The New Abnormal
268 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings#TheNewAbnormal podcast (which has over 200,000 downloads) focuses on understanding today and anticipating the future. Discussing these subjects via the stories and viewpoints of my guests has led to some fascinating conversations with activists, creatives, writers, philosophers, strategists, psychologists, lecturers, futurists, etc. Re: my bio, I'm a strategist, author and public speaker. My first book went to No1 in the business charts, whilst my second was shortlisted for the 'Business Book of the Year' Awards. ('The New Abnormal' is bought to you in partnership with The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, a global leader in applying futures studies to solve strategic challenges, helping clients to be #FuturesReady.) So, we hope you enjoy listening to the series! Please note that the podcast was set up during the early days of Covid, and is divided into Series One [2020-21] Series Two [2021-22] Series Three [2022-23] Series Four [2023-24]. All rights reserved. #TheNewAbnormal podcast series © Sean Pillot de Chenecey 2020
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Adam Chmielowski 'How brands can avoid being cultural parasites'
April 18, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Adam Chmielowski, co-founder at the specialist cultural insight and brand strategy practice, Starling Strategy, who work for clients including Google, Nike, PepsiCo, Pan Macmillan and the National Trust. Adam has worked in the insight and brand strategy industry for nearly 25 years, during which his interests have shifted towards using cultural rather than psychological / individualist approaches, as well as systems and sociol...
Tom Johnson 'The Optimism Index, and why 'Myths of Decline' are often wrong...'
April 17, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSeries Three This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Tom Johnson, MD at the consumer insights and futures consultancy, Trajectory. He's a researcher, trends analyser and forecaster with a mass of experience leading complex insight and foresight projects for clients including Vodafone, British Council, Department for International Trade, General Medical Council, McCann and many more. Trajectory help clients understand how customers, markets and the world around them is changing -...
Nicole Fall 'Brand management and organisational leadership in Asia'
April 16, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBSeries One In this episode, I spoke with Nicole Fall, the CEO of the renowned strategic research, innovation consultancy and forecasting agency Asian Consumer Intelligence. She's spent 20 years in Asia working with leading brands in countries inc China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. In the interview, we discuss her expert views on decoding cultural/social trends in Asia, and the implications for business strategy and brand marketing.
Erik Korsvik Ostergaard 'Reinventing Organisations c/o Anticipatory Leadership'
April 15, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features the futures thinker and leadership advisor Eric Korsvik Ostergaard, who specialises in exploring and evaluating possible and preferable futures of work. He's also the author of 'The Responsive Leader' which described the paradigm shift towards future organisations, and 'Teal Dots in an Orange World' which addressed how to create an appropriately dynamic internal structure. His next book - which focuses on Anticipatory Leadersh...
John Seabrook 'The intersection between creativity and commerce re: tech, design, and music’
April 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBSeries Two This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Brooklyn-based John Seabrook, a staff writer at The New Yorker since the 90's as well as being the author of a range of superb books including 'The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory' / 'Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture' / 'Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace / 'Flash of Genius, and Other True Stories of Invention' . In the interview we discuss his views on all of the above, along with a range of his o...
Sara Wheeler 'The minute curiosity of the travel writer - tales from the Arctic to the Antarctic'
April 13, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBSeries Two In this episode of 'The New Abnormal' I interview Sara Wheeler, a prize-winning non-fiction writer noted for her accounts of the polar regions. Her books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita, which tells the story of a seven-month journey in Antarctica. The Daily Telegraph reviewer wrote of it, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book written about the Antarctic.’ In it, she mentioned sleeping in the captain's bunk in Scott's Hut. Whilst in Antarctic...
Giana Eckhardt 'In Praise of Inconvenience'
April 12, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Giana Eckhardt, Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean at King’s Business School, King’s College London. A leading expert in the field of consumer behaviour, consumer culture, consumer ethics, branding and the sharing economy, she publishing regularly in journals such as Harvard Business Review. She is co-author of The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Handbook of the Sharing Economy. He...
Shermon Cruz 'From Future Shock to Gamification to Indigenous Futures'
April 11, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBThe episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Shermon Cruz, the Founder & Chief Futurist of the Center for Engaged Foresight, a global futures innovation and strategic foresight hub.. He serves as the UNESCO Chair on Anticipatory Governance and Regenerative Cities at Northwestern University, Philippines. As a full member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and a pioneer member of UNESCO's Global Anticipatory Thinking Network (Futures Literacy), Shermon has established himself...
James Hurman 'Pay attention to attention...and the case for creativity'
April 10, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBSeries Three This reposted episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features James Hurman 'a creative person from Auckland, New Zealand'. He founded and continues to lead Previously Unavailable, an innovation studio that provides innovation and CX consulting and new product, brand and business design and development. James is also a co-founder and director of Tracksuit, a SAAS business that provides brand tracking at a fraction of the normal cost and operates across New Zealand, Australia, the U...
Keely Adler 'Helping brands understand themselves in shifting contexts'
April 09, 2024 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBSeries Four This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Chicago-based Keely Adler, cultural futurist at Dentsu and core team at Radar. A brand strategist by trade, time-traveling futurist at heart and with a nearly decade-long career grounded in creative strategy and qualitative consumer research, Keely has spent her time working across a range of brands and special projects that leverage her cultural expertise and fuel clients’ curiosity about the world and where it’s headed. To...
Jon Cohen "Understanding what people think, when you can't trust what they say"
April 08, 2024 06:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Jon Cohen, the author of "Asking for Trouble: understanding what people think, when you can't trust what they say". The aim of the book is to enable the development of more creative concepts, braver public policy and more compelling marketing communications through a better understanding of response. He's also the Managing Partner of the award-winning Kindling Research, who have an outstanding record of helping clients dev...
Mark Vernon 'Everything in philosophy is a footnote to Plato'. (And quite a lot is a footnote to Kant).
April 07, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interviewed Mark Vernon, a psychodynamic psychotherapist, writer and broadcaster, who has a keen interest in spirituality and the inner life. He has a PhD in ancient philosophy, as well as degrees in physics and theology. His books (which have appeared in translation around the world) cover subjects from friendship and belief, to wellbeing and love, and his latest one is 'A Secret History of Christianity'. Mark contributes to and ...
Kathleen Higgins 'From Daoism to Nietzsche...and why deception has become a modern way of life'
April 06, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, at Austin. Kathleen's main areas of research are continental philosophy, philosophy of the emotions, and aesthetics. She has published a number of books: Nietzsche's “Zarathustra” , The Music of Our Lives, A Short History of Philosophy, A Passion for Wisdom , What Nietzsche Really Said , and The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language? She ...
Dr Steven MacGregor 'The Daily Reset - how to move your life forward'
April 05, 2024 06:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSeries Three In this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Steven MacGregor. He's a global expert in workplace health, wellbeing and performance with PhD and Master's degree in design thinking and virtual teams. Steven is also founder of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona. and author (or lead co-author) of six books in the past 12 years, notably 'Chief Wellbeing Officer' and 'Sustaining Executive Performance'. His next book 'The Daily Reset, 366 ways to move your life forward' was...
DuBose Cole 'Do marketers and consumers see the world differently?'
April 04, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features DuBose Cole, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at We Are Rival - a consultancy that helps businesses change (not just challenge) markets by being smarter about how they build brands, products and go to market strategies. He's a strategist that's worked across various disciplines, from media to creative to consulting, with a background in technology and psychology. In this interview, we discuss the latest #RivalSpark brand purpose res...
Anne-Lise Kjaer "Building a bridge to the future - don't apply old thinking to new problems"
April 03, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBSeries One In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview the leading futurist, author and speaker Anne-Lise Kjaer. Her wholebrain methodology bridges the rational and emotional universe – shaping the strategies and core concepts driving the businesses and brands of the future. According to the Financial Times her unique world vision is "as fertile as Dali’s only she creates social prototypes…based on nascent trends." She's the Founder of Kjaer Global, who work with an A-Z of world-l...
Roger Spitz 'The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption'
April 02, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Roger Spitz, who is an international bestselling author, President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Based in San Francisco, he’s an authority on foresight, sustainability, and systemic change. He also publishes extensively on decision-making in uncertain and complex environments. Techistential, Roger’s foresight practice, advises boards, leadership teams, and investors on sustainable value creati...
Charlie Waterhouse 'Rebel for Life'
April 01, 2024 06:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBSeries One In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Charlie Waterhouse, Creative Director of This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll (with an ethos based on identity + activism for culture + causes) whose clients include those such as Amnesty International, English Heritage, Médecins Sans Frontières, National Gallery, and UNICEF. He's also co-founder of the Art Group and Media & Messaging team at Extinction Rebellion ('the most successful start-up in history'), and is a Fellow of the RSA. H...
Louise Mowbray 'Future-focused Leadership'
March 31, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Louise Mowbray, founder of Mowbray by Design, author of 'Relevant: Future-Focused Leadership' and co-author of 'Uncertainty: Making Sense of the World for Better, Bolder Outcomes'. She specialises in the future of work & future of leadership, working with some of the world's most respected leaders and C-suite teams at the intersection of leadership, innovation, transformation and purpose-driven business. Clients include those ...
Colin Strong 'Behavioural Change and Behavioural Science'
March 30, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Colin Strong, who is Head of Behavioural Science at Ipsos, and a Professor at Nottingham University Business School. He works with a wide range of organisations (both private and public sector) to design and deliver behavioural change through the use of behavioural science. His new book 'Out of Time: the revolution underway in beliefs about being human' is out now. In it, he seeks to make sense of our current state of liminalit...
Jenny Southan 'Travel Trends and the Future of Travel'
March 29, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Jenny Southan, who is Editor, Founder and CEO of Globetrender, the world's leading travel trend forecasting agency and online magazine dedicated to the future of travel. She's also an award-winning freelance travel journalist, contributing to the likes of Conde Nast Traveller, LUX, Baku, The Telegraph, Monocle, Mr Porter, The Times, Elle, City AM, Forbes, Business Traveller, and Soho House's "House Notes" among others. During ...
James Bidwell 'Connecting the dots: business as a force for good'
March 28, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features James Bidwell, co-founder/Chair of B Corps, Re_Set and Springwise. He's also author of 'Disrupt! 100 Lessons in Business Innovation'. (Re_Set [described by Seth Godin as “too good to share”] and Springwise are both B Corps). James advises many businesses and several government organisations. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Bristol and Cambridge Judge Business School, participant in the London Business School Innovation a...
Andrew Koppelman 'Burning Down the House: how libertarian philosophy was corrupted by delusion and greed'
March 27, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSeries Four In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Andrew Koppelman, who is the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University. Andrew's scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. He's been published and quoted across an array of leading newspapers and has appeared on numerous TV channels. He's also written more than 100 scholarly articles ...
Katharina Michalski 'Helping business navigate and capitalise on change'
March 26, 2024 06:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Katharina Michalski, who is a 'Change Explorer, Navigator & Curator' with the dynamic Foresight Folk. Based in Berlin, the platform is dedicated to fostering foresight to enhance decision-making. On their learning journey, they speak with some of the brightest minds in this area about practising and implementing foresight in their professional and everyday lives. They also explore different tools that help us think more clearly, ...
Martin Raymond 'The Shifting of the Overton Window and the push for Transformation'
March 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBSeries One Martin Raymond is an author, journalist and co-founder of The Future Laboratory - one of the world's most renowned futures consultancies. Established in 2000, they've worked with more than 1000 businesses in 50 countries. In this reposted episode, we discuss his thinking around a wide range of areas, including journalism being 'the last refuge of the desperate - and the curious' to the cultural drivers of tomorrow, strategic foresight around resilience and purpose, surveillan...
Jonas Gissel Mikkelsen 'Futures Capabilities, Progressive Endeavours and Strategic Transformation'
March 24, 2024 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Jonas Gissel Mikkelsen, Futurist and Director at The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, where he heads up business development. Jonas is responsible for creating new initiatives, collaborations and joint-ventures, as well as overseeing publications and managing the Institute's brand & identity. His primary competencies lie within an abstract ability to create prototypal ideas and an understanding of the larger perspect...
Cecile Cremer 'How to start a Ministry for the Future'
March 23, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBSeries Four This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Cecile Cremer, Founder of 'Wandering the Future'. She's a renowned trends expert who explores the 'Added Value of the Future' by translating trends into future-proof business solutions. She's also the first female and youngest ever President of LaFutura Global Trend Network, and Co-Founder of the 'Humanized Tech Awards'. In this interview, we discuss all of the above, along with her viewpoints on issues including 'democratising t...
Ari Wallach 'A Brief History of the Future'
March 22, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Ari Wallach, who is a futurist and social systems strategist. He's also the author of 'Longpath: becoming the great ancestors our future needs' and host of 'A Brief History of the Future' (which premiers on PBS in April 2024) c/o Futurific Studios, a new production studio focused on shifting the narrative and the way society approaches current problems for a positive future. Ari is also a Columbia University adjunct professor,...
Steve Lacey 'The Outsider - on a mission to challenge the wisdom of convention'
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBSeries One Steve Lacey has a reputation for being a genuine outsider, in an industry where being 'inside the bubble' is the 24/7 reality for the vast majority of its workforce. (Hence him founding 'The Outsiders: an international network of misfits and experts'). He understands diversity and prides himself on conducting research outside the margins, delivering social insight that really makes an impact. His team also works outside industry norms, and in this reposted episode we discuss ...
Philippa Wagner 'PeoplePlacesSpaces'
March 20, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBSeries Four This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the renowned Philippa Wagner, a creative thinker who connects people, places & spaces across a range of lifestyle industries with a particular focus on F&B, hospitality, wellness & retail. She's a highly creative, commercially-driven strategist with extensive big-brand experience, having worked with some of the industry's best and brightest, including Birch, Ennismore, Sessions and Locke. Philippa's specialist focus on consumer ...
Andrew McLuhan 'The Medium is the Message'
March 19, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features 'poet for hire' Andrew McLuhan, who also just happens to be the grandson of media-theorist Marshall McLuhan and son of Dr Eric McLuhan. He writes, teaches, coaches and consults about culture and technology from a McLuhan perspective. We therefore discuss his work regarding his exploration, documenting and inventorying the library of Marshall McLuhan (which UNESCO named as part of its 'Memory of the World' registry) and why he v...
Art Kleiner 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology'
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBSeries Three This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Art Kleiner, a renowned expert on management thinking, thought leadership, organisational learning and scenario planning. In his new book 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology' he illuminates a belief that AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. The book therefore offers seven principles for ensuring that machine learni...
Tamira Snell 'Understanding emerging trends and forecasting consumer behaviour'
March 17, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Tamira Snell, Senior Advisor at the renowned Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. CIFS equip and inspire individuals and organisations, decision-makers and the public, to act on the future, today. She's an expert advisor who guides organisations in exploratory insight and innovation processes. With a background in cultural sociology, her field of passion is people – to understand emerging needs, the drivers and barriers b...
Tom Hodgkinson 'Slow Down, Have Fun, Live Well'
March 16, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBSeries One In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview the writer Tom Hodgkinson. His philosophy is of a relaxed approach to life, enjoying it as it comes rather than toiling for an imagined better future. After lounging around at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played bass in the thrash band Chopper, he took the natural step of getting a job in Rough Trade records before moving on to becoming an importer of absinthe. Later, he and his partner Victoria Hull launched The Idler A...
Martin Lindstrom 'Predicting the future - before anyone else'
March 15, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Martin Lindstrom, founder and chairman of Lindstrom Company, the world’s leading branding & culture transformation firm, which operates across five continents and in more than 30 countries, serving the "who’s who" of Fortune 100 companies. Martin has been featured as one of the world’s top 50 business thinkers for eight years running by the prestigious Thinkers50 list. TIME Magazine has named him one of the “World’s 100 Most Inf...
Alison Taylor 'How business can do the right thing in a turbulent world'
March 14, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the dynamic Alison Taylor, who works on challenges at the intersection of corporate integrity, risk and responsibility. She's the Executive Director of Ethical Systems, which is part of NYU Stern School of Business and is a collaboration between leading academics working on behavioural science, systems thinking and organisational psychology. Currently writing a book for HBR Press on how the landscape for business ethics is tran...
Lasse Jonasson 'Anticipatory Leadership, Scenario Planning and being #FuturesReady'
March 13, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Lasse Jonasson, Director & Futurist at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) where he also heads their advisory service. CIFS is a global leader in applying futures studies methodologies to solve strategic challenges within organisations. Their core advisory offerings include megatrend analysis, scenario planning, risk assessment, innovation processes, and strategic foresight. The Institute is a truly global entit...
Matt Klein 'Trend Spotting: AI vs Human'
March 12, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Matt Klein. He's a Cultural Theorist + CyberPsychologist + Strategist who helps organisations understand emerging social shifts and author preferred futures. As a quantitative futurist, Matt advises brands like Disney, L'Oréal and American Airlines, as well as TV producers, VC investors, startups, nonprofits, government agencies and journalists. His insights can be found in The New York Times, Wall St Journal, Forbes, WARC, VICE...
Anna Kirah 'Think long-term in a short-term world'
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the renowned design anthropologist and psychologist Anna Kirah. She's an expert in pioneering qualitative research methods used to gather deep insights to understand people's motivations and expectations as well as their articulated and unarticulated needs, and to link this understanding to the design of services, products and organisational change. Anna's experience in Boeing and Microsoft has given her global recognition for...
Mark Shayler 'Helping big companies think small and small companies think big'
March 10, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Mark Shayler, owner at Ape. He's a Thinker / Doer / Creator / Speaker / Author, who helps companies grow sustainably by developing people, strategies and brand - whilst reducing impact. (Mark has saved his clients in excess of £120,000,000). He's also author of the excellent books "Do Disrupt" and "Do Present". In the interview, we discuss his highly specialised knowledge of sustainability, in which he has many year...
Thierry Malleret 'The Great Narrative - for a Better Future'
March 09, 2024 07:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Thierry Malleret, the co-author of both the international best-seller 'The Great Reset' and the newly published 'Great Narrative' which he wrote with Klaus Schwab, the Founder and Exec Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Thierry is the founder and managing partner of #MonthlyBarometer. Its eponymous flagship monthly 'predictive newsletter' is Thierry’s brainchild and the product of his innovative and exacting approach to resea...
Cailin O'Connor 'The war against truth and the social dynamics of alternative facts'
March 08, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interviewed Cailin O'Connor, who is an associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California. She's also the co-author of 'The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread' (published by Yale University Press. In our interview, we discuss Cailin's most recent writings on the subject of 'why we trust lies' re: the most effective misinformation starting with seeds of truth. In doing so, she explains the cru...
Jacob Ellis 'Policy Development re: the needs of Future Generations'
March 07, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Jacob Ellis, an experienced public affairs and international relations advisor with a demonstrated history of working to improve policy-making in Wales and globally. He's worked with United Nations, World Cities Culture Forum and One Young World, and is committed to ensuring the needs of future generations are central to policy development. We therefore discuss all of these areas, and in particular his work with the Office of...
Phil Rowley 'A Rebooted Future re: Media, Tech & Culture'
March 06, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Phil Rowley, Head of Futures at Omnicom Media Group UK. In addition to this, he's also a Media Futurist, Tech Advisory Board Member, AdWeek Columnist, and Power MBA lecturer. Phil specialises in talking to brands about the future, turning thought-leadership and emerging tech trends into actual strategies. He has over 22 years’ experience working in London, Dublin & Auckland – and is a recipient of ‘The Internationalist’ Agency...
Stephanie Benedetto 'Queen of Raw - Turning Pollution into Profit'
March 05, 2024 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.2 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview the incredibly dynamic Stephanie Benedetto. A corporate attorney turned climate fintech entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, no-code enterprise software to intelligently resell and recycle unused inventory on Raw Chain, measure, report, and turn pollution into profit. Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie worked as a lawyer in the fashion, media/entertainment, start-up, and technology industries and c...
Tom Morton 'How to create value c/o new experiences and new technology'
March 04, 2024 07:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBSeries Four This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Tom Morton, Global Chief Strategy Officer at R/GA. He helps brands solve the biggest challenges of a changing world: launching and scaling innovation, turning revolutionary technologies into legitimate brands, identifying and winning a radically different next generation of users, defining a purpose to transform the organisation and unlock future growth, developing marketing for today's media and culture, redefining brands from wo...
Andy Crysell 'Creating culturally charged commercial advantage'
March 03, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Andy Crysell, Founder & CEO at Crowd DNA, the dynamic cultural insights and strategy consultancy who have offices in London, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore, Sydney, Stockholm and Los Angeles. Formed in 2008, and operating across 70+ markets, they bring together trends specialists, researchers, strategists, data analysts, designers, writers and film-makers for the world's most exciting brands. So, we talk about all of t...
Rachel Lawes 'Demystifying Semiotics - what it is and what it can do for you'
March 02, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBSeries One This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features the renowned semiotician Dr Rachel Lawes. One of the earliest providers of British commercial semiotics, her PhD was in social psychology, hence bringing a unique perspective to semiotics, placing her at the exact intersection of psychology, linguistics and cultural studies. Rachel has been using semiotics for nearly 20 years to rejuvenate brands, innovate products and services, and steer communication. As she points out in her e...
Rob Hopkins 'From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination'
March 01, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Rob Hopkins, cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and author of numerous books including 'The Transition Handbook, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'. He presents the podcast series 'From What If to What Next' which invites listeners to send in their “what if” questions and then explores how to mak...
Tom Lombardo ‘Review: The Most Inspiring/Informative Futures Books’
February 29, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBSeries Four This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the renowned futurist Tom Lombardo, Director at the Center for Future Consciousness, Exec Board Member of the World Futures Studies Federation, and Editor at the Journal of Futures Studies. He returns to the series to give an overview of his choices of the top futures books in science fiction (author/topic clustered) which are roughly chronologically sequenced as follows: Late Nineteenth Century Classics (Future of Human Socie...