Work and the Future

Just about everyone – even if they work independently or remotely –  has to collaborate with other people on occasion. Not everyone likes to do that and not everyone does it well, but when collaboration fails there are real business costs. To talk about how organizations can encourage better collaboration and how people can do it better Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Dr. Deb Mashek, a professor and the author of the book Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredibly collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone).

Guest

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced business advisor, professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. Previously Full Professor of social psychology at Harvey Mudd College, she is the author of Collabor(h)ate: How to build incredibly collaborative relationships at work (even if you’d rather work alone). Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Business Week, The Hechinger Report, and Fortune. She writes regularly for Psychology Today.

Deb is the founder of Myco Consulting LLC, where she speaks, advises, and provides professional development to those seeking to build better workplace collaborations.

Links

https://www.debmashek.com

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After work usually comes  retirement, except that the line between the two is not quite what it used to be. With people living longer and with investments not always working out, there are a lot of people aged over 65 who make their way back into the labour force, sometimes by plan by often because after leaving their jobs they realize that they are not yet done with work.  To talk about how this is playing out, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Mike Drak, author of  and Simon Chan, CEO of Adapt with Intent Inc., a boutique advisory and coaching firm that helps individuals, leaders and organizations adapt to the Future of Work.

Guests: 

Mike Drak

Author, Longevity Lifestyle by Design: Redefining What Retirement Can Be

Mike Drak is an author, public speaker and recognized authority on the non-financial aspects of retirement. After having spent 38-years in the financial services industry, Mike retired and personally faced what he called “retirement shock”. During this time, Mike found himself on a journey of self discovery and authored two best selling books on retirement; Victory Lap Retirement and Retirement Heaven or Hell: Which Will You Choose? Mike is now a Senior Contributor at Booming Encore and dedicates his time to help other retirees design a fulfilling, meaningful retirement lifestyle for themselves.

Simon Chan,

Simon is the Founder and CEO of Adapt with Intent Inc., a boutique advisory and coaching firm that helps individuals, leaders and organizations adapt to the Future of Work. He is an Advisor, Keynote Speaker and Executive Coach who specializes in helping organizations recognize emerging trends and transform their strategy and workforce so they can thrive in an increasingly complex environment.

Simon is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience. He has a diverse background in financial services, technology, academia, and not-for-profit sectors. He has held a variety of senior positions in strategy, corporate innovation, talent attraction, product development, business development, and operations. Prior to founding Adapt with Intent Inc., Simon was Vice-President of Talent, Academy and Future of Work at Communitech, a globally recognized innovation hub. In this role, he was responsible for talent attraction, learning and development for over 1,600 companies from start-ups to scale-ups to global enterprise organizations.

Simon holds a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and he now serves as Vice-Chair of the university board of governors. He also holds CFP (Certified Financial Planner), CLC (Certified Leadership Coach), and CPRC (Certified Professional Retirement Coach) designations

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Despite the  inroads women have made in the workforce over the past decades, the progress may not be as good as it looks particularly when it comes to the C-Suite. On this episode Monika Hamori, Associate Professor at the IE Business School in Madrid joins Linda Nazareth to take about a study she co-authored looking at 40 years of data on executives in the largest U.S. corporations and what it reveals about women’s progress – or lack thereof – and what companies can do to turn things around.

Guest:

Monika Hamori

Associate Professor, IE Business School, Madrid

Monika Hamori received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an associate professor of Human Resource Management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, where she teaches talent management to MBA and Executive MBA classes. Her academic research focuses on diversity and inclusion, and on topics related to employee development and top executive careers. Her articles appeared in top academic journals such as Organization Science or the Journal of Applied Psychology, and in premiere practitioner outlets such as the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review.

Links:

https://www.ie.edu/business-school/faculty-and-research/faculty/monika-hamori/

https://thinkers50.com/biographies/monika-hamori/

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The workplace is in a state of flux, and that includes the physical workplace.  It used to be the place we went to because that is where we could work – that was where the computers were and we had to sit in board rooms to meet with each other but that has changed.  To discuss how to create new physical workspaces to go with the hybrid world, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Doug Shapiro, VP of Research and Insights  at global furniture manufacturer OFS  and  the host of the podcast  Imagine a Place.

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Is it time to deconstruct jobs and how do we do that? On this episode Linda Nazareth is joined by Ravin Jesuthasan, co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Work Without Jobs How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System. They talk about why it may be time for a radically new way of looking at work and why the  systems we have now around work are out-dated. Going forward, we may need to think in terms of a new “work operating system” that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and then reconstructs them in a way that reflects the skills and abilities of individual workers. As well, they talk about the need for continuous re-skilling of the workforce, and why that mean the degrees that might mean that the expensive educational degrees held in such high regard may not be quite as desirable in future.

Guest:

Ravin Jesuthasan, Senior Partner, CFA FRSA

Ravin Jesuthasan is the global leader of Mercer’s Transformation Services business. He is a recognized global thought leader, futurist and author on the future of work and workforce transformation.  He has led multiple research efforts on the global workforce, the emerging digital economy, the rise of artificial intelligence and the transformation of work. Ravin has led numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum including many of its ground-breaking studies on the transformation of work and the global workforce. He is a regular participant and presenter at the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings in Davos and Dalian/Tianjin and is a member of the forum’s Steering Committee on Work and Employment.

Ravin has been a featured speaker on the aforementioned topics at conferences in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America. He has also been featured and quoted extensively by leading business media including CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fortune, FT, The Nikkei (Japan), Les Echoes (France), De Telegraaf (Netherlands), South China Morning Post and Dubai One TV among others. Ravin was also an advisor to and featured prominently on PBS’s widely acclaimed documentary series The Future of Work. Ravin is a frequent guest lecturer at universities around the world including Caltech, Oxford University, Northwestern University, New York University and the University of Southern California.

Ravin was named to the Thinkers 50 Radar Class of 2020. He has also been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, one of the top 8 future of work influencers by Tech News and one of the top 100 HR influencers by HR Executive. He is the author of the books Transformative HR (Wiley, 2012), Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment (Wiley 2015), Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach to Applying Automation to Work (HBR Press, 2018) and the Wall Street Journal bestseller; Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (MIT Press, 2022). Ravin has authored over 200 articles including 15 for the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review

Ravin holds B.B.A. (Finance) and M.B.A. (Finance) degrees and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Ravin is a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). Prior to joining Mercer, Ravin was a managing director and global business leader at Willis Towers Watson for 26 years and a consultant with Accenture’s strategy consulting practice.

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Resilience has become a kind of buzzword when it comes to business and when it comes to our lives. We are told to be resilient and to bounce back from setbacks, and we also hear about the need for resilient organizations, especially in the wake of the turmoil in the world. But what to leaders need to understand about resilience and what are they getting wrong about it? To discuss that, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Danielle King, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Rice University.  They talk about what resilience really is, and what leaders need to understand about it to create a culture that encourages it in the right way.

Guest

Dr. Danielle King.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Rice University.

Dr. King focuses the majority of her professional time on the study of RESILIENCE. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and published in both book chapters and scientific articles. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Spelman College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in IO Psychology from Michigan State University.

Links

https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/danielle-king

https://hbr.org/2022/06/what-leaders-get-wrong-about-resilience

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The finance sector has been one of the economic leaders over the past few years, with companies seemingly hiring as many workers as they can. And it isn’t just the finance sector…workers with skills in financial analysis have been in hot demand in all kinds of sectors and even if the economy slows a little over the next few years it does not seem like that will change. Then again, technology is disrupting everything and there are reasons to think that both the nature of jobs in finance and maybe the number of them will shift in future. How are careers in finance changing and what skills will be needed as we move forward?To talk about all of that, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by y by Rebecca Fender, Head of Strategy and  Governance for Research, Advocacy and Standards for the CFA Research Institute.

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This year has been a tough one for a lot of organizations. They have needed workers, sometimes needed them desperately, and it has not been easy to find them and they have been continuously losing them as we go through this thing called the Great Resingnation.

Now there have been a lot of things that companies have tried in terms of attracting and retaining workers, like money and bonuses and time off. One thing that is also being tried, and perhaps will be one of the more successful ways to hold on to people is through supporting continuing education for workers. Because if you listen to what they are saying, it is clear that people want to continue learning, for a lot of reasons, and that when their employers support them with that they are appreciative and happy and a lot less likely to quit their jobs.

Is supporting education the key to retaining workers? That was one of the findings of a survey done by Strategic Education Inc.  an education company that serves working adult students.  Terry McDonough. ]President of Education Technology and Enterprise Services at Strategic Education joins Linda Nazareth on this episode to talk about the findings of a their new survey on workforce sentiment during the Great Resignation which found a surprisingly strong link between the provision of tuition benefits and employee retention.

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As we move to new models of work we have sometimes wondered whether remote workers are too isolated but are hybrid workers also isolated – and maybe even lonely? And if that is true, as some evidence suggests, what should organizations be doing to help workers with that isolation? On this episode Linda Nazareth is joined by Dr. Caroline Knight, Research Fellow at the Future of Work Institute at Curtin University in Australia, who has done research into the loneliness of hybrid workers. They talk about the issues around isolation, and why organizations should be cognizant of managing and supporting workers who are off-site but still part of the organization.

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Caroline received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Psychology from Durham University, UK, in 2003. After graduating, she worked full time as an Assistant Psychologist in a Medium Secure Unit in Yorkshire, UK, for adults with mental health issues, learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and a forensic background. Her love of academic work and research drove her back to university and she completed her Masters in Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, in 2011, followed by a PhD at the Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield Management School, UK, in 2016.

Caroline is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM), Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP), and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Caroline’s PhD research focused on the role and effectiveness of interventions to increase work engagement in organisations, however, other projects included investigating depression in the workplace and the motivations of sports volunteers. Caroline has engaged widely with organisations, including the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, and Sheffield City Council, with whom she worked for a period of months as a researcher and consultant on a project to increase employee engagement.

In her current role, Caroline is working with colleagues to set up a large longitudinal survey, Working Across the Lifespan (WALS). This survey aims to look at how work design changes across the adult life, what causes these changes, and the impact of work on importantoutcomes such as health and wellbeing, and cognition and memory. Besides this, Caroline is also investigating the role of work design interventions on performance.

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What do concerns about ESG mean for the future of work? The pandemic aside though, we have a building awareness of what is going on in terms of environmental change in general, and a building awareness of ESG Investing. ESG-of course being the acronym for Environmental, Social, and (Corporate) Governance, the three broad categories, or areas, of interest for what is termed “socially responsible investors.  At the same time, we are building a new workplace, changing the rules around work and the decisions we make about it now are going to impact on our economy and our society and our environment for years to come.To discuss what the fallout of the trends will be on work and workers,, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by  Shankar Raman Senior Director, Global Leader Technology Industry Group at Willis Towers Watson. They talk about the implications of hybrid work, the growing corporate awareness of controlling their carbon footprint and the potential impact on equity and attracting talent of the new workplace, now and in the future.

Guest:

Shankar Raman

Senior Director, Global Leader Technology Group

Willis Towers Watson

Shankar S Raman is a global leader with Willis Towers Watson (WTW). He is based in Boston. Shankar’s focus areas are Organization Design, Talent and HR Transformation. He has helped organizations around the world improve performance and accelerate growth through more effective strategy execution and capability development. Shankar is passionate about helping organizations deal with the challenges associated with performance improvement, growth and transformation. Shankar is one of the leaders of the Organization Design and Transformation capabilities in WTW.

Shankar is also a frequent writer and speaker. He contributed to a well received book  “Higher Ambition – How Great Leaders build Companies that create Economic and Social value” written by Beer, Eisenstat, Foote, Norrgren, & Fredberg, published by Harvard Business Review press.

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