Sophie Wade

Sophie Wade is a Workforce Innovation Specialist at Future-of-Work consultancy Flexcel Network, keynote speaker, author and Board advisor. Over 620,000 people have taken her LinkedIn courses on Future-of-Work skills, Gen Z, and empathy. Sophie has worked in Asia, Europe, and the US building companies and teams working in strategic development, finance, and venture capital. Sophie’s executive briefings, workshops, and courses enable leaders to scale digitally maturing businesses, bringing a human-centric approach to attract, engage, and retain high-performing, multigenerational, distributed teams. Sophie’s second book is Empathy Works: The Key to Competitive Advantage in the New Era of Work (2022). She writes The Work In Progress Report newsletter and hosts the Transforming Work with Sophie Wade podcast. Sophie studied at Oxford University (BA, MA) and INSEAD (MBA).”