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Episode 46. Empathy & Navigating The New World Of Work – Sophie Wade

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:00 +0000

Why is and why will empathy be so important in the work place moving forward? Sophie Wade, the author of Empathy Works, and I discussed this and much more on Episode 46 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Appreciating different cultural perspectives by living in multiple countries,

How she started working in media and technology.

How creating content like a podcast and articles can help build your brand and network, which is especially helpful for introverts,

The value of an MBA and if she would pursue one now,

Why it’s important to be self aware and build on your strengths,

Think of yourself as a start up and understand what is your USP,

Why empathy is so important at work and how managers and their staff should have empathy for each other,

Why it’s so valuable for leaders to listen to their team and get contribution from all levels,

Customer and audience feedback is vital for enhancing and developing products and services,

Uncertainty is challenging but also gives countless opportunities, and

The increasingly non linear nature of careers and why it’s crucial to take ownership of you career development.

Sophie Wade is a work futurist, international keynote speaker, author, and authority on Future-of-Work issues. She is the host of the widely popular Transforming Work podcast and 450,000 learners have taken her four LinkedIn courses which cover Future-of-Work skills, empathy, and Gen Z. Sophie is the Founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist at Flexcel Network, a Future-of-Work consultancy. Sophie’s executive advisory work and transformative workshops help companies futureproof their work environments and attract, engage, and retain their multigenerational and distributed talent. She helps corporations maximize the benefits and minimize the disruption in their transition to talent-focused new work environments.

Sophie has held senior management, strategy and finance roles around the world—in Asia, Europe and the U.S.—working in media, technology, and venture capital for companies such as IMG and Yahoo. With a strategy and finance focus for her first career, she assisted entrepreneurs and major corporations identify, develop, and execute strategic initiatives, build teams and ventures and create partnerships.

Her first book, Embracing Progress: Next Steps for the Future of Work, has been an Executive MBA Program textbook and required reading for several management school leadership courses and her new book is Empathy Works, which is a great read. Sophie served on the Board of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) as chapter President 2015-17, and a member of NAWBO National’s Presidents’ Assembly Steering Committee 2016-19. She is on the NY Advisory Board of Common Sense Media. Sophie has a BA from Oxford University and an MBA from international business school, INSEAD.

Sophie told me: “Think about yourself as a business, what’s your USP, what’s your unique selling proposition and you may not know it now and that’s okay because it’s something that evolves and you can certainly ask people around you in work or your friends … but if you understand yourself as a little business, it’s part of a helpful journey to understand what’s unique about yourself and how to put yourself forward because I think we do have to be much more self-aware”.

People & Resources Mentioned

The Princess Bride

Gena Cox

Dom Price

Contact Sophie

Website: https://www.sophiewade.com/

Company Website: www.flexcelnetwork.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-wade-380b8

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASophieWade

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asophiewade/

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Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it. The next episode is with Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, a specialist in conversation analysis. She was formerly Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University, UK and joins the London School of Economics Department of Psychological and Behavioural Sciences in January 2023. She is also the author multiple books, including Talk: The Science of Conversation. I had a great conversation with her and her episode will be released on Weds 18th January.

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it’s always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. Thanks again for your support and wishing you a successful and fulfilling 2023!

*Reframe & Reset Your Career, including any comments made by the host and guests, is for informational purposes only and does not constitute advice of any description, including but not restricted to financial, legal, investing or medical advice.*

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Episode 21. Your Digital Reinvention – Nahia Orduna

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:52:35 +0000

Worried about how an ever more disruptive world and changes in the digital economy might impact your career and looking for strategies to help you adapt and retool? Nahia Orduña, the author of “Your Digital Reinvention”, discussed this and much more on Episode 21 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Overcoming limiting beliefs;

Taking calculated risks to progress in your career;

Creativity and solving challenging problems in technology;

Experimenting and having a broad experience at the start of her career;

How being adaptable and flexible can help your career;

Nahia’s book and how it would help someone find a job in the digital world;

Working consistently over time to achieve your goals;

How Nahia finds the time to build her network whilst being a working mother;

Writing articles consistently to develop her ideas and thought leadership;

Sharing knowledge to pass on knowledge and refine ideas;

Building relationships authentically; and

Thinking of yourself as a start up when looking at your career development.

Nahia is currently a Manager in the Solution Architecture area at one of the biggest technology companies in the world. She has over 15 years’ experience in International IT and Tech companies and has held different roles in the field from Network Engineer to Solution Director in three different countries. She speaks speak Spanish, Basque, English, German and Data!

She is one of the leaders of the Women in Big Data organization, where she regularly engages, and shares thought leadership in forums to encourage and promote diversity in data careers. She won the Data Leader of the Year Europe 2019 Award at the Women in IT Summit awards.

Nahia is a contributor to the World Economic Forum and Harvard Business Review, where she shares her thoughts about the Future of Work and Digital Skills.

Her book “Your Digital Reinvention”, which was published in 2020, aims to help people find their place in the digital workspace. It is a blueprint for careers and retooling in the new digital world.

Nahia told me “If you want to move on, you have to take risks so you have to be willing to take risk, you may go to a job where you don’t know 100% what you’re going to do but you go there or you look in a new field, going outside your comfort zone is the key to advancing your career.”

Resources & People Mentioned

Sheryl Sandberg

Nahia’s HBR article: https://hbr.org/2021/03/why-robots-wont-steal-your-job

Grace Lordan

Jeff Gothelf

Contact Nahia

Website: https://nahiaorduna.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nahiaorduna/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nahiaorduna

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nahiaorduna/

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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LinkedIn Page – https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

E-mail – reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or just to say hello, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. Thanks so much for your support and have a great week!

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Episode 20. Surfing Rogue Waves – Jonathan Brill

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:39:16 +0000

Looking for strategies to future proof your career and business in a world where uncertainty and disruption is becoming ever more common? Jonathan Brill, a futurist and author of “Rogue Waves”, discussed this and much more with me on Episode 20 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

How he studied Industrial Design and worked with Sony to build a museum for the future;

Becoming the Global Futurist at Hewlett-Packard (“HP”);

How to take advantage of disruption;

What are Rogue Waves?;

Preparing companies to cope with disruption;

The ABCs of Resilient Growth – Awareness, Behaviour Change and Culture Change;

Using simple tools to find solutions;

Why timing, sequencing and hedging are important?;

How Toyota used hedging to overcome supply issues;

How Elon Musk & SpaceX disrupted the space travel market;

Insights from basketball applicable to business; and

Territory Studio and its work on blockbuster movies.

Jonathan is a renowned expert on resilient growth and decision making under uncertainty. His insights are based on experience. As a senior leader and the Global Futurist at HP, he directed long-term strategy and intelligence programs.

He is the Managing Director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan, a major market intelligence firm with offices in 46 countries. He is the Futurist-in-Residence at Territory Studio, the creative visionaries behind the sci-fi tech in Stephen Spielberg’s Ready Player One, Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner 2049, where he creates products and better worlds for both super villains and real-life heroes.

He advises globally on resilient growth strategy and product innovation to clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo and the United States government. He is an in demand thought leader, speaker and contributor for TED, Forbes and the Harvard Business Review.

He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab and in management training at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

His new book, “Rogue Waves” was recently published, which looks at future proofing your business to survive & profit from radical change.

Jonathan told me “I think that combination of really getting down to the root cause, understanding the reality and then understanding how you model systems around that, I think it’s a really powerful combination and you don’t need to be Elon Musk to do these things. So much of what he does, so much of what he suggests, so much what he thinks, of what he thinks about is how do we do it in a more simple way, what are the underlying structural issues?”

People and Resources Mentioned

Anaïs Nin

Elon Musk

Shane Battier

HBR article: https://www.jonathanbrill.com/recent/harvard-business-review-article-how-hp-turns-business-catastrophes-to-their-advantage

Helen Keller

Dorie Clark – The Long Game

Contact Jonathan

Website: https://www.jonathanbrill.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbrill1

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonathanbrill

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.brill.752

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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LinkedIn Page – https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

E-mail – reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

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Episode 16. Future Proofing Your Career – Diana Wu David

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:33:34 +0000

Looking to learn about potential strategies and ideas to future proof you career? Diana Wu David, futurist and author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration, discussed this, her career and much more on Episode 16 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Having An Experimentation Mindset;

Reflecting And Learning From Every Job Move;

Being Strategic With Your Career And Looking To The Future;

Transitioning From A Corporate To A Portfolio Career;

The Four Aspects Of Future Proofing Your Career;

The Power of Your Network;

The Importance of Adaptability In Your Career;

Resilience;

Taking Action On A Regular Basis; and

Being Proactive When Looking For Opportunities.

Diana is a former Financial Times executive, author of Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School’s EMBA Global Asia. She started out her career working on high level strategy as a management consultant and as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger.

She works with global leaders, companies and boards to enhance their ability to adapt, contribute, collaborate and grow. She has consulted with or spoken to clients including JP Morgan, AXA, Credit Suisse, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, the World Bank, Asia Development Bank, Expedia and Randstad.

She is a futurist and writes about the future of work for publications including Fast Company, Inc and Thrive and speaks globally on the future of work, corporate governance and boards and East-West issues.

Diana told me “It’s easier than ever for you to do those kind of experiments, so you can instead of deciding to launch a newsletter you can start writing on Medium and get feedback in terms of whether or not people are interested and I remember for myself I loved my job that was in venture capital and so at some point I was invited to join an Incubator, an angel investing fund, and I decided not to do it … I decided to just stay in my job and allocate a portion of my salary to investing in companies and I went on the advisory board for them instead of joining them as a partner”.

Resources & People Mentioned

Mizuta Masahide

Henry Kissinger

Diana’s TEDx Talk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBObnvIZGwE

Donna Eiby

World Economic Forum Article on Skills of Tomorrow – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them/

Dorie Clark

Tammy Gooler Loeb

Contact Diana

Website: https://dianawudavid.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianawudavid/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dianawudavid

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dianawudavidpage/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianawudavid/

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ReframeResetYourCareer

LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

E-mail – reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast and YouTube channel or anything else, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding. Thanks so much for your support and have a great week!

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Episode 15. Becoming Forever Employable – Jeff Gothelf

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:21:21 +0000

Is it possible to future proof your career so that you become forever employable? Jeff Gothelf, the author of Forever Employable, shared his insights on this and much more on Episode 15 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

His Early Life As A Musician;

Transitioning To Becoming A UX Designer;

How “Enthusiastic Scepticism” Has Shaped his Career;

Thinking Of Your Career As A Start Up;

Noticing And Adapting To Industry Trends;

The Five Steps and Qualities To Becoming Forever Employable;

Self Confidence & Managing Imposter Syndrome;

The Importance Of Execution & Taking Action;

Why Story Telling Is So Important; and

Creating A Routine.

Jeff helps organisations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Lean UX and the Harvard Business Review Press book Sense & Respond.

Jeff started his career as a designer working with the first companies to use the internet as a new communication, sales and service channel. He now works as a coach, consultant and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management and human-centred design.

Most recently Jeff co-founded Sense & Respond Press, a publishing house for practical business books for busy executives. His most recent book, Forever Employable, was published in June 2020. He has also written Lean vs Agile vs Design Thinking.

In the clip below, Jeff told me: “If I could figure out how to reclaim control over my career so instead of me pushing myself out into the market, if I could create a situation where I am attracting, I’m pulling opportunities towards me, well that would guarantee that no matter what came my way, whether I was 35 or 40 or 45 or whatever there was always an inbound stream of opportunities”.

People & Resources Mentioned

Janice Fraser

Information Architecture For The World Wide Web – Louis Rosenfeld & Peter Morville

Astro Teller & his TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t13Rq4oc7A

So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport

Alden Mills

Ali Abdaal

Seth Godin

Josh Seiden

Contact Jeff

Website: https://jeffgothelf.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gothelf/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jboogie

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foreveremployable

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-reset-your-career/?viewAsMember=true

E-mail – reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

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Episode 6. Think Big – Dr Grace Lordan

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:50:06 +0000

Looking for ideas to help on your journey to achieving ambitious future goals? Dr Grace Lordan shares behavioural science based insights and practical steps from her best selling book “Think Big” and much more on Episode 6 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast. Hopefully this will inspire you to start taking the steps to your dream future.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Her early education and how she moved from Computer Science to Economics,

Why it’s helpful to think in terms of skills & activities rather than careers,

How you can change your narrative,

Using your time more efficiently,

Taking small steps to achieve your goals,

The impact of emotions on decision making,

Dealing with life blows and being resilient, and

The danger of comparing yourself to others.

Grace is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII), Director of the MSc in Behavioural Science and an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, my former university, but Grace has had a far more impressive career!

Grace has a PhD in Economics, and an undergraduate degree in computer science. Her research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don’t. She is an expert on the effects of bias, discrimination and technology changes. Grace is an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals in economics and the broader social sciences. “Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future you Want” is her first book. Grace is a regular keynote and panel speaker at corporate events.

I first came across Grace through an excellent discussion on Careers which she was hosting at the LSE and the panel included our good friend Dorie Clark. I found her work interesting and reached out to her and she generously agreed to appear on the podcast.

Resources & People mentioned

Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Kelly McGonigal

Antonio Damasio

Vincent Walsh

Contact Grace

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-lordan-0b88ab115/

Twitter – https://twitter.com/GraceLordan_

Website – www.gracelordan.com

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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E-mail – reframeandresetyourcareer@harshaboralessa.com

Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it.

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Episode 5. Playing the Long Game – Dorie Clark

harshaboralessa_ceh63s — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 05:12:49 +0000

Becoming frustrated that you’re not achieving the success that your efforts deserve and looking for long term thinking and strategies to break out of this? Dorie Clark discussed this, her book “The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World” from Harvard Business Review Press and much more on Episode 5 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

How Dorie bounced back after losing her dream job in journalism,

The importance of content creation to help you stand out and build your brand,

Why you should not be shy about marketing yourself,

Creating multiple revenue streams for your business,

Being proactive and thinking differently when looking for a job,

How interpreting the same facts in a different way generates value,

Focusing on the process and execution, and

Testing your ideas through content creation and interacting with your audience.

Dorie Clark is an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You, which was named “one of the most important business books of the year” by Inc. magazine and one of the Top 5 Books of the Year by Forbes, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine.

A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Entrepreneurial You self-assessment workbook and learn more about Dorie at dorieclark.com/entrepreneur.

She was named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50, and the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, as well as one of the Top 10 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus.

She is also a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album and invests in Broadway productions, and am a lyricist in BMI’s Tony-Award winning Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop.

Her specialties include: marketing, branding, management consulting, strategy consulting, communications, speaking, keynote speaking, professional speaking, professional speaker, personal branding and executive coaching.

I first came across Dorie, when I saw a video of one of her talks, five years ago on a personal development course run by Lucy Whitehall and CABA. Dorie’s ideas on reinvention and personal branding resonated with me and I reached out to her via her website. This was something that I rarely did, I did not expect to hear back and had no thoughts of starting a podcast at the time. I was amazed when she kindly responded, we started emailing, became friends over the years and I joined her REx group. Now fast forward five years, I had the pleasure of having her on my podcast and we had such a fun interview!

Dorie talked to me about why content creation is important for personal branding and told me “I’m definitely a big believer in that you need at bats because it is very hard to predict. I mean when I was first writing my first book “Reinventing You”, prior to coming to that as a topic, I had come up with three different ideas for potential first books that I could create and you know it turns out like pretty much no one was interested in any of them! … “Reinventing You” actually stemmed from a random blog post that I had written for Harvard Business Review that for some reason, I did not think it was special, in any particular way but the market was like “this, we want this” and so it ended up turning into my first book!”.

People & Resources Mentioned

Influence – Robert B. Cialdini

The EMyth Revisited – Michael Gerber

TEdX Lugano – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6leLPN8ipI

Contact Dorie

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dorieclark

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doriec/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorieclarkauthor/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorieclark/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DorieClark

Website: www.dorieclark.com

Clubhouse: @dorieclark

Other Resources provided by Dorie

Entrepreneurial You self assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/entrepreneur

Stand Out self-assessment workbook: dorieclark.com/join

Recognized Expert Evaluation Toolkit: dorieclark.com/toolkit

Entrepreneurial You self-assessment: http://dorieclark.com/entrepreneur

Reframe & Reset Your Career Resources & Contact Info

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Thank you for your continued support of Reframe & Reset Your Career, I do appreciate it. It would be great to hear from you, the listeners, and your thoughts about the podcast, YouTube channel or anything else, it’s always a pleasure to hear your views. I have had some great reviews but not had any way of responding.

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