Christopher Bramley joins Claus this week. As a mentor, speaker, coach or consultant, this week's co-host works globally and cross-culturally to help companies and individuals sustainably discover how to evolve. 

Important Link

• Find Chris on LinkedIn

What do you do during a pandemic if your line of business is to "create immersive, playful and participatory experiences"? Vera Schneider, CEO and Co-Founder of Beyond Play is co-hosting the show with Claus this week.

You can find Vera on LinkedIn.

Let's explore how live events have been affected by the Coronavirus and what can be done to reframe this new reality. Join Claus and his co-host for this session Ruud Janssen (Co-Founder of the Event Design Collective) to find out more.

Important Links

• Ruud on LinkedIn
• Event Design Collective

Experienced strategic advisor and CEO of Seismonaut - an advisory specialized in helping clients innovate and develop strategies in the experience economy.  At Seismonaut she and her team create deep insights based on both anthropological and quantitative methods. They analyze, evaluate, teach, blog, give keynotes, facilitate workshops and manage large projects aimed at creating insights, innovation and business development. 

Important Links

• Find Anna on LinkedIn

Proudly known as an instigator, creator, disrupter and change agent, for over 20 years Anthony Vade has helped event stakeholders use technology to create meaningful and memorable connections with event attendees. 

A tech nerd at heart he loves to talk about how modern human experience is intrinsically linked by technology. He passionately promotes his belief that event design teams must first understand human experience, exercise empathy, collaborate and co-create to articulate the value that live events create; it is a combination of smart, purposeful technology and strategic design that creates experiences that connect, inspire and deliver the key messages.

Important Links

• Anthony on LinkedIn
• Anthony on Twitter

Josefin Westborg is one of the world’s leading designers in edularps. She has a background in game design and pedagogy and is one of the founders of Lekreativ/Lajvbyrån (the larp agency). In her daily job she meets thousand of students of all ages and runs and design larps for them. She is also a teacher in game design at Chalmers University of technology. In her spare time she likes to play board games, ballroom dancing, and, of course, larp. Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Erik Winther Paisley is a Danish-American anthropologist specialized in mixed-methods research, consumer insights, and media behaviour, with extensive agency experience and broad sectorial knowledge. 

Important Links

• Find Erik on LinkedIn
• Find Erik on Twitter

Callie Holderman is passionate about fusing new technology with traditional systems.  She has a broad skillset which she uses to uncover a product vision: developing software, conducting research, producing television shows, and building apps and games to name a few. She aims to create interactive, digital content that fosters a sense of play, community and curiosity.

Important Links

• Find Callie on LinkedIn
• Follow Callie on Twitter

“He used to be a spaceship captain, but is now an internatonal man of mystery. You can find Troels on LinkedIn.

Roll up, roll up... Step forward and prepare your minds to be mystified by the Whimsical-Wizard himself, Leon Simmonds.

Sussex Magician  Leon's magic is unique, in every sense of the word.  From his personable approach to his art, to his outfits and adornments, Leon is far from 'just another magician' but something else  entirely.

His creative  repertoire  of routines has seen him  performing professionally for every type of audience possible, in numerous venues all across the country as well as internationally.

With hundreds of performances under his belt, his talent has attracted a whole number number of corporate magic clients such as American Express.  Warner Bros and Lego. 

Important Links

• LeonSimmondsMagic.co.uk

Oliver was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1965 and graduated from Mannheim University in German Literature, Political Studies and Media Research. He has been inventing and telling stories since Kindergarten. A professed book lover, he taught himself to read at the age of four to finally be able to find out more about his favorite childhood heroes without adult support.

He has been working with texts since it first became a necessity for him to earn money. Since then, Oliver has written, translated, edited and copy-read virtually countless books. Also, he is one of the founders and former co-owner of the German publishing company Feder & Schwert ("The Pen& the Sword"), a special interest publishing house for all things fantastic. The Icelandic proverb "Better to be barefoot than to be without a book" rather sums up his perspective on life. He can claim that professionally, his dream has come true: he works on, with and for books.

As an experience designer, he has been writing, creating and facilitating Larps since the late 90s. Oliver is also the former project lead on one iteration of the College of Extraordinary Experiences and teaches Storytelling, Leadership, and Teambuilding (as well as various combinations thereof) at different German universities.

Important Links

• Oliver on LinkedIn

Before joining Freeletics Christie Cleveland–Callanan managed www.starwars.com for Disney and later moved on to help Blizzard launch their Overwatch League. She describes her style as, "Product managing like Mary Poppins since 2009 because negotiating tradeoffs is always easier with a spoonful of sugar."  

She has been involved in multiple site rebuilds and redesigns for e-commerce and content sites, CMS implementations, and content migrations. Her thoughtful feature development proficiencies include: streamlining back-end publication tools, and front-end, engagement-driven experiences aimed to delight customers and fans.

Important Links

• Christie on LinkedIn
• Book: Everything is Figureoutable
• Book:  Super Attractor
• Blog:  Insights Blog

Professor Justin O'Brien joins Claus this week to co-host an in-depth discussion on how the pandemic has forced higher education to transform the way they do business and teach our generation. 

Important links

• Find Prof. Justin on LinkedIn

David Bassuk is Professor of Acting in the Conservatory of Theater Arts at Purchase College, SUNY, School of the Arts. His teaching explores the integration of transmedia storytelling, gameplay and immersive design into teaching stage directing, scriptwriting and experimental performance. He founded “PartySpace Live” a new company whose mission is to create immersive interactive game-theater as a new mixed medium for telling stories and engaging in story-making with our audiences. 

Important Links

• David's Educational Profile
• David on LinkedIn

Ask Agger is an expert in learning games, storytelling, change management and strategy execution, and he has more than 15 years of experience as a senior advisor for many of Scandinavia’s biggest organizations. He holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen.

Ask has been identified as a thought leader by the International Serious Games Association, and he is a active keynote speaker, author, blogger and columnist writing for The Huffington Post and Mandag Morgen, a Scandinavian think tank.

Important Links

• Ask on LinkedIn
• Ask on Twitter
• Workz Website

Chantal van Kempen is an Experience Designer, social innovator and co-founder of 'Ondernemen met Ballen'. She's on a mission to motivate people to overcome their obstacles by turning their ideas into action. To help her clients, and their employees, overcome their fears she relies on methodologies such as gamification to realise her professional objectives.

Important links

• Chantal's LinkedIn Profile
• Ondernemen met Ballen Website

Sascha is a theatre producer and immersive games designer. She has worked with some of the UK's leading theatres including the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and Battersea Arts Centre. 

She has worked on shows and festivals including Bristol Digital Proms, Sally Cookson's Treasure Island, Punchdrunk's Masque of the Red Death, Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter and Shunt's Money. 

Sascha designs quests, games, mysteries and secret missions for adventurous children and inquisitive adults.

Important Links

• Sascha on LinkedIn
• Sacha's Website - www.wethecreators.co.uk

Kenny Temowo is the Senior Learning and Performance Innovation Consultant at PA Consulting in the London (UK). He is on a self-proclaimed mission to create and facilitate experiences; experiences that both individuals, teams and leaders remember, and that perhaps even change them.

Kenny has fourteen years’ experience spanning culture change and learning. He uses his expertise in design thinking, organisational development and psychology, to enable and guide the businesses and individuals he supports.

Important Links

• Kenny on LinkedIn
• Kenny on Twitter
• MeowWolf
• Book: How People Learn: Designing Education and Training that Works to Improve Performance

Katz Kiely is a C-level award-winning business strategist and change agent. She built the first open innovation platform for HP, re-architected the way a UN agency does business and designed a behaviour change platform with Intel that connected mobiles, big screens and data.

She now heads up beep: a decentralised continuous improvement engine that exposes obstacles to good customer experience and empowers employees to actively workshop solutions. It democratises design thinking and industrialises people-powered micro-innovation.

Important links

• Katz Kiely on LinkedIn
• Katz on Twitter
• Beep's website

With a background in literature, communication and marketing, Martin Paludan is highly focused on the importance of language in creating a strong bond between people. He has worked with digital content in several contexts, and to him, content is about creating a connection and common ground between people.

Episode Notes

• Find Martin on LinkedIn
• Marting on Twitter

Niels Forsberg refers to himself as a 'nerded Stand-up guy with a foot in theory' Yes, he is pretty interesting, and also funny, which is good because he is a comedian by profession. However,  unlike a lot of comics, he also has a master's degree in performance design, so he approaches things a little bit more academically than most. He is also the host of a Danish computer game-related podcast, of which he just released the 100th episode.

Important Links

• Niels on Facebook
• www.nielsforsberg.dk

Pierre is a passionate blockchain entrepreneur, keen investor, visionary and project manager. He has over  20 years of experience within sales, marketing, IT and graphic industry. Pierre love's the fact that blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt the financial sector and facilitate the transfer of power from the 1% elite to the 99%. 

Important Links

• Find Pierre on LinkedIn
• OryxCoin on Twitter

Mikkel’s path has led him to combine three unusual pursuits; sign language translation, acting and coaching. And now he finds himself in a space he’d never thought he’d be in - one where he gets to use all three at once!

This week Claus and the co-host for this episode, Pim Schachtschabel, deep-dive the effect the pandemic has had on deeply immersive experiences.

Important Link

• Find Pim on LinkedIn

A Lithuanuan by birth, Daiva spent thirteen years at one of Denmark’s most famous companies, LEGO, rising through the ranks and ending with the title “Director, Head of LEGO IDEAS”. She then ventured out on her own, and these days focuses on open innovation and user communities as the CEO of DSTN Ventures.

Important Links

• Daiva on LinkedIn

Co-author of The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. In 1999, Joe and his partner James H. Gilmore wrote the best-selling book The Experience Economy: Work is a Theatre & Every Business a Stage, which demonstrates how goods and services are no longer enough; what companies must offer today are experiences – memorable events that engage each customer in an inherently personal way.

EPISODE NOTES

• Joe Pine on Twitter
• Joe Pine on LinkedIn
• Strategic Horizons LLP

A firebrand from Romania, Alina has extensive experience in User Experience responsible for working with the likes of ING Bank and Electronics Arts (EA). She is a UX trainer, mentor, advocate of design thinking approaches and recently co-founded the Design Thinking Society, which accelerates change through design.

Important Links

• Catalina's Instagram
• Find Catalina on LinkedIn

Bill Sherman infuses creativity and innovative thinking into his consulting approach. Doing so helps build bridges between ideas and action to drive business results through thought leadership, according to Bill. He also harnesses the power of co-creation to create scalable, innovative products that make maximum impact for his clients. Bill is a versatile, passionate leader, consultant, and guide. 

Important links

1. Thought Leadership Leverage
2. Bill on Twitter

Lina has a diverse background within communication and concept development along with a degree in Digital Media from entrepreneurial non-school Hyper Island.

Curiosity has taken her to the sands of the Middle East, working with  Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, as well as developing communication strategies at the Swedish Prison & Probation Service. She's currently working with IKEA Sweden in the area of customer experiences and business development.

Important links

• Lina on LinkedIn
• Lina's personal website

Iryna Oleksiuk is a vibrant professional with over 6 years of corporate experience in the supply chain, project management, sales and customer support as well as over 10 years of NGO experience related to education, team building, and event management. 

Sanne Harder is a learning game designer with a background in teaching and interactive storytelling. She hails from Copenhagen, Denmark and focuses on facilitation learning experiences through the use of games to turn passive recipients into active learners.

Shownotes

• Sanne's LinkedIn Profile

Ludvig Liljeqvist is the global sustainability insights and innovation leader at the IKEA group.

A true believer in life gets just better and, to quote him directly, 'a glorious future'. He leads the people and planet insights for Ingka (IKEA) Group and is passionate about people, the planet, surf and his 'three small teachers'.

Creative Director at Two Bit Circus, Hector Alvarez refers to himself as 'Designer of many kinds of things.' Based in Los Angeles, Two Bit Circus is a community of entertainment and engineering enthusiasts who combine a love of technology with [mad] invention in pursuit of the future of fun.

The company is opening the world’s first chain of micro-amusement parks. These one-acre sized entertainment complexes fuse the latest interactive technology with the wonder and spectacle of classic circus and carnival. The parks are a platform to showcase best-in-class interactive entertainment from all over the world, and are filled with unexpected social experiences that bring people together elbow-to-elbow to play, eat, drink, and generally experience life at highest resolution.

Shownotes

• Follow Hector on Twitter - @hec_face
• Two Bit Circus Website
• Two Bit Circus on Instagram

Dave Zaboski is a classically trained painter, illustrator and former Senior Animator with Disney, Sony and Warner Bros. He has drawn for such classic films as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, the Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, The Emperor’s New Groove, Fantasia 2000 and more.

Mark Stanley connects with Claus this week to reflect on how the pandemic has influenced the way consultants go about applying their craft. 

Important Links

• Find Mark on LinkedIn

Niklas Nikolajsen founded Bitcoin Suisse AG in mid-2013. Today he serves as Chairman of the Board and co-CEO. Operationally besides his role as chairman, he is responsible for business development, key accounts, investor relations and company representation. Niklas has a background of more than 15 years as a professional software architect & software developer, primarily in the financial , manufacturing and public sectors.

Important Links:

• Bitcoin Suisse
• Niklas on Twitter as @nikolajsen_BTCS

This week we explore the unique artistic space of Burlesque and how the impact the pandemic has had on this artistic expression. Claus is joined by artist, performer and subject matter expert John-Paul Bichard.

Important links

• www.johnpaulbichard.com

Escape rooms were evolving and the pandemic has disrupted this pass time completely. So what now? Join Claus and David for tons and context and information about what might be in store for this experiential pass time that so many love. 

Important Links

• Find David on LinkedIn.
• www.roomescapeartist.com

This week we discuss the impact Covid-19 has had on retail and perhaps how it will accelerate change and innovation. This week Claus is joined by Jens Heitland who has a rich and accomplished retail background.

Important links

• Jens Heitland on LinkedIn

This week we talk about one of the industries reeling from the impact of COVID 19. How will we look at Tourism in the new normal?

Important Link

• Find Elena on LinkedIn

Reflecting on the current and future effects of our new-normal on media production with Daniel Chilla -- Film Commissioner, Film Capital Stockholm.

Important Links

• Daniel Chilla on LinkedIn