ECONOMIST AND TRENDS EXPERT; AUTHOR
Linda Nazareth is an economist, a futurist and a respected authority on the future of work. As a newspaper columnist and an author, she knows how to frame things in ways that both educate and entertain and as the Senior Fellow for Economics and Population Change at think-tank the Macdonald Laurier Institute she knows what she is talking about.
Linda’s career has taken some non-traditional turns for someone in her field. Her first jobs were as a government economist where she specialized in labor market planning, which was followed by a stint at a major financial institution where she spent years as a Senior Economist. Wanting to change things up while she could, she lobbied to have a job created for her on Business News Network (BNN, Canada’s answer to CNBC) while it was a start-up and spent a decade on-air as their in-house economist.
During her time on BNN, Linda started writing books and giving keynote presentations, and eventually left daily broadcasting to give those passions her full-time attention. Her clients have included everyone from American Express through to The Economist Magazine, and all have benefited from her ability to take big ideals and distill them into information that they can use for their own strategic plans.
Linda’s fourth book, Work Is Not a Place: Our Lives and Our Organizations, in the Post-Jobs Economy draws on the research she has been building for years as well as the insights gained from interacting with audiences across a range of sectors. With it, she is eager to engage people in thinking about what the world might look like when we replace the idea of ‘jobs’ with that of ‘work’—and why that might not be a bad idea at all.
A frequent media commentator, Linda has been quoted everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to Wired magazine.
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The world is changing and so is the very notion of ‘work’. For years we have been told that our aging workforce will mean a shortage of workers in many industries. More recently, the narrative has changed to one where robots do everyone’s work and there are not enough jobs to go around. Which view of the future is correct? More important, how will our lives and organizations change as we navigate the changing realities? In this much-requested presentation based on her book of the same title, Linda Nazareth casts an economist’s eye to the way the big trends are changing our realities. From looking at the way global change, demographics, and technology are coming together to reshape the work world through to examining the challenges for individuals, businesses, and governments, she sketches a world that is both unsettling and exciting. How can you best prepare for a world where work is not a place? Start with Linda’s presentation and feel like you can meet the future head-on.
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From globalization to urbanization to dealing with demographic change, the world we know is morphing into a different planet with different economic opportunities and challenges. What are the trends taking today into tomorrow, and what are the trends that are resulting from the shift? In ‘Economorphics’, Linda Nazareth talks about the dozens of things she sees happening, and the challenges—and opportunities they present to the economy, the labor market and the financial markets—and to your industry as well.
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As we move forward into a brave new economy, every organization must cull talent from wherever, and whomever, they can get it. Yes, this is the age of diversity but it is not about good optics, or about anything but the bottom line. Today’s diversity is not diversity for diversity’s sake, but diversity in order to be the best. In this thought-provoking keynote, economist, Linda Nazareth, draws on research done for her book, Work Is Not a Place: Our Lives and Our Organizations in the Post-Jobs Economy (Relentless Press, 2018), to look at the way that the world of work is evolving and what companies need to consider as they build their future talent pools. From global trends to demographics to technology, she covers the big picture, and then challenges her audiences to think about how far they will go to attract and keep workers. One-size-fits all is over, whether we are talking about workers, or policies or even about the way work is structured. By guiding them through the realities ahead, Linda’s presentation gives her audience the tools to manage a diverse and dynamic workforce in a world in flux.
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