The What's Next Podcast
by Active International
Are you constantly thinking and preparing for What's Next? Our podcast seeks to gain a diverse perspective on What's Next for the working world, the real world, the virtual world, our careers, our planet, our businesses, our happiness, and much more! But don't worry, our big ideas are in 20-minute bite-sized chunks! I'm your host Karim Kanji, and I am excited to share talks with business leaders, professors, specialists, authors, thinkers, basically the people who know their stuff on What's Next in their space. If you're as curious as I am about what's next, join me and invest 20 minutes of your day exploring big ideas and innovative thoughts.The podcast is brought to you by Active International, a global leader in Corporate Trade within the Media & Advertising industry.
Episodes
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What's Next with Donna Speciale
ABOUT EPISODE On this episode of The What's Next Podcast, Karim speaks with Donna Speciale about her background and passion for the media landscape. Donna is the President of U.S. Advertising Sales and Marketing, TelevisaUnivision. ABOUT DONNA SPECIALE As President of U.S. Advertising Sales and...
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What's Next With Shonel Morrison
On this episode of the What's Next Podcast, we speak with Shonel Morrison. Shonel is the Head of Media Strategy at AstraZeneca. ABOUT SHONEL MORRISON Shonel has over 10 years of experience in the healthcare marketing industry focused on paid media strategy, planning, and buying. She has expertise...
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What's Next with Leon Clark
On this episode of The What's Next Podcast, we speak with Leon Clark. Leon is the VP/General Manager E.W. Scripps KGTV ABC10 - San Diego. ABOUT LEON CLARK Leon Clark is no stranger to the marketing and programing needs of the broadcast consumer. With over 25 years of management and operational...
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What's Next with Eddy Edwards
About Eddy Edwards Creative and strategist in the Branding, Design and Advertising industry. Eddy started his career back in 1993, working in graphic design, branding and packaging, evolving into account direction and client relations before forming the central London creative agency BEAR as...
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What's Next with Rachel Wiseman
On this episode of The What's Next Podcast, we speak to Rachel Wisemen.Rachel is the Chief Executive Officer at NRMA Expeditions, a division of NRMA Limited. ABOUT RACHEL WISEMAN Rachel Wiseman is the Chief Executive Officer of NRMA Expeditions. Rachel is charged with growing the organization's...
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What's Next with Adam Handling
We speak to Michelin Star Chef Adam Handling about food waste, sustainability in restaurants and cooking for the G7! ABOUT ADAM HANDLING Michelin-starred Chef Adam Handling started out at Gleneagles 16 years ago where he was the first ever apprentice chef, before he went on to become Fairmont’s...
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What's Next with Sarah Keith and Dan Hojnik
About Sarah Keith and Dan Hojnik Sarah Keith Group MD of Active and Involved Media Having spent 25 of her 30 media YEARS in Australia and the UK working on the publisher side of the business Sarah enjoys both the challenge and opportunity that working across Active and Involved presents. Having...
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What's Next with Angus McIntosh
About Angus McIntosh Angus has a wealth of senior-level, blue-chip Procurement experience. As a former Global and Regional CPO with Beiersdorf and Mars, controlling multiple billions of dollars in spend, he knows the function inside out. This means he can provide a uniquely frank and insightful...
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What's Next with Lianre Robinson
Lianre is CEO at Codec, a cultural intelligence platform. She is an award-winning digital marketer, who is passionate about technology, culture, communities and their impact on brands. With 20+ years experience across global companies like LADbible, Livity and Jack Morton Worldwide, she has a...
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What's Next with Catherine de Lange
This episode is slightly different from our usual themes. However, it's very close to home, very close indeed... this episode is about our brain! We welcome science journalist and author Catherine de Lange to the What's Next podcast, and she shares insight and top tips from her book Brain Power:...
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What's Next with Chris Stephenson
ABOUT CHRIS STEPHENSON Chris is Chief Marketing Officer for PHD Worldwide His role is to globally amplify PHD’s vision of enabling marketers to ‘Make the Leap’ – a call to action and reference to how the agency prioritises creativity to drive disproportionate growth for marketers, backed by its...
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What's Next with Andrew Baxter
Chair, board director, business advisor and marketing thought leader, Andrew is the Chair of Australian Pork, and a Non-Executive Director at Foresters Financial, GrowthOps, BirdDog, Hypetap, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and OzHarvest. He is also a Senior Advisor at BGH Capital and the Adjunct...
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What's Next with Rishad Tobaccowala
Rishad Tobaccowala is the Chief Growth Officer at Publicis Groupe, an advertising and communications firm whose 80,000 employees worldwide are dedicated to delivering marketing and business transformation. He is responsible for supporting the leaders of Publicis Groupe's largest global clients…
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What's Next with John Sass
Imagine having a job where your mission every day was to encourage people to GROW! To go outside in the backyard, walk barefoot in the grass, and sink their hands in the soil to plant a garden. That is exactly what John gets to do as VP, Chief Creative Officer for the incredible lawn and garden...
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What's Next with Erin Ewing
About Erin Ewing Erin Ewing is the CEO and co-founder of Greener Matters, a group of sustainability consultants firmly committed to helping businesses prepare themselves for the new economy of the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. Before becoming a sustainability professional, he…
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What's Next with Ivan Pehar
About Ivan Pehar Ivan Pehar is the Head of Canada Ad Sales at Spotify. He is an accomplished strategic digital marketing professional with over 20 years’ experience in brand building, media innovation and technology for some of the world’s most respected brands. Ivan is responsible for developing...
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What's Next with Andrea Sampson
We speak to Andrea Sampson, CEO and Founder of Talk Boutique on the importance of communication and she shares useful tips on how to be a compelling storyteller. About Andrea Sampson Invoking well defined listening skills and combining these with her skills in insight identification and human...
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What's Next with Manal Siddiqui
What's Next for the internet? We talk metaverse, the decay of web 2.0, artificial intelligence, data ownership and more with Manal Siddiqui, CEO & Co-Founder of Transitional Forms. About Manal Siddiqui Manal Siddiqui is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Transitional Forms, an interactive...
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What's Next with Barry Alexander
We speak to Barry Alexander, VP of Brand Marketing at Knixwear, a Canadian underwear brand that is proudly "Redefining Intimates". Knix is a brand known for its award-winning dedication to inclusion. We asked Barry what steps a brand has to take to embrace community, diversity, and inclusion into...
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What's Next with Duncan Stewart 2022
We speak with returning guest Duncan Stewart from Deloitte Canada on What's Next! In this episode Duncan gives us insight into the Deloitte predictions on Games and Gaming Consoles, the churn of SVOD, sports NFTs and good old fashioned reading! Read more on Deloitte's TMT predictions -...
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What's Next with Ron Tite
Welcome back to The What's Next Podcast, we kick off the new season with Ron Tite, Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Church+State agency in Canada. About Ron Tite A best-selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Ron Tite has always blurred the lines between art and commerce. He has been an...
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What's Next with Gillian McMichael
About Gillian McMichael Gillian is an acclaimed transformational coach and is in the top 3% of coaches world-wide. With over two decades of experience of working with Executives globally she has supported over 10,000 clients overcome their barriers to success. Moving beyond fear to elicit agency…
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What's Next with Naren Patel
In the latest episode of The What's Next Podcast, we look at what's next for diversity within the media & advertising industry. We gain insight from Naren Patel, founder of Media For All and previously CEO of Primesight, a leading OOH media company. Naren is passionate about improving ethnic...
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What's Next with Patricia Moser
The impact of the pandemic and climate change has had a significant effect on global supply chains. With the COP26 Climate Change conference taking place this week, this episode is a timely look inside the world of supply chains and how innovators within the industry are aligning their services...
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What's Next with Liz Jones and Daren Rubins
This episode we take a little look into the world of recruitment: What are businesses looking for when hiring C-Suite executives and what are the C-Suite executives looking for when seeking new opportunities, has this changed since the global pandemic has affected the traditional working models?…
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What's Next with Alex Barker
We speak to Alex Barker, a freelance consultant and facilitator, who runs Be More Pirate as a network and movement. She is co-author of How to Be More Pirate and works across the public and private sector on strategy, culture change and challenging the status quo. Previously, she was…
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What's Next with Sonia Carreno
We speak to Sonia Carreno, President of IAB Canada, about the cookieless future and what that will mean for advertisers. Sonia takes us through Project Rearc, the IAB's global call-to-action for stakeholders across the digital supply chain, to re-think and re-architect digital marketing to…
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What's Next with Robert Jacobi
We are joined by Robert Jacobi, Founding Partner of The Nunatak Group. Robert talks to us about the seismic shift to digitization accelerated by the pandemic and the key recipes needed for companies to innovate. About The Nunatak Group The Nunatak Group is the go-to strategy consultancy when it...
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What's Next with Brian Gallagher
In this episode, we speak to Brian Gallagher, who shared his insight as the Chief of Sales at Australian Media Owner SCA on the changing media landscape and how the pandemic has helped shine a light on localism. SME businesses were the first to feel the pain of the Covid-19 outbreak in Australia....
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What's Next with Zoe Howorth
We talk to WACL member Zoe Howorth (Women in Advertising and Communication Leadership) on a range of topics from Olympic advertising for brands, leaning on her experiences as Marketing Director for Coca Cola UK . To 'Meat Free Mondays', an initiative, which has encouraged millions to reduce their...
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What's Next with Adrian Montgomery
We talk with Adrian Montgomery, CEO of Enthusiast Gaming, about the meteoric rise of the e-sports and gaming industry and why its a vital space for advertisers/marketers. "60% of Gen Z prefer e-sports over traditional sports". A statistic that may seem strange to some, however, Adrian illuminates...
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What's Next with Abba Newbery
We chat to Abba Newbery about how Habito is the "What's Next" of Mortgage Broker/Provider in the UK. The UK mortgage industry is archaic, and possibly even broken when we consider how people are now living their lives. People who are self-employed or have non-linear careers struggle to find...
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What's Next with Dan Bates
We speak to Dan Bates, Founder and CEO of Rebel Energy about launching a new breed of energy supplier in the UK. Dan's mission with Rebel Energy is to address inequality and the climate crisis with a startup that addresses 3 mega trends in the energy industry: 1. Global Regulatory Changes. This…
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What's Next with Kevin Edwards
Undoubtedly one of the most fascinating brands of the past year is Just Eat Takeaway, a British-Dutch dot-com company; in this episode, we enjoyed speaking to Canadian subsidiary company SkipTheDishes CEO Kevin Edwards. Kevin talks about the lessons learned throughout the pandemic; the effect on...
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What's Next with Steve Dennis
We speak to Steve Dennis, author of 'Remarkable Retail How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption'. Steve gives us an overview of the retail industry; the impacts of shopping mall oversupply, lack of diversified shopping experiences and the evolution of e-commerce. Steve also takes us...
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What's Next with Tina Fegent
In this episode of the What's Next podcast, we speak with Tina Fegent, a leading specialist and consultant in Marketing Procurement. Marketing Procurement is the buying of goods and services that support an organisation’s Marketing investment. It covers the Marketing 4 P’s – Product; Price; Place...
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What's Next with Carl Honoré
We have a quick chat with Carl Honoré about slowing down! Carl is the voice of the Slow Movement. "In a world addicted to speed, slowness is a superpower!" ABOUT CARL HONORÉ Carl Honoré is a bestselling author, broadcaster and the global voice of the Slow Movement. His two main-stage TED Talks…
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What's Next with Duncan Stewart
This week's podcast features quickfire insights into the 'TMT Predictions 2021' report published by Deloitte. Duncan Stewart, Director of Research for Deloitte Canada and co-author of the report, gives us further insight into 3 key topics featured in the report: The continued growth of online...
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What's Next with Professor Dr Jonathan AJ Wilson
We chat with Professor Dr Jonathan AJ Wilson, Professor of Brand Strategy and Culture at Regent's University in London. We discussed how businesses can avoid tokenism in advertising & company culture and how the smart money is on embracing this watershed moment. "Avoid tokenism, hire experts!"...
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What's Next with Paul Skinner
In this episode with Paul Skinner, Founder of Marketing Kind and Agency of the Future shares his thoughts on how marketing can play a more positive role in the world and how marketers have the essential qualities and skills to contribute to societal change. As businesses look to recover and...
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What's Next with Matteo Rizzi
In this episode, Karim speaks to Matteo Rizzi, FinTech Investor. Innotribe Co-Founder, ex SWIFT, Co-Founder FinTechStage.com. Matteo talks about the benefits of hiring talent with an entrepreneurial spirit and what executives need to do to nurture in-house talent. ABOUT MATTEO RIZZI Matteo is an...
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What's Next with Jane Ractliffe
In the first interview for the 'What's Next podcast, Karim Kanji speaks to Jane Ractliffe, Co-Founder and MD of Standard Media Index. Jane gives us her insight and predictions for What's Next and why Australia/New Zealand is an excellent place for marketers to test and experiment whilst the rest…
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What's Next? - The Trailer
What is this podcast about? We all need to be thinking about and preparing for What’s Next in order to achieve more - and that’s what this podcast is all about. We are seeking to gain a more diverse perspective on what will shape the future of marketing & advertising, one 15-minute conversation…
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About this show
Are you constantly thinking and preparing for What's Next? Our podcast seeks to gain a diverse perspective on What's Next for the working world, the real world, the virtual world, our careers, our planet, our businesses, our happiness, and much more! But don't worry, our big ideas are in 20-minute bite-sized chunks! I'm your host Karim Kanji, and I am excited to share talks with business leaders, professors, specialists, authors, thinkers, basically the people who know their stuff on What's Next in their space. If you're as curious as I am about what's next, join me and invest 20 minutes of your day exploring big ideas and innovative thoughts.The podcast is brought to you by Active International, a global leader in Corporate Trade within the Media & Advertising industry.
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