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Dan Smolen

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Former ad agency executive, headhunter, and owner of a recruitment firm. Now Executive Producer and Host of the What’s Your Work Fit? live show on LinkedIn and YouTube; Founding Member of the Future of Work Alliance.

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Corina Ocanto Explains the Amenities of Workplace Employee Experience Stream Realty Partners' VP of Workplace Strategy Joined What's Your Work Fit? to answer that and other Employee Experience-related questions

Corina Ocanot Explains the Amenities of Workplace Employee Experience. Stream Realty Partners' VP of Workplace Strategy Joined What's Your Work Fit to answer: Is Employee Experience a Workplace Amenity?

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16.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Employee Experience the New Workplace Amenity? Corina Ocanto joins What's Your Work Fit? to answer that and other workplace #EX questions

Is Employee Experience the New Workplace Amenity?

Workplace and EX expert Corina Ocanto joins What's Your Work Fit? this week to discuss this and other topics.

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14.10.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are You Considering Smart Glasses? The latest modern workplace trend comes with some troubling possibilities

Are you considering a pair of smart glasses for work? The latest workplace trend comes with some troubling possibilities.

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10.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You've Got to Start With Trust What's Your Work Fit? guest Serena Huang, PhD explains how data analytics may foster a trusting workplace.

In the workplace, you've got to start with trust. In this clip, What's Your Work Fit? guest Serena Huang PhD explains how data analytics may foster a trusting workplace.

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09.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As Workers Live Longer They'll Choose Radical Realignment Over Retirement Turning 65 may be the closing of one work-chapter and the start of another

As workers live longer they'll choose radical realignment over retirement. Our take, and happy birthday greetings to a special 101-year old, here: dansmolen.substack.com/p/as-workers...

07.10.2025 11:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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October is National Bravery Month Our Best Days Lie Ahead When We Act Bravely

I hereby declare October as National Bravery Month. On-the-job and in life, our best days lie ahead when we act bravely.

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27.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How Do I Support a Workplace Happiness Ethic? Workplaces need an ethic, a guiding principle, to help career professionals in it to thrive

How Do I Support a Workplace Happiness Ethic? Workplaces need an ethic, a guiding principle, to help career professionals in it to thrive. We explore this topic with our What's Your Work Fit? guest, Holland Haiis.

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25.09.2025 12:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Could the Workplace Become the Next Free Speech Battleground? The federal government's going after late-night TV hosts feels like a warm-up act to have more mouths taped shut (such as in the workplace)

Could the workplace become the next free speech battleground? Our thoughts.

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20.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Can You Show Your Support for the First Amendment? Make your voice heard. Copy this "1A" image for use in your social media

How can you show your support for the First Amendment? Make your voice heard. Copy this "1A" image for use in your social media posts

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18.09.2025 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Years of Experience: an Unreliable On-the-Job Performance Measure Our guest this week, popular keynote speaker and performance coach Kathryn Preston, discusses why 'years of experience' don't add up

Years of Experience: an unreliable on-the-job performance measure. We learn more about this from our What's Your Work Fit? guest, popular keynote speaker and performance coach Kathryn Preston.

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18.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Years of Experience: No Longer a Leading Indicator of Career Success Our guest this week, popular keynote speaker and performance coach Kathryn Preston discusses why 'years of experience' has lost its luster

Years of Experience: No Longer a Leading Indicator of Career Success. Our guest on What's Your Work Fit?, popular keynote speaker and performance coach Kathryn Preston, discusses why 'years of experience' has lost its luster.

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17.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are We Going to Trust Our Own Instincts? "The 10 Permissions" Author Jillian Reilly teed up this critical question for careerists seeking work and lives of their choosing

Are we going to trust our own instincts? On What's Your Work Fit?, "The 10 Permissions" author Jillian Reilly teed up this critical question for careerists seeking work and lives of their choosing.

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15.09.2025 12:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WYWF Ep 276: Do I Need Permission for Career Success? WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? is the first-of-its-kind interactive live show bringing today’s business and workplace thought leaders, hiring managers, and career seekers together. We challenge the traditional...

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10.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do I Need Permission for Career Success? "The Ten Permissions" Author Jillian Reilly joins What's Your Work Fit? to discuss how we can liberate ourselves from our old ways

Do I Need Permission for Career Success? "The Ten Permissions" Author Jillian Reilly joins What's Your Work Fit? to discuss how we can liberate ourselves from our old ways. Episode drops 12PM ET TODAY, Wednesday Sept. 10, 2025. Show LINK in story.

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10.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Hiring Outlook for Young Careerists is Dismal But with creativity and flexibility our career up-and-comers can achieve success

The Hiring Outlook for Young Careerists is Dismal. But with creativity and flexibility our career up-and-comers can achieve success. My take:

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09.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will Personal Tech on the Horizon Benefit Neurodivergent Talent? With Agentic AI at its core, future tech may create parity of experience for neurotypical and neurodivergent workers alike.

Will personal tech on the horizon benefit neurodivergent talent? Some thoughts on this, the eve of Apple's event.

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08.09.2025 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The August 2025 Jobs Report Indicates that Healthcare Hiring Has Slowed Is this the economic bellwether we all need to heed?

The August 2025 Jobs Report just dropped reveals that Healthcare Sector hiring has slowed. Is this the economic bellwether we all need to heed?

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07.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Threats of Seemingly Conscious AI are Real Here, JLL's Ram Srinivasan discusses Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's thinking

The Threats of Seemingly Conscious AI, as described by Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman, are real. Watch this clip with Fran Saele and Ram Srinivasan describing it on What's Your Work Fit?

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06.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does the August 2025 Jobs Report Signal "A Winter of Our Discontent?" With 22k jobs added, workers are preparing for hard days ahead

With on 22k jobs added in August 2025, workers are preparing for hard days ahead.

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05.09.2025 13:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What is the Future of Wisdom Work? Its importance has increased in the Age of Agentic AI

What is the future of wisdom work? Its importance has increased in the Age of Agentic AI.

Watch this clip from our What's Your Work Fit? live show as co-host, LiquidSpace CEO Mark Gilbreath, poses that question to Workplace AI expert Ram Srinivasan.

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04.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What's Your Work Fit? Fall 2025 Season Premieres with Ram Srinivasan We'll ask Ram: How is AI Changing Human-Centered Work?

Returning guest JLL's Ram Srinivasan kicks off What's Your Work Fit?'s Fall 2025 season 12PM ET TODAY (Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025). We'll ask Ram: How is AI Changing Human-Centered Work?

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03.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How is AI Changing Human-Centered Work? On the What's Your Work Fit? LIVE SHOW, workplace AI expert Ram Srinivasan will update us on the latest breakthroughs

How is AI Changing Human-Centered Work? That's the lead question we'll pose to our popular returning guest, JLL's Ram Srinivasan, on the What's Your Work Fit? LIVE SHOW. Season premiere: 12PM ET, Wed. 9/3/2025.

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02.09.2025 11:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Does the American Dream Resonate with Today's Career Professionals? Careerists are reimagining it for quality of time and varied experience

Does the American Dream resonate with today's career professionals. Actually YES. But they've reimagined it for quality of time and varied experience. Our take:

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28.08.2025 12:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The U.S. Grabs a 10 Percent Stake in Intel It's a swipe at free-market capitalism. Is it also a swipe at modern work?

The U.S. grabs a 10 pct stake in Intel. It's a swipe at free-market capitalism. Is it also a swipe at modern work? Our take:

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27.08.2025 12:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As Life Imitates Art, Gold Tributes Are Back And an iconic scene from "Godfather II" offers a cautionary tale for members of the modern workplace

As life imitates art, gold tributes are back. Will they impact the modern workplace? Here, a cautionary tale.

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23.08.2025 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cracker Barrel Unveiled a New Logo But it won't fix the brand's aging diner base or reputation for being a toxic workplace

Cracker Barrel unveiled a new logo. And we've all heard about the social media backlash. But the new logo won't fix a rapidly aging diner base or reputation as a toxic workplace. Our thoughts. dansmolen.substack.com/p/cracker-ba...

22.08.2025 13:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the Modern Workplace is Everyday Wednesday? The "Tired Girl Look" channels the angst expressed by our newest workplace entrants

In the modern workplace is every day Wednesday? Here we explore the startling new workplace fashion trend, The Tired Girl Look. It's signaling that all is not well with our newest workplace entrants. dansmolen.substack.com/p/in-the-mod...

19.08.2025 12:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A 100-Year Life Lived to Heal the World Norm Feitelson overcame tragedy to lead a life of noble purpose

When we take our final breath, will we do it knowing that, in life, we helped to heal the world? My dear friend Norm Feitelson passed away last week at 100. His life was one of noble purpose. My remembrance of good man:

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18.08.2025 11:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Drinking Less Creates a Positive Impact on Work and Workplace Gallup's latest insight shows that Americans of all ages are drinking less, recognize the ill health impacts of alcoholic consumption

Drinking less creates a positive impact on work and workplace. New Gallup study indicates that Americans of all ages are drinking less; positive workplace impact is considerable.

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14.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Could You Live With Data Centers in Your Backyard? Dan Smolen's living space is literally across-the-road from one of the largest data center campuses in the world

Could you live with data centers in your backyard? Dan Smolen's living space is literally across-the-road from one of the largest data center campuses in the world. dansmolen.substack.com/p/could-you-...

13.08.2025 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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