Episodes

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Can I Begin a Fourth Act Career? Our guest is Josef Katz. Josef is an independent strategic marketing executive with subject matter expertise in several market spaces including healthcare and retirement services. He is also co-host of the PrimeLife Podcast. This week’s lead question was posed by What’s Your Work Fit? viewer James: James started his career at an ad agency. After that, he moved to corporate marketing and then onto running...

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: Can I Reinvent Myself for Career Bliss? Our guest is Debra Olshan Cooper. Debra is the founder and president of Your Career Design Lab; by crafting unique stories, she helps professionals at all stages of their careers to excavate their passions and purpose and turn them into a paycheck. This week’s lead question was posed by What’s Your Work Fit? viewer Jessica: Jessica is a middle management executive who has performed well in whatever as...

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Do I Turn My Layoff Into Career Advantage? Our guest is Mike Faber. Mike is a veteran learning and development professional who designs and facilitates leadership and training programming for sales professionals. In January 2023, he was laid off from his full-time executive role. So, we ask Mike: How Do I Turn My Layoff Into Career Advantage? Over five years on-the-job, What’s Your Work Fit? viewer Helen immersed herself in her work and w...

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Do I Make My Start Up Human-Friendly? Our guest is Simon D’Arcy. Simon is a partner at Evolution, where he works with leaders of fast growing start-ups and high-growth companies that strive to be iconic, world-enriching entities. He is an executive coach, consultant and leadership mentor with over 20 years of experience assisting leaders and companies on six continents. And, along with Todd Emaus, he authored Scale Without Losing Your So...

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Can I Remote Work Outside of My Home? Our guest is Amina Moreau. Amina is the CEO and co-founder of Radious, an online marketplace that turns houses, apartments, and other residential properties into collaborative workspaces, rentable by the day. As Amina describes Radious, “we’re like Airbnb and WeWork had a baby.” And the platform is getting high praise from guests who need to secure great venues to work and hosts looking for income f...

On What’s Your Work Fit we pose this viewer question: How Can Journalism Be My Work Fit? Our guest is Jonathan D. Salant. He is an award winning journalist and the newly appointed assistant managing editor for politics at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Previously, Jonathan led the Washington bureau for NJ Advance Media which includes the Newark Star-Ledger and other papers. Prior to that role, he was a Washington-based reporter for Bloomberg and the Associated Press. Rachel, a rising college seni...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this viewer question: Why Can’t My Boss and I Agree on My Next Role? Our guest is Julie Winkle Giulioni. She is a workplace growth and development champion, a prized consultant working with c-suites in major companies, and the author of the new book, Promotions Are SO Yesterday. One of the-most vexing challenges for head count managers is in how they recognize, reward, and support their team members. Yet, what few managers recognize is the way that talent seek re...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this viewer question: Why Won’t My Team Willingly Return to the Office? Our guest is Fran Saele. He is a workplace, and real estate solutions expert and a frequent thought-leader in the area of future of work. Fran’s professional passion includes the dynamic new ways of work and the transformation of the workplaces that support it. Fran answers this and other questions. There are some roles that hiring managers believe have to be done face-to-face in the co-loca...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: How Can I Create a Neurodiverse-Friendly Workplace? Our guest is Kay Sargent. She is Senior Principal and Director of Workplace at HOK and a globally recognized thought leader on intentional workplace design. Kay answers this and other questions: Neurodiversity in the workplace impacts the needs and preferences of career professionals who present on the Autism spectrum. However, the neurodiverse workplace in the wake of Covid now includes millions...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: Why Doesn’t My Company’s Founder Respect Me? This week, neuro-resiliency and leadership Coach Justin Noppe answers this and other important questions. Neuroresilience helps career professionals to thrive in the workplace. To that end, it also enables them to make work a wonderful part of a day that includes lots of other wonderful experiences, and not the entire day. During this information packed episode, Justin answers “what’s your work fit?’ Hi...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: How Can I Reimagine the Employee Experience? This week, former Dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College and Professor of Strategic Communications Diane Gayeski and Agate Founder and CEO Corinne Murray answer this and other important questions. It's crystal clear: most workplace leaders get employee experience or "EX" wrong. It is not about staging fake summer camp spectaculars and birthday celebrations to pump up headcou...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: is it time for a resume redo? This week, acclaimed career coach and principal of Career Organic Briar Dougherty answers this and other important questions. This is clear: a mistake that most professionals make with their resumes is in failing to include key words that drive Applicant Tracking Software. ATS is now utilized by most hiring managers to draw best candidate resumes to the top of the stack. Is it time for a resume redo? YES, especially...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: why is my boss so paranoid about productivity? This week, workforce solutions expert Kathy Kacher of Career/Life Alliance Services answers this and other questions. As companies sought some semblance of post-pandemic normality, Kathy shifted her focus to facilitating clients' return to office (RTO) efforts. Why is my boss so paranoid about productivity? It's likely this disconnect: few c-suites believe that their ranks are productive while their...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: can remote tech aid my work fit? This week, Global Teck Worldwide General Manager Dave Kelly answers this and other questions. Operating remotely? Dave says that you should start by acquiring a phone number that's dedicated for business use. And sign up for a service like Vonage; that keeps your work and personal channels separate. During 2023, increasing speed will rank high in the priorities of workplace professionals. And their remote tech ne...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: how can I overcome confidence envy? This week, Remarkable Speaking's co-founders Shelley Goldstein and Mark Bossert answer this and other questions. Early in her career, Shelley, a self-described extrovert, had in public facing situations felt confidence envy. And she froze. "All the doubt, all the fear and anxiety terrified me. And for years I stayed in the background." Even the-most successful of career professionals must overcome confidence e...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: can I side-hustle my work fit? This week, Hudson-Davis Communications and Hudson-Davis Creative Agency co-founders Amanda and Nick Huddy answer this and other questions. Amanda was a well established and highly respected corporate executive. But she needed to work remotely. Nick talked her through her corporate exit. And Amanda's boss assured her: "we will work with you as a client." Career professionals today wonder: can I side-hustle my work f...

On What’s Your Work Fit we posed this question: how do I become a workplace leader? This week, globally recognized leadership expert and host of The Packard Network, Bret Packard, answers this and other work and career questions. Bret believes the key to becoming an effective workplace leader is to figure out the "antiquated 1970s shareholder first, profits before people" culture. And then, to successfully navigate it to have a highly engaged following. Most career professionals today express...

On What’s Your Work Fit we ask a jarring question posed by several of our viewers: is my boss spying on me? This week, workplace diversity, equity and inclusion expert Dr. Betty Johnson, answers this and other work and career questions. "The home was formerly a sanctuary, the place where you could take a breath, drop the mask (the mask of performance), " laments Dr. Johnson. With so many workplaces adopting a hybrid work policy, more workers are feeling intruded upon. What is more, many now f...

On What’s Your Work Fit we ask a viewer's question: why is my workplace so freakin' serious? This week, "neurohumorist" Karyn Buxman and stand-up comedian David Horning answer this and other questions. Why is my workplace so freakin' serious? According to Karyn, [people] are afraid of "stepping on something." They don't like taking chances. Main segment starts at 1:06 In this episode, we ask Karyn and David: * Why is the workplace so freakin' serious? Starts at 1:57 * What is forced fun an...

On What’s Your Work Fit we ask a viewer's question: why doesn't my boss get Gen Z? This week, work futurist and LinkedIn top voice for Gen Z Danielle Farage and the founder and CEO of BRANDthrō Billee Howard answer this and other questions. Why doesn't [my boss] get Gen Z? According to Danielle, it is because Gen Zers don't live to work. "We're working to live." Main segment starts at 3:16 In this episode, we ask Danielle and Billee: * Why doesn't my boss get Gen Z? Starts at 3:16 * What's...

On What's Your Work Fit we ask: are work fit and health connected? This week, board-certified internist and mind/body expert Charles Glassman, MD and future of work thought leader and SWAYworkplace founder Denise Brouder, answer that and other questions. Good health and wellness are critically important to achieving work fit. Conversely, not having good health can cause ill effects throughout the day and not just during work hours. In this episode: * Learn about What's Your Work Fit? and its...

Future of Work thought-leader Dan Smolen's What's Your Work Fit premieres in October 2022. Finally, what it means to work is informed by your own personal needs and desires and not someone else’s directives. How we work, who we work for, when we work, why we work, and the workplace where it all happens has turned upside down and inside out. And, I say that now is the time to own the work that you do and hope to do. What's Your Work Fit? is the first-of-its-kind interactive engagement platform...

Dan Smolen is hitting the pause button on The Dan Smolen Podcast. When the podcast returns in Fall 2022, it will provide a more impactful interactive experience for career professionals. From the episode: "Given the success that the podcast has enjoyed during the past four years, I recognize that there is so much more for me to do, to further these discussions and make learning from them truly actionable. I will strive to give career professionals—talent and hiring managers—the insight that ...

Dan Smolen recalls how starting a first job of many benefitted his professional career and informed a profound journey in the future of work: As the last of the graduation ceremonies conclude, America’s latest crop of entry-level workers is stressed out about connecting with work and career. I remember the experience well. And what I recall most was how I wanted my first assignment out of college to align me perfectly with my career goals of reaching the senior advertising agency management ra...