May 22, 2023

Transform Work with Danny Gal, Lead Director, Proteams

This episode of the Transform Work podcast welcomes Danny Gal. Danny is a lead director at Proteams, a company that builds and manages digital teams with Europe’s top freelancers to successfully deliver digital products and services to leading enterprises. Danny is a commercial and operations expert who has led multinational and high-growth tech companies for more than 15 years.

May 11, 2023

Transform Work with Wael Mohammed, EVP of Strategy, Field Nation

On this edition of the Transform Work podcast, we check in with Wael Mohammed Executive Vice President of Strategy at Field Nation, an expert marketplace and workflow management platform that delivers skilled, onsite professionals anytime, anywhere.

Wael has a passion for identifying innovative concepts and transforming them into viable market solutions. He has a deep belief that the promise of data will significantly and positively change lives.  

March 10, 2023

How The Future Works: What The F*ck is Next

In this episode Eleanor and Barry Matthews are joined by Colton Chorpenning; digital nomad, author, and Senior Interactive Producer for Nest and Pixel at Google.  Originally from Denver, Colorado, Colton has designed a digitally nomadic lifestyle, spending half his time in Denver and traveling the world the other half. To date, he has worked in over 16 countries including Turkey, Austria, Italy, Thailand, SriLanka and India . Colton is the co-author of What The F*ck Is Next – a book he wrote with his father to help people live a life of intention.
 
The discussion includes the Kerala Knowledge Economy Mission, Chat GPT and LLMs, and the dangers of eating gummy bears in Colorado!

February 03, 2023

WORK. with Bettina Schaller, The Adecco Group & World Employment Confederation

On this episode of the WORK. podcast, Open Assembly founder John Winsor checks in with Bettina Schaller. Bettina is the Senior Vice President of Global Government and Public Affairs at The Adecco Group where she oversees regulatory and policy issues. She is also the President of the World Employment Confederation, which represents labor market enablers in 50 countries and 7 of the largest international workforce solutions companies. Bettina is a global labor market expert and thought leader and was recently named to the Global Power 150 Women in Staffing List for 2022.

January 26, 2023

How The Future Works: Symba: investing in the next generation of talent

In this episode Eleanor and Barry Matthews talk about the Trusted Talent Platform Partner survey and travel plans for work to help boost the freelancing industry in India and Saudi Arabia. Their guest is Ahva Sadeghi, CEO of Symba, a platform with a purpose — to open up the workforce by helping businesses establish remote internships, enabling them to invest in the next generation of talent, and commit to diversity and inclusion. She talks about the lightbulb moment when she realized that Symba had to exist, the benefits of a well-managed internship program, and the importance of finding the right business partner.

November 23, 2022

How The Future Works: Workstyle

Eleanor and Barry Matthews discuss topical news including the Autumn statement from the UK chancellor and the recent happenings at Twitter. Their guests this week are Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, authors of Sunday Times bestselling book Workstyle: a revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society. Lizzie and Alex tell their stories and why they felt compelled to create a new word to describe an autonomous way of working, reorientating work to fit around your life instead of the other way around. They also describe Hoxby, the purpose-led company they have built around this philosophy and of course talk about their first jobs, worst jobs and life hacks.

November 17, 2022

WORK. with Vikram Ashok, Founder and CEO of Graphite

This episode of the WORK. podcast, John Winsor sits down with Vikram Ashok. Vik is the Founder and CEO of Graphite, a platform enabling seamless access to the world’s best independent talent. Fortune 1000 companies, professional services and investment firms turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills and expertise. To alleviate bandwidth constraints. And, drive major organizational change, innovate faster and build a modern workforce of highly skilled remote talent.

November 03, 2022

How The Future Works: Disrupting Staffing

Eleanor and Barry Matthews discuss the UK Government’s IR35 hokey cokey and the latest industry facts and figures from Staffing Industry Analysts, before welcoming guests, Casey McElroy and Sam Orrin from Worksome. Worksome defies classification and fits into a number of the industry’s boxes, so we explore where it fits, what makes it different and what the future holds for the company that is on a mission to reduce friction between companies and their external workforce.

November 02, 2022

WORK. with Tammy Browning, President of KellyOCG

This episode of the WORK. podcast welcomes Tammy Browning, the President of KellyOCG. Kelly OCG is the he outsourcing and consulting business of Kelly, and Tammy is responsible for the company’s more than $10 billion global MSP portfolio. She is always seeking new ways to add value for her customers by helping them discover what’s next in the future of work. She is passionate about the opportunity to change lives and provide talent with purposeful work.

October 07, 2022

How The Future Works: The Podcast Podcast

In this episode Barry and Eleanor talk to Neil Hughes, LinkedIn Top Voice winner, prolific podcaster and all round nice chap. They talk about the extraordinary growth in podcasting, how it can be a useful tool for promotion and profile-building for freelancers and how to find enough motivation and inspiration to record every day. They also pick apart the recent changes in IR35 and what it will mean to UK freelancers if and when it is executed.