Charles Corley: Culture, Wellness, Visualization, AI Colleague | Work 20XX Ep34

Adrienne’s college summer internship sweeping the streets of Disney World turned into a 20+ year career where she developed many of the foundational values that continue to surface today, starting with the connected threesome of the customer, the product or experience, and the employee. Purposeful attention to detail centered on the customer’s experience defines the perception of the company in the customer’s mind.

What happens when the increasing demands for flexibility and agility collide with what has historically be a pretty static, inflexible asset, the office? You might be surprised at the magic available beyond the cubicle and traditional floor plan.

Bad meetings are the bane of the modern working world. The back-to-back, uninterrupted energy crushers have only gotten worse over the last two years. Shani Harmon, Co-Founder & CEO of 'Stop Meeting Like This' shows us the path to a better way.

In Episode 4, we dive into the art of the one-on-one, with a master of the art, PayPal’s Chief Audit Executive Dave Montez. Dave shares his method for building a trusting culture across an globally distributes 80+ person team by over-indexing on one-on-ones, in a way I’v never heard before.

In this episode, we explore the world of Design, Real Estate, and Facilities through the eyes of long-time industry veteran Ryan Anderson, Vice President, Global Research & Insights, MillerKnoll. No surprise, these professionals are moving from cost center/efficiency thinking to a more human-centric, and ‘seat-at-the-table’, rethinking their resources.

In this far-ranging conversation, Meg shares her take on the factors behind the great resignation, what hybrid really means, and the fact that organizations need to get better at responding to change.

To kick off the show, who better to have on than the undisputed expert on distributed teams, Darren Murph, Head of Remote for GitLab.