Podcast
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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Bookkeeping and the Rise of the Small Business
2w ago00:28:58Tap 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
4w ago00:41:15Tap 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
Transcribe →The AI Reshuffle of the Knowledge Economy
Mar 700:42:42Tap to summarizeSangeet Paul Choudary, best-selling author of Platform Revolution and Reshuffle, explains how artificial intelligence is re-stacking the knowledge economy. As AI changes how knowledge is created, distributed, and monetized, it is also reshaping who holds power across industries. Drawing from his work advising Fortune 500 CEOs and global institutions, he explores what this shift means for workers, companies, and the future of competitive advantage.#Economy #Business #ArtifitialIntelligence
Transcribe →Lévy on the Level
Feb 2100:39:29Tap to summarizeAs Publicis Groupe celebrates its 100th anniversary, we’re revisiting a timeless conversation with Maurice Lévy — a leader whose legacy is deeply woven into the company’s story.In this wide-ranging interview, Maurice shares the inside story of the Power of One, how Viva Technology is poised to evolve, and why “the blank cheque of trust” is worth more than the paper it’s written on. He speaks candidly about his own “basket of failures” and why you should “stay in bed at home” if you have no passion for the work you do.
Transcribe →Share of Heart in Building Brands
Feb 700:50:51Tap to summarizeWarren Kornblum, a marketing leader and author of Notes from The Brand Stand discusses the importance of “share of heart" in building brands by engendering and building trust. The former CMO of Toys R Us says that our need for trust, human connection and long-term growth outweighs the need for any short-term focus on efficiency and scale. In this fast-changing world of algorithms and data, he says, we must focus on human-centric leadership and emotional connections in building lasting brand loyalty.#marketing #business #leadership
Transcribe →“A” in AI- The Alien in Law
Jan 2400:46:18Tap to summarizeCarla Michelotti, a legend in advertising and law, discusses the importance of rebooting, staying relevant, and the need to grow new muscles before our “old” brain muscles become atrophied by AI. Carla has held senior roles at Leo Burnett, BCom3, and the Publicis Groupe and today continues as an advisor to many firms and organizations, including the American Advertising Federation as its Government Affairs Chair, and the as a board member of BBB National Programs. In this conversation, she highlights the impact of AI on the legal and advertising sectors, and the necessity of adapting laws and business models to accommodate AI, truly an alien intelligence. She advocates for increased education and literacy about AI, especially regarding its use in children's AI companion bots, and stresses the importance of maintaining human involvement and particularly the business value that human wisdom has in an AI-driven world.Learn more about the BBB National Programs Center for Industry Self-Regulation (CISR) initiative on guardrails for AI companion bots.https://industryselfregulation.org/incubator/ai
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