The Tsunami Is Coming Podcast

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Ryan Howard is an MBA alum from HEC Paris with eight years in robotics behind him. He’s done what we used to call the triple jump: changed job, industr...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. For eighty years, freedom of navigation looked like a feature of the physical world. You moved a ship through a strait; the strait stayed open. Then Ir...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Most images of Japan are not accidents: the samurai, the cherry blossoms, the geisha, the kawaii cuteness, or the pink everywhere. They are not exactly...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Anastasia Buyalskaya is a behavioral scientist and Professor of Marketing at HEC Paris. She spends most of her working life on a single question: why p...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Souheil Ben Slimane is a former mobile app developer who is now a licensed Paris tour guide. He builds his own museum tours for families, including a h...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Charles-Henri Colombier is Director of Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasting at the Rexecode Institute , based in Paris. His job is to analyze and for...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Has AI transformed your organization? Look around. The same people, the same processes, the same reporting lines. AI has changed absolutely nothing. No...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Julian Schirmer is the co-founder of OAO . He works with companies like Sanofi, AXA, and Henkel on AI-driven transformation. He's half German, half Fre...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Julien Jourdan is a professor in the Management and Human Resources Department at HEC Paris. He studies organizational scandal: not the explosion, but...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Eric Mengus is an economist at HEC Paris, a colleague, and someone I’ve had the privilege of arguing with about public policy for years. The problem, h...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Layal Naban is Global Head of Sustainability for Financial Institutions at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking. She works at the intersec...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Since 1991, data processing has been the largest component of US business investment. Not AI. Not cloud. Not some recent revolution. For over thirty ye...

Welcome to this series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Shirin Golkar is the Secretary General at the Swiss MENA Chamber. We met when she was completing her Executive MBA at HEC Paris. She knows Iran’s busin...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Flora Goldenberg is a Paris-based tour guide and lecturer specializing in Le Marais, the city’s historic Jewish quarter. Check out her Instagram ac...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Alastair Newton is a political risk analyst who has spent decades advising financial institutions on geopolitics — starting at Lehman Brothers in 2...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Philip Bruner is a professor of practice in sustainable finance at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, where he directs the C...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Frederic Raillard is the CEO and co-founder of Fred & Farid , an international advertising agency, and the founder of [Ai]magination , where he’s e...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. I spoke with Pauline Laravoire , an entrepreneur and sustainability educator who splits her time between Paris and Kolkata. What keeps her up at ni...

Welcome to this new series from The Tsunami is Coming : What Keeps You Up at Night? This is a set of conversations in which experts and thought leaders name the shifts they see coming and the fractures in the status quo that haven’t yet made headlines. Here’s the very first edition! Leslie Palti-Guzman is a leading expert on global gas markets and energy geopolitics. She’s the founder of the advis...

What the new U.S. National Security Strategy quietly signals The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy contains one line that should make every European policymaker pause: Washington now wants to “cultivate resistance” inside allied democracies. This isn’t military intervention. It’s something quieter:a willingness to back alternative political forces in Europe to “correct” its trajectory. Key poin...

It’s way too early to determine the long-term effects of the US strike on Iranian nuclear facilities yesterday. Here are a few brief thoughts to get this conversation going. Long story short? Now may be a good time to start doubting if you never had any doubts about the regions future. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...

Musk blasted Trump’s signature bill as “disgusting abomination.” He added, moments ago, that Trump would have never been elected without his help. Trump said he found this all very disappointing. High level drama? Yes. And a warning about the new rules of influence. We’re moving from a predictable, institution-based system where companies could rely on established processes and regulatory framewor...

Recent concerns about Joe Biden's health and the broader challenges facing the Democratic Party shouldn’t feel normal — and here’s why: * They highlight growing questions about transparency and leadership within a party that seems increasingly out of touch with the U.S. electorate. * These U.S. developments reflect a global pattern: as the world grapples with rapid, disorienting change, the supply...

One photo, two leaders, and a thousand headlines. In three minutes I break down why Trump’s Vatican kneel-down with Zelensky looks anything but accidental. Love him or hate him, you must remember something about Trump’s talent: as the former owner of the beauty pageant Miss America, and the former host and producer of The Apprentice, the President of the United States knows what makes a picture ap...

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni is in Italy to meet with President Donald Trump amid heightened tensions between the United States and the European Union over trade tariffs and broader transatlantic tensions. The official joint statement from the White House emphasized the commitment of both countries to deepen cooperation on security, defense, and technology, as well as to address issues su...