Ollie on Work
Helping ambitious leaders avoid the Career Expiration Trap.
I'm Ollie Henderson. I've spent 15+ years founding businesses and I'm still experimenting today. I've learned what keeps leaders ahead. Entrepreneurial skills that create momentum regardless of what shifts.
Real conversations with business and thought leaders like Daniel Pink, Rory Sutherland, and Lynda Gratton about leading multigenerational teams, implementing AI strategy, and building what comes next as the rules of work change.
No generic future-of-work trends. Just practical insights for leaders who refuse to expire.
You can also read more about these themes in the Ollie on Work newsletter.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 240
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Future Work/Life Podstorm #12: Employee Surveillance vs Trust
Welcome to the world’s first work/life podstorm.
Today, I recall a newsletter discussing one of the more worrying trends to emerge over the past year - employee surveillance (or ‘employee productivity…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #11: Parenting with purpose
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
In today's episode, I discuss lessons that can be learned about sharing a collective vision with your partner and how lessons from business can help yo…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #10: Short and long-term thinking
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
In today's episode, I discuss the benefits of combining short and long-term thinking, particularly for parents. Plus, what we can learn from businesses…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #9: Distractions
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
In today's episode, I discuss distractions and the value of stepping back to get some perspective.
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Future Work/Life Podstorm #8: Empathy
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
Today's episode considers the role of empathy in our work/lives.
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Future Work/Life Podstorm #7: Neuroplasticity and learning new things
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
Today's episode is well-timed, given it focuses on establishing positive habits and learning new things. You can read more about neuroplasticity via th…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #6: Job Crafting & Opportunity Marketplaces
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
Today's episode is the second of two parts focused on the personalisation of work - in this case, job crafting and opportunity marketplaces.
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Future Work/Life Podstorm #5: C-Lancing & Passion Economy
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
Today's episode is the first of two parts focused on the personalisation of work - in this case, C-Lancing (freelancing C-Suite) and the passion econom…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #4: Time, flexible work, and performance
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
Today's episode focuses on time, specifically how understanding your chronobiology and incorporating it into your work/life schedule design can improve…
Future Work/Life Podstorm #3: The future of offices and cities
Welcome to the world's first work/life podstorm.
In this episode, I recall a Future Work/Life newsletter in which I considered offices and cities' future.
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Future Work/Life Podstorm #2: Autonomy, mastery and purpose
Welcome to the second of the world's first work/life podcast, in which I share my thoughts on the changes to work in 2020 and how this will evolve in 2021 and beyond.
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Future Work/Life Podstorm #1: Introducing the world’s first work/life podstorm
So it's the 1st of January, 2021 and we've left that very strange year of 2020 behind us. I made the (possibly) rash decision this morning to launch series two of this podcast earlier than planned.
I…
DE&I Special with Zoe Young & Nishita Dewan
In the final episode of this first series of Take My Advice, we focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
My first guest is Zoe Young, founder of Half The Sky, author of Women's Work: How Mothers Mana…
Allison Baum Gates: Venture Capital & The Future of Work
Today's guest works at the forefront of the exploration of how this future could and should look. Allison Baum Gates is General Partner of SemperVirens; a Silicon Valley-based early-stage Venture Cap…
Shaun Tomson: Purpose and Flow in Surfing, Work and Life
Why has someone who’s never surfed invited one of the worlds greatest ever surfers on to his podcast?
Well, a conversation I listened to in March between Guy Kawasaki and today’s guest Shaun Thompson …
Alyssa Westring: Parents Who Lead
Rewind 8 months to the start of the first lockdown in this strangest of years. My wife and I, like many people, were about to begin what was definitely the most challenging period of our parenting li…
Ben Legg: Portfolio Careers
Ben Legg is the CEO of The Portfolio Collective, his new business and a community that helps entrepreneurial professionals launch and grow their portfolio careers.
Ben has had a diverse career includi…
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: 4-Day Week & Doing More In Less Time
In this episode, I talk to consultant and author, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, who has written two brilliant books that demonstrate the importance of incorporating deliberate rest into your life, and the v…
Cath Bishop - The Long Win with 3x Olympian, Diplomat & Author
Welcome to Take My Advice with me, Ollie Henderson - this is the second episode of this new podcast in which I talk to leading thinkers about subjects related to the future of work and our place in i…
Christopher Lochhead - Category Design & Niching Down
Welcome to this first episode of my new podcast, Take My Advice.
I'm Ollie Henderson, and I started this podcast mainly because I just wanted to speak to some fascinating people about subjects in whic…