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Saturday, Aug 5, 2017
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Our Guest:
Diane Mulcahey
Author
The Gig Economy
Traditional full-time jobs are insecure, increasingly scarce, and filled with employees who wish they were doing something else with their lives. Working in the Gig Economy – as a consultant, contractor, freelancer, or part-timer – can offer an attractive, interesting, flexible, and even lucrative and secure alternative to the corporate cube.
Packed with research, exercises, and interviews, this eye-opening book gives practical professional and personal strategies to help you: Construct a life based on your priorities and your vision of success; Create your own security and safety net; Take more time off; Build flexibility into your financial life; Face your fears by reducing risk; and prepare for the future.
Five years ago, before it was even a thing, Diane created and began teaching an MBA class on The Gig Economy at Babson College. The class gained immediate traction and was named by Forbes as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Business School Classes in the country.
Diane is an active an enthusiastic participant in the Gig Economy. In between full-time jobs and consulting gigs in private equity and venture capital, Diane has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, an Executive-in-Residence at Babson College, and an Eisenhower Fellow. She has taken two different years off to travel around the world.
Diane is currently an author, an Adjunct Lecturer at Babson College, and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. She has previously written and published two books and a widely-read report on venture capital. Her work has been featured in The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The Irish Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous industry publications here and abroad. Diane has been interviewed on NPR and Reuters, and speaks at conferences and universities worldwide.
When not working, Diane enjoys reading (mostly non-fiction), writing (only non-fiction), food (eating and cooking), wine, film, yoga, and running. Diane holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. She is a dual EU (Irish) and US citizen. She lives in Boston with her husband Kevin.
Saturday, July 29, 2017
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Our Guest:
Kevin Mulcahey
Author
The Future Workplace Experience
In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM and Microsoft are re-inventing the future of work.
What is it that makes these companies so different? They’re strategic, they’re agile, and they’re customer-focused. But, most importantly, they’re game changers. And their workplace practices reflect this.
The Future Workplace Experience presents an actionable framework for meeting today’s toughest business disruptions head on. It guides you step-by-step through the process of recruiting top employees and building an engaged culture—one that will drive your company to long-term success.
Two of today’s leading voices on the future of work, provide ten rules for rethinking, reimagining, and reinventing your organization.
Everything we took for granted in the past—from what we expect from our jobs to whom we work with and how—is changing before our eyes. The strongest organizations today are “learning machines.” New challenges require new solutions—and these organizations are finding them.
If you want to compete in years to come, you have to meet the future now. The Future Workplace Experience is your playbook for taking your organization to the top of your industry.
Kevin J. Mulcahy is a partner with Future Workplace and along with Jeanne Meister, is the co-host of The Future Workplace Network, a membership community for HR executives. Organizations across multiple industries and geographies regularly engage him to facilitate corporate workshops on ‘future proofing’ their business and HR strategies. Kevin coaches on leadership effectiveness at the Harvard Business School and is an adjunct faculty member at Babson College. He lives in Boston, MA.
Email Kevin Mulcahy | Twitter: @kevinmulcahy | LinkedIn: in/kevinmulcahy1
Saturday, July 22, 2017
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Our Guest:
Lynn Siska
Director of Sales
New England Document Systems Inc.
From Paper to Digital –
Lynn has been the Director of Sales at New England Document Systems (NEdocs) for over 25 years. She is passionate about brainstorming paperless solutions and takes pride in providing the “right fit” of products and services for each company. She participates in project consulting, planning, and works closely with new and existing business relationships to maintain a standard of excellence.
Established in 1983, New England Document Systems has excelled in providing professional document scanning services and paperless solutions for the HR community. NEdocs offers the solution for digitizing HR records with a scanning bureau of approximately 100 people, running multiple shifts. Dedicated to providing backlog scanning services and collaboration for on-going strategies, options include e-forms and HR specific workflows to enhance departmental efficiencies, reduce operational costs, and improve security. Document Retrieval can be handled with Cloud based or on- premise software complete with audit trails to ensure compliances.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
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Our Guest:
Jeff Stern
Media & Cultural Professor
48 Hour Digital Fast
48-Hour Digital Fast –
It wasn’t easy, but Professor Jeff Stern and his students went on a 48-hour “Digital Fast” in which they shut down all their devices and experienced a very different kind of REALITY for a weekend. Jeff will go over his experience in our May series on REALITY.
Jeff Stern is a filmmaker, professor and occasional Luddite who lives in Portsmouth, NH. He earned his MFA in film production from Boston University. His most recent film, The Morning of Everything, has played at numerous national film festivals including the Independent Film Festival Boston, Ashland Independent Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival and the Monadnock International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film. Jeff works at Bentley University, where he teaches filmmaking courses in the Media and Culture Program. Stern is a board member at 3S Artspace.
In 2014, Stern required his Bentley University students to go on a 48-hour “Digital Fast”, in which they shut down all digital devices (phones, laptops, TV’s, video games) for a weekend. The students (and Stern) kept a journal of the experience and it formed the basis of their final project in the class. His Digital Fast received press coverage in The Boston Globe and on WBUR. Stern is planning on challenging the city of Portsmouth to embark on a Digital Fast this summer.
You can connect with him at on twitter at https://twitter.com/JeffAStern or on his website at http://themorningofeverything.com.
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