What's Your Work Fit?

What if the biggest obstacle to workplace success isn’t technology, talent, or productivity—but how employers treat their people? On this episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, Boston Consulting Group’s Deborah Lovich, author of Make Work Work: The 5 Daily Practices of the Employee-Centric Leader, challenges some of the most deeply entrenched assumptions about modern work. And she doesn’t pull punches. “Nothing says I don’t trust an employee like a return-to-office mandate.” From rigid RTO policie

Professional identity has been closely tied to job titles. But what happens when the title changes—or disappears altogether? On this episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, returning guest Sarabeth Berk Bickerton, Ph.D., joins host Dan Smolen for a provocative conversation about professional identity, career belonging, and why the traditional career ladder may no longer make sense. Sarabeth argues that we are not our job titles—and never have been. A layoff, career pivot, reorganization, or changin

What if the drive to get everything exactly right is actually getting in the way of doing your best work? Charles Glassman, MD returns to What’s Your Work Fit? for a conversation about perfectionism, fear, psychological safety, vulnerability, and discernment that can influence how we respond to pressure at work. Charlie explains why perfectionism isn’t always a strength. It can become a fight-or-flight response—what he calls the Automatic Brain—driving us to overwork, procrastinate, avoid disc

The modern workplace has undergone enormous change. But are we still designing offices around an outdated idea of what people actually need when they come together? MillerKnoll’s Ryan Anderson returns to What’s Your Work Fit? to answer our lead question: What should the modern workplace be designed for? His answer is one word: interaction. Ryan argues that many activities offices were once designed to support—meetings, training, collaboration and individual work—have migrated to our laptops. Th

Future-of-work strategist Nirit Cohen returns to What’s Your Work Fit? to explore a provocative question: Who owns my workplace AI? We discuss whether employers can own how AI learns the way we think, who benefits from AI-created productive capacity, who owns the time AI gives us back, and what greater human agency could mean for the future of work.

What if where you live, work, and connect wasn’t fragmented—but intentionally designed to work together? In this episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, host Dan Smolen is joined by returning guest Chris Moeller, Founder of PathwayCommunities, alongside show Co-Hosts Mark Gilbreath (CEO of LiquidSpace) and Fran Saele (Managing Principal, MorteVita). Together, they explore a bold idea: livable communities as infrastructure for stability—not just housing. From factory-built homes to resilient microgr