Work. Shouldnt. Suck.

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Aaron Dworkin , Social Entrepreneur, Artist, Philanthropist, & Professor of Arts Leadership & Entrepreneurship. [Live show recorded: April 6, 2020.] AARON DWORKIN Named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts and Governor Snyder’s appointment to the Michigan Counci...

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Nina Simon , Spacemaker & CEO of OF/BY/FOR ALL. [Live show recorded: April 3, 2020.] NINA SIMON spend her days working on OF/BY/FOR ALL, a nonprofit she founded to make civic and cultural organizations of, by, and for everyone. If you like to read, check out her best-selling books "The Participatory Museum" and "The Art of R...

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Laura Zabel , Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts. [Live show recorded: April 1, 2020.] Lauren and Tim are hosting daily livestreamed chats in April 2020 to connect with leaders in “real time” — about their lives, their organizations, their sector, and the world — during this unprecedented time in our lives. We come t...

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Christine Bader , co-founder of The Life I Want. [Live show recorded: March 31, 2020.] Lauren and Tim are hosting daily livestreamed chats in April 2020 to connect with leaders in “real time” — about their lives, their organizations, their sector, and the world — during this unprecedented time in our lives. We come together as h...

Work. Shouldn't. Suck. LIVE: The Morning(ish) Show with special guest Jamie Bennett, executive director of ArtPlace America. [Live show recorded: March 30, 2020.] Lauren and Tim are hosting daily livestreamed chats in April 2020 to connect with leaders in “real time” — about their lives, their organizations, their sector, and the world — during this unprecedented time in our lives. We come togethe...

We're exploring different perspectives and approaches to personal and professional development and growth in our "Investing in Self" mini-series. We'll be sprinkling these episodes into the mix with our other upcoming episodes over the next several weeks. To start us off, in late January 2020, Lauren and I had the privilege to sit down with entrepreneurial strategist, consultant, multiple business...

[Note: This episode was recorded in late February and early March 2020 before the global spread of COVID-19, and the subsequent cancellation of the NCAA tournament.] Basketball, business, and beyond! When you work with two of the BIGGEST college basketball fans, you sit down with them in advance of the NCAA March Madness tournament to talk teams. Basketball not quite your thing? Well, we also tal...

We're talking remote work arrangements. Specifically, we’re talking about what teams and organizations can do to introduce, experiment, and iterate on virtual work tools and arrangements, especially in light of things like the spread of COVID-19. We cover a wealth of topics from VPNs to video meetings; going virtual first to balancing life and work when they both are happening in the same space; s...

What behaviors differentiate a Director from a Senior Director? What traits does a CEO need to demonstrate to be successful in their role that are similar or different from what an Admin Assistant needs? On this episode we're talking tools, specifically one called The Behavior Dashboard. We chat with Pallavi Sharma and Jillian Wright who lead the creation of The Behavior Dashboard. The Dashboard w...

"What’s in a Workplace?" dives into the physical and virtual components and connections that form the structures around how we work. And increasingly, these components are changing what work looks and feels like. We discuss Convention versus Invention, Creating workplaces with commitments to anti-racism and anti-oppression, and why do many creative sector organizations often seem to park their cre...

In this Part 2 of our exploration into shared leadership models, we sit down with a team that lead the transition from a single founder/CEO model to a four-person, shared, non-hierarchical co-CEO leadership team . To catch up with the story already in progress... in Part 1, Mike Courville, Kelly Kienzle, Holly Sidford, and Russell Willis Taylor took us on an action-packed adventure of shared, or d...

On this episode: "CEO Not *Necessarily* Required." We look at shared or distributed leadership models, what are they, what aren’t they, how they work, how you might evaluate different models, and might they be right for you and your organization. Mike Courville, Kelly Kienzle, Holly Sidford, and Russell Willis Taylor take us on an action-packed adventure. And, if after this episode you're still hu...

If you don't know where you're going — personally, professionally, as a team, as an organization — you'll have a hard time knowing if and when you ever get there. In this episode, we explore ways to create more transparency, accountability, and alignment in the workplace with tools like Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Lauren and Tim then close out the episode with a discussion that includes, am...

It's the end of a decade, and Lauren and I totally missed that's what everyone has been posting items about. In this episode, we sat down for a virtual fireside chat to record reflections on the past decade. Soft launch your new decade with a look back at ours... 2010 : Lauren (01:37); Tim (02:41) 2011 : Lauren (04:01); Tim (05:41) 2012 : Lauren (06:42); Tim (10:25) 2013 : Lauren (10:56); Tim (11:...

Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting artists, creatives, and makers with the things they need to succeed and thrive. About five years ago, the organization committed itself to a journey of becoming an anti-racist, anti-oppressive organization. In this episode, we chat with Courtney Harge and Nicola Carpenter, two people who have been deeply involved in that work. We’...

The process of grieving in the workplace often goes undiscussed. This episode connects with people who have experienced the death of loved ones while working, and explores how we might improve this journey that most of us will confront during our careers. 02:32 Sophia Park 22:25 Melissa Haber  38:33 Jim Rosenberg  59:15 Lauren Ruffin SOPHIA PARK is part of the External Relations team at...

In this episode, Tim chats with Lauren Ruffin about the launch of a new AR/VR co-op, Black capitalism, Work as the new religion, Vocations & Callings, Figuring out physical mail distribution for an entirely virtual workplace, and at what point you might own too many bicycles. LAUREN RUFFIN has over 15 years experience in policy, marketing, non-profit management, business development, fundraisi...

Pilot episode of the new Work. Shouldn't. Suck. podcast. What’s in store for this adventure? Listen to find out.