Asha Curran, Co-Founder and CEO of Giving Tuesday recently joined me on Let’s Fix Work. You may have heard of Giving Tuesday before, either as a hashtag, or American Thanksgiving ritual. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people in organizations to transform their communities and the world. Giving Tuesday…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 95: What’s up with school lunches? How can we make them better? You may be asking yourself, “What do school lunches have to do with fixing work, Laurie?” Well, in today’s episode, you’ll learn how one company is working to bring better food and nutrition to schools and how these efforts…
Are you feeling stuck in your professional or personal life? Have you made attempts to make a change but you are getting nowhere? Why is it so hard to make a change, anyway? According to Barry O’Reilly, author of Unlearn, “Most people just do things which are comfortable to them. When we get in these…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 94: This week’s episode features Asha Curran, Co-Founder and CEO of Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people in organizations to transform their communities and the world. I’m a fan of big ideas and people who are out there making a difference in…
Every workplace and everyone has a story of work and why it’s meaningful. Recently Elena Valentine, Co-Founder, CEO, and Servant Leader of Skill Scout, joined me on my podcast to talk about workplace storytelling. And I have to tell you, Elena is a magnificent storyteller. Elena and her team create video stories to make empowering…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 93: This week I am introducing you to Barry O’Reilly, a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry authored both Unlearn and Lean Enterprise. If this isn’t enough cred, he is also the founder of ExecCamp…
Accountability can be scary and when something is scary we tend to make excuses about why it won’t work in our lives. Keita Williams, Founder and Chief Strategist of Success Bully, joined me on my podcast recently to share some accountability truth bombs. It’s time to do some excuse busting! Excuse #1 – Accountability is…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 92: On today’s show, I’m speaking to Elena Valentine, the Co-Founder, CEO, and Servant Leader of Skill Scout, a Chicago-based filmmaking company. Elena and her colleagues are workplace documentarians—they tell workplace stories. What’s a workplace story? Well, it could be a video on a careers page. It could be a film…
So you want to become an influencer or thought leader in 2020? Well, in a recent episode of Let’s Fix Work, I shared five tips to help you achieve that goal. Today, I wanted to share two of those five tips with you. The first thing you need to understand when setting out to become…
Let’s Fix Work Episode 88: A lot of people are making a big deal about the end of the decade. I am not one of those people. As we close out another year, today’s show is not a wrap up episode. Instead, as we leave 2019 and head into 2020, I would like to take…