Category Archives: dr. linda sharkey

Creating a Learning Culture within the State of Tennessee

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! When looking to become an employer of choice, or create a learning culture, many look to the corporate sector for innovation, assuming, wrongly, that the public sector is “behind the times.” This couldn’t be further from the truth within the State of Tennessee, which is seen […]
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High-Stakes Leadership

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! Why are some leaders in high-stakes situations and crisis highly effective, while others disappoint, and some utterly fail? What is the difference? Why are some able to not only survive but thrive, even in tumult? The answer is, that high-stakes leaders demonstrate three critical aspects that ensure […]
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Changing how we Approach Change

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show, as we replay one of our favorite shows from 2017! Change is afoot with 96% of organizations reported to be in some phase of transformation. Yet the inconvenient truth is that many of these transformation efforts fail to deliver (all) the anticipated benefits. It’s time to […]
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Leading from the Center

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show, as we replay one of our favorite shows from 2017! Our special guest was Dr. Tony O’Driscoll, Global Head of DukeCE Labs and Lecture Fellow at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. This dual-role affords Tony the opportunity to operate at the intersection of cutting-edge academic […]
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Future-Proof your Career for Long-Term Success

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! How can you future-proof your career for long-term business success? This week we welcome Jill Johnson, president and founder of Johnson Consulting Services. Jill is a sought-after consultant and thought-provoking speaker who shares her insights on the critical market forces and critical skills […]
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Creating a Championship Culture

Listen in this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! We are replaying one of our favorite shows from 2017, when our guest was Lee MJ Elias, the award-winning author of WIN: What Every Team Needs to Know to Create a Championship Culture and Think Like a Fan: Invest in Your Fans So They Invest in You. Teamwork […]
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Transforming Business through Leadership

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! Our special guest will be Dr. Peter Fuda, a leadership expert who is obsessed with the transformation of leaders, teams and entire organizations. Over the past 15 years, his consulting firm has supported more than 50 cases of large scale business transformation, and more […]
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What is your WQ? (Workplace Intelligence)

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! This week we welcome Mark Babbitt, President and Senior Partner of WorqIQ, a consultancy that helps organizations and their leaders improve the experience of work by helping them understand, then raise, their collective level of Workplace Intelligence, or “WQ.” We will discuss the […]
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Career Literacy As A Means to Workforce Readiness

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! We’re thrilled to welcome Melissa Risteff – CEO & Co-Founder of Couragion to the show! Founded in 2015, Couragion is generously supported by the National Science Foundation – with an undertaking to improve the awareness and perception of STEM careers and to meaningfully […]
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The Power of Fusing Brand and Culture

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! Independently, culture and brand are powerful, often unsung, business drivers. But when you fuse the two together—when you create an interdependent and mutually-reinforcing relationship between how your organization thinks and acts on the inside and how it is perceived and experienced on the outside—you create new […]
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