The 5Cs

The Business of Not Giving Up The most committed people in any room are often the ones closest to the edge. This episode is about what leaders can actually do about that. Before it's too late. With special guest Dr. Debra Borys , a clinical psychologist licensed in California with long-standing interest and concern for nature and the environment. She is co-founder and co-chair of the LA County Psy...

From Moral Injury to Moral Realignment With special guest Dr. Debra Borys , a clinical psychologist licensed in California with long-standing interest and concern for nature and the environment. She is co-founder and co-chair of the LA County Psychological Association Eco-Psychology Special Interest Group, an active member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America and a trained Climate C...

The Poly-Crisis Is Not a Climate Problem With special guest Dr. Debra Borys , a clinical psychologist licensed in California with long-standing interest and concern for nature and the environment. She is co-founder and co-chair of the LA County Psychological Association Eco-Psychology Special Interest Group, an active member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America and a trained Climate...

Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It There's a name for what you've been carrying. And it isn't burnout. In this first of five episodes, host, Charlene Norman draws a distinction most leaders have never heard between moral injustice (the event that hits you) and moral injury (what it leaves behind). Drawing on three decades inside extractive industries, her own 2008 recession st...

The Leader of Tomorrow In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we bring the series home with the question that has been sitting underneath every conversation: what does the leader who can actually do all of this look like? Rashmir names five roles the leader of tomorrow needs to be able to play. We end with a reframe of leadership built not on authority, not on vision,...

The Seven Principles of Regeneration In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss the framework at the heart of regenerative practice. Carol Sanford's seven principles of regeneration and what it actually looks like to apply them inside real organisations and systems. Rashmir walks us through each principle clearly and without jargon, grounds them in concrete exa...

Masculine, Feminine, and the Danger of Overfocus In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss the broken balance between masculine and feminine ways of operating. Not as opposites to set against each other, but as complementary forces we have allowed to fall dangerously out of alignment. Rashmir offers one of the most unexpected and clarifying metaphors I've enco...

The Inner Work Nobody Talks About In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss what it actually takes to move from where most leaders are operating right now toward something genuinely different. And why the answer is not a strategy, a method, or a roadmap. Rashmir introduces a parallel framework for understanding how we relate to the world, from feeling like a v...

From Stewardship to Co-Creation In this episode with Rashmir Balasubramaniam of https://rashmir.net/ we discuss what it actually means to move from a force-based to a flow-based way of leading — and why that shift matters more right now than any strategy, tool, or methodology. Rashmir introduces the distinction between stewardship and co-creation, unpacks two very different schools of thought on f...

How We Got Here; What We Can Do completes the series of You're Playing Someone Else's Game: The Operating System Underneath Business In this final episode, Simon Mont of Harmonize ends this series with more provocative thinking. From monarchies to neoliberalism. And where the game actually changes. You can also find him on Instagram and YouTube . The key highlights are: -The straight line from med...

Power. Belonging, Justice is the third episode in the series of You're Playing Someone Else's Game: The Operating System Underneath Business Simon Mont of Harmonize shares his take on the whys and hows business is. The three forces running every organisation — and how we lost track of all three. You can also find him on Instagram and YouTube . The key highlights are: The three forces running every...

The Field is the second of four episodes in You're Playing Someone Else's Game: The Operating System Underneath Business.  Simon Mont of Harmonize continues with his knack of provoking innovative thinking. Why all the smart solutions are failing — and what they're all missing. You can also find him on Instagram and YouTube. The key highlights are: -Why good intentions keep producing the same broke...

The Puzzle kicks off the new series of You're Playing Someone Else's Game: The Operating System Underneath Business In this first episode, Simon Mont of Harmonize kicks off this series with some provocative thinking. Why everything wrong with the world is a design problem.   You can also find him on Instagram and YouTube .   The key highlights are: Businesses are nothing more than operating system...

What Jobs Knew That Most Leaders Still Miss.  The final episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure  and Leaf Island. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS: Steve Jobs: "Musicians, poets, artists, zoologists who happened to be computer scientists"—not despite diversity, because...

Why Your Children Can't Afford Your Life. The fifth episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure  and Leaf Island. Key Highlights -First generation where children can't expect parents' economic stability  -Bell Labs spent 30% on basic research—gave us transi...

The fourth episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. When Your Name Disappears and that's a HUGE success. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Key Highlights -Sava River master plan survived a war between two countries  -Local teams adopted the methodology independently—now 40% of Danube's...

What is a Happy Crab? The third episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS: What is a happy crab? The question that unlocked captive breeding First artists to receive a sea grant for scientific work Why inducing an artificial monsoon solve...

Three Fatal Assumptions. The second episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure.   Key HIghlights: -The Moral Foundations of Capitalism: Revisiting Adam Smith -The Modern Market: From Transparency to Information Arbitrage -Environmental Blind Spots in Econo...

Artists through History. The first episode in a new six part series. The Rock Tumbler:  How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking. With special guest Josh Harrison , of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure.   Key HIghlights: 1. Artists as Integrated Problem-Solvers: Lessons from History  Historically, artists weren’t isolated creatives—they were embedded in the fabric of their comm...

If you missed the previous three episodes, go here  This is Part Four of Four -- A deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm" Key highlights: The Cracked Mirror: Seeing Ourselves in the System Sacred Innocence: The Trap of Moral Superiority The Hunger to Punish: Why Righteousness Can Backfire The Davos Smear: When Solutions Mirror...

If you missed the previous two episodes, go here  This is Part Three of Four  -- A deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm" Key highlights: 1. The Psychic Contract: The Illusion of Change Without Real Change 2. Truth as Territory: The Fragmentation of Reality 3. The Masculine Shell: Power, Vulnerability, and Leadership Because D...

Continuing oue deep dive into the work of Richard David Hames, using his essay "The Mirror Cracks: Donald Trump and the American Psyche” as a lens to examine the foundational patterns driving both climate crisis and the broader malaise of modern capitalism, the episodes looks at the final three of Richard's six insights.   - The Epistemological Break - The Civilization Crisis - Nature as a Resourc...

Let’s face it: the world is on fire—sometimes literally. The systems that built our prosperity are now threatening our future. As host  Charlene Norman puts it, “You cannot build regenerative systems on extractive foundations. You cannot create sustainable solutions using the same logic that created the crisis.” This episode isn’t about bashing the U.S. or any one leader. It’s about recognizing th...

Business leaders and executives know exactly what power and dominance are.  That is the goal behind every scaling move for market share, for revenue and for profit.  It works until it doesn't.  There is a race in the geo political landscape that will suffer the exact same fate.  The pursuit of energy.   Whether fossil fuel or clean tech, both will indeed scale. Both will work, until they don't.  B...

Business leaders and executives are no strangers to tough decisions, but what happens when the stakes are nothing less than the future of our planet?  Host Charlene Norman presents a masterclass in leadership under uncertainty. She weaves together the urgency of the climate crisis, the fragility of democracy, and the overwhelming complexity of our times. Drawing on insights from sustainability lea...