Episodes
Enyinnah Okere: How Edmonton Developed A Game Changing Policing Strategy
One of the most basic responsibilities of a government is to keep its people safe. In a city, that first line of defense is the police. They are trained to investigate crimes, handle violent criminals and put them in jail. Yet police departments also spend a lot of time on repeat nonviolent inciden...
Whitney Johnson: Creating Safety Around Disruption
Whitney Johnson was one of the top analysts on Wall Street. Yet when she met Clayton Christensen, she realized her fate path would lead somewhere else. As she would later write in a landmark in Harvard Business Review , she would disrupt herself and leave her top job at a Wall Street firm. To...
How Russell Lowery-Hart Is Helping To Solve The Upskilling Crisis By Loving Students To Success
We are in the midst of an upskilling crisis. Rapid industrial changes and an increasingly competitive global environment, with countries like China and India emerging as technology superpowers, mean millions of workers need to upskill to remain economically viable. Community colleges play a crucial...
How Aidan McCullen Learned To Become Undisruptable
As a professional rugby player for Europe’s top team, Aidan McCullen knew the value of showing up. He wasn’t born with the most talent, but he made sure he had the most discipline. Yet his biggest challenge was to overcome the disruption of ending his career, to shed his rugby identity and be...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied - Finding Strength Through Adversity
What do you do when you achieve your dreams…and then lose it all. At the age of 25, Yassmin Abdel-Magied was an unbridled success. She achieved prominence at a young age, garnering awards and recognition as a teenager in Australia. She had been a successful engineer, author and TV personality. Her ...
Rob Wolcott - Creating Connection In the Service Of Change
Every successful changemaker thrives on connection. It is their ability to connect to different people, places and institutions that makes it that much more likely that they will come across that seemingly random piece of information or insight that helps to crack a really tough problem. Nobody per...
Alister Martin
Alister Martin's Journey To Make The World Just A Little Bit More Fair When human potential is wasted, we all lose something. Most people who look at Alister Martin’s resume would assume he’s led a charmed life. A medical doctor as well as a White House fellow, he holds dual appointmen...
How Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies Grow
How Stephen Shapiro Turned Away From Downsizing And Started Helping Companies Grow Stephen Shapiro was a superstar. With an Ivy League degree and a hot job at a big consulting form, he spent most days jet-setting around the world, re-engineering business processes to help firms become more producti...