Work.: Recent Episodes
Open Assembly
The Work podcast brought to you by Open Assembly features the best and brightest thinkers leaders, organizations, platforms, freelance workers and academics devoted to advancing the thinking and practical application of open work strategies. Here you will find thought leadership, connections and content in a collaborative effort to raise the tide for everyone co-creating the future of work.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Iavor Bojinov, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and co-principal investigator of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab. Iavor’s work explores how AI, experimentation, and data science are reshaping decision-making inside organizations, combining academic research with practical experience from his time leading causal inference work at LinkedIn. This conversation offers a grounded look at how leaders can use AI and experimentation to make smarter, faster, and more effective business decisions.
Harvard Business School AI Institute
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and one of the leading researchers studying how management, technology, and work design drive productivity inside organizations.
Raffaella’s work sits at the intersection of economics, leadership, and the future of work. Drawing on large-scale data and real-world field experiments inside major companies, she explores how hybrid work is reshaping labor markets, how management practices influence performance at scale, and how generative AI is beginning to change the way teams collaborate and make decisions.
In this conversation, we dive into what actually drives productivity in modern organizations, how leaders should think about managing in a hybrid world, and why the real impact of AI may be less about automation and more about how work gets coordinated.
If you’re a business leader, HR executive, or anyone thinking about AI, workforce transformation, and the future of work, this episode offers a practical, research-backed perspective on what’s changing and what matters most.
Matt Beane is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow at Stanford and MIT. He is the author of The Skill Code , which draws on his original research into how people build skills while working alongside intelligent machines like AI and robotics. Matt is also the cofounder and CEO of SkillBench, a platform that transforms AI telemetry into actionable insights, helping executives guide organizational transformation while enabling knowledge workers to develop and adapt in real time.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Nick Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading researchers on remote work, hybrid work, and workplace productivity.
Nick is widely known for his data-driven research on how work is changing, from the rise of hybrid work models to the real impact of AI on jobs, productivity, and organizational design.
In a conversation often dominated by opinions, Nick brings evidence.
Together, they explore:
- How remote work has stabilized post-pandemic and why hybrid is becoming the dominant model
- What the data actually says about productivity, employee retention, and performance
- Why AI adoption is accelerating faster than any previous technology
- The real impact of AI on jobs, hiring, and career paths
- What leaders and organizations should be doing now to adapt
Drawing on large-scale research across thousands of firms and global executives, Nick breaks down what’s hype versus reality, and where the future of work is actually heading.
If you're a business leader, founder, or operator navigating remote work, hybrid teams, or AI transformation, this episode offers a clear, research-backed perspective on what matters most next.
Jay Singh, Founder and CEO of Casper Studios, joins the podcast to explore what it really takes to move AI from experimentation into production.
Casper Studios is an AI services firm that partners with organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business impact. The company has supported clients across industries, including Netflix, Pepsi, hedge funds, private equity firms, and large healthcare providers, helping them operationalize AI and rethink how work gets done.
With a team drawing experience from LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Bain, and advisors connected to leading AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, Casper Studios works across the full lifecycle of AI adoption, from discovery through deployment, while reshaping workflows and decision making along the way.
In this conversation, Jay shares his practical, outcome-driven perspective on AI implementation, what separates pilots from production systems, and how leaders can approach AI as an operational transformation rather than a technology experiment.
Note: this episode is best viewed on our YouTube channel, since our guest shares her screen several times to show some of the incredible art she's created with AI tools.
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In this episode, John Winsor sits down with Kelly Boesch, a visual artist and creative technologist working at the intersection of AI, design, film, and human expression.
Kelly has spent years exploring how emerging tools are reshaping the creative process. Rather than using AI as a shortcut, she approaches it as a collaborator that expands imagination, authorship, and creative range.
In this conversation, we explore what AI is changing about creative work, how artists can stay deeply human in an age of generative tools, and what this shift means for the future of creative professions.
If you care about the future of work, creativity, and human–machine collaboration, this episode is for you.
In this episode of Transform Work, host John Winsor sits down with Kyle Forrest, Principal at Deloitte and Deloitte’s U.S. Future of HR Leader, for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping work, talent, and organizational design inside large enterprises.
Kyle shares what he’s hearing from CHROs and C-suite leaders as companies move from “AI pilots” to real production deployments, and why 2026 may become the year of measurable productivity gains. Together, John and Kyle explore how jobs are being unbundled into tasks and reassembled into new roles, projects, and workflows, including the rise of AI agents and what it means to manage “synthetic talent” alongside human teams.
Key themes include:
- The shift from one-time “change management” to continuous adaptation as AI capabilities evolve
- A practical framework for role evolution: AI-assisted, AI-augmented, and AI-powered work
- Why the real unlock is cross-functional: AI as a coordinating layer that breaks down silos and forces new operating models
- Who “owns the agent” inside organizations, and why many companies are forming centralized AI councils across HR, IT, Legal, and the business
- The overlooked force shaping the future of work: demographics, global labor supply shifts, and what that means for talent strategy
If you’re a leader thinking about the future of HR, workforce transformation, or the operating model changes required to compete in an AI-enabled world, this conversation offers clear frameworks, grounded insights, and a candid look at what’s coming next.
Listen now to hear why the future of work is not just about automation, but about redesigning how organizations run, how talent is deployed, and how humans stay empowered in the loop.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Sangeet Paul Choudary, one of the world’s leading thinkers on platforms, AI, and how work is being reorganized.
Sangeet, co-author of Platform Revolution and author of Reshuffle, argues that the real impact of AI is not just faster or cheaper work, but a fundamental shift in how work is coordinated, how value is created, and where power lives inside organizations and industries.
The conversation explores why jobs are dissolving into tasks, why skills are becoming harder to define, and how companies must rethink everything from talent strategy to professional services models in an AI-driven world. They discuss how platforms like Walmart, Uber, and Shutterstock reveal deeper patterns of power shift, and why organizations need new ways to measure the return on both human and machine work.
For leaders, HR teams, and anyone trying to navigate the future of work, this episode offers a powerful framework for understanding how AI is reshaping not just what we do, but how we organize to do it.
Sangeet Paul Choudary
Platformation Labs
Reshuffle
Platform Revolution
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with James Raybould, SVP at Turing, to explore what it really takes for organizations to move from talking about AI to actually benefiting from it.
James shares how Turing works with the world’s leading AI labs to make models smarter, while also helping enterprises deploy AI in practical, high-impact ways. Drawing on his own hands-on experimentation, he talks about how AI is reshaping everyday workflows, creativity, and how work gets done inside modern organizations.
Before joining Turing, James spent years at Bain and more than a decade at LinkedIn, where he worked across strategy, analytics, product marketing, and growth. Together, John and James discuss what leaders need to understand now as AI shifts from experimentation to real operational change.
In this episode of Transform Work, host John Winsor sits down with Nuri Demirci Lopez — co-founder of NeoSentia and former Microsoft principal product manager — to explore the future of leadership in an AI-enabled world. With 20+ years in product innovation, digital talent systems, and workforce transformation, Nuri shares how AI “digital twins” can replicate a leader’s voice, judgment, and decision-making to scale expertise across an organization.
We dive into how Neocentia is building hyper-personalized AI agents, what it means to multiply human impact through technology, and why organizations need to rethink how they deploy talent in the age of generative AI.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor talks with Steve Chase, Global Head of AI and Digital Innovation at KPMG. Steve has spent more than twenty years leading major technology and business transformations, and today he is driving KPMG’s global effort to scale responsible, high-impact AI across industries and internal teams.
John and Steve discuss what it takes for organizations to move from experimentation to real enterprise adoption. They explore how trust, governance, and strong operating models can turn AI ambition into measurable results.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor is joined by Ryan Kurt, Founder and CEO of The AI Lab. For more than a decade, Ryan has been at the forefront of generative AI and large-language-model innovation, helping organizations move beyond experimentation and toward meaningful transformation. His work has guided executives through strategy development, capability building, evaluation, and full-scale deployment of AI across the enterprise.
Today, Ryan and his team at The AI Lab are focused entirely on helping leaders turn AI ambition into sustained business value. In this conversation, we explore what Ryan is seeing right now in workforce transformation, why many organizations are stuck in “pilot mode,” and the practical steps leaders can take to build real capability, not just prove concepts.
This discussion cuts through the hype to examine where the actual opportunities are, what’s changing inside organizations, and how executives can lead the shift to a more adaptive, AI-enabled workforce.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Professor Joseph Fuller of Harvard Business School. Fuller co-leads HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project and co-hosts its podcast, where he engages with business and policy leaders on the forces reshaping work.
With decades of experience advising companies, Fuller is recognized as one of today’s leading voices on how technology, demographics, and new talent models are transforming the workforce. His research spans critical topics such as skills-based hiring, hidden workers, and the rise of AI and digital teammates.
In this episode of Transform Work, John Winsor sits down with Carrol Chang, CEO of Andela—the global talent marketplace connecting companies with highly skilled technologists across more than 135 countries. Carrol shares insights on Andela’s next stage of growth and its mission to connect brilliance with opportunity. She also reflects on her experience as Uber’s Global Head of Driver and Courier Operations, where she helped expand the platform’s marketplace on a global scale. Tune in for a conversation on scaling talent, building global communities, and shaping the future of work.
On this episode of the Transform Work Podcast, host John Winsor sits down with Paul Hlivko, Executive Vice President and Chief Information & Digital Officer at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield. With decades of experience leading enterprise technology and digital strategy, Paul has helped organizations adapt to waves of innovation while keeping people at the center.
In this conversation, Paul shares insights from his recent Harvard Business Review article, “The AI Revolution Won’t Happen Overnight.” He explains why artificial intelligence adoption is more of an evolution than a sudden disruption, highlighting both the current limits of AI and the long-term opportunities for businesses and their workforces.
If you’re a leader navigating the future of work, technology, and talent, this episode will give you a grounded perspective on how to approach AI with clarity and confidence.
Now available as a podcast episode: John Winsor's article “What If You Could Train an AI on Your Own Brain?” published on Forbes.com on August 27, 2025.
You can read this and more articles by John Winsor here.
Now available as a podcast episode: John Winsor's article “The End Of Business As Usual: AI And The Fall Of Slow Companies” published on Forbes.com on July 22, 2025.
You can read this and more articles by John Winsor here.
In this episode of the Transform Work podcast, host John Winsor sits down with Jason Ezratty, co-founder and Chairman of Brightfield, a leading data analytics firm transforming how organizations make workforce decisions. Jason shares insights on talent intelligence, AI-driven workforce optimization, and the evolving dynamics of contingent labor. Drawing from his experience advising some of the world’s largest companies, Jason offers a practical look at how data and AI are reshaping the future of work and how leaders can navigate it with confidence.
Show notes:
Jason Ezratty
Brightfield
Now available as a podcast episode: John Winsor's article “The Power Of Inexperience: Unlocking Innovation In The AI Era” published on Forbes.com on July 9, 2025.
You can read this and more articles by John Winsor here.
Now available as a podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “Letting Go: Transformational Leadership In The Age Of AI.” published on Forbes.com on July 2, 2025.
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Now available as a podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “Meet Your New Freelancers: AI Agents Ready To Work.” published on Forbes.com on June 25, 2025.
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Now available as a podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “Meta’s $14 Billion Message: The Undervalued Power Of Open Talent” published on Forbes.com on June 1, 2025.
You can read this and more articles by John Winsor here.
In this episode of the Transform Work podcast, host John Winsor sits down with Rem Koning, associate professor at Harvard Business School and co-director of the Tech for All Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. Together, they explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping entrepreneurship, reducing bias, expanding opportunity, and changing how founders and markets learn. If you're curious about the intersection of AI, innovation, and inclusive economic growth, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
Rem Koning
Harvard Business School
Digital, Data, and Design Institut at Harvard
Now available as a mini podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “The Quiet Revolution Reshaping Work” published on Forbes.com on June 11, 2025.
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Show Notes:
Research: Reinventing Talent Acquisition: How Open Talent Is Transforming the Workforce
Torc
Randstad Digital
Staffing Industry Analysts
In this episode, John Winsor sits down with two key leaders shaping the future of talent and technology.
Graig Paglieri, Chief Executive of Randstad Digital, leads the global technology arm of Randstad, overseeing markets across Europe, Asia Pacific, India, LATAM, and North America. Under his leadership, Randstad Digital is becoming an essential partner in digital transformation for talent.
Joining him is Mike Morris, Co-founder and CEO of Torc. Following Torc’s acquisition by Randstad Digital in May 2024, Mike now leads both Torc and Randstad Digital Recruiting. Together, they’re redefining how AI-powered platforms connect skilled tech professionals with meaningful career opportunities at speed and scale.
Tune in for a forward-looking conversation on innovation, global hiring, and the evolving role of AI in talent strategy.
Now available as a mini podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “Brilliance Is Everywhere, But We’re Still Wasting It” published on Forbes.com on June 4, 2025.
You can read this and more articles by John Winsor here.
Show Notes:
Andela
Now available as a mini podcast episode, listen to John Winsor's article “Why Every Staffing Company Needs an Operating System” published on Forbes.com on May 28, 2025.
Discover how the right operating system can transform how staffing firms scale, compete, and innovate in today’s platform-driven economy. Tune in wherever you get your podcasts.
Show Notes:
GraphiteOS
Bullhorn
Wolf.xyz
Open Assembly
Talent Innovator 25
On this episode of the Transform Work podcast by Open Assembly, host John Winsor sits down with two influential voices shaping the future of work: Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton.
Diane, former Chief People Officer at IBM and current Senior Advisor at BCG, brings deep expertise from the boardrooms of Kraft Heinz and top venture firms. Lynda, a renowned London Business School professor and best-selling author, has helped organizations worldwide navigate the evolving workplace through her work at HSM Advisory and the Future of Work Consortium.
This conversation explores how leaders can embrace change, rethink workforce strategy, and build organizations ready for the future.
In this episode of the Transform Work Podcast, we welcome Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners, and business builder and author of Free Birds Revolution: The Future of Work & the Independent Mind.
Miles’ book is a must-read for anyone navigating today’s rapidly evolving workforce. It explores the rise of independent professionals and provides leaders with essential strategies to become the ‘client of choice’ for top talent. Whether you're a solopreneur or a corporate executive, his insights offer a fresh perspective on the future of work.
Since 2019, Miles has been at the helm of MBO Partners, the industry leader in empowering the independent economy and enhancing the well-being of professionals and businesses. In this episode, we dive into the profound shift toward independent work, what it means for companies, and how leaders can adapt to thrive in this new landscape.
This episode of the Transform Work podcast features Jeff Nugent, the Co-Founder and CEO of Independently, as well as the Co-founder of the Contingent Workforce Institute.
Independently is a compliance-as-a-service platform that leverages AI to deliver rigorous, unbiased evaluations and guaranteed compliance for independent contractors worldwide.
It empowers businesses and staffing agencies to engage on-demand talent confidently and in line with complex regulatory standards.
Jeff is a distinguished leader in the contingent workforce industry and continues to drive innovation in independent contractor compliance solutions for the open talent economy and staffing industries worldwide.
Jeff Nugent
Independently.ai
Contingent Workforce Institute
This episode of the Open Assembly Transform Work podcast welcomes Raphael Ouzan, the Founder & CEO of A.Team.
A.Team is a platform that connects companies with highly skilled freelance product builders, engineers, and designers to create elite, on-demand teams for mission-critical projects.
Raphael Ouzan
A.Team
This episode of the Transform Work podcast welcomes Shib Mathew. Shib is the founder of YunoJuno, a platform that revolutionizes the way businesses source and manage their highly-skilled freelancers. After successfully exiting YunoJuno in 2023, after reaching $2bn in freelancer bookings, Shib now dedicates his expertise to advising companies on crafting effective freelance strategies and leveraging contingent labor for competitive advantage. Recently, he launched Freedom Unscripted Films, a short film series celebrating the freelancer economy and his belief that freelancing is the future of work. To watch more of Shib Mathew's short film series on freelance life, subscribe to 'Freedom Unscripted' on YouTube.
Shib Mathew
Freedom Unscripted Films
Freedom Unscripted on YouTube
YunoJuno
This Transform Work podcast episode welcomes Iman Fadaei, founder of TalentPools. TalentPools lets anyone launch their online talent pool in just one day to make better use of their candidate databases. Organizations of any size can build their own branded talent platform and match jobs with candidates at scale.
Iman Fadaei
TalentPools
Employ Ukraine
Welcome to the Transform Work podcast, presented by Open Assembly. In this episode, John Winsor is joined by Adam Jackson. Adam is the co-founder of Braintrust, the world's first user-controlled talent platform that eliminates intermediaries, returning value directly to talent and organizations. Braintrust's innovative model allows talent to keep 100% of their market rate, enabling organizations to build flexible teams and extend their budgets 2-3 times further. Adam, a serial technology entrepreneur, has devoted his career to developing software systems that streamline complex tasks and strategically investing in cutting-edge technologies.
Adam Jackson
Braintrust
Braintrust AIR
Open Talent Book
This Transform Work podcast episode features Benjamin Plummer, the CEO of Invisible Technologies.
Invisible is the operations innovation company transforming how companies are built and run. Leveraging their unique process orchestration platform, they integrate AI and automation with a worldwide network of more than 2000 experts. This fusion delivers new capabilities and removes barriers to execution for clients, unlocking unprecedented efficiency, scale, and growth opportunities.
Benjamin Plummer
Invisible Technologies
EY
Bridgewater Associates
Ray Dalio
Elemental Cognition
David Ferrucci
Francis Pedraza
OpenAI
Microsoft
Amazon
Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges
John Winsor
This edition of the Transform Work podcast welcomes Bharath Vasudevan, Chief Capability Officer, Business Process Services at Tech Mahindra, and Dhananjay Deshmukh, Vice President, Crowdsourcing at Tech Mahindra.
Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business solutions, has recently launched Populii. On this new crowdsourcing platform, open talent can undertake micro jobs with top firms, offering flexible work and helping businesses improve AI algorithms with quality data from skilled candidates.
Bharath Vasudevan
Dhananjay Deshmukh
Tech Mahindra
Populii
This episode of the Transform Work podcast features Lee Willoughby, Co-Founder at Bubty.
Bubty is a white-label external workforce technology, that consolidates a company's resources into a custom-built talent pool platform built for global contractor and freelancer management, including onboarding, compliance, contract administration, and worldwide payment handling.
Lee Willoughby
Bubty
This episode of the Transform Work podcast features Jeremy Johnson, the CEO and Co-Founder at Andela.
Andela is a global talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted, remote technologists spanning six continents. Leading companies around the world trust Andela to scale teams quickly and accelerate their product roadmap.
Jeremy Johnson
Andela
The first Transform Work podcast of 2024 features Manuel Meurer, Founder & CEO at Uplink.
Uplink is a platform that connects professional IT freelancers with high-quality IT projects by offering fair and transparent job postings and an active online community. Manuel is a freelance developer, turned founder with the vision to create a vibrant, meaningful community that supports IT freelancers in all areas of their working lives.
Manuel Meurer
Uplink
Nick Oestreich
GitHub Copilot
MacGPT
Do You Need an External Talent Cloud?
Harvard Business Review
Uplink Podcast
Upwork
Toptal
MBO Partners
Miles Everson
Freelance Unlocked 2024 Conference
On this episode of the Transform Work podcast, John Winsor checks in with Michael Contreras, the Founder of Ensemble.
Ensemble is a digital transformation agency powered by open talent that delivers innovative solutions to some of the most recognizable public agencies including NASA. Michael is a former general manager at Wipro and Topcoder, and a past AAAS Science & Technology Fellow at the Department of Energy.
Michael Contreras
Ensemble
This edition of the Transform Work podcast welcomes Agnieszka Porebska, the CEO at Talent Alpha.
Talent Alpha is an IT talent marketplace with more than 50,000 experts, based mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, providing rapid access to a broad range of tech specialists for short- and long-term projects. The platform also enables software companies to engage with some of the world’s largest brands and helps them unlock new business opportunities.
Agnieszka Porebska
Talent Alpha
This Transform Work episode welcomes Miles Everson , the CEO of MBO Partners. MBO Partners is a direct sourcing platform that enables independent professionals to do business safely and effectively with enterprise organizations. Its unmatched experience and industry leadership enable it to operate at the forefront of the independent economy.
Miles has worked with many of the world's largest and most prominent organizations, specializing in executive management. He helps companies balance growth, reduce risk, maximize return, and excel in strategic business priorities.
Miles Everson
MBO Partners
PwC
PwC Talent Exchange
Founder of MBO, Gene Zaino
State of Independence in America Report
Staffing Industry Analysts
Open Talent Book
This Transform Work podcast episode features Maari Casey, Founder and CEO of Uncompany.
Uncompany is a hybrid between a creative agency and a creative staffing firm, connecting clients with high-level freelancers. They provide freelance project teams and curated talent pools that allow clients to work quickly and flexibly with top-tier creative talent.
Maari is an ad agency art director, turned freelancer, turned entrepreneur, and she is passionate about the future of work and its ability to promote a healthy balance of career, family, and self.
Maari Casey
Uncompany
Una Herlihy
The Indie List
Harvard Business School
David Jones
Staffing Industry Analysts
Digital Data and Design
Levono
Ollo
Open Talent Book
This Open Assembly Transform Work podcast edition features Úna Herlihy, Co-founder and curator of The Indie List. The founding story of The Indie List is fantastic, and she and her co-founder Peter McPartlin are creating something special.
The Indie List is Ireland’s online talent-management company representing a diverse range of the best independent talent in the marketing, communications, digital, and e-commerce sectors. They offer seamless access to exceptional talent who deliver brilliant input with real commercial impact.
Úna Herlihy
Peter McPartlin
The Indie List
The Indie List Fractional Marketing Collective
Lee Willoughby
Benjamin Schriel
Bubty
The episode of the Transform Work podcast is with Ilyse Shuster-Frohman, the Founder and CEO of Mothership.
Mothership is a DEI-focused and skills-based open talent marketplace that connects entrepreneurs, enterprises, and high-value SMEs with highly efficient experts who can perform a myriad of creative and professional services. Their marketplace is backed by proprietary technology and AI to seamlessly connect quality hires with quality clients.
The Transform Work podcast welcomes Jason Posel, the founder and CEO of Greenlight.ai.
GreenLight.ai works with leading talent marketplaces to help them scale with enterprise clients, and with enterprise clients to help them scale their contingent workforce. They provide API-first, private-label compliance solutions with features designed specifically for staffing businesses and contract workers. Jason is an expert in managing open talent workforce payroll programs, as well as contractor classification, tax, and labor law issues for corporate clients and staffing firm s.
Open Talent Platform Collective
IR35
Open Talent book
AB5
We Are Rosie
Stephanie Nadi Olson
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
Deloitte's Pixel (A): Consulting with Open Talent
Michael L. Tushman
UST
Gloat
Eightfold
Upwork
This edition of the Transform Work podcast features Kelvin Wetherill, the founder and CEO of Supportwave.
Supportwave is an innovative IT services platform that connects businesses with on-demand IT experts. Their unique approach to skill sourcing facilitates hiring IT talent for project-based work and dedicated resources.
Supportwave
Kelvin Wetherill
Open Talent: Leveraging the Global Workforce to Solve Your Biggest Challenges
This installment of the Transform Work Podcast features Darren Murph who is the Vice President of Workplace Design and Remote Experience at Andela.
Andela is a platform that specializes in helping their highly skilled, global technology talent community connect with hundreds of the world’s leading companies
Darren has been featured in The Forbes Future of Work 50 and cited by CNBC as an Oracle of Remote Work.
This episode of the Transform Work podcast welcomes Danny Gal. Danny is a lead director at Proteams, a company that builds and manages digital teams with Europe’s top freelancers to successfully deliver digital products and services to leading enterprises. Danny is a commercial and operations expert who has led multinational and high-growth tech companies for more than 15 years.
Danny Gal
Proteams
Transformworksummit.com
On this edition of the Transform Work podcast, we check in with Wael Mohammed Executive Vice President of Strategy at Field Nation, an expert marketplace and workflow management platform that delivers skilled, onsite professionals anytime, anywhere.
Wael has a passion for identifying innovative concepts and transforming them into viable market solutions. He has a deep belief that the promise of data will significantly and positively change lives.
On this episode of the WORK. podcast, Open Assembly founder John Winsor checks in with Bettina Schaller. Bettina is the Senior Vice President of Global Government and Public Affairs at The Addeco Group where she oversees regulatory and policy issues. She is also the President of the World Employment Confederation, which represents labor market enablers in 50 countries and 7 of the largest international workforce solutions companies. Bettina is a global labor market expert and thought leader and was recently named to the Global Power 150 Women in Staffing List for 2022.
Bettina Schaller
The Addeco Group
World Employment Confederation
Past WORK. podcast episodes
Open Assembly
This episode of the WORK. podcast, John Winsor sits down with Vikram Ashok. Vik is the Founder and CEO of Graphite, a platform enabling seamless access to the world's best independent talent. Fortune 1000 companies, professional services and investment firms turn to Graphite to access hard-to-find skills and expertise. To alleviate bandwidth constraints. And, drive major organizational change, innovate faster and build a modern workforce of highly skilled remote talent.
Show Notes:Vikram Ashok
Graphite
This episode of the WORK. podcast welcomes Tammy Browning, the President of KellyOCG.
Kelly OCG is the he outsourcing and consulting business of Kelly, and Tammy is responsible for the company’s more than $10 billion global MSP portfolio. She is always seeking new ways to add value for her customers by helping them discover what’s next in the future of work. She is passionate about the opportunity to change lives and provide talent with purposeful work.
On this episode of the WORK podcast we welcome back Simon Hill, the founder and CEO of Wazoku. Wazoku is an idea management and open innovation platform which enables organizations of any size to drive innovation at scale. John Winsor interviewed Simon two years ago, just after the acquisition of Innocentive, and much has happened since then as the company continues to help organizations solve their toughest problems.
Show Notes:
Simon Hill
Wazoku
Innocentive
WORK Podcast with Simon Hill from August 26, 2020
This episode WORK. podcast features Rich Wilson, the CEO and Co-founder of Gigged.AI. Gigged.AI is an ecosystem to make tech talent hiring easier by using Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. Rich is an experienced leader who has had senior positions with Allegis Group and Gartner, and is passionate about mental health, technology and the future of work.
Rich Wilson
Gigged.AI
Allegis Group
Gartner
Upwork
Fiverr
Paul Estes - Gig Mindset
Jon Younger
This edition of the WORK. podcast welcomes Prakash Gupta. Prakash is the Chief Revenue Office at Turing. Turing is an Intelligent Talent Cloud that uses deep expertise in Machine Learning and Data Science to deliver top engineers to build your software development dream team.
Prakash Gupta
Turing
This WORK. features Cal Adamson, the Co-founder and CEO of Distributed.
Distributed is a private talent cloud platform that has rebuilt enterprise outsourcing to harness modern freelancer developer talent at scale.
Show notes:
Cal Adamson
Distributed
Topcoder
Gigster
Turing
Toptal
Elastic Teams
Center of the Transformation of Work
This episode of the WORK. podcast features Mynul Khan, the Founder and CEO of Field Nation.
Founded in 2008, Field Nation is a leading online work marketplace for connecting people to get work done. The online platform combines a deep expertise marketplace with a complete project and workflow management platform to deliver skilled, onsite professionals anytime and anywhere.
Show notes:Mynul Kahn
Field Nation
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
Fujitsu
Steve Rader
This episode of the WORK. Podcast features Sam Orrin, the Global Director of Business Development at Worksome.
Worksome is a platform that makes managing a contingent workforce fast and painless by automating freelancer and contractor payments, billing, and compliance processes. Sam Orrin
Worksome
Center of the Transformation of Work
YunoJuno
Staffing Industry Analysts
Turing
Toptal
Upwork
Dweet
Braintrust
This edition of the WORK. podcast features Mina Bastawros, the Vice President of Creative and Digital Marketing at Airbus, where he oversees how to do better marketing, but also marketing better at Airbus.
Mina Bastawros
Airbus
Stever Rader
Crispin Porter & Bogusky
Havas
Harvard Business Press
Barry Matthews
Freelancer.com
Upwork
Experfy
Jimmy Chin
Free Solo
This episode of the WORK. podcast welcomes David Alberts. David is the Chairman and Co Founder of BeenThereDoneThat, a Network Intelligence System powered by a Global Community of 350 of the worlds most experienced Chief Strategic , Chief Creative and Chief Innovation Officers. His mission is to Harness the World’s Best Thinkers to Solve the World's Toughest Problems.
David Alberts
BeenThereDoneThat
Victors & Spoils
Alex Bogusky
Crispin Porter & Bogusky
Matt Close
Baked In
Tinker Hatfield
This Work Podcast, brought to you by Open Assembly, features Enrique Rubio. Enrique is the Founder of Hacking HR, a global learning community of HR leaders, practitioners, vendors, consultants, and everyone else interested in advancing the HR profession.
This episode of the WORK. podcast welcomes back Mike Morris. Mike is the Co-founder and CEO of Torc. Torc is a new platform connecting the most productive software engineers with great companies all while pioneering the use of data to understand and measure developer productivit**y.
Show Notes:**
Torc
Dave Messinger
Adam Sandlin
Chris DeLaurentis
Mike Cardillo
Frank D’Souza
Josh Miller
Rob Biederman
Karim Lakhani
Catalant
Cognizant
Topcoder
Velocity Networks
Barry Matthews
This episode of the WORK. Podcast features Shoba Purushothaman. Shoba is the Co-Founder of Hardskills, a corporate learning platform that helps enterprises train their workforces in the hard-to-teach behaviors, skills, and mindsets needed for the new world of work.
Shoba Purushothaman
Hardskills
During this WORK. podcast we welcome Neil Carberry, the CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation which is a leading membership organization for recruitment and staffing firms based in the UK. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation helps UK's professional recruiters have a lasting impact on the economy as well as candidates' lives - making great work happen everyday.
Neil Carberry
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation
LISH
NASA
Deloitte
Upwork
Zurich Insurance
TikTok
Simon Senek
Green Bay Packers
This episode of the WORK podcast features future of work expert Jeff Schwartz. Jeff is a Senior Advisor in the Future of Work at Deloitte Consulting, author of the book WORK DISRUPTED, an Adjunct Professor Columbia Business School and last year was named the Vice President of Insights and Impact at Gloat. Gloat is the first-ever Internal Talent Marketplace that helps enterprises democratize career development, unlock skills, and future-proof their workforces leveraging AI to facilitate internal talent mobility and access.
Jeff Schwartz
Deloitte
Work Disrupted
Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Gloat
MIT SMR-Deloitte Workforce Ecosystems Research
Heather Long, Washington Post - It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a great reassessment of work in America.
Center for the Transformation of Work
Topcoder
Jeff Davis
Steve Rader
NASA COECI
Susan Cantrell - Beyond the job
Dror Gurevich-Velocity Foundation
Steve King
MBO Partners - Creator Economy Research
John Hagel
John Seely Brown (JSB)
Dr. Elizabeth J. Altman
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Technology Fallacy
Opportunity Marketplaces: Aligning Workforce Investment and Value Creation in the Digital Enterprise
Workforce Ecosystem: A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Gillian Tett
This episode of the WORK. podcast features Mark Hannant. Mark is the Co-founder of Magenta, a creative agency specializing in B2B thought leadership, and the Co-founder of Indigo Premedia, a pioneer of remote work and outsourcing to agency clients. Mark is passionate about the open talent economy and the role it will play in the future of work.
Mark Hannant
Magenta
Jon Younger
Mark's TEDx talk: Work: A thing you do not a place you go
John Healy
Wipro
Topcoder
Subha Tatavarti
Paul Hlivko
NASA
Deloitte
Harvard Business Press
Alex Bogusky
Crispin, Porter and Bogusky
Open Assembly, the global authority on open talent and open innovation, announces the merging of Re-source, one of Europe’s leading open talent and human cloud advisors, into the organization. The collaboration adds consulting expertise to Open Assembly’s thought leadership and convenings, and strengthens Open Assembly as the industry’s go to location for businesses’ adoption of open talent including freelancing, crowdsourcing, open innovation, and the gig economy.
The partnership marks Open Assembly’s expansion of its consulting services as well as growth into the European market. This serves as a major expansion milestone as the merged entities develop additional services in research, benchmarking, training and digital products in 2022.
As part of the merger Open Assembly’s founder John Winsor becomes Chairman and Barry Matthews, Re-source’s, founder becomes CEO. The team is joined by Bryn Barlow who will lead the consulting business and Eleanor Matthews who will lead Research and Membership Services. The new management team has an impressive track record of business success including the formation, growth and exit of multiple research based consulting businesses.
This WORK. podcast features Dror Gurevich, the Chief Executive Officer of Velocity Career Labs and the Velocity Network Foundation. These organizations co-exist to reinvent how career records and credentials are shared across the labor market, empowering individuals, businesses and educational institutions through transformational blockchain technology.
Show notes:
Dror Gurevich
Velocity Career Labs
Velocity Network Labs
John Healy
Techstars
Braintrust
Upwork
Fiverr
Harvard Business Press
Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard
Jin Paik
Karim Lakhani
Josh Bersin
World Employment Confederation - Blockchain Task Force
On this episode of the WORK. podcast we sit down with Jon Younger. Most of us in the field know Jon as a Forbes contributor writing about the freelance revolution. He is also an author of several books like “Agile Talent". He has taught at University of Michigan and Indian School of Business and is a social psychologist by background. Jon has been a helpful and important voice in these early years of the open talent movement.
Jon Younger
Exxon
McKesson
Li Jin
McKinsey
Paul Estes
Adam Davidson
The Passion Economy
Denver University
Freelancer.com
Roland Roseaver
Hayden Brown
Upwork
Balaji Bondili
Deloitte
GLG
Experfy
Harpreet Sing
University of Toronto
Kolabtree
LifeSciHub
Sheila Mahoney-Jewels
Matt Berrie
Fiverr
Gabe Greenberg
G2i
Wazoku
Topcoder
U.S. Green Building Council
This edition of the WORK. Podcast features Chris Kneeland, Co-founder and COO of Communo and Co-founder and CEO of Cult Collective, one of North America’s premier engagement marketing firms.
Communo is a talent optimization platform that matches highly-vetted talent with advertising agencies and brands looking to staff projects or positions. Chris’s professional passion is helping brands accelerate growth by helping leaders embrace proven marketing principles he’s discovered while working with the most iconic “cult-like” brands on the planet.
Show NotesChris Kneeland
The Cult Gathering
Communo
Ryan Gill
Victors & Spoils
Harley Davidson
Frank Palmer
DDB
Accenture
McKinsey
This episode of the WORK. podcast features Kirstin Hammerberg who is the Global Vice President of Brand Innovation for the creative agency Sid Lee. She leads global business and experience design with a focus on brand innovation. Kirstin has authored growth visions and designed cultural programs that mobilize employees and has found ways to bring community and people into the heart of business design.
Kirstin Hammerberg
Sid Lee
Havas
Cognizant
Paul Hlivko
Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Patagonia
Tony Bond
Great Place To Work
Steve Rader
NASA
Mike Tushman
We Are Rosie
Toptal
Braintrust
Communo
Whit Hiller
On this episode on the WORK. podcast we connect with Connor Heaney, Managing Director of CXC-Europe. He leads CXC for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and works to execute the CXC vision in shaping the future of work with a focus on solving clients’ contingent workforce problems and playing a part in their daily success stories.
Having spent the majority of his career in resource and talent management, Connor has accumulated significant experience within solutions sales, product development and operational delivery for CXC, in the UK and wider EMEA. Connor has a proven track record of successfully growing revenues, profits and teams, with a passion for building and maintaining transformational relationships.
Show Notes:Connor Heaney
CXC Global EMEA
Laboratory of Innovation Sciences at Harvard (LISH)
Barry Matthews
re-source
Randstad
Twago
Sarah Tang
Freelancer.com
Roland Rosevear
Dror Gurevich
Velocity Network Foundation
John Healy
CXC Comply
GitLab
On this episode of the WORK. podcast we have an inspiring conversation with Tim Sanders. Tim is the Vice President of Customer Insights at Upwork where he helps businesses implement better ways of working through the adoption of flexible talent solutions. He is a best selling author, a top rated speaker and his research over the last few years has centered around speeding up innovation through wide collaboration.
Show Notes:
Tim Sanders, VP of Customer Insights
Upwork
Love Is The Killer App
Deloitte
Mike Morris
Topcoder
Gallup - Employee Burnout: The Biggest Myth
Singularity University
Virtasant
Lars Asbjornsen - Leader of Marketing
NASA
Harvard Business Review
Chaordix
Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard (LISH)
Jeff Davis
NASA Tournament Lab
Center for the Transformation of Work (CTW)
Flexera
Workforce Ecosystems: A New Strategic Approach to the Future of Work
Jeff Schwartz
Passion Economy by Adam Davidson
Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
Github
Deloitte's Pixel (A): Consulting with Open Talent
Balaji Bondili, Head of Deloitte Pixel
Mike Tushman, Harvard Business School
Experfy
Sam Bright - Chief Product and Experience Officer, Upwork
Hayden Brown - CEO, Upwork
Melissa Valentine, Stanford
Matthew Mattola, author of The Human Cloud
Kevin Scott, Head of Technology, PGA of America
On this episode of the WORK. podcast John Winsor sits down with longtime entrepreneur and investor Doug Atkin. Doug is the Managing Partner at Communitas Capital and Co-Chairman of Z-Work Acquisition Corporation. Throughout his 25 year career, he has been an active investor, founder and senior executive with an emphasis on financial technology, crowdfunding, marketplaces, blockchain and data-driven companies.
This edition of the WORK. podcast features Roland Rosevear of Freelancer.com
Roland is in the enterprise solutions team at Freelancer.com and he works with individuals inside large enterprises who are passionate about transformational change.
He works with leaders who are willing to look beyond traditional resource models and have the ability to create a more agile and productive future for their companies.
In this edition of the Work Podcast, John Winsor chats with Cynthia Hansen. Cynthia is the Head of the Adecco Group Foundation and Social Innovation at The Adecco Group where she drives strategy, delivery and impact.
Prior to joining Adecco she spent 9 years with the World Economic Forum where she held a number of roles including Head of Content Strategy and Head of Chairmen Engagement and Role of Business in Society.
Show notes:
Adecco Group
Adecco Group Foundation
Action Planning
Elizabeth (Liz) J. Altman-Assistant Professor of Management, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems
Ryan Gull-CEO, Communo
Communo
Strike
Screen Actors Guild
Barry Matthews-Founder, re-source
re-source
Steve Rader-NASA
Modis
In this episode of the WORK. podcast Open Assembly CEO & Founder John Winsor checks in with longtime advertising visionary and strategist Rishad Tobaccowala. For many years Rishad was the Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe. He now works closely with company leaders to increase productivity by unleashing the potential of their talent. Rishad has been named a top marketing and business leader by BusinessWeek and TIME magazine and he regularly presents keynote speeches at well-known global organizations, such as Kellogg's, IBM, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Rishad is also the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data”. Additional writings can be found on the Re-Inventing blog.
Show notes and links:
Rishad Tobaccowala
Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data
Publicis Groupe
The Great Re-invention
WeWork
Harvard Business School
Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard
Jin Paik
Karim Lakhani
David Jones
Havas
Victors and Spoils
Rishad’s podcasts
Stephanie Nadi Olson
We Are Rosie
99designs
Vistaprint
Squarespace
Substack
Rishad’s Newsletter
Clubhouse
TikTok
Microsoft
Walmart
Domino's
In this episode of the WORK. podcast we chat with Paul Hlivko. Paul is the Chief Technology and Experience Officer at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield. As CXO he leads the strategic direction and execution of experience strategy, user experience design, as well as digital channels and research. As CTO he leads the delivery of Wellmark’s application portfolio, API platforms, enterprise data management, enterprise architecture, software product management and strategy.
Show notes:
Paul Hlivko
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Anthem
Microsoft
Satya Nadella
Topcoder
Balaji Bondili
Deloitte
Deloitte Pixel
Michael Kearns
Dean Bosche
Virtasant
Dyan Finkhousen
Shoshin Works
In this episode of the Work Podcast, Open Assembly founder John Winsor has a great conversation with Tim Pröhm the Vice President of Digital Product Architecture at Kelly. Tim applies an analytical and design-thinking approach to bring new Kelly products to life and upgrade existing ones.
Show notes and links:
Tim Prohm - Vice President Digital Product Architecture
Kelly
Open Assembly Collective
John Healy
William Russell Kelly
KellyOCG
KellyOCG Human Cloud
Karim Lakhani - Harvard Business School
Jim Paik - Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard
Velocity Network
Braintrust
Accenture
Wipro
Podcast with Steve Hatfield of Deloitte
Slack
Trello
Microsoft
Mike Morris, CEO - Topcoder
Novartis
In this episode of the Work podcast Open Assembly CEO John Winsor welcomes Deloitte's Steve Hatfield. Steve is a Deloitte Consulting Principal and currently serves as the firm’s Global Future of Work Leader. He has more than 20 years of experience guiding Strategy Innovation Organization Culture Workforce and Leadership to Fortune 500 clients around the world.
Steve Hatfield
Deloitte
Upwork
Peace Corps
Human Capital Trends Report for 2021
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Balaji Bondili
Delloite Pixel
John Haggle: From Push to Pull
Velocity Network Foundation
Topcoder
Center for the Transformation of Work
Erik Stettler
Toptal
MIT
Kirstin Hammerberg
Sid Lee
Passion for Work Theory Research and Applications
Bryan is a globally recognized thought leader in the world of extended work and open talent. With a unique perspective on the ever-growing demand for comprehensive workforce solutions, he is a widely sought-after keynote speaker, a passionate evangelist for the open talent industry, and a highly sought out expert on emerging talent platforms, workforce management programs, labor models, HR technology, variable and future workforce trends. Through his boutique consulting firm Defiant Solutions LLC, he works directly with HR tech providers, service providers, private equity and enterprise clients to navigate the ever-changing global workforce landscape. His firm utilizes an immense global network of industry experts and specializes in solving complex challenges. You can find Bryan being featured in various industry publications, podcasts, webinars as well as Forbes, Fortune, Buzzfeed, and NPR’s Marketplace to name a few.
Previously, Bryan served as Chief of Market Strategy for MBO Partners, the leading platform for the independent economy. Where he was responsible for overall go to market strategy, partnership development, business development and enterprise capabilities to support the growing demand for independent workforce solutions. Bryan may best be known for his time as senior vice president of contingent workforce strategies at Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). During his more than ten years with SIA, Bryan and his team crafted the revolutionary Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) program—now taught on three continents and widely credited with fundamentally changing the global services industry. He also led SIA’s enterprise research schedule and advisory practice to Global 500 companies as well as global conference content for the CWS summit. The CWS summit is the largest event in the world dedicated to the extended workforce and the enterprises who rely on them. Bryan has extensive experience as a contingent workforce practitioner, having served as a program practitioner with program leadership roles at Avery Dennison and Vivendi Universal Entertainment (now NBC Universal) North America.
Bryan Pena
Defiant Solutions
MBO Partners
Staffing Industry Analysts
Passion Economy by Adam Davidson
Li Jin Atelier Ventures (formerly with Andreessen Horowitz)
Sheila Mahoney, founder LifeSciHub
Fiverr
Upwork
We Are Rosie
WorkGenius
Vicoland
Currnt
CCWP
Geoffery Moore Passion Gap
Toptal
Center for the Transformation of Work
Jerry (Yoram) Wind joined Wharton in 1967 with a doctorate from Stanford and since 2017 is the Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing. He founded the Wharton Think Tank – The SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and ran it for three decades. Among his many innovations at Wharton he led the development of Wharton Executive MBA, the Lauder Institute, the new MBA of 1990 and Wharton School Publishing. He has edited top marketing journals, published over 300 articles, manuscripts and chapters and authored, co-authored or edited 30 books, and received the 4 major marketing awards: Buck Weaver, Parlin, Converse, and AMA/Irwin Distinguished Educator Award. He was inducted to the inaugural group of AMA Fellows. He was one of the original Legends in Marketing, with an 8-volume anthology published by Sage in 2014. He has consulted with over 100 companies, is a member of the executive committee of SEI, sits on the advisory boards of various companies and nonprofit organizations, and testifies in intellectual property cases. He is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Curtis Institute of Music and Grounds for Sculpture. He is a co-founder of the first private, non-profit university in Israel, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. His current research explores marketing-driven business strategy, creativity and innovation; and challenging our mental models. His recent books include Transformation In Times of Crisis (December 2020), Can Art Resolve Conflict? (2018) Beyond Advertising: Creating Value Through All Customer Touchpoints (2016) and The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models (2016). He is a 2017 inductee into the Marketing Hall of Fame. He is the Co-founder of the Purple Project for Democracy and of the Reimagine Education global competition and conference.
Jerry Wind
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Transformation in Times of Crisis: Eight Principles for Creating Opportunities and Value in the Post-Pandemic World
Stanford
Chris Stanton
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
Reimagne Education
Bob Garfield
Purple Project for Democracy
Tim Prohm KellyOCG
Victors & Spoils
Beyond Advertising
Terry Sydoryk is the CEO of Chaordix. With 25+ years as an entrepreneur, founder and executive in the technology industry under his belt, Terry's perspectives on the future of co-creation, community and customer participation come qualified by a deep well of experience.
Spark
Lego community
Baked in: Creating Products and Businesses That Market Themselves
Rust-Oleum Creator Studio
Dave Messinger is the Chief Technologist at Topcoder, where he is in charge of all crowdsourcing products and technology. He is responsible for the platform and overall community development methodology.
Prior to his current role, Dave spent seven years as Topcoder’s Chief Architect, during which time he oversaw the platform, community growth, and component-based methodology.
Topcoder
Red Hat
Velocity Network Foundation
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Mike Morris
Clinton Bonner
These are two companies that verify self sovereign identities:
- evernym.com
- https://trinsic.id/
POC: Proof Of Concept
SME: Subject Matter Expert
Talent as the Service
Brian Flemming, Senior VP Product & Technology, T-Mobile
Paul Hlivko, Chief Experience Officer & Chief Technology Officer , Wellmark
Sajeev Nair, Head of Global ADM, Zurich Insurance
Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School
Co-pilot: a Topcoder member who serves as a tech lead to support clients on the Topcoder platform
Bug Bashers: what Topcoder calls members who come to solve problems and fix bugs on demand
Circle-CI is the vendor we use for our continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform we use at Topcoder for DevOps
Adam Sandlin, Head of Worldwide Go-To-Market & Customer Success, Topcoder
Dean Bosche, Head of Channel Development, Virtasant
Tim Prohm, VP Digital Product Development, KellyOCG
TCO: Topcoder Open
Chris Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard.
An applied economist, Chris directs his research at how technology is changing the management and location of work. The same technological trends that enable the fragmentation of work and the rise of the gig economy also improve the measurement of work outcomes inside firms. Professor Stanton seeks to understand the resulting managerial and policy implications of these trends. His work has been published in The Review of Economic Studies, Management Science, and the Journal of Labor Economics, and it has been cited by media outlets including The Economist, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, among others.
Before joining Harvard, Chris was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Utah and an Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy at the London School of Economics. He earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Emory University.
Show notes and links:Harvard Business School
Open Assembly / Center for the Transformation of Work bi-monthly calls
Stanford
Odesk / Elance / Upwork Wikipedia
Upwork
Uber
London School of Economics
Karim Lakhani
Jin Paik
Topcoder
Mike Morris
Charles O’Reilly
Mike Tushman
Laboratory of Innovation Sciences at Harvard
NASA Tournament Lab
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
Roche Case Study
Google's Alphabet AlphaFold protein folding study
On this episode of the WORK. podcast brought to you by Open Assembly we have a fun, informative and inspiring conversation with Eleanor and Barry Matthews of re-source.
re-source is a consulting group that sets the vision and strategy, as well as supports a team of globally distributed subject matter experts, to help businesses access the power of the global on-demand crowd.
Eleanor and Barry are extremely smart and ambitious, and we really looking forward to watching them build re-source and help clients around the world navigate the future of work.
Please enjoy this great conversation with Eleanor and Barry Matthews of re-source.
Welcome to another installment of the Open Assembly Podcast. In this episode we spoke with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX.
Drawing upon nearly 20 years of XPRIZE Foundation experience, HeroX is a unique platform that enables any organization to solve any challenge in any field, using the power of the crowd.
HeroX can run challenges from small too large, and across a wide range of industries and topics.
Christian has successfully built and sold several companies and his passion for open innovation is infectious. He is one of the world’s leading thinkers in crowdsourcing and the open economy, and every time we talk with him we always feel as though the possibilities are endless.
Please enjoy this conversation with Christian Cotichini, co-founder and CEO of HeroX.
During thus episode we spoke with Erik Stettler, the Chief Economist at Toptal. Erik is also a founding partner of Firstrock Capital which ultimately led him to his current position at Toptal.
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers in the world. Leading companies around the globe hire Toptal freelancers for their most important and challenging projects. As Chief Economist for Toptal, Erik utilizes his experience as a data scientist and venture capital fund manager to address the economic opportunities presented by the talent economy.
Please enjoy this great conversation with Erik Stettler, Chief Economist at Toptal.
Welcome to another episode of the Open Assembly Podcast. In this episode we have a really great conversation with Ryan Gill Co-founder and CEO of Communo.
Communo is a community of advertising and marketing professionals who give and get work from each other via Communo’s platform. It's for creative professionals looking for work or agencies looking to hire contingent workers for a specific project. Communo is many more things, too.
Ryan is a serial entrepreneur who had his hand in the marketing agency world for more than two decades. Besides running Communo, he is a driving force behind The Gathering, an awesome event for the marketing and advertising world that is held annually in Canada. He was also the co-founder of the Cult Collective, a Canadian-based marketing engagement firm.
As you'll hear, Ryan is a ball of passion... as well as a man on a mission. Ryan and Communo are firing on all cylinders right now and I love where this is all going. Please enjoy this dynamic conversation with Ryan Gill, Co-founder and CEO of Communo.
In this edition of the Open Assembly Podcast, John Winsor peaks with Patrick Llewellyn, CEO and President of 99designs.
99designs is a global creative platform that makes it easy for designers and clients to work together to create designs they love. From clients who need custom design, to designers who want quality projects, people around the world rely on the 99designs creative process to do amazing design.
The company just recently launched two new products for corporate clients. 99designs Select and 99designs Studio enable brands and marketers to leverage 99design’s remote creative talent pool to enhance their in-house teams when needed.
Patrick has been steering the ship at 99designs for nearly a decade and has seen it all including being a scrappy start-up, securing venture capital and now driving global growth. We hope you enjoy this great conversation with Patrick Llewellyn.
Welcome to the Open Assembly Podcast. In this episode John Winsor chats with Steve Rader, the Deputy Director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA. He is also one of the world’s top evangelists for using open talent to solve problems.
In his role he helps facilitate and promote the use of collaborative innovation platforms such as crowd-based communities, challenges and crowdsourcing for supporting development projects across the United States government.
It seems that every time we chat with Steve we always leave the conversation inspired to do more. We hope you feel the same way after listening to this interview with NASA’s Steve Rader.
Welcome to another episode of the Open Assembly Podcast with host John Winsor. In this episode John talks with Steve Pockross, the CEO of Verblio.
Verblio is a multimedia content creation platform that powers modern content marketers and SEO agencies. They have created tens of thousands of pieces of unique content for their clients across the globe.
We love Steve’s energy and passion for his work. Please enjoy this conversation with Steve Pockross, CEO of Verblio.
During this episode of the Open Assembly Podcast John Winsor checks in with Wyatt Nordstrom, co-founder, chairman and CFO of Maven.
Maven is a global network and marketplace of industry professionals, thought leaders, and experts who share their knowledge through Maven’s unique “microconsulting” platform. Some of their many clients include Home Depot, Siemens, Microsoft and NASA.
In this episode of the Open Assembly podcast John Winsor gets into it with John Healy, former Vice President & Managing Director, Office of the Future of Work at Kelly.
John has accomplished many amazing things at Kelly, but one of his main roles was disrupting new and existing markets by improving the ways that people connect and do work.
We met John about a year ago and his enthusiasm and positivity about the open economy and what modern work could be is infectious.
Welcome to the Open Assembly Podcast. In this episode we chat with Rob Biederman, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Catalant Technologies.
Rob founded Catalant while at the Harvard Business School. It was one of those ideas for a school project that has blossomed into a very successful business. The Catalant software platform helps companies execute work and align the right people to a strategy. This could be both full-time employees and outside experts or a combination of both. The platform offers visibility needed to digitally orchestrate work, drive alignment and engagement, balance resources, and track work progress against key objectives. Catalant’s list of clients include the likes of Unilever, Staples, Pfizer, GE and many, many more.
Please enjoy this conversation Rob Biederman, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Catalant Technologies.
In this installment of the Open Assembly Podcast host John Winsor had the honor and privilege to talk with Jody Miller, the Co-founder and co-CEO of the Business Talent Group.
Business Talent Group was founded in 2007 is one of the pioneers for hiring on-demand talent and to this day are regarded as the premier marketplace for companies seeking high-end expertise.
Jody has an impressive resume with a proven track record and is a driving force in the open economy. Please enjoy this podcast with Jody Miller, Co-founder and Co-CEO of the Business Talent Group.
In this episode we introduce you to James Cole, founder of a really unique platform called The H Hub.
The H Hub platform is a tool which allows companies of all sizes as well as individuals hire the best photographers in seconds. They have worked with top brands such as Allbirds, Kashi, Brooks Brothers, Vistaprint and more.
We connected with James a few months ago through our weekly Open Assembly calls and have had the pleasure to learn more about him and The H Hub. We all know how expenditures can get out of hand and The H Hub is a great tool to get a better product that is on time and on budget.
James is an extremely sharp guy and we always love talking with him. We hope you enjoy this chat with James Cole, CEO and founder of The H Hub.
Topcoder is a one of the world's leading platforms with a network of 1.5 million designers, developers, data scientists, and testers from around the globe that help Topcoder customers solve real-world problems. Topcoder’s list of clients is impressive and a few names you’ll recognize are T-Mobile, Zurich Insurance and Wellmark.
For some, on-demand talent, crowdsourcing and the open economy are a new way of doing things, but Topcoder was founded way back in 2001 and essentially paved the way to where we are today.
I met Mike a few years ago at an event at the Harvard Business School and he never ceases to amaze me. In this episode we dive into a bit of history on Topcoder, where they are today and where they are headed in the future. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder.
In this episode Open Assembly CEO John Winsor caught up with Simon Hill, the founder and CEO of Wazoku.
Wazoku is an idea management software that enables businesses to gather, manage, develop, analyze and implement ideas that creates solutions to their problems as well as identify new opportunities. This approach can achieve both innovation and strategic objectives.
Simon is one of the brightest thinkers in the open innovation space and always has great things to say. Please enjoy this podcast with Simon Hill, founder and CEO of Wazoku.