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 workplace culture, all to help you lead and succeed in a changing world of work.
Episodes
142 episodes
Couples That Work: A Conversation with Jennifer Petriglieri
Jennifer Petriglieri is the associate professor at INSEAD and author of Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work. During this conversation, she joins The Edge of Work to discuss the challenges and...
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How to Lead From Anywhere
In this episode of The Edge of Work podcast, host Al Dea explores the concept of 'lead from anywhere'. Al shares insights from a virtual keynote, emphasizing that leadership isn't only a formal title but an action that everyone can practice.&nb...
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Grow My Way: Empowering Careers and Embracing AI at Thomson Reuters
Chris Louie is the Head of Talent Development at Thomson Reuters, where he leads initiatives in talent acquisition, learning and development, and diversity and inclusion. During the conversation, Chris shares his journey from financ...
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Best Hits: The People Growth Equation: Aligning Employees, Managers, and Organizations Around Career Development
Note: This is a replay of a top performing episode from 2024In today's workplace, career development is critical for attracting, engaging, and retaining talent. Employees expect a job with opportunities for growth and advanceme...
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Best Hits: AI, Learning & Development, and the Workplace with Christopher Lind
Note: This is a replay of a top performing episode from 2024Christopher 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...
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Best Hits: Evolving and Empowering Managers For a Changing World of Work with Adam Hickman
Note: This is a replay of a top performing episode from 2024Adam Hickman is the Vice President of Learning and Org Development at Partners Federal Credit Union, a Walt Disney Company. In addition to this role, Adam is an author ...
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5 Work Insights for Leaders in 2025
In this solo episode, host Al Dea explores five key themes shaping the workplace in 2025. From the power of "People Smarts" and enhancing social capital to making talent development a core leadership capability, Al highlights the critical strat...
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Unlocking Leadership Potential: Lessons in Leadership Development with Andrew Barry
Andrew Barry is the CEO of Curious Lion, a Leadership Development Consulting Firm. During this conversation, Andrew discusses how leaders can embrace uncertainty and adapt to a fast-changing workplace. Andrew shares personal insights from navig...
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Best Hits: The Power of Intentional Collaboration and Social Capital in Today’s Workplace, with Dr. Michael Arena
Note: This is a replay of a top performing episode from 2024Dr. 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 A...
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Best Hits: Reinventing Your Career in a Changing World of Work with Herminia Ibarra
Note: This is a replay of a top performing episode from 2024Herminia Ibarra is a Professor at London Business School and the author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Herminia's ...
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Scaling Coaching for Organizational Impact with Nicole Forward
Nicole Forward is an executive development leader with extensive experience in building and scaling coaching inside of organizations. During this conversation. Nicole shares her journey of building coaching functions from the ground up and prov...
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Unlocking Manager Excellence at ServiceNow with Stefani Okamoto
In this episode, Stefani Okamoto, Director of Manager Excellence at ServiceNow, shares her journey in transforming leadership and management practices. Drawing on her experience spearheading manager excellence at leading organizati...
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Human Skills for a Technology Driven World: Inside Deloitte’s Learning Transformation with Chief Learning Officer Anthony Stephan
Anthony Stephan is the Chief Learning Officer at Deloitte. With responsibility for developing over 180,000 employees globally, Anthony has spent the past two years in his role embarking on transforming the learning business at Deloitte to evolv...
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Why Leaders Must Become Developers of Talent
In this solo episode of The Edge of Work podcast, host Al Dea introduces a new approach to leadership: becoming developers of talent. Al explores how managers and leaders can embrace their roles in fostering employee growth and develop...
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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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