How To Innovate Faster With Freelancers: Lessons From NASA | The Independent Workforce | Steve Rader

“If upskilling your workforce feels impossible, bring the skills to them. Every freelancer you hire becomes a teacher to your entire team.”


In this episode, we discussed how companies and freelancers can work together smarter through open innovation, trust, culture shifts, and examples straight from NASA’s journey into the freelance economy, in particular:
👉 How NASA learned to leverage freelancers.
👉 How technology is evolving so fast that traditional hiring models can’t keep up.
👉 The role of curated digital communities in finding world-class talent.


Join Yurii Lazaruk, an Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships at freelancermap, and Steve Rader, a true pioneer in open innovation and the future of work who spent almost 36 years at NASA and for more than a decade guided its Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation, helping tap into the power of open talent and crowdsourcing to solve complex problems, who now, as the founder of Crowd Resources Consulting, continues to inspire organizations around the world to leverage collective intelligence, drive innovation, and rethink how we work together in a rapidly changing world.


Together, we explore the now and the future of work through the lens of temporary employment, and how companies can get the most out of such collaboration!


Connect with Steve and Yurii on Linkedin:
  / steverader  
  / yurii-lazaruk-community-consultant  


Whether you’re looking to hire top freelance talent fast or are a freelancer ready to find your next big project, freelancermap connects the right people with the right work 💪
Visit https://www.freelancermap.com/ and start building your next success story today!🚀


Timestamps:
00:00 Meet Steve Rader
01:49 The Birth of Open Innovation at NASA
03:44 Challenges and Reframing Open Innovation
04:58 The Tsunami of Technology and Open Talent
08:34 Freelancing: The Future of Work
14:03 Trust and Integration of Freelancers
17:15 Building Relationships with Freelancers
26:42 Learning Platforms
28:05 The Role of HR and Managers
30:31 Freelancer Satisfaction and Statistics
34:12 Challenges in Freelancer Relationships
37:05 Adapting Business Models for Freelancers
44:07 Advice for Companies Hiring Freelancers


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