The Evolving Leader Redesigning Work with Lynda Gratton
This episode of the Evolving Leader podcast features a conversation between co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender and future of work thought leader Professor Lynda Gratton. As professor of management practice at London Business School, Lynda Gratton designed the human resource strategy and transforming companies programme, which she has since led for over 20 years. She is founder of the global research advisory practice HSM Advisory and has written ten books exploring the changing relationship between people strategy and business performance. Lynda Gratton is also a fellow of the World Economic Forum.
Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organisation and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone
0.00 Introduction
1.48 Can you give us a pen portrait of your career and the key areas of your focus?
3.37 What’s your assessment of what’s currently going on in the workplace?
7.10 Can you take us through the four steps that you believe organisations need to make in order to make the most of the global shift?
11.54 Who are you seeing getting this right?
18.07 Seeing as this was the first time that so many people around the world went through the same experience, our value sets and world view may have changed. What are you observing on that front?
23.39 Is the doubling of the number of meetings because we’ve lost the ability to pop in on each other and have the ‘water cooler’ conversations?
27.05 Going back to your ‘Hybrid Working’ article in HBR, what do we take forward from what we’ve learnt through this intense experiment and what do we let go of do you think?
32.12 So as organisation’s experiment, and employees are looking at the realities of working longer and the added complexities of their lives, what should companies be doing to support the wellbeing of their teams?
37.13 Do you think organisations should reconsider freezing again and what do you think are the most dangerous assumptions that we might be making right now to leave untested?
39.41 I love what you’re saying about baking in agility.
41.12 If you could guess, what do you think the world of work is going to look like in 20 or 30 years time?
46.50 How can people get in touch with you?
47.53 Can we plant a question in our audience’s mind about how to think about the future of work?
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After more than 5 years of hosting The Evolving Leader, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are launching their new show The Mindset Economy in January 2026. The new show will explore how to live better, work smarter and be connected in a more uncertain world where machines can think.
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