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Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 38 | Natalie Nixon: Why Creativity is a Strategic SkillIn this Provocateurs podcast special recorded at the 2025 Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala, creativity strategist Natalie Nixon discusses how organizations can harness creativity as a strategic business competency.
Challenging the misconception that creativity belongs only to artists, Natalie uses her “wonder-rigor” framework to demonstrate that the best engineers, scientists, CFOs, and leaders toggle between imaginative exploration (wonder) and disciplined execution (rigor). This chaordic balance between chaos and order is essential, she says, for driving sustainable innovation.
Turning to AI and the future of work, Natalie contends that technology offers an opportunity for more distributed, improvisational ways of working – which appeal in par...
2025-12-0436 min
The ProvocateursEpisode 38: Natalie NixonIn this Provocateurs podcast special recorded at the 2025 Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala, creativity strategist Natalie Nixon discusses how organizations can harness creativity as a strategic business competency.Challenging the misconception that creativity belongs only to artists, Natalie uses her “wonder-rigor” framework to demonstrate that the best engineers, scientists, CFOs, and leaders toggle between imaginative exploration (wonder) and disciplined execution (rigor). This chaordic balance between chaos and order is essential, she says, for driving sustainable innovation.Turning to AI and the future of work, Natalie contends that technology offers an opportunity for more distributed, improvisational ways...
2025-12-0436 min
Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 37 Anke Hampel: Recorded Live at Climate Week New YorkAnke Hampel is chief sustainability officer at ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation based in Zurich, and a member of the board of directors of ABB Germany. With a background in finance, procurement, supply chain, and innovation management in the consumer goods and packaging industry, Anke is driven by a mission to unite profit with purpose. Sustainability, she contends, is a business imperative, not a fluffy add-on. Moreover, sustainability is not the preserve of seasoned experts; everyone can and should play a role.
In this special episode of the Provocateurs podcast recorded live at Climate Week New...
2025-10-3155 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 37: Anke HampelAnke Hampel: Recorded Live at Climate Week New YorkAnke Hampel is chief sustainability officer at ABB, a global technology leader in electrification and automation based in Zurich, and a member of the board of directors of ABB Germany. With a background in finance, procurement, supply chain, and innovation management in the consumer goods and packaging industry, Anke is driven by a mission to unite profit with purpose. Sustainability, she contends, is a business imperative, not a fluffy add-on. Moreover, sustainability is not the preserve of seasoned experts; everyone can and should play a role.
2025-10-3155 min
Office Hours with David MeltzerPam Meissner, Mark Harris, Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach | Office Hours #797Pam Meissner
Pam Meissner, CFO and COO of Cathcap, is widely recognized as a “profitability detective” who helps entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs uncover hidden profit opportunities and build systems that drive clarity, cash flow, and growth. A CPA who forged her own unconventional path beyond traditional accounting, she has spent decades guiding leaders across industries from legal to manufacturing. Her strategic, practical approach empowers businesses to scale sustainably while breaking through financial ceilings. Resilient and purpose-driven, Pam continues to lead with strength after being recently widowed, while also celebrating her son’s college graduation and her daughter’s advoca...
2025-10-1738 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 36: Selassie AtadikaAward-winning chef, chocolatier, and founder of Midunu, Selassie Atadika is a Time 2025 Earth Award honoree and Yale’s inaugural Global Table Fellow. In this compelling episode of Provocateurs, Selassie demonstrates how intentional food choices can reshape entire systems.
Food is more than just sustenance, she contends, it’s a powerful tool for transformation, touching every aspect of our lives from economics to environmental policy, health, and culture. Drawing from her experiences across 44 African countries, Selassie’s philosophy of "new African cuisine" – where culture, community, and cuisine intersect with environment, sustainability, and economy – offers profound lessons for addressing global food system challenges...
2025-10-1633 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 36: Selassie AtadikaAward-winning chef, chocolatier, and founder of Midunu, Selassie Atadika is a Time 2025 Earth Award honoree and Yale’s inaugural Global Table Fellow. In this compelling episode of Provocateurs, Selassie demonstrates how intentional food choices can reshape entire systems.Food is more than just sustenance, she contends, it’s a powerful tool for transformation, touching every aspect of our lives from economics to environmental policy, health, and culture. Drawing from her experiences across 44 African countries, Selassie’s philosophy of "new African cuisine" – where culture, community, and cuisine intersect with environment, sustainability, and economy – offers profound lessons for addressing global foo...
2025-10-1633 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 35: Eileen CollinsTrailblazer Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former Air Force Colonel. In 1995, she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and in 1999, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. Eileen's final mission in 2005 was commanding the critical return to flight mission, the first since the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Her memoir Through The Glass Ceiling to the Stars, was published in 2021.
Provocateurs hosts Des Dearlove and Steve Goldbach talk to Eileen about her remarkable journey from a young girl in small town Elmira, New York, who dreamed of flying, to breaking the...
2025-08-2743 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 35: Eileen CollinsEileen Collins: The First Female Space CommanderTrailblazer Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and former Air Force Colonel. In 1995, she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and in 1999, she became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. Eileen's final mission in 2005 was commanding the critical return to flight mission, the first since the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Her memoir Through The Glass Ceiling to the Stars, was published in 2021. Provocateurs hosts Des Dearlove and Steve Goldbach talk to Eileen about her remarkable journey from a young g...
2025-08-2743 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 34: Karthik RamannaKarthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World – recently named one of Thinkers50's Best Management Books of 2025.
In this episode of The Provocateurs, Karthik identifies three distinctive forces shaping our current moment: profound uncertainty about the future driven by AI, climate change, and demographic shifts; deep distrust in institutions of governance that people feel have delivered a "raw deal"; and a shift away from global humanism toward economic and cultural nationalism.
Discover the tools an...
2025-07-3039 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 34: Karthik RamannaLeading in the Age of OutrageKarthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and author of The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World – recently named one of Thinkers50's Best Management Books of 2025.In this episode of The Provocateurs, Karthik identifies three distinctive forces shaping our current moment: profound uncertainty about the future driven by AI, climate change, and demographic shifts; deep distrust in institutions of governance that people feel have delivered a "raw deal"; and a sh...
2025-07-3039 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 33: Rajendra Pratap GuptaRajendra Pratap Gupta is a policymaker and author, a former advisor to the Health Minister of India, and a leading provocateur in digital health initiatives across the world.
He is the founder of the Global Digital Health Summit, which aims to create the future of healthcare; global think-tank The Health Parliament, which collaborates with the world’s leading organizations to make health and well-being accessible to all; and the International Patients Union, which is dedicated to empowering patients in policymaking. Rajendra also works to advance education in digital health at the Academy of Digital Health Sciences, which is now the la...
2025-06-1840 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 33: Rajendra Pratap GuptaRajendra Pratap Gupta is a policymaker and author, a former advisor to the Health Minister of India, and a leading provocateur in digital health initiatives across the world. He is the founder of the Global Digital Health Summit, which aims to create the future of healthcare; global think-tank The Health Parliament, which collaborates with the world's leading organizations to make health and well-being accessible to all; and the International Patients Union, which is dedicated to empowering patients in policymaking. Rajendra also works to advance education in digital health at the Academy of Digital Health Sciences, which is n...
2025-06-1840 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 32: Katie McGintyKatie McGinty is the vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls. In this episode she shares insights from her remarkable career spanning both public service – including as the first woman to chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Clinton – and private sector leadership.
Challenging the persistent myth that environmental initiatives harm the bottom line, Katie explains how sustainability and economic success are not opposing forces but complementary strategies, demonstrating through real-world examples how Johnson Controls achieves significant carbon reductions while generating substantial cost savings for clients.
Key themes include:
The importance of syst...
2025-04-3039 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 32: Katie McGintyThe economic case for climate-smart transformationKatie McGinty is the vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls. In this episode she shares insights from her remarkable career spanning both public service – including as the first woman to chair the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Clinton – and private sector leadership.Challenging the persistent myth that environmental initiatives harm the bottom line, Katie explains how sustainability and economic success are not opposing forces but complementary strategies, demonstrating through real-world examples how Johnson Controls achieves significant carbon reductions whil...
2025-04-3039 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 31: Weslynne AshtonA sustainable systems scientist, Weslynne Ashton is professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she also co-directs ID’s Food Systems Action Lab.Here she discusses her work in industrial ecology and the circular economy, drawing from her experiences growing up in Trinidad. Weslynne argues that businesses need to adopt a more holistic view of value creation and regeneration, moving beyond purely financial metrics. Weslynne Ashton’s research, teaching, and practice are oriented around transitioning socio-ecological systems to create more sustainable and regenerative business practices and emphasizes the importance of ex...
2025-03-2438 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 31: Weslynne AshtonProfit is Not the Only Value
A sustainable systems scientist, Weslynne Ashton is professor of environmental management and sustainability at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she also co-directs ID’s Food Systems Action Lab.
Here she discusses her work in industrial ecology and the circular economy, drawing from her experiences growing up in Trinidad. Weslynne argues that businesses need to adopt a more holistic view of value creation and regeneration, moving beyond purely financial metrics.
Weslynne Ashton’s research, teaching, and practice are oriented around transitioning socio-ecological systems to create more sustainable and regenerative business practices and emphasizes the impo...
2025-03-1838 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 30: ReflectionsThe 2024 Provocateurs series featured nine inspiring thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and business authors who challenged us to re-think conventional approaches to leadership and management. Neri Karra Sillaman shared her remarkable story from refugee to building a multi-million-dollar sustainable fashion brand; Marcus Collins explored the hidden power of cultural influence in consumer behaviour; Lisa McKnight revealed how she transformed Barbie into a cultural phenomenon and billion-dollar success; and Andrew Winston redefined the role of business to create a thriving “net positive world”. One of the key highlights of the 2024 series was recording live at New York Climate Week w...
2025-02-2736 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 30: ReflectionsThe 2024 Provocateurs series featured nine inspiring thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and business authors who challenged us to re-think conventional approaches to leadership and management.
Neri Karra Sillaman shared her remarkable story from refugee to building a multi-million-dollar sustainable fashion brand; Marcus Collins explored the hidden power of cultural influence in consumer behaviour; Lisa McKnight revealed how she transformed Barbie into a cultural phenomenon and billion-dollar success; and Andrew Winston redefined the role of business to create a thriving “net positive world”.
One of the key highlights of the 2024 series was recording live at New York Climate Week with Paul Polman, former CEO...
2025-02-2636 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 29: Lisa McKnightTransforming BarbieExecutive vice president and chief brand officer of Mattel, Lisa McKnight is credited with leading the transformation of the Barbie brand. Under her leadership, Barbie became the number one global toy property in 2020 and 2021, and she redefined Barbie’s global social mission with the launch of the Dream Gap Project in 2018, a multi-year initiative which has positively impacted over 25 million girls.In this conversation with Steve Goldbach, leader of Deloitte’s sustainability practice in the US, and Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50, Lisa explains what drew her to the world of toys...
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Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 29: Lisa McKnightTransforming Barbie
Executive vice president and chief brand officer of Mattel, Lisa McKnight is credited with leading the transformation of the Barbie brand. Under her leadership, Barbie became the number one global toy property in 2020 and 2021, and she redefined Barbie’s global social mission with the launch of the Dream Gap Project in 2018, a multi-year initiative which has positively impacted over 25 million girls.
In this conversation with Steve Goldbach, leader of Deloitte’s sustainability practice in the US, and Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50, Lisa explains what drew her to the world of toys, why the Barbie brand had fallen out...
2024-10-2539 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 28: Paul PolmanRecorded Live at Climate Week, New YorkPaul Polman is a business leader, campaigner, and co-author (with Andrew Winston) of Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take, a Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Together with Andrew, Paul is ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 Ranking. As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), Paul demonstrated that business can profit through purpose, delivering shareholder returns of 290% while the company consistently ranked 1st in the world for sustainability. Today he works across a range of organisations to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
2024-10-151h 03Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 28: Paul PolmanPaul Polman is a business leader, campaigner, and co-author (with Andrew Winston) of Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive By Giving More Than They Take, a Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Together with Andrew, Paul is ranked #3 on the Thinkers50 Ranking.
As CEO of Unilever (2009-2019), Paul demonstrated that business can profit through purpose, delivering shareholder returns of 290% while the company consistently ranked 1st in the world for sustainability. Today he works across a range of organisations to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which he helped develop.
In New York for the 2024 Climate Week, Paul sat down...
2024-10-131h 03
La Matinale des Leaders Éclairés#16 Hamilton Mann : Vice Président Digital chez ThalesEcoutez l'entretien exclusif avec Hamilton Mann - Vice Président Digital chez Thalès. Hamilton Mann est vice-président en charge du marketing numérique et de la transformation numérique chez Thales. Il est également Lecturer à l'INSEAD, HEC Paris et à l'EDHEC Business School. Il est également mentor au MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Center. Il écrit régulièrement pour Forbes et a publié des articles sur la transformation numérique, l'intelligence artificielle et leurs implications sociétales dans d'éminents médias universitaires, business et Think Thank, tels que S...
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Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 27: Andrew WinstonAndrew Winston is one of the most widely read writers and thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy include Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and most recently, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, which he co-authored with Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.
Andrew and Paul are ranked #3 in the Thinkers50 Ranking of top management thinkers and Net Positive featured on the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist in 2022.
In this Provocateurs podcast, Andrew joins Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Kulleni Gebreyes, Deloitte US Consulting Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry Leader and...
2024-08-2349 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 27: Andrew WinstonThe Courage to be Net PositiveAndrew Winston is one of the most widely read writers and thinkers on sustainable business. His books on sustainability strategy include Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and most recently, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, which he co-authored with Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.Andrew and Paul are ranked #3 in the Thinkers50 Ranking of top management thinkers and Net Positive featured on the Thinkers50 Best New Management Booklist in 2022.In this Provocateurs podcast, Andrew joins Thinkers50 co-founder...
2024-08-2349 min
Learning about LeadershipCulture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1834 min
The Daily Leadership Conversations PodcastCulture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1834 min
The HR Alchemy PodcastCulture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1832 min
The Daily HR Conversations PodcastCulture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1832 min
Human Capital LeadershipSpecial Episode - Culture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.
Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1827 min
The Daily Leadership AdvantageCulture and Visionary Leadership, with Sunny BonnellIn this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Sunny Bonnell about culture and visionary leadership.Sunny Bonnell is a leadership and brand expert and the visionary Co-founder and CEO of Motto®, a strategic brand transformation agency helping the world's most innovative companies advance into their next era, and the bestselling author of the Rare Breed, A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different. Sunny was recognized with the prestigious 2024 Thinkers50 Radar Award, in partnership with Deloitte, spotlighting her as a seminal thinker whose ideas are shaping the future of business. Her strategic insight a...
2024-07-1835 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 26: Atif RafiqAtif Rafiq: Digital Disruptor
Provocateur of the C-Suite, Atif Rafiq has been disrupting companies for more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, the Fortune 500, and through a variety of his own startups. Having begun his career in digital native companies including AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, Atif was named the first chief digital officer in the history of the Fortune 500 when he took on that role for McDonald's in 2013. He has overseen thousands of employees as a global P&L transformation and innovation leader in multiple companies and industries.
Today, over a half million people follow Atif’s ideas about management and le...
2024-07-1740 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 26: Atif RafiqAtif Rafiq: Digital DisruptorProvocateur of the C-Suite, Atif Rafiq has been disrupting companies for more than 25 years in Silicon Valley, the Fortune 500, and through a variety of his own startups. Having begun his career in digital native companies including AOL, Yahoo, and Amazon, Atif was named the first chief digital officer in the history of the Fortune 500 when he took on that role for McDonald's in 2013. He has overseen thousands of employees as a global P&L transformation and innovation leader in multiple companies and industries.Today, over a half million people...
2024-07-1740 min
Leadership NOW with Dan PontefractUnlocking the Power of Reframing with Author Thomas Wedell-WedellsborgJoin Dan Pontefract in a thought-provoking discussion with Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, author of “What’s Your Problem?” and a leading expert on problem-solving and innovation.
Discover how reframing problems can unlock new solutions and drive organizational success. Wedell-Wedellsborg shares key insights on overcoming biases, fostering psychological safety, and rethinking goals with flexibility and adaptability.
This episode is packed with actionable advice and inspiring stories that will revolutionize your approach to leadership and problem-solving. Listen now to transform your mindset and empower your team.
Wedell-Wedellsborg's research has been featured in The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Businessweek and The Financial Times. HR Magazine listed him as...
2024-06-3039 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 25: Dane JensenDane Jensen: Decoding the Power of Pressure
How can we harness the positive powers of pressure? How can we mitigate the negative effects of pressure when the stakes are high?
Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, and author of The Power of Pressure. In this podcast with Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff and Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer, he explains that pressure is a function of three things: importance – how much the outcome matters to you; uncertainty – lack of surety about the eventual result; and volume – how many high-stakes...
2024-06-1239 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 25: Dane JensenDecoding the Power of PressureHow can we harness the positive powers of pressure? How can we mitigate the negative effects of pressure when the stakes are high?Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, and author of The Power of Pressure. In this podcast with Deloitte’s Geoff Tuff and Thinkers50’s Stuart Crainer, he explains that pressure is a function of three things: importance – how much the outcome matters to you; uncertainty – lack of surety about the eventual result; an...
2024-06-1239 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode #24: Jeff WetzlerHow to Tap into the Hidden Wisdom of the People Around You
Why do people withhold information from each other? Why are some of the smartest, successful people the worst at learning from each other?
Jeff Wetzler is on a quest to transform learning opportunities, both in business and in education. If we want to create a workforce for the future, with skills that cannot be replaced by AI, he explains, we have to do things differently not just within an organisation but at every stage of the education journey.
Jeff is the former chief learning officer at Teach for...
2024-05-2237 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 24: Jeff WetzlerHow to Tap into the Hidden Wisdom of the People Around YouWhy do people withhold information from each other? Why are some of the smartest, successful people the worst at learning from each other? Jeff Wetzler is on a quest to transform learning opportunities, both in business and in education. If we want to create a workforce for the future, with skills that cannot be replaced by AI, he explains, we have to do things differently not just within an organisation but at every stage of the education journey.Jeff i...
2024-05-1637 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 23: Neri Karra SillamanNeri Karra Sillaman: From Refugee to Fashion Revolutionary
At age 11, Neri Karra Sillaman’s world was turned upside down when her Bulgarian-Turkish family was forced to flee their home country. Driven by a hunger for education and a better life, Neri grabbed an opportunity to study business management at the University of Miami, where she became interested in how businesses – in particular, businesses founded by immigrants – are created and sustained.
She has subsequently become an expert in international and ethnic entrepreneurship, researching how the unique capabilities and mindset of immigrants create businesses that last. She received her doctorate from the Univer...
2024-04-1643 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 23: Neri Karra SillamanNeri Karra Sillaman: From Refugee to Fashion Revolutionary At age 11, Neri Karra Sillaman’s world was turned upside down when her Bulgarian-Turkish family was forced to flee their home country. Driven by a hunger for education and a better life, Neri grabbed an opportunity to study business management at the University of Miami, where she became interested in how businesses – in particular, businesses founded by immigrants – are created and sustained.She has subsequently become an expert in international and ethnic entrepreneurship, researching how the unique capabilities and mindset of immigrants create businesses that last...
2024-04-1643 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 22: Marcus CollinsMarketer extraordinaire, Marcus Collins is a clinical professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. A former advertising executive who worked on iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple, Marcus contends that what we wear, what we eat, where we work, who we date, and just about every facet of our social living is informed by our underlying culture. And the primary goal of all industries is to “get people to move”, whether it is to buy, to click, to watch, vote, or subscribe.
In this intriguing conversation with Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Marc...
2024-03-2745 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 22: Marcus CollinsCulture, Connections, and CommunityMarketer extraordinaire, Marcus Collins is a clinical professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. A former advertising executive who worked on iTunes + Nike sport music initiatives at Apple, Marcus contends that what we wear, what we eat, where we work, who we date, and just about every facet of our social living is informed by our underlying culture. And the primary goal of all industries is to “get people to move”, whether it is to buy, to click, to watch, vote, or subscribe.In this intriguing conv...
2024-03-2745 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 21: Amy ChangAmy Chang serves on the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk, Marqeta, and Informatica.
In 2018, Amy’s start-up business, Accompany, an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies, was acquired by Cisco for $270 million. Post-acquisition, she led Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar 6000-person Collaboration business.
Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics for over seven years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She also fulfilled roles at eBay and McKinsey, having started her career in h...
2024-02-1544 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 21: Amy ChangAmy Chang: Becoming An AI EntrepreneurAmy Chang serves on the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, and has previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk, Marqeta, and Informatica.In 2018, Amy’s start-up business, Accompany, an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies, was acquired by Cisco for $270 million. Post-acquisition, she led Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar 6000-person Collaboration business.Prior to Accompany, Amy was at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics for over seven years, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the...
2024-02-1544 min
UltraGrowthThe Health Habit - Amantha Imber | EP109How are your new year’s plans and resolutions going?Many people struggle to realise their new year's resolutions. The reason is because the same person with the same bad habits is making them. So, what can we do about it? Amantha Imber has the answers.Her recent book The Health Habit is a big part of our conversation today, the takeaways will help you navigate towards better habits in your office and home life. Dr Amantha Imber is a psychologist and founder of Inventium, a behaviour change consultancy. She ha...
2024-02-131h 01Thinkers50 PodcastReflections | The Provocateurs Podcast: Episode 20What did we learn from our provocateurs in 2023? Who provoked us to think again and act differently? Which stories remain with us?
The Provocateurs podcast series gives you direct access to the ideas, experiences, and insights of remarkable leaders from around the world. In 2023, in collaboration with Deloitte, Thinkers50 hosted an inspiring mix of guests in thought-provoking conversations.
The topics that were discussed and debated ranged from The Inside Track on Growth with Tiffani Bova to Radical Candor with Kim Scott. Along the way we unpicked branding and the metaverse with Martin Lindstrom, learned how to play our cards right...
2024-02-0151 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 20: ReflectionsWhat did we learn from our provocateurs in 2023? Who provoked us to think again and act differently? Which stories remain with us?The Provocateurs podcast series gives you direct access to the ideas, experiences, and insights of remarkable leaders from around the world. In 2023, in collaboration with Deloitte, Thinkers50 hosted an inspiring mix of guests in thought-provoking conversations.The topics that were discussed and debated ranged from The Inside Track on Growth with Tiffani Bova to Radical Candor with Kim Scott. Along the way we unpicked branding and the metaverse with Martin Lindstrom, learned how...
2024-02-0151 min
Work For HumansThe Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It | Jennifer MossTackling workplace burnout requires more than surface-level perks like snack boxes or ping-pong tables. As Gen Z becomes a predominant workforce, the companies that invest in employee well-being will be the ones to attract, retain, and evolve with this upcoming generation. Author and international speaker Jennifer Moss recognizes that understanding the employee perspective is multifaceted. She is on a mission to dispel the myths surrounding burnout, happiness, and productivity at work to foster thriving workplaces for both companies and employees. Jennifer Moss is an award-winning writer and international speaker on future-focused leadership development. Her past clients include...
2023-12-191h 14Thinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 19: Chip BerghRescuing Levi’s
A self-declared ‘brand guy’, Chip Bergh was appointed president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. in 2011. During his tenure the company has experienced a dramatic turnaround marked by outstanding performance and reclaiming its cultural relevance. In short, Levi’s has become cool again! Along the way, Chip has shown himself to be a provocateur.
In this podcast with Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50 and Geoff Tuff, Principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Chip explains why his own Levi’s have never seen the inside of a washing machine, how he galvanised the business community into pressing for gun violence p...
2023-11-0242 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 19: Chip BerghRescuing Levi’sA self-declared ‘brand guy’, Chip Bergh was appointed president and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co. in 2011. During his tenure the company has experienced a dramatic turnaround marked by outstanding performance and reclaiming its cultural relevance. In short, Levi’s has become cool again! Along the way, Chip has shown himself to be a provocateur. In this podcast with Des Dearlove, co-founder of Thinkers50 and Geoff Tuff, Principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, Chip explains why his own Levi’s have never seen the inside of a washing machine, how he galvanised the busines...
2023-11-0242 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 18: Sunny Bonnell Rare Breeds – Marching To A Different Drum Leadership and brand expert Sunny Bonnell is the bestselling co-author of Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different (with Ashleigh Hansberger, 2019). Sunny and Ashleigh are also the creators of the Rare Breed Leadership Platform, and the hit YouTube show, Rare Breed TV. In this Provocateurs podcast with Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Geoff Tuff of Deloitte, Sunny outlines seven unconventional traits displayed by ‘rare breeds’ – traits that are traditionally seen as vices, such as being rebellious, audacious, emotional, and hot-blooded. However, she explain...
2023-10-0535 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 18: Sunny BonnellRare Breeds – Marching To A Different Drum
Leadership and brand expert Sunny Bonnell is the bestselling co-author of Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different (with Ashleigh Hansberger, 2019). Sunny and Ashleigh are also the creators of the Rare Breed Leadership Platform, and the hit YouTube show, Rare Breed TV.
In this Provocateurs podcast with Thinkers50 co-founder, Des Dearlove, and Geoff Tuff of Deloitte, Sunny outlines seven unconventional traits displayed by ‘rare breeds’ – traits that are traditionally seen as vices, such as being rebellious, audacious, emotional, and hot-blooded. However, she explains that if organisations can see these so...
2023-10-0535 min
Masters in Psychology Podcast64: Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD – Behavioral Scientist Shares his Journey and Advice while Discussing the Multifaceted Job of Assistant Professor at a Research One UniversityDr. Neil Lewis, Jr. was born in Jamaica and came to the United States as a kid. In this podcast, we discuss his academic and professional journey beginning from what originally sparked his interest in psychology including a demonstration by his high school economics teacher at Cornell University in Ithica, NY to what led him to the University of Michigan for his graduate degrees in social psychology leading to his dual appointment and recent promotion as Associate Professor at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. During our discussion, Dr. Lewis shares his experiences and advice with those interested in getting...
2023-10-0545 min
Building A Better Brand®Dr. Marcus Collins: On Being Beyoncé's Digital Strategist, and the Impact of Culture on Brands and ConsumptionDr. Marcus Collins is an award-winning marketer and cultural translator. He is the former chief strategy officer at Wieden+Kennedy, New York, a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and the author of the best-selling book, For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want To Be. His deep understanding of brand strategy and consumer behavior has helped him bridge the academic-practitioner gap for blue-chip brands and startups alike. He is a recipient of Advertising Age's 40 Under 40 award and Crain's Business' 40 Under 40 award, and a r...
2023-09-0751 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 17: Kim ScottThe author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott joins Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to talk through the politics, practicalities, and purpose of feedback in the workplace.
In this discussion, part of The Provocateurs podcast series, Kim explains how her two-by-two framework for radical candor can help create productive feedback by avoiding the two extremes of obnoxious aggression and ruinous sympathy. She also shares her insights on bias, prejudice, and bullying and offers actionable responses for each one that can help...
2023-08-3050 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 17: Kim ScottThe author of New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott joins Steve Goldbach of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to talk through the politics, practicalities, and purpose of feedback in the workplace. In this discussion, part of The Provocateurs podcast series, Kim explains how her two-by-two framework for radical candor can help create productive feedback by avoiding the two extremes of obnoxious aggression and ruinous sympathy. She also shares her insights on bias, prejudice, and bullying and offers actionable responses for each one t...
2023-08-3050 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 16: Morra Aarons-MeleAuthor of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom, Morra Aarons-Mele is also founder of the award-winning social impact agency Women Online.
In this Provocateurs podcast episode, she joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to set the record straight on normalising anxiety. Data shows that high achievers manage more anxiety and depression, and Morra explains how to rethink the relationship between mental health and success. She describes anxiety as a spectrum, where at one end it can be quite debilitating and at the other, it’s a nervous but motivating energy.
Having learned how to ma...
2023-08-3039 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 15: Annie DukeFormer professional poker player Annie Duke is a master of decision making. In this Provocateurs podcast, hosted by Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 and Steve Goldbach of Deloitte, she challenges us to examine our own biases and self-narratives to focus on the things we can control, in order to make better choices.
By sharing practical insights and strategies for improving decision making and developing resilience, Annie emphasises the importance of analysing decisions objectively, rather than relying on the outcome to determine their quality.
The author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, released in 2022, and national bestseller Thinking...
2023-08-3055 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 14: Martin LindstromSelf-confessed contrarian thinker and provocateur since childhood, Martin Lindstrom is an international branding expert and one of the world’s leading authorities on the metaverse. Here he joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Des Dearlove of Thinkers50 in a fascinating conversation about branding as an emotional construct, the power of small data, and lying on a bed of Lego.
In the 1990s, Lindstrom pioneered how to build brands on the internet and has since coined terms such as clicks & mortar, contextual marketing, and texting. He has published eight New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Buyology (2008), Small Data (2017), an...
2023-08-3044 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 13: Shelley ZalisShelley Zalis is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, and today she works with Fortune 500 companies, impact organizations, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace. And she mentors women all over the world. Shelley is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an equality services company that creates platforms for women and solutions for organizations committed to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Its signature Equality Lounge is now a stand-out feature at key industry conferences around the globe.
In this compelling conversation with Deloitte’s chie...
2023-08-3040 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 12: Jim StengelJim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, which works to build brands and companies by activating their purpose. He has authored the books ‘Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies’ as well as ‘Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups.’ He is also a speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau, the host of The CMO Podcast, and serves as Dean of the Young Marketers Academy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Jim is the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble, the largest marketer i...
2023-08-3047 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 11: Tiffani BovaTiffani Bova: The Inside Track on Growth
Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani is a true change maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have brought her international attention. She also hosts her own excellent podcast What’s Next!
Prior to working with Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing, and customer service executive for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. After her success in the corporate world, she was also a Distinguished Analyst and Re...
2023-08-3051 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 10: What we have learned so farStuart Crainer, Des Dearlove, Steve Goldbach, Stacy Janice and Geoff Tuff marshall their thoughts and make sense of our podcast episodes from the year. What have they learned? What has surprised them? Which guests really made them re-think and re-set?
There are plenty of inspiring stories to choose from. We have had some amazing guests: Valerie Rainford, who has championed talent and diversity in the banking world and now for her own company; Debbie Bial, the founder and president of the Posse Foundation; the board member, author, and now member of the UK's House of Lords, Dambisa Moyo; the former...
2023-08-3047 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 9: Ben FanningWhat is peanut butter and jelly leadership? And why does every business leader need a podcast? Ben Fanning is the host of the top ranked Lead the Team podcast, where he interviews world-class CEOs about their everyday success strategies that can apply to businesses of 1 to 100,000. In this fascinating episode, Ben, who is also a professional speaker, #1 bestselling author, and corporate trainer, explains the unique power of podcasts to communicate a leader’s authentic self. By showing vulnerability and intent, podcasts allow the leader to get the ear of followers in a new and exciting way that is ideally suited to...
2023-08-3044 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 8: Tom van der LubbeTom van der Lubbe is the visionary and inspirational co-founder of Viisi, a Dutch financial services company that offers customized mortgage solutions. Founded in 2010 at the height of the financial crisis, Viisi is a remarkable company. Its purpose is to change the world of finance, to make the industry better, more sustainable and more focused on the long term. Its open and transparent organization is part of Tom’s mission to leave the world a better place. Radical and disruptive, Viisi’s management and organization challenge the basics of how companies are traditionally run.
In a captivating and challenging conversation with...
2023-08-3038 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 7: Charles CamardaIt isn’t every day you get to meet a real-life astronaut! Dr Charles Camarda – (Charlie to his friends) was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996 and flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-114, NASA’s Return-to-Flight mission immediately following the Columbia disaster of 2003, which claimed the lives of its seven crew. He was responsible for initiating several teams to successfully diagnose the cause of the Columbia tragedy and developing an in-orbit repair capability, used on successive Shuttle missions until the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011.
As well as being an Astronaut, Charlie is a research engineer, inventor, author...
2023-08-3044 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 6: Robert LefkowitzTrained at Columbia, the National Institute of Health and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1973, Bob Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He is also a cardiologist and the author of the memoir, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist.
In this wide ranging conversation with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Bob Lefkowitz looks back on his amazing career and the lessons he has learned along the way. Fi...
2023-08-3049 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 5: Julie CarrierJulie Carrier is a trailblazer in the field of young women’s leadership. The CEO of Girls Lead Worldwide and founder of The Leadership Development Institute for Young Women, she researches and brings evidence-based, applied-neuroscience leadership coaching and development to girls and young women in high school through a set curriculum. Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021, Julie is recognised as the ‘World’s #1 Coach for Young Women’ by Marshall Goldsmith and is a former Pentagon Senior Management Consultant in Leadership. She is the author of the US national bestseller Girls Lead.
In this episode, we hear about Ju...
2023-08-3048 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 4: Hubert JolyHubert Joly has been described as ‘a visionary’, and ‘one of the most gifted leaders of our time.’ As CEO of the electrical retailer Best Buy, Joly led a turnaround that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos described as ‘…remarkable – a case study that should be taught in business schools around the world.’
Now a lecturer at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren, Joly’s book The Heart of Business is a playbook for leaders who are ready to abandon old paradigms and lead with a noble purpose. In it, Joly agitates for busines...
2023-08-2949 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 3: Debbie BialThe Posse Foundation identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential and places them in supportive, multi-cultural teams. Since 1989, Posse’s partner colleges have awarded $1.6 billion in scholarships and more than 10,000 scholars have so far been selected. Posse scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent. Deborah Bial is the president and founder of Posse. In conversation with Deloitte’s Stacy Janiak and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Debbie shares insights from her remarkable story of running with a powerful idea when aged just 23 and turning it into a Foundation which makes an enduring impact on peoples’ lives—and the worl...
2023-08-2951 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 2: Dambisa MoyoDambisa Moyo is a true pioneer. Zambian-born, she serves on the global corporate boards of the 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Condé Nast. Her compelling combination of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, plus a uniquely wide ranging curiosity, can be seen in her succession of bestselling books: Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead and Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and...
2023-08-2942 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs Episode 1: Valerie RainfordValerie Rainford: Passion Plus Purpose
If passion and purpose are the currency of business, then Valerie Rainford has a lifetime of wealth from which to draw. Now, the founder and CEO of Elloree Talent Strategies, she is author of the award-winning memoir Until the Brighter Tomorrow: One Woman’s Courageous Climb from the Projects to the Podium. Her remarkable career is loaded with firsts: the youngest officer promoted in the history of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the most senior black woman and the first black woman Senior Vice President at JPMorgan Chase & Co. where she created an...
2023-08-2944 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 16: Morra Aarons-MeleAuthor of The Anxious Achiever and Hiding in the Bathroom, Morra Aarons-Mele is also founder of the award-winning social impact agency Women Online. In this Provocateurs podcast episode, she joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 to set the record straight on normalising anxiety. Data shows that high achievers manage more anxiety and depression, and Morra explains how to rethink the relationship between mental health and success. She describes anxiety as a spectrum, where at one end it can be quite debilitating and at the other, it’s a nervous but motivating energy. Ha...
2023-07-1139 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 15: Annie DukeFormer professional poker player Annie Duke is a master of decision making. In this Provocateurs podcast, hosted by Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50 and Steve Goldbach of Deloitte, she challenges us to examine our own biases and self-narratives to focus on the things we can control, in order to make better choices. By sharing practical insights and strategies for improving decision making and developing resilience, Annie emphasises the importance of analysing decisions objectively, rather than relying on the outcome to determine their quality.The author of Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, released i...
2023-06-2155 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 14: Martin LindstromSelf-confessed contrarian thinker and provocateur since childhood, Martin Lindstrom is an international branding expert and one of the world’s leading authorities on the metaverse. Here he joins Geoff Tuff of Deloitte and Des Dearlove of Thinkers50 in a fascinating conversation about branding as an emotional construct, the power of small data, and lying on a bed of Lego.In the 1990s, Lindstrom pioneered how to build brands on the internet and has since coined terms such as clicks & mortar, contextual marketing, and texting. He has published eight New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Bu...
2023-05-3144 min
LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza LichtDr. Marcus Collins on How to Define and Use Culture Effectively in Marketing and Why Brands Should Stop Putting People in BoxesDr. Marcus Collins is an award-winning marketer and cultural translator with one foot in the world of practice—serving as the Chief Strategy Officer at Wieden+Kennedy New York—and one foot in the world of academia—as a marketing professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. His book For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be examines the influence of culture on consumption and unpacks how everyone, from marketers to activists, can leverage culture to get people to take action.
Marcus's understanding of brand st...
2023-05-2140 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 13: Shelley ZalisShelley Zalis is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25, and today she works with Fortune 500 companies, impact organizations, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace. And she mentors women all over the world. Shelley is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an equality services company that creates platforms for women and solutions for organizations committed to closing the gender gap in the workplace. Its signature Equality Lounge is now a stand-out feature at key industry conferences around the globe.In this compelling conversation wi...
2023-05-0140 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 12: Jim StengelJim Stengel is the President and CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, which works to build brands and companies by activating their purpose. He has authored the books ‘Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s Greatest Companies’ as well as ‘Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups.’ He is also a speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau, the host of The CMO Podcast, and serves as Dean of the Young Marketers Academy at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.Jim is the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble, th...
2023-03-0347 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 11: Tiffani BovaTiffani Bova: The Inside Track on Growth Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. Tiffani is a true change maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have brought her international attention. She also hosts her own excellent podcast What’s Next!Prior to working with Salesforce, she was a sales, marketing, and customer service executive for startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. After her success in the corporate world, she...
2023-01-3051 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 10: What we have learned so farStuart Crainer, Des Dearlove, Steve Goldbach, Stacy Janice and Geoff Tuff marshall their thoughts and make sense of our podcast episodes from the year. What have they learned? What has surprised them? Which guests really made them re-think and re-set? There are plenty of inspiring stories to choose from. We have had some amazing guests: Valerie Rainford, who has championed talent and diversity in the banking world and now for her own company; Debbie Bial, the founder and president of the Posse Foundation; the board member, author, and now member of the UK's House of Lords, Dambisa M...
2022-12-1947 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 9: Ben FanningWhat is peanut butter and jelly leadership? And why does every business leader need a podcast? Ben Fanning is the host of the top ranked Lead the Team podcast, where he interviews world-class CEOs about their everyday success strategies that can apply to businesses of 1 to 100,000. In this fascinating episode, Ben, who is also a professional speaker, #1 bestselling author, and corporate trainer, explains the unique power of podcasts to communicate a leader’s authentic self. By showing vulnerability and intent, podcasts allow the leader to get the ear of followers in a new and exciting way that is ideally su...
2022-11-0944 min
Case Interview Preparation & Management Consulting | Strategy | Critical Thinking521: Redefining risk: How to build a career through bold actions (with Christie Hunter Arscott)Welcome to an episode with an award-winning advisor, speaker, and author, Christie Hunter Arscott. Get Christie's book here: https://amzn.to/3Qia05S Most of the time, the word risk is associated with fear and uncertainty. We tend to struggle with harnessing the power of risk-taking. But the first bold step sheds light on that. As Christie mentioned in this episode, "An intentional and strategic risk, even when the output is not what you desired, still can propel you further than if you made the consistent choice to play it safe." In this episode, we di...
2022-11-0251 min
CEO School with Suneera Madhani204. Christie Hunter Arscott: Reimagining Risk and Trading Confidence for CourageIn today’s episode, you will hear from Christie Hunter Arscott, an award-winning advisor, speaker, and author. Suneera and Christie discuss the power of intentional risk-taking in building one’s career. They shared about how to encourage women to take chances on themselves to face intentional, intelligent, and strategic risks. Christie Hunter Arscott is a leading expert on how we can harness the power of intentional risk-taking to create more dynamic and vibrant careers and organizations. A Rhodes Scholar, Christie has been named by Thinkers50 as one of the top management thinkers likely to shape the future of business. Christ...
2022-10-1744 min
Thinking With Mitch JoelSPOS 848 - Megan Reitz On Navigating Power And Politics At WorkWelcome to episode #848 of Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - The ThinkersOne Podcast - Episode #848. Enabling people to speak up at work is now an imperative to reduce the risk of wrong-doing as well as access vital knowledge and ideas from employees. Simply asking people to 'speak up' and encouraging leaders to 'engage in conversation' without thoroughly appreciating the impact that power differences - and prevailing social and cultural norms - have on what can be spoken, and what is heard, is naïve at best. This i...
2022-10-091h 00The ProvocateursEpisode 8: Tom van der LubbeTom van der Lubbe is the visionary and inspirational co-founder of Viisi, a Dutch financial services company that offers customized mortgage solutions. Founded in 2010 at the height of the financial crisis, Viisi is a remarkable company. Its purpose is to change the world of finance, to make the industry better, more sustainable and more focused on the long term. Its open and transparent organization is part of Tom’s mission to leave the world a better place. Radical and disruptive, Viisi’s management and organization challenge the basics of how companies are traditionally run. In a capti...
2022-10-0438 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 7: Charles CamardaIt isn’t every day you get to meet a real-life astronaut! Dr Charles Camarda – (Charlie to his friends) was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996 and flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-114, NASA’s Return-to-Flight mission immediately following the Columbia disaster of 2003, which claimed the lives of its seven crew. He was responsible for initiating several teams to successfully diagnose the cause of the Columbia tragedy and developing an in-orbit repair capability, used on successive Shuttle missions until the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. As well as being a...
2022-09-0744 min
The Strategy Skills Podcast: Strategy | Leadership | Critical Thinking | Problem-Solving267: Christie Hunter Arscott, Redefining risk: How to build a career through bold actionsWelcome to Strategy Skills episode 267, an episode with an award-winning advisor, speaker, and author, Christie Hunter Arscott. Get Christie's book here: https://amzn.to/3Qia05S Most of the time, the word risk is associated with fear and uncertainty. We tend to struggle with harnessing the power of risk-taking. But the first bold step sheds light on that. As Christie mentioned in this episode, "An intentional and strategic risk, even when the output is not what you desired, still can propel you further than if you made the consistent choice to play it safe."
2022-08-1053 min
Lead the Team (Top 2% of Podcasts)Why Leaders Provoke the Future - Deloitte Chief Strategy Officer, Steve GoldbachStop taking a “wait and see” approach as a leader and start provoking the future.I host Deloitte Chief Strategy Officer and author, Steve Goldbach, who explains why leaders tend to act so tentatively in the face of uncertainty and then shares a powerful strategy to help leaders move forward more boldly and courageously.Prior to joining Deloitte, Steve was a Partner at Monitor Group and head of its New York Office and head of strategy at Forbes. He’s a globally recognized strategist, author and thought leader. Steve helps executives and th...
2022-08-0238 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 6: Robert LefkowitzTrained at Columbia, the National Institute of Health and Harvard before joining the faculty at Duke University in 1973, Bob Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize winning scientist who is best known for showing how adrenaline works via stimulation of specific receptors. He is also a cardiologist and the author of the memoir, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist. In this wide ranging conversation with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Bob Lefkowitz looks back on his amazing career and the lessons he has learned alo...
2022-07-2749 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 5: Julie CarrierJulie Carrier is a trailblazer in the field of young women’s leadership. The CEO of Girls Lead Worldwide and founder of The Leadership Development Institute for Young Women, she researches and brings evidence-based, applied-neuroscience leadership coaching and development to girls and young women in high school through a set curriculum. Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Coaching and Mentoring Award in 2021, Julie is recognised as the ‘World’s #1 Coach for Young Women’ by Marshall Goldsmith and is a former Pentagon Senior Management Consultant in Leadership. She is the author of the US national bestseller Girls Lead.
2022-06-2148 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 4: Hubert JolyHubert Joly has been described as ‘a visionary’, and ‘one of the most gifted leaders of our time.’ As CEO of the electrical retailer Best Buy, Joly led a turnaround that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos described as ‘…remarkable – a case study that should be taught in business schools around the world.’ Now a lecturer at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of directors of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren, Joly’s book The Heart of Business is a playbook for leaders who are ready to abandon old paradigms and lead with a noble purpose. In it, Joly agitates...
2022-05-2449 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 3: Debbie BialThe Posse Foundation identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential and places them in supportive, multi-cultural teams. Since 1989, Posse’s partner colleges have awarded $1.6 billion in scholarships and more than 10,000 scholars have so far been selected. Posse scholars graduate at a rate of 90 percent. Deborah Bial is the president and founder of Posse. In conversation with Deloitte’s Stacy Janiak and Stuart Crainer of Thinkers50, Debbie shares insights from her remarkable story of running with a powerful idea when aged just 23 and turning it into a Foundation which makes an enduring impact on peoples’ lives—and the worl...
2022-04-1351 min
Noble Warrior with CK Lin133 Jonathan Brill: How to Design Your Organization For a Predictably Disruptive World?Jonathan Brill prepares leaders to profit from radical change. He speaks and advises on resilient growth strategy and innovation under uncertainty. He is the author of Rogue Waves, Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill). Adam Grant called it, "An actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it."Deloitte called Brill, "America's foremost disruption strategist" for his advisory work. Oxford University Press said, “he’s not Nostradamus, but for the world’s top business and government leaders, he’s the next best thing” of his work as the Global Futurist at HP (Hewlet...
2022-04-071h 21The ProvocateursEpisode 2: Dambisa MoyoDambisa Moyo is a true pioneer. Zambian-born, she serves on the global corporate boards of the 3M Corporation, Chevron, and Condé Nast. Her compelling combination of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, plus a uniquely wide ranging curiosity, can be seen in her succession of bestselling books: Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It, Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead...
2022-03-1542 minThe ProvocateursEpisode 1: Valerie RainfordValerie Rainford: Passion Plus PurposeIf passion and purpose are the currency of business, then Valerie Rainford has a lifetime of wealth from which to draw. Now, the founder and CEO of Elloree Talent Strategies, she is author of the award-winning memoir Until the Brighter Tomorrow: One Woman’s Courageous Climb from the Projects to the Podium. Her remarkable career is loaded with firsts: the youngest officer promoted in the history of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the most senior black woman and the first black woman Senior Vice President at JPMorgan Ch...
2022-02-1544 minThinkers50 PodcastThe Provocateurs: intro episodeThe Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story.
In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Elloree Talent Strategies and former s...
2022-01-1541 minThe ProvocateursIntroduction to The ProvocateursThe Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story. In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Ellore...
2022-01-1341 min
Curve Benders by David Nour26 - Speaking Truth to Power with Megan ReitzHer passion and curiosity centers around the quality of how we meet, see, hear, speak, learn with, and encounter one another in organizational systems. She believes how we might encourage dialogue is not only more humane, but it also enables us, our colleagues, and our society to flourish. Working at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue, and mindfulness, she has presented her research to audiences throughout the world and is recognized by the Thinkers50 Radar of global management thinkers.
Her recent research with John Higgins on ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ – examining how perceptions of power enable and silenc...
2020-07-2836 min
Get Yourself the JobAlexandra LevitJennifer Hill interviews best-selling author and futurist, Alexandra Levit, about the future of work. Alexandra forecasts what changes to anticipate in the workplace including how automation will impact jobs. She also discusses what matters to Generations Y & Z and how organizations can better prepare for the new workforce. Finally, Alexandra offers suggestions to job seekers on how to improve their current skills to remain relevant for future roles.
alexandralevit.com/about-alexandra
Alexandra Levit’s goal is to prepare organizations and their employees to be competitive and marketable in the future business world. A former nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall St...
2020-01-2855 min