Episodes

Patricia Letayf: Unlocking The Power Of Refugee Communities
February 10, 202538:1635.05 MB

Patricia Letayf: Unlocking The Power Of Refugee Communities

What does the word “refugee” mean to you? Poverty? hardship? Misfortune? What about entrepreneurship, innovation and opportunity? Patricia Letayf is the Executive Director at Five One Labs, a groundbreaking organization that empowers refugees to become entrepreneurs in places like Kurdistan, Iraq a...

Transformational - Jeff Softley, Experian
January 27, 202543:5740.25 MB

Transformational - Jeff Softley, Experian

Experian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups. Then They Turned the Tables When Jeff Softley joined Experian’s consumer division ten years ago, things looked bleak. The business had endured 16 quarters of declining revenues. It was being disrupted by venture backed fintech startups that didn’t n...

Bob Sutton: Rule #1 - Don’t Be An Asshole
January 20, 202544:0240.34 MB

Bob Sutton: Rule #1 - Don’t Be An Asshole

Bob Sutton is among the most influential business scholars today. One of Stanford’s Business School’s most distinguished professors, a bestselling author of seven books including, most recently,  The Friction Project , he has advised CEO’s ranging from Pixar’s Ed Catmull to IDEO’s David Kelley...

Enyinnah Okere: How Edmonton Developed A Game Changing Policing Strategy
November 12, 202436:5833.87 MB

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
October 22, 202435:3132.55 MB

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
October 07, 202439:4436.4 MB

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
September 23, 202441:2337.9 MB

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
September 09, 202439:0035.72 MB

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
August 26, 202444:2440.66 MB

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...