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What Next?
Hosted by Publicis Groupe · EN
"What Next?" explores the evolving landscape of business, leadership, advertising, and the future of work. Hosted by Rishad Tobaccowala, the podcast dives into how globalization, technology, and demographic shifts reshape how we create, consume, and communicate. Rishad Tobaccowala engages with CEOs, creative leaders, and visionaries to discuss innovative strategies, technology’s impact on media, and leadership challenges in the future of work. Hear unique insights from academics, futurists, and media innovators on navigating today’s business world.
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Storytelling and the Ocean Economy
1w ago00:31:39Tap to summarizeKendra MacDonald, CEO of Canada's Ocean Supercluster on digital transformation in the ocean economy. One of Atlantic Businesses Magazine's top 50 CEOs, and recipient of The King Charles Award which honors exemplary Canadians for exceptional leadership and impact, she shows how narrative can harness the opportunity for growth in Canada’s long coastline and the ocean's critical role in global systems. Stressing the need for trust, urgency, and alignment in projects, she says that AI can enhance business strategies, but that innovation in the future is less about technology and more about storytelling.
Transcribe →Taking the Pulse of AI in The Future of Healthcare
2w ago00:46:03Tap to summarizeDr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer at the American College of Cardiology and FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee chair on the rise of telemedicine and AI in healthcare. The Harvard and Yale trained cardiologist explains how and why to build the frameworks which determine how AI and digital health tools reach patients safely, equitably and at scale. Leadership, governance, and infrastructure are essential, she argues, for AI to improve patient outcomes, and to meet the challenges of scaling innovation, the shift towards hybrid, continuous and data-informed care. Patient agency, education and responsible AI adoption, she says, is vital in addressing unmet healthcare needs effectively.Follow Dr. Bhatt on LinkedIn and X, and visit dramibhatt.com for more on AI governance and the future of care delivery.• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dramibhatt• X: @AmiBhattMD• Website: dramibhatt.com
Transcribe →Mindshift: Cognitive Darwinism, iteration and innovation
4w ago00:50:45Tap to summarizeBrian Solis, futurist and digital anthropologist on his bestselling book Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Reshape the Future. The Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, and a special advisor to the United Nations Global Innovation Team is who Forbes has described as one of the most creative and brilliant business minds of our time. He explains his term ‘cognitive Darwinism,’ as spicy thinking about the future workplace where AI can lead to perpetual mediocrity if not used strategically. AI, he says, is about enhancing human capabilities and building a better workforce, but the trick is maintaining agency in the agentic age.
Transcribe →Trusted Differentiation in Brand Storytelling
Jun 1300:44:37Tap to summarizeRei Inamoto, founder of global innovation firm, I&CO and former chief creative officer at AKQA, on the shift from storytelling to trusted differentiation as a core brand strategy. The author of "Brand Shift" says that the rise of short videos, personal brands, product-as-content and increased consumer expectations has changed the very nature of storytelling and made trust a premium in a world where information is murky. While our human obsession with storytelling over thousands of years is important in marketing, he argues it is the notion of trust and how a company positions itself as trusted differentiation that really matters.
Transcribe →Bookkeeping and the Rise of the Small Business
May 3000:28:58Tap to summarizeNatalia Zacharin, founder of Zacharin Consulting, on her journey from corporate life to scaling her firm to $3 million in six years. The Inc 5000 honoree who specializes in fractional CFO services and strategic financial planning, argues the importance of understanding financials, particularly for small businesses, and the pitfalls of inaccurate bookkeeping. Sharing insights on her experience as a fractional CFO and the importance of continuous learning and mentorship, she advises business owners to be cautious with debt, invest wisely, and maintain higher profit margins for growth and reinvestment. Revenue and sales themselves, she tells us, will never fix broken systems, and profit is not the same as cash.
Transcribe →Reducing the Meeting Debt
May 1600:41:15Tap to summarizeRebecca Hinds, author of "Your Best Meeting Ever" on the principles for designing effective meetings. The founder of Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, emphasizes the importance of applying product design principles to meetings, including her 4D system - Discussion, Development, Decision or Debate to reduce "meeting debt" and determine if a meeting is necessary at all. Meetings, she argues, should be limited to discussions requiring complex, emotional or one-way decisions, which leads to real insights into organizational design in the workplace. The best organizations, she says are where leaders lead with curiosity, find the bridge builders, the super connectors and the difference makers, who themselves play with the technology and ask not what they can do with it, but what it can do for them.
Transcribe →Behavior Assessment and Decision-making Science
May 200:35:18Tap to summarizeJason P. Carroll, founder of Aptive Index — a behavioral intelligence platform powered by psychometric science and AI that helps leaders hire better, lead smarter, and build thriving teams. A TEDx speaker and certified Dare to Lead facilitator trained by Dr. Brené Brown, Jason brings together the science of human behavior and the art of courageous leadership. He says that while AI and technology will change jobs, organizations must leverage, focus on and train their people, because it will be how people use the technology that will make all the difference to the future of business.
Transcribe →Storytelling and the Graphic Novel in an Age of Distraction
Apr 1800:48:10Tap to summarizeDamien Wassel, CEO of Vault Comics, on his transition from academia to publishing and the use of stories as tools for connection and influence. The former academic brings his PhD in Philosophy to underscore his partnerships with globally recognized brands and talent, and publishes multiple best-selling and award-winning comic books and graphic novels. He argues that in an age of distraction, it is stories that can attract and hold our attention, building community through a shared emotional engagement, even across time. It is the comic and graphic novel’s ability to provoke deep reflection, he says, that reminds us of how it feels to be human in the age of Ai.
Transcribe →The Human Context Protocol
Apr 400:29:39Tap to summarizeBetsy Kauffman, founder and CEO of Cross Impact Coaching on her journey from technology project management to executive leadership coach and consultant. After 25 years leading large-scale technology transformations across Fortune 500 companies, her resulting TED Talk: Four Tips for Honest Conversations at Work has had over 1.6 million views. She tells us how aligning leadership teams for successful AI transformations must include the human element if we are to define goals and secure proper change management. It is the human context in AI decision-making, she says, that can avoid inefficient use of resources and reduced productivity and lead to high-performing, aligned teams. Talent and teamwork, she argues, rather than relying on the advances in technology, are the key to driving strategic success. She has created a free alignment survey to help leaders and their teams understand whether deeper alignment is what your team needs right now before you head into your next big change initiative.
Transcribe →The Heart of Business
Mar 2100:33:29Tap to summarizeHannah Bauer, founder and CEO of Heartnomics, on her journey from surviving childhood heart disease to leading a firm that helps leaders rebuild trust, alignment, and resilience. A Maxwell leadership faculty member, Lean Six Sigma, Black Belt and Bull Ridge examiner,she explains the importance of balancing love and excellence in leadership, particularly in times of change. She argues that the future of success and leadership is a unique combination of math and meaning, of excellence and heart. In a world that is overwhelmed with burnout and disengagement, focusing on the psychological safety of your teams, she says, is an essential business strategy.#Business #Leadership
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