Frida Polli is CEO & Co-founder of pymetrics, the talent matching platform based on behavioral science and ethical AI.  In this episode, MBO Partners talks with Frida about her experiences as a female founder to her application of years in neuroscience research for an AI-driven future of work platform that increases organizational diversity.

Soraya Darabi is Founder & General Partner of TMV, an early-stage venture firm that invests in “purposeful startups reimagining the future,” including design-driven technologies and companies thinking about the future of work. In this episode, MBO Partners talks to Soraya about her life as an investor in this space but also about her own journey as a female founder, a number of times over, and what she sees as the trends worth watching in independent work and beyond.

Jennifer Lemmert, Employer Branding and Communications Strategist, speaks about the impetus for her launching her own strategy consulting firm and the need she sees for supporting female business owners. She also discusses the article she has written for the inaugural issue of MBO’s new Advantage Consulting Quarterly magazine. This episode is another in the “Voices of Independents” series highlighting the experiences and insights from a variety of independent professionals who have founded businesses of one.

Wade Forbes, corporate artist and founder of RedTale Communications talks about his path from a career in cybersecurity and consulting for the Department of Defense to creating a business around his skills and passion for connecting with people through a more visual medium. He also discusses his contribution to the inaugural issue of MBO’s new Advantage Consulting Quarterly magazine. This episode is another in the “Voices of Independents” series, highlighting the experiences and insights from a variety of independent professionals who have founded businesses of one.

Beth Hughes, change architect and founder of Bay Redwood Consulting talks about her ideas for building resiliency into a business, whether in a corporate or not-for-profit setting. She also discusses the article she has written for the inaugural issue of MBO’s new Advantage Consulting Quarterly magazine. This episode is another in the “Voices of Independents” series highlighting the experiences and insights from a variety of independent professionals who have founded businesses of one.

Rodney Mann, independent management consultant and founder of Steeplechase Advisory Group, talks about how he parlayed his deep industry experience into a successful independent consulting career and why he has chosen this path. Rodney also discusses the article he has written for the inaugural issue of MBO’s new Advantage Consulting Quarterly magazine. This episode is part of the "Voices of Independents" series, highlighting the experiences and insights from a variety of independent professionals who have founded businesses of one.

Peter Walzer, management consultant, project turnaround specialist, and founder of Blue Globe Group, Inc. talks about his ideas about adapting to change, embracing uncertainty, and the need for what he calls “resurrection leadership.” He also discusses the article he has written on this topic for the inaugural issue of MBO’s new Advantage Consulting Quarterly magazine. This is another episode in the “Voices of Independents” series, highlighting the experiences and insights from a variety of independent professionals who have founded businesses of one.

Arun Sundararajan, New York University professor and author of The Sharing Economy, studies the future of capitalism, artificial intelligence and platform-enabled change, and the digital future of work. In this episode, MBO Partners talks to Arun about how the leaders in digital work-related platforms will definite templates for how economic activity will be conducted in the 21st century.

Jeff Wald, founder of WorkMarket and author of The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations provides a data-driven approach to the future of work, namely through building enterprise software to provide organization to the chaos of HR details. He is now putting his mind toward the building of a skills taxonomy that could both drive organizational strategy and open up opportunity for the independent workforce. In this episode, MBO Partners talks to Jeff about this need for a robust skills taxonomy within and across companies, the flux of supply and demand today, and what we still need to talk about collectively to realize our desired future of work.

MBO Partners CEO Miles Everson has spent his career advising other CEOs on how to position their organizations to take advantage of trends and tools to remain agile and growing. As the CEO of the leading platform for workers in the independent economy, Miles has new insights to share to both those enterprise leaders and the independent talent ready to help them.

In this episode of State of Independence, Miles speaks about how to design the workforce of the future and the need for enterprise organizations to develop a strategy for utilizing independent workers, as well as how today’s worker—perhaps looking to become a solo entrepreneur—can ready themselves to start and finish the work at hand.