The Edge of Work
The Edge of Work provides new insights and ideas to help leaders navigate the changing world of work. In each episode, we’ll talk to leaders, practitioners, and innovators to explore new ideas for attracting and developing talent, leadership, and culture, all to help you lead and succeed in a changing world of work.
Episodes
119 episodes
Voices From HR Tech
We’ve got a special episode! This week, we’re in Las Vegas for the HR Tech Conference hosted by HR Executive. During the week, we spoke with a handful of leaders from various parts of the HR ecosystem to better understand what’s new and next at...
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Adapting Company Culture in a Fast-Growing, Remote-First Organization with Katya Laviolette (Chief People Officer, 1Password)
Katya Laviolette is the Chief People Officer at 1Password. A fully remote organization since its inception in 2005, 1Password has undergone significant growth over the past few years as it’s moved up to the enterprise, and has had to adapt and ...
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How HR is Navigating the Challenge and Complexity of a Changing Workplace with Jolen Anderson
Jolen Anderson is the Chief People and Community Officer at BetterUp. In her role, Jolen is not just responsible for leading the talent and people strategy at BetterUp, but she also connects and speaks with numerous HR leaders and other members...
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Transformation in the Age of AI with Charlene Li
Charlene Li is an Entrepreneur, Consultant, Best-Selling Author and Keynote Speaker. As a longtime expert in studying emerging technologies and their impacts on society, business and leadership, Charlene has a keen eye for what’s new and next a...
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Becoming a Likeable Badass: Navigating Power and Status with Dr. Alison Fragale
Dr. Alison Fragale is a Professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, a Keynote Speaker, and Author. She is the author of the newly released book Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve. A longtime researcher and expe...
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AI, Learning & Development, and the Workplace with Christopher Lind
Christopher Lind, is a Chief Learning Officer, and the writer of the Future-Focused Newsletter and host of the Future-Focused Podcast. A longtime leader in the learning and development profession, Chris has a keen understanding of the intersect...
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The Importance of Impact Employers in Creating a More Inclusive World of Work
Megha Bansal Rizoli is a Senior Director at Jobs For the Future (JFF). In her role, Megha spends her time working with employers to help them build and adopt new and inclusive talent practices that create quality jobs and career mobility for mo...
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How ServiceNow is Designing and Delivering a Holistic Talent Strategy
Sarah Tilley is the SVP of Talent Acquisition and Management at ServiceNow. With an organization that has over 24,000 employees across 74 different countries, Sarah and her team are focused on delivering a holistic talent strategy that supports...
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Leading Learning and Development with CLO LIFT
In this episode, Al Dea sits down with Emily Lin, Chief Learning Officer at MasterCard, and Shannon Custard, Global Head of Learning for IKEA, to discuss the latest research from CLO Lift, an organization of Learning leaders from global organiz...
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Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World
Bruce Feiler is Best-Selling Author of multiple books. Today, he joins Al on The Edge of Work to talk about his most recent book The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post Career World. During this conversation, Bruce shares his own...
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The Role of The Manager in Today's Workplace
The Edge of Work has been exploring the role of the manager as well as the emphasis on manager development throughout its three seasons. During this episode, Al will cover:Why the manager is back in the spotlight
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Improving Employee Retention and Internal Mobility Through Career Development
Note: This is a reply of a popular episode from 2023.Nick Holmes is the Head of Career Experience at Fishawack Health, a healthcare organization based in the United Kingdom. As the head of Career Experience, Nick’s ...
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How Leaders Can Help Their People Thrive in a Constantly Changing World of Work
Note: This is a reply of a popular episode from 2023Dr. Gabriella Rosen Kellerman is the Chief Innovation Officer for BetterUp Labs, as well as the Co-Author of the book Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work, Now and In an Uncertain F...
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The People Growth Equation: Aligning Employees, Managers, and Organizations Around Career Development
In today's workplace, career development is critical for attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. Employees expect a job with opportunities for growth and advancement. Managers can shape the employee experience and drive team performance.
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New Ways of Working: How to Think and Work Differently with Chrissie Arnold (Director, Future of Work Programs, Slack)
Chrissie Arnold is the Director of Future of Work Programs at Slack. In her role, Arnold is tasked with identifying and testing new and novel ways of working that can help improve the way that Slack employees work so that they can improve key b...
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The Power of Intentional Collaboration and Social Capital in Today’s Workplace, with Dr. Michael Arena
Dr. Michael Arena is an author, researcher, and co-founder of Connected Commons and former talent executive at companies including General Motors, Bank of America and Amazon. With a passion for research in the studies of collaboration, social c...
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Voices From ATD ‘24: Jason Hudgins (Wellstar Health)
Note: This is a special episode from our conversations with talent development leaders at the ATD ‘24 Conference in New Orleans back in May 2024. Jason Hudgins is a Senior Consultant of Leadership Development at Wellstar He...
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Aligning People Strategy with Business Strategy with Jelena Djordjevic (Chief People Officer, Thumbtack)
Jelena Djordjevic is the Chief People Officer at Thumbtack. During the early months of the 2020 Global Pandemic, Thumbtack made the decision to go virtual first, and subsequently and iteratively implemented a people strategy that enabled its th...
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Voices From ATD ‘24: Terence Morley (VP, Global Talent Development, NBC Universal)
Note: This is a special episode from our conversations with talent development leaders at the ATD ‘24 Conference in New Orleans back in May 2024. Terence Morley is the VP of Global Talent Development at NBC Universal...
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A Conversation About Work, With Mitch Joel
Mitch Joel is a Keynote Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur and Host of the Six Pixels of Separation Podcast. Through his podcast and keynote speaking, Mitch regularly speaks with entrepreneurs, leaders, founders and executives about the workplace, a...
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Voices from ATD '24: Kimberly Currier (Vice President, Learning, AECOM)
Note: This is a live episode recorded from the Association For Talent Development (ATD) International Conference and Expo in New Orleans.Kimberly Currier is the Global Vice President of Learning at AECOM. As a Global Leader...
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Building The Future Workforce: How Liberty Bank is investing in Developing and Retaining Talent Through Apprenticeships and Beyond
Paul Young is the Chief Financial Officer at Liberty Bank. Established in 1825, Liberty Bank is the largest and oldest independent mutual bank in the United States. In this conversation, Paul shared how he and his colleagues at Liberty...
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Voices From ATD ‘24: Tiffany Poeppelman (Director, Career Development, LinkedIn)
Tiffany Poeppelman is a Director of Career Development at LinkedIn. Fresh off presenting at her talk at ATD’ 24 titled “Talent Development in the Age of AI,” Tiffany spoke to us about some of the trends and data from the 2024 Annual Work Trend ...
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Designing Better Workplaces with Nathan Manuel
Nathan Manuel is a Workplace Strategy Leader and Co-Founder of PM2 Consulting, a Workplace Strategy Consulting firm. After leading workplace strategy at a number of organizations including most recently at PagerDuty, Nathan has a keen sen...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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47:19
A Boundaryless World of Work: Insights From the 2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report
Sue Cantrell is the Vice President for Products and Strategy at Deloitte, and a Lead Author of the 2024 Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report. Each year, Sue and her colleagues at Deloitte conduct research into what’s new and next to help their ...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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