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

Aetna, a CVS Health Company

Quality Performance and Reporting: Analysis of health plan performance measures ratings; query large datasets and build workflows; create visual, interactive dashboards and reports for stake holders to use to evaluate health plan ratings.

Manager Informatics, Quality & Compliance Operations, Aetna Clinical Solutions

Mehrens Analytix

Self Employed

Three Cats Studios

https://www.instagram.com/threecatsstudios_photography/

Business Owner

Silver Whiskers Cat Sanctuary

Created inventory tracking spreadsheet to increase efficiency and reduce manual entry of sales and donations for non-profit company.

Data Quality Analyst

Maven Analytics

Data analysis and dashboard creation using Excel, PowerBI, SQL, and Tableau to identify data trends and provide actionable insights into business needs.

Business Intelligence Specialist Bootcamp

Quest Diagnostics

Detailed-oriented Senior Scientist in CLIA/CAP certified diagnostic testing laboratory.  Responsible for clinical assessment, development, and validation of diagnostic testing LDTs, focused on NGS sequencing data analysis.  Designed dashboards and data visualizations to monitor assay performance and optimization.
•	Identified areas of improvement for new assays, from initial DNA extraction through final library construction, by generating quantitative and qualitative analysis from various data streams utilizing Tableau, Excel, and Alteryx workflows.
•	Monitored turnaround time and assay repeats by creating stakeholder-specific Operational dashboards for tracking KPIs for live assays.
•	Produced weekly and monthly progress reports of data trends and recommendations, effectively communicating key findings and insights to both internal and external B2B stakeholders.
•	Reduced manual time needed for generating and reporting data trends, with Python scripts using LINUX and DNAnexus cloud platform, successfully resulting in more efficient and effective processes.
•	Performed accuracy and precision study analysis on validation data sets to ensure robust assay quality.

Senior Scientist, Data Analytics- R&D, Advanced Diagnostics Molecular Genomics & Oncology

•	Led a high-performing genetics technical team responsible for developing and validating Neurology product line assays, utilizing extensive expertise in DNA sequencing and DNA variant detection assays to ensure the successful launch of high-quality products.
•	Oversaw project planning, assay design, and development to ensure the successful achievement of MVP launch milestones by meeting business goals and deadlines.
•	Designed R&D experiments and directed wet lab development and validation of genetic assays from initial experiment proposals through final report approvals to achieve a high-quality product.
•	Authored White Papers, clinical report language, technical SOPs, and other internal documentation through product launch for approval by to Scientific and Medical Director.
•	Conducted clinical gene assessments for new tests and managed the life-cycle of existing tests, to evaluate gene content and clinical utility to understand the value of adding or removing genes from products.
•	Cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Medical, Product, Procurement, IT, and Business Development partners to drive assay development and launch strategies.
•	Obtained QMS Bronze certification by completing a project to reduce the duration of a critical step in a high-volume assay, resulting in increased efficiency and cost savings by enabling staff to complete tasks in one shift instead of two.
•	Contributed to the pathogenicity classification of genetic variants in patient reports as part of the Variant IQ team using an In-depth understanding of genetic variant analysis, annotation, and classification using ACMG guidelines.

R&D Scientist, Test Development and Validation, Advanced Diagnostics

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Scientist in CLIA/CAP certified diagnostic laboratory. Responsible for clinical assessment, genetic assay development, validation, and writing technical SOP/reports.

Scientist

UMass Chan Medical School

Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Medicine, and Molecular Genetics 
Laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Craig Mello 
Completed a rigorous graduate program in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Molecular Medicine and Molecular Genetics, while conducting research on the molecular mechanism of the RNA-interference (RNAi) gene-silencing pathway, utilizing the C. elegans model system to gain novel insights into this fundamental biological process.

Resposible for synthesizing peptides for projects related to protein thermodynamic and physical chemistry experiments in the laboratory of C. Robert Matthews.

Research Associate

Whitehead Institute/MIT

Research Associate working for Peter S. Kim at the Whitehead Institute, primarily responsible for Peptide Synthesis for research projects focused on studying HIV protease at a biochemical and functional level.

Alpha Analytical

Organics Extraction Technologists

I take data and deliver business insights | Data Analyst | Business Intelligence | Senior Genomics Scientist | #opentowork

Analyst, researcher, and leader with 20 years of academic and industry experience.

A thirst for data analysis and delivering data-driven insights, utilizing my data and science background and skills to offer business solutions that transform lives.

A problem-solver driven by continuous learning through professional and personal growth.

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