Work 20XX with Jeff Frick
Welcome to Work 20XX A show focused on the future of work as we navigate transformational times. I’m your host Jeff Frick. We’ll talk to the practitioners, with 100,000s of newly empowered employees, looking for a different relationship with their employer. We’ll talk to the technology providers, who are responding to these changing demands with new tools leveraging the latest in AI and ML. We’ll explore the impacts of the rising tide of gig workers, solopreneurs, consultants, and 1099 services that enable them to cater to a global market. We’ll talk to the academics, authors, and thought leaders who are helping us all get a better handle on what’s really going on, and what it means to each of us. Our goal is to bring you the human story behind the issues, the context, and the relevance in the spirit of sharing best practices and experiences so we can all contribute to making the future of work better for people, organizations, and our world.
Episodes
Brian Robertson’ leadership philosophies are based on empowering the system, not the people. With clear limits, an ‘act don’t ask’ permissive mindset, the culture seeks to foster more entrepreneurial leadership, when people can exercise authority and autonomy, rather then sitting around, waiting to be told what to do.
As the founder of Holacracy and a veteran entrepreneur, Brian brings a new model for lea...
Mindy Honcoop helps people grow, one micro dose at a time. As the founder of Agile in HR and a seasoned people leader, Mindy brings a unique lens as her path started in the juvenile justice system, working with kids, and figuring out how happiness, and being one’s best self at work, contributed to a child’s well being.
At Running Remote, Mindy emcee’d the outside stage for two days, absorbing insights, an...
Justin Harlan wants you to move to Tulsa. But not just for the $10,000 check. He wants you to consider building your life in Tulsa. As Managing Director of Tulsa Remote, Justin leads a groundbreaking initiative to attract talented, remote workers to diversity Tulsa’s economic base beyond oil and gas with more knowledge workers. To grow greater Tulsa, as well as the newly transplanted community.
Tulsa is al...
Zach Boyette got a business class view of the world and decided to build a life, and company around the freedom to design one’s own life, not only for Zach the traveler, but all the employees, regardless of the design they choose, living anywhere in the world. As co-founder and CEO of Galactic Fed, Zach leads a 100% remote, 150-person global marketing agency. They designed the company from the bottom up around the prin...
Phil Kirschner returns to Work 20XX with a fresh perspective on how we actually get work done, and exploring a concept he calls “vibe officing.” And yes, it’s a verb. As Phil puts it, “technology should help us be more human,” navigating between spaces, people, and pulse moments with greater flow and fewer barriers.
Sitting face to face from Running Remote in Austin, Phil shares practical insights for lead...
Sophie Wade returns to Work 20XX with a powerful reminder, the future of work is digitalized, multi-gen, and human-first. And that’s not a typo, it is a process of work being broken down, and digitalized, and to quote Sophie, ‘the tech driven world and operations is changing how we work, not the other way around.” In person, from Running Remote in Austin, Sophie shares deep insights on how empathy, adaptability, and tr...
Brian Elliott returns to Work 20XX with a fresh lens on scaling distributed work, investing in people, and navigating the J-curve of technology adoption inside teams. Because what works for supporting distributed teams, works for increasing team AI adoption. Align on real goals, only three to five, and check in with tweet sized updates, once a week, on those three goals.
Please join me in welcoming Brian ...
Sacha Connor returns to Work 20XX and asks, how do you self advocate, make sure the right people see and are familiar with your accompaniments, skills, and potential, when the most important factor when being considered for that next promotion or fresh opportunity is an AI agent preparing a list of candidates for consideration.
Are you on the agent’s radar? What digital persona is assembled by the AI after...
Ryan Anderson and his global research team are spread across more than 20 countries, allowing them to study a wide variety of built environments, workplaces, homes, schools, and healthcare, not just remotely, but in person. That in-person presence is critical. It gives them the ability to feel what’s happening in different types of spaces, each designed around distinct objectives.
Ryan also hosts one of th...
Jessica “JJ” Reeder was there, with Darren Murph, at GitLab, early pandemic, when suddenly the entire world was interested in their masterpiece, the GitLab Remote Work handbook. When the world was thrown into remote and distributed work over a weekend in Spring 2020, and answers to many of the questions were contained in the tens of thousands of words, and thousands of pages in the GitLab remote work playbook.
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Mark Cruth, Principal Modern Work Coach and Advocate at Atlassian, has been knee deep in the Atlassian system of work for years. A driving force behind Atlassian’s Team playbook,and a big fan of starting from templates, Mark has been helping organizations implement better ways of working.
Such a treat to sit down with Mark at the Atlassian Team ‘25 event in Anaheim, California. He walked me though some o...
Dominic Price returns to Work 20XX, this time from the floor of Atlassian’s Team ’25 conference in Anaheim. Dom shared his candor, introspection, experiences, and hopes on the back end of a busy week, in person, across a small high boy table, on far more than the future of work. Simultaneously tired out and fired up, it promises to take some fun and unexpected turns.
Dominic has multiple frameworks, avail...
Peter Marquez, Chief Customer Officer at ServiceRocket, joins us from the floor of Atlassian Team '25 in Anaheim to share his frontline perspective on the vibe and announcements, including Rovo, Atlassian’s AI assist, now included with purchase.
With over a decade of experience, we cover the ecosystem, evolution of the market, and company. Customer expectations are shifting, Atlassian's footprint more st...
Molly Sands is Head of Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, where she helps distill what makes teams great, the practices, tools, exercises, behaviors and rituals that great teams tick. Built on first person research, delivered by Molly and team from the Teamwork Lab. Results are published regularly via a number channels including the State of Teams report.
I was able to grab some time with Molly in Anaheim at the A...
Andrew Boyagi just completed a multi time zone, multi country, multi week development project with no meetings. Not one. No kick off meetings, no status meetings, zero. And no one even notices until it was pointed out after the fact.
Sure, Andrew still kicked off the project. Of course everyone kept informed. Yes, objectives and priorities were aligned and corrected over time. But without meetings. Just m...
Charles Corley traveled to Singapore via Hong Kong to start a new chapter over thirty years ago. He stepped off a night train into a bustling world heretofore only seen on a big screen at the cinema. Charles is not afraid of change, he embraces the new.
As Director of Development at M Moser and Associates, Charles and their global teams are leveraging 3D modeling, virtual reality, and cross-disciplinary...
Connie Noonan Hadley, Founder and Chief Scientist at the Institute for Life at Work, has been exploring team effectiveness since our paths first crossed in Philadelphia thirty years ago.
After roles at General Mills and McKinsey & Company, she dedicated herself to academia to further her research on leadership and the universal desire to love one's job. It turns out that strong social connections and suppo...
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO of Datastax, is all in on GenAI, aka Generative Artificial Intelligence. When ChatGPT burst into public consciousness in November 2022, Chet pivoted his team and the company to seize a leadership position in the fifth major technology wave of his 30+ year technology career.
Data at scale, vectorizing databases, and an open-source ethos are just a few ingredients necessary to e...
Julie Whelan and the CBRE research team delivered the updated 2024 edition of the US Office Occupier Sentiment Survey. This marks the third consecutive year we’ve had Julie on to share the findings and some of the insights behind the numbers.
For the first time since Covid, according to Julie, the survey feels somewhat ‘normal,’ reflecting a significant shift in sentiment regarding organizations ‘shedding’...
Evan Benway, a musician and the child of musicians, has been immersed in the creation and study of music since his earliest days. Through his deep appreciation for the evocative power and joy of sound, Evan understands how profoundly music can affect mood and emotions. However, in his professional journey, he discovered a stark contrast: sound is often considered a major distraction in traditional knowledge worker envi...
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