Changing Work

Changing Work is a movement deeply committed to revolutionizing the dynamics of the workplace from within.

Our Vision is to Change Work from the Inside Out.

Essentially, to make work a more humane, conscious, and nurturing environment that promotes personal growth, self-awareness, and compassion, while delivering value to all stakeholders. 

We recognize that profitability is important, and that it comes with a need for balance not only for shareholders, but for employees, customers, and the broader global community. A world that works for everyone.
Our Mission is to Elevate conscious business practices through community and best practice sharing.

Changing Work is a collective of business leaders, employees, and consultants. 

Fundamentally, we do two things. 

First, we build community. There’s something incredibly powerful about being on a journey together with people who are bonded by a desire for a common good. 

Second, we share best practices. This comes in many forms - jointly written books, a podcast, a newsletter, courses, cohort-based learning, and more.

If you're interested in getting involved to support the movement to change work from the inside out, or get support along your own conscious leadership journey, check us out at changingwork.org

Co-Founder, Changing Work Collective

Nicholas Whitaker Coaching

Coaching Mid-Career Tech Workers To Break Free Of Their Golden Handcuffs & Design Their Roadmap To A Life & Work They Can Love

I offer transformative coaching and consulting to limited number of clients.

Speaking Engagements:
I speak about wellbeing, mental health, and mindfulness.

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Master Certified Professional Coach / Certified Mindfulness Facilitator

Google

As a Lead volunteer and coordinator of Meditation and Mindfulness Programs at Google, I have a track record of successfully creating and implementing outreach and marketing initiatives at a company-wide level, building and scaling community, and deepening the practice of others.

My programs have included live streams, workshops, newsletters, podcasts, partnerships with employee resource groups, and team consultations, as well as daily guided and unguided meditations and facilitator training programs reaching over 5000 colleagues globally with mindfulness and wellbeing content.

In addition to my outreach and marketing efforts, I designed and launched custom wellbeing programming at the organizational and team levels reaching hundreds of employees with impactful, highly regarded and requested webinars, live events, and group workshops. 

I also developed and maintained relationships with external mindfulness and wellbeing vendors, agencies, keynote speakers, researchers, and luminaries in order to bring the best resources and expertise to our programs.

(gPause) Mindfulness Steering Committee Volunteer  / Wellbeing Champion / Community Organizer

As a People Operations Program Manager and People Programs Specialist I curated change management initiatives for a team of over 140 people.

People Operations Program Manager / People Programs Specialist

As a member of the Large Partner Solutions Team in the Global Business Operations Organization, I built and maintained strong partnerships with executives and account representatives at major national news conglomerates, leveraging my expertise in journalism and stakeholder management to generate over $100M in revenue.

I fostered strong relationships with strategic partnerships like Scripps, Media News Group, Dallas Morning News, and McClatchy.

I have a track record of innovating to find new uses for Google products to generate revenue, increase subscriptions, and leverage data for business decisions.

Strategic Partnerships Lead

On the Google News Lab team, I served as a Google Product Evangelist for thousands of journalists and newsrooms worldwide, and representing Google at global industry events. 

I managed an educational marketing outreach program and designed a custom LMS  supporting customer education marketing programs, and certifications for Google products, educating over 500,000 journalists in 25 languages.

I also developed, launched, and scaled a community network of 400+ universities in 40 countries offering grants, digital skills, and training on Google products for education and journalism. 

In addition, I managed agency relationships, scaling training and marketing outreach programs across APAC, EMEA, NA, MENA, and LATAM

Product Marketing Manager / Training & Development Manager

I evangelized Google's tools for research and journalism to over 30,000 journalists across 36 countries, working to establish the Google Earth brand as a trusted partner for news gathering and storytelling.

I also designed and launched new marketing, outreach, and data-driven approaches to building and maintaining relationships with key media outlets, bringing regional Google tools workshops to newsrooms worldwide, training 1700 journalists in EMEA, LATAM, and MENA.

Marketing Manager / Media Outreach Lead

Whitaker Films / Nicholas Whitaker Photography

I have over a decade of specialized experience producing public service announcements, documentaries, corporate trainings, marketing content, live webinars and event coverage for a wide range of clients including Google, the NYC Department of Transportation, NGOs like the Regional Planning Association and Citizen's Union, as well as traditional media outlets like Hearst Media, BET, NBC, and CBS.

Founder / Producer

Eugene Lang College

Intro To Cultural Studies
Media Toolkit
Digital Moviemaking

Adjunct Professor

Marymount Manhattan College

Beginning Video Workshop
History of Communication Theory
Intermediate Video Production

Master time, energy & focus in 90 days. Coaching stressed out tech professionals to prepare for volatility, tame uncertainty & thrive in ambiguity | Co-Founder of Changing Work Collective | Conscious Leadership Activist

Even the most capable professionals struggle to balance immediate demands with their deeper aspirations. 

Sound familiar?

After 13+ years at Google guiding transformative initiatives, and more than a decade as an entrepreneur, 

I've dedicated my life to helping ambitious individuals get crystal clear on their current reality, their desired future, and the precise steps needed to bridge that gap. 

My approach, refined through years of working with hundreds of professionals, combines strategic clarity with conscious living principles. 

Each partnership is uniquely crafted to your specific situation, challenges, and aspirations. 
Through our work together, we'll establish new habits, challenge limiting beliefs, and create sustainable change aligned with your values.

Drawing on neuroscience, spirituality and proven methodologies, I've developed a 100-day process that helps people establish new habits, challenge limiting beliefs, and create sustainable change.

Imagine having complete clarity on your path forward, with the tools, confidence and support to empower you to make conscious decisions aligned with your values, and a renewed focus on what's truly important to you. 

My clients learn to navigate the tension between short-term demands and long-term vision, ultimately creating a life that allows them to bring something beautiful and meaningful into the world.

DM me to discuss your vision and how we can make it reality.

Nicholas Whitaker

Janne Kukka

Karuna

Mindfulness Meditation programs and retreats
www.karuna.live

Founder

Product & Design Strategy partner for values and mission aligned Seed stage to Series E Startups
(health & wellness, biotech & psychedelics, sustainability & regeneration).

Projects:
→ New service category and program incubation for a series E Bay Area health startup, including facilitation of a 2-week long cross-functional design sprint, and creation of a cross-functional Playbook for guidelines
→ Product & design strategy for a Series A wellness wearable startup
→ Product & design strategy for a Seed stage AI meditation coach app

Product & Design Strategist

Mission Harbor Behavioral Health

Facilitating weekly in-person 90min Mindfulness Meditation sessions.

Mindfulness Meditation Group Facilitator, RADT

The Greater Good Science Center

Part of the 2023 cohort of the 2–year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, covering a wide breadth and depth of topics, including trauma-sensitive Mindfulness and DEIA training.

Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification

Hinge Health

Planned, facilitated, and measured a 6-week long internal employee Mindfulness Program Pilot, consisting of one 60min learn & practice session per week with three additional 30min drop-in meditation sessions per week. Created a framework for measuring and tracking organizational well-being.

Outcomes:
→  62 signed up participants
→  6-week completion rate: 33%
→  CSAT score: 4.8
→  NPS score: 85
→  Mindfulness topics understanding & learning: Avg. 4.0 / 5
→  Ability to manage anxiety, stress, emotions: Avg. 3.7 / 5
→  Ability to stay more focused: Avg. 3.5 / 5

Mindfulness Program Lead

→  Shipped TrueMotion: motion tracking for exercise therapy using Computer Vision

Hinge Health is pioneering the world's most patient-centered Digital Musculoskeletal (MSK) Clinic and has raised $436M to date with offices across San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle and more.

Hinge Health reduces MSK pain, opioid use, and surgeries by pairing advanced wearable technology with a comprehensive clinical care team, including doctors of physical therapy, physicians, board-certified health coaches, and more. Available to millions of members, Hinge Health is the #1 Digital MSK Clinic for health plans and employers, including Boeing, Salesforce, and US Foods.

Lead Product Designer, Computer Vision

Oura

Squad Design Lead with focus on understanding the wider context around our health; body (biometrics), mind (subjective feedback, mood), environment (environmental data, 3rd party devices) and creating features and experiences around that.

Shipped Features:
→ Automatic Activity Detection leveraging ring sensors (iOS & Android)
→ Workout Heart Rate tracking (iOS & Android)
→ Smart Tags that connect lifestyle, mood, and environmental tags with your biometrics

TIME (magazine) best health inventions 2020.
Fast Company 10 most innovative wellness companies 2021.

Squad Design Lead

Sonos, Inc.

Product Category UX Lead.

Led the UX design incubation and prototyping efforts for the new next-gen smart speakers in collaboration with PMs, Engineers, Industrial Designers, and GTM teams:
→ Era 100
→ Era 300

→ Helped ship Sonos Arc, the premium smart soundbar (sensors, interface, voice control)

Senior User Experience Designer

Orro

Led design on a new connected product that aims to improve peoples lives at home through machine learning and sensor enabled lighting. Launched to market. Featured on: Fast Company (Innovation by Design Finalist 2019), The Verge, Digital Trends, SlashGear.

Role: Design Lead, system design, Hardware and software UX & UI design, interaction design, visual design, user testing, creative direction

Head of Design

Bowers & Wilkins

Designing the future of the connected home audio/video experience.

Role:
UX & UI Design, Visual Design, Design System

Helped create and define a cohesive Design System around the next generation of connected Bowers & Wilkins products, encompassing multiple touchpoints. Established tooling and process with Engineering for implementing the system.

Bowers and Wilkins True Wireless Earbuds concept and physical UI (reflected on the launch of PI7 and PI5 true wireless earbuds)

Senior Product Designer

Snapwave

Snapwave made music streaming more engaging through Instagram and enabled artists and fans connect in new ways.

→ Project Music Accelerator Alumni 2016
→ Featured on Forbes and Billboard

Role:
Product Design Lead, Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Roadmap, User Research, Go-to-Market Strategy, Prototyping, UX & UI Design, Branding

Co-Founder & Design Lead

Product & Design Leader for Wellbeing • xŌURA, xHinge Health, xSonos • Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

I believe in co-creating a world centered around well-being, compassion, and kindness. We have a collective responsibility to care for each other and the planet.

I aim to use my 15+ years of product & design experience as a force for good. I've worked on projects that encompass app design, web design, and connected devices — with strategic, UX & UI, and branding focus.

I am a Certified Meditation Teacher by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach in the insight meditation (Vipassana) tradition and offer Mindfulness Meditation 1:1 coaching, group sessions, online classes, live events, and in-person retreats. I’ve also studied with teachers from both Buddhist and Hindu lineages.

Student of Ayurveda for holistic wellbeing.
Certified Ayurveda Bodyworker & Panchakarma Technician.

Enneagram: 5w4

www.jannekukka.com | www.karuna.live

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