{"podcast":{"title":"Workplace Stories by RedThread Research","slug":"workplace-stories-by-redthread-research-3600959","podcast_index_feed_id":3600959,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4800257/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://redthreadresearch.com/podcast","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/48f82915396d22a82e8e5b9b202f0df2.jpg","author":"Stacia Garr & Dani Johnson","episode_count":133,"summary":"Workplace Stories is a podcast for HR and people leaders who are tired of noise and need clarity that actually holds up. It is hosted by Stacia Garr and Dani Johnson of RedThread Research. Each episode features candid conversations with practitioners, thinkers, and executives who are navigating real decisions inside complex organizations. Not hypotheticals. Not vendor promises. Real tradeoffs, real experiments, and real lessons learned along the way. You’ll hear how leaders are making sense of skills, AI, organizational design, and culture when there’s no clear playbook and pressure to show progress is high. The focus is always the same: what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what leaders are doing next. Workplace Stories helps you make sense of complexity, build credibility with evidence, and move from ideas to action with more confidence. Want to be part of the conversation? Join our community for free and connect with others shaping the future of work. Learn more about RedThread Research here: https://redthreadresearch.com/home","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:18:52.086994+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workplace-stories-by-redthread-research-3600959"},"episode":{"title":"Designing Future Narratives in a Changing Workplace: Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeffrey Rogers","slug":"designing-future-narratives-in-a-changing-workplace-lisa-kay-solomon-and-jeffrey-rogers","published_at":"2026-04-15T05:00:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workplace-stories-by-redthread-research-3600959/designing-future-narratives-in-a-changing-workplace-lisa-kay-solomon-and-jeffrey-rogers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workplace-stories-by-redthread-research-3600959","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/designing-future-narratives-in-a-changing-workplace-lisa-kay-solomon-and-jeffrey-rogers--71295111","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71295111/ws_125.mp3","summary":"In this episode, we welcome Lisa Kay Solomon, designer-in-residence at Stanford's d.school and host of the \"How We Future\" podcast, and Jeffrey Rogers, principal of Learning and Facilitation at Radical and co-founder of Projectory. We discuss why foresight—the ability to anticipate and design the futures we want—is everybody's job, not just the domain of senior leaders or specialized futurists. They challenge the idea that organizations operate on an \"official future\" built from unexamined assumptions, and explore how narrative shapes both our approach to work and our readiness for rapid change, especially in the face of AI disruption. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... [00:00] Rethinking future-focused leadership [03:39] HR's evolving role in shaping the future [07:18] Understanding contested narratives and the potential to challenge them [21:50] The importance of adopting futures thinking through broad learning across multiple perspectives [25:47] Strategic foresight and future practices [35:13] Rethinking knowledge and learning priorities [39:21] Reflecting on AI adoption barriers [47:08] Helping leaders develop future-oriented skills [51:14] Looking ahead to the future The Leadership Muscle We Forget to Use One of the most powerful ideas to emerge from the conversation is that of foresight as a \"leadership muscle.\" Most leaders are trained and incentivized to focus on quarterly results and annual plans. The urgent often squeezes out the important, leaving little room for the kind of long-term, strategic thinking that anticipates disruption rather than simply reacts to it. Foresight isn't someone else’s job—it's every leader's job. Yet, most organizations have let this muscle atrophy. 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