The Curious Advantage Podcast

In this episode, Garrick Jones dives into the world of innovation with Hersh Haladker , founder of InstillMotion, a company that helps businesses achieve Exprovement, the convergence of ideas solving unique business challenges.  Hersh, co-author of Exprovement: Unleashing Innovation Across Industries shares insights into his innovation journey, discussing his early interest and the nuanced relatio...

In this engaging podcast episode, Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones are joined by Lauren Waldman , the founder and learning specialist behind Learning Pirate.  With an educational background spanning prestigious institutions like Harvard, Duke, and John Hopkins University, Lauren launched Learning Pirate in 2017. Her mission is to empower individuals to harness their full cognitive pot...

In this episode, we delve into the world of education and innovation with our special guest, Sal Khan , the visionary founder, and CEO of Khan Academy. Sal's mission is to provide a free, world-class education to learners of all ages and backgrounds, and his pioneering approach to education has earned him acclaim as a trailblazer in the ed-tech industry alongside his early adoption of Generative A...

In this captivating podcast episode, we delve into the remarkable journey of Darren Shand , the driving force behind the legendary All-Blacks Rugby team since 2004. Darren's tenure has been marked by historic achievements, including Rugby World Cup victories, undefeated seasons, Tri Nations, and Rugby Championships wins, three Grand Slams, and the coveted title of World Rugby Team of the Year. The...

José Manuel Barroso's path from academia to politics is a journey fuelled by curiosity and lifelong learning. Starting as a law professor in Portugal, he rose to become the Prime Minister of Portugal in 2002 and later served as the President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014, steering through critical events like the Lisbon Treaty, the 2008 financial crisis, and the European Sovereign D...

Calum Chase, best-selling author, and AI expert and adviser, specializing in the future of AI and its impacts on our societies and economies, has an insightful conversation with Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones about the benefits and challenges of AI. He talks about the future impacts of Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect the future of work, health, and economic sectors. How can curiosi...

Richard Parker, previous CEO of the British Bobsleigh & Skeleton Association and current CEO of Leading Line Consultancy and Partner within EY Lane4 joins Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones in a thought-provoking discussion on how resilience, not being afraid to fail and curiosity has driven him to move through a career starting as a teacher, professional athlete and CEO to a big 4 partner.  How...

Tim Munden , award-winning Former Chief Learning Officer of Unilever and Founder and Director of Kairon joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown, Garrick Jones in a thought-provoking discussion on igniting and discovering purpose, ensuring wellbeing for individuals and leaders, and focusing on the approach of upskilling employees to shift behaviours. How is purpose connected to curiosity and how does mana...

Johan Roos , Hult’s Chief Academic Officer, known for his work on intellectual capital and LEGO Serious Play™, and expert in strategy and innovation, meets Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in this episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast in a curious exploration of education, learning, limitless innovation and much more!  How important is curiosity for education? How can you drive innovation and qual...

Noah Rabinowitz , Moderna Vice President, and Global Head of Learning, joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown, and Garrick Jones in a fascinating exploration of curiosity and learning as the catalyst for accelerated change and achievement of mission, purpose and potential. Why should we reject mediocrity and focus on the commitment to excellence and mastery? How can leaders help prepare their people fo...

Mike Vaughan , CEO of The Regis company, joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones for a focus on AI, Neuroscience and Learning in this powerful episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast. Subscribe today to hear about mental models, team effectiveness and agility. What are the new business models that AI presents? How will AI be critical in the future of learning? What’s the role of ‘bett...

Microsoft’s Brian Murphy , leading Career Development for the Global Sales organisation, joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in this fascinating episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast to talk about AI, meta career competencies, L&D, the future of work, the role of curiosity in navigating the new world of work, skills as a new currency and much more!  How has Microsoft been ad...

This week Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones interviewed ChatGPT directly and had AI read the responses. They also had ChatGPT generate the questions they asked. The result is surprising, coherent, thought provoking and worth listening to.  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors of The Curious Advantage, and keep exploring curiously!  #AI #Chat...

“ Even as assertively companies are automating and integrating technology, it's always going to be about the people .” Brandon Carson , Walmart’s VP of Learning and Leadership, joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in this episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast to talk about curiosity and learning at a massive scale. Hear Brandon’s curious journey from Sun, Yahoo! And Microsoft, to...

Loretta Breuning , Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, Academic and Author meets Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in a fascinating conversation on Endorphins, happy neurochemicals and curiosity! Listen to Loretta’s journey of exploration of the brain chemistry we share with earlier mammals. How do neurochemicals govern our feelings? What makes us happy? What happens in the brain wh...

Diana Kander joins Paul Ashcroft and Simon Brown on this Curious Advantage episode, to talk about cracking the Curiosity code for exponential growth and about achieving better results by asking better questions! What is the Curiosity Muscle? What happens to organisations that are not curious enough or that loose curiosity? Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the a...

“ Curiosity has mysterious ways and it can tell you one passage that you do not expect ” Ganna Pogrebna joins Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in a fascinating conversation the role of curiosity in behavioural data science and social engineering! Join them to hear about navigating through AI, human vs machine bias, cybersecurity and cybercrime, insights into Gana’s new book the ‘Big Bad Bias’ and muc...

Michael Spencer shares with Garrick Jones , his curious journey from being a full-time performer, violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra to becoming Head of Education at the Royal Opera House and to working and teaching in Japan. How does curiosity help us engage with completely new contexts? What’s the role of curiosity in our decision making, in connecting with new people, in enabling us e...

Sanyin Siang , recognized by Thinkers50 as the world's Most Influential Coach & Mentor, shares her impressive journey and talks bout coaching, leadership, superpowers, the role of curiosity, curiosity as a superpower, how to unlock and cultivate it and much more with Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors,...

Daniela Proust, Head of Global People Enablement and Growth at Siemens joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown & Garrick Jones . How do you develop an organisation’s top leaders, particularly with the world moving as fast as it does today to successfully lead a global organisation? What is the role of curiosity? How important is it in a learning strategy and culture to drive growth?  Are you curious...

The journey from Web 0 to Web3! A fascinating evolution in marketing! Marc Mathieu, global marketeer and Salesforce strategic customer transformation & innovation lead joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown & Garrick Jones. What does Web3 mean for the user? How is Web 3 connected to the metaverse, crypto, NFTs and blockchain technology? What does Web3 mean from a creativity and curiosity perspe...

“Learning is self-love”. Vidya Krishnan, Ericsson’s CLO meets Simon Brown & Garrick Jones to talk about Learning and building a curious culture in a global organisation. How do you shift an organisation’s culture and what are the key challenges to overcome? What’s the role of curiosity and what are the benefits it can have on mindset? How do we nurture the will before the skill? Are you curiou...

Scott Peltin , founder and Chief Performance Officer of Tignum, a company that helps executive clients achieve their full potential joins Paul Ashcroft and Simon Brown . Discover Scott’s curious journey from a frontline firefighter in Phoenix to a coach of the world’s top executives and professional athletes! What are the mindset killers?  What is the gap between our performance and our potential?...

Dr Alison Horstmeyer, talent development consultant, executive coach, humanistic researcher, founder at Intrinsic Curiosity and pioneering scholar practitioner on workplace curiosity joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in the latest Curious Advantage Podcast. Join them to explore curiosity as a mental, emotional, and motivational system. Is curiosity a process? How can curiosity be...

Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist, a global keynote speaker, a TED speaker, and author of the award winning, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work joins Paul Ashcroft , Simon Brown and Garrick Jones. Why is Curiosity the engine for innovation?  How is it connected to creativity? What is WonderRigor™ and the 3i Creativity™ Framework? Jazz, compex systems,...