What's Your Work Fit?

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews Debra Olshan Cooper to discover how personal storytelling builds brilliant careers. Debra is the founder and principal of Your Career Design Lab. She empowers people new to the workplace and not, to find and do the work of their dreams. What is more, by leveraging mindfulness and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) techniques, Debra poses questions which g...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews author Hana Ben-Shabat . She illustrates how the future of work is Generation Z. Hana is the author of Gen Z 360: Preparing for the Inevitable Change in Culture, Work, and Commerce . And, to tell the generation's story, she gleaned considerable insight from a large sampling of the cohort. This much is evident: Gen Z is changing every aspect of life and w...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen explores future work recruitment with Russell White . Russell is a veteran executive recruiter who is based in London. For years, he supported candidate development for top brands in digital marketing, insights, and social media. But, in the wake of the pandemic, Russell remade and rebranded his firm as Future Work . Now, along with core executive search services o...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen explores the emergence of a human and adaptive workplace with Rodney Evans . Rodney is the host and executive producer of the Brave New Work Podcast . What is more, she leads The Ready which helps companies become more human and adaptive. Out of the pandemic, we begin to recognize a future of work that is less about co-locations and siloes and more about recognizin...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen asks internationally recognized Corporate Diva Dipika Trehan : will women lead future work? A self-described "philanthrepreneur," Dipika promotes the health, wellness, and professional success of women across the globe. Her brands, the H.O.W. Forum and Corporate Diva , work across many verticals of holistic employee well-being and female empowerment. As Dipika expl...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discusses mastering the digital workplace with podcaster Neil Miller . He helps careerists to make sense of digital workplace innovations, to be truly intentional in the future of work. Neil calls himself a "thought stealer." Actually, he is a best-practices synthesizer. Neil helps people and companies to succeed in the digital workplace. What is more, his journey...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discusses workplace trends for 2022 with Kettle's Dan Rosenzweig . Most notably, Dan explains two trends this year with the biggest workplace impact: the clubhouse as the office and pop-up venues for work. On one hand, clubhouses enable professional talent to gather safely and with engagement. On the other, pop-up venues allow companies to reassemble team members i...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen and podcast guest Achim Nowak delve into the Fourth Act Career. In his first career act, Achim was a successful New York City-based theatrical director who, as a workaholic, sought perfection. But a vision of a white house on a tropical island soon captivated his dreams. Achim's dreamy vision turned into reality. He found that white house on the tropical island of...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discusses employee experience and future work with Professor Diane Gayeski . Professor Gayeski teaches Strategic Communications at Ithaca College's Park School of Communications . What is more, she is a noted thought-leader in employee experience or EX . In the future of work, EX is a linchpin for people to find and do meaningful work. Main segment begins at 2:59 I...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discusses a startup parent's workplace culture fix with entrepreneur and podcaster Sarah K. Peck . Sarah is the CEO and founder of Start Up Parent and host of the popular Start Up Parent Podcast . As a former start up executive, and the mom of two young children, Sarah is leading the charge to improve start-up business environments. To that end, she wants start-up...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discusses Myers Briggs and the Great Resignation with expert Edythe Richards . As 2022 begins, an estimated 20 million American workers opted for the Great Resignation . With such an unprecedented exit of active workforce members, we wondered about the correlation between Myers Briggs Type Indicators and the Great Resignation. To help guide us through this critical...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen says people should use SWOT to focus on career success. That's right. The time-honored business management tool, the SWOT analysis , can help careerists to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Getting to blissful work and experiences takes great planning and imagination. And this time-honored business tool can focus our minds on finding and d...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen believes that good health and future work will be informed by pandemic responses. As 2021 draws to a close, the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus has spread like wildfire. And clear to many people now is this: because about a one-third of the nation remains unvaccinated, we will, for the foreseeable future, encounter more Covid variant outbreaks. Good health an...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen reflects on the Holiday Season and one tired, burned out workforce. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Have you arrived at the holiday rested or refreshed? Or are you a burned out mess? According to a recent post on FortuneDaily: "The physical and emotional exhaustion that turns into workplace burnout doesn’t happen overnight. It’s the result of hundreds of micr...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discovers from Gitlab's Darren Murph how remote work can work. As GitLab’s Director of Remote Work, Darren is “the voice in the room” that evangelizes the trailblazing company’s distributed workforce operating model. What is more, Darren authored The GitLab Remote Work Playbook , which thousands of people around the globe have downloaded. As 2021 concludes, positiv...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews   Overflow PBC co-founder and CEO Laura Marella on finding success in independent work. Laura co-founded Overflow PBC to help solo-entrepreneur marketing and strategy professionals succeed. In 2021, the rise of independent benefitted people who compete for business with large firms and agencies. As a business accelerator and professional community, Overf...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen asks Plutoshift's Prateek Joshi : will artificial intelligence improve future work? Prateek is the founder and CEO of Plutoshift, a company that uses artificial intelligence or A.I. to make the world a better place. This we know: artificial intelligence frightens people who fear that robots will take their jobs and paychecks. And, truth be told, A.I. will soon repl...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen discovers Raj Subrameyer's immigrant's future work story. Raj arrived in the United States for graduate study. He was an introverted Southern Indian student who pursued the lofty career goals that others expected him to follow. Astonishingly, he applied for over 1,200 jobs and got but a handful of interviews. That’s when he decided to focus on his own happiness; he...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews Cristina DiGiacomo who wants people to get philosophical for work success. An author, podcaster , and practical philosopher, Cristina draws on ancient insight to help people solve contemporary problems. And as the founder of MorAlchemy , she guides people with practical philosophy  to lead happier, more purposed lives doing meaningful work. Skeptics may...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews author Daniel Pink to discuss what drives us to work. Daniel is The New York Times' best-selling author of several books, including DRIVE: The Surprising Truth of What Motivates Us. In good economies and bad, what drives us to work remains unchanged. During the pandemic, millions in the American workforce adjusted to remote work.  And a large share of th...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen uncovers a culture of workplace empathy with podcast guest Hannah Jew. Hannah Jew (last name pronounced "Joe") is an empathy building brand strategist for Scotts Miracle-Gro , the nation's leading lawn and garden care company. A culture of workplace empathy is central to how Hannah does her job; it helps drive value for consumers who rely on her company's products...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen meets with Nina Froriep to discuss how video storytelling drives career success. Nina is a veteran video marketer and principal of Clock Wise Productions . She helps people across the globe to promote themselves and their brands effectively on social media. We have all experienced massive disruption caused by the pandemic. And 18 months of remote work placed us in...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen meets with marketing expert  Amanda Blair Davis who experienced The Great Resignation turned Great Empowerment. Amanda built a successful career as a corporate marketing executive. During the pandemic, she thrived working remotely. But, in 2021, when her company called people back to the office, she resigned. Undaunted, she built a life and new career as an entrepr...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews Genein Letford to discuss the case for intercultural creativity at work. Genein Letford is a public speaker, podcaster, and thought-leader in intercultural creativity. She works with hiring managers to help them create thriving workplaces. When people at work collaborate, they often pair up with others who are most like them. The old expression "birds of...

Future of Work Sherpa Dan Smolen interviews Dr. Dan Hill, who believes that "blah, blah, blah" hurts the workplace and career professionals. And in Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo , Dr. Hill and co-author Dr. Howard Moskowitz crowd-sourced over 600 examples of workplace jargon that are typically dismissive, patriarchal, and toxic. One cannot discuss The Great Resignation  now happ...