899 Nancy Lyons: Future of Work

How to Lead with Empathy and Inspire Intrapreneurial Innovation on Your Team

Quiet Quitting. The Great Resignation. Remote, office or hybrid, what does it take to create a magnetic workplace culture that attracts, inspires, and retains great talent?

Executives and employees alike must all take responsibility for creating cultures and spaces that actually work for humans, with all their complexities, nuances, and intricacies. That may be easier said than done, but when we get it right, the result is better products, better customer experiences, a growing bottom line, and better work lives.

Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork and the author of Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) your Power at Work. She says no one does great work if they’re worried or if they can’t bring their whole self to work. Nancy is an outspoken advocate for making workplaces more inclusive, flexible, and adaptable, and she’s on a mission to reimagine the future of work, tackling critical issues such as the evolving desire for hybrid work setups, the necessity of building cultures of empathy and trust, and the challenges posed by the irreversible changes brought on by the pandemic.

Today she shares why traditional leaders often struggle to adapt to these new realities and foster genuine relationships in a remote or hybrid setting. The challenges are many, among them unwillingness to adapt to less hierarchical structures, how to foster innovation and collaboration in a remote or hybrid workplace, how to tackle the impact of automation, AI, and other emerging technologies, and even how social media can result in destabilizing political division.

More about Nancy Lyons at www.clockwork.com

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More about Nancy at Clockwork

Nancy Lyons is the CEO and co-founder of Clockwork and an outspoken advocate for making workplaces more inclusive, flexible, and adaptable. Nancy says no one does great work if they’re worried or if they can’t bring their whole self to work, and her consultancy focuses on transforming businesses and business leadership through experience design, technology for change enablement, and creating workplace cultures that support human complexities, nuances and intricacies. She’s also the author of the interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process, A Human-Centered Approach to Producing Digital Products, and Work Like a Boss: A Kick-in-the-Pants Guide to Finding (and Using) your Power at Work.

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