I am obsessed with studying what people truly want out of work. As people, not employees. But I want my work in the Future of Work space to be built on a foundation of data — and that’s why I started the State of Work and Career Success two years ago. We just launched the second annual report, titled What Workers Want, last week. And today, I’d like to introduce you to two research partners who worked with me to make this possible, Gina Woodall and Scott Vanderbilt.

Do you feel like you have enough time? Are you struggling with getting everything you want done while still wanting to do the things that you love? How can you focus on what matters most and avoid burnout and busywork?

When we’re faced with situations in the workplace that are uncomfortable and unfair, we oftentimes aren’t sure how to deal with it and can default to silence and inaction. So what can you do when you see an injustice happening to you in the workplace or to someone else? And how can we all support each other in being our best selves at work?

What are Gen-Z and Millennials looking for out of their careers and lives? What’s the mindset and approach they need to achieve success? We explore what it takes for the younger generation to thrive and what current leaders need to do to support them with Justin Lafazan and Dylan Gambardella, Co-Founders and CEOs of NextGen HQ

What does success look like when you’re going off on your own as a solopreneur? What does a tiny business that makes big money look like? And what are the common factors between successful entrepreneurs? We learn with Elaine Pofeldt, author of “Tiny Business, Big Money.”

Learn about our plans for Strategic Momentum Season 7 and what I’ll be focusing on throughout 2022.

Both my team and myself — and just about everyone else — have been riding the waves of this very weird year, personally and professionally. So we wanted to sit down as a team to reflect on what it has meant for us to redefine success as progress and what we learned from our guests this season.

What does it look like to establish and lead a fluid organization in this new world of work? What does it take to pivot and adapt in real-time as the pace of change speeds up to an unprecedented degree? And how does this benefit companies and the people who work for them in the long run? Jennifer McDonald, Chief Client Officer of North America at VMLY&R, shares how an organization with hundreds of people responded to the unknowns of a global pandemic with unprecedented fluidity.

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach who’s been working with startup founders to grow into world-class CEOs for nearly 20 years. In this episode, she shares valuable leadership advice from her book so that founders can start to create that traction and progress from the inside out.

What does it look like to do something that you’ve never done before — that no one has ever done before? What does it mean to be a pioneer in this new world of work? What does it look like when you take responsibility for crafting a new role for yourself, both internally and externally? Hear all about it from Larisa Bolivar, a long-time social justice advocate and a pioneer in the cannabis industry.

Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation and The Side Hustle Show shares how we can leverage side gigs and an experimenter’s mindset to get unstuck and move forward with confidence.

Dorie Clark shares valuable insights and perspectives from her new book, "The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World.” And along the way, we hear about Dorie’s career mashup journey and how becoming a long-term thinker helped her get to where she is today.

Creating meaningful work-life fit in today's ever-changing world requires redefining success as progress. We’ve been thinking about this a lot, and it’s the concept driving the conversations behind season 6 of Strategic Momentum.

In this last episode of the Biz of You mini-series, we’re getting an inside look at Connie’s own career journey and the experiences that shaped her perspective on career success. Who is Connie Steele? What inspired her to write Building the Business of You? And what does she hope people ultimately take away from the book? Today, Connie answers these questions and more.

In this episode, Connie is joined by Strategic Momentum marketing manager Alexis Anthony and operations manager Alan Corcoran to revisit key takeaways from Season Five. They tie together the trends that emerged across the interviews and what they mean for the future of work in our new normal.

In this episode, Connie Now, explains how companies can approach each of the five components in Building the Business of You to help employees reach their potential, as well as how the fluid system can help organizations stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Because fluidity isn’t just about the future of careers, it's about the future of work.

Kyle Hunter is the CEO of Rhythm Couture and is also a hip hop musician and lyricist, performing under the name K Sparks. In this episode he discusses the soft skills needed to create proper career progress. Because, despite the rise of AI and machine learning, it is still people we do business with.

In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Building Skills. She explains why you need to focus on both hard and soft skills, how to create environments to practice those skills, and why they are essential to the business of you.

How do you build meaningful connections that are fundamentally authentic, but still help you work toward your career/business goals? In this episode, Bryan Wish, founder and CEO of BW Missions, shares his career journey and his approach to aligning passion and purpose to build an authentic network. And that path started with this feeling that he didn’t fit the common mold, no matter how hard he worked.

In this episode, Connie covers the fourth part of the five-part fluid career system, Networking. It’s all about creating that value exchange and building your village to help you reach your potential. She explains how it fits into the overall system and why it’s so critical to career success.