Resilience Rising Podcasts

Shazre and Peter wrap up the series by asking Seth Schultz to reflect on some of the insights gathered from previous conversations. They ponder the challenges that climate change is posing to engineers and city planners, and the imperative to collaborate across sectors. Seth Schultz is the CEO of Resilience Rising and has spent nearly twenty years working closely and creatively with city leaders,...

Shazre and Peter talk with Verena Radulovic, who identifies some fundamental shifts in the way corporations should be, and are, integrating climate risk into their planning and strategies. Verena Radulovic spent 16 years as an environmental regulator with the US Environmental Protection Agency, pioneering the engagement with business around climate change. For the past three years she has been Vic...

Shazre and Peter speak to Jo da Silva DBE about pragmatic optimism and the need to focus on solutions, not problems. Jo da Silva is the Global Director of Sustainable Development at Arup, leading the firm's activities to address the climate, biodiversity and equity crises through creating safe, inclusive and resilient communities whilst safeguarding the planet. Jo earned global recognition as an e...

This week Dr Debra Roberts issues a passionate call for knowledge brokers to help bring climate scientists closer to decision-makers in business and government. Professor Debra Roberts has spent the last three decades working at the science-policy-practice interface in the fields of biodiversity planning and management, climate change adaptation and mitigation and sustainable development and resil...

In this week’s episode, Shazre and Peter are joined by Rachel Skinner CBE to discuss the role of systems-thinking for overcoming imperfect information. Rachel Skinner is the Executive Director for Responsible Business and Government Relations at Engineering Consultancy, WSP UK. In 2020, Rachel became the youngest president in the Institution of Civil Engineering’s 200-year history – and the second...

This week, the podcast welcomes Lieutenant General (Retd) Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE, to explore what the private sector can learn from the armed forces about resilient leadership and empowerment. General Richard Nugee was commissioned into the British Army in 1986 and has completed operational tours of Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Cyprus and Afghanistan. As his final role in the Army, he...

Shazre and Peter talk to Martyn Link, Executive Director at Resilience First and former chief strategist at Wood Plc., about the importance of putting the human at the heart of decision making. Martyn Link specializes in leading organizations through uncertainty, disruption and change to deliver growth, innovation, and transformation. He is passionate about enabling businesses to be a force for go...

Juliet Mian interviews project lead Peter Willis about the origins and purpose of the Shifting Climate Leadership project and what is already emerging from his conversations with climate leaders. Podcast editing by Roman Svidran.

We brought together Dr Juliet Mian, The Resilience Shift, and Dr Kristen MacAskill, University of Cambridge, to discuss their reflections, 2 years on from our Christchurch round-table and 10 years on from the devastating earthquakes. What is the learning from this event looking back, and for building more resilience to future events and uncertainties?

In the Public Understanding of Risk session, held on 24 September 2020, participants were asked to examine how their work life has changed between January and September 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic; how they have managed to stay resilient – both personally and professionally – and prepare for a ‘new normal’ future. The session was a lightly guided discussion of how the Covid-19 pandemic has a...

In the Infrastructure session, conducted on 15 September 2020, participants were asked to examine how their work life had changed between January and September 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic; how they have managed to stay resilient, both personally and professionally; and how they intended to prepare for a ‘new normal’ future. The session was a moderated conversation framed around infrastructur...

In the Education session, held on 16 September 2020, participants were asked to examine how their work life has changed between January and September 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic; how they have managed to stay resilient – both personally and professionally – and prepare for a ‘new normal’ future. The session was a moderated conversation around education changes in a post-Covid world, from sma...

In the Data session, conducted on 17 September 2020, participants were asked to examine how their work life has changed between January and September 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic; how they have managed to stay resilient – both personally and professionally – and prepare for a ‘new normal’ future. The session was a moderated conversation around data changes in a post-Covid world, from small-sc...

The Safety at Work session, held on 15 September 2020, was a moderated conversation around safety challenges in a post-Covid world, from small-scale practical issues to long-term consequences to our institutions and systems. The conversation drew on emerging findings from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s research as well as input from grant holders and experts around global perceptions on risk an...

Seth and Peter close out the year and the Resilient Leadership project with Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, who led the delivery of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 and have been co-hosting the Outrage and Optimism podcast. They discuss how deep listening and leadership for resilience can play a role in addressing the climate crisis. Download the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project report...

The project team get together to summarise the process of distilling insights from weekly interviews, and discuss their personal takeaways and lessons from the sixteen week process. Download the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project report here: https://www.resilienceshift.org/resilient-leadership-report/ Podcast editing by Roman Svidran. Music by Robin Fuzile and Jesse Reiner from the album ‘Unyuko’ (20...

Peter speaks to Gareth Morgan, Director of Resilience of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) about a similar reflective learning exercise he has been leading within the CoCT management team since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.org/resilient-leadership Podcast editing by Roman Svidran. Music by Robin Fuzile and Jesse R...

The Covid-19 crisis continues, but this phase of our project comes to an end with a final round of weekly insights. Seth and Peter discuss how city leaders continue to grapple with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, and close out on an optimistic note with responses from our participants to the question, “What gifts has the crisis brought?” We’re taking the summer off to reflect and recharge and w...

In our penultimate episode with weekly insights, the focus of Seth and Peter’s conversation is our participants’ reflections on showing up as a leader during a crisis, dilemmas around the right level of decentralised decision-making, and thoughts on how crisis recovery can truly catalyse a transformation. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.org/resilien...

This week, Seth and Peter discuss our participants’ reflections on individual attributes that have sustained them through a long crisis, what does transformation really mean and who can help deliver it. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.org/resilient-leadership Podcast editing by Roman Svidran. Music by Robin Fuzile and Jesse Reiner from the album ‘Un...

Our participants’ reflections on personal and institutional blind spots and approaches to address them form the basis of Seth and Peter’s conversation this week. Also, we hear how our corporate participants are grappling with the mixed bag of business prospects presented by this crisis and get a sneak peek into the project team’s process of distilling weekly insights. Find out more about the ‘Resi...

Amid a seemingly endless pandemic, Seth and Peter discuss the implications on crisis management structures and plans in city government and private sector organisations, aspects of human nature that act as barriers to recovery from Covid-19, and some personal reflections from our participants on leadership lessons they’ve picked up along the way. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ proj...

Seth and Peter discuss updates – positive and negative – from the crises our participants are grappling with, and leadership traits that help with response, recovery and transformation after a crisis. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.org/resilient-leadership Podcast editing by Roman Svidran. Music by Robin Fuzile and Jesse Reiner from the album ‘Unyu...

Seth and Peter discuss our participants’ reflections on the impact of the anti-racism protests in the USA on their organisations and countries, a possible return to ‘business as usual’ with respect to Covid-19, and where to look for leadership in the future. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.org/resilient-leadership Podcast editing by Roman Svidran. M...

Seth and Peter resume normal programming with a discussion on insights from Round 7 of interviews, including reflections on personal and organisational responses to a widening and deepening crisis, how the pandemic is revealing different mechanisms for building and losing trust, and conscious lessons for the future. Find out more about the ‘Resilient Leadership’ project here: www.resilienceshift.o...