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About the podcast

About the podcast
Sophie addresses current business conditions and explores ways to navigate the disruption. She shares informative insights and interviewing leading innovators who are providing or benefiting from transformative solutions that will allow companies to emerge with sustainable models, mindsets, and business practices.
Find out how to transition to more effective, productive, and supportive new ways of working—across locations, generations, and platforms—as we harness these challenging circumstances to drive significant, multidimensional changes in all our working lives.
LATEST EPISODE

LATEST EPISODE
Tackling Underlying Issues: Straight Forward, But Not Simple, Solutions
Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian, first explains unlearning. He discusses the excitement and challenges of his work ensuring his company keeps adapting to stay ahead of competitors as it grows rapidly year on year. Focused on anticipating, exploring, and improving ways of working, Dom offers suggestions to specific questions that we are all currently trying to answer such as about hybrid work models, burnout, transformation challenges, and more, sharing his lived experiences, experiments and refined solutions. Read more
Recent Episodes
How Empathy Enables the Transformation of/at Work
Podcast host Sophie Wade checks in to discuss the current challenges, frustrations, and fatigue we are all dealing with as we emerge from the pandemic. From resisting or rolling out new work arrangements, to managing supply chain disruptions and rising costs, facilitating business and workforce transformation at the same time is not easy. Sophie explains how empathy works to enable the necessary shift to a human-centric orientation in technology-driven Future-of-Work environments leading to successful, sustainable progress and growth. She also reads short excerpts from her new book, Empathy Works: The Key to Competitive Advantage in the New Era of Work. Read more
Listen to the episodeThe Evolving Roles of Leaders and Revisiting Holacracy
Pascal Dulex, Culture Coach and Creative Director at Freitag in Switzerland, has been one of the people instrumental in implementing holacracy—a “self-management practice for organizations”—within the company. Pascal discusses the essence of leadership, provides insights about the role of managers, and explains how work processes were affected as the company prepared for and adopted holacracy. He also describes their ongoing internal discussions as he facilitates and supports continuing integration. Read more
Listen to the episodeEarlier Episodes
Transforming Career Trajectories for Women of Color at Work
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April 30, 2022
Listen to the episodeAdapting Product Design & Innovation for the Future of Work
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February 25, 2022
Listen to the episodeHow A/Synchronous & Distributed, Digitalized Work is Optimized
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January 28, 2022
Listen to the episode2021’s Essential Learnings: Emotions, Excuses, and Insights
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December 24, 2021
Listen to the episodeThe Hybrid Customer Journey and Creating Compelling Experiences
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December 10, 2021
Listen to the episodeHow Decentralized Organizations Profit from a Human-Centric Approach
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November 26, 2021
Listen to the episodeThe Office of the Future — Shaping a More Human Experience
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October 29, 2021
Listen to the episodeRemote & Hybrid Models: Realities, Recommendations, Rewards, & Risks
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September 17, 2021
Listen to the episodeEMBRACING PROGRESS
FUTURE OF WORK ‘MUST-READ’ BOOK.
Executive MBA textbook and ‘visionary reading’* about the Future of Work, Sophie’s book helps you understand the new work environment— faster-paced, tech-driven, and talent-focused. Her research-supported insights help executives, managers, and teams understand and transition to the new world of work.
Learn more“The way we work is going through a profound transformation. With Embracing Progress, Sophie Wade provides an essential guide for businesses of all sizes to create a more flexible, empathetic, purpose driven, and human workplace that can meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of this new era.”
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Founder and CEO, Thrive Global

SOPHIE IN THE NEWS

The 2021 remote influencer report
“Sophie Wade is one of the top 25 Remote Innovators and top 75 Remote Influencers.” February 2021

the 100 most influential remote experts
“Sophie Wade is included as one of "The following experts know that remote work is the future."” January 2021

the future of remote work report
“"A critical focus on empathy is essential for success in this new environment..." says Sophie Wade.” November 2020
TRANSFORMING WORK
PODCAST
Sophie addresses current business conditions and explores ways to navigate the disruption. She shares informative insights and interviewing leading innovators who are providing or benefiting from transformative solutions that will allow companies to emerge with sustainable models, mindsets, and business practices. Find out how to transition to more effective, productive, and supportive new ways of working—across locations, generations, and platforms—as we harness these challenging circumstances to drive significant, multidimensional changes in all our working lives.
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Expert intelligence and insights on Future of Work topics. Curated articles shared biweekly with updates on the latest trends.