The Edge of Work

Jim Conti is an experienced talent and people leader, and is currently a Talent Partner for Hyde Park Venture Partners, a Venture Capital Firm based in Chicago, Illinois. In his role as a Talent Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners, Jim partners with emerging startups at the earliest stages to consult on various talent, people and hr strategies so these early stage companies can set the foundatio...

Fresia Jackson is a Lead Researcher For Culture Amp, an employee experience software company that helps organizations capture and use data to create impactful employee experiences. With over 6000 clients, Culture Amp has a significant data set that gives them a unique set of perspectives on the state of the workplace, employee experience, and what is and isn’t working between the relationship of o...

Salesforce, the CRM software company has long been an innovator in technology, but it’s also a pioneer when it comes to looking for, hiring, and developing diverse talent into its company.  In this episode, we spoke to Jennifer Stredler, VP of Untapped Talent at Salesforce. Jennifer has extensive experience working in workforce development, leads many of the efforts at Salesforce to identify diver...

Ann Parker is the Associate Director of Talent Consortiums for the Association For Talent Development (ATD). ATD is a professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees around the world. Talent, and attracting, developing and retaining it, has become front and center to helping organization’s thrive in today’s world of work, and ATD’s members ar...

Thomas Brunskill is the CEO of Forage, a technology and recruiting platform that provides free and accessible education and opportunities to connect with employers and to learn about potential fields, functions and roles. Currently, they work with employers like Lululemon, Wal-Mart, Bank of America and Visa, and are expanding rapidly across the globe. Forage works with companies to design digital...

Nancy Soni is the CEO at Pathmatch, a talent marketplace that helps students explore and identify potential career paths and then matches them with employers for internships and full-time job opportunities. Her inspiration for building Pathmatch comes from her own experience navigating career choices when she was in college, as well as after working for almost 2 decades in the corporate recruiting...

Aki Ito is a reporter and columnist with Insider. Aki writes and covers issues that are topical and timely around workplace and careers, and has written about a number of workplace trends that have picked up in the modern media around topics including the great resignation and quiet quitting. During our conversation, Aki spoke about some of her thoughts on the workplace, and we delved in depth int...

Raffi Salama is the Co-Founder of PassionFruit, a talent marketplace that connects fast-growing companies with independent talent and freelance workers.  While talent and freelance marketplaces are not new, their acceptance and usage is growing, and PassionFruit takes a unique approach as many of their independent workers are younger professionals. In addition to matching freelance talent to oppor...

Anita Hossain is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Grand, a group coaching platform. During our conversation, Anita spoke about the observations she made as an Executive Coach working with Founders and how that inspired her and her team to start The Grand. As a coach herself, Anita has seen the power of coaching and how it can help employees unlock their full potential in the workplace, and she shared...

Nolan Church is the Founder and CEO of Continuum, a marketplace that connects world-class executives with venture-backed companies for fractional and full-time opportunities. After leadership roles at companies including Doordash and Carta, Nolan founded Continuum to bring fractional opportunities to executives, and to help high-growth tech startups find the expertise and talent they need to solve...

Venture Capital Firms are all about investing in what’s new and next in innovation and technology. But while a deep understanding of technology is important, just as important is a keen eye for talent.  Whitnie Narcisse is an Operating Partner at First Round Capital, and oversees their talent, operations and ecosystem programs. With the help of her team, First Round has invested in a number of tal...

Today’s Guest is John Koelliker.  John is the Founder and CEO of Leland, an expert marketplaces that matches ambitious professionals with coaching, classes, and community needed to reach their educational goals. After working at two tech companies as a Product Manager managing marketplace type products, John decided to apply his learnings and start Leland, a marketplace that helps young profession...

Ben Siegel is a Co-Founder at Scholars, a technology platform that helps employers manage their communication, employer brand and retention of new hires. In the quest to attract and retain top early in career talent, companies that want to hire top talent must go beyond posting roles and hiring top talent, and also focus on ensuring that new hires have the resources and information they need from...

Sophie Smallwood is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Roleshare, a job sharing platform that connects individuals looking for fractional roles with companies looking to hire diverse talent. With Roleshare, employees can co-apply to full-time roles, and work flexible schedules and employers can get access to high quality talent.  After working for tech companies like eBay and Facebook, Sophie Co-Founded...

Dave Fano is the CEO and Founder of Teal, a company that provides thousands of employees tools, skills and recommendations to accelerate job searches and help people grow their careers. During his time as Chief Growth Officer at WeWork, Dave became aware of the lack of tools and infrastructure to support career professionals and started Teal to help solve that challenge. During our conversation, w...

Corey Kossack is the Founder and CEO of Aspireship, a learning and talent platform for the SaaS industry. Through cohort-based learning and industry-focused guidance coaching, Corey and his team help high potential sales and customer success candidates build the skills and capabilities needed to transition into in-demand jobs in sales and customer success. In this conversation. Corey spoke about h...

Shana Lebowitz Gaynor is a columnist at Insider and the author of Don’t Call it Quits: Turn The Job You Have into The Job You Love.  Shana has been covering the workplace, careers and leadership at Insider and recently published her book as a guide to employees who are struggling with their current role but don’t necessarily want to quit or leave their company on how they can make changes or take...

Welcome to the Edge of Work Podcast. In this trailer episode, I break down - What this podcast is about  - Who might enjoy listening to this podcast - Some of the common themes and topics which I'll cover during the first season - Why you should listen To get updates on the Edge of Work Podcast, subscribe here: https://theedgeofwork.substack.com/