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Leadership In Extraordinary Times1 Social innovation and social justice with Cheryl Dorsey and Peter DrobacIn the first episode of the new series, Peter Drobac and Cheryl Dorsey explore how innovation and justice are key to building a better future after Covid-19. Peter and Cheryl are both doctors working to treat society’s greatest challenges. They discuss the entangled crises of the pandemic and inequality, recent events in Washington DC, and why the world needs social entrepreneurs now more than ever. Featuring: Dr Cheryl Dorsey, president, Echoing Green. Dr Peter Drobac, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Busine...2021-02-1758 min
ReimagineTetris in a Minecraft World“We grew up in a Tetris world of trust. There were rules, top-down enforcement and we looked up to people that we trust. Our kids are growing up in a Minecraft world of trust that is completely distributed.” In this special series we’ve been exploring how we might move from crisis to transformation in an age of pandemics. We’ve been challenged to rethink our place in an entangled world, and to be good ancestors who protect future generations. We’ve explored how to build equitable health systems, inclusive and sustainabl...2020-12-1746 minReimagineSocial ResetSocial Reset: A New Equity Lens with Baljeet Sandhu “If we don’t think about the knowledge that is present in all our communities we will continue to privilege the few as knowledge producers and see them as having a larger stake in how we design the future.” In this series we’re meeting people who are shaking up the status quo, people who remind us that, in the words of the late Elijah Cummings, “we are better than this.”Equity is th...2020-12-1032 minReimagineEconomic ResetEconomic Reset: With Halla Tómasdóttir“The pandemic pause has given us an awakening. Capitalism needs an upgrade. We need an inclusive economy that drives shared prosperity on a healthy planet.” We’re continuing our look at the big existential crises of this new decade, and what it will take to reimagine and reset our broken systems.In this episode, we’re talking global economic reset with the woman who was very nearly Iceland’s president, and is now l...2020-12-0347 minReimagineClimate ResetIn episode 3 Peter Drobac reimagines what our future could be like if we reset how we live with global climate action leader Christiana Figueres.“Here we are stuck in the norm, without any reason to be stuck.” Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. And in this episode we’re talking climate change – what’s at stake, the cost of inaction and the opportunities that exist if we harness the sustainability revolution that Al Gore told us about in the last series. We’re in a...2020-11-2635 min
FuturemakersS3: The Future after COVID-19Just before our third season starts we talk with Dr Peter Drobac, a global health physician and Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, and Dr Aoife Haney, Research Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise, about the social, economic and environmental changes that may well be heading our way after our current pandemic.
Coming soon... Follow Professor Peter Millican as he talks to researchers from around the world about some of the devastating pandemics humanity has experienced. Peter and his colleagues will discuss ten major outbreaks: from the Plague of Athens to the West African Ebola outbreak, via the B...2020-11-2241 minReimagineHealth ResetHealth Reset: With Joia Mukherjee and Paul Farmer“There is no contrast between fighting against Covid and fighting for black lives” In Reimagine Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone.In episode 2, Peter talks to global health activist Dr Joia Mukherjee about reimaging our health systems in an age of pandemics. Joia describes herself as an “ass-kicking optimist, healer, singer and lover of humanity”. She is the chief medi...2020-11-1948 minReimagineRedwoods In Rwanda“Our actions in the next decade will determine the future of civilisation.” (Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs) The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our world into disarray. Far more than a public health crisis, the pandemic has triggered an economic crisis, a social crisis, and a governance crisis. It has contributed to a long overdue reckoning on deeply rooted systemic racial injustice. Meanwhile, extreme weather events signal the increasing urgency of our unfolding climate crisis. All of these challenges predated Covi...2020-11-1254 minReimagineIntroducing Series 2Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac.Covid-19 has exposed the deep flaws in our relationship with the world and each other. We all long for a return to normality, but is “back to normal” really what we want?In Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. Meet the visionaries who are revolutionising the story of who we are, and how we e...2020-10-2800 min
Conduit ConversationsJohnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation presents the ‘Future of Global Healthcare’ in association with The Conduit Episode 1: Peter DrobacIn this episode Peter Drobac, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship joins Paul to talk about the investments we need to make to create a more equitable healthcare system and the lessons we can learn from COVID-19, in Rwanda and beyond, to better prepare and rebuild our healthcare systems for the future.
This episode is part of a new series, created in partnership with the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation, investigating the trends, challenges and opportunities in the global healthcare sector. What does it take to create a truly equitable healthcare system? From entrepreneurs...2020-09-1446 minReimagineWhat Is Social Entrepreneurship? With Sally OsbergIf you’ve been tuning in to series 1 and want to know more about social entrepreneurship, or you’d just like to spend some time in the company of an extremely cool woman with a voracious intellect and a lot of wisdom about how change happens, then this bonus episode is just for you.For two decades Sally Osberg has played an outsized role in growing the field of social entrepreneurship. She was the founding president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, one of the world’s leading organisations in this space. With Roger Martin...2020-05-2800 minLeadership In Extraordinary TimesPreparedness, Resilience and The Future of Public HealthIn episode 3, Peter Drobac and Eleanor Murray discuss Covid-19 and its implications for global public health.What are the lessons for healthcare systems andleaders more generally? Trust, transparency and the ability to adapt quickly to bring about collective action are key.Featuring:Dr Peter Drobac (@PeterDrobac),Directorof the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.Eleanor Murray (@EleanorJMurray), Senior Fellow in Management Practice, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.https...2020-05-2532 minReimagineThe Sustainability Revolution With Al Gore“We are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution. It will have the magnitude of the industrial revolution yet the speed of the digital revolution”In this special episode Nobel Peace Prize winner, former US vice president and one of the world’s leading climate activists shares his vision for a sustainable future – Al Gore.Reflecting in the context of Covid-19 from his home in Tennessee, Al talks about the lessons for the climate emergency revealed by the current pandemic and his optimism for our capacity to forge a path o...2020-05-2100 minReimagineGimme Shelter, Ending Homelessness“I’m here to prevent the next generation of Big Issue vendors.”Homelessness is an example of a wicked problem – a complex, messy problem with many causes, contradictory forces, and no easy solution. Wicked problems are rooted in broken systems.It’s estimated that 2% of the world’s population are homeless. But many more – perhaps 1 in 5 people worldwide – may lack adequate and secure housing.In this episode we focus on the situation in the UK, where an unprecedented number of people are without a home or living o...2020-05-1400 minReimagineHealth For All“Illness is universal. Access to healthcare is not. That shouldn’t be true in the 21stcentury”In this episode we focus on health equity. Every single day people are dying of entirely preventable, treatable diseases simply because they are poor, or because they live too far from medical care. Children die from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malnutrition. A staggering number of women and babies don’t survive childbirth. Paul Farmer, who we heard from in Episode 1, has a name for this – Stupid Deaths. Every time we let someone die of a condition we know how to treat...2020-05-0700 minReimagineBeyond GreenwashingEPISODE 4: Beyond Greenwashing: The Business of Climate Action with Paul Polman and Cameron HepburnMore and more CEOs are sounding all the right notes on the climate crisis. But is big business really ready to be part of the solution? Peter talks to Paul Polman, who became an iconic CEO by putting sustainability at the centre of Unilever’s business, and Cameron Hepburn, Oxford professor of environmental economics.“We were pretty scared, but the challenges of climate change and growing inequality needed to be addressed with courage, and courage is o...2020-04-3000 minReimagineHigher Ground: Reimagining Higher EducationEPISODE 3: Higher Ground: Reimagining Higher Education“Talent is distributed evenly around the world. What is not is opportunity.”Around the world universities have closed their physical doors and temporarily moved online due to Covid-19. That creates all kinds of challenges. But it’s also a chance for us to re-examine the very idea of a university in the 21st century.Higher education has been broken for a long time. With costs out of control, in many parts of the wo...2020-04-2300 minReimagineRebel EconomicsAs the world slips into recession, possibly even depression, Covid-19 has revealed the design flaws in our global economy.For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that there’s no problem the invisible hand of the market can’t fix. And while a relentless pursuit of growth at all costs has delivered prosperity for some, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is at historic levels.Will this once-in-a-century pandemic create a once-in-a-generation opportunity for a real shift in our economic systems? If so, what should that look like...2020-04-1600 minReimagineIntroducing ReimagineWelcome to a new and original podcast series from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac.In this series we meet the visionaries, the disruptors, the world’s problem-solvers, who are taking up the challenge of fixing the bits of our world that are broken.The people who see things differently, and we need them now more than ever.2020-03-3100 min