What's Your Work Fit?

Guest: Nina Froriep | Founder, Clockwise Productions and LinkedIn Engagement Expert Is LinkedIn helping you build a better career—or just keeping you busy chasing likes, followers, and impressions? LinkedIn has changed dramatically. Its algorithms are increasingly driven by AI, organic reach isn’t what it used to be, and many of the strategies professionals once relied on may no longer deliver results. So, how do you make LinkedIn work for you? On this episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, host D

Is a college degree still the ticket to a successful career—or are we preparing young people for a world of work that no longer exists? For generations, the message was simple: Go to college, earn your degree, get a good job, and build a successful life. But that bargain is changing. College costs have soared, employers are questioning traditional credentials, and AI is transforming the skills people need to succeed. So, who really needs college anymore? On this episode of What’s Your Work F

What if AI’s greatest promise isn’t helping us do more work, but helping us create better work? On this milestone 300th episode of What’s Your Work Fit?, Executive Producer and Host Dan Smolen welcomes three innovators challenging conventional thinking about AI and the workplace: Emelie Hagander and Carl Hagander, co-founders of Axiom HQ and developers of AI-powered workplace solutions. Doug Gregory, work futurist focused on helping human and artificial intelligence work together to create be

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