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

Fisher Phillips

Senior Client Development Manager

The Rose Bowl Institute

Provide mentorship, coaching, guidance, strategic direction, and support to help women develop the necessary tools to achieve their goals and become successful leaders in their respective fields and develop their full potential.

Coach/Mentor

Help people in a variety of careers and leadership roles move towards their career goals, identify their core "why", define strategy, and provide support and accountability. Work with clients to help them realize their innate potential, define what success looks like for them, reclaim their inherent strengths and authentic voice, and enable them to move beyond their limiting beliefs with confidence.

Certified Transformational & Executive Mindset Coach

Reed Smith LLP

Antitrust & Competition; International Trade & National Security; Government Contracts & Grants; Government Relations; Investigations & White Collar Crime; Securities Litigation; Sanctions; Fraud & Abuse; Financial Markets Regulatory; Health Care Regulatory, State Attorneys General

Senior Business Development Manager - Firmwide Regulatory & Investigations 

Senior Business Development Manager - Global Regulatory Enforcement

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Senior Business Development Manager - Global Litigation and White Collar

Business Development Manager - Litigation and White Collar Crime

Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and Micah Legal Aid Clinic

I provided legal assistance to lower income individuals in the areas of family law, consumer law, housing, employment, bankruptcy, social security benefits, immigration and other related matters.

Volunteer Attorney

Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Business Development Manager - Intellectual Property

Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione

At Brinks, I worked exclusively in the area of intellectual property law, where I managed strategic direction for the firm's litigation, licensing, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and nanotechnology practice groups. During this time, I spearheaded the development of the green technology practice group and was also closely involved in the firm’s intellectual asset management services. In addition to leading the firm's business efforts, I performed research on a variety of intellectual property topics, authored responses to business proposals, wrote client alerts detailing relevant legislation, and acted in an advisory role to align the firm's legal, marketing and business practices.

Business Development Manager

Law Offices of Richard D. Trainor

At the Law Offices of Richard D. Trainor, I handled a broad array of civil litigation, and acted as in-house counsel for two national glazing companies. My practice focused mainly on litigation, as well as transaction work, including:

- Successfully defending a local dairy company against a large national chain in a trademark and unfair competition two-day federal bench trial (second chair);

- Drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, employment contracts, confidentiality and non-disclosure documents, vendor contracts, shareholder agreements, asset purchase transactions, and joint venture agreements;

-Revising and negotiating legal provisions of contracts; and providing counsel regarding subcontractor requirements.

Attorney

Soundies, Inc.

At Soundies, Inc., a music license and consulting firm in the Chicagoland area, my experience included:  

-Drafting and executing a variety of copyright licenses and agreements;

-Researching in the areas of copyright protection, music licensing, publishing rights, advertising and marketing, recording labels, and owner's rights;

-Consulting with corporate clients, agencies, and music labels.

Legal Intern

As a results and people-oriented leader with over 18 years of experience in the business and legal field, I thrive on seeking out ways and systems that help me to understand individuals, groups, and ways that people can work together better. I love helping people realize their innate potential and untapped creativity, and reclaim their inherent strengths and authentic voice. 

I am a former attorney who has spent the majority of my career leading business development teams for top global law firms, providing strategic direction and coaching to attorneys and other professionals, and successfully growing multiple practices at several firms. With an insatiable appetite to always keep growing and learning, and inspiring others to do the same, I offer clients a holistic and multi-faceted approach into how they can become more effective, utilize their mindset productively, and highlight their talents. A true success is when a client's professional life and personal life falls into alignment with what they truly value and love. 

In addition to training with industry leaders in business development and coaching for attorneys, I am also a certified health, wellness, and mindset coach with extensive education in both Eastern and Western modalities. 

Core areas of expertise: Coaching, Mindset and Leadership Training, Business Strategy, Client Relationship Management, Business Development, Communications, Mindfulness, Competitive Intelligence, Pitches & Proposals, Project Management and Execution, Professional Development, Content Development and Social Media Branding. 

Main areas of legal expertise: Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement, Investigations, Intellectual Property

Main areas of joy: Art, books, being by the ocean, making rose coffee concoctions, dancing, connecting with interesting people, exploring new places

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