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| SUMMER SHORTS: Richard Firth-Godbehere (BONUS) | 29 Aug 2024 | 00:02:24 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Richard Fith-Godbehere back in March 2023 (S5 Ep15). | |||
| SUMMER SHORTS: Anil Seth (BONUS) | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:04:13 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Anil Seth back in November 2021 (S3 Ep11). | |||
| SUMMER SHORTS: Steve Ingham (BONUS) | 08 Aug 2024 | 00:05:51 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Steve Ingham back in October 2021 (S3 Ep7).
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Thinking Outside the Brain with Annie Murphy Paul | 26 Jan 2022 | 00:39:37 | |
When you face a difficult situation, how often have you heard someone say, ‘just use your head’? This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul who turns that around and says that in fact we ‘think outside the brain’, suggesting that the people, things and space around us have a profound effect on how we think, feel and develop. Published in 2021, her book ‘The Extended Mind, The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain’ has been awarded the New York Times Editors Choice and Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021.
0.00 Introduction 2.26 Can we start with your background, and how you became interested in the biological and social sciences. 4.46 Can we look at what the components are of the extended mind and could you give us some examples of the research that you have uncovered when talking to neuroscientists and psychologists that bring this to life. 10.17 Can you tell us a little about how ‘the body knows before the mind’. 13.35 What other thoughts and ideas could you share about how we could build greater awareness of our interoceptive processes? 15.49 Could you talk to us about emotional reappraisal? 19.30 What happens to our thinking when we are moving and what is the ideal amount of movement? 24.02 How do gestures impact our thinking? 27.14 Can we move to thinking about how extending the intelligence out of the mind to our surroundings 29.47 What has been most surprising in all of this for you? 31.47 How has it changed you? 33.36 Thinking about the challenges that are facing leaders, particularly around Covid and the decision to bring people back, when to work at home and when to work in a collaborative physical space. What are your insights there? 35.50 What’s next for you? 37.34 Is there anything else that you would leave us with today?
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Solving the Imagination Crisis with Gerard Puccio | 19 Jan 2022 | 00:49:32 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to Gerard Puccio, author, creativity researcher, TEDx presenter and Chair and Professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State. Gerard helps individuals, teams, and organizations reach their greatest potential by tapping into and expanding their capacity to imagine new possibilities and to creatively address complex problems. He states that in a world defined by complexity and change, creative thinking has become the number one survival skill and on the back of that his mission is to help individuals, teams and organizations ignite and fully maximize their creative potential – not just to survive, but to thrive.
0.00 Introduction 2.33 Please start by giving us a sense of your research into creativity and areas that currently most excite you 5.18 In a much cited piece of research published by IBM as far back as 2010, creativity was selected as the most crucial factor for future success. In 2022, why are so many businesses still prioritising what they have now with a focus on ways to prevent risk and deviation? 14.48 In an organisation where there are a lot of good ideas at the top, but they repeatedly fail to become commercial realities (in other words creativity breaks down), what needs be developed in the team so they are able to take the ideas through to becoming a reality. 18.45 Tell us a little about the FourSight tool 26.29 Do you have a view on the best ideation techniques 29.15 What have you learnt about yourself in terms of being in a social environment and generating ideas? 34.38 How do you prevent yourself from falling in love with an idea and potentially stalling when in fact you should be detaching yourself from that originally idea allowing yourself to create more and more alternatives? 38.49 Who is doing well in the creativity space? 42.01 Do you share the view that there is a problem nurturing creativity in education?
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Learning to Flex with Jeffrey Hull | 12 Jan 2022 | 00:36:56 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to author, educator, and consultant Jeffrey Hull PhD. In addition to his writing and consultancy, Jeffrey is a clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School and an adjunct professor of leadership at New York University. Flex, The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World
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| New Realities of an Exponential World with Azeem Azhar | 05 Jan 2022 | 00:56:54 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to entrepreneur, investor, and the creator of highly-regarded newsletter ‘Exponential View’ Azeem Azhar. Much of the world is witnessing radical societal change driven by exponential technologies that are transforming how we live and interact with one another and disrupting our economic and social norms in highly unpredictable ways. In his recent book ‘Exponential: How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society’, Azeem Azhar describes the widening gap between technology and society and its ramifications.
0.00 Introduction 2.30 Tell us about your journey and how that influenced your views regarding how new technologies are accelerating change and as a result creating an exponential gap between the impact they have on the world and the scope of our institutions and policies. 11.33 What is the central message in your book from a leadership perspective? What could business leaders learn from the book? 17.06 How do you start the conversation with a CEO who hasn’t started to consider the use of exponential technologies within their organisation? 20.17 At a time when mankind’s biggest challenge is tackling climate change, can you share what you’re seeing in terms of the conflict of technology, political will and capability. 24,45 Another huge risk to our future is AI enhanced warfare where (for example) humans could be excluded from making decisions which could lead to catastrophic escalations. Could you give us your view on how this is developing? 30.47 In your view, how is remote working transforming the world? 37.57 If we pause to think about the future Metaverse (with Facebook having recently rebranded to Meta), how do we prevent it from deepening the problems with mental health and wellbeing that are dogging social media at the moment? 43.39 Thinking about some of the other major players in the techspace (including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft), what do you think their evolution is going to look like in the next ten years? 46.57 As leaders, how are we going to manage the exponential gap? 53.52 What has excited you during the last 6-12 months?
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Creating a Land of Hope with Anja Lovén | 15 Dec 2021 | 00:58:18 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to Anja Lovén. Anja founded the Danish ngo Land of Hope in 2012, and is a human rights activist dedicated to protecting and rescuing children in Nigeria accused of being witches. She gained media attention when in 2016 a photo from one of her rescue actions went viral and later that year was named as the world’s most inspiring person (ahead of out-going US president Barack Obama and the pope).
0.00 Introduction 3.04 Tell us about your background prior to starting Land of Hope 10.35 What did you experience when you went to Africa? 22.03 You became widely known when in 2016 you were photographed rescuing a small boy who you subsequently named Hope. How is Hope doing today? 27.44 Tell us a little about ‘witch children’ 34.20 What personal risks do you encounter in communities where you might find yourself confronting fear and sometimes corruption? 37.36 Is the ultimate goal with the education reunification? 43.44 What’s next for you? 50.06 How do you deal with the trauma associated with some of the situations you find yourself confronted by? 55.29 How can our listeners get involved with your organisation?
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| The Future of World Peace with Steve Killelea | 08 Dec 2021 | 00:53:04 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Steve Killelea. Steve is the founder and executive chairman of the global think tank the Institute for Economics and Peace and Steve’s funding and thought leadership behind the Institute have seen him recognised as one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People on reducing the onset of armed violence. 2.57 Tell us your story. How did an IT entrepreneur find himself championing peace? 4.57 Can you tell us about the paradigm shift that you are working to create. 7.45 What are people’s biggest misconceptions about peace 9.42 In your book you say that in the past peace may have been the domain of the altruistic, whereas now it’s everyone’s self-interest because peace is central to a safe and productive society. Can you tell us more about that? 10.47 In the book, you also say that most of our leaders are trapped in an early age, a kind of Darwinian race to complete, and that dominates how they think about international relationships. In our increasingly interconnected world, how should leaders be evolving? 14.32 Tell us what your thinking is around the need for leaders to think at a systems level. 20.26 What would have to happen to for different organisations to integrate/un-silo? 22.26 From a systems perspective, what was your analysis of the last five years, the increase in popularism, what happened at Capitol Hill etc? 27.23 When you look at the world through the index of the eight pillars of positive peace, which countries are most vulnerable to being destabilised at the moment? 29.43 What are your thoughts or reactions to the formation of a world government? 32.04 How has the US faired on the index over the last five years culminating in the attack on Capitol Hill? 35.22 How did your entrepreneurial background influence the way you conceptualised and manage the IEP and actually created the international peace index? 39.11 Tell us a little bit about how you have developed yourself in relation to your own world view and the things that you do to sustain the level of energy that you must have to be driving all of this. 49.09 How can our listeners get involved with the work that you’re doing?
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| The Heart of Leadership with Rob Murray | 01 Dec 2021 | 01:03:40 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Rob Murray. Rob is a co-founder and CEO of Transformed Leader and a leadership thinker who strives for a deep level of authenticity whilst at the same time being supremely pragmatic in the realities of organisational life.
0.00 Introduction 2.34 Let’s start with your story. Tell us about the work that your organisation does, and what motivated you to start the business in the first place? 6.16 What do you mean when you say that you were lonely with yourself? 7.39 What can this loss of identity be attributed to? 11.09 So having had time to reflect on this, what was your first move? 16.34 Exploring the relationship that we have with our partners, and the effect that this has on our leadership. 29.16 How have these scenarios influenced the work that you’re doing today, your writing and your research? 33.59 So if ‘how are you feeling?’ is a heart question, what is a soul question? What’s the difference? 40.45 On this show we’re fascinated with emotions, not as this hard-wired thing but as a sense making mechanism. You’re currently doing some research in this area for your PhD, can you tell us a little about that? 44.25 What are the most prevalent emotions that people are running away from, avoiding or suppressing that are governing their behaviours? 49.40 You mention that showing weakness is counter cultural in many business settings, so many people feeling this way supress it resulting in resentment. 53.09 Can we talk about anger, the emotion that is repressed in a lot of organisations, sometimes resulting in a feeling of false positivity. 57.22 Thinking through the lens of intentionality, of recovering the heart and soul of leadership, what is something specific that you could encourage our listeners with right now?
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| Dissolving the Central Mystery of Life with Anil Seth | 24 Nov 2021 | 01:03:29 | |
For years explaining exactly how our brains conjure subjective conscious experience has been described by cognitive scientists as ‘the hard problem’. In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Professor Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex whose book (Being You, Faber 2021) continues this exploration, proposing an idea of the human mind as a “highly evolved prediction machine”, rooted in the functions of the body and “constantly hallucinating the world and the self” to create reality. 2.11 Let’s start with what consciousness is, and how your approach is about getting to the subjective experience 3.49 Until recently consciousness studies were held outside of science and more in the realms of philosophy. What’s changed to allow you to break down the unfathomable nature of the topic. 7.00 What drew you into this as a field of study? 8.30 Having read ‘Being You’, it’s clear that you take a multi-disciplinary approach to your studies. As a team, how are you successfully approaching this in terms of moving outside of the individual silos of thought. 10.15 You provide a really helpful picture of neuroscience and how it’s shifted as the metaphor of the brain as a computer to a prediction machine. Can you give our listeners a sense of how this helps to construct our sense of reality. 13.57 In ‘Being You’, you also provide an introduction to Bayesian inference and how our brain is performing this form of abductive reasoning unconsciously. Can we start with some basic definitions of the different types of reasoning and why Bayes has been such an influence in your work. 22.33 Can you tell us about your experience of LSD micro dosing, what was it like and why were you doing it? 25.36 What were you trying to discover with your hallucination machine? 28.26 You talk about consciousness as a construct, and that psychedelic experience gives evidence to that. Could it be argued that the psychedelic experience is actually a disruption to what’s going on? 30.58 Could you help me understand the free energy principle. 36.26 How are you seeing your work influencing our thinking on the development of AI? 45.04 Given everything that you have discovered and that you are continuing to work on, what does all of this tell us about being human that the people taking leadership roles in the world need to know about themselves? 48.51 What are the next frontiers for your research? 53.22 As exponential computing power and imaging continues to evolve over the next decade, what do you think you might be able to do then that you can’t now? 57.55 Do you think we need more multi-disciplinary approaches to exploring consciousness, or is that happening? 60.25 Who is most inspiring you as a thinker?
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| The New Wave of Futurists with Monika Bielskyte | 17 Nov 2021 | 00:56:01 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Monika Bielskyte. Monika is a futurist, VR and AR expert, internationally renowned public speaker and founder of the bleeding edge edutainment platform Protopia Futures, designed to explore visions of radically hopeful & inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability & previously marginalized cultural perspectives.
2.14 Tell us about your life 11.11 In one of your works you say that mainstream futurist thinking tends to extrapolate from the status quo. Can you lead us through this problem and into a better understanding of futurist thinking. 19.55 You’ve been speaking about how some people can be dismissive or even work to destroy the thing that runs contrary to the view that they hold and the ideal that they want. Do you see that at all, has it been a response that you’ve seen from some people during the pandemic? 31.01 What is Protopia and how does it help us think about the future differently? 42.56 Referring back to the Protopia Futures framework, as you say that was a collaborative effort and collaborations between a large group of clever people with strong opinions can be difficult. So how does that work in your world and how do you get this group of people to arrive at a form of words that they can back?
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| Philip Clarke – What Makes a Pioneer? | 10 Nov 2021 | 00:54:48 | |
“It’s clear that we have a massive problem in the way that we run our biggest and most powerful organisations.” Listen as co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Philip Clarke, founder and CEO of strategic innovation consultancy Hunch, podcast host and author, about the eight pioneer principles needed to change the world.
1.56 How do you help leaders move away from incremental thinking? 7.28 What are the costs and implications from maintaining the status quo? 14.26 How do people make the leap from incremental thinking to being a pioneer who drives real growth? 22.07 Can you give us a summary of the eight pioneer principles that you describe in your book? 32.15 Two of the pioneering principles seem connected more to one’s mindset. Can you tell us a little more about resilience and what an appropriate level of expectation might be as a leader? 41.09 Do you think the next generations are inherently more pioneering? 49.26 What has been the most impressive or unexpected shift from pioneers during the Covid pandemic? 52.39 Which of your podcast episodes would you recommend to a new listener?
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| SUMMER SHORTS: Sally Bolton (BONUS) | 06 Aug 2024 | 00:03:36 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Sally Bolton back in March 2021 (S2 Ep6).
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Under the Hood Ep.1 - Rethinking Emotion | 07 Nov 2021 | 00:32:32 | |
New for season 3, we’re excited to release this first Under the Hood episode. Our intention is that these monthly discussions (which we’ll release alongside our regular weekly Evolving Leader episodes) will allow co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender additional airtime to dive a little deeper into many of the fascinating topics that they have explored with our guests since launching the podcast way back in September 2020. During this episode, Jean and Scott focus on discussions that they enjoyed with guests from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and explore the emerging understanding of emotion and how that understanding can help leaders evolve.
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| Leanne Infante – Leading On and Off the Pitch | 03 Nov 2021 | 00:41:43 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader, Jean talks to English rugby international Leanne Infante (née Riley) about what she’s learnt as a leader during her career both on and off the pitch. Leanne’s debut in the England squad was against South Africa in 2013 and she has since been central to England’s success including winning the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2019. 0.41 How has the profile of women’s rugby developed during your career to date? 3.47 Give us some background to your career and career highlights 5.36 How has the game changed? 9.08 Tell us a little bit about the mindset of dealing with the setbacks, refusals, and uncertainty that you have faced. 12.33 How do you deal with the emotion (in the moment) that could be triggered when facing a setback? What’s your process for reframing those events? 14.58 What’s the mental process that allows you to view an individual as an opponent on the club rugby pitch and then switch to that same person being an ally in the international squad? 17.41 As scrum half, part of your role on the pitch is to co-ordinate the backs and the forwards. Talk a little bit about your role as a leader when co-ordinating those two elements within the team. 20.40 In addition to your technical excellence on the pitch and your obvious high levels of fitness and resilience, you also display a real ability to sense what’s happening in the game and as a result you often adapt your role taking it beyond what could be described as the text book scrum half. Is this ability to lean into the detail one minute and then pull back and make sense of what’s going on a natural thing or have you developed that? 24.32 Who has inspired you from a leadership perspective? 27.07 Both your profile and the profile of women’s rugby are growing and alongside that you have to deal with the ever-present social media that comments when things go well and also not so well. How does that play out in your life? 30.37 What does the future hold for the sport of woman’s rugby and also what part would you like to play in that? 34.15 Tell us about the challenges that you’re facing having recently moved from Saracens to the ambitious but potentially less high profile Bristol Bears. 38.04 Let’s talk about 2022 and the world cup. What are you most looking forward to and what are going to be the biggest challenges? | |||
| Steve Ingham - Pioneering Performance Scientist | 27 Oct 2021 | 00:51:36 | |
Talking to Jean and Scott this week is Steve Ingham, one of the world’s most successful performance scientists. Steve has worked with over one thousand elite athletes, and over 200 of those (including Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent) have gone on to achieve World or Olympic medal success. Steve is author of the bestselling book ‘How to Support a Champion: The art of applying science to the elite athlete’.
0’00 Introduction 3.06 Background, career to date. 7.27 Can you tell us how you turned around the fortune of the British Olympic rowing team in a period of just 18 months. 14.08 What led you to focus on rest and renewal when working with those athletes? 18.49 Talk a little about what you’ve had to do in the past when faced with a coach who might not appreciate the value that your renewal approach brings. 22.37 Can you give us your thoughts around how the cumulative effect of making marginal gains over time can result in very significant advantages. 29.29 Often your work involves a deep dive in to the human needs and motivations of people in an organisation, and this in turn challenges businesses to think differently about how they deliver personal and organisational performance. What does this look like in an organisational setting? 34.07 When working with teams, your work will often include a focus on how members of the team engage with each other, as well as the importance of how you turn up, the trust, empathy and collective accountability. What impact has that had on you personally in terms of self-awareness and the way in which you have to think about setting your intent when working with others? 40.51 What practical advice would you give to a leader around prioritising their own recovery? 47.11 What are your thoughts about the future? What are we going to be hearing about in the area of performance development in the coming years? | |||
| Thinking differently with RJ Cordes | 20 Oct 2021 | 00:51:08 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to RJ Cordes. RJ is a research fellow at (American think tank) the Atlantic Council, and his research includes work around the fields of sensemaking and knowledge management. However, it feels like we may have just scratched the surface during our hour with polymath RJ Cordes - if you’d like a broader picture of RJ’s extensive research interests, you’ll find that on his personal website. 'Making sense of sensemaking' (Atlantic Council, 2020) 0’00 Introduction 2.36 Could you start by giving us some insight into your background, and also how you define sense making. 10.15 Your recently published paper ‘Making sense of sense making’ is full of useful insights that extend beyond Covid. What compelled you to write that paper, and could you talk us through some of the central take-aways. 20’04 Could you expand on what happens cognitively in your observation when people are no longer able to make sense of something. 28’03 What advice would you give someone trying to navigate division and uncertainty? 34’31 In a world where so many of us get information from highly curated feeds, what are the implications for leaders (thinking specifically about the future of work and knowledge transfer between teams)? 40’50 Could you share some of your findings from your research into the relationship between government funding and innovation. 42’42 In your opinion, what does the next decade hold in terms of the socio economic outlook?
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| The Art of Insubordination with Todd Kashdan | 13 Oct 2021 | 00:53:17 | |
This week, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Dr Todd Kashdan, one of the world’s leading experts in the psychology of well-being, curiosity, mental flexibility and social relationships. In addition to having written more than 200 published scientific articles, Todd has also written three books, the most recent being ‘The Art Of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively’ (Bantam), a book described as being ‘a research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and courage.’
0’00 Introduction 3.41 You describe your personal mantra as being a life devoted to the scientific exploration of unchartered human behaviour and its practical application to improve lives. What was it that set you on that course? 5.25 What are you trying to discover through your well-being lab? 8.50 How can we take care of our own sense of psychological well-being when in a situation surrounded by social divisiveness? 12.33 When you go into a situation where you have a strong belief that someone is wrong, how do you avoid going into that situation emotionally as non-curious? 16.40 Tell us the story of your children, the knife and the watermelon. 20.43 Is there any advice that you can give in a practical way of adopting the mindset of curiosity? 25.26 Tell us about your new book ‘The Art Of Insubordination’ 29.25 From your perspective, what role do emotions play in the certainty that people have around their beliefs? 33.24 While you are at the top of the intellectual ladder in terms of development, do you still find that there are areas where you are not allowed to talk, is political correctness dominating your environment? 39.29 If we focus on identity’s role in certainty and the threat that people experience, from a psychological perspective is it people with a really strong identity that feel most threatened? 43.25 What would you say are the top three things that leaders need to think about in terms of evolving their mindset, that you think would help them most? | |||
| Bonus Episode: Why being knowable matters | 10 Oct 2021 | 00:08:14 | |
In this bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, host Scott Allender addresses the idea of knowability, or to put it another way being known. What does it mean as a leader to be knowable? Does it matter, and if so why? Social: | |||
| How to Pivot Through Disruption with Will Page | 06 Oct 2021 | 01:08:02 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-host Jean Gomes talks to Will Page, former chief economist at both Spotify and PRS for Music, visiting fellow at London School of Economics and author of the recently published ‘Tarzan Economics: Eight principles for pivoting through disruption’.
0’00 Introduction 0.43 Background to your career and what you are working on at the moment. 6.32 Tell us the story of how your father introduced you to the core principles of economics. 11.45 How many large organisations have a chief economist? 13.59 What is your book Tarzan Economics all about? Give us the pitch. 16.22 What advice are your giving to leaders in terms of shifting their mindset to work with disruption rather than to fight it? 19.24 When we think about how consumer’s consumption of music has shifted to a non linear model, how applicable is that shift to other markets, and how do you think like that when you are used to thinking in a linear abstraction from the past? 22.18 Talk to us a little bit about how you spot when to pivot (which is a key part of knowing when to jump from vine to vine). 29.24 How do economists within an organisation need to shift, what’s the agenda that they need to set for the next decade? 34.30 How do you hold the tension between preserving the value of the business and its growth and innovation for the future? 42.09 Can you talk to us about the OfCom framework and how that influenced some of your thinking? 48.45 Let’s talk about Tower Records and the notion of the long tail. 53.23 What’s your take on the short/medium/long-term outlook for the global economy? 61.15 So what’s your focus now? | |||
| The Hidden Joy of Untranslatable Words with Tim Lomas | 29 Sep 2021 | 00:53:13 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Dr Tim Lomas. Tim is one of the world’s leading researchers in positive psychology. He has published numerous papers on meditation, Buddhism and masculinity and has written several books including his most recent publication ‘Happiness - Found in Translation. A Glossary of Joy from Around the World’. In 2018 he delivered a TEDx talk where he introduced his current project, creating a crowd sourced lexicography of untranslatable words relating to wellbeing. 2.12 How did you become interested in cross cultural perspectives on wellbeing. 6.43 Defining positive psychology. 13.04 What inspired you to start creating the positive lexicography of untranslatable words, and what is this work revealing? 19.40 Exploring how so many of the words within the lexicography are not one emotion, but are more often a mixture of competing emotions. 26.45 Some of Tim’s favourite words that have helped him become more connected and aware of his emotional experience. 31.31 Exploring the lexicography, old friends or mysterious strangers. 34.26 How much do you think we encourage people to ask themselves how they are actually feeling? 39.24 In your research, have you noticed how some cultures have greater granularity in their language around emotions than others? 44.45 Thinking about our discussion today, what is the call to action for a leader? 46.24 What’s next for you? The Global Wellbeing Initiative. Getting back in front of the mic.
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| The Next 15 Years with Kevin Kelly | 22 Sep 2021 | 00:59:01 | |
In this episode our guest is Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine, Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its executive editor until 1999. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website and is the former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review. Kevin Kelly has written several bestselling books including ‘New Rules for the New Economy’, ‘What Technology Wants’ and his most recent book ‘The Inevitable’. 4’24 – 24 years ago when you wrote ‘New Rules for the New Economy’, you had a very clear idea as to how the digital revolution would unfold. How do you think the development of technology has played out since then? 8’53 – You have an incredible track record when it comes to predicting how technology is going to play out. What’s your process? 13’56 – What does social media want, and how is it evolving? 19’37 – Since writing ‘The 12 technological forces shaping our future’ a decade ago, how have those 12 forces evolved? 22’53 – What do you think the biggest challenges are for the leaders who are driving the world’s largest companies (such as Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Tencent, Alibaba etc), and if you could be a mentor to those individuals, what would you say to them? 28’51 – Can you tell us why you set up the ‘Long Now Foundation’ which promotes slower, better thinking and what impact do you think it’s had in the last 25 years? 34’06 – Which things are you most excited about when it comes to solving the biggest problems such as climate, education, health etc. 40’28 – How has Covid impacted your work? Did the pandemic spark something new in you? 43’24 – What advice would you give to young people today? 46’20 – If you were going to take a single central idea that you would be proud for future generations to take from your thinking, what would it be? 49.57 – What’s next on your horizon? 56’43 – You advised Steven Spielberg on Minority Report. What do you think 2050 is going to look like?
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| Breakthrough Thinking from Rita McGrath | 15 Sep 2021 | 00:51:30 | |
Welcome to Season 3 of the Evolving Leader podcast. In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by innovation expert Rita McGrath. Rita is an author, professor of management at the Columbia Business School, keynote speaker, founder of the innovation platform ‘Valize’ and in September 2021 was shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award.
4.36 Eliminating ‘innovation theatre’. 7.54 Discovery driven growth, and Rita’s ‘flops file’. 11.53 How Rita’s ‘Discovery Driven Planning’ HBR article influenced Eric Ries and the Lean Start-up. 14.27 The ‘Barebones Net Present Value’ tool can help to project the entire lifecycle value of a potential project. 15.57 Insights regarding how we need to think differently about competitive advantage and where that approach has been adopted successfully. 25.01 One of the most important superpowers for leaders. ‘Seeing around corners – how to spot inflection points in business before they happen’ (Rita McGrath, 2021). Rita elaborates. 29.25 The process of assumption busting. 31.52 People are one of the only remaining sources of long term competitive advantage. 34.53 The pitfalls that Rita sees when working as an advisor in businesses around the world 37.56 Rita’s next area of research. 39.38 Experiences from living and working through Covid.
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| SUMMER SHORTS: Cath Bishop (BONUS) | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:04:21 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Cath Bishop back in March 2021 (S2 Ep9).
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| What’s the last question that stopped you in your tracks? - THE EVOLVING LEADER VULNERABILITY SESSIONS | 08 Sep 2021 | 00:08:13 | |
Welcome back to part two of our exploration into the Evolving Leader vulnerability interview archive. If you’ve not listened to part one, then you could well be wondering what these two vulnerability episodes are all about. Where time permits, after we’ve finished recording an episode with our fabulous guests we also record them answering a series of rapid fire questions. We refer to this as the Evolving Leader Vulnerability Interview. You’ll hear that it’s pretty light hearted, but beyond that we also recognise the importance of normalising vulnerability in the leadership space because it contributes to environments of trust and psychological safety. We’re so grateful that so many of our esteemed guests are willing to answer these questions. Thank you (again) to each and every one of you. In this second part, you’ll hear personal insights from neurologist Robert A Burton, futurist Scott Smith, innovation expert and author Elvin Turner, Global head of DEI and computer scientist Sheree Atcheson, Enneagram champion Ian Morgan Cron, Wimbledon CEO Sally Bolton, Vollebak CEO and Co-founder Steve Tidball, entrepreneur Ilham Said, occupational and forensic psychiatrist Neil Greenberg, Olympian Cath Bishop, Pfizer UK MD Ben Osborn, strategic growth advisor Don Schmincke, artist and cultural geographer Holly Murchison, photographer, entrepreneur and one time most influential person on the internet Jeremy Cowart and business speaker, thinker and author of Funky Business Jonas Ridderstråle. Next week sees a return for co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender as they open Season 3 in conversation with strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship titan Rita McGrath.
What would you partner say is your least appealing feature? 02:41 Scott Smith 02:58 Elvin Turner Where are you most lazy in your life? 03:40 Sheree Atcheson 04:09 Ian Morgan Cron What was the last question that stopped you in your tracks? 04:33 Sally Bolton 05:35 Steve Tidball 06:09 Ilham Said 06:30 Neil Greenberg Are you paid too much? 07:07 Cath Bishop, Ben Osborn, Don Schmincke, Elvin Turner, Holly Murchison, Ian Morgan Cron, Jeremy Cowart, Jonas Ridderstråle, Neil Greenberg, Sally Bolton, Sheree Atcheson | |||
| What’s the biggest Lie You’ve Told at Work? - THE EVOLVING LEADER VULNERABILITY SESSIONS | 01 Sep 2021 | 00:12:42 | |
Both this and the next episode of the Evolving Leader podcast are going to be a little different to our usual format. Where time permits, after we’ve finished recording an episode with our fabulous guests we also record them answering a series of rapid fire questions. We refer to this as the Evolving Leader Vulnerability Interview. You’ll hear that it’s pretty lighthearted, but beyond that we also recognise the importance of normalising vulnerability in the leadership space because it contributes to environments of trust and psychological safety. We’re so grateful that so many of our esteemed guests are willing to answer these questions. Thank you (again) to each and every one of you. In this first part, you’ll hear insights from neuroscientist Stuart Firestein, Vollebak CEO and Co-founder Steve Tidball, author, artist and cultural geographer Holly Murchison, Pfizer UK MD Ben Osborn, photographer, entrepreneur and one time most influential person on the internet Jeremy Cowart, Olympian, author and consultant Cath Bishop, economist, author and former head of Said Business School (and so much more) John Kay, entrepreneur Ilham Said, Wimbledon CEO Sally Bolton, occupational and forensic psychiatrist Neil Greenberg and former NASA astronaut and co-founder of B612 (saving planet Earth from asteroid impacts) Ed Lu. What was the biggest lie you’ve ever told at work? 05'24 Steve Tidball Where do you feel most vulnerable at work? 08'05 Cath Bishop What’s the personal development topic you most avoid confronting? 09'40 Ilham Said Who would play you in the movie of your life? 10'50 Sally Bolton | |||
| Highlights from season 2 with Jean Gomes and Scott Allender | 25 Aug 2021 | 00:37:36 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes share some of their highlights from season 2. It’s been an incredible season comprising 26 episodes where Jean and Scott have spoken to a fascinating array of guests. If you’ve been an Evolving Leader subscriber since the start of season 2, then we hope you enjoy revisiting some of our favourite moments. If you’ve discovered us more recently then hopefully these highlights will prompt you go back and listen to our earlier episodes too. | |||
| 'What’s the Future of Our Data?' with Sam Gilbert | 28 Jul 2021 | 00:52:27 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Sam Gilbert, expert in data-driven marketing, entrepreneur and researcher. Sam was employee number one and Chief Marketing Officer at Bought By Many, the multi-award winning fintech ranked No. 13 in The Sunday Times TechTrack100 and prior to that held the position of Head of Strategy and Development at Experian. Aged 39, Sam changed course and returned to university to rethink the role of data in our future. Sam is author of ‘Good Data: An Optimist’s Guide to Our Digital Future’ (Welbeck, 2021).
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| The Undisruptable Mindset with Aidan McCullen | 21 Jul 2021 | 00:45:02 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to transformation consultant, keynote speaker, author, host of the Innovation Show and retired internal rugby player Aidan McCullen about how he transformed himself from unpromising athlete into successful international rugby player, and then into a digital business leader and thought leader. Instagram @evolvingleader | |||
| Longevity, mankind’s next frontier with Sergey Young | 14 Jul 2021 | 00:56:41 | |
If you could, would you want to live to 200? Instagram @evolvingleader | |||
| What Leaders Must Know About Emotional Conviction with Jonas Ridderstråle | 30 Jun 2021 | 00:52:58 | |
Sit back and listen as hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to Jonas Ridderstråle, one of the world’s most exciting business thinkers, speaker and author. Hear his reflections on Covid and how leaders can avoid being paralyzed by data as things change – how to combine decisive action with emotional conviction. Social: | |||
| Privilege: Why Leaders Have to Have a Hard Look at Themselves with Sheree Atcheson | 23 Jun 2021 | 00:53:07 | |
This week our guest on the Evolving Leader is multi-award winning global diversity, equity and inclusion leader, keynote speaker and author Sheree Atcheson. Working in organisations across the globe, Sheree Atcheson helps leaders create accountability driven inclusive cultures and is also the author of the best seller Demanding More (Kogan Page). Social: Instagram @evolvingleader | |||
| 2041: The Mission to Save Antarctica with Robert Swan | 16 Jun 2021 | 00:40:12 | |
Robert Swan is a polar environmentalist, author and founder of 2041, a company that is dedicated to the preservation of Antarctica. The year 2041 is hugely important as it marks the end of a 50 year treaty that was signed by almost every nation designating Antarctica as ‘a natural reserve land for science and peace’ as well as placing a ban on mining and mineral exploration for that period. Each year, Robert takes groups of climate scientists, business leaders and students to see first hand the effects of climate change on the region. Sit back and listen as Robert shares what he has learnt about leadership, and his mission to increase awareness and create a community of leaders willing to take action. Social: | |||
| Leading Us To Mars: The SpaceX Story with Eric Berger | 09 Jun 2021 | 00:47:34 | |
This week, Evolving Leader hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes speak to Eric Berger, space journalist and author of Lift Off (HarperCollins, 2021). Eric Berger has had exclusive access to many of the past and present members of the SpaceX team, so sit back and listen as he gives us a thrilling account of how Elon Musk took SpaceX from shaky start-up in 2002 into the world's leading space company in 2021.
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| SUMMER SHORTS: Robert Swan (BONUS) | 01 Aug 2024 | 00:06:22 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Robert Swan back in June 2021 (S2 Ep21). Sit back and listen as Robert shares what he has learnt about leadership, and his mission to increase awareness and create a community of leaders willing to take action.
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| Distinguishing Risk and Uncertainty with John Kay | 02 Jun 2021 | 00:45:25 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to John Kay, one of the world’s leading economists, whose life’s work is focused on the relationship between economics and businesses. Together with Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England, he wrote Radical Uncertainty about the impoverished approach many economists and business strategists take regarding risk in the face of uncertainty. In this conversation we get a wealth of insight about the judgement challenges facing leaders today and into the future. "Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future", John Kay and Mervyn King (2020) Social: | |||
| Bonus Episode: The Power of Listening with Emma Sinclair | 31 May 2021 | 00:16:57 | |
During this bonus episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, guest Emma Sinclair talks to Jean Gomes about her current focus, understanding how teams work (and don't work) and her goal which is to help teams thrive. During this study, Emma has identified several core components that are required for effective teaming, and describes active listening as being foundational for human connection and productive interactions. | |||
| Why Management Theories Fail with Don Schmincke | 26 May 2021 | 00:38:50 | |
This week we talk to performance advisor, author and researcher Don Schmincke who believes that most management ideas fail because of human biology. Listen as Don shares the findings from his research and his belief that while many well respected books, theories and tools that leaders take into their organisations may well have a positive impact on the bottom line, the way to deliver the greatest impact is to alter human belief.
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| Future Entrepreneurs with Ilham Said | 19 May 2021 | 00:31:50 | |
This week, Evolving Leader co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Ilham Said. Leaving university less than a year ago having completed a masters in aeronautical engineering, IIham Said is the co-founder of the start-up E2E, a global digital community created to allow other young engineers to help one another accelerate their knowledge. | |||
| The Science of Seeing Differently with Dr Beau Lotto | 12 May 2021 | 00:53:50 | |
How can we see the world more clearly? In what seems to be an era of rising polarization, what is real and true versus what is being driven by motivated reasoning, self-deception and illusion? This week on the Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to perceptual neuroscientist and author Dr Beau Lotto who opens our eyes and minds to the fact that we evolved to see what is useful, not accurate – that we never see reality as it is. Beau is the founder of Lab of Misfits, the world’s only perceptual neuroscience creative studio, he is a regular keynote speaker (including three mainstage TED talks) and author of Deviate, the Science of Seeing Differently. Social: | |||
| “Certainty is not a thought, it’s a feeling” with Dr Robert A Burton | 05 May 2021 | 00:53:13 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to author and neurologist Dr Robert A Burton. As leaders face greater uncertainty, the consequences of their judgement and decisions become ever more significant. A profound insight from Burton’s work, is that certainty is not a rational process, but in fact a feeling; a feeling of knowing, that ranges from an intuitive or gut feeling to an aha moment of absolute rightness. On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not Social: | |||
| “What is consciousness?” with Mark Solms | 28 Apr 2021 | 01:02:48 | |
This week, the Evolving Leader podcast talks to one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Mark Solms. Most widely known for his discovery of the brain mechanisms of dreaming and his psychoanalytic methods in contemporary neuroscience, Solms’ research has taken him and his teams to a surprising source – not the evolved part of our brain responsible for memory, decision making and creativity, but the ancient parts. His hypothesis is that the origins of consciousness stem from bodily feeling and then emotion seated in the brain stem. If he’s right, the implications on the prevailing notions of what it is to be a human are profound. | |||
| Be Less Zombie with Elvin Turner | 21 Apr 2021 | 00:40:52 | |
This week, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to author and innovation consultant Elvin Turner. How prepared are our leaders to drive innovation efforts within their organisations? Elvin highlights how for many leaders their experience is grounded in maintaining the status quo, their focus is on running faster after the same thing, driving improved efficiency over the pursuit of relevance. Hear how it’s possible to switch on innovation and keep it alight. Social: | |||
| Tell Me About Yourself: Honing Your Voice with Holley Kholi-Murchison | 14 Apr 2021 | 00:35:10 | |
This week on the Evolving Leader, our co-hosts Jean and Scott talk to Holley Kholi-Murchison. Author, social practice artist, education producer and entrepreneur, Holley shares how you can tell others about yourself in a way that helps you to strengthen your sense of self and make powerful connections. Hear Holley describe the 6-step process “designed to bolster your confidence and authentic communication in life’s most vulnerable moments” originally introduced in her 2017 book ‘Tell me about yourself’.
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| Radical Self-Awareness with Ian Morgan Cron | 07 Apr 2021 | 00:43:57 | |
During this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes get a masterclass in self-awareness from Ian Morgan Cron. Ian is an expert in the Enneagram, an ancient personality typing system that identifies nine types of people, and how they relate to one another and to the world. He is an experienced psychotherapist who brings wisdom and a much needed soulfulness to the conversation around how leaders build radical self-awareness that will enable them to break unhelpful reactive cycles. Ian Morgan Cron is an accomplished author, his published works including his book ‘The Road Back to You’ which introduces the Enneagram to its broadest audience yet.
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| SUMMER SHORTS: Sir John Kay (BONUS) | 30 Jul 2024 | 00:03:52 | |
This short comes from a conversation that co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Sir John Kay back in June 2021 (S2 Ep19).
The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production. | |||
| Wellbeing Lessons from the Edge with Professor Neil Greenberg | 24 Mar 2021 | 00:47:39 | |
During this episode, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to one of the world’s leading researchers in stress. Professor Neil Greenberg is a specialist in the understanding and management of psychological trauma, occupational mental ill-health and post traumatic stress disorder. For 23 years, he served in the UK Armed Forces in a number of hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq as a psychiatrist and researcher, and has written more than 300 published scientific papers and book chapters.. During the 2020 COVID pandemic, Neil was part of the NHS England and Improvement Wellbeing Team, contributing to the national response to protect the mental health of NHS workers. During this episode of the Evolving Leader, he provides leaders with practical ways of helping themselves and their teams through the storm.
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| Rethinking Winning with Cath Bishop | 17 Mar 2021 | 00:46:11 | |
During this episode, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Cath Bishop, former world champion and Olympic silver medal winning rower, and conflict diplomat who worked in some of the world’s most challenging regions including Bosnia and Iraq. In October 2020, Cath's first book "The Long Win: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed" was published and listed by the Financial Times as one of the best business books of 2020. Social: | |||
| How to Future with Scott Smith | 10 Mar 2021 | 00:39:49 | |
In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, Jean and Scott talk to futurist, strategist, and author Scott Smith. Scott flips some of the notions of prediction, pushing back at the idea of the future that we can describe as some shiny idea, to how we think about, eliminate and quantify risk. He gives us many fascinating takeaways about how to rethink how we plan for and prepare for what comes next – as he puts it – he shows us how to future. Scott Smith is the founder and managing partner of Changeist, a futures research and consulting partnership and co-wrote How to Future, Leading and sense-making in an age of hyperchange, published by Kogan Page in 2020. Also mentioned during this episode:
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