Work is changing fast. New technology, new expectations, new challenges.
And exciting new opportunities.
On Future Work/Life, I interview top business and thought leaders who'll give you the insights you need to build great teams and careers (minus the burnout).
Tune in to hear conversations on topics like communication, creativity, leadership, technology and workplace culture. Plus, ideas on how to grow your career without sacrificing your life.
Previous guests include Azeem Azhar, Bruce Daisley, Damian Hughes, Daniel Pink, Dorie Clark, Dror Poleg, Jennifer Moss, Lynda Gratton, Marcus Buckingham, Rory Sutherland, Steven Kotler, Tim Harford and Tyler Cowen.
You can also read more about these themes in the Future Work/Life newsletter.
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Welcome to the second of the world's first work/life podcast, in which I share my thoughts on the changes to work in 2020 and how this will evolve in 2021 and beyond. LINKS: Future Work/Life newsletter FWL#2 - Lenin & Goethe on...future work/life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
So it's the 1st of January, 2021 and we've left that very strange year of 2020 behind us. I made the (possibly) rash decision this morning to launch series two of this podcast earlier than planned. Inspired by Christopher Lochhead - the first guest on Take My Advice (I'm Not Using It) - I've decided to record the world's very first Work/Life Podstorm. What's a 'podstorm' I hear you ask? Well, you might be familiar with a 'tweetstorm' - a series of tweets sent in rapid succession - and Chri...
In the final episode of this first series of Take My Advice, we focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. My first guest is Zoe Young, founder of Half The Sky, author of Women's Work: How Mothers Manage Flexible Working in Careers and Family Life, and co-investigator of Work After Lockdown, a research project exploring how the effects of the pandemic on working from home, and looking at which new behaviours and working practices will remain, and which should be encouraged. We discuss flexible wo...
Today's guest works at the forefront of the exploration of how this future could and should look. Allison Baum Gates is General Partner of SemperVirens; a Silicon Valley-based early-stage Venture Capital Fund focused on the future of work. I discovered Allison's Medium articles a few months ago in which she brilliantly articulates some of the challenges and opportunities that existed even before 2020 and that are now rapidly accelerating. Amongst other things, we discuss her ideas on what ...
Why has someone who’s never surfed invited one of the worlds greatest ever surfers on to his podcast? Well, a conversation I listened to in March between Guy Kawasaki and today’s guest Shaun Thompson made a profound impact on me and offered reasons for optimism during what was such a strange and challenging time. This podcast was originally going to be called Take My Advice (I’m Not Using It), but since it’s such a mouthful, I cut the name back a little. We discuss this theme in the podcast, tho...
Rewind 8 months to the start of the first lockdown in this strangest of years. My wife and I, like many people, were about to begin what was definitely the most challenging period of our parenting lives. Schools had shut, work was uncertain, and many people were understandably anxious. A couple of weeks before, I had ordered a copy of a new book called Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life , which applies leade...
Ben Legg is the CEO of The Portfolio Collective, his new business and a community that helps entrepreneurial professionals launch and grow their portfolio careers. Ben has had a diverse career including as an army officer, McKinsey strategy consultant, COO of Google Europe and global technology CEO. He has lived in nine countries and worked in 60. He now has a portfolio career, which includes board roles, mentoring (and investing in) entrepreneurs, advising investors, speaking at conferences and...
In this episode, I talk to consultant and author, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, who has written two brilliant books that demonstrate the importance of incorporating deliberate rest into your life, and the value of a shorter working week - for example, a 4-day week or 6-hour day. Both books have impacted the way that I structure my time and influence my thinking about the future of work. Alex is a fascinating guy and has spent years studying organisations from a range of industries, including agencies, ...
Welcome to Take My Advice with me, Ollie Henderson - this is the second episode of this new podcast in which I talk to leading thinkers about subjects related to the future of work and our place in it. My guest today is Cath Bishop. She's an Olympian and World Champion rower. She's also a former diplomat, and now a leadership speaker, coach and writer, as well as a thoroughly lovely person to chat to. I enjoyed our conversation, which covered a range of topics, including sport, leadership and ed...
Welcome to this first episode of my new podcast, Take My Advice. I'm Ollie Henderson, and I started this podcast mainly because I just wanted to speak to some fascinating people about subjects in which I'm interested. They range from the future of work, and how that intersects with our personal lives, to marketing, management, entrepreneurship and sport. In this episode, I speak to one of my favourite business authors and podcasters, Christopher Lochhead. Christopher wrote the best-selling...
