Chaos & Rocketfuel: The Future of Work Podcast

Alex Shootman shares the important lessons that cycling and the highs and lows of raising children have taught him about work.

Linda Fayne Levinson discusses how business leaders need to start searching for change to prepare for an uncertain future of work. How will people process working from home, moving back into offices, and balancing work and life in a post pandemic world.

Deanna is the Chief Innovation officer at DAM company Widen. Widen is a tech company 70 years young that's developed with its customers from engraving to printing and through to software. Deanna started at the company about 15 years ago and has worked through to a senior position, heading up Product Development. 

Before the pandemic, DAM was used mainly by creative teams. Now it's a hub for all employees, teams, and customers in the business ecosystem. Here, we explore what's changed, as well as the Widen innovation process, and how it's all about changing behaviors. Deanna also explains what she thinks is the next big innovation, and the importance of balancing customer and employee satisfaction. 

Claire Haidar and Doug Foulkes join Dr. Lyndsey Harper, MD, founder of ROSY, an app for women experiencing decreased sexual desire and other sexual related problems. We discuss the link between sex, self-esteem, and work. That includes our educational obligation as a sexual being and the ME TOO movement, and how evasion and a lack of drive can reflect behavior in the workplace. SexTech is bringing people back to their bodies, and this needs to be the same in the work environment in order to help with understanding physical signals, mental patterns, and needs.

What does it mean to be human in this new world? How can we redefine the role of humans in a world of machines? Digital sociologist Lisa Talia Moretti worked with WNDYR on a research project about the role of humans in the future. Here, she recaps this work and its relevance in todays environment. She explains which 10 specific skills we must develop to remain relevant.

Lisa has recently been named one of the top 100 people in the UK who is changing the digital and internet industries for good in the field of Tech Ethics. This has lead to her being appointed as the Resident Digital Sociologist for the Ministry of Justice, UK. She speaks about the need for governments to have a "Department of Tech”, as well as how companies need to recognize and develop "HQ" (Human Quotient) and other soft skills in their employees. Finally she speaks passionately about Ethics—what it is and how to implement it in our lives. It’s about deciding how we want to live our lives.

Kyle Bass is a hedge fund manager and founder and CIO of Hayman Capital Management, known for predicting the Subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. He has a straight talking, no nonsense approach to uncovering injustices in the world, and reminds us to challenge the information in anything we read.

David MacLaren is the founder and CEO of DAM company Media Valet. Media Valet started as a travel repository for images and digital information for hotels and resorts. Developing into one of the forefront DAM companies worldwide.
 

Tina Howard is the founder of Leaves, a book and tea shop in Fort Worth, Texas. Her story is one of strong Community values and building, centered around the starting and development of the 2 year old business.

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of WRIKE, a work management platform created in 2003. Work management platforms assists in making remote work possible and effective. Along with his reasons for the importance of the collaboration and visibility in today's remote, agile, digital work environment, Andrew offers 5 things that management teams in growing companies should be thinking about.