Jobsharing And Beyond

Jessica Charlsen and Jina Hwang Picarella are co-founders of Job Share Connect.

• Jina is the mother of young twins and opted out of the workforce to care for them before forming a partnership with Jessica. Jina has a Ph.D. and nearly 15 years of diverse experience working externally as a human capital consultant and internally as a talent management expert to help companies optimize performance.

• Jessica is a longtime marketing professional with experience in both the corporate & ad agency worlds. As a cross-functional team leader, her experience is focused on strategic growth initiatives and partnerships. Jessica and her husband Adam spend the majority of their free time with their three kiddos and dog, Bella.

How to connect:

Job Share Connect

Website: https://www.jobshareconnect.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jobshareconnect/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JobShareToday

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jobshareconnect/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jobshareconnect

Jessica Charlsen

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-charlsen-5b81266/

Jina Hwang Picarella

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinapicarella/

TedxLincoln Talk:

https://twitter.com/JobShareToday/status/1305586471273992192

https://www.tedxlincoln.com/speakers/2020/jessica-charlsen-jina-hwang-picarella.html

Topics we discussed:

3:32: Start of Job Share Connect

13:57: Experience of job sharing/ co-managing Job Share Connect

17:34: Feedback about job sharers from peers & managers

23:17: Why is job sharing not more widely available/ known?

26:56: Part time work versus job sharing

33:14: Job sharing & health insurance

How to connect with Karin Tischler, host of Job Sharing and Beyond and founder of Emily's Path Consulting:

Website: https://emilyspath.ca/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-tischler/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jobsharingandbeyond/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JobsharingByond

Twitter: https://twitter.com/karin_tischler

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karintischlerbc/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emilyspathca/?viewAsMember=true

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilysPathConsulting

Julianne Miles is CEO and Co-Founder of Women Returners, the European experts in enabling professionals to return to work after an extended career break.

Since 2014, Women Returners has partnered with over 80 forward-thinking organisations to lead the rapid growth of the returner programme market in the UK & Ireland.

A social business, Women Returners also runs the Women Returners Professional Network, providing free advice and support to 6,000 women on career break.

Julianne is a Chartered Psychologist with an INSEAD MBA and a background in corporate strategy and marketing.

She was awarded an MBE for services to business & equality in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2019, recognising her role in changing the landscape for returning professionals.

She is a frequent speaker and media commentator on returning to work and co-wrote the "Returner Programmes: Best Practice Guidelines for Employers" for the UK Government Equalities Office.

Contact Details:

Email: [email protected]

Website: womenreturners.com

Twitter: @womenreturners

https://twitter.com/womenreturners

Instagram: @womenreturners https://www.instagram.com/womenreturners/?hl=en

Facebook: @WRPNetwork https://www.facebook.com/WRPNetwork/

Topics that we talked about:

2:50 Begin of Women Returners

4:58 Returnships

8:56 Cross company returnship programs

13:42 Covid19 & returners

18:58 Men as returners?

22:55 How to start a returnship?

29:59 Virtual returner conference

Dr. Anjali Bansal is a professor and an active researcher in the area of human research management and organizational change. She works with MICA Ahmedabad, which is India's first strategic marketing and communication school. Ahmedabad is India's first heritage city as declared by UNESCO. Anjali has earned her PhD from the faculty of management studies at the University of Delhi. She was one of the youngest PhD holders of the university. Anjali holds her MBA in Human Resources Management and her Bachelor in Biotechnology. Anjali is the subject matter expert of mergers and acquisitions and engages regularly with the big corporates to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Anjali's main contribution lies in contemporary work practices to ensure an engaging and highly productive work environment for a diverse set of employees. Over the years, Anjali has conducted in-depth research on various contingent workforces ranging from Indian educated housewives, retired professionals, part-time employees to LGBTQ workers with the objective to not just only create attractive work opportunities for them, but to also provide them a stimulating work environment. At present, Anjali focuses on contemporary employment practices and thus explores the job sharing, flexible work options, and gig economy in depth. Anjali constantly collaborates for her research with professors in universities abroad like George Washington, Villa Nova, Florida State, De Montfort, CEIBS, Milano Bicocca, and others.

I apologize that the weather influenced the sound quality of our episode today. I have added the transcript of our entire episode to https://emilyspath.ca/podcast-episodes-with-details/

Contact details:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-anjali-bansal-711b3b60/

Topics that we talked about:

Women empowerment and employment

Flexible work culture

Returnships

Women entrepreneurship

Companies mentioned in our conversation:

- iRelaunch https://www.irelaunch.com/

- Hindustan Unilever https://www.hul.co.in/

- Cadbury, India https://in.mondelezinternational.com/home

- Tata Consulting Services (TCS) https://www.tcs.com/

- MG Motor India "Drive Her Back" https://www.mgmotor.co.in/drive-her-back

- IIT Madras: Career Back 2 Women https://skillsacademy.iitm.ac.in/careerback.php

- VMWare: VMinclusion Taara in partnership with Women Who Code https://www.womenwhocode.com/delhi

- SharedPro https://sharedpro.in/

- Lijjat papad: http://www.lijjat.com/

- Jaipur Rugs: https://www.jaipurrugs.com/

Welcome to a special episode of Job sharing and Beyond! Today, I will give you some updates on my past guests as well as share some exciting news regarding the podcast and Emily's Path Consulting.

And I will also talk more about why my guests' expertise covers such a wide spectrum from job sharing and other flexible work methods to fatherhood & care, returning professionals, and transferable business skills from unpaid care work.

Links to updates from my previous guests, in episodes 6-9 & more.

Nina Strassner's interview with Good Morning America.

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/german-software-giant-sap-created-a-tinder-like-internal-matching-app-to-connect-isolated-employees-for-virtual-lunches-during-remote-work/articleshow/77556065.cms

Charlotte Lockhart:

https://www.businessinsider.com/andrew-yang-pandemic-highlights-importance-implementing-4-day-workweek-2020-8

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/this-working-life/the-four-day-work-week-utopian-ideal-or-smart-business-move/12583098

John Adams:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/life-beyond-covid-work-home-transport-change-beware-impact-john-adams/?trackingId=gmqkDUoAPW7Gwv2ESE6zzw==

Rob Sturrock:

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Raises-Boy-Revolutionary-Confident/dp/176087521X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.suittiestroller.com/

Beatrix Dart:

https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/ProfessionalDevelopment/InitiativeForWomenInBusiness/Programs/Back-to-Work_digital

Collaboration with Irenka Krone:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/irenka-krone-germann-444a497_50000-ch%C3%B4meurs-de-plus-en-2021-titre-la-activity-6706662252679852032-zZxa

Blog parade by Melanie Belitza:

https://bxsuitcase.de/blogparade-teilzeit/

International podcast day event:

https://internationalpodcastday.com/promotion/

Dr. Beatrix Dart served for seven years as the Associate Dean, Executive Degree Programs at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. As Professor of Strategy at Rotman, Beatrix teaches Management Consulting and Strategy. She joined the Rotman School of Management in 2000 following a successful career with McKinsey & Co.

In the public realm, she served on advisory committees for ministries, co-chaired Canada's first women-only trade mission to Japan, and is on the advisory board for UN Women in Canada.

Since founding it in 2008, Beatrix is the Executive Director at Rotman's Initiative for Women in Business, focusing on advancing women in management.

She has won many awards for her work among them the "WXN Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100" award in 2016. Further accomplishments include being a founding member and country lead of The 30% Club Canada, working with over 180 CEOs and board chairs as members supporting the campaign to advance women on boards and senior management roles. She also co-chairs the Canadian Gender and Good Governance Alliance, which she initiated in 2017. Additionally, she serves as a corporate director at EllisDon, one of Canada's largest construction companies, and on a number of non-profit boards.

Contact Information:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beatrix-dart-2114701/

LinkedIn Initiative for Women in Business: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/initiative-for-women-in-business/

Twitter Initiative for Women in Business: https://twitter.com/RotmanWomen

Back To Work Digital Program: https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/ProfessionalDevelopment/InitiativeForWomenInBusiness/Programs/Back-to-Work_digital

Topics we talked about:

11:58 Rotman School Initiative for Women in Business - the beginning

14:50 Rotman School Initiative for Women in Business - various programs for different life stages

19:23 Back to Work (BTW) Digital Program

22:25 BTW Digital Program: Partnership with companies

27:45 BTW Digital Program: Short consulting project

29:20 BTW Digital Program: Networking events

30:28 Transferable soft skills

37:15 Back to Work Conference

Rob Sturrock is a working father of two small children, an advocate for gender equality, healthy masculinity, and author of his new book "Man Raises Boy: A revolutionary approach for fathers who want to raise kind, confident, and happy sons." He lives on the beaches in Sydney with his wife, son, and daughter.

Contact information:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-sturrock-68744837/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/man_raises_boy/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobSturrock

Upcoming online event co-hosted by Rob: Father's Day 2020: Can a Pandemic Accelerate Dad-friendly Workplaces? Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 12-1 pm AEST, click here for registration info

Topics we talked about:

2:39 Why Rob wrote his book "Man Raises Boy"

4:54 "Fathers can do absolutely everything mums can do except breastfeeding"

7:04 Skills from unpaid care work are leadership skills

9:26 Part-time work as a dad is very rare in Australia

11:50 Jobsharing part 1

12:45 Covid19 & flexible work situation

16:40 Gender equality initiative at work - needs to be more inclusive for moms & dads

21:45 Inspiring the Future UK project - breaking down gender barriers

26:30 Jobsharing part 2

John Adams is a stay at/ work from home dad. He started blogging about his experiences shortly after becoming a stay at home dad in 2011.

His blog Dadbloguk is a leading Uk-based parenting, fatherhood, men's interest, and lifestyle blog. Blogging highlights include interviewing among others Malala's dad, Michael Douglas, and Steve Carell as well as working with Movember. The blog has won many awards among others, the Best Dad Blog at the 2019 Online Influence Awards as well as the European Parenting Blogs Award 2019.

John has spoken at many conferences and has made regular media appearances across TV, radio, print, and online media.

He recently has been selected as a LinkedIn Changemaker.

Contact information:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-adams-dadbloguk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dadbloguk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadbloguk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dadbloguk

Dadbloguk: https://dadbloguk.com/

Topics we talked about:

3:45 Start of dad blogging

7:54 John's interview with the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at the time about flexible working

10:50 Transferable business skills from unpaid care work. We also spoke about Riccarda Zezza's company LIFEED = "Life feeds education" & her original MAAM = "Maternity as a Master" program.

18:30 Covid19 & fathers are doing more unpaid care work

21:40 John's participation at the Flexpo "Returning to work" panel discussion

33:37 John's blog's Q&A: Interviewing Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala's dad, and two male senior job sharers, Sam White, and Will McDonald.

40:37 Being a LinkedIn Changemaker

53:00 Lack of flexible work leads to loss of talent for companies

John Adams is a stay at/ work from home dad. He started blogging about his experiences shortly after becoming a stay at home dad in 2011.

His blog Dadbloguk is a leading Uk-based parenting, fatherhood, men’s interest, and lifestyle blog. Blogging highlights include interviewing among others Malala’s dad, Michael Douglas, and Steve Carell as well as working with Movember. The blog has won many awards among others, the Best Dad Blog at the 2019 Online Influence Awards as well as the European Parenting Blogs Award 2019.

John has spoken at many conferences and has made regular media appearances across TV, radio, print, and online media.

He recently has been selected as a LinkedIn Changemaker.

Contact information:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-adams-dadbloguk/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dadbloguk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadbloguk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dadbloguk

Dadbloguk: https://dadbloguk.com/

Topics we talked about:

3:45 Start of dad blogging

7:54 John's interview with the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at the time about flexible working

10:50 Transferable business skills from unpaid care work. We also spoke about Riccarda Zezza's company LIFEED = "Life feeds education" & her original MAAM = "Maternity as a Master" program.

18:30 Covid19 & fathers are doing more unpaid care work

21:40 John's participation at the Flexpo "Returning to work" panel discussion

33:37 John's blog's Q&A: Interviewing Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala's dad, and two male senior job sharers, Sam White, and Will McDonald.

40:37 Being a LinkedIn Changemaker

53:00 Lack of flexible work leads to loss of talent for companies

Charlotte Lockhart is a business advocate, investor, and philanthropist with more than 25 years' experience in multiple industries locally and overseas. As CEO for the 4 Day Week Global campaign, she works promoting internationally the benefits of a productivity-focused and reduced-hour workplace. Through this, she is on the board of the newly created Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University and the advisory boards of the US campaign and the Ireland campaign for the 4 Day Week.

Contact information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottelockhartnz/

https://4dayweek.com/

Topics we talked about:

3:57 The beginning of the 4 Day Week

9:49 Microsoft Japan's 4 day work week

13:16 Younger generations' work interest/ social enterprises

16:30 Service industry & 4 Day Week

19:12 100/ 80/ 100 Rule

23:07 NZ prime minister's 4 day work week suggestion

25:27 Dealing with the potential reluctance of mid-management regarding the 4 Day Week

27:15 Startups & 4 Day Week

Charlotte Lockhart is a business advocate, investor, and philanthropist with more than 25 years’ experience in multiple industries locally and overseas.  As CEO for the 4 Day Week Global campaign, she works promoting internationally the benefits of a productivity-focused and reduced-hour workplace. Through this, she is on the board of the newly created Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University and the advisory boards of the US campaign and the Ireland campaign for the 4 Day Week.

Contact information:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottelockhartnz/

https://4dayweek.com/

Topics we talked about:

3:57 The beginning of the 4 Day Week

9:49 Microsoft Japan's 4 day work week 

13:16 Younger generations' work interest/ social enterprises

16:30 Service industry & 4 Day Week

19:12 100/ 80/ 100 Rule

23:07 NZ prime minister's 4 day work week suggestion

25:27 Dealing with the potential reluctance of mid-management regarding the 4 Day Week

27:15 Startups & 4 Day Week