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David Carl Edelman

David Carl Edelman

Former chief marketing officer of Aetna

Jul 6, 2026

11:21
And what do you think the results tell us from your perspective, David, about the definition of what a workday or a workplace even is in 2026?
11:34
So I think there's two really interesting elements to this.
11:37
The first is the extent to which the Venn diagram between the physical workplace and the digital workplace is shrinking.
11:44
It is becoming much more of an overlap.
11:47
And in a way, the role of IT is changing quite significantly.
11:52
When I speak to customers, what I'm hearing is IT is solving a lot more problems that just weren't on its radar even a few years ago.
12:03
Today, IT teams aren't just palming stuff off to HR and facilities.

12 MINS LATER

24:30
What other next think research would you recommend that we could feature in the show notes and could be relevant or interesting for listeners?
1:20
But why don't we start at the beginning? Give us a sense, if you would, of your career experiences and how they built on one another and some of the things you learned along the way.
1:30
Yeah, sure.
1:31
So actually, the story arc goes pretty far back and I'm going to age myself here.
1:37
When I went to business school in the mid 80s, I was very attracted to everything I was learning in my marketing courses.
1:47
I love the combination of left and right brain.
1:51
the creativity and the analytics.
1:54
I had even thought at one point in my career I might be an architect because that combines both as well.

8 MINS LATER

9:45
Are you seeing similar themes or is there a kind of a different way that each of these characters behaves or, you know, tell us what's going on there.

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