, is an expert in the exercise, sleep, and nutritional imperatives for us to be at our peak when it counts. That's why – for years – the US military's elite forces looked to Andrew and his team for assessment and guidance. Now, he's providing access to all of us to the knowledge and resources to become our own best advocate as we identify the best ways for us to be even better. Noting that change in routine is the best time to improve our habits, there's no time like the present for us to go "back" to something different!

How can individuals and their organizations identify and support better self-care in order to enhance performance, improve moral, and reduce illness and absenteeism

How the post-pandemic change in routine of going "back" to work provides insightful leaders to steer people to better habits that drive better outcomes

Revealing some of the rest and nutritional "secrets" of spurring more creativity, better collaboration, and – simply put – good people

Management consultant turned start-up entrepreneur, Chase Damiano, is now channeling his passion around and hard-won knowledge of how to achieve and sustain business success into helping others do just that.

Learning to point the finger at yourself may be your first step in better directing everyone around you forward. This and other very vulnerable insights are accessible to you…and likely will better equip you to reach out to your team in more personally meaningful ways at the very moment we need to help each other achieve what some are calling "post traumatic growth."

Check out more about Chase and his work and subscribe to his newsletter at chasedamiano.com.

Heather Polivka, founder of HP Solutions and a proven global leader, is an expert in creating purposeful experiences that reach a variety of stakeholders. Using the insights gained from leading high impact efforts for some of the most recognized brands in the world, Heather now helps organizations attract and engage the right people, so that they can attract and engage the right customers.

Our conversation highlights include:

• Pandemic era lessons we can carry forward; e.g., how do we continue our humanity when we aren't "in" each other's houses every day
• Helping your people have a voice in important business decisions
• "Talent" = people, and
• How to blend the best of Marketing, HR and Operations to create maximum impact in and through your work

Carole Robin – a trailblazer in business and a star faculty member at one of the world's premier universities, shares her expertise and insights that she details in her book, Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues

You'll be struck by the raw simplicity of some of her counsel (say you're sorry!), and challenged by the significance of being vulnerable. Carole helps us better understand and chart a new path for how we can pursue a different level of peace of mind and impact by adjusting our mindset and vocabulary in conversations with the people who matter most to us.

Find out more about Carole, her co-author and friend, David Bradford, and about the book at connectandrelate.com.

Melanie Coburn is the Chief Relationship Officer (CRO) for CADRE, a unique networking community. In her role, she lives out her passion for connecting and helping others. Alongside her husband, Derek Coburn, they've have built CADRE from the ground up, now advocating full-time for well over 100 CEOs and business leaders. CADRE has grown substantially during the pandemic year, expanding its reach nationally. Members benefit from events and activities, larger and smaller, from dedicated board-like advisory groups to interactive sessions with highly sought after thought leaders. Past sessions have featured Adam Grant, Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, and Daniel Pink. Drawn together by a shared passion for helping others make valuable connections, CADRE members are focused on sharing resources and ideas. As CRO, Melanie serves as a liaison, strategically connecting complementary members and helping to ensure that initial meetings grow into mutually beneficial relationships.

Amy Bess represents employers in every aspect of employment litigation, counseling and training. She is the Managing Shareholder of Vedder Price PC's Washington, DC office. She completed a full 3-year term as the Chair of the global employment law practice at the close of 2020. Amy's deeply committed to and passionate about helping guide employers to create compliant, productive workplaces that are focused on meeting and exceeding their business objectives, rather than being derailed by claims of harassment, discrimination or inequities. Amy is an author and frequent speaker and trainer on a variety of employment topics, most notably the impact of COVID-19, the #MeToo movement, and anti-harassment laws on the workplace. Her insights are sought after to inform the better practices organizations can and should implement to prevent and resolve harassment concerns.

Irad recognizes that traditional therapy methods don't sufficiently accommodate our digital era lifestyles. Dealing with his own loss and difficulties in accessing empathetic ears, he founded Circles. This platform for peer-to-peer counseling provides the sort of immediate and accessible solutions for their challenges people have come to expect in the tech-enabled world. By allowing people to better balance the competing demands of parenting, caregiving, illness, kids with special needs, divorce, and mental health issues, they are able to access the precise address to their pain they crave. Irad previously founded Shekulo Tov, an organization dedicated to removing social and institutional barriers to employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

After 20 years of managing and consulting on campaigns for candidates, ballot measures and advocacy groups, Joe Fuld struck out on his own to build The Campaign Workshop with a team of people he's collaborated with in the past and who know how to create, design and build campaigns. They recognize that each client is different, and they don't build cookie-cutter campaigns. Instead, they strive to build custom-made campaigns and strategies that fit the specific needs of clients and provide each client with the kinds of individualized tools they need to tackle any challenges they might face.

Aaron Velky, Founder of Ortus Academy, uplifts others to a place of freedom, awe and artistry. Ortus Academy offers Financial Intelligence education to entrepreneurs, business owners, youth organizations and educators with Millennial and Gen Z members through online courses, virtual and in-person Financial Wellness workshops, speaking engagements, and coaching. They know that money matters, but they believe that Financial Intelligence matters more.

Larry is a dynamic, entrepreneurial strategist with 25 year track record of achievement in financial services and insurance company leadership. He shares the chnages and shifts workplaces are experiencing due to the effects of COVID-19. Leaders of organizations can take proactive measures to ensure they properly take care of their employees who are also serving as caregivers and inviest more into healthcare to help combat stress.