abrupt future. navigating the digital, distributed & disruptive workplace

In this episode, Benoit Hardy-Vallee talks to Ira S Wolfe - President at Poised for the Future Company, Founder of Success Performance Solutions, and a popular presenter at SHRM and business conferen…

• The kind of task or activities that tend to be automated
• Where should leaders start
•  "Authenticious" Automation
• How people react to automation
• How  to handle concerns about automation
• How automa…

On military leadership, resilience and thinking, an interview with Richard Lawrence, 04/12,2021

While serving in the military, Richard was posted in Northern Island, Iran, and Afghanistan. Post leavin…

James Kelley is the CEO & Co-Founder of qChange, a real-time end-to-end Leader Experience Solution that prompts, measures, grows, and predicts leader success in Microsoft Teams. In August 2020, the f…

Jordan Boesch is the CEO and Founder of 7shifts, a labor-management platform used by about 16,000 restaurants across North America. 7shifts allows restaurants to control labor, manage staff, manage c…

Mark A. Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new au…

A conversation with Jeff Wald, Founder of Work Market (now an ADP company). Jeff has founded several other technology companies including Spinback (eventually sold to Salesforce). He is an active ang…

A conversation with Graham Thornton, CEO of Change State and Podcast host at the Changing State of Talent Acquisition. 

• The evolution of Talent Acquisition - where were we 10 years ago? What was it l…

• A conversation with 2  of the authors of a new research report on how labour market could evolve by 2030.
• Context and drivers behind the “Ahead by a Decade” research (https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/…

• In May, the Urban Analytics institute released a research report on “Telework during COVID-19 lockdown in Canada” that analyzes the prevalence of work from home (telework) and its impact on transpor…

A conversation with  Shonna Waters, VP Behavioral Science, Professor, Author, Certified Leadership Coach at BetterUp. 

· How BetterUp uses behavioral science to help employees and organizations to gro…

 A conversation with Imran Mouna, Co-founder of InStage, a company who develop VR software to rapidly improve soft skills. 

· Background on launching InStage

· How to you use VR in learning

· The benefi…

A conversation with Maaz Rana, co-founder & COO, and Maurice Forbes, HR Solutions Consultant, at Knockri (https://www.knockri.com/)

• Knockri is an AI skills-based assessment tool, that helps reduce un…

A conversation with Dave Cook – PhD Researcher, Anthropology, UCL (University College London).

• What are “digital nomads” and what Dave learned about them in his 7-year research on remote work and dig…

A conversation with Dr. Benjamin Granger, Sr. Principal | XM Catalyst XM Institute at SAP Qualtrics. 

• Definition and clarifications on Employee Experience (EX) and Experience Management (XM)
• How can …

A conversation with Amir Salihefendić, Founder and CEO of Doist.  (https://doist.com)

• The backstory – how Amir came with Doist, what the experience is like for the user
• How to balance synchronous and…

A conversation Mariano Suarez-Battan, CEO or MURAL. 

The nature of imagination work

The story and use of MURAL

Remote vs in-person imagination work

Best practices for online creative work and collaborati…

A conversation with Laurel Farrer CEO of Distribute Consulting, Founder of the Remote Work Association and a Writer for Forbes magazine and other business publications

• The economic impact of virtual …

A conversation with Hailley Griffis, Head of Public Relations at Buffer, a fully distributed organization of 85 people living and working in 15 countries around the world, as well as co-host of the M…