Embracing Progress

ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND CHOICE. These four Priorities are core themes for any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment. PROGRESS is at the heart of the American Dream and the significant ongoing workforce and workplace changes. Technological advances are enabling new ways of working that are long overdue—responding to decades of societal evolution and new understanding about what actually engages workers and increases productivity. Sophie Wade is an authority on the Future of Work, and in Embracing Progress she shares her expertise and insights to explain the current and project work environment. She outlines how you can take the new steps to transform your company successfully, applying first principles to develop your unique plan for progress. You will learn about the four Priorities and six Pillars to focus on and evolve and how to achieve as smooth a transition as possible. Embracing Progress will give you the tools you need to develop and execute a viable strategic plan to tackle ongoing workplace changes, allowing your company to flourish in the years ahead.

A. SOPHIE WADE is founder and Workforce Innovation Specialist of Flexcel Network, a consultancy that facilitates corporations’ transition to substantially different work-related environments. With deep knowledge in the Future-of-Work field, she frequently speaks and writes on issues that greatly impact companies such as talent engagement and retention, purpose-driven culture, digital transformation, Millennial demands, workplace flexibility, and the new latticed and diversified career paradigms. Wade has lived and worked in five countries helping major corporations and entrepreneurs develop, finance, and execute strategic initiatives, build teams and ventures, and create partnerships. She earned a BA from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD. Wade is the 2015-17 president of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS “What’s It Like, Riding a Dinosaur?” Principles, Priorities, Pillars, and People Technology: Enabler, Driver, Supporter, Integrator Me-llennials, We-llennials: Inclusion Matters The New Rules of Engagement, Culture First Leadership: Ego and Empathy Productivity, Performance, and Personalization Mindset, Policies, and Environment Creativity and Collaboration Freelancers and Frameworks Current Conundrums: Choice and Context Careers: Mapping and Mentoring The Organization as a Living Organism Your Plan for Progress EPILOGUE What Else Is Important? FUTURE OF WORK LEXICON ENDNOTES SERVICES