The New Abnormal
274 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days 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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Chloe Markowicz 'Creativity is Contagious'
July 02, 2024 06:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Chloe Markowicz, Editor at Contagious, which helps agencies and brands supercharge their marketing by learning from the world's most creative and effective companies and campaigns. They do that via their IQ intelligence platform, consulting services, training and events. We discuss a range of issues including the latest 'Contagious Pioneers' report, which highlights agencies that set the standard for creative excellence in a...
Paolo Gallo 'The Seven Games of Leadership'
July 01, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBSeries Four This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Paolo Gallo, a renowned executive coach, bestselling author and keynote speaker. He's the author of two superb books: 'The Compass and the Radar - the art of building a rewarding career while remaining true to yourself' and the newly published 'The Seven Games of Leadership - navigating the inner journey of leaders'. In his dynamic career he's been chief human resources officer at World Economic Forum in Geneva, chief learning of...
Ari Wallach 'A Brief History of the Future'
June 30, 2024 06:00 - 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,...
Philippa Wagner 'PeoplePlacesSpaces'
June 29, 2024 06:00 - 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 ...
Jonas Gissel Mikkelsen 'Futures Capabilities, Progressive Endeavours and Strategic Transformation'
June 28, 2024 06:00 - 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 pers...
Colin Strong 'Behavioural Change and Behavioural Science'
June 27, 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 limin...
Hilary Sutcliffe 'The Seven Signals of Trustworthiness'
June 26, 2024 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Hilary Sutcliffe, Director of SocietyInside, who bring together people and ideas to help tech and its governance earn the trust of society. The name #SocietyInside is a riff off the famous brand ‘IntelInside’ and aims to encapsulate their aspiration that we reverse-engineer innovation from the needs of society rather than just create technologies which are in an eternal search for a home. Hilary explores the purpose, risks, ...
Diego Gilardoni 'Connecting the dots...helping leadership teams to navigate complexity'
June 25, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBSeries Four This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the Leadership Advisor & Speaker, Diego Gilardoni, who helps leaders navigate uncertainty by achieving clarity through a future-proofed vision. In the interview, we discuss issues such as cross-cultural management theory, strategic foresight, geopolitical depression (with a focus on the polycrisis), along with cognitive diversity, and the dynamic approach to strategic thinking for which he's renowned. With a background as a jo...
Tom Morton 'How to create value c/o new experiences and new technology'
June 24, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Tom Lombardo 'A Masterclass in Sci-Fi Movies'
June 23, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 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. Back by popular demand (and having previously covered 'Top Futurist Books') this time he returns to the series to give an overview of the top movies in science fiction. The biggest problem - of course - was deciding what to leave out (so as t...
Shermon Cruz 'From Future Shock to Gamification to Indigenous Futures'
June 22, 2024 06:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBSeries Four The 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 establ...
Cecile Cremer 'How to start a Ministry for the Future'
June 21, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Andrew McLuhan 'The Medium is the Message'
June 20, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Adam Chmielowski 'How brands can avoid being cultural parasites'
June 19, 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...
Erik Korsvik Ostergaard 'Reinventing Organisations c/o Anticipatory Leadership'
June 18, 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...
Louise Mowbray 'Future-focused Leadership'
June 14, 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 ...
Tom Lombardo ‘Review: The Most Inspiring/Informative Futures Books’
June 13, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Keely Adler 'Helping brands understand themselves in shifting contexts'
June 12, 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...
Suzette Brooks Masters 'Actioning futures-thinking for a better tomorrow'
June 11, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features NYC-based Suzette Brooks Masters, a serial social entrepreneur with a long track record of creating positive change in society on a range of issues. A thought leader and strategist in the fields of democracy, governance and futures. Suzette uses her extensive philanthropic, non-profit, research, advocacy, program development and legal experience to advise foundations, non-profit organizations, policy makers and corporations on how to usher ...
Maarten Leyts 'Generation ZAlpha - connecting with the next micro generation'
June 10, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Maarten Leyts, the Founder of Trendwolves and an expert on translating trends into products, strategies campaigns and future brand value. He’s also the author of ‘Generation ZAlpha – Connecting with the Next Micro-Generation’. Maarten believes that generational thinking, when used correctly, provides a solid framework for successful marketing and product innovation. We therefore discuss his research into issues such as the pand...
Victoria Robson 'Sirens Bay, and the Real Writers Circle'
June 09, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the novelist and journalist Victoria Robson, who has more than 20 years experience reporting on business and finance in the UK and Middle East. Her newly-published debut novel 'Sirens Bay' is an 'enemies to lovers' small-town romance set in Maine. She wrote it under the pen name Cassie Bruce, and is now working on the second book in the series. As co-founder of Brighton-based writers' group Real Writers Circle, she believes in the power of st...
Alexandra Whittington 'Navigating complexity and uncertainty'
June 08, 2024 06:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Houston-based Alexandra Whittington, a futurist writer and speaker who explores the future of humanity and society. A former Lecturer in Foresight at the University of Houston, she’s been highlighted as one of the world’s top futurists by Forbes. The co-author and co-editor of several books including 'A Very Human Future', 'Aftershocks and Opportunities' and 'The Future Reinvented', Alex also delivered the popular 'Museum of th...
Ben Holt 'Effective Strategic Foresight - Preparing for Possibilities'
June 07, 2024 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBSeries Four This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Ben Holt, Global Lead for Strategic Foresight at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) Solferino Academy, who helps the network explore possible futures and learn the skills needed to make them useful in the present. He's also a Visitor at the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and a committee member at the Humanitarian Innovation Fund. In this episode, Ben discu...
Andrew Koppelman 'Burning Down the House: how libertarian philosophy was corrupted by delusion and greed'
June 05, 2024 06:00 - 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 ...
Lauren Razavi 'The Future of Work and the Digital Nomad Community'
May 28, 2024 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview the award-winning multimedia journalist Lauren Razavi, who specialises in subjects including the Future of Work, Future Cities, Tech Policy and Ethics. She therefore reports on topics at the intersection of technology, business, policy and human behaviour - and has also spent years delivering talks and appearing on panels about big tech, surveillance, blockchain, internet culture etc, alongside her past work with those inc Googl...
Jacob Ellis 'Policy Development re: the needs of Future Generations'
May 27, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Jonathan Wise 'Adland confronts the myth of Infinite Growth'
May 26, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Jonathan Wise, co-founder of Purpose Disruptors, who believes that the advertising industry needs to step into the responsibility of helping to address our climate and ecological emergency. His background is as a strategic planner, with 15 years experience in major London advertising agencies and a Masters degree in Sustainability & Responsibility. Jonathan then co-founded the ‘Purpose Disruptors’ group, whose goal is to create...
Gary F. Bengier 'Unfettered Journey - the impact of tech changes, and finding purpose in the future'
May 25, 2024 06:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features the writer, philosopher and technologist Gary F Bengier - who is probably most known for being eBay’s first CFO and the person who was in charge of taking the company public. As a Silicon Valley executive, Gary also worked for several other tech companies and had a front-row seat in the development of technologies from streaming services to semi-conductor chip design. Meanwhile, his futuristic novel 'Unfettered Journey' has sold thous...
Nikolas Badminton 'Foresight: the missing link...'
May 24, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Nikolas Badminton, a world-renowned futurist who mentors leaders to create more connected, curious and creative teams that embrace futures design. He's spent 30+ years working with leaders at over 300 leading organisations at the frontline of foresight, strategy and disruption - including NASA, United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble, and many more. His new book ‘Facing Our Futures’ will be r...
Roger Spitz 'The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption'
May 23, 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...
Thomas D'hooge 'Pondering the future - looking at the unknowable'
May 22, 2024 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Thomas D'hooge, who watches trends, explores futures, develops concepts, builds communities and coaches game-changers. In this interview, we discuss his curation of the Futures Festival, his viewpoints around digital innovation and disruptive innovation, how he 'Teaches the Future' to students. He also highlights the Museum of Futures - an exhibition of 'futures thinking' which includes his viewpoints relating to this subject as...
Jan Oliver Schwarz 'Strategic Foresight - Winning the Uncertainty Game'
May 21, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Jan Oliver Schwarz, professor of Strategic Foresight & Trend Analysis, and head of the Bavarian Foresight Institute at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. He's also known for his work on business wargaming, a dynamic simulation that helps leaders and organisations anticipate the future competitive dynamics in their industry, as reflected in his dynamic book 'Winning the Uncertainty Game'. His most recent book, the newly pu...
Randell Beckford "How to build a brand that won't get cancelled"
May 20, 2024 06:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBSeries Two In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview Randell Beckford, Senior Strategist at the dynamic independent creative agency Atomic London. (She previously worked at Spark44, Redwood BBDO, TBWA Toronto and DDB Toronto.) We discuss her views on a range of topics, but in particular her perspectives on how to build a brand that won’t get cancelled, at a time when the culture wars show no signs of dissipating. This, of course, links directly to a business-context in which brand...
Thierry Malleret 'The Great Narrative - for a Better Future'
May 19, 2024 05:00 - 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...
Frank Spencer 'Implementing foresight - pulling the future towards us'
May 16, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Frank Spencer, Founder & Creative Director at TFSX (Foresight, Innovation, Strategic Design and Learning). TFSX, based in Florida, help their clients to thrive in a world of complex ideas and practices, uncover emerging trends on the horizon that will impact their business, and discover unseen opportunities for strategic advantage and development. Frank holds an MA in Strategic Foresight from Regent University, and has worked...
Tim Stock 'Understand subcultures to understand the future'
May 15, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Tim Stock, Global Cultural Foresight Leader at ScenarioDNA, who are experts at analysing trends and developing frameworks for understanding how & why culture is changing. He's also an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design - The New School, one of the world's leading art and design schools, committed to inspiring society through inquiry, radical ideas, iterative experimentation and creative collaboration. We...
Katharina Michalski 'Helping business navigate and capitalise on change'
May 14, 2024 05:00 - 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 clear...
Martin Lindstrom 'Predicting the future - before anyone else'
May 13, 2024 04:00 - 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...
Lasse Jonasson 'Anticipatory Leadership, Scenario Planning and being #FuturesReady'
May 12, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Alison Taylor 'How business can do the right thing in a turbulent world'
May 11, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Jon Alexander 'Citizens - Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us'
May 10, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBSeries Three This episode of The New Abnormal features the dynamic Jon Alexander, author of "CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us". It's a book that seeks to reframe the moment in time we're living in as one of huge civic opportunity, not just crisis and collapse, and in doing so opens up a world of possibility for organisations and leaders across sectors and across the world. Jon is co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, a strategy and innovation consultancy that ...
Phil Rowley 'A Rebooted Future re: Media, Tech & Culture'
May 09, 2024 06:00 - 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...
Tom Lombardo 'The History of Futurism & Futures Studies'
May 08, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features a fascinating interview with a renowned futurist, Tom Lombardo. He's a Director at the Center for Future Consciousness, which offers educational experiences that challenge and stimulate the mind, expand conscious awareness, empower creativity, deepen understanding, enhance ethics and promote social growth. Tom is also an Exec Board Member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, and Editor at the Journal of Future...
Sylvia Gallusser 'Go-to-Metaverse Strategies & Metaverse Brand Activation'
May 07, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBSeries Three This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Sylvia Gallusser, who is a renowned Global Futurist and the CEO of Silicon Humanism. Based in San Fransisco, she's an inquirer of our future, conducting foresight projects on the future of health, well-aging, and social interaction, the future of work and life-long learning, as well as transformations in mobility and retail. Sylvia closely monitors the future of the mind and transhumanism, investigates Artificial General Inte...
Alice Charles 'Emerging Challenges re: the Cities of Tomorrow'
May 06, 2024 06:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBSeries Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast I interview the incredibly dynamic Alice Charles, who leads the World Economic Forum's cities work streams, inc the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization and its workstreams on City Climate & Resilience, Urban Inclusion, City Digital Transformation and City Financing. She's also created the City Dialogues series, which enables curated discussions between city leaders and leaders of business, civil society and academia on th...
Henry Coutinho-Mason 'The Future Normal - how we will live, work and thrive in the next decade'
May 05, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Henry Coutinho-Mason, who is obsessed with new perspectives on the biggest question in business: "what will people want next?" I've been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of his new book “The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work & Thrive In The Coming Decade” which was written in conjunction with Wall St Journal bestselling author Rohit Bhargava and is out soon. The book is the focus of our conversation, hence discussing...
Johanna Hoffman 'Speculative Futures: illuminating the way ahead'
May 04, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the designer, urbanist and strategist Johanna Hoffman, who explores the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She's the founder of California-based Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. Johanna also works with other firms, implementing foresight assessment, futures researc...
Ian Peters 'Having an ethical compass, and applying business ethics'
May 02, 2024 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast (available on all the usual platforms) features Ian Peters MBE, Director at Institute of Business Ethics; which has a guiding purpose of championing the highest standards of ethical behaviour in business. Ian is a specialist in business policy and strategic communications, and is highly experienced in media & government relations, and business policy. All organisations need to demonstrate they are trustworthy, and the IBE is an important ...
Laura de Moliere 'ChatGPT and Behavioural Science'
May 01, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBSeries Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Laura de Moliere, Partner and Co-founder at the Germany-based consultancy, Decision-Context. She's also the ex-Head of Behavioural Science at the UK Govt's Cabinet Office, before which she's was in senior roles at other Government Departments. In this podcast, she gives a fascinating overview of decision sciences, social psychology and behavioural economics. Therefore, we discuss everything from Nudge Theory to being 'Pred...
Florencia Lujani "The Four D's and Regenerative Capitalism"
April 30, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBSeries Three This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Florencia Lujani, a Strategy Director based in London who specialises in brand & creative strategy. She started her career a decade ago at TBWA Buenos Aires, where she learnt about 'Disruption Planning' before moving to the UK. She's since worked at JWT London, We Are Social, and Ketchum PR, before joining Media Bounty, one of the leading ethical creative agencies in the country. Florencia works with brands and the climate sect...