Exploring Optimism - Pete Trainor, CEO of Vala Health

This is the second part of Lee's conversation with circular economy pioneer Sophie Thomas. In this episode Sophie and Lee discuss the complexities of implementing circularity and creating circular products. Sophie also tells us about her exciting new venture studio, etsaW Ventures, which is dedicated to finding, funding and developing innovation in the circular economy and sustainable business, with a particular focus on creating new materials. 

EPISODE LINKS:
Sophie Thomas on Linkedin
Sophie Thomas on Twitter
Thomas Matthews consultancy
Useful Simple Trust
etsaW Ventures

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Host Lee Sankey's guest for this two part conversation is the Circular Economy pioneer Sophie Thomas and founder of Thomas Matthews, a design agency focused on sustainability. Sophie is on a mission, and has been for over twenty years since her early experiments with circularity at the Royal College of Art in the mid 90's. In part one, Sophie talks about the influence of growing up with activist parents, how as a designer she came to be a certified waste manager, what makes a product circular and some of the enormous challenges with implementing the circular economy.

EPISODE LINKS:
Sophie Thomas on Linkedin
Sophie Thomas on Twitter
Thomas Matthews consultancy
Useful Simple Trust
etsaW Ventures

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We all use PowerPoint. It is part of the fabric of business communication. Yet divides opinions and arouses mixed emotions. Some companies have even banned it and it has some famous detractors.  Russell Davies joins me for a conversation about this omnipresent yet much maligned software and his brilliant new book "Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint". We discuss PowerPoint's origins, who designed it, why it has been so successful, how it effects business communication and more.

Russell Davies is a writer and strategist. He thinks about what happens when organisations and services meet the internet and he builds things to find out more. He's worked on communications and digital strategies for organisations like Honda, Nike, Microsoft, Apple, the Government Digital Service, the Co-op and Bulb. Russell is also a regular contributor to Wired.

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Russell Davies website
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Lee Sankey talks to Charlotte Walsh, Co-Founder of digital product studio Digital Detox. Charlotte has been vocal about the need for more greener approaches to digital and IT.  Something she champions with the team at Digital Detox. So it was fitting that our conversation took place on World Earth Day.

When we think of the causes of climate change, we tend to gravitate to things such as fossil fuels, aviation, manufacturing and the industrialised farming of cattle. The impact of digital is not something that is front of mind. If anything, we perhaps view digital as part of the solution; an enabler to do things differently. While this certainly true, as we will hear from Charlotte in this episode, digital and IT consume vast amounts of energy themselves. Their very nature means that this reality is hidden from view and the energy cost is not part of our day to day mental model.

Charlotte frames the need for greener digital with some statistics and then outlines some of things businesses, product designers and us as consumers can do to reduce energy usage. We also discuss how the off-shoring versus on-shoring debate may have shifted as companies have been remote working during the COVID19 pandemic.

Episode Links:
Charlotte Walsh Linkedin
Digital Detox
Cambridge Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
Website Carbon Calculator

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Part 2 of Lee Sankey's conversation with anthropologist, strategist and author Grant McCracken. They discuss the potential impacts of COVID viewed through  anthropological and cultural lenses on things like the family, the city and the world of work. Grant also flags some left-field signals that he is tracking, such as competitive charcuterie boards and talks about his latest work on the artisan movement which he describes as having matured into a transformative force. 

Grant is a pioneer in culture as a strategic and driving force in business success. Not organisational or corporate culture but "big C" culture. He has taught at MIT and Harvard and consulted with companies such as Nike, Netflix, Oprah and the White House. Here he explains why culture matters to business, discusses barriers to the broader adoption of culture as a strategic input since writing his book "Chief Culture Officer" in 2009 and some of the things we can start doing to incorporate culture in our thinking.

Episode Links:
Grant McCracken Linkedin and Twitter
For more on Grant's work and books visit www.mapping-the-future.com and www.cultureby.com

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Host Lee Sankey talks to the influential American anthropologist, strategist and author Grant McCracken. This is part one of two episodes. Grant is a pioneer in culture as a strategic and driving force in business success. Not organisational or corporate culture but "big C" culture. He has taught at MIT and Harvard and consulted with companies such as Nike, Netflix, Oprah and the White House. Here he explains why culture matters to business, discusses barriers to the broader adoption of culture as a strategic input since writing his book "Chief Culture Officer" in 2009 and some of the things we can start doing to incorporate culture in our thinking.

Episode Links:
Grant McCracken Linkedin and Twitter
For more on Grant's work and books visit www.mapping-the-future.com and www.cultureby.com
Grant's paper we reference in the episode "Welcome to the Orphanage" 

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Lee Sankey's guest is Professor Pietro Micheli from Warwick Business School. Pietro has been studying Design Thinking since its early inception and has carried out numerous studies on companies globally. So what does academic research tell us about how companies use design thinking and its impact?

This was also an opportunity for me to debate some of my own observations and theories on the practical realities of Design Thinking. Including:

1) That pace, data and iterative everyday business are limiting the oxygen design and Design Thinking need to be successful.
2) That Design Thinking is on a similar journey to Agile. Although currently, a less influential one.

In addition, Pietro talks about 3 different types of business logics and how Design Thinking can be used in Brand Management to navigate the tensions between consistency and relevance.   

SHOW LINKS

Professor Pietro Micheli
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Linkedin
Twitter

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Lee Sankey is joined by Matthew Taylor, CEO of The Royal Society of Arts for a wide ranging discussion. Matthew Taylor has spent his career shaping and influencing change through politics, public policy and now at the RSA. He has a particular passion for the topic of work. The work of the RSA is inherently optimistic but deals with some of the major challenges of our time. Matthew talks about his theory of change, his views on optimism, the topic of his annual RSA lecture and his love of West Bromwich Albion.

Matthew Taylor Links:
Matthew Taylor RSA Blog
Twitter
The RSA

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Lee Sankey speaks to David Sheldon Hicks, Founder of Territory Studio about innovation in the media space, his take on optimism and what he’s learnt from working with some of the world’s leading film directors such as Ridley Scott. 

If you are not familiar with Territory studio you’ve almost certainly seen some of their work. The studio began life specialising in motion graphics for things like gaming and content creation. Today David and his team from their offices in London, San Fransisco and New York work in a wide variety of areas including automotive UI, experiential design for spaces and special effects for feature films such as Prometheus, Guardians of The Galaxy and Blade Runner 2049.

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David Sheldon Hicks on LinkedIn
Territory Studio website

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Imagine having to commute 5-6 hours a day using unregulated, unscheduled and unreliable transportation methods. Well this is the reality for approximately 4 billion people across the "Majority World" who rely on and use these "informal transportation networks" daily. WhereIsMyTransport is an award winning company on a mission to transform these networks through data and digital tools. They have already deployed their services in 39 countries and having recently completed a Series A funding round of $7.5 million dollars with investors that include Google, they are now expanding to even more cities. Their mission is daunting to put it mildly. Lee Sankey speaks to founder Devin de Vries and Julian Hirst about the inspiration behind WhereIsMyTransport and their unique perspectives on optimism having worked in so many countries.

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Devin de Vries and Julian Hirst on Linkedin

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