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jobTopia with Tony MooreGig Jobs in Corporate America - the Free Bird Revolution with Miles Everson, CEO MBO Partners. Episode 268Meet Miles Everson and MBO Partners.
His book Free Birds Revolution can be found here.
Life Lessons and Literary Grit:
Contemplating a book, initially a whimsical kids’ tale, but fueled by a raw tapestry of real-world experiences.
Penned Free Birds, a bold fusion of business savvy and rock ‘n’ roll swagger, sparked by a call to ditch the mundane.
The Independent Worker Rebellion:
A seismic shift toward independent workers is rewriting the rules for enterprises and solo hustlers.
Ditching the 9-to-5 grind, this movement champions flexibi...2025-04-2103 min
Qonversations: Powered by Quantuvos119: Free Birds Revolution - 2 of 2Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners and author of Free Birds Revolution: The Future of Work and the Independent Mind of a Free Bird, and host Brian Gorman continue their conversation with a focus on the mind of a free bird. This includes an examination of the differences in the mindsets of traditional employees vs. free birds, the differences in how they spend their time on the job, and the differences in how they evaluate such things as their relationship between work and life outside of work, their sense of fulfillment, and even their sense of financial security.2025-04-1723 minQonversations: Powered by Quantuvos118: Free Birds Revolution - 1 of 2 118: Free Birds Revolution – 1 of 2: Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners and author of Free Birds Revolution: The Future of Work and the Independent Mind of a Free Bird, doesn’t mind challenging conventional thinking. And when he does, he has the data, and the examples, to support what he is saying. In this episode of Qonversations, Miles and host Brian Gorman explore Part 1 of Miles’ book, focusing on the six forces driving a larger and larger portion of the workforce, including the best and the brightest, from “employed” to “free bird” status. Miles also discusses the ways in which businesses nee...2025-04-1525 min
The Human Cloud PodcastEp. 125: Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners, Crossing The Talent ChasmLeaders,
MBO Partners has been the industry gold standard for Enterprises scaling their independent workforce and data on the independent workforce through their annual State of Independence Report. Started originally in 1996 by Gene Zaino, MBO stands for “My Business Office”, and has been leading the independent workforce ever since. Miles took over as CEO in 2019, after 30+ years leading PWC, including concepting and building PWC’s Talent Exchange, the brand’s talent marketplace.
In this episode, we will clearly understand the size, scope, and nature of the independent workforce. By understanding this, we’ll then clearly understand...2024-05-0148 min
Transform WorkTransform Work: Miles Everson, CEO of MBO PartnersThis 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 EversonMBO PartnersPwC2023-11-1639 min
State of IndependenceMiles Everson, MBO CEO: Imperatives for CEOs designing workforce of the futureMBO Partners Chief Executive Officer Miles Everson, speaks with host Aassia Haq, MBO’s vice president of talent marketing, about how a more flexible, open-source view of human capital is key idea in the new economy, the need for enterprise organizations to develop a strategy for utilizing independent workers, how the pandemic has shifted the playing field, and how today’s worker—perhaps looking to become a solo entrepreneur—can ready themselves to start and finish the work at hand. Miles talks about his pre-MBO days as a consultant and how that informs his views of today’s independent economy. 2021-01-0641 min
Miles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 11: Aligning emerging tech and business objectivesIn this episode, PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Chief Technologist, New Ventures Chris Curran share insights on how corporate leaders can begin looking at how emerging technologies could affect their organization.2018-11-1513 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 10: The Bionic Era for healthcareAccelerating knowledge can enable accelerating value, which we’re seeing across the health industries. Clinicians are harnessing the influx of data, but information remains fragmented among the ecosystem of players. In this episode, PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Health Industries and Global Health Industries Consulting Leader Kelly Barnes discuss how integrating health data from disparate sources creates a network effect and a platform-enabled ecosystem.
Within this environment, we’re nearing a point where non-acute conditions such as ear infections or strep throat can be diagnosed at home. However, healthcare may never be fully computational. In their conv...2018-05-0420 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 9: What do new forms of capital mean for the future of business?Why are so many digital-native companies having such unbelievable valuations? For starters, they share a penchant for tapping into new forms of capital in the Bionic Era. PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Marketing Leader Dr. John Sviokla discuss the emergence of Behavioral, Network and Cognitive capital, and how they are reshaping the ways in which companies create and build value.
One additional ingredient—labor—remains incredibly important in the value equation. In the physical world, we have financial capital and talent. But in this new era, businesses have to introduce the other three. With executives asking how...2018-04-2021 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 8: The power of platforms: When innovations convergePwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Marketing Leader Dr. John Sviokla discuss what characteristics make "platform businesses" unique. Part of why these businesses achieve exponential growth is because they can go from sensing to thinking to acting with little or often no friction on the part of the customer. For example, when a company knows a customer's history, the customer never again needs to start at "square one."
The threshold effect is yet another major factor in the art of the possible. We didn't have effective ride-hailing services until we had enough cell phones and GPS capabilities...2018-04-0614 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 7: A millennial voice on the state of communications and networksSocial media and ubiquitous connectivity are blurring the line between authenticity and fakery. While several factors can help humans outrun the robots, authenticity has a role in each of these factors. PwC US Marketing Leader Dr. John Sviokla interviews Krista Everson, daughter of PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson, to get a millennial perspective on factors that could keep us “un-automatable.” Their conversation focuses heavily on the current state of communications and the vital nature of authenticity in our content and experiences. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-03-2329 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 6: Sensing, thinking and acting: Balancing human and machineWith everything becoming “informationalized,” thinking is increasingly giving way to machine innovation and artificial intelligence. PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Marketing Leader Dr. John Sviokla discuss the mashup between knowledge that’s resident in humans vs. knowledge created through the use of technology. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-03-0911 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 5: The future of knowledge work in the bionic eraTech-enabled consumer ecosystems have deep knowledge of their customers and they’re capturing exponential growth compared with the pipeline businesses of the industrial era. What’s going to happen on the business to business side? PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson speaks with Dr. John Sviokla, PwC US Marketing Leader, about platform businesses in the bionic era. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-02-2315 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 3: User experience and the customer - part 1PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson sits down with Sean McDonald, a PwC principal who helps companies become digital brands and digital organizations. Miles and Sean discuss how customer experience has evolved from the industrial era to the digital era, and how companies can harness customer information for the benefit of the brand. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-02-0916 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 4: User experience and the customer - part 2PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and Sean McDonald, a PwC principal who helps companies become digital brands and digital organizations, discuss why user experience is a critical element for companies to effect transformational change. Mile and Sean also explore key focal points for the digital age’s next generation. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-02-0914 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 2: The innovation environment in 2018 - part 2PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson and PwC US Health Industries Leader Kelly Barnes reflect on 2017 as a year of dynamic change around the globe. They discuss the geopolitical environment, whether progress is deflationary, and observations from Miles' travels—as well as Miles’ New Year’s resolution. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-01-2612 minMiles to Go podcast seriesEpisode 1: The innovation environment in 2018 - part 1Kelly Barnes, PwC US Health Industries Leader, speaks with PwC Global Advisory Leader Miles Everson to find out what’s on his mind heading into the first part of 2018. They discuss how to create demonstrable change, different approaches to innovation and what’s on Miles’ reading list. For further information please contact: Miles Everson - miles.everson@pwc.com2018-01-2611 min