Shift Happens
Join Dessalen Wood, Chief People Officer at Thoughtexchange, to discuss how shifts in how we work are impacting how we approach the workplace of the future.
No matter how prepared you think you are, or how many off sites and meetings your organization spends curating well thought out strategies - in the end - s**t that you didn’t plan for becomes a reality.
The year 2020 was a year of the unexpected, the dreaded, and the surprising. The result of this much disruption in such a short period of time was the rise of several key shifts in the way we approach work, shifts that would likely, in any other time period, take years to take hold. Some of these shifts include:
- From Certain to Uncertain
- From Company centric to Employee centric
- From Sick days to Wellness
- From Equal to Equitable
- From Control to Trust
- From Experts to Crowds
These shifts have a momentum of their own, a forward motion that is powerful enough to induce lasting change.
Join Dessalen Wood, Chief People Officer at Thoughtexchange, to discuss how these shifts are impacting how we approach the workplace of the future. We will dig into the implications of these shifts, and how leaning into these new work paradigms can turn these outdated caterpillars of our past into the butterflies of our future.
Presenters:
Dessalen Wood
Chief People Officer
Thoughtexchange
Dessalen Wood is an HR professional, facilitator, and executive coach who has specialized in passionately leading Learning and Development and Human Resources teams within blue chip Canadian organizations. Dessalen has over 20 years of experience in mid- and large-size Canadian and US organizations, such as Reitman’s Canada, Hudson’s Bay Company, The Children’s Place, and The Disney Stores and as Vice President, Talent Development with Cineplex Entertainment. In 2019, Dessalen moved to Thoughtexchange to become the Chief People Officer, making her first move into tech. Throughout her career, Dessalen has created multiple programs and support systems designed to create engaging corporate cultures and developing leaders at all levels.
