Work 2026: AI Adoption, Curiosity, Continuous Learning | Work 20XX Ep56

If you hold the long term view, that you believe the capital market side of the business will actually catch up and start to value these shorter term cash flows in the way that they should - Dave Cairns

I'm a coach. I'm a parent, I do know how to take lessons from those places and apply them in other avenues and other venues … There is zero gating on deciding to learn something new. - Forget permission, just start doing the things you intend to do

I just feel like there's been a group of us who have been kind of really reticent and scared of the change when we actually should be super excited about this is growing our future and our scope and the amount of influence that we can have in a company like we now have a seat at the table for how people work moving forward. - Tracy Hawkins

As an experienced analyst, and host of her own Hybrid Work podcast, I was excited to welcome this force multiplying guest, Maribel Lopez, Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research to Work 20XX.

Adrienne’s college summer internship sweeping the streets of Disney World turned into a 20+ year career where she developed many of the foundational values that continue to surface today, starting with the connected threesome of the customer, the product or experience, and the employee. Purposeful attention to detail centered on the customer’s experience defines the perception of the company in the customer’s mind.

What happens when the increasing demands for flexibility and agility collide with what has historically be a pretty static, inflexible asset, the office? You might be surprised at the magic available beyond the cubicle and traditional floor plan.

Bad meetings are the bane of the modern working world. The back-to-back, uninterrupted energy crushers have only gotten worse over the last two years. Shani Harmon, Co-Founder & CEO of 'Stop Meeting Like This' shows us the path to a better way.

In Episode 4, we dive into the art of the one-on-one, with a master of the art, PayPal’s Chief Audit Executive Dave Montez. Dave shares his method for building a trusting culture across an globally distributes 80+ person team by over-indexing on one-on-ones, in a way I’v never heard before.

In this episode, we explore the world of Design, Real Estate, and Facilities through the eyes of long-time industry veteran Ryan Anderson, Vice President, Global Research & Insights, MillerKnoll. No surprise, these professionals are moving from cost center/efficiency thinking to a more human-centric, and ‘seat-at-the-table’, rethinking their resources.