Chip Conley is the founder Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Wisdom
at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder. After transforming an inner-city
motel into the second largest boutique hotel brand in America and running
his company as CEO for 24 years, he went on to help the founders of Airbnb
transform their start-up into the world’s leading hospitality brand. Stew
and Chip discuss the future of work, how organizations can capitalize on
the loyalty and wisdom of the mature employee…[Click for more]
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Dr. Michelle Still Mehta, who holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard
University’s Kennedy School, is the author of Silent Sacrifice on the
Homefront: Military Spouses Share their Quests to Fit Career with Marriage,
Motherhood, and Military Life. Dr. Mehta is a researcher, management
consultant, and executive coach. Stew and Michelle discuss the
psychological and financial impact of the military culture of frequent
relocations…[Click for more]
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Meredith Bodgas is the Editor-in-Chief of Working Mother Magazine and
Workingmother.com. She talks with Stew about the culture change afoot in
American companies as they strive to do the right thing by all their
employees — working mothers and fathers, LGBT employees, those with
disabilities, both visible and invisible, and our military employees. They
discuss the new Culture@Work initiative and the National Association for
Female Executives (NAFE)…[Click for more]
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Michele Gelfand is a Distinguished University Professor at the University
of Maryland, College Park, and author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How
Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. As a cross-cultural psychologist,
Michele uses field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods
to understand the evolution of culture and its consequences. Michele wants
to help us understand the mindsets of those around us at work, at home, and
in our communities to help increase self-awareness as well as an
understanding of others’ perspectives…[Click for more]
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Brigid Schulte is director of The Better Life Lab at New America which
offers ways to restructure our workplaces and social policy using original
research and policy analysis. Brigid was an award-winning journalist for
The Washington Post and part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
Her book, Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time, was a
New York Times bestseller. For details on what we can do to reduce the toll
they take on our lives… [Click for more]
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Ashley Whillans is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. She studies how people navigate
trade-offs between time and money and whether intangible incentives, such
as experiential and time-saving rewards, affect employee motivation and
well-being. Stew and Ashley discuss “time poverty,” “happiness dollars,”
and “time confetti” …[Click for more]
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Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at
Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard
Business School. Her research explores the degree to which the private
sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy,
focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose
and innovation and productivity in high performance organizations. She
teaches Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems at Harvard, a
course that has grown from 28 students to over 300, and is under contract
for a book tentatively titled “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire.”
Why is she hopeful…[Click for more]
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Cal Newport is an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown
University and author of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a
Noisy World as well as Deep Work. You won’t find him on social media
because he’s an advocate of digital decluttering to maximize the return on
one’s investment in technology use and improve one’s overall happiness….[
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Phil Mirvis is Senior Research Fellow at both the Global Network on
Corporate Citizenship and the Babson Social Innovation Lab. He has authored
or edited twelve books, including the acclaimed study of the national mood,
The Cynical Americans, and a study of corporate human resource investments,
Building the Competitive Workforce. His latest work, with Brad Googins, is
The New Business of Business: Innovation for a Better World. Stew and Phil
talk about the increasing importance of social innovation in today’s
workplace for energizing employees and boosting business results…[Click for
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Aron Ain is Chairman and CEO of Kronos, named by Fortune and Great Place to
Work as one of the 20 best places to work in technology for the second year
in a row, and author of Work Inspired: How to Build an Organization Where
Everyone Loves to Work. Aron was the inaugural recipient of the “Ray Stata
Leadership and Innovation Award” from the Massachusetts High Technology
Council, and was recognized as “CEO of the Year” by the Massachusetts
Technology Leadership Council, and as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst &
Young. He has been profiled by The New York Times about “The Incalculable
Value of a Good Boss” and was featured in Harvard Business Review and the
HBR IdeaCast. Stew and Aron discuss the importance, and the ripple effects,
of trusting employees…[Click for more]
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