anticipatory leadership

Series Three

This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Lasse Jonasson, Director & Futurist at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS) where he also heads their advisory service. CIFS is a global leader in applying futures studies methodologies to solve strategic challenges within organisations. 

Their core advisory offerings include megatrend analysis, scenario planning, risk assessment, innovation processes, and strategic foresight. The Institute is a truly global entity, working for and with public, private, and academic organisations around the world. This includes governments and Fortune 500 companies, to startups and NGOs, on a strategic level. 

Therefore, and as you'll hear, we discuss a wide range of subjects, ranging from the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism to the Future of HR, alongside issues such as navigating complexity and the dynamics of change. 

And, of course, some implications of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan/Ernie get highlighted...

This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features the futures thinker and leadership advisor Eric Korsvik Ostergaard, who specialises in exploring and evaluating possible and preferable futures of work. He's also the author of 'The Responsive Leader' which described the paradigm shift towards future organisations, and 'Teal Dots in an Orange World'  which addressed how to create an appropriately dynamic internal structure. His next book - which focuses on Anticipatory Leadership - will be published in late 2024. So, we discuss all of the above, and I hope you agree that Erik delivers a masterclass in how to reinvent organisations for positive effect.

Series Three

This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Gerry Hopkinson, CEO of Selbey Labs, part of Selbey Anderson - the UK's fastest growing independent marketing group.  The mission of Selbey Labs is to deliver prediction powered by data, people and imagination.

Gerry's interested in finding patterns and short-cuts to understand and predict human behaviour, market shifts, cultural shifts, new market and business models - anything that might minimise threats or maximise opportunities for people, agencies and clients.

Selbey Labs harness data science, AI, psychology, ethnography, forecasting, semiotics, behavioural design (and a few other things...) to inform their work and create new tools and methodologies. Gerry's a big believer in the synthetic act i.e. taking a number of components and creating a system that does something new and useful = creative innovation.

In this interview we discuss all of the above, along with the experience he gained running previous agencies and of his viewpoints around the dynamic concept of  'Anticipatory Leadership'.