Stephen Poor on discerning relevance, distilling facts, thriving for lawyers and legal students, and consciously seeing connections (Ep21)

Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls (Ep18): Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls by Thriving on Overload

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Brenda Ramokopelwa on using external and internal lenses, developing young futurists, connecting rural Africa to global thinking, and validating ideas (Ep26): Brenda is a Futurist, Author, Keynote Speaker, and Award-Winning Risk and Governance professional. She is the CEO of the Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussion and Managing Director at D@leo Consulting Services in Johannesburg. by Thriving on Overload

34 min listen

Gerd Leonhard on understanding between the lines, his favorite apps and tools, sharing bookmarks and tags, keynote storylines, and using visual catalogs (Ep19): Gerd is a Futurist and a Humanist, a leading global Keynote Speaker (live-on-stage as well as virtually and remotely), the Author of 5 books including 'Technology & Humanity’, the CEO of The Futures Agency, by Thriving on Overload

33 min listen

Robin Athey on intellectual cocaine, the journey to purpose, slow leadership, and finding your North Star (Ep12): Robin is the founder of Integral Growth, which guides founders and leaders in fast-moving, complex, high-growth environments through transformational change, to tap and trust their inner wisdom. She comes from a high powered corporate career including ... by Thriving on Overload

34 min listen

R “Ray” Wang on constant curation, learning from private networks, finding temporal patterns, and seeing the impact of trends (Ep11): R “Ray” Wang is the founder and chairman of the highly regarded tech analyst firm Constellation Research. He is the author of Disrupting Digital Business and most recently Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the future of business. Since 2003, by Thriving on Overload

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Joyce Gioia on identifying trends, scanning processes, stakeholder experience, and adopting personas for communicating (Ep22): Joyce is a strategic business futurist and President of The Herman Group appears regularly in the media, including in Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. by Thriving on Overload

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Abhijit Bhaduri on divergence and convergence, the power of sketchnotes, multidisciplinary sensemaking, and skill portfolios (Ep20) by Thriving on Overload

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Stephanie Barnes on radical knowledge management, the power of art, tapping intuition, and building curiosity (Ep49): Stephanie is founder and chief chaos organiser of Entelechy, a global network that works with organisations to solve problems in creative and innovative ways. She has a background in knowledge management IT and accounting, by Thriving on Overload

32 min listen

Annalie Killian on serendipitous learning, the network as filter, finding voices at the edge, and value from deep connections (Ep13): Annalie Killian’s mission in life is to catalyze the magic of human ingenuity to make the world, and especially corporate life, a better place. She is currently VP of Strategy and Partnerships for Omnicom’s leading cultural intelligence agency Sparks &... by Thriving on Overload

34 min listen

Marshall Kirkpatrick on source selection, connecting ideas, diverse thinking, and enabling serendipity (Ep14): Marshall Kirkpatrick was the first writer hired by the TechCrunch and helped drive its early growth through the quality of his work, then moved to become Co-Editor of ReadWriteWeb, then one of the defining publications on the Internet economy. by Thriving on Overload

45 min listen

Gary Swart on achieving balance, prioritization factors, filtering by relationships, and using frameworks (Ep15): Gary Swart, General Partner of leading venture capital firm Polaris Partners, focusing on investing in technology and healthcare companies. Prior to joining Polaris he was CEO of oDesk, now Upwork, the world’s largest online work marketplace. by Thriving on Overload

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Stephen Poor on discerning relevance, distilling facts, thriving for lawyers and legal students, and consciously seeing connections (Ep21): Stephen Poor is Chair Emeritus of leading employment law firm Seyfarth & Shaw, which has 900 lawyers across 17 offices and multiple continents. He led the firm as Chairman for 15 years, introducing a range of industry-leading innovations, by Thriving on Overload

33 min listen

Christopher Mims on seeing what’s next, filtering tools, valuable conversations, and tapping expertise (Ep17): Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014 he worked as a science and technology journalist and editor for a variety of august publications including Quartz, Technology Review, Wired, by Thriving on Overload

30 min listen

Paul X. McCarthy on networks to find experts, identifying authorities, computational social science, and latent knowledge (Ep24): Paul is CEO of data science and research startup League of Scholars, which works with a wide range of organizations including Nature and News Corporation, and the cofounder of a number of other ventures, He is an Adjunct Professor at U of NSW and Honor... by Thriving on Overload

27 min listen

Michell Zappa on how technology evolves, scouting what’s emerging, assessing technologies, and designing useful future infographics (Ep16): Michell Zappa is a technology futurist, information designer and founder of Envisioning, a technology foresight institute. His work aims to illustrate the implications of accelerating change and facilitate a higher level of awareness about our relation... by Thriving on Overload

44 min listen

Sam McRoberts on connecting the dots, being humbly curious, introducing randomness, and thought experiments (Ep29): Sam is the CEO of global SEO agency VUDU Marketing, and the bestselling author of Screw the Zoo. He is the co-host of The Entrepreneur Cast podcast and frequently appears in media such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and many others. by Thriving on Overload

29 min listen

Nick Abrahams on purpose and prioritisation, talking for mutual value, deliberate sharing and engagement, and telling stories for understanding (Ep23): Nick Abrahams is a leading lawyer, futurist, and keynote speaker. He is the Global Co-leader of the Digital Transformation Practice at Norton Rose Fulbright advising major organisations on technology M&A, blockchain and cryptocurrency, by Thriving on Overload

31 min listen

Remi Kalir on social annotation, self curation, the connective tissue of ideas, annotation tools, and nuance for synthesis (Ep31): Remi is Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver, and a leading scholar of annotation. He is co-author of the book Annotation, published by MIT Press, and many journal articles on the subject. by Thriving on Overload

34 min listen

Eileen Clegg on visual journalism, archetypal languages of shapes, learning visual language, ancient symbols, and shared frameworks (Ep41): Eileen Clegg has been a long-time pioneer in visual journalism. She is the founder of Visual Insight, and is now also the CEO of vTapestry, which automates the creation of visual summaries of online meetings. by Thriving on Overload

35 min listen

Berit Anderson on mapping influencers, noticing breaks in patterns, ignoring headlines, and information warfare (Ep27): Berit is COO of Strategic News Service and director of programs for the Future in Review conferences. She co-founded and was CEO of Scout.ai, a media company exploring the future of technology. Her work on information warfare has been widely featured i... by Thriving on Overload

34 min listen

Puruesh Chaudhary on research processes, information ecosystems, trusting societies, and contextual memes (Ep50): Puruesh is Founder and President of the NGO AGAHI, co-founder of Media Development Trust, and Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. The global recognition for her work as a futures researcher and strategic narrative profes... by Thriving on Overload

31 min listen

Elizabeth Gould on feeling forwards, finding your golden thread, aims to behaviors, and your Inner justification (Ep64): There's a concept I use, called the Golden Thread, if you look back over the decisions you made, even as a child, did you come to play outside or did you stay inside and read a book, really basic stuff. If you join all the things that you chose to do, by Thriving on Overload

33 min listen

Jim Marous on defining yourself, ahas from unstructured dialogue, mutually beneficial learning, and the excitement of what you don’t know (Ep39): Jim Marous is the publisher of the Digital Banking Report, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and host of the Banking Transformed Podcast. He has been named as one of the most influential people in banking, a sought-after keynote speaker, by Thriving on Overload

35 min listen

Derek Laney on transcending emotional overload, openness for serendipity, balancing focus and discovery, and using threads well (Ep28): Derek Laney is Technology Evangelist for the Future of Work at collaboration platform Slack, having previously held a range of senior roles at Slack’s parent company Salesforce. by Thriving on Overload

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Rohit Krishnan on looking for surprise, passionate curiosity, dynamic loops, and creating your worldview (Ep30): Rohit is Investment Director at leading global venture capital firm Unbound, focusing on software and fintech. He was previously VP at Eight Roads Ventures and was leader of McKinsey’s growth tech practice. by Thriving on Overload

30 min listen

Bob Johansen on the officeverse, augmented intelligence, thinking future-back, and people as filters (Ep48): Bob is Distinguished Fellow and former CEO at the Institute for the Future. He has worked as a professional futurist for nearly 50 years, including in the 1970s exploring the social and organizational implications of ARPANET, by Thriving on Overload

38 min listen

Chuck Frey on visual mapping, creative thinking techniques, choosing tools, and sleight of head (Ep47): Chuck is a PR and online marketing expert who focuses on innovation, creativity, business strategy and visual thinking. He is the founder and publisher of The Mind Mapping Software Blog, and the author of books including Up Your Impact and Creativity H... by Thriving on Overload

32 min listen

Tim O’Reilly on noticing things other people don’t notice, the value of soft focus, framing open source and Web 2.0, and patience in building narratives [REPOST] (Ep1): Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of technology publishing giant O’Reilly Media, and has played a seminal role in movements including open source software, Web 2.0, maker culture, and government 2.0, and is author of the excellent book WTF: What’s th... by Thriving on Overload

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Frank Spencer IV on sense-making for complexity, holoptic foresight, digital angels, and colliding trends (Ep42): Frank Spencer is the founder and Creative Director of Kedge, a global foresight, innovation, and strategic design firm, and co-founder and Lead Instructor of The Futures School, He has worked on strategic foresight projects for companies such as Kraft,... by Thriving on Overload

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Jennifer Sertl on scenarios for sense-making, the power of reflection, sharing feedback loops, and building constellations (Ep44): Jennifer Sertl is president and founder of the leadership development company Agility3R, director of marketing at Circle Optics, and adjunct professor of Innovation at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of the book Strategy, by Thriving on Overload

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