Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter

Welcome to season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter, this is episode 4, Changing mindsets on leadership, patience, persistence and courage. Today Nina talks to Susanna Mäentausta, a seasoned professional change leader in the chemicals industry. They discuss some of the many pitfalls that can be encountered when trying to deliver change in large organisations and how a little patience, persistence and...

Welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshooter. This is episode 3, Changing Mindets on Being Data Driven.  Today Nina is joined by Jos Voskuil, a PLM coach, blogger, lecturer and a passionate advocate for a digital and sustainable future. His blog is called The Virtual Dutchman  After hearing episode one in this season, Changing Mindsets on Data, Jos was moved enough to contact Nina to have his...

Welcome to Season 4 of the Change Troubleshooter. Changing Mindsets.  This is episode 2, Changing Mindsets on our attitude to learning.  In this episode, we find Nina in conversation with another Neena in another country - Neena Arakal Mathew is a Facilitator of Consciousness in Living and Learning, based in New Delhi, India. She is the founder of Mind and Me, a revolutionary learning centre where...

Hello and welcome to Season 4 of The Change Troubleshoter - This season is called Changing Mindsets.  The idea here is that Nina and her guest can change people's mindsets on a given subject, the challenge is to do this in just 15 minutes to 20 minutes! In episode one, Changing Mindsets on Data, Nina is joined by Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of Open Bom, a SAAS network based global collaborative...

Welcome to season 3 of the change troubleshooter This is episode 5, Are we learning for the 22nd Century? David Hollands has been an entrepreneur since he was a schoolboy. He has had a whole host of businesses.  Around 20 years ago he observed that people were losing their connection with community based living and nature. He built a whole village in Bulgaria and hopes that will lead to a new form...

Hello and welcome to Season 3 of The Change Troubleshooter – If Not You, Who? This is episode 4, Climate Activism is Nothing New,   In today’s world, with all the focus on the global effort to battle climate change and bring down CO2 emissions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all this activism and attention on the environment was something  new. Far from it. The fight for the planet has been g...

Welcome to Season 3 of The Change Troubleshooter.  This is episode 4, Climate Activism is Nothing New. Steve Charter is a climate action champion. Over the last 3 decades he has worked as an advisor to local governments on construction policy. The answers to sustainable, environmentally friendly house buliding have been around for a long time but implenenting them has always been an uphill battle....

Paul Kenyon had spent almost 20 years in the print industry, an industry, frankly, in decline. Having been recently made redundant from his job, he was looking for a new challenge, in a new field, in his own words, in anything but print. In a chance meeting over a pint with an electrical engineer friend, they hit on an idea that has changed their lives – the sale and installation of domestic and w...

Welcome to The Change Troubleshooter, Season 3, If Not You, Who? Lockdown heroes forgotten already It’s lockdown one, spring 2020, supermarkets are running out of stuff, the queues at them are incredible and when you get in, there is no pasta, no toilet paper, no flour… what are you going to do to survive? Luckily we have around 4000 farm shops in the UK who stepped up to the plate and provided th...

Welcome to The Change Troubleshooter, Season 3, If Not You, Who? Lockdown heroes forgotten already It’s lockdown one, spring 2020, supermarkets are running out of stuff, the queues at them are incredible and when you get in there is no pasta, no toilet paper, no flour… what are you going to do to survive? Luckily we have around 4000 farm shops in the UK who stepped up to the plate and provided the...

This is the trailer to episode 1 of season 3 - If Not You, Who? A Solar Farm at What Cost When a global renewable energy company wants to build a mega solar farm near your property, right on top of your water supply with a very real danger of threatening that water supply, what would you do?

Hello and welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter! This is Season 3 – If Not You, Who? This season features people who are getting out there trying to make a difference, often against the odds. It’s a season of stories about ordinary, everyday heroes with the guts and determination to fight back against global corporations. It’s the season of people putting their all into mainta...

Welcome to Season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, The Sustainability Season. Today Nina is joined by Amy Rhoda Brown, a Toronto based strategy coach who helps artists and creators who want to begin or expand a creative practice.  To be creative you have to allow your brain to operate in its default network state, basically unstressed. Overloading our brains with constant input and stimulation is c...

Welcome to Season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter- the podcast that is now being listened to in 174 cities in 25 countries on 6 continents!  This is The Sustainability Season.   For today’s episode, What is a Transition Village? Nina embarked on her first outdoor recording session on location on an allotment in Lymm, where she met Liz.. Having moved to Lymm a couple of years ago and becoming increa...

Welcome season 2  of The Change Troubleshooter – The sustainability Season. Today’s episode is called: What does an activist look like?  What image is conjured up we hear the word activist? We may think of dirty, straggly haired ultra extremist radical types, chained to railings or dug in in tunnels, risking life and limb and even arrest and imprisonment, in defence of their true and noble cause,...

Welcome to season 2 of the Change Troubleshooter  - The Sustainability season.  In today’s episode “From Fast Fashion to Something Else” Nina is joined by Sofia Kenyon  Sofia left university in 2017 with a business degree and seamlessly went straight into her dream job in fashion. Or was it? Four years and one pandemic later, Nina asks if the industry is all she thought it would be. This episode i...

Wecome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter. The Sustainability Season. In today’s episode, How to Achieve a Sustainable Digital Thread, Nina is joined by Ross Caddens, business development director of Siemens Digital Industries Software.  Using his wealth of knowledge and experience of Siemens software solutions, Ross helps clients to improve innovation and accelerate product delivery. He als...

Welcome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, the sustainability season. In today’s episode,   Can We Be Sustainable With or Without Data?       Nina is joined by  Federico Pettinella, Anders Praestholm and Alan Walker, three guys who work in data technology.  Every time we write an email, take a photo, download something from the web or send a message on Whatsapp, we are creating data. The am...

Welcome to season 2 of The Change Troubleshooter, the sustainability season. In today’s episode, “A Thought for Food”, we are off, thanks to the magic of Zoom, to the frigid shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada where Nina meets Bonita Gionet, who, in her own words is a pragmatic, curious, forward thinking civil engineer, project manager, lifelong learner and coach with a passion for food.    Fo...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Change Troubleshooter – The Sustainability Season In today’s episode, L. A,  A Green and Pleasant Land?’ We are in America, via Zoom, and Nina is joined in conversation by Yoel Aynalem, owner of Mekbib Media, a digital content production agency based in Los Angeles, California. Their goal is to help small businesses take back control of how they’re perceived by the publi...

Does Sustainability start at home?  Guests: Bob Barr and Zoe Cohen Welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter.  This 2nd season of the podcast focuses on Sustainability. Something we all need to focus on a lot more! We kick off the season with this episode, Does Sustainability Start at Home?  Nina is joined by, Zoe Cohen and Bob Barr. Zoe Cohen, Director of Shine Coaching and Consu...

Welcome to a brand new season of The Change Troubleshooter! Season 2 is all about sustainability. In this introductory episode Nina explains why she was moved to dedicate a whole season to the theme of sustainability and walks us through what we can expect from each episode.  She talks to some amazing people from her local village as well as across the pond in Los Angeles and Canada. This season w...

 Do we have unrealistic expectations of digital transformation set by the disruptors? Or have they set an expectation the competition has to respond to? Nina, Simon and Nick have over 75 years of combined experience in this field. Their conversation tackles the top barriers to change and provides insight into what they would do differently.  In this episode Nina, Simon and Nick talk about the perm...

 Do we have unrealistic expectations of digital transformation set by the disruptors? Or have they set an expectation the competition has to respond to? Nina, Simon and Nick have over 75 years of combined experience in this field. Their conversation tackles the top barriers to change and provides insight into what they would do differently.  In this episode Nina, Simon and Nick talk about the perm...

 Nina and her guest, Neil Randon, have taken inspiration from a George Bernard Shaw quote; "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." Brilliant, and sums up so many technology projects.   In this episode Nina and Neil discuss the highs and lows of technology adoption, both of them with a keen understanding of the psychology involved. The brain is the mos...