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Work Forward Forum
Learning together. Leading forward.
Work Forward Forum is an invitation-only community of senior leaders shaping the future of work through smarter leadership, better technology, and more human-centered workplaces.
Through peer exchange, curated discussions, and working groups, members tackle the most pressing challenges in leadership, workplace strategy, and emerging technology—with a shared goal: making work better for people while improving results.
Members include senior leaders from companies such as:
Roles include Chief People Officers and heads of Talent, Employee Experience, Workplace, and Future of Work. The Forum is hosted and facilitated by Brian Elliott.
Building blocks of the forum
Executive thought leadership sessions
Private, Chatham House-rule conversations with leading thinkers on topics such as AI, culture, leadership, and workforce strategy.
Peer working groups
Ongoing small-group exchanges on:
- Collaboration & Technology
- Workplace & Gatherings
- Leadership Development
Private knowledge exchange
Access to a trusted peer network where members share initiatives, surface questions, and troubleshoot challenges—together.
Collaboration & technology
Enable better collaboration, especially among distributed teams.Improve meetings, leverage AI, work across time zones, increase focus time for deep work, and build asynchronous muscles.n
Workplace & gatherings
Scaling in-person connection within and across teams, driving adoption and leading Workplace teams through the ongoing evolution of space solutions, services, and management.
Leadership & development
Building leadership capabilities, ensuring goal alignment, visibility and transparency, driving AI adoption, and creating connections within leadership in distributed organizations.
Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
Monthly broad thought leadership sessions and working group meetings; Slack channels and email aliases for sharing, connecting, and seeking support.
Brand building opportunities
Opportunities for leaders to engage in brand-building opportunities through coverage in columns for outlets like MIT and Charter/TIME, newsletters, and connections to events and journalists covering the future of work.
Rules of the road
Participation is limited to senior leaders in operating roles. Outside advisors may be invited to select sessions as guest speakers.
Conversations are confidential and unattributed, but insights can be applied internally.
Members are expected to contribute by sharing learnings, posing questions, and offering peer support.
Any time Brian invites me to participate, I’m an automatic ‘yes’ because I always leave more prepared to tackle the next big thing in our future of work strategy.
Brian excels at bringing together smart, driven individuals to solve challenges collectively, fostering innovation and progress.
Join the forum
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