About These Monthly Updates : Each month, FPW community members come together to share progress, surface challenges, and learn from one another. These updates capture highlights from those conversations—synthesized with Claude AI assistance and reviewed by community contributors for accuracy. Our goal: make the work visible, build shared knowledge, and invite you into the ongoing effort to make work better for people. "We're never done... but in one year, we'd want to see a resurgence of lean...

FPW Symposium 2025 Blog Series, Part 9 "We came expecting a conference and found ourselves co-creating a movement." This reflection from a symposium participant captures the unexpected evolution that unfolded at O.C. Tanner in June 2025. Six months later, eleven active initiatives continue advancing, monthly community gatherings draw consistent cross-sector participation, and the infrastructure we built together proves that sustained transformation is possible when structure serves emergence...

"Get more tangible results from our experiments." "Showcase progress from workgroups in monthly meetings." "Get more people involved - bring a friend." "Get a couple of potential groups lined up to do this work." These weren't predictions for 2026 - they were answers to a single question posed at the December Future of People at Work community meeting: "What should FPW's New Year's resolution be?" As approximately 20 practitioners gathered for the final monthly meeting of 2025, the variety of...