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How Not to be a FounderFrom Meta to Roleshare: Seed Wins, Shutdown Truths & What’s Next | Ep 08 – How NOT to be a FounderAn expat who bounced between the US and Europe, she built a career in advertising, then led customer-success launches at Magento (Adobe) and Meta’s Workplace.A pregnancy conversation, a chance walk across Clapham Common, and a fear of derailed careers sparked Roleshare, a platform that matches two professionals to one senior role.Sophie and her husband Dave:entered the London Business School Incubator,graduated from Techstars,raised two pre-seed/seed rounds,landed pilots with global enterprises……and then watched the market turn. Tech layoffs, frozen budgets, and the wo...2025-06-2336 min

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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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...2022-12-0145 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 min

Talk 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 Podca...2022-10-2038 min

Talk 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 min

The 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