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
128 episodes
Navigating The Future of L&D: Strategy, AI and Change with Dani Johnson (Redthread Research)
Dani Johnson is the Co-Founder and Principal Analyst at RedThread Research. During this conversation, Dani shares some of her observations and insights from some of her recent conversations and research on the topic of L&D Strategy, the shi...
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Apprenticeship as a Way of Life: How Apprenticeship Accelerates Employee Development with Lisa Christensen
Lisa Christensen is the Director of Learning Design at McKinsey & Company. Drawing from her research, Lisa discusses how McKinsey uses apprenticeship as a key element of its culture, focusing on how it serves as a powerful mechanism for tra...
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Systemic Career Development: Building Holistic Employee Growth with Ana Maria Sencovici (Royal Caribbean Group)
Ana Maria Sencovici is the Chief Talent Officer at Royal Caribbean Group. In this role, she oversees talent management, career development, and leadership strategies for the organization. During this conversation, she sha...
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Live From SIOP’s Leading Edge Consortium: Developing Leaders for a Changing World of Work
This is an episode that features 4 interviews from key leaders and speakers at SIOP’s Leading Edge Consortium in late October 2024. In this episode, we speak with four key leaders including Shonna Waters, Trish Vassar, Sophia Lamuraglia, and Ri...
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Unlocking Employee Potential: Insights from the Guild Opportunity Summit
In this special episode, we traveled to Nashville to attend the Guild Opportunity Summit.This episode features conversations with Matthew Daniel, Talent Strategist at Guild, Terrence Cummings, Chief People & Opportunity Officer at Gu...
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Developing Talent: Walmart Academy and Building Better Leaders with Jennifer Buchanan (VP, Walmart Academy, Walmart)
Jennifer Buchanan is the VP of Walmart Academy at Walmart. In her role, Jennifer is responsible for a learning ecosystem that supports millions of Walmart associates with the development resources they need to be effective today while setting t...
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Leading with People: Aligning People, Technology and Leadership with Sarah Franklin The Strategic Power of People Leaders in the Age of AI
Sarah Franklin is the CEO at Lattice. After starting her career as a chemical engineer, Sarah spent 15 years at Salesforce and along the way has spent a lot of time collaborating and partnering with different C-Suite roles on using technology a...
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The Power of The Team: How Great Teams Use Precision Collaboration with Rob Cross
Rob Cross is an SVP of Research at the i4cp. A longtime expert, researcher, and author on the collaboration, teams, and organizational network analysis, Rob and his colleagues at the i4cp have recently conducted research to unearth the leading ...
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Supporting Early Career Talent with Career Transitions with Lindsey Pollak
Note: This is a replay from a LinkedIn Live Virtual Conversation with Lindsey PollakLindsey Pollak is a Career and Workplace Expert, Best-Selling Author, and Keynote Speaker.In this conversation, Al and Lindsey discuss th...
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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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