Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley have become the leading voices in the Future of Work movement. They have been collaborating on the nature of work, culture, and innovation since 2015. Their essays on these topics have been widely read and shared by more than 1.5 million people. They have spoken to executive audiences around the world and their work has been used by the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, the Ohio Governor's Office of Workforce Development, Credit Suisse, Citi, Nexxworks, Cisco, Deloitte, Inc. magazine, Forbes, and New York Times bestselling author Thomas L. Friedman, among others.

Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Third Industrial Revolution was marked by computerization and automation of physical labor, laying the foundation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will be notable for the rapid advancement of technology tools into the domain of human knowledge work. In this world, humans must continuously learn and adapt, and with this transition comes information overload. Heather gives lucidity to the complex topic of the future of work through her illuminating graphic frameworks and powerful metaphors, all backed by deep research. In 2017, LinkedIn ranked her as its number-one global voice for education. In 2019, Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, appointed her to the faculty of their Centre for the New Workforce. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman frequently quotes Heather in his books and columns and describes her as “the oasis” when it comes to insights into the future of work. Heather gives nearly 50 keynote talks a year, through which she assists employees and leaders alike to prepare for and adapt to jobs that do not yet exist. Heather is a regular Forbes contributor.

Chris Shipley has documented, influenced, and predicted the impact of technology on business and society for more than 30 years. As a journalist, analyst, executive producer, and startup mentor, she has witnessed firsthand the transformation brought about by digital innovation. She covered the tech industry for leading publishing companies throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and was among the first to identify emerging technology trends, including the rise of web applications, early smartphone technologies, and social media. As the executive producer of the DEMO Conference for more than a decade, she ushered groundbreaking products such as salesforce.com, TiVO, and VMWare to market. Were those companies an investment portfolio, they would have a market value exceeding $300 billion today. Chris now spends her time curating and advising communities of entrepreneurs, journalists, and technology thought leaders as they navigate toward an empowering digital future.