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Talk RoleshareTaking Action for Gender Equality: Practical Tips for Individuals and OrganizationsJoy Burnford, founder of Encompass Equality, is a gender equality advocate. Joy’s journey began with a crisis of confidence in a male-dominated workplace and she has since dedicated her life to help women develop their confidence, and inspire organisations to create a better workplace experience for all. In this episode, she highlights common workplace practices that perpetuate gender inequality, such as lack of flexibility and gender bias in promotions. Joy shares insights from her book “Don't Fix Women” and offers tips for individuals and organizations to build more inclusive workplaces, including the use of job sharing. Let's dive in to...
2023-04-0119 min
WomanthologyGender Pay GapWelcome to the fifty-sixth episode of the Womanthology podcast.Womanthology is the digital magazine and professional community powered by female energy and ingenuity. We champion equal recognition and reward for everyone, sharing opportunities, ideas and a deep pool of collective wisdom – supporting each other to be unstoppable.In this episode, we chat with Sophie Smallwood, co-founder of Roleshare, the platform that helps increase employment opportunities and allows companies to retain more talent. Sophie explains how role sharing could make a massive difference in reducing gender pay gaps and gender seniority gaps moving forward.To...
2023-03-2828 minTalk RoleshareVirgin Media O2 Leaders Share Their Secrets to Successful Job-SharingSarah O'Connor and Annella Osborne job share the Head of Go to Market at Virgin Media O2. With different career backgrounds, they bring unique experiences and perspectives to the decision-making process, resulting in increased efficiency. They share their strategies for effective communication, prioritizing tasks, and creating light touch handover documents. Tune in to this episode of Talk Roleshare to discover how their job-sharing partnership has proven to be an effective approach for senior-level positions.
2023-03-1519 minTalk RoleshareBreaking Barriers: The Rise of Job Sharing in Senior-Level Roles at BTOn this week's episode of Talk Roleshare we interview Aurorah Cheney and Kate Jackson Wendelboe. They are the co-directors of strategy and growth at BT security, and they have one of the first director-level job shares at the company. Kate and Aurorah share with us their experience in job sharing, how they manage their team, and the benefits and challenges they have faced so far. If you are interested in learning more about job sharing and how it can work at the director level, you won't want to miss this episode.
And if you want to learn...
2023-02-2714 minTalk RoleshareUnlock unicorn talent: How job sharing can help build your dream team"The power is bringing people who think differently and who maybe have a different outlook on life, together." This week on Talk Roleshare we discuss the importance of job sharing in the workplace with Laura Walker and Chloe Fletcher, who job share the Senior Finance Director Transformation position a ASDA. We explore how job sharing offers unique benefits to businesses, such as creating a "unicorn employee" with different skill sets and perspectives, and the importance of multi-generational job sharing to gain a competitive advantage.
2023-01-1229 minTalk RoleshareDiversity-focused investing: An ethics lawyer's viewOff the back of Covid, new ways of working, remote, hybrid, and the wider adoption of AI technology - the traditional corporate world is on the brink of a radical shift. Companies like Roleshare are creating new sustainable opportunities and true diversity in staffing for the workforce. And this, as Kevin Withane, founder of Diversity X, points out meets his aspirations as a "recovering" ethics lawyer, and now investor.
2023-01-0915 minTalk RoleshareThe benefits of job sharing in marketing for mothersLet's kick imposter syndrom's ass. That is precisely what Claire Ferreira is on mission to achieve with her growing community of mothers working in marketing. Mums in Marketing helps mothers in the marketing industry by providing resources and advice to help them succeed in returning to work and managing their career. In this Talk Roleshare podcast episode we discuss the challenges working moms are facing in the marketing industry and what can be done about it.
2023-01-0316 min
UNLEASHcastRoleshare: Onboarding time can be cut by job sharingRoleshare co-founder Sophie Smallwood returns for another conversation with UNLEASHcast, this time focusing more on the practicalities of the idea, and heading off some of the questions that many people have about this new way of working. Feeling the FOMO for Paris? Book 2023 tickets here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-12-1618 min
Sustainable Ambition88. On the Agency to Define Your Own Ambitions & Success with Al DeaToday I’m joined again by Al Dea, the founder of Betterwork Labs, an organization focused on helping companies create cultures where their people can thrive. Al is an author, speaker, podcast host, and researcher on workplace trends and talent development.I had Al back for a second episode so we could go deeper and get Al’s perspective on Sustainable Ambition. I love how Sustainable Ambition takes on different meanings for different people, and Al shares that for him it’s about having the autonomy and agency to define how and where one wants to be ambiti...
2022-12-0143 minTalk RoleshareGive your managers more bandwidth, ask them to hire job shares.Nicola Golding is an absolute job share rockstar. She has shared three positions in the UK government Civil Service, and today shares the role of Head of Strategic Projects at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The arrangement benefits the organization by allowing for coaching and feedback between the partners, low maintenance requirements from their manager and increased energy levels throughout the workweek. Learn more about the future of work and job sharing at Roleshare.
2022-11-2820 minTalk RoleshareHanding over the reigns: how to make job sharing workPeople unfamiliar with job sharing might wonder about duplication in a job share or how the partners will hand over responsibilities effectively. I recently met Liz Morgan, who was in a very successful senior job share as HR manager at the National Autistic Society in the UK. She and her partner, Dawn, attribute their joint success to their very effective handover, which, in their experience, also added incremental value to the business. Listen to Liz on Talk Roleshare as she explains how the partnership started and the handover that made it great. We promise it's not rocket science.
2022-11-1109 minTalk RoleshareA 1-minute story - Building a more equitable and empathetic world through job sharing.Learn how this charity in the Netherlands working with Roleshare may have just painted the path to a better future through job sharing.
2022-11-0301 minTalk RoleshareWhat is the future of work in an exponential age?Hear from Azeem Azhar author of Exponential – a book about how "Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It." We talk about how productivity, creativity, and innovation have increased in the last few years due to available technology tools and our ability to deliver working from…well, anywhere. And how stability in the future of work will feel a little bit like skiing. I should mention Azeem is an investor in Roleshare – so we’re doubly thankful for that and for sharing his views here with us. Listen to Azeem to explain the exponential age and how...
2022-11-0225 min
The Edtech PodcastSkills development in the gig economy, flexible, and freelance spaceWhat's in this episode? This week we're back with our VocTech Podcast, this time looking at skills development in the new world of work. As we move towards ever more atomised modes of work, is there a risk we don't develop our skills properly, just going from one gig to another? If we are going to prevent that from happening, what do we need our freelance, flexible or gig economy platforms to look like and to build in? Is this ever likely? This week we're back with our VocTech Podcast, exploring t...
2022-10-2038 minThe Edtech PodcastSkills development in the gig economy, flexible, and freelance spaceWhat's in this episode? This week we're back with our VocTech Podcast, this time looking at skills development in the new world of work. As we move towards ever more atomised modes of work, is there a risk we don't develop our skills properly, just going from one gig to another? If we are going to prevent that from happening, what do we need our freelance, flexible or gig economy platforms to look like and to build in? Is this ever likely? This week we're back with our VocTech Podcast, exploring t...
2022-10-2038 minTalk RoleshareHow to marry purpose and ambition within the construct of the workforce today?There is a revolution happening in HR. The rebels vs. the traditionalists. There is a yearning and a need for a novel mindset in HR. Listen to David Reay, SVP People at Condé Nast, as he shares how his diverse career experiences, and startup principles, has shaped his view on HR and how that marries itself to the shift in the workforce from company-lead to individual-led.
2022-10-1934 min
UNLEASHcastRoleshare: In five years, half the workforce will be freelanceJon talks to Sophie Smallwood, co-founder of Roleshare, the job share startup. A previous employee of eBay, Meta, and Tripadvisor, she has extensive experience in tech, scaleups, and innovation. We speak to her ahead of Roleshare's showing at UNLEASH World on 12-13 October at the Paris Convention Center. Not got your tickets yet? Get free expo tickets here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-09-3015 min
The Edge of WorkS1: E4: Roleshare, and Creating Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Career PathwaysSophie Smallwood is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Roleshare, a job sharing platform that connects individuals looking for fractional roles with companies looking to hire diverse talent. With Roleshare, employees can co-apply to full-time roles, and work flexible schedules and employers can get access to high quality talent. After working for tech companies like eBay and Facebook, Sophie Co-Founded Roleshare as a way to enable professionals who want to part-time pair up for full-time jobs. Much of the inspiration for Roleshare came from some of Sophie’s lived experience when she and her husband Dave, her Co-CEO and...
2022-09-2734 min
People masterminds#33 - Fractional Work; why not share your employee?! with Hung Lee from Recruiting Brainfood.mp3This podcast is sponsored by Lepaya.
The concept of 'fractional work' is a hotly debated topic at the moment. We're in the middle of an evolving labor market and many business leaders and recruiters are looking at options to fill the long gaps for unfilled jobs. How to fill positions efficiently with the limited availability of resources and maximum results? The innovative, new idea of fractional work can be the solution. Filling in that tough position, while also increasing efficiency, advancing skills, and uplifting careers.
The demand for fractional work is growing and is -up...
2022-09-0540 min
Marketplace Risk Platform PodcastDisrupting Employment with an Innovative Sharing Platform with Sophie SmallwoodIn this week’s podcast Elle Tucker is joined by Sophie Smallwood, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Roleshare, a new platform that matches professionals to enable them to apply for – and share – one full-time job. Sophie tells the story of discovering, through her own experiences, the need for such a platform and explores how difficult job sharing is to organise without the technology – which is of course the gap that Roleshare fills. Sophie tells Elle about the benefits on both sides of the marketplace, for both employers and employees, as well as the risks and challenges, and talks about the potential for this...
2022-08-3125 min
The Chad & Cheese PodcastShredded: Roleshare, GrowthSpace, Haystack, RecruitLab, Sabanto, ModernLoop & MoreThe Shred is a weekly roundup of who’s raised funds, who’s been acquired and who’s on the move in the world of recruitment. The Shred is brought to you by Recruitology.
2022-08-2506 min
HR Collection PlaylistPersonio vs. HiBobLove a good ole fashioned unicorn cage match? How about some buy-or-sell with three of Europe’s hottest recruiting startups? This episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast Dies Europe has all that, featuring HiBob, Personio, Haystack, RoleShare, and more. We even throw in chicken Big Macs, dancing PMs, and the state of healthcare recruiting vendors on the continent. Lieven and The Boys bring their A-Game to this one.Enjoy.
2022-08-2438 minThe Chad & Cheese PodcastPersonio vs. HiBobLove a good ole fashioned unicorn cage match? How about some buy-or-sell with three of Europe’s hottest recruiting startups? This episode of The Chad & Cheese Podcast Dies Europe has all that, featuring HiBob, Personio, Haystack, RoleShare, and more. We even throw in chicken Big Macs, dancing PMs, and the state of healthcare recruiting vendors on the continent. Lieven and The Boys bring their A-Game to this one.Enjoy.
2022-08-2438 min
Le MINIMUM LOVABLE PRODUCT with Marco LanziHow to find work-life balance in today job Market? | Sophie Smallwood - Co-CEO Roleshare | E3Sophie is the Co-founder and Co-CEO at Roleshare a role-sharing marketplace, which is trying to change the way in which we think about flexibility in the workplace.Prior to Roleshare Sophie held different leading positions at Facebook and E-Bay, Tripadvisor, and many other digital companies.An extremely savvy digital professional which turned a real first-hand real-life problem into an opportunity and a growing company expanding globally! Topics 1. What is Rolesharing?2. Where do you get a startup idea?3. Dealing with human resources scarcity, and flexibility?4. Skills needed to share a...
2022-05-0920 min
Talk RoleshareYou've heard of serial job sharers?Meet "serial job sharers" Rhiannon Clapperton and Lisa Watch. What does that even mean? "Serial Job Sharers." Well they've shared not just one, two, but three jobs together at three different companies,and twice were hired together as a pair for a new role!
Today, they are co-Directors of Communications and External Affairs managing a team together and reporting into the CEO at Kinship - a charity for kinship carers to children. Together they are a great example of the potential of job sharing for people and companies, and they answer many of the questions people ask us a...
2022-02-2324 min
Big Careers, Small ChildrenThe Job Share Pair - Everything You Need to Know About Job Sharing"Most people know what the concept of job sharing is but many don't know how it works in practice." Our guests this week on the Big Careers, Small Children podcast are Hannah Hall-Turner and Rachel Maguire, otherwise known as The Job Share Pair.Having successfully job shared together in their HR Director role at a Fortune 500 firm they are now on a mission to make job sharing an accessible option for all.Rachel and Hannah talk really honestly about the pro's and con's of job sharing, detailing everything you need to...
2022-01-1949 min
The Exploratory JourneySophie Smallwood - Building a Company Whilst Raising Children, Developing an International Career and Enhancing Skills to Propel Your CareerSophie is the co-founder and co-CEO of Roleshare.com. She's building the world’s best-shared skills platform to enable a sustainable, diverse, and happy workforce, which matches professionals looking for part-time work together for full-time roles, and helps businesses find untapped talent for their roles and reduce turnover.
Previously, Sophie was leading enterprise SaaS startups to shape and deliver scalable customer success disciplines to drive retention & evangelism.
In this episode, Sophie discusses her move to the UK and what it was like to build a startup whilst raising children.
2021-12-0138 min
Talk RolesharePromotions. Sci-fi Books. Kids. Ageing Parents - How This HP Exec Achieved It All.This finance executive was promoted three times at a global IT company, managing teams up to 120 people in Europe, Middle East and Africa over the course of 10 years. The leader was praised for high employee satisfaction scores and team spiritedness. On the personal life front,the executive managed to write a science fiction book while also caring for young and growing children and looking after aging parents. For most people, this would lead to burnout or negatively impact performance at work. But for this leader, it was the opposite. Optimal performance and the happiest chapter of an impressive career...
2021-11-2923 min
Talk RoleshareHow "job sharing" can boost diversity of the underrepresented at work.Nabeela Virji is the Equity, Inclusion and Diversity lead at X, The Moonshot Factory, formerly Google X. We talk about how feeling safe to share at work is key to equity, inclusion and diversity, from feeling safe and supported to share the reality of our lives and our situations, to sharing jobs for greater diversity and opportunity. Diversity drives innovation, innovation drives revenue. Simple mathematics. Learn how you can square that with job sharing with Roleshare.
2021-10-2521 min
Comeback Coach20. COACH - Sara - career crossroads - passion v salary - role-sharing - should I have a career change?Ask me a QSara is an Associate Director at a recruitment firm where she manages a team of Consultants and is the lead personal contact on over 40 client accounts. When she returned to work after having her first baby she discovered that the career she had found so energising and rewarding, was no longer a good fit and that her professional achievements no longer felt like success. Sara’s currently on maternity leave after having had her second child and a career change into a field that better suits her needs is on her mind..
2021-10-1337 min
Jobsharing And BeyondSophie Smallwood: Follow UpSophie Smallwood is the co-founder and co-CEO of Roleshare.com: Building the world’s best shared skills platform to enable a sustainable, diverse, and happy workforce. Matching professionals looking for part-time work together for full-time roles, and helping businesses find untapped talent for their roles and reduce turnover. Prior to Roleshare, Sophie worked for Facebook and Ebay. She has over 16 years of direct experience in advertising, ecommerce PaaS (Platform as a service) and workplace SaaS (Software as a service) across the US, Europe and the Middle East. Sophie received a BA with honours in Communications wi...
2021-08-2422 min
The Alternative Leader PodcastSophie Smallwood – How to balance parenting and professional roles as a leaderFrom California to London, Sophie is the Co-Founder of Roleshare, a company that matches skilled people to job roles and enables companies to build a sustainable diverse workforce. Sophie shares her career journey, and how she's has managed to balance parenting with professional life as a leader. We reflect on how COVID has impacted the way we work, the changes we hope to see and the future of remote working as well as the importance of staying connected even online. www.linkedin.com/in/sophiegonin
2021-07-0152 min
Fearless Product LeadershipWhat Was Your Defining Moment as a Product Leader? Part 2: PeopleWhen it comes to problems leaders face, they tend to fall into two main categories: people and process. In this episode, Part 2 in a two-part miniseries, we learn from four deeply experienced product leaders. They reflect on an epiphany that dramatically improved the way they approach the people part of their role.
Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos:
Nicole Brolan, Chief Product Officer, Redbubble, previously Executive GM – Global Services, Xero
Polly Howden, Chief Product Officer, Roleshare
Marc Abraham, Head of Product – Engagement at ASOS
Audrey Cheng, Chief Product Officer at Snap...
2021-06-0720 minFearless Product LeadershipDo You Nail Before You Scale Your Products?“Nail it, then scale it” is a common—and catchy—refrain within the product world. But what exactly does it mean to “nail” your product? What happens if you move too fast or too slow when rolling out a new product or feature? In this episode, we learn from six deeply experienced product leaders who understand the delicate nature of timing product releases.
Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos:
Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla
Polly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, Roleshare
Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify
Audrey Cheng, Chief Produc...
2021-05-1930 minTalk RoleshareYou Can Do It in Law, You Can Do It Anywhere - Allen & Overy, Head of HR, Alison PullenCareer progression meets career flexibility in a sector known for putting in more time – the legal sector. Alison Pullen, one of the Heads of HR at Allen & Overy, an international law firm, talks about how companies can sometimes get stuck doing things the old way because it’s worked. She explains how being open and different about ways of working can make companies more market leading, and retain and attract top talent. During her 20-year tenure at Allen & Overy, Alison shared a role and also managed a job share.
2021-02-1026 minFearless Product LeadershipHow Do You Accelerate Product Decision Velocity?Are you a product leader whose team struggles to make decisions efficiently? There are a number of underlying reasons why teams move slowly when they need to make product decisions. In this episode, we learn from five deeply experienced product leaders who have developed effective questions and frameworks to accelerate decision-making on their teams.
Product leaders featured in this episode with links to their bio videos:
Dave Wascha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Zoopla
Polly Howden, CPO and Co-Founder, Roleshare
Zabrina Hossain, Product Lead, Shopify
Anthony Marter, Value Management Lead, Foodstuffs North Island Limited; Product & Delivery...
2021-01-2024 minTalk RoleshareProductivity is a Byproduct of Connectivity - Workplace From FacebookThe norm is limited by what is possible. Technology widens what is possible and puts the norm under the spotlight. Is the norm the best way? Look at companies like Uber, Airbnb. Think back about your reaction when you first heard of their business model. Surprised, intrigued, curious, uncomfortable perhaps? When people hear about Roleshare.com, sometimes their reaction is based on the norm. Surprised, intrigued, curious, uncomfortable. Historically, sharing a role has been for the lucky who knew someone in their immediate network with whom they could share a role. Today, more so than ever, flexible working is...
2020-12-0219 min
Jobsharing And BeyondSophie Smallwood: Co-founder of RoleshareSophie Smallwood is the co-founder of Roleshare.com, the smart matching site for shared roles. As Sophie shares on her LinkedIn profile, she believes in equal opportunity for flexibility, where all people are encouraged to do what they love, aligned to their strengths with fulfilling flexible careers in a diverse workforce. And regardless of the reason they are free to have balanced lives and personal time, with career growth. Prior to Roleshare, Sophie worked for Facebook and Ebay. She has over 16 years of direct experience in advertising, ecommerce PaaS (Platform as a service) and workplace...
2020-11-0433 minTalk RoleshareDon't Choose Between the Best Talent - Get Both.Imagine you’re looking to fill a PR leadership role and you see this CV land. Sr Reporter at Newsquest, Sr. PR Manager at eBay, Chief Reporter at Clarke White Publishing, Editor at Mobile News, Global Head of Communications at Cobra Group, Director of PR at Bryden Wood, Director of External Communications at Lastminute.com, Director of Communications at LinkedIn. We’re talking about nearly 40 years experience, it would be very difficult to find this level of targeted expertise in a single individual. So, is this too good to be true? No! It’s a roleshare. Meet Sherelle Folkes and Nic...
2020-10-1542 minTalk RoleshareJobshare & Order - A Detective StoryWhen you think male dominated industries, what do you think about? Well, imagine being a woman, a mother, make that a mother of twins who needs career flexibility, as a detective in the metropolitan police. That was Ellie Pyemont. Ellie served as a detective jobshare on a public inquiry about Undercover Policing. On this Talk Roleshare episode Hear how Ellie and her partner secured and succeeded in the jobshare on highly sensitive, high profile inquiry.
2020-09-2325 min
Talk RoleshareThe Real Benefits of a VP Roleshare at UnileverUnilever has achieved 50/50 gender balance in their leadership roles and their openness to shared roles certainly contributes to that. Dr. Shelagh Muir and Jane Maciver share the role of VP Research and Development at Unilever. This is the second role they’re sharing at Unilever. Hear first hand why they chose this roleshare working model, how they secured it, and how they succeed in it. Learn why success is about the individuals and the role design, rather than the role itself. Any doubts you have about leaders sharing a role might just “poof” dissipate… .
2020-09-0240 min
Talk RoleshareWhy Sharing a Role is Great for Seniority - Mumsnet CEO, Justine RobertsJustine Roberts is an inspiring example of a woman entrepreneur. She started Mumsnet – the UKs most popular website for parents - after becoming the mother of twins. We spoke ahead of covid. It’s ironic, eerie, whatever you want to call it. We talked about the difficulties of working remotely with kids at home, and the burden of childcare on women’s careers. Little did we know all of this would become exponentially true in just a few weeks with the lockdowns. Empathy, understanding – these are key ingredients to a sustainable workforce. Covid 19 is yet another reminder we need to protect...
2020-08-0523 min
Why Care?3. The Job Sharing Solution with Sophie Smallwood“As a manager, this type of work arrangement is phenomenal, because I can give the flexibility and then I can get the coverage and help meet my quota.”
In this episode, Sophie Smallwood, Co-founder of Roleshare talks to me about her first maternity leave experience where she took a full year but was actually feeling ready to come back before that if there would have been the option of 3 days. She tells me about her experience of overcoming the challenges to come back to a fast-paced organisational environment of a digital global player (Facebook) - a challenge face...
2020-07-1638 min
Talk RoleshareThis GM at Microsoft is Opening all Roles to Be Shared"As a leader you get thrown curve balls you weren’t expecting and you have to adjust your thinking." Derrick McCourt, General Manager, Customer Success at Microsoft UK has enabled a number of successful shared roles within his organization. Today, he is moving to a position that every role for his organization is to be advertised as a shared role potential. Find out more about why.
2020-07-0224 min
Talk RoleshareFuture of Work. Future of Our Lives - HR Influencer, Jill Katz"What if you don’t..." empower, enable, and support your direct reports to work flexibly? This simple, yet powerful question is one Jill Katz, HR influencer, transformation expert, and CHRO at AssembleHR, will ask leaders as part of her work. Jill's passion and point of view on flexible working or, as she states, "it's simply 'working'," will inspire you and empower you to nurture your "also's" in life, should you want that.
2020-05-2018 min
Talk RoleshareStop Thinking of Flexible Working as a Perk - Forbes Contributor, Matt BallantineWe talk to Matt Ballantine, a "no non-sense" writer, technology consultant, and sociology aficionado. Matt is an author and contributing writer to Forbes where he often writes about the future of work with insights on sustainable and fulfilling ways of working. Matt is passionate about how we can bring "play" back into work to surface ideas, experiments, and innovation. For the last 6 years, he has been advising CIO, CTOs, Heads of HR on how to work better together.
2020-04-0827 min
Talk RoleshareSharing Roles for Cross-Experience - Airbnb, Head of People Ops, Q HamiraniHear about the future of roles from "Q" Hamirani, Head of People Ops at Airbnb. Why skills agility, and sharing roles for cross pollination is a part of their employee experience and hyper growth strategy.
2020-03-0320 minTalk RoleshareBanking Can't Afford to Be Inflexible - Royal Bank of Canada, HR, Vanessa GilardiVanessa Gilardi, Head of HR Wealth & Global Asset Management at the Royal Bank of Canada in Europe, shares how banking must embrace flexibility and new ways of working to attract and retain diverse talent. She shares her thoughts on leadership strategies required to enable this transformation in a traditional banking environment.
2020-02-0723 min
Talk RoleshareSolve the People Side, Make Magic Happen - Twitter, Director of Talent, Steve FogartySteve Fogarty, Director of Talent Experience at Twitter, wants to build a culture of hyper obsession with candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers. He brings a fresh perspective to HR to solve the ever-growing challenge of finding the right people for roles, speedily, in a competitive and scarce talent market.
2020-01-1317 min
The Equal Group's Podcast003: Representation Matters - Sophie Smallwood of RoleShare: implementing flexible and inclusive working arrangementsSophie has worked for big corporates such as Facebook and Ebay and so she knows first hand about these kind of pressures. For women, who are often the main carers in their family, balancing work pressures along with running the home and taking care of the family – can become very frustrating. Sophie has seen this need for flexibility in the workplace, and has decided to do something about it.
A year after leaving Facebook she went back to record a video segment for Facebook for Business in London talking about about her startup www.Roleshare.com - th...
2020-01-1223 min
Love to WorkIs keeping a journal the key to loving your work?In the first episode of the Love to work Podcast, we're talking to Sophie Smallwood, founder at RoleShare, about what makes her love her work. She's convinced keeping a journal has significantly impacted her shaping a career that she loves.
In the many conversations I've had with people who love what they do, they very often carve out time to reflect on what's important to them. People create this time in many different ways, but a common one is through keeping a journal.
During this episode, I confess that I've tried to keep consistent journals ma...
2020-01-1024 min
Talk RoleshareTo Work Flexibly, Be Flexible - EY, Director of Diversity & Inclusion, EMEIA, Fleur BothwickFleur Bothwick, Director of Diversity & Inclusive Leadership at Earnst & Young for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, talks about the future of work and diversity and how it’s ridiculous we are not absolutely littered with more people sharing roles today. She talks about how professionals seeking flexible work must themselves also be flexible and agile to make it work.
2019-12-1625 min
Talk RoleshareFlexibility as an Advantage for Companies - Telegraph Media Group, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Asif SadiqWhat is diversity? Race, gender, ethnicity, cultural heritage, people with disabilities, sexual orientation, etc. It’s also all the things we try to make time for on any day – our interests, passions, values, situations. All of which encompass the notion of the “authentic self.” In this episode, we to talk about flexibility as an enabler of diversity and inclusion with Asif Sadiq, Head of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the Telegraph Media Group.
2019-12-0327 minTalk RoleshareLine Manager Empathy Enables Flexible Working - EKOMI, CPO, Tatjana TasanLine managers with young women in their families, who happen to be at the start of their careers, are more likely to approve flexible working arrangements and shared roles for their direct reports. This is what Tatjana Tasan identified, along with other findings, when she advocated for and piloted a job share program in a previous HR leadership role at Vodafone. Her aim was to drive greater diversity in senior roles. Today, she brings the same forward-thinking mindset as Chief People & Culture Officer at EKOMI, a consumer feedback company where trust and lasting relationships is core to their product a...
2019-11-2625 min
Talk RoleshareMen Can Flex - Aviva, Group Sustainability & Public Policy Director, Sam White and Will McDonaldHave you attached a persona to the concept of flexible working? If so, I bet few people imagined Sam White and Will McDonald - two fathers, sharing the executive role of Group Sustainability & Public Policy Director at Aviva. What started as a pilot to accommodate their personal lives with career dedication, has continued into a dynamic and productive micro-team for the last two years. Learn how they make their roleshare arrangement "seamless from the outside."
2019-11-1632 min
Talk RoleshareMillenials Expect More Than Fully-Stocked Kitchens - Forbes Contributor, Christine Michel CarterChristine Michel Carter is a leading voice on the subject of black millennials and millennial moms with featured articles in Forbes, TIME, The New York Times, and many others. Millenials anticipate having career ultra marathons. Hear how their expectations will undoubtedly impact the future of work - flexible working and meaningful work being at the core.
2019-11-1120 min
Talk RoleshareEnhance Diversity + Skills with Micro-teams - Boston Globe Media, CHRO, Claudia HendersonClaudia Henderson, Chief Human Resources Officer at the Boston Media Group, shares her view on what it takes to drive change inside organizations and how sharing roles could potentially challenge biases, drive more leaders to appreciate diversity, and upskill individuals with utility skills critical to an organization.
2019-11-0228 minTalk RoleshareFrom Part Time to VP - Mastercard, VP Humanitarian and Development, Louise Holden“Ask for more. Do more.” This was Louise Holden’s strategy when sharing a relationship management role at MasterCard – and in doing that, demonstrated to the business this was a working model that was commercially beneficial to them - while she got the flexibility she sought. Listen to Louise, who today is VP Humanitarian and Development at MasterCard.
2019-10-2923 min
Talk Roleshare"My top performers were a jobshare" - eCommerce Executive, Scott DahlgrenHear how a leader's open mind drove talent retention but also resulted in a top-performing roleshare team. We talk with Scott Dahlgren, an investor executive leader in eCommerce technology, who directly managed a client and partner-facing job share. Learn how the benefits far exceeded anyone’s expectations.
2019-10-2224 min
Talk RoleshareFlex Enabled Business Continuity - Nestle Waters, Head of Global Talent, and Diversity and Inclusion, Adele CestariAdele Cestari, Head of Global Talent, and Diversity and Inclusion at Nestle Waters, talks about trends that must be addressed for continuity of the business and her strategies to convert aspiration to action – some of which include role modeling of shared roles at senior levels. Listen to Adele on “trends of the future no more” – they are the new reality… .
2019-10-1401 minTalk Roleshare"Better Together" - Microsoft, Industry Solutions Executive, Helena Zaum and Ellen WilsonHelena Zaum and Ellen Wilson share the role of Industry Solutions Executive at Microsoft. Hear how sharing this strategic role has given them the personal balance they seek, while progressing in their careers. Learn how this dynamic microteam pitched the concept of sharing a role, how they got into a groove, the criteria for a successful match, and the benefits they gained as individuals and for Microsoft through this working arrangement. Visit Roleshare - the smart matching site for shared roles.
2019-10-0623 min
Talk RoleshareAugmenting People with PeopleWe are in the fourth industrial revolution – where roles are being replaced by technology, but the fifth industrial revolution already started. It’s all about connecting back to our values and humanity – career flexibility is at the core of that, in societies where we have that luxury. At Roleshare, our goal is to enable a sustainable workforce, where people get more from their roles, and where balance in work and life is normal – gender neutral and reason agnostic. In a world where automation, robotics and ai are replacing people, on "Talk with Roleshare" we cover the future of roles and augme...
2019-09-2001 min