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Fireside with Founders & LeadersThe Future of Online Safety and Identity with Tom Ryan of InnerworksSummary:In this episode, Tom discusses his journey from engineering to co-founding Innerworks, a startup focused on identity and authentication in the digital age. He shares insights on the importance of understanding customer needs, the challenges of bot detection, and the evolving landscape of online safety. Tom also reflects on the fundraising process, the significance of diverse skill sets in a startup, and valuable lessons learned along the way.Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Background10:34 Innerworks: The Vision and Product Overview18:36 Technical Approaches to Bot Detection21:58...
2025-11-1240 min
Fireside with Founders & LeadersThe Future of Online Safety and Identity with Tom Ryan of InnerworksSummary:In this episode, Tom discusses his journey from engineering to co-founding Innerworks, a startup focused on identity and authentication in the digital age. He shares insights on the importance of understanding customer needs, the challenges of bot detection, and the evolving landscape of online safety. Tom also reflects on the fundraising process, the significance of diverse skill sets in a startup, and valuable lessons learned along the way.Chapters:00:00 Introduction and Background10:34 Innerworks: The Vision and Product Overview18:36 Technical Approaches to Bot Detection21:58...
2025-11-1240 min
Revenue Search: Inside BittensorSubnet Session with Red Team: Beating Bots with Bittensor (SN61)In this episode, we sit down with Oli and Oscar from Red Team, the BitTensor subnet tackling one of GenAI’s biggest threats: synthetic fraud.Their London-based cybersecurity firm Innerworks already protects major payment platforms and crypto exchanges. But now, with Subnet 61, they’ve built a decentralized R&D engine that uses BitTensor miners to stress-test their own defences - crowdsourcing attacks to stay ahead of adversaries.We dig into:What Red Team actually does (in human language)Why AI-powered fraud is exploding - and how SN61 spots it in real timeThe genius way they...
2025-07-1633 min
Stacking Your Team | Leadership Advisor for Women Entrepreneurs367: How This Private Practice Owner Elevated Team Performance with Jessica CowlingThis episode features a powerful conversation with Jessica Cowling, a remarkable member of our Leadership Lab and the founder and CEO of InnerWorks Counseling in London, Ontario. In this episode, Jessica opens up about the bold, intentional moves she's made to set her team and her business up for long-term success. We dig into how she transitioned her rapidly growing team to salary-based compensation for more stability, why she's introducing micro roles to bring more ownership and clarity to her staff, and how she's leveraging our signature 5R work plan to boost accountability and follow-through. ...
2025-05-2736 min
If These Walls Could Talk PodcastWho's Carrying What? The Mental Load With Maddie WilsonEpisode Description:In this episode, Carrie and Alyssa are joined by Madeline, a registered social worker who specializes in helping individuals and couples navigate life's most overwhelming transitions, including the perinatal period, caregiver burnout, anxiety, and depression. Madeline provides both in-person and virtual support to individuals 16+ and couples, offering a safe, grounded space to reconnect to your inner strength and move toward a more connected, confident life.Together, the three dive into the invisible labor of parenting, aka the mental load. They unpack how it shows up in relationships, especially in the early parenting years...
2025-05-1228 min
The Unstoppably Yours PodcastInnerworks pt 6 "The Power of Listening: Hearing Beyond the Words" In a world where everyone wants to be heard, truly listening has become a lost art. In this episode, we dive into the quiet strength of being present for others — not to fix, not to respond, but to understand. Whether it’s in conversations with loved ones, colleagues, or even strangers, the simple act of listening can build bridges, heal wounds, and spark genuine connection. Join Brittlie as she explores the impact of active listening, share personal stories, and offer practical tips on how to become...
2025-04-0911 min
Re:Imagine OwnershipHunting Bots and Proving Ownership with Ollie QuieIn this episode of Reimagine Ownership, hosts Yossi Hasson and Dan Schmerin sit down with Oliver Quie, co-founder of Innerworks, to explore the evolving challenges of digital authenticity and bot detection in an increasingly online world. Key Topics Discussed: The origins of Innerworks and its evolution from a behavioral sciences concept to a cybersecurity company The role of behavioral biometrics and psychoinformatics in differentiating real users from bots The growing impact of bots on misinformation, elections, and digital asset security Why traditional authentication methods like CAPTCHAs are becoming i...
2024-10-0137 min
Self Care ClubEnergy HealingThis week the ladies try out Spinal Energetics - a specialist form of energy healing featured on Goop Lab with their BFF Gwyneth Paltrow. If it’s good enough for her. It’s good enough for Lauren & Nicole. Tune in to see how they got on following their treatment which had surprising results. Thank you very much to Anna Sofie Frogner at Innerworks for gifting the sessions. You can find out more about her at www.innerworks.studioTo pre order our book “Have You Tried This?” click here https://www.amazo...
2024-07-2254 min
Your Leadership LegacyE101 – The Global Leadership ExperienceWelcome to Your Leadership Legacy podcast with Tina Paulus-Krause, who is joined by fellow co-founder Dawnese Openshaw, as they unveil the groundbreaking Global Leadership Experience (GLE). What if you could transform your leadership skills and elevate your life in just four months? This transformative program is designed to turn high performers into exceptional leaders, starting with "InnerWorks" — a journey into self-awareness and emotional intelligence. We then move into "Quantum" where we focus on self-regulation as a guide into embodiment and we follow it all up with a final "L.E.A.P." by supporting you in the implementation of th...
2024-06-1720 min
En riktigt sopig podd#39 En bra affärVarför är det så svårt att driva hållbara företag? Jakob Nielsen, Innovation Navigator på Open X Lab, berättar om de hinder som finns men också hur man ska tänka om man ska lyckas med sin affärsidé och samtidigt göra nytta för människa och planeten. "Räddar du inte planeten eller människor ska du göra något annat". Amit Paul från Innerworks berättar om hur företagande kan bidra till en bättre värld. Podden produceras av Sysav med miljöpedagogerna Rustan Nilsso...
2024-05-1333 min
Tokyo Bronx ACGDa Chat w/ Shawn Hill Ep.3: Rawle & Shonnia Fredericks: InnerWorks GalleryDa Chat w/ Shawn Hill Ep.3: Rawle & Shonnia Fredericks: InnerWorks Gallery
Tokyo Bronx chats with InnerWorks Gallery founders Shonnia & Rawle Fredericks as they share with us the artistic process of embracing hope and struggle; breaking the myth of the "starving artist" & the rebirth of the artist; "The Bronx Renaissance"; and more as they dropped those OG rare and precious gems that I snapped my fingers to the heavens! 💯💎
Send them a DM to share your space to bring an art revival to your local community.
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[Season 1 of the Da Chat is sponsored by @tokyobronxacg - All...
2024-02-0532 min
Meaningful Work PodcastEnd of season 1: Connection, belonging, self organisation and playThis is not the end but it is an end. Amit and Nils speak of what we learned from this first season of the Meaningful Work Podcast and go for a summer break. This was a really rich conversation and some of the main themes were connection at the centre, self organisation as a fact of life and why play might be really important in whatever comes next. If you want further links and tips for deeper reading check out the meaningful work podcast substack: meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com. Enjoy summer in the meantime!
2023-08-0946 minMeaningful Work PodcastJohan Thiel: Business building and strategy as navigation.Johan Thiel is the ex CEO of MIPS, and Trifilon now investor and colleague to Amit. Amit and Johan address the topics of business building, the challenges of pushing the edges of what can be done. We get to tap into Johans long experience of getting what should be impossible done. Also what sailing and horizons has to do with business building and how he feels about the word impossible (spoiler: it's not a word he uses often). Enjoy!
2023-07-2657 minMeaningful Work PodcastSensemaking: ConnectionIt’s time for another sense making episode. This one on the second 21 day story we did in social media. The story was on Connection. Amit and Nils dive into the topic. After having modeled a check-in we touch upon some of the core aspects of this story. Like
How central connection is to everything?
How it yields opportunities for moving radically faster and more efficiently in business contexts if we put our connection before the results.
Why we should be in business to make friends rather than the opposite
Why connection is such a good antidote to bu...
2023-07-1248 minMeaningful Work PodcastNiklas Huss: The intrapreneur, large scale systems transformation and leveraging the 3rd space in transformationNiklas Huss is an intrapreneur in the true sense of the word. He started his professional career running a major transformation of the Swedish Internal Revenue Service (Skatteverket), after that he went on to Länsförsäkringar (one of the largest cooperative insurance companies in Sweden) and then moved on to create a space for interagency cooperation.
We speak of the resistance to change, the challenges and cost of transformation both to the individual as well as the organisations. Why it is so important to allow people to get a taste of the change that is pla...
2023-06-2848 minMeaningful Work PodcastSensemaking: LanguishingIt’s time from a sense making episode. This one on the first 21 day story we did in our social media. The story was on Languishing. Amit and Nils dive into the topic. We end up addressing a number of important questions, like:
What it is?
Who it makes us? Is it purely negative or is there also some positive aspects we draw from the languishing identity?
What does languishing have to do with quiet quitting?
What are some of the antidotes to languishing?
How can we understand the prevalance of it in our current society?
Why is it...
2023-06-2141 minMeaningful Work PodcastAmit Paul: Excerpts from the book Deep Change by Robert QuinnAmit Paul (co-founder of Innerworks) takes us into the weeds of the book Deep change by Robert Quinn. There are excerpts from the book from 1996 with some deep provcations that are probably useful for anyone involved in or preparing to undertake a change process.
4 of many provocations from the episode are:
There is no such thing as a sustainable organisation, organisations are constantly dynamically rebalancing.
Either you are in a process of deep change or you are in slow death.
There is no such thing as changing others, if you are not changing too there will on...
2023-06-1424 minMeaningful Work PodcastFabian Bolin - Cancer, SCULP, the excitement and fear of the times we live in,Fabian Bolin is a co-founder of SCULP, a training platform that helps men enhance themselves through coaching, education, and community support. He has a passion for consciousness exploration and men's personal development. After being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing 900 days of chemotherapy, he realized he had not been living authentically but conforming to societal expectations. He embarked on a path of self-acceptance, which led to a journey of personal growth. Fabian also founded War On Cancer, a healthtech company that developed an app for improving mental health for individuals affected by cancer. The app has over 50,000 members across 20 countries...
2023-05-3153 minMeaningful Work PodcastKristin Grímsdóttir: Belonging, values and why it’s good for businessKristin Grimsdóttir is the Icelander that emigrated to Sweden and did her masters thesis on belonging and values. She developed a model for values mapping which she can use to predict the level of belonging in an organisation or a team.
We speak about belonging, psychological safety, why it’s important to focus on. What can happen when we work values based in other contexts like public procurement and how is it really that we can afford the level of disconnection we are currently experiencing? Where does authenticity come in and what is the relationship between it...
2023-05-1749 minMeaningful Work PodcastRicky Goodall - Authentic relating, nervous systems and how we can use it to create more effective workplacesRicky Goodall is a coach, Authentic Relating facilitator, initiated shaman and former professional Muay Thai fighter. Nils and Ricky meet up in Tulum, Mexico, to explore how signals from our body can guide us into meaningful work, how Authentic Relating can be used to create stronger connections in the workplace, and how perhaps absolutely everything we do in life is constant meaningful work.
2023-05-1046 minMeaningful Work PodcastEugenio Moliní: Self-organisation, redundancy, self-management and dispelling myths of leadershipEugenio Moliní is an experienced change management consultant who has worked in 100s of organisations across Europe for the past several decades. This conversation criss-cross the boarder of self organisation and self management and is a use ful guide into task based management from a person who has dedicated his life to liberating people to do the best work possible in the work context.
We explore many different aspects of less violent work. Like why the image of the organisation as an entity driving towards a peak is misleading and perhaps its more like pushing towards a h...
2023-04-1945 minMeaningful Work PodcastVictoria Vallström: A useful dive into the cutting edge of research on leadership, engagement and meaningful workJoin Nils and guest Victoria Vallström on the Meaningful Work Podcast as they explore the research behind meaningful work and workplaces, employee engagement, and avoiding burnout. With over 20 years of experience in software development, Victoria brings a wealth of knowledge from her various leadership roles and experiences working in diverse environments. As a lifelong learner, she shares her insights and findings on human interaction through her podcast, Bitcurious. Tune in to discover how connection may be the secret to unlocking meaningful work. To tag along and to get access to more extensive show notes as well as links a...
2023-04-121h 02Meaningful Work PodcastLoïc Le Meur: Meaningful work, inner work, entrepreneurship and indigenous traditionsIn this episode of the Meaningful Work Podcast, Nils and Loïc Le Meur discuss the connection between meaningful work, inner work, and entrepreneurship. Le Meur is the founder of PAUA, an organization that brings together entrepreneurs, consciousness explorers, and conscious business leaders. Le Meur shares his journey from successful serial entrepreneur in the tech industry to exploring the intersection of consciousness, entrepreneurship, and technology through PAUA. The organization's mission is to rediscover ancient wisdom and unveil new technologies that offer a broader and richer perception of reality, while fostering a community of like-minded individuals who share a passion f...
2023-04-0544 minMeaningful Work PodcastGestur Palmason - the future of the organisations, connectivity and the predictive power of network analysisGestur Palmason is a coach working at Complete Coherence. Amit speaks to Gestur both around meaningful work and his journey into the craft of coaching and then turn their attention to the tool Complete Coherence has developed called Organisational Network Analysis. We speak of connection, the gurutre of the organisation, how agility and decision making is closely related, the relationship between heart rate variability and performance and how one can, through asking 9 simple questions and running them through some pretty sophisticated analytics can predict which employees are at the risk of quitting and who’s thriving. This is a real...
2023-03-2952 minMeaningful Work PodcastTed Rau: A deep dive into SociocracyTed Rau is the operational leader of Sociocracy4All. He is an educator and consultant on the topic of implementing the system Sociocracy in organisations. What is Sociocracy? Why is it useful? Why now? What does it mean to consent? What is this thing with decentralised organisations and how can it work? How does it relate to meaningful work? What does it mean to be in a structure that invites diversity, empowerment and pushes for every voice to be heard?
This conversation is a deep and useful primer to sociocracy. If you are looking ti implement it in...
2023-03-221h 09Meaningful Work PodcastJohan M. Reunanen - How do we create functional relationships in the workplace?Johan M. Reunanen is a true sustainability expert - not just in how corporations can become more climate friendly, but also how corporate climates can become more friendly. In this episode, Johan and Nils explore the importance of creating functional relationships in a workplace and how to make it happen. We circle through how the combination of honesty, respect, trust and acceptance can foster a culture of loving leadership and how that improves an organization. We explore how the workplace can move from being a zero-sum game of competition and transactions, to win-win relational cultures fostering value for all...
2023-03-1547 minMeaningful Work PodcastGiles Hutchins: What is regenerative leadership really?Giles Hutchins is an author of several books, an executive coach and a business professional that has dedicated his career to transforming the leadership paradigm into the regenerative. Amit speaks with Giles about what regenerative leadership actually is? What it means to change your mind and to step into the new paradigm? What does it mean that the world is interconnected and why is it important to understand and act from as a leader?
We speak of Giles latest book Learning by Nature as well as the previous book Regenerative leadership. The barriers to love. Why forgiveness...
2023-03-0840 minMeaningful Work PodcastHelena Önneby: Being love in the room and why that is efficient.Helena Önneby is a coach, author and HR professional. She is has written three books on topics like intuition, flow, love in the workplace. What is meaning at work? Why is it important? Does love and humanness belong at work? What is the relationship between love and curiosity? Why should we even bother with this stuff?
Helena is pointing to her experience that as we bring love and the perspective to be love in the room to the table as our foremost role then efficiency increases, trust goes up and we tap into more of the potential o...
2023-03-0148 minMeaningful Work PodcastImran Rehman: Belonging, Psychological safety and Flow - is that the recipe for meaningful work?Imran the founder of Kokoro. He is an employee-experience specialist with an expertise in strengthening and building belonging and psychological safe environments in groups and teams. What is the fundamental tension between meaning and work in the western world? What does it mean to have belonging to an organisation? What is the importance of structure, space and stories? What can we do with retro’s? Why should teams be left to figuring out their own goals and instead leadership’s responsibility is to cascade meaning?
This conversation is a hands on view into Imrans toolbox in organisational chan...
2023-02-2250 minMeaningful Work PodcastAndrew Horn: Creating deeper connection, meaningful work, individual purpose and keys to coming back into presenceAndrew Horn is a serial entrepreneur, speaker and writer based in Austin, Texas. Co-founder and CEO of Tribute.co He has been featured on TED.com, founded an INC500 company, keynotes for the Fortune 500 and serves as a personal coach to “second mountain” entrepreneurs. He is the man behind the four-question framework known as “Social Flow” - a simple method for becoming more self aware, creating deeper connections and fostering more meaningful work. In this episode, Andrew and Nils explore how we can find our individual purpose, ask better questions, create deeper connections, change ourselves using our social identity and help...
2023-02-1546 minMeaningful Work PodcastAnna Katharina Schaffner: The Exhaustion Coach on the past, present and future of exhaustion.Anna Katharina Schaffner (The Exhaustion Coach) did her PhD studying exhaustion and burnout. What is burnout? What is exhaustion? Why is it so pervasive in our society and what can we do about it? Are there positive aspects to burnout or exhaustion? What’s next? Are we more exhausted than we’ve been before or is this more of a human condition?
The conversation is far ranging and goes deep. It seems the challenge with burnout is not just complicated it is truly complex and systemic and touches deeply into the relationship about how we relate to our...
2023-02-0845 minMeaningful Work PodcastWho are the hosts really? Meet Faviana Vangelius, Nils von Heijne and Amit PaulWhat is meaningful work and why is it important? Well we think it’s important because work is the way that we interact and recreate our world at this time.
Amit, Nils and Faviana gets into why they’re doing this. What is is that this podcast is going to be about and why it’s so incredibly important to lean into at this time.
2023-02-0839 minMeaningful Work PodcastWhat is the Meaningful Work podcast about?We introduce what the Meaningful Work podcast is, what Innerworks is and why we believe this exploration is important. The meaningful work podcast explores meaningful work and self aware organisations. Why? Because we spend most of our time and energy on our work. It is also the most obvious way that we recreate the world we live in. If we are to build a new, regenerative world for ourselves then our relationship to work has to change. To take part of events, more extensive show notes, newsletters subscribe at meaningfulworkpodcast.substack.com
2023-01-0906 min
Create What You Speak with Sloane FreemontTyphoon Honey – The Only Way Out Is Through
When we decide we want something different in our lives, we often want to skip the perceived “hard” part and get on to the “good” stuff, unfortunately life doesn’t work that way. As the title of the book implies, the only way we are able to move through anything is to move through it. And if that’s the case, wouldn’t it benefit us to have the tools to do this in the best way possible?
My guests this week are Kris Girrell and Candace Sjogren, authors of the book Typhoon Honey – The Only Way Out Is Through...
2022-08-2359 min
INSYNC LIVE!Innerworks: Shows & Equipment Rentals ft Eric Choo | Music by Asthen NSYNC LIVE Ep 4In this episode, we are honoured to have Eric Choo with us. Eric Choo is the founder of Show Production Pte Ltd.
Eric graduated from Singapore Polytechnic and has a massive interest in music and musical instruments. He was inspired and decide to start up a company name Show Production Pte Ltd. He has been in the industry for more than 8 years.
Some of the big projects done by Eric are Starker Music Carnival 2019 featuring Taiwanese pop rock band F.I.R. as the headliner, Sam Tsui Singapore Concert 2017, Starker Music Festival 2018 featuring...
2020-11-0700 min
Training UnleashedFollowing Your Own Compass During Times of Change with Kris GirrellThis week Evan talks with Kris Girrell, CEO of Interworking Consulting. Kris' background spans over 30 years of organizational consulting and executive leadership coaching. Some topics discussed include the important of knowing your company values, thoughts and ideas on how businesses can function post COVID-19, thoughts on how COVID-19 will affect future generations and more. To learn more about Interworking Consulting visit https://innerworks-consulting.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-06-0134 min