Tess has spent over a decade building and leading inclusive and empowered teams. After working in many different roles across a whole range of businesses from larger charities to fast-growing Tech start-ups, Tess gave birth to her first child in 2016 and realised that work wasn't designed for people like her. After two years of fighting for inclusion in her workplace she eventually decided to leave and found Collaborative Future: a social enterprise that aims to create work in which everyone is empowered to thrive.

Collaborative Future run a collaborative and flexible work placement programme which brings unemployed young people, freelancers and small businesses together to work and learn. Alongside, this Collaborative Future also works with organisations to challenge the status quo within our workplaces and supports teams to build deeper connections that will enable them to succeed in a complex and ever-changing world.

What we discussed in this episode:

• Why most workplaces don’t suit the modern world and who we are today

• How Tessa’s personal experience of being a freelancer created her idea for her social enterprise Collaborative Future

• How to build trust and collaboration among diverse groups of people

• Why it's vital for people to bring more of themselves into their work and what you can do as a leader to model this

• Why our work placement programme is so popular with young women and young people of colour

• and so much more great stuff about how we can lead they way we want to work!

Find out more about Collaborative Future & Tess

https://www.collaborativefuture.co.uk/

Instagram: @collab_future/

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