This week I sat down with Robine Stephenson, a Melbourne-based entrepreneur and co-founder of future-of-work marketplace, Ume.

Robine shares her version for better careers and society as a whole. We get into:

• Guiding people on the path to entrepreneurship, or not
• Her foundation focused on the dignity of work
• How the current "black elephant" event will impact careers and work over the next five years

Robine's reading recommendations:

• Energising Leadership - Nita Cherry
• Who Do We Choose To Be? - Margaret Wheatley
• Rethinking Strategy - Steven Tighe

Robine is Co-Founder of Ume, a new marketplace and community for all types of professionals, business owners & entrepreneurs looking for real support and insights as they start, launch, sustain and grow their ventures. Ume connects and amplifies the work, products and services of small business and workers to each other. Ume's mission is to nurture ongoing sustainable cycles of opportunities, collaborations and partnerships on a local, national and global scale. They believe that small business is beautiful and sustainable prosperity is possible for all of us and doesn’t have to be at the cost of our planet or community.