The Wicked Opportunities Podcast

Welcome to the October edition of The Wicked Opportunities Podcast! We won’t need a crystal ball to unravel our next mystery, but we WILL summon the future. The urban legend of Generational Warfare has haunted us all for far too long, and it’s high time that we pull the mask off of this specter that has caused so much age-related fear and loathing. Join your favorite meddling kids as they expose t...

If we’re going to overcome the insidious idea of generational divide, we will have to do more than build a Venn Diagram of the various age-cohorts that highlights a few areas of common interest between the old and the young - we will need to carve a path to inclusive knowledge creation, decentralized ideation and a “global brain.” In this episode, join Yvette and Frank as they move past the seemin...

Cultivating limitless imagination across the globe might be the solution to our paralyzing mindset of resource scarcity and social inequality, but it’s definitely a lot easier said than done. How do we empower people to cultivate Imagination Literacy in a world captivated by quantitative measurements, linear thinking and a race to the lowest common denominator? Join Yvette and Frank as they use a...

When systems are in flux and the world is transitioning to a new way of thinking and acting, it's important that we consider how humanity will be redesigned, how we will reframe the world around us, and what novel responses we will offer. Listen in as Yvette and Frank put the finishing touches on a pathway toward Imagination Literacy through the use five futures-focused questions known as the...

The opportunities afforded to us through an environment of emerging complexity are useless unless we act upon them in the here and now. Rather than imposing the fixed ideas about our present-day disciplines, industries and practices on the future, we must remain open to learning, unlearning and relearning as a means to co-creating novel capabilities and approaches. In the final episode of the Imag...

Welcome to the first installment of The Wicked Opportunities Podcast! We dive right into the deep end of the futures thinking pool, tackling a long-standing problem known as “Tragedy of the Commons” - the dilemma in which shared resources within a system are gradually depleted due to self-interest and a lack of collective wellbeing. Tragedy of the Commons can be seen today in everything from socia...