
At Work With The Ready
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin have helped teams around the world adopt more modern ways of working and on At Work with The Ready they’re sharing the inside scoop with you. Whether you’re struggling with a carousel of ineffective meetings, annual strategy sessions that go nowhere, or decision-making churn that never ceases, they’ve seen it all and are here to help.
Meet the hosts

Rodney Evans
Rodney is the CEO of The Ready and a pioneer in adaptive organization design and the future of work. With over 20 years of experience in all things transformation, she’s researched, developed, and taught new ways of working in dozens of complex environments, helping clients like Airbnb, Macy’s, GE, Intuit, and Charter Communications unleash talent and modernize traditional workplaces and practices. Beyond consulting, Rodney regularly speaks about such topics as cultivating self-awareness, creating a team of teams, designing for self-management, and navigating a working world designed by and for men. She believes the future of work is now and that new approaches to old problems are key to our survival as a species.
Sam Spurlin
Sam is an organizational design and transformation advisor focused on building people-positive, complexity-conscious organizations. For nearly a decade, he partnered with senior leadership teams across Fortune 500 companies, startups, and nonprofits to rethink operating models, leadership systems, and how work actually happens. His work has included engagements with GE, FreshDirect, Pacific Gas & Electric, MITRE, Ritual, Akamai and others. Earlier in his career, Sam consulted with David Allen on the updated edition of his bestselling book Getting Things Done, and published with Dr. Mihaly Csikszetmihalyi on the future of work and positive psychology. His interests live at the intersection of personal development, organizational design, and how humans and systems shape one another over time. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife.






