Latest Opentalent Podcast Episodes
44: Charlotte Gregson, UK Country Manager for Malt
How the Future Works - May 26, 2023 23:00 - 51 minutesIn this episode, Eleanor and Barry Matthews meet Charlotte Gregson, UK Country Manager for Malt www.malt.com Malt is rapidly expanding and Charlotte is responsible for growing the UK business. Malt already has 500,000 freelancers and works with 60,000 businesses. The discussion covers Malt’s...
43: What The F*ck is Next
How the Future Works - March 10, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry are joined by Colton Chorpenning; digital nomad, author and Senior Interactive Producer for Nest and Pixel at Google. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Colton has designed a digitally nomadic lifestyle, spending half his time in Denver and travelling the world ...
42: Symba: Investing in the Next Generation of Talent
How the Future Works - January 24, 2023 00:00 - 40 minutesThis episode Eleanor and Barry talk about the Trusted Talent Platform Partner survey and travel plans for work to help boost the freelancing industry in India and Saudi Arabia. Their guest is Ahva Sadeghi, CEO of Symba, a platform with a purpose — to open up the workforce by helping businesses e...
41: Happy Free Trade Holidays
How the Future Works - December 19, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutesThe guest on this episode was Glen Hodgson, CEO of Free Trade Europa, a “Think Tank and Do Tank” focusing on liberalisation, free trade, innovation, transparency and the rule of law across Europe. In our conversation he explains what that means and what he predicts for 2023 in way that European ...
40: Workstyle
How the Future Works - November 23, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutesEleanor and Barry discuss topical news including the Autumn statement from the UK chancellor and the recent happenings at Twitter. Their guests this week are Lizzie and Alex Hirst, authors of Sunday Times bestselling book Workstyle: a revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society. Lizzi...
39: Disrupting Staffing
How the Future Works - November 03, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutesEleanor and Barry discuss the UK Government’s IR35 hokey cokey and the latest industry facts and figures from Staffing Industry Analysts, before welcoming guests, Casey McElroy and Sam Orrin from Worksome. Worksome defies classification and fits into a number of the industry’s boxes, so we explo...
38: The Podcast Podcast
How the Future Works - October 04, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode Barry and Eleanor talk to Neil Hughes, LinkedIn Top Voice winner, prolific podcaster and all round nice chap. They talk about the extraordinary growth in podcasting, how it can be a useful tool for promotion and profile-building for freelancers and how to find enough motivation a...
37: Bees, Trees and the Waggle Dance - Open Innovation in Action
How the Future Works - September 09, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode of How The Future Works, Eleanor and Barry are joined by Tanveer Mohammed UST UK’s head of Innovation. They discuss how the open innovation model enables UST to collaborate with employees, customers and targeted groups of external experts who can all contribute to solving challe...
36: Holding out for a Hero?
How the Future Works - August 26, 2022 04:00 - 36 minutesIn this episode of How The Future Works, Eleanor, and Barry meet Kal Sahota, CEO of Open Innovation platform HeroX. She explains how organisations tap into solvers from around the world to find the answers to their big conundrums. As a completely open crowd, the solvers (or Heros) compete ...
35: Freelance Doesn’t Mean Free (the one with Winky the Crow)
How the Future Works - August 11, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutesIn this episode of How The Future Works Eleanor and Barry meet Matt Dowling, founder of The Freelancer Club and find out more about how the expectation of work for free is a real thing in the freelance industry for creatives. Their #NOFREEWORK movement aims to put an end to that expectation and ...
34: Skillsourcing – matching supply with demand in 30 seconds
How the Future Works - July 20, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutesIn this episode of How The Future Works Eleanor and Barry discuss the role of Change Management and Training in scaling the adoption of Open Talent in businesses of all sizes. They are joined by Kelvin Wetherill the founder and CEO of NerdApp (now called Supportwave) and they discuss the term “...
33: Freelancing Friendly Destinations
How the Future Works - July 04, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry discuss why and how governments want to attract and develop freelance talent. They discuss the top destinations for freelancers, the incentives that many governments are offering to attract successful freelancers and the investment many countries are making in ...
32: Solving Healthcare’s Talent Crisis
How the Future Works - June 06, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutesIn this episode Barry and Eleanor discuss the talent challenges in the healthcare industry; the huge number of vacancies at a time when the demand for specialist skills is larger than ever and growing each year. They are joined by Melissa Morris the founder and CEO of Lantum. Lantum is a plat...
31: The Role of an Open Talent Centre Of Excellence with UST
How the Future Works - May 20, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutesEleanor and Barry are joined by Akhil Seth the head of UST’s Open Talent Centre of Excellence. They discuss the importance of a COE when starting an open talent programme, the role of the COE in establishing relationships with talent platforms and the many functions of a COE in everything from ...
30: Turning Your Passion into a Business
How the Future Works - May 05, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutesBarry and Eleanor are joined by the charming, erudite and ebullient Albert Azis-Clauson the CEO of Underpinned. Underpinned have been helping people prepare for the future of work since 2018 – they specifically help people to commercialise their skills and turn their passions into businesses – ...
29: Industry Expert Dyan Finkhousen joins Open Assembly as CSO
How the Future Works - April 07, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutesIn this special episode, Barry and Eleanor are joined by their good friend and new colleague Dyan Finkhousen to celebrate Dyan joining the Open Assembly team as Chief Strategy Officer. Dyan joins the team to help realise the Open Assembly vison of creating the operating system for open talent. ...
28: Creating and Expert Community
How the Future Works - March 04, 2022 17:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry are joined by Adam Morehead from Topcoder, arguably the best community building platform in the industry. Topcoder have built a unique community of 1.7 million of the world’s best technologists. Over the past 20 years they have placed community building at the ...
28: Creating an Expert Community
How the Future Works - March 04, 2022 17:00 - 54 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry are joined by Adam Morehead from Topcoder, arguably the best community building platform in the industry. Topcoder have built a unique community of 1.7 million of the world’s best technologists. Over the past 20 years they have placed community building at the ...
27: Micro Internships, Macro Opportunity
How the Future Works - February 18, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode, Barry and Eleanor discuss the pros and cons of being a digital nomad, how frustrating it is to try and work without a mobile phone. BT’s £30m investment in Distributed.co and the rapidly expanding use of Open Talent in the UK. Their special topic is the use of student talent an...
26: Year of the Tiger
How the Future Works - February 04, 2022 21:11 - 48 minutesIn this episode, Barry and Eleanor talk about the Great Resignation, Tang Ping, and how workers around the world are changing the way they think about work and approach work-life balance. They also look at the ongoing trend towards freelancing and open talent and how governments are reacting. Th...
25: How The Future Worked 2021
How the Future Works - January 03, 2022 05:00 - 34 minutesIn this bonus episode, Eleanor and Barry are joined by Tom Matthews who has reviewed and catalogued each of the 2021 podcast episodes and the trio discuss the guests, the themes, the answers to the 5 x 10 questions and have a general review of the year. They remember their favourite answers and...
24: Yon Living – Empowering Anyone to Live and Work From Anywhere in the World
How the Future Works - December 04, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutesIn this episode, Barry and Eleanor discuss the Great Resignation, the move from fixed employment models to flexible freelance working models, and the benefits and risks associated with taking the big step. They are joined by Tom Brooks the founder of Yon Living www.yonliving.com a brilliant c...
23: Leaving the Rat Race and Going it Alone
How the Future Works - November 21, 2021 05:00 - 36 minutesIn the latest episode of How The Future Works, Barry and Eleanor are joined by Emily and Alex Marcham Emily and Alex are a married couple who decided that life was too short to be employed in a 9-5 and so made the big life decision to resign from their jobs and embrace the digital nomadic life...
22: Securing the Gig Economy
How the Future Works - October 08, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode Barry and Eleanor reveal some exciting news in that Re-source the open talent consulting business that they run together, has merged with Open Assembly the world’s leading learning resource and consultancy for the future of work and the open talent economy. They discuss the po...
21: Elastic, On-demand and Distributed
How the Future Works - September 20, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry discuss the increasingly popular model of companies turning to elastic teams of expert freelance tech resources to deliver projects. They meet Callum Adamson Co-founder and CEO of Distributed. www.distributed.co Callum founded Distributed in 2017 and the busines...
20: Freelance Teams and Virtual Companies
How the Future Works - August 31, 2021 04:00 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode Barry and Eleanor discuss the importance of taking some time off especially when working as an independent professional (which explains the slight gap between the previous episode and this one!) they discuss the Open Assembly’s latest publication Networked Organization – ...
19: Creative Offshoring, Secret Helpers and Marrying your Business Partner
How the Future Works - July 28, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutesIn this episode, Eleanor and Barry meet Mark Hannant and Munni Trivedi a married couple who met at work and run multiple businesses together. They compare notes on what it’s like to be married to your business partner as well as learn about Mark and Munni’s business; Indigo Premedia that provid...
18: HR, HR Tech and OCM expertise on-demand – that role playing episode
How the Future Works - July 15, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode Eleanor and Barry discuss the “talent paradox” and look at the reasons why enterprises find engaging with human cloud models so challenging. They role play a scenario to bring to life how companies can overcome concerns about security, compliance, employment classification, IP p...
17: Trust and Transparency
How the Future Works - June 24, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutesIn this week’s episode, Eleanor and Barry discuss the importance of workforce culture and how culture can be maintained and improved within an ecosystem environment. They discuss the importance of feedback loops and how the ability to give feedback in an anonymous, safe environment should be a ...
16: B2B Staff Sharing and Workforce Ecosystems
How the Future Works - June 10, 2021 04:00 - 33 minutesIn this week’s episode Eleanor and Barry discuss the growing trend of workforce ecosystems and how enterprises are starting to think more holistically about how work gets done and who does the work, treating employees, agency workers, open talent platform work, gig workers, outsourcers and robot...
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