All Episodes

Series 3, Episode 29: Why governance matters, with Professor Tanusree Jain, Copenhagen Business School

Series 3, Episode 28: How can academics better communicate their ideas? With Professor Michael Haenlein, ESCP Business School

Series 3, Episode 27: Better understanding social entrepreneurship, with Professor Sheila Cannon, Trinity Business School

Series 3, Episode 26: How organisations select ideas, and how they might do it better, with Professor Dmitry Sharapov, Imperial College London

Series 3, Episode 25: How social class influences entrepreneurial performance with Professor Kristie Neff, Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University

Series 3, Episode 24: Why attitudes toward scientific consensus can be disastrous, with Professor Nick Light, University of Oregon

Series 3, Episode 23: How can we establish optimal distinctiveness? With Professor Daphne Demetry, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Series 3, Episode 22: Why would anyone be a micromanager? with Professor Catherine Deen, University of New South Wales Canberra

Series 3, Episode 21: Developing a theory of collective stupidity, with Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan, University College London

Season 3, Episode 20: Why we need to rethink stardom, with Professor Ernest O’Boyle, Indiana University, and Dr Martin Götz, University of Zurich

Series 3, Episode 19: Why leadership development is failing us, with Professor Moran Anisman-Razin, University of Limerick

Series 3, Episode 18: Does the “beauty bias” impact leader emergence?, with Professor Stephen Courtright, Texas A&M University

Series 3, Episode 17: Is it ok to be nosy, or should I just mind my own business? with Professor Richard Currie, Boston University

Series 3, Episode 16: How can teams become more resilient? with Professor Daniel Gucciardi, Curtin University

Series 3, Episode 15: The one where we talk about humor, with Matt Nadel, St John’s University

Series 3, Episode 14: Exploring Dark Creativity, with Dr Hansika Kapoor, Monk Prayogshala

Series 3, Episode 13: Why we need to ensure academic legitimacy, with Dr Raffaele Ciriello, University of Sydney

Series 3, Episode 12: Are female experts more credible than male experts? With Professor Hans Sievertsen, University of Bristol

Series 3, Episode 11: Why CEO curiosity matters, with Professor Patricia Klarner, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Series 3, Episode 10: Why beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies, with Professor Brooke Macnamara, Purdue University

Series 3, Episode 9: How should firms balance exploration and exploitation? with Dr Axel Zeijen, ETH Zurich

Season 3 Episode 8: Why and how does founder age perception influence funding outcomes? With Dr Michael Matthews, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Series 3, Episode 7: The importance of Learning to See with Professor Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina

Series 3, Episode 6: The Creativity Choice, with Dr Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, Yale University

Series 3, Episode 5: Are generations a useful concept? With Professor David Costanza, University of Virginia

Series 3, Episode 4: What drives the adoption of innovation? With Professor Radu Dimitriu, Trinity College Dublin

Series 3, Episode 3: Why Individuals Commit Professional Misconduct, with Professor Will Harvey, Melbourne Business School

Series 3, Episode 2: Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach to Ethical AI Governance, with Professor Linda Hogan (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr Marta Lasek-Markey (ADAPT)

Series 3, Episode 1: Understanding how memory really works, with Professor Gillian Murphy, University College Cork

Series 2, Episode 49: The reality of pursuing a calling, with Professor Kirsten Robertson, Fraser Valley University

Series 2, Episode 48: How does diversity impact team performance? With Dr Lukas Wallrich, Birkbeck Business School, University of London

Series 2, Episode 47: How will megatrends impact our future? With Dr Claire Naughtin, Data61 and the CSIRO

Series 2, Episode 46: Why authentic, ethical, and servant leadership, are not true representations of leadership behaviors, with Professor Thomas Fischer, University of Geneva

Series 2, Episode 45: How ideology intersects with media coverage, with Professor Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris

Series 2, Episode 44: Are all innovation failures the same? With Professor Elena Freisinger, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany

Series 2, Episode 43: Why has the Internet not led to an upsurge in innovation? with Professor Lingfei Wu, University of Pittsburgh

Series 2, Episode 42: How "Literary Futures" can change the way we think about opportunities, with Professor Rebecca Braun, University of Galway

Series 2, Episode 41: When do diversity initiatives exacerbate rather than mitigate bias and inequality? with Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, Jönköping International Business School

Series 2, Episode 40: Understanding the benefits of creative and adaptive leaders, with Dr Oana Velcu-Laitinen

Series 2, Episode 39: How does CEO over-confidence impact performance? with Dr Barbara Burkhard and Professor Charlotta Sirén, Institute of Responsible Innovation, University of St.Gallen

Series 2, Episode 38: How feedback can super-charge your organisation, with Professor Henning Piezunka, INSEAD

Series 2, Episode 37: The challenge and opportunity of CEO activism, with Asst Professor Moritz Appels, Rotterdam School of Management

Series 2, Episode 36: Why Grand Innovation Challenges Matter, with Associate Professor Vera Rocha, Copenhagen Business School

Series 2, Episode 35: Better understanding the psychology of entrepreneurship, with Professor Ute Stephan, King’s Business School

Series 2, Episode 34: The destructive impact of narcissistic leaders on their organisations, with Professor Thanos Verousis, Vlerick Business School, and Professor Pietro Perotti, University of Bath

Series 2, Episode 33: Understanding the impact of founder personalities on startup success, with Dr Fabian Braesemann, Oxford Internet Institute, The University of Oxford

Series 2, Episode 32: Understanding Radicalisation and De-Radicalisation, with Robert Oerell

Series 2, Episode 31: Does it really matter whether we “identify” with our organisation? With Professor Chia-Huei Wu, King’s Business School

Series 2, Episode 30: How does power impact on psychopathic behaviours and leadership outcomes? with Dr Iris Kranefeld, Cologne Institute for Management Consulting

Series 2, Episode 29: How can we better understand and manage organisational scandals? With Professor Julien Jourdan, HEC Paris

Series 2, Episode 28: Free agents: How evolution gave us free will, with Professor Kevin Mitchell, Trinity College Dublin

Series 2, Episode 27: Why don’t people work as hard for female entrepreneurs? With Professor Olenka Kacperczyk, London Business School

Series 2, Episode 26: How can we encourage people to eat more healthily? With Dr Sarah Snuggs, University of Reading

Series 2, Episode 25 : Introducing a ‘Stop Doing’ Culture: How to free your organization from rigidity with Dr Adrian Klammer, University of Liechtenstein

Series 2, Episode 24 - “Talking Heads: The new science of how conversation shapes our worlds", with Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Series 2, Episode 23 - Banishing the Sunday Night Blues, with Professor Ilke Inceoglu, University of Exeter

Series 2, Episode 22 - How can we more effectively grapple with "Blame Games"? With Asst Professor Sandra Resodihardjo, Radboud University

Series 2, Episode 21 – Developing new perspectives on collective wellbeing, with Theo Edmonds, University of Colorado Denver Imaginator Academy

Series 2, Episode 20 - How does behavior change spread through organizations? with Professor Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania

Series 2, Episode 19 - Leveraging business podcasts to enhance organizational performance, with Professor Jake Waddingham, Texas State University

Series 2, Episode 18 - How leaders can develop their Cultural Intelligence, with Professor Eimear Nolan, Trinity Business School

Series 2, Episode 17 - How can we better understand the relationship between creativity, innovation and emotion, with Dr Zorana Ivčević Pringle, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Series 2, Episode 16 - How Social Media Supercharges Conspiracy Theories, with Professor Henrich Greve, INSEAD

Series 2, Episode 15 - How can new managers develop a “leadership mindset”?, with Professor Bret Crane, Utah State University

Series 2, Episode 14 - Exploring the science of possibilities, with Professor Vlad Glaveanu, Dublin City University

Series 2, Episode 13 - How can we manage and lead in an era of falsity? with Professor Kirk Plangger, King's Business School

Series 2, Episode 12 - The challenge of leading in a volatile world, with Professor John Katsos, American University of Sharjah

Series 2, Episode 11 - Facing up to the reality of food addiction, with Professor Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan

Series 2, Episode 10 - Exploring the benefits of mind-wandering, with Professor Jonathan Schooler, UC Santa Barbara

Series 2, Episode 9 - Is there a "psychology of innovation"? With Professor David Cropley, University of South Australia

Series 2, Episode 8 - The curious history of business school classes for executives' wives, with Professor Allison Elias, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Professor Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School

Series 2, Episode 7 - Is it time to re-think behavioural economics? with Dr Jason Collins, University of Technology Sydney

Series 2, Episode 6 - How can organisations better support transgender people in the workplace? With Professor Thekla Morgenroth, Purdue University

Series 2, Episode 5 - How leaders rely on deceit and manipulation to further their personal agendas, with Professor David Hannah, Simon Fraser University

Series 2, Episode 4 - How a fixation on time management almost broke me, with Professor Abbie Shipp, Texas Christian University

Series 2, Episode 3 - How can we better understand and manage unconscious bias? with Professor Jordan Axt, McGill University

Series 2, Episode 2 - Understanding the impact of magical beliefs, with Dr Emily Harris, The University of Melbourne

Series 2, Episode 1 - How the Industrial Revolution sparked innovation and led to an "improvement mentality", with Dr Anton Howes

Series 1, Episode 50 - How COVID-19 has impacted workplace wellness and wellbeing, with Professor Thomas Roulet, University of Cambridge

Series 1, Episode 49 - Serial killers or snakes in suits? The surprising truth about psychopaths, with Professor Cristina Crego, Longwood University

Series 1, Episode 48 – Suddenly Hybrid… the challenge of the modern meeting, with Professor Joseph Allen, University of Utah

Series 1, Episode 47: Why do we forget history? And why do we remember it? with Professor Guy Beiner, Boston College

Series 1, Episode 46: How can we better incentivise human behaviour? With Jason Murphy

Series 1, Episode 45: Why some teams succeed fast but fail slow, with Professor Louise Mors, Copenhagen Business School

Series 1, Episode 44: How strong leaders can undermine the political parties they serve, with Professor Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University

Series 1, Episode 43: Why boredom is interesting, with Professor Erin Westgate, University of Florida

Series 1, Episode 42: How can entrepreneurial teams become more innovative? With Professor Linus Dahlander, ESMT

Series 1, Episode 41: How do you really know what a potential employer will be like? With Jason Sockin, University of Pennsylvania

Series 1, Episode 40: How do major life events impact our overall wellbeing? with Dr Nathan Kettlewell, University of Technology Sydney

Series 1, Episode 39: Exploring the human imagination and the world of “Homo Imaginatus”, with Philip Ball

Series 1, Episode 38: Understanding the impact of narcissistic leaders, With Professor Jon Gruda, Maynooth University

Series 1, Episode 37: When work and home collide - dealing with the challenge of miscarriage in the workplace, with Professor Kaylee Hackney, Baylor University Hankamer School of Business

Series 1, Episode 36: Surely Political Correctness is not actually good for creativity? With Professor Jack Goncalo, University of Illinos at Urbana-Champaign.

Series 1, Episode 35: So... what really did happen when we all started working remotely? with Jaime Teevan and Longqi Yang, Microsoft

Series 1, Episode 34: Do teams and groups discriminate differently to individuals? With Professor Vessela Daskalova, University College Dublin

Series 1, Episode 33: The unique challenges of leadership in policing, with Dr Victoria Herrington, Australian Institute of Police Management

Series 1, Episode 32: Why are we so afraid of the menopause? With Professor Jo Brewis, Open University Business School

Series 1, Episode 31: What is the real impact of over-work and a long-hours culture?, with Dr Frank Pega, World Health Organisation

Series 1, Episode 30: What will happen to productivity when we all return to the office? With Professor Wlad Rivkin, Trinity Business School

Series 1, Episode 29: A masterclass in resilience and overcoming adversity, with Sacha Dekker, Vice President of Global Go-To-Market Enablement, HubSpot

Series 1, Episode 28: Is there a dark side to entrepreneurial failure? With Professor Jeffrey Overall, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Series 1, Episode 27: Exploring the challenges of Whistleblowing, with Professor Kate Kenny, NUI Galway

Series 1, Episode 26: Why do organisations fail? With Professor Charles McMillan, York University

Series 1, Episode 25: Brain for Business, Brain for Life First Anniversary Special Edition, With Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Series 1, Episode 24: The evolution of "productive organisations", with Professor Francisco Brahm, London Business School

Series 1, Episode 23: What does serendipity have to do with innovation? with Dr Wendy Ross, London Metropolitan University

Series 1, Episode 22: Understanding radicalisation and de-radicalisation, with Robert Oerell

Series 1, Episode 21: Increasing diversity in the technology sector through behavioural science, with Nurit Nobel, Impactually

Series 1, Episode 20: Is there a better way to deal with organisational BS? With Professor Ian McCarthy, Simon Fraser University

Series 1, Episode 19: Exploring neuroscience for kids, with Professor Eric Chudler, University of Washington

Series 1, Episode 18: How do influencers "influence"? With Sara Kennedy, Uplift Marketing and Trinity College Dublin

Series 1, Episode 17: Is there a “psychology of innovation”? with Professor David Cropley, University of South Australia

Series 1, Episode 16: What's the story with the multigenerational workforce? with Ciara Kelly, Futureneerz

Series 1, Episode 15: How can we take a more evidence-based approach to Learning & Development? With Professor Claire Gubbins, Dublin City University

Series 1, Episode 14: Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century? With Professor John Quiggin, The University of Queensland

Series 1, Episode 13: Why accents matter… particularly when it comes to the court room. With Dr Lara Frumkin, The Open University

Series 1, Episode 12: What really motivates us to buy local? With Professor Barry Quinn, Ulster University Business School

Series 1, Episode 11: Is exercise really so good for the brain? With Professor John Ratey, Harvard Medical School

Series 1, Episode 10: How do we deal with biases? And what do they mean for us? With Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin

Series 1, Episode 9: What is the value and impact of behavioural research for business and organisations? with Claire O'Rourke of Dentsu Consult

Series 1, Episode 8: Rethinking Organisational Change, with Jo Kearney of Facebook

Series 1, Episode 7: Decision making under conditions of radical uncertainty, with Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, The Open University

Series 1, Episode 6: How new forms of mobility will change the way we live and work, with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University

Series 1, Episode 5: Why walking is good for your heart and your mind, with Dr Eric Soehngen, Walkolution

Series 1, Episode 4: The challenge and opportunity of women's entrepreneurship, with Professor Colette Henry, Dundalk IT

Series 1, Episode 3: Are we more convinced by stories? with Dr Zoe Walkington, The Open University

Series 1, Episode 2: What's the big deal with "evidence-based management"? With Anna Connolly

Series 1, Episode 1: Are cognitive bias, learning and leadership a natural fit? with Professor Shane O'Mara, Trinity College Dublin