#009 - We can all innovate. Innovation is problem-solving.
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In this episode I speak with Adah Parris, Futurist, Cultural Innovator, Board Advisor, Storyteller and Keynote Speaker.
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#008 - On humanized leadership. Be more real, be more yourself at work.
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Lou Banks, CEO or Rising Vibe, passionately believes in what she calls a more “humanized leadership” style – this is simply where people are more themselves at work and feel safe to be open about their feelings and emotions.
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#007 - Every Business Can Build Social Good into their Business.
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We explore why having a social mission is attractive to venture capitalists and investors. Martin is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of driving rapid scale-up growth.
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#006 - Tune into your hearts to unlock innovation, and inspire brave action.
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In this conversation, Matt’s pragmatic idealism goes deep as he shares his views on how people hold immense power – he believes we can transcend our fears of change, tap into our emotions and use compassion and love as tools to do the brave work needed to make the world a better place.
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#005 - How can brands help men?
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In this conversation Fernando talks passionately about how men are in crisis and how brands can offer new more useful social narratives for men.
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#004 - 2020 marks a pivotal time for brands to take bold action and become agents of positive social and environmental change.
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In this conversation, Laura Hunter, Creative Director at change agency Futerra, talks about the massive cultural shift we’ve experienced over the last 6 months on climate change. This immense shift is a powerful signal to brands and businesses indicating that it’s time to pivot, take bold action and build robust sustainable strategies that go beyond glossy purpose statements.
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#003 - Real Writing is Re-Writing with Lisa Holdsworth
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Lisa Holdsworth is Chair of the Writers Guild of Great Britain and represents TV Writers. She talks to Stephanie Rosilio about ways that writers can embed more sustainable themes into our most loved TV programmes. Lisa passionately touches on social inclusion and how important it is to allow a multitude of voices access the power of writing for TV in order to represent more authentic and diverse realities.
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#002 - How to make sustainability fun and entertaining
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Aaron Matthews leads sustainability at BAFTA and across the TV industry. He talks to Stephanie Rosilio about ways that w can embed more sustainable images and language into our most loved TV programmes, be it soaps, cookery or travel programmes. He talks about TV’s role to lead on cultural climate leadership.
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#001 - How can the advertising industry respond to the climate emergency?
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Using Creativity, compassion and genius to solve global warming.
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Grandkids Test Intro - Part 2
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Where bold leaders talk about how to create a sustainable future for generations to come.
info_outlineIn this episode I speak with Adah Parris, Futurist, Cultural Innovator, Board Advisor, Storyteller and Keynote Speaker.
As we ease out of lockdown, and we enter another phase filled with uncertainty, it’s great to hear from Adah whose skill is to find patterns in our human behaviour. By joining the dots, Adah then identifies ways we can map out processes to solve big challenges and enable cultural and business innovation to build a better world.
Adah believes innovation is needed right now. What Adah points out is that innovation is simply problem solving and it’s in our human nature to problem solve. In our chat we explore how we can all be innovators, how to harness empathy, to “empathetically subvert the status quo”, re-build trust and collaboration and find new and better ways to be human and ultimately become better ancestors.
What's in the podcast:
Intro to 1.32
To 2.13 - Adah’s mission
2.13-4.36 - On why empathy is important easing out of lockdown
It’s about changing the way things are. Covid-19 has highlighted the need for people to behave in more empathetic ways.
4.36-5.53 - On generosity, collective vulnerability with Covid-19
We are all human first – we ask ourselves what do we place value on?
5.54-7.58 - On how generosity and empathy fit within business context?
It’s all about innovation - innovation is problem solving – we are all innovators – everyone in the business is a creative innovator – how do we create a culture that recognizes the human potential of everyone?
6.25- 7.26 Innovation is problem-solving
7.58 9.02 Re-cap on innovation
9.02-11.12 - Will we retain this innovation mindset going forward?
Are businesses behaving in a responsible way right now?
How do we create a space for serendipity without being in a work space?
11.12 -14.43 - How do we use technology in a helpful way going forward?
Technology is just a tool. As humans we have used a form of technology to try and gain enlightenment. Adah names this “cyborg shamanism” as in ‘cyborg’ which is the search of what it is to be human and “shamanism” which is about actively seeking other ways of knowing – hence it’s about finding ways to create spaces online and offline where we include diverse voices where everyone’s perspective is valid, encouraging creativity and nurturing curiosity.
14.43 - On how to nurture curiosity in the business context
People are now thinking creatively, businesses are having to adapt.
16.14 - Now is a time of great opportunity – we are in the “gap” between the ‘old’ ways and an uncertain future. We can be a part of creating a new and better future.
18.13-19.32 Pandemic has highlighted the idea of de centralization, breaking down barriers, working collaboratively plus the resurgence of hyper local communities and the need for us to all pause and to slow down. All these strategies can be carried through within business communities going forward.
19.32 – 20.30 On slowing down
20.30-21.40 - It is ok not to know the end – it’s ok to be uncertain – we open up ideas, curiosity and creativity.
21.40 - On playfulness, fun, experimentation
21.40 - On Adah’s values – and on activism within organisations.
22.43- 23.51 - "to be an activist isn’t going on protests, to be an activist is to believe in something bigger than yourself and to have an idea of what success looks like and how that’s going to shift the current reality to the future reality and there is a messag or messagese that need to be amplified..you then need to find your tribe others who have the same world view and are driven by the same things ..and that is why you can have activism within businesses….doing good for the world..a mission we all believe in…then why wouldn’t you have activists in the organisation…”
23.51-24.47 - Every business should be a social impact business
24.47 - What gives Adah most hope? People recognizing they have more choice than they thought they did. Taking time to work out where we are at.
26.03 - On empathetically subverting, we are understanding ourselves better now because we have had the opportunity to take away distractions.
27.13 - Now is the time to ask important questions such as ‘Who are you as a person? As a business? What do you stand for?’
27.30 - Now is a defining moment – a new generation are living a different reality.
28.26 - Rapid fire questions
A sense of urgency to do the work Adah does. We are in the gap between where we were before and a future we can re-imagine – Storytellers will be key
“Culture is collective storytelling”
30.00 - Motivation hack - “Life is a constant experiment”
32.40 - Sources of inspiration
34.00 - Magic wand – one wish that would have biggest impact
36.40 - Closing comments
37.48-39.23 Stephanie’s outro
Show Notes:
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