The Mindset Economy

AI is not failing because of bad technology. It is failing because of bad questions. Dr. Leo Anthony Celi , critical care physician and researcher at MIT, has spent years exposing a problem that the machine learning community would rather not face. The datasets training our most powerful healthcare AI do not just underrepresent certain populations. They reflect, and quietly reinforce the inequalit...

What does leadership look like when nobody really knows what’s coming next? In this episode, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by Chris Hirst, former global CEO and leadership advisor, to explore how leaders and individuals make decisions in a world shaped by uncertainty and AI. Chris challenges some familiar ideas, arguing that working hard is not enough, and that the real differentiator i...

The rules that got you here may be the very thing holding you back. Ja-Naé Duane and Steve Fisher call them super shifts, fundamental changes so significant that many of the assumptions underpinning how we work, lead, and create value are quietly becoming obsolete. Expertise, control, certainty: the frameworks that once provided stability are starting to break down. Most organisations are yet to r...

Most leaders say they want candour. Almost none of them have it. Amy Edmondson, Harvard professor and the world's leading researcher on psychological safety, argues that the problem isn't culture, it isn't trust, it isn't people. It's the invisible interpersonal risk that makes speaking up feel more dangerous than staying quiet. In a world where AI is accelerating the pace...

 The greatest risk of the AI era may not be losing our jobs. It may be losing our ability to imagine something better. Futurist Sarah Housley has noticed something troubling. As AI advances and change accelerates, many people are experiencing less agency, not more. The collective imagination about what the future could look like seems to have stalled, replaced by anxiety and short-term thinking at...

Intelligence does not protect you from dogmatism. In some cases, it makes it worse. This is one of the more unsettling findings to emerge from the work of Dr. Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist at Cambridge and author of The Ideological Brain. Her research reveals that ideology is not defined by what you believe, but by how you believe it. When thinking becomes rigid and fused with identity, the brain n...

For more than a century, humans have tried to mimic machines. First with our bodies, then with our minds. It hasn't served us well. Mithu Storoni, neuroscientist and author of the Business Book of the Year 2025, wants to change the way leaders think about productivity. Not by doing more, but by understanding how the brain actually works. Because most workplaces still run on industrial-era log...

Launching on Thursday 15th January 2026,  The Mindset Economy Podcast explores a profound shift in how value is created in an automated world. As we move beyond the industrial, service, and knowledge economies, a new multi-trillion-dollar era is emerging. One where beliefs, resilience, and adaptability are no longer background traits, but the currency that shapes success. Hosted by Jean Gomes and...

After five years and hundreds of episodes of The Evolving Leader , co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are excited to announce a bold new chapter. In a world that is rapidly being reshaped by AI, climate change and shifting social, political and economic realities, the need for a new conversation is clear. The Mindset Economy explores how leaders can thrive in a world where machines can think....