The New Abnormal

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the dynamic Alison Taylor, who works on challenges at the intersection of corporate integrity, risk and responsibility. She's the Executive Director of Ethical Systems, which is part of NYU Stern School of Business and is a collaboration between leading academics working on behavioural science, systems thinking and organisational p...

Series Three  This episode of The New Abnormal features the dynamic Jon Alexander, author of "CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us". It's a book that seeks to reframe the moment in time we're living in as one of huge civic opportunity, not just crisis and collapse, and in doing so opens up a world of possibility for organisations and leaders across sectors an...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Phil Rowley, Head of Futures at Omnicom Media Group UK.  In addition to this, he's also a Media Futurist, Tech Advisory Board Member, AdWeek Columnist, and Power MBA lecturer.  Phil specialises in talking to brands about the future, turning thought-leadership and emerging tech trends into actual strategies.  He has over 22 years’ e...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features a fascinating interview with a renowned futurist, Tom Lombardo.  He's a Director at the Center for Future Consciousness,  which offers educational experiences that challenge and stimulate the mind, expand conscious awareness, empower creativity, deepen understanding, enhance ethics and promote social growth.  Tom is also an Exec Bo...

Series Three This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Sylvia Gallusser,  who is a renowned Global Futurist and the CEO of Silicon Humanism. Based in San Fransisco, she's an inquirer of our future, conducting foresight projects on the future of health, well-aging, and social interaction, the future of work and life-long learning, as well as transformations in mobility and retail.  Syl...

Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast I interview the incredibly dynamic Alice Charles,  who leads the World Economic Forum's cities work streams, inc the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization and its workstreams on City Climate & Resilience, Urban Inclusion, City Digital Transformation and City Financing. She's also created the City Dialogues series, whi...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Henry Coutinho-Mason, who is obsessed with new perspectives on the biggest question in business: "what will people want next?" I've been lucky enough to have been given an advance copy of his new book “The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work & Thrive In The Coming Decade” which was written in conjunction with Wall St Journa...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features the designer, urbanist and strategist Johanna Hoffman, who explores the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures.  She's the founder of California-based Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive ad...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast (available on all the usual platforms) features Ian Peters MBE, Director at Institute of Business Ethics; which has a guiding purpose of championing the highest standards of ethical behaviour in business. Ian is a specialist in business policy and strategic communications, and is highly experienced in media & government relations, and busine...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features Laura de Moliere, Partner and Co-founder at the Germany-based consultancy, Decision-Context.  She's also the ex-Head of Behavioural Science  at the UK Govt's Cabinet Office, before which she's was in senior roles at other Government Departments.  In this podcast, she gives a fascinating overview of decision sciences, soci...

Series Three This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features  Florencia Lujani, a Strategy Director based in London who specialises in brand & creative strategy.  She started her career a decade ago at TBWA Buenos Aires, where she learnt about 'Disruption Planning' before moving to the UK.  She's since worked at JWT London, We Are Social, and Ketchum PR, before joining Med...

Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview the incredibly dynamic Stephanie Benedetto.   A corporate attorney turned climate fintech entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, no-code enterprise software to intelligently resell and recycle unused inventory on Raw Chain, measure, report, and turn pollution into profit.  Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie work...

Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Giana Eckhardt, Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean at King’s Business School, King’s College London.  A leading expert in the field of consumer behaviour, consumer culture, consumer ethics, branding and the sharing economy, she publishing regularly in journals such as Harvard Business Review. She is co-author of The Myth of the Ethical...

Series Three This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features DuBose Cole, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at We Are Rival - a consultancy that helps businesses change (not just challenge) markets by being smarter about how they build brands, products and go to market strategies. He's a strategist that's worked across various disciplines, from media to creative to consulting, with a ba...

Series Three This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Maurice NDiaye, Founder and CEO at Descartes & Mauss, the first Stratech and a new breed of AI-powered consulting firm. Maurice has devoted his career to using artificial intelligence to solve the most complex business challenges: with a dual professional background as an Ecole Polytechnique Engineer and a Columbia Univ...

Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Rob Hopkins,  cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network,  and author of numerous books including 'The Transition Handbook, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'.   He presents the podcast series 'From Wha...

Series Three In this episode of The New Abnormal,  I interview Stefan Rollnick, Head of The Misinformation Cell at Lynn, a consultancy who believe that when you inject behavioural science into communications, you can build campaigns that do what’s important: create the behaviours needed to positively change the world.   With a background in politics and campaigns, Stefan has provided strategic con...

Series Two This episode of #TheNewAbnormal features Gustav Martner, Head of Creative (Nordics) at Greenpeace.  Having worked with numerous leading agencies (inc being Exec Creative Director , EVP (Europe) and MD (Sweden) at CP+B ), he's also been a member of numerous award juries, including The ONE Show, Art Directors Club, Cannes Lions, D&AD, and NY Festivals.  Gustav has also been the C...

Series Three In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal I interview Alex Quicho,  Head of Cultural Intelligence at Canvas8. Her research into identity, ethics, and technology has been published widely, including in Wired, Bookforum, and a monograph for Zero Books. She is an associate lecturer in speculative futures at Central Saint Martins and holds a master’s degree in cultural criticism from the Royal C...

Series Two This episode of 'The New Abnormal' features Brooklyn-based John Seabrook, a staff writer at The New Yorker since the 90's as well as being the author of a range of superb books including ' The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory' / 'Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture' / 'Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace / 'Fla...

Series Three This reposted episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features James Hurman 'a creative person from Auckland, New Zealand'. He founded and continues to lead Previously Unavailable, an innovation studio that provides innovation and CX consulting and new product, brand and business design and development. James is also a co-founder and director of Tracksuit, a SAAS business that pr...

Series Two  In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast, I interview Jon Cohen, the author of "Asking for Trouble: understanding what people think, when you can't trust what they say".  The aim of the book is to enable the development of more creative concepts, braver public policy and more compelling marketing communications through a better understanding of response. He's also...

Series Two In this episode of 'The New Abnormal' I interview Sara Wheeler,  a prize-winning non-fiction writer noted for her accounts of the polar regions. Her books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita , which tells the story of a seven-month journey in Antarctica. The Daily Telegraph reviewer wrote of it, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book written about th...

Series Three This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Tom Johnson, MD at the consumer insights and futures consultancy, Trajectory. He's a researcher, trends analyser and forecaster with  a mass of experience leading complex insight and foresight projects for clients including Vodafone, British Council, Department for International Trade, General Medical Council, McCann and many more...

Series Three In this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Steven MacGregor.  He's a global expert in workplace health, wellbeing and performance with PhD and Master's degree in design thinking and virtual teams.  Steven is also founder of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona. and author (or lead co-author) of six books in the past 12 years, notably 'Chief Wellbeing Officer'...