Inspirational Insights to Action Podcast

Anurag Maloo is an an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect. In this episode he interviews the host of the Evolutionary Provocateur and the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones on her personal journey, sacrifices, the meaning of friends and staying true to purpose. In early 2002-2004 Dawna shifted her role from facilitating change to facilitating leadership and broader consciousness...

Beyond Budgeting Round Table offers companies exploring how to transform their company governance a place where they can find engaging workplaces, individual autonomy and peer-to-peer support. Franz Röösli explains the background of the Beyond  Budgeting Round Table, a practitioner and science community that  has developed the Beyond Budgeting approach in the last twenty years...

Companies world-wide are adopting agile for development and to accelerate adaptability to business conditions. Seen from a traditional view of how things get done, Agile appears to take short cuts or take longer when a short cut will do. Authors of Agile Methods for Safety Critical Systems Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker combine their diverse areas of expertise to reduce safety risks...

Dennis Wittrock of encode.org shares a case study of Hypoport, a fintech company that opted to implement Holacracy. Despite the assumption that Holacracy is flat and unstructured it is the opposite. Dennis walks us through the process of moving from deciding on self-management to implementing it in a company with many moving parts, growing through acquisition and diverging cultures. What each self...

The Global Challenges Foundation inspired change agents worldwide to collaborate on a fresh strategy and approach for facing the biggest risk humanity faces. No group illustrates that better than impACT, a global network of social entrepreneurs who are combining their vision to achieve what most would prefer to think is impossible. In this discussion with host Dawna Jones you will meet: Matiullah,...

Last year the Global Challenges Foundation launched a contest for the design of a better governance model for handling the tough issues posing the greatest risk to the survival of humanity and the health of the earth. Sponsored by Swedish billionaire Laszlo Szombatfalvy the prize fund of $5 million inspired responses from 2700 participants from 122 nations world-wide. The award of 3 finalists out...

In 2014 at the Business as Agents of World Benefit conference in Cleveland's Case Western University a design lab launched Aim2Flourish. Business students and schools all over the world gathered stories of companies who were doing things differently. As of this episode one thousand stories have been gathered. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Claire Sommer - the Director of Aim2Flourish...

Laurent Ledoux has been implementing what we now call participatory governance for years in the financial sector and in the public sector. Isaac Getz and Frederik Laloux are peers and it is thanks to Isaac that this episode talks about how to implement participatory governance in the public and private sector. Laurent brings practical how-to information on working with hierarchical constraints, di...

Clearlink attended the Mob Programming conference in 2017 and came away thinking folks there were either crazy or genius; possibly both. One year and a half later they had implemented mob programming, where a team writes the code rather then each person sitting in their cave. Learn from Torrey Powell, Nate Wixom and developer Charlie King how collaborative coding helped the company scale, the jour...

The Imaginal Cells-Visions of Transformation was released by co-authors Kim Polman and Stephen Vasconcellos-Sharpe to activate engagement in wider change by ordinary people like you and me. It would not be the first time ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things like helping change how we care about each other and the shape of the economy and the impact on ecological health. In this conversa...

As AI enters the home and workplace, drives our cars issues for governance arise. Guest Robbie Stamp talks to host Dawna Jones about the five areas where we can take responsibility for asking questions before making decisions. Do we employ protocols over rules? How do companies create the conditions for unethical decision making now? There is a risk that by failing to ask questions and explore to...

Wickedly complex problems such as the ones companies face and we face globally (climate change effects, poverty, economic inequality, health) demand a frank and yet hopeful look at how being better as humans can balance emerging application of AI and other disruptive tech. Host Dawna Jones brings forward a conversation with Michael Mainelli and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva who each bring a perspective t...

Over a casual dinner conversation organizational psychologist Andras Viscek learned that research work his father was doing provided insight into organizational change. Out of the conversation grew an invaluable tool for internal and external change agents: OrgMapper. In this conversation with show host Dawna Jones they discuss: What can pigeons teach us about how humans network and communicate 3...

“Agile” has become a buzzword in the software development industry as well as the wider business landscape. And for good reason – several organizations have cited Agile principles as the influence behind results such as better financial performance, project success, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. In fact, 92 percent of executives said they believe organizational agility is critical...

Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organization stimulated a lot of thought particularly in people working inside corporate aware that traditional patriarchal organizations could not serve the vision. Instead, creating the conditions for people and customers to flourish is the challenge facing startup founders. It comes with the caveat that scaling your learning and way of working with power and c...

In this program, host Dawna Jones shares her view on what lies ahead for 2018 in terms of how the wicked problems facing humanity globally, and business can be addressed. She talks about using anxiety to advantage, about collaboration over separation, about the pitfalls of working with a limited view and about the role you can play and the skills leaders require today. Consider it a forecast...

Daniel Ospina is a chef who turned his attention to social systems, the reinvention of democracy and our relationship with power. Organizational designer, he looks deeper to work with diversity as a perspective shifting value to R&D.  Daniel is an organisation designer, working through his company, Conductal. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Said Business School (Oxford...

Conversational intelligences, the art of not triggering the cave-brain, when faced with low trust and high uncertainty, is directly informed by neuroscience. Host Dawna Jones and CreatingWE's Judith Glaser talk about the power of: conversation understood through neuroscience to create more human workplaces; questions asked in complex change and the art of creating safety; non-judgement on children...

Robin Anne Fitzgerald is from Newfoundland, Canada and she has been working in Norway for years for Eidsiva Energi AS, one of 270 companies serving Norway’s energy needs. Inspired by the Beyond Budgeting Round Table discussions she led her company to get rid of the budgeting process. The way she handled the process offers lessons for anyone responsible for implementing what appears to be a radical...

Katz Kiely is an award-winning expert in open-innovation, participatory systems design and digital engagement. She converts complex challenges into memorable experiences, smart solutions and strong innovative cultures. In this program, Katz and the host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones talk about the Burning Man social experience, using digital innovation to free human potential,...

The new purpose of business, to evolve consciousness through a higher purpose, is included in Ervin Lazslo's new book The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Practitioner and innovator in transforming leadership and company cultures, Dawna Jones, also the host of this show, draws from her practical observations to provide insights on what holds companies back, how companies and their leaders can make the...

Why do companies ask employees to come up with innovations and then work hard to block it? Gary Klein, author of Seeing What Others Don’t and countless other books on decision-making, shares his research with host Dawna Jones about the value insights bring to companies, and how companies block innovation and work against themselves. You’ll learn: What insights are and why they have such high value...

  Rod Collins believes that we are in the midst of a epochal change. What does this mean to you? To jobs? To Workplaces? Tracing the path from bureaucracies, how power is being transferred to today’s peer to peer networks, Rod maps out changes to the fundamentals of social dynamics at work. Through original stories about Wikipedia, and Craigslist Rod provides insight into how an idea displace...

  Raised on pioneer Morning Star’s self-management practices, Doug Kirkpatrick knew autonomy from the start. His book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization has been revised to include updates and more stories of companies taking steps toward self-management and the compelling benefits. In this interview with Insight to Action host and global change agent, Dawna Jones, t...

For many people, 9-5 jobs are energy sucking and unfulfilling. At some point it’s clear a change is necessary. Becoming more aligned with your personal purpose means changing how you respond to what is going on in your inner and outers world. Mariusz Bocian. Polish documentary filmmaker, openly shares his inner process with moving from a toxic work environment to being more aligned with his purpos...