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In the future will we all wear headsets and communicate through avatars with our work colleagues? The metaverse is changing much of how we communicate and that has huge implications for the world of work. To talk about the implications Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Mark Purdy, an independent economics and technology advisor based in London who works with companies to get ready for the future of work, including work in the metaverse.

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Mark Purdy is an internationally recognized thought leader and advisor on issues at the intersection of economics, technology and business. He has over 27 years’ experience as an economist in business and government, including twenty years as chief economist at one of the world’s largest technology consultancy companies. He is Managing Director of Purdy & Associates, an independent consultancy focusing on economic and technology policy issues. He is also a senior advisor to several economics and technology analyst companies. His recent work has focused on topics such as the future of work in the metaverse, ESG, contactless commerce, AI-powered discovery, digital twins, digital trade, the rise of techno-nationalism, the economics of supercomputing, and the issues of bias and quality in AI systems. He has published widely in tier-1 media and business publications such as Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Mark has also undertaken industry landscape studies in technology areas such as cloud-native, intelligent automation, and the Google and Microsoft ecosystems. He speaks on economics and technology issues at conferences, client workshops and seminars around the world.

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https://purdyassociates.com/

 

Selected recent publications:

Purdy, M. (August, 2022), The View: Saviour of Global Trade?, op-ed on the metaverse, South China Morning Post.

Purdy, M, (March 2022), AI Data Bonanza will intensify Geo-strategic Competition, op-ed, The Straits Times.

Purdy, M., (April 2022), How the Metaverse could Change Work, Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2022/04/how-the-metaverse-could-change-work

Purdy, M., November 2021, The future of Contactless Commerce, Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2021/11/the-future-of-contactless-commerce

Purdy, M. and Chang, X. (2021). Instant language translation can help us talk. But will it help us understand? TechMonitor. Available at: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/instant-language-translation-can-talk-but-will-it-understand

Purdy, M., Klymenko M., and Purdy, M. (2021). Business scents: the rise of digital olfaction. Sloan Management Review. Available at: https://shop.sloanreview.mit.edu/store/business-scents-the-rise-of-digital-olfaction

Purdy, M. and Klymenko M. (2021). How Machine Discovery can Accelerate Solutions to Society’s Big Problems. Sloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-machine-discovery-can-accelerate-solutions-to-societys-big-problems/

Purdy, M. (7 December 2020). Forces Driving New Wave of Techno-nationalism. Op-ed in The Straits Times (Singapore). (Available on request)

Purdy, M. (2020). Unlocking AI’s Potential for Social Good. Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.

If you have a job and you have kids, you know that one impacts the other.  Logistics is part of it, but there is more as well. Our work impacts our life outside work, and our families, perhaps  more than we think. To discuss the relationship between work and families,  Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by  Maureeen Perry-Jenkins, Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the author of the book Work Matters. They talk about the ways that work impacts families and about what organizations  can do to make sure the impacts are not negative on either side.

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Getting worker communication right is difficult, but it is at the crux of running an effective organization and the technology that is supposed to help sometimes seems to make things worse. To talk about effective ways to use technology to improve communication, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Nicole Alvino, Founder and CEO  at workforce communications platform Firstup.

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Nicole Alvino is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Firstup, the world’s first intelligent communication platform – the SaaS platform used by 40 percent of Fortune 100 companies to connect with their people, design and deliver personalized communications, and gain engagement insights throughout the employee journey. She is proud that companies like Amazon, Tesco, Ford, and Hilton use Firstup every day to connect and meaningfully engage with their people and help leaders better understand their workforce. Prior to co-founding SocialChorus (now Firstup), she was the Founder and CEO of Dermalounge and a pioneer in using new technologies to engage employees.

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We all know what ‘ imposter syndrome’ is as it relates to the workplace – the idea that you do not really belong, but are faking it as you are surrounded by people more competent than you. Then again, maybe that’s a generational thing and maybe Gen Z will be the first generation that does not feel that way. That is the view of Corey Seemiller, a Gen Z expert and Professor at Wright State University. She joins Linda Nazareth on this episode to talk about why Gen Z’s upbringing and experiences are giving them a different, more confident view of work and what that means for the future.

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Dr. Corey Seemiller

Dr. Corey Seemiller is a professor in the Department of Leadership Studies in Education and Organizations at Wright State University. She is the author of The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook, a prominent resource for developing youth and college student leadership programs. Dr. Seemiller is also the co-author of several articles as well as four books on Generation Z, including Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Generation Z Goes to College, Generation Z Leads, and Generation Z Learns. She also co-authored the Gen Z Voices on Voting research report and the Campus of Tomorrow report. Dr. Seemiller recently led the Global Gen Z Study where she worked with 91 research collaborators from around the globe to better understand Generation Z in a post-COVID world. Participants from 81 countries took part in the study, and the research will be published in an upcoming book.

Dr. Seemiller’s work has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, as well as in several other news publications and academic journals. She has also been interviewed for podcasts as well as TV and radio shows worldwide and has engaged in market research consulting for Fortune 10, 50, and 500 companies. Her highly popular TED Talk on Generation Z at TEDxDayton showcased how Generation Z is making a difference in the world and has been watched by more than a quarter million viewers.

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www.thegenzhub.com

www.thegenzspeaker.com

#GenZ podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/genz/id1377915856

TEDxDayton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0hyudK7nE

@thegenzhub @coreyseemiller

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We all want to be productive, get more done, accomplish more – but it is kind of ironic that the more we think about those things the more anxious we get and the less productive we get. If we want to be productive, we probably should focus on being calm but that is easier said than done. To talk about how we can manage that, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by Chris Bailey,  author of the book How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times. Linda and Chris discuss the issues around finding calm in what are indeed anxious times in the workplace and the practical ways to do that.

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Chris Bailey is an author and lecturer who explores the science behind living a deeper, more intentional life. He has written hundreds of articles on the subject and has garnered coverage in media as diverse as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, HuffPost, New York magazine, Harvard Business Review, TED, Fast Company, and Lifehacker. The bestselling author of How to Calm Your Mind, The Productivity Project, and Hyperfocus, Bailey’s books have been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

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Workers are dealing with all kinds of traumas at present, both in their personal and in their professional lives. To talk about that, Linda Nazareth is joined on this episode by by Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm and Competent Response to Trauma on the Job.  They talk about  what can be done to help workers, and more importantly, why it needs to be done, the reality being that if you do not help people deal with trauma you pay the price in terms of productivity and absenteeism and unhappy workers.

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Katharine Manning is the President of Blackbird DC, which provides training and consultation on empathy at work. She is the author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job, and teaches at American University and in the Master’s in Trauma-Informed Leadership Program at Dominican University. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Thrive Global, and CEOWorld. She has worked on issues of trauma and victimization for more than 25 years, including 15 years at the Justice Department, where she was a Senior Attorney Advisor consulting on victim issues in cases like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katharine-manning/

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kl_manning 

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

Website: https://www.katharinemanning.com