Curve Benders Live - Reimagining Work with Michael Watkins

Join me for the next Curve Benders Live on Monday, June 14 at Noon ET, as I host Michael Watkins for our conversation on Reimagining Work!

Regrettably, many leaders are thinking about getting back to work completely wrong! The grand experiment of sending 100 million + people to work from home over the past 14+ months has worked surprisingly well. If any leader believes they'll all want to come back to the 90 min to 3 hour+ daily commutes to sit in a cube, in a highly competitive talent market, is mistaking!

A) there is no going back to much of what was broken in our past org. structures, processes, and expectations, and B) 2-3 days back in the office is highly transactional and in the bigger picture, immaterial. The bigger opportunity is to use the global pandemic as an impetus to rethink, reimagine, if not reinvent work!

Michael Watkins is the co-founder of Genesis Advisers, a global leadership development consultancy based in Boston Massachusetts, specializing in transition acceleration for leaders, teams and organizations, where he coaches C-level executives of global organizations. He is also Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the IMD Business School and was recently ranked among the top fifty management thinkers globally by Thinkers50. He has spent the last two decades working with executives - both corporate and public - as they craft their legacies as leaders.

Watkins is author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, which The Economist referred to as “The Onboarding Bible.” With over a million copies sold in English and translations in 24 languages, The First 90 Days is the classic reference for leaders in transition and a standard resource for leading change. Amazon named it one of its top 100 business books of all time.

Prior to joining IMD, Watkins was an adjunct professor at INSEAD, and an associate professor at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Originally from Canada, Michael Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, did graduate work in law and business at the University of Western Ontario, and completed his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences at Harvard University.