the future of work: exploring beyond Work-as-we-know-it
In 2015, I was sponsored by Deloitte Australia to undertake PhD research into the Future of Work and the Digital Workplace at the University of Sydney Business School. I'll be sharing my insights, research and findings here.
Alter-identity performances: Exploring emerging ways of working beyond the job description
This research explores a work identity and organization phenomenon of professionals who are passionately, and of their own volition, engaging in alternative work activities that fall well outside of, and sit alongside their formal work requirements of their organization.
Here I contribute a new theoretical framework based on these emerging work activities in knowledge work contexts and theorize the development of alter-identity performance as a way for organizations to innovate work models in a bottom-up, employee-driven way, fostering organizational responsiveness in rapidly changing environments.
Presented at the Eleventh International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, 19-22 June 2019, Crete, Greece
Download the paper here.
Check out A recent interview on my research with Deloitte
Professional Superheroes: The Hidden Talent Driving Innovation
I MADE A VIDEO OF MY PHD!
If my three-minute thesis post was too long, here is a two minute video of what I’ve been exploring and creating over the last three and a bit years. Filming thanks to The University of Sydney, especially Boyd Britton, Alex Bury, and director Daisy De Windt. The animations must be one of my own hidden powers (with help of Vyond!)
DISRUPT SYDNEY conference 2018
In this talk, I spoke about my recent research revealing insights into new forms of knowledge work through emerging professional “superheros”; individuals who are helping their organisation to navigate uncertainty, embrace disruption, and create the future, all the while holding down their “day” jobs.
ALTER-IDENTITY WORK VIA SOCIAL MEDIA IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTEXTS
In this research-in-progress paper, I show how individuals in a professional service firm passionately, and of their own volition, engage in work activities across multiple social media, that fall well outside of formal work requirements. I refer to the personas these workers create as “alter-identities” to signify that this form of identity work sits alongside formal work roles.
I will contribute new insights on the role of digital technologies, such as social media, in knowledge work contexts, and theorise the role of alter-identity performance as a way for organisations to innovate formal work models in a bottom-up, employee-driven way. Such practices might foster organisational responsiveness in rapidly changing environments.
Presented at the 28th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
Download the paper here.
Uncovering alter-identities: becoming through doing work that really matters to us alongside what’s required of us in our organisations.
At the end of 2017, I shared my PhD study direction in a 3 minute thesis - an inter-university competition that challenges students to reduce their 60,000+ word thesis down to 3 minutes!
Most coworking spaces target small-business workers who tend to be in professional services and technical or knowledge-based work.
Today’s ‘office’ for many is anywhere with a reliable internet connection.
Over a long weekend, I joined a group of passionate people from Sydney and Wollongong on a bus down the the beautiful NSW Sapphire Coast for the 2016 Regional Innovation Week in the Bega Valley. Hackathon, Start-up camp and inspiration ensues...
Two years ago, I was lucky enough to be a part of a bold experiment inside one of Australia's big banks. On the 25th November 2013, The Village at National Australia Bank opened to it's customers and the public in the new 700 Bourke Street building in Docklands. What unfolded over the years is truly remarkable and something that I am still so proud to have been involved with.
I was invited share in the beginning of a new community initiative in the outskirts of Melbourne. A group of locals from Point Cook had come together with a shared vision of being able to work in their own postcode.