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

Changing Work is curating the best practices of conscious business and making them easily accessible to all.

We're creating a Collective of conscious business practitioners (coaches, consultants, facilitators, etc) to help elevate and amplify their work.

We're curating products and services from this Collective. The first curated product available - The Team Journey - is designed to help create high-performing, close-knit teams. The Team Journey product can be used in individual teams or as a "culture cascade" with larger organizations. It's a scalable, easy, and cost-effective way to improve team culture.

Changing Work is founded with the belief that we can create high-performing environments that also leave people feeling whole. We can create org cultures where we'd be proud to have our children work someday. We can create teams where each person is inspired to do their best work.

Founder

The Full Body Yes

I'm combining my experience as an executive at LinkedIn with my deep passion around personal development. My specialty is combining the lessons from ancient wisdom traditions with the practicalities of working in the modern world to transform leaders and organizations. 

Operationalizing Compassion. Mainstreaming Mindfulness. Changing work from the inside out.

Keynote Speaking
Workshops
Exec Coaching with a handful of leaders
Consulting - Culture Work
Book - The Full Body Yes (Winner of a 2022 Nautilus Book Award)

More info at www.scottshute.com

Keynote Speaker, Award Winning Author, Executive Coach

Scott Shute Photos

My photography passion is also my side hustle.  I specialize in nature and landscapes.  It's a great creative outlet to balance the corporate experience.  All pieces are original and are available as fine art prints on aluminum.  I donate the profits to charity.  

Whether it's an exotic waterfall in a far away country, or a bee having breakfast in a neighborhood flower, my goal as a photographer is to convey the beauty and light I see in the natural world in a way that moves you.  I recently came across this quote and it's become my new mantra in all things, but especially with photography - "It's not our job to rail against the darkness.  It's our job to be farmers of the light."  I grew up on a farm in Kansas, surrounded by nature.  Now I get to be a farmer of the light. That seems right :-)

Farmer of the Light (Landscape Photographer)

LinkedIn

I had the amazing privilege of leading mindfulness and compassion programs at LinkedIn.  The programs are in service to our employees, building characteristics like emotional intelligence, resilience, and a better sense of well-being.  This ultimately translates to a better experience for our customers.

Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Programs

I had the privilege to lead the fantastic team that provides customer support for the (then) 500M+ members of LinkedIn, as well as our Enterprise customers and LinkedIn Ads customers.  Includes a diverse global team providing language and local timezone coverage.  The team represents the Voice of Customers and Members to LinkedIn's product teams to ensure we continue to deliver on our promise of "Members First".  Overall, we're helping elevate our members' experience.   As a passion project, I was also the executive sponsor for our industry leading Mindfulness programs at LinkedIn.

VP - Global Customer Operations 

Execs In The Know

As an advocate of best practices in the Customer Experience industry, I served on the advisory board to further the knowledge, thought leadership, and community of customer experience professionals.

Advisory Board Member

Juniper Networks

Measured and evaluated all of the touch points that customers had with Juniper.  Led a team of cross functional executives driving initiatives intended to make measurable improvements to the Customer Experience.  Shaped a customer centric culture by driving innovative Customer Experience awareness programs inside the company, including the creation of "Customer Experience Month", educational materials, and professional videos.

Sr. Director - Customer Experience

Responsible for strategy development, operational efficiency, and leadership development for the HR team

HR Chief of Staff

Xilinx

I am grateful to have been a part of Xilinx during the semiconductor heyday. This was what working in tech meant before the internet companies existed. I learned to be a manager and a leader here, picking up increasing responsibility internationally (5 moves in 6 years, including Boulder, Tokyo, and London), ultimately leading the Global Services Division (customer operations). Xilinx was very focused on culture in these formative years, and as a leader I was personally drawn to the work around people and organizational development. In addition to my operations role, I focused on coaching, mentoring, and helping HR develop and deliver internal leadership courses.

Sr. Director / General Mgr - Services and Support

Texas Instruments

Responsible for >$200M/yr ASIC sales at a major storage customer.

Sales Representative

I'm a keynote speaker, author, and leadership coach, combining my experience as an executive with my passion for people development.

Have you ever wondered "How can I be a good person and also do well at work?" I specialize in combining the practicalities of leading in the modern business world with the wisdom of ancient traditions to help individuals and companies be leaders in conscious business. This results in businesses thriving financially while providing their customers long-term value and leaving employees feeling inspired and whole. When done consciously, work can be a part of the collective healing that needs to take place in the world.

After twenty-five years of customer-oriented leadership and executive roles, and three years leading Mindfulness and Compassion programs at LinkedIn, I'm now helping other leaders and companies transform, becoming more compassionate and effective. I work with leaders who want to both do good in the world, while helping their organizations and employees thrive. It’s a role in which I get to utilize my entire skill set, experience, and passions.

I’ve been studying and practicing mindfulness and related wisdom teachings since I was thirteen years old, and teaching since I was in college.  In this work we get to explore the possibility of human potential, helping employees become the very best version of themselves.  With mindfulness, we’re building employees’ capabilities around resilience, self-awareness and growth mindset. With compassion, we’re working to expand employees’ emotional intelligence and capacity for service.  Ultimately, the intention is to build these practices and consciousness into the very fabric of a company – how we develop products, how we sell, how we service – in a way that serves our employees as well as our customers.  My operations lens helps me focus on scaling the work we do.

Engage me for
 * Keynote Speaking
 * Team Development
 * Exec Coaching 
 * Workshops
 * Consulting - Operationalizing conscious business in your work culture

Another passion of mine is photography. I've always loved photography, but over the last few years it's become a deepening obsession. I've created a commercial website (www.scottshutephotos.com) so I can share and hone my craft, while donating the proceeds to charity. 

I'm grateful that I get to integrate all of my passions and bring my full self to work. Changing work from the inside out.

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