The Decision-Making Studio Podcast

Today, I am delighted to welcome Alex Edmans to the show. You may have heard of him or you may have come across him. He is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. He was voted professor of the year by Poets and Quants. He is also a prominent speaker and an author, including of his most recent and fabulous book, May Contain Lies -   How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases ....

Today I welcome fellow Canadian Michael Hartley to the show. Michael is the director of InterKnowlogy, mining and energy. And that is a firm that operates at the intersection of risk management, human factors and data science to enhance decision-making. This conversation covers a wide range of fascinating stuff, mostly about how decisions get made during complexity and crises, mostly from Michael'...

Today, I am joined by Monique Borst , who is a coach, a strategist, a CEO catalyst, and as she describes it, "Human WD-40." She helps leaders thrive and wants to redefine modern business leadership.  And this is a conversation all about leadership, including self-leadership, self-awareness, and emotional mastery. And if you are or if you aspire to be in a leadership position or you work with leade...

Today, we talk about fraud and human behaviour. And my guest is Marta Cadavid . Marta describes herself as a "fraud fighter." She's worked in anti-fraud roles for many years. And her interest, as you'll hear, started in her native Colombia. And she's now a partner in a very interesting firm called No Fraud , which uses prediction models to anticipate criminal behaviour. Yes, you heard that right,...

Today, I am delighted to be joined by fellow decision-making professional Melina Moleskis . I came across Melina via Christian Hunt, who I've had on the show a couple of times now. Melina and I featured in a two-part series on decision-making in Christian's Human Risk podcast Melina is the founder of Meta Decisions , a consultancy that leverages decision and behavioural science to help people and...

This is Part Two of Two with Fraser Battye of the NHS Strategy Unit . If you haven't heard Part One, I suggest you give it a listen, although it's not strictly necessary. This episode is a continuation of the same conversation and covers creativity, uncertainty, cognitive biases and the limits of nudges. Show notes: Fraser Battye on LinkedIn The Strategy Unit Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His...

Today we have Part One of my two part conversation with  Fraser Battye . Fraser is a Principal at the Strategy Unit of the UK National Health Service the NHS, and the Strategy Unit provides analysis and strategic change expertise. As part of that role, Fraser provides expert guidance on decision-making. And this is a two-part conversation which covers a huge number of fascinating dimensions of dec...

Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming  Nuno Reis to the show. I came across Nuno via his LinkedIn posts on uncertainty and in particularly around something called Bayesian Analysis or Bayesian Thinking. If you've never come across the term, Bayesian Analysis is the mathematical interpretation of probability. And it underpins so much of our world   - and increasingly so because many AI models are...

In this episode, we talk about "tuning in" – into a noisy world so that we can make the best decisions possible. My guest is  Nuala Walsh . Nuala is a best-selling author, an adjunct professor of behavioural science at Trinity College in Dublin, an independent non-executive director, a TEDx speaker and one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Finance. She is the author of the fabulous new book Tun...

Today, I welcome back my friend  Alison Taylor to the show. Alison is a clinical professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and she is also the Executive Director of Ethical Systems . She spent the last two decades consulting with multinationals on anti-corruption, risk, human rights, stakeholder engagement, and ethics and compliance. And she is the author of the fabulous new book, Higher Groun...

Today, I welcome back Paula Reid to the show. Paula is known as the "Adventure Psychologist" because of her expertise in adventure psychology, which is all about surviving, coping, and thriving during challenge and uncertainty. So obviously, there are huge parallels to decision-making under or uncertainty and to many of my show's themes. And we talk a little bit about that at the outset of this ep...

Today, I'm delighted to welcome Laura Fox  to the show. Laura is a risk management professional and the founder of Canary Risk , a firm that helps clients with outsourced risk management and to navigate uncertainty. Canary Risk is a relatively new firm, and Laura took her own personal and professional risks to set it up, so we obviously talk about that. We also cover the state of the risk professi...

Today, we discuss decision-making in international journalism, particularly when it comes to high-risk environments like conflict zones and natural disasters. My guest is Colin Pereira who was the Deputy Head of High Risk Security at the BBC and later Head of High Risk Security at ITN. Now he is a Director of the security consultancy HP Risk Management and a co-founder of Risk Pal, a risk assessme...

This is part 2 of 2 with  Daniel Wagner on focuses on his fourth and latest book about China: The China Epiphany – Comprehending China's Relationship With America and The Rest of the World . Show notes: Daniel Wagner The China Epiphany Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard? Subscribe to All Things Risk wherever great podcasts are found:  https://thedecisionmaking.stud...

This episode was recorded in June, 2022. My guest is Daniel Wagner , my co-author of Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era. Daniel had just spent 15 months living and working in China with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This coincided with China's "zero covid" policy. This is a fascinating conversation that covers: ·       Quarantine in China ·       Life in Beijing as an expat (...

My latest guest is  Garry Honey . Garry trains boards, non-executive directors, and business leaders on strategy, governance, risk, and communication. He is the founder of the consultancy Chiron Risk and runs leadership courses for various business schools. In this conversation, we cover reputation, strategic risk, leadership, and decision-making in a crisis, why so few organizations try to map ou...

This episode is a rather special one because it is about a book I have co-written entitled  Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era and I am joined by my co-author Daniel Wagner . We are dealing with a range of overlapping and acute crises – from climate change to geopolitical upheaval and societal polarisation. At the same time, the tools and the mindset to approach decision-making are no longer fi...

In this episode, I welcome Constance Dierickx to the show. She is known as the "Decision Doctor ® " and advises leaders on high-stakes decisions (think mergers, divestments, strategic changes, crises, and so on). She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is the author of three books, the latest of which is called Meta Leadership – How to See What Others Don't and Make Great Decisions . We talk abou...

I was also going to release this one over Halloween, but I think that for the reasons that you will hear, it's far, far more appropriate to release it now. My guest is Dr. Merlin Tuttle , and today we talk about the conservation of bats. Merlin is a well-known American conservationist. He is the founder of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation. He has studied and photographed bats for over 60 years, an...

Today's episode is a wonderful look at organizational culture, performative risk management, that is risk management theatre, ways to quickly assess a healthy culture, and much more. My guest is the brilliant  Dr. Roger Miles . For those of you who don't know him, Roger researches and engages with many kinds of organisations about how people perceive risk and make decisions under uncertainty. He h...

Today, we talk geopolitical risk, an area that, if recent surveys are to be believed, keeps CEOs up at night more than anything else. My guest is Derek Leatherdale . Derek is the founder and managing director of GRI Strategies , which helps companies thrive in a volatile world. He does that by helping them think through and respond to geopolitical risk. Prior to that, Derek set up and ran the Geop...

Today, I speak to  Sabrina Segal  about managing risk in the so -called "third sector", which is the charity and non-profit sector. 
 Sabrina is an international development and humanitarian assistance professional. 
 She has worked on the ground during many humanitarian crises and international development roles in the likes of the Middle East and North Africa, Sub -Saharan Africa, and South Asia...

Our second in a thing called "Decision Reactions" Show notes: NPR piece:  https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/104149... Original Al Jazeera piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjV6.. . Follow The Decision-Making Studio and get our copy of the FOCUS framework primer - www.thedecisionmaking.studio  

Today on the show, I am delighted to bring you my conversation with Rupert Evill . Rupert is the founder of Ethics Insight , a firm that helps organisations make risk relevant and implement risk, ethics and compliance programmes quickly. Rupert has 22 years of experience managing risks and crises in a variety of different environments and worked on roles focused on investigations, political risk,...

This is the first in a potential series from The Decision-Making Studio called "Decision Reactions" in which we look at quality decision-making practice. In this episode, we tee up our FOCUS decision-making framework and apply it to a great scene from the film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt. _ _ _ _ _ _  Get a copy of our short primer on the FOCUS framework by going to https://thedecisionmaking.stu...