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How does one of the world’s largest employers manage their workforce, while investing in their employees, innovating in their industry, and providing high quality service to their clients?
Brent Bloomberg, CTO at Sodexo, is here to answer just that. With 400,000 employees, Sodexo is a global food services company with expertise in retail and brands, food delivery, vouchers, and digital food ordering services. They even have a home service business that serves 100,000,000 consumers every day.
In this episode, we discuss:
How Sodexo innovated their service offerings through the pandemic
Sodexo’s approach to investing in and empowering their employees
Why Sodexo is so careful when considering new technology and new methods
How Sodexo addresses the challenge of scheduling optimization for their workforce
The future of employee needs and how Sodexo is preparing to meet them.   


For more information about Brent and Sodexo, visit:
Brent’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bbloomberg/
Sodexo’s Website: https://www.sodexo.com/home.html  


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What are the biggest concerns for the healthcare technology workforce right now? If you’re a CIO, recruitment and retention should be top of mind.
Hear our conversation with Lee David Milligan, SVP & CIO at Asante:
Recruitment, retention, and employee enablement
Repurposing on-prem spaces and supporting remote workers
How technology supports the notion of hospital at home


More information about Lee David Milligan and today’s topics:
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldm007/
Company Website: https://www.asante.org/


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Global geopolitical issues exposed fragility of supply chains and forced companies to rethink how they create, sell, and deliver their products and services.
Omar Castillo, Sr. Director of Global Operations at Thermo Fisher Scientific, is experiencing this firsthand, as he leads Thermo Fisher Scientific’s value chain.
Join us as we discuss:
How the deskless workforce has helped Thermo Fish Scientific continually meet rising customer service expectations
How inflation and supply chain issues have forced companies to embrace drastic changes to their processes and workforce management
The biggest challenges to managing a deskless workforce
Product innovation vs. resourcefulness innovation


To learn more about Omar and today’s topics:
Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarcastillo1
Thermo Fisher Scientific: https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home.html

Even until late 2015, pipeline workers were riding horses up and down the lines. Today, the energy industry has gotten preemptive with drones.
Hear our conversation with Jay Fleming, Vice President Gas Operations at NV5:
How drone technology transformed the energy industry
Using data preemptively to save human labor
A deep dive into solar and wind energy versus natural gas


More information about Jay and today’s topics:
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-fleming-016aba134/
Company Website: https://www.nv5.com/


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The way to address the Great Resignation is to start with people. Among the people-focused principles that we should apply to creating a more equitable workplace are trades education, upskilling, and digitization.
Hear our conversation with the authors of Growing Fairly, Harvard Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Harvard Fellow Kate Markin Coleman:
A high-level view of the 10 principles of growing fairly
Two case studies of equitable growth
Trades education, mid-skilled jobs, and the role of local action 


More information about Kate, Stephen, and today’s topics:
Kate’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katemarkincoleman/
Stephen’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldsmithstephen/
Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development
Upskill Houston: https://www.upskillhouston.org/
Roca Workforce Development - https://rocainc.org/
IBM Badges - https://www.ibm.com/skills/badges/  


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With the rise of AR technology, people are worried about more technology replacing workers. What if AR tech could be used not to replace jobs, but to create them?
Hear our conversation with Dirck Schou, CEO & Co-founder at Taqtile:
How Taqtile’s Augmented Reality platform is significantly reducing training and maintenance time and costs for industrial manufacturing companies  


More information about Dirck Schou and today’s topics:
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirckschou/ 
Company Website: https://taqtile.com/ 
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