The real future of work with Dr Tessa White

06/14/22 • 55 min

The great resignation is/isn’t anything new depending on who you talk to. Dr. Tessa White doesn’t particularly mind either way. She’s helping millions navigate the new world of work on platforms like TikTok. From getting raises, managing up, managing out, Dr. Tessa is helping people make work work for them. On this episode of Mouthwash, we’re talking everything management, leadership, teamwork and more.

ABOUT TESSA (@jobdoctortessa)

Tessa is the founder of The Job Doctor, a company dedicated to moving employee performance from average to extraordinary, and building strong company leaders with highly engaged employees. Tessa is recognized nationwide as a media expert on people strategy and career navigation, and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Apple News, and Inc. Frequently used by investors to assess the people strategies of many companies, she has led multiple restructures, acquisitions, and prepared companies for initial public offerings.

She has worked at the highest levels in both small start-ups and Fortune 50 companies. At United HealthGroup she led company-wide talent management and people strategy redesign project, which helped shape her ideas on creating an engaged workforce. In 2016, she helped lead the Vivint Solar team to be recognized as one of Glass Door’s Top 20 Companies to Work. She is a frequent television guest on Career Navigation and is featured on Season 2 of The Social Movement on Amazon Prime. Tessa also won the President’s Award at PowerQuest /Symantec for Innovation, awarded only to the top 2% of the company.

She has led the company Human Capital interests on multiple Boards including Vivint Solar’s partnership with Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms Today, she is an active advisory board member to one of the nation’s top entrepreneur programs, Utah State University’s Huntsman School of Business; she also serves on the boards of Utah Valley University Women’s Center and Dahlia’s Hope (https://www.dahliashope.org), a center that helps sex-trafficking victims recover and rebuild their lives.

Find out more about Tessa here.

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ABOUT TESSA (@jobdoctortessa)

Find out more about Tessa here.

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The real future of work with Rory Sutherland

People have had to learn a new set of skills, norms and handle different conditions throughout the pandemic. For many, they’ll never step foot in an office again. How is this affecting things like leadership? Management? Are people really reevaluating everything or are we just traumatised after years of uncertainty? How do we move forward? Find out this and more on this episode of Mouthwash.

ABOUT RORY (@rorysutherland)

Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title that has allowed him to co-found a behavioural science practice within the agency.

Sutherland works with a consulting practice of psychology graduates who look for ‘unseen opportunities’ in consumer behaviour – these are the often small contextual changes that can have enormous effects on the decisions people make – for instance tripling the sales rate of a call centre by adding just a few sentences to the script. Put another way, lots of agencies will talk about “bought, owned and earned” media: we also look for “invented media” and “discovered media”: seeking out those unexpected (and inexpensive) contextual tweaks that transform the way that people think and act.

It is a hugely valuable activity – but, alas, not particularly lucrative. This is because clients generally do not have budgets for solving problems they did not know they had.

Before founding Ogilvy Change, Rory Sutherland was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of two books: The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don’t make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019.

Find out more about Rory here.

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The real future of work with Dan Pink

The pandemic is making a lot of people look forward...and back. A lot of regrets are surfacing and new decisions are being made. Multiple NYT bestselling author, Dan Pink’s new book is all about just that, regret. On this episode of Mouthwash, we’ll be exploring why a ‘no regrets’ philosophy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and exploring the World Regret Survey.

ABOUT DAN (@danielpink)

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including his latest, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, published in February. His other books include the New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind — as well as the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world. He lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

Find out more about Dan here.

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