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The New Abnormal — 230 episodes
Sabrina Sullivan "Unlocking What's Next"
Marie Stafford 'The Future 100, 2026'
Geci Karuri-Sebina ‘The African Foresight Network, Post-Activism, and Interconnected Capacities’
Julian Boulding 'The Cannes Review 2026'
Clare Stark 'Futures Literacy: Building Better Decisions for an Uncertain World'
Fatima-Zahra Ma-el-ainin 'Foresight, Social Transformation and Systemic Wellbeing'
Mark Bloomfield 'Making Sense of AI'
Tommaso Cesano 'The future role of design'
Jonas Drechsel ‘Futurist Archetypes and Futures Thinking’
Alice Dimond 'Building Hopeful Futures'
Marianna Maki-Teeri 'Futures Intelligence and AI-Native Foresight'
Mikko Dufva 'Megatrends 2026 - towards a new social contract'
Ramila Khafaji Zadeh 'The liberation of Imagination'
Warren Hatch 'Superforecasting - how to see the future first'
Maija Knutti 'Developing Futures-Orientated Policies'
Muhammad Alaraby 'Futurists & Foresight in the Arab World'
Lisa Giuliani 'Teach the Future: a bridge to action'
Deborah Hayek 'An expert guide to Corporate Foresight'
Kateryna Ostrovska 'Ukraine, strategic healthcare management, and anticipatory governance'
Petra Hurtado 'Embracing Uncertainty - the 2026 Trend Report for Planners'
Klaus Dodds 'Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic'
Marie Roussie 'Future of Conflicts: A Vision of What Is to Come'
Lena Tunkers 'Exploring futures with collective imagination'
Riel Miller 'Why futures literacy is so important today...'
Jost Wagner 'Countering the Futures-Thieves'
Jan Berger 'How to steer organisations towards better futures'
Stephen Dupont 'Anticipating Change re: Opportunities and Risks'
Erik Ostergaard 'Futures Thinking and Anticipatory Leadership'
Isabella Hermann 'Sci-fi re: New Technologies and Socio-Political Value Systems'
Cynthia Scharf 'Climate Tech - The Technologies of Desperation'
Diana Stafie "Don't wait for the future - actively create it"
Velislava Petrova 'We shape the future - so shape it well'
Jonathan Barth 'Escaping Collapse - What Killed Economic Liberalism and What To Do Next'
Loes Damhof 'Times are urgent - we must slow down'
Nardia Haigh 'Scenario Planning for Climate Change'
Bulent Duagi 'Exploring new thinking and connecting the dots'
Jordi Serra del Pino 'Postnormal Times and the Three Tomorrows...'
Andre Spicer 'The Art of Less'
Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
Jim Dator 'Living Make-Belief: Thriving in a Dream Society'
Dr Joseph Voros 'Futures Thinking in Real-World Contexts'
Neil Shearing 'The Fractured Age: how the return of Geopolitics will splinter the Global Economy'
Gergely Nemeth 'Strategic Foresight and Defence Innovation'
Lourdes Rodriguez 'Embodied Futures - the next evolution in foresight'
Marie Stafford 'The Future 100 - trends and change to watch'
Peter Cunliffe-Jones 'Fake News - what's the harm?'
Faris Yakob 'Collaboration is the way to solve problems'
Gareth Kay 'Creating tangible value from intangible assets'
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos 'The Future is always uncertain...'
Jan Berger 'Anticipating Change for Corporate Foresight'
Nils Muller 'Helping companies to stay relevant in the future'
Chris Arning 'Semiotics: how to make the invisible...visible'
Michael Beverland 'Brand Management: Co-creating Meaningful Brands'
Phil Balagtas 'Making Futures Work: integrating futures thinking for design, innovation, and strategy'
Matt Boffey ‘Brands that move people, move the world’
Stephanie Vilner-Sheppard 'Dare, disrupt and be kind'
Max McKeown 'Innovation Strategy, Leadership & Culture'
Sohail Inayatullah 'Visioning the Futures'
Alexis Tennent 'The intricate relationship between memory, time and plurality'
Monika Bielskyte 'Challenging the binaries of dystopia vs utopia and society vs technology'
Roman Krznaric 'History for Tomorrow: inspiration from the past for the future of humanity'
Falk Fuhrmann 'Investigative Anthropology, Cultural Empathy and Brand Strategy in China'
Lesley-Ann Noel 'Design Social Change: take action, work towards equity, and challenge the status quo'
Julian Boulding 'The Cannes Lions 2024 Review'
Catherine Roy 'Change Agents, Foresight Strategy and Organisational Disruption'
Chloe Markowicz 'Creativity is Contagious'
Paolo Gallo 'The Seven Games of Leadership'
Ari Wallach 'A Brief History of the Future'
Philippa Wagner 'PeoplePlacesSpaces'
Jonas Gissel Mikkelsen 'Futures Capabilities, Progressive Endeavours and Strategic Transformation'
Colin Strong 'Behavioural Change and Behavioural Science'
Hilary Sutcliffe 'The Seven Signals of Trustworthiness'
Diego Gilardoni 'Connecting the dots...helping leadership teams to navigate complexity'
Tom Morton 'How to create value c/o new experiences and new technology'
Tom Lombardo 'A Masterclass in Sci-Fi Movies'
Shermon Cruz 'From Future Shock to Gamification to Indigenous Futures'
Cecile Cremer 'How to start a Ministry for the Future'
Andrew McLuhan 'The Medium is the Message'
Adam Chmielowski 'How brands can avoid being cultural parasites'
Erik Korsvik Ostergaard 'Reinventing Organisations c/o Anticipatory Leadership'
Louise Mowbray 'Future-focused Leadership'
Tom Lombardo ‘Review: The Most Inspiring/Informative Futures Books’
Keely Adler 'Helping brands understand themselves in shifting contexts'
Suzette Brooks Masters 'Actioning futures-thinking for a better tomorrow'
Maarten Leyts 'Generation ZAlpha - connecting with the next micro generation'
Victoria Robson 'Sirens Bay, and the Real Writers Circle'
Alexandra Whittington 'Navigating complexity and uncertainty'
Ben Holt 'Effective Strategic Foresight - Preparing for Possibilities'
Andrew Koppelman 'Burning Down the House: how libertarian philosophy was corrupted by delusion and greed'
Lauren Razavi 'The Future of Work and the Digital Nomad Community'
Jacob Ellis 'Policy Development re: the needs of Future Generations'
Jonathan Wise 'Adland confronts the myth of Infinite Growth'
Gary F. Bengier 'Unfettered Journey - the impact of tech changes, and finding purpose in the future'
Nikolas Badminton 'Foresight: the missing link...'
Roger Spitz 'The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption'
Thomas D'hooge 'Pondering the future - looking at the unknowable'
Jan Oliver Schwarz 'Strategic Foresight - Winning the Uncertainty Game'
Randell Beckford "How to build a brand that won't get cancelled"
Thierry Malleret 'The Great Narrative - for a Better Future'
Frank Spencer 'Implementing foresight - pulling the future towards us'
Tim Stock 'Understand subcultures to understand the future'
Katharina Michalski 'Helping business navigate and capitalise on change'
Martin Lindstrom 'Predicting the future - before anyone else'
Lasse Jonasson 'Anticipatory Leadership, Scenario Planning and being #FuturesReady'
Alison Taylor 'How business can do the right thing in a turbulent world'
Jon Alexander 'Citizens - Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us'
Phil Rowley 'A Rebooted Future re: Media, Tech & Culture'
Tom Lombardo 'The History of Futurism & Futures Studies'
Sylvia Gallusser 'The Ethics and Philosophy of Futures'
Alice Charles 'Emerging Challenges re: the Cities of Tomorrow'
Henry Coutinho-Mason 'The Future Normal - how we will live, work and thrive in the next decade'
Johanna Hoffman 'Speculative Futures: illuminating the way ahead'
Ian Peters 'Having an ethical compass, and applying business ethics'
Laura de Moliere 'ChatGPT and Behavioural Science'
Florencia Lujani "The Four D's and Regenerative Capitalism"
Stephanie Benedetto 'Queen of Raw - Turning Pollution into Profit'
Giana Eckhardt 'In Praise of Inconvenience'
DuBose Cole 'Do marketers and consumers see the world differently?'
Maurice NDiaye 'Reinventing strategy-making under uncertainty'
Rob Hopkins 'From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination'
Stefan Rollnick 'Using behavioural science to fight misinformation'
Gustav Martner 'Campaigning + Activism: No Awards on a Dead Planet’
Alex Quicho 'Understanding patterns, echoes and shadows'
John Seabrook 'The intersection between creativity and commerce re: tech, design, and music’
James Hurman 'Pay attention to attention...and the case for creativity'
Jon Cohen "Understanding what people think, when you can't trust what they say"
Sara Wheeler 'The minute curiosity of the travel writer - tales from the Arctic to the Antarctic'
Tom Johnson 'The Optimism Index, and why 'Myths of Decline' are often wrong...'
Dr Steven MacGregor 'The Daily Reset - how to move your life forward'
Christian van Nieuwerburgh 'Hope vs Optimism re: Mental Health & Psychological Wellbeing'
Jennifer Mercieca 'Demagogue for President - the rhetorical genius of Trump'
Lucie Greene 'Humane Capitalism, the Social Contract and Super-Agile Teamwork'
Graham Black 'Collaboration is the creative driving force'
Simon Kreitem 'How to tell emotional stories'
Sophy Roberts 'The Lost Pianos of Siberia'
Ian Williams "Why democracies need to push-back against China's digital totalitarian state"
Julian Boulding 'Radical Collaboration, Behavioural Economics, and Acts not Ads'
Dan Burgess 'Radical Collaboration...and grass roots innovation'
Stephen Colegrave 'Radical Thinking, Independent Journalism & Catalytic Entertainment'
Richard Watson "Why the only certainty about the future is that it's uncertain"
Matt Rivitz 'How to stop funding hate - and change the Internet'
Mark Vernon 'Everything in philosophy is a footnote to Plato'. (And quite a lot is a footnote to Kant).
Kathleen Higgins 'From Daoism to Nietzsche...and why deception has become a modern way of life'
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Martin Jensen 'Me, Myself, Online: Music and the New Abnormal'
Taji Chesimet 'Dismantling injustice, and creating safe spaces'
Jenny Southan 'Travel Trends and the Future of Travel'
James Bidwell 'Connecting the dots: business as a force for good'
Ian Olasov 'Ask a Philosopher - answers to the most important questions'
Chris Mayer 'West Point: Philosophy, Leadership and Combat'
Lucy von Sturmer 'Challenging the status quo to create positive impact'
Amy Daroukakis 'Using signals and experiences to develop innovative concepts'
Art Kleiner 'The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology'
Dermot McPartland 'If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere'
Luca Morena 'Generate: a major milestone in the evolution of trend forecasting'
Nick Shackleton-Jones 'Learning & Cognition: why Plato and Descartes got it all wrong'
Tamira Snell 'Understanding emerging trends and forecasting consumer behaviour'
Livia Fioretti 'A dynamic viewpoint on MegaTrends & LATAM trends c/o TrendWatching'
Andrew Copson "What's it all for and how can I be happy?" (A guide to Humanism).
Anna Kirah 'Think long-term in a short-term world'
Alex Durussel-Baker 'Design-thinking, design-sprints, and community innovation'
Lore Oxford 'Cultural Insights re: Brave New Worlds'
Chris Sanderson 'The New Extraordinary: making better futures happen for global businesses'
Matt Klein 'Trend Spotting: AI vs Human'
Lydia Caldana 'The Way Ahead - Trend Research, Analysis & Forecasting'
Felix De Laet aka Lost Frequencies 'From DJing at student parties to worldwide success'
Elodie Marteau 'Connecting the dots - trend analysis'
Andy Crysell 'Creating culturally charged commercial advantage'
Mark Shayler 'Helping big companies think small and small companies think big'
Wyn Baptiste 'The System isn't broken, it was built that way...'
John Dunleavy 'Leadership re: Transparency, Collaboration and Resilience'
Ian McGarrigle 'The Future of Retail'
Julian Boulding 'The Cannes Lions Review'
Cailin O'Connor 'The war against truth and the social dynamics of alternative facts'
Jack Godfrey Wood 'Making what's next: why great design is an engine of hope'
Ben Hughes 'Design Theory, the Consumer Experience and Creativity in China'
David Shah 'Social Polarisation, Accelerated Trends, and the Rise of the Oligopolies'
Sarah Rabia 'Trend Forecasting and Brand Futures'
David Nottoli 'Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Value Creation'
Sean Pillot de Chenecey "Authenticity, Ethics and Innovation"
Steve Vranakis 'Leading-edge creativity and reinventing the agency model'
Charlie Waterhouse 'Rebel for Life'
Paul Kemp-Robertson 'The Power of Creativity and the Contagious Commandments'
Anne-Lise Kjaer "Building a bridge to the future - don't apply old thinking to new problems"
Carl Miller 'The Death of the Gods, and the manipulation of Truth'
Tom Hodgkinson 'Slow Down, Have Fun, Live Well'
Rachel Lawes 'Demystifying Semiotics - what it is and what it can do for you'
Joakim Noren 'Progressive National Branding and Cultural Positivity'
Gareth Kay 'Today, people expect more from their brands'
Emily Hare 'Hyper Localisation, Diversity and Adaption'
Emma-Louise Boynton "Generating Inspiring Advice: Sharing Women's Career Stories"
Jen Urich 'Inequality, Community Cohesion, and why Truth is Cool'
Nicole Fall 'Brand management and organisational leadership in Asia'
Martin Raymond 'The Shifting of the Overton Window and the push for Transformation'
Steve Lacey 'The Outsider - on a mission to challenge the wisdom of convention'
Simon Armstrong 'The Culture Wars - and why everything interesting is happening at the edge'
Sabrina Faramarzi 'Internet Culture, Lifestyle Journalism and Trend Analysis'
John Grant '...from Margaret Mead to Spiral Tribe to Greener Marketing'
Raja Habre 'Hope, Community and Resilience in Lebanon'
Geoff Glendenning 'Why one of the greatest-ever launches was basically two-fingers to the industry'
Neil Boorman 'From the Shoreditch Twat to TikTok...and why creativity & joy are so vital'
Andy Middleton 'Experiential Learning, the Do Lectures, and Planet B'
Scott Goodson 'How to rebuild business momentum'
Jens Laugesen 'Ground Zero, Hybrid Reconstruction and C19 as a Creative Catalyst'
William Higham 'From The Stranglers to The Next Big Thing...'
Tom Morton 'Having a Positive Impact...and Transformation at Speed'
Khalil Zafar 'Human Engagement and Technology - simplifying the Future of Work'
Steve Beale 'Radical subcultures, and capturing Banksy'
Jussi Solja 'Putting agency superpowers to good use - helping brands to reinvent themselves'
Carl Ratcliff 'Reframing Brand Values - from Purpose to Action’.
Ole Petter Nyhaug, 'The new Punk Generation meets Orwell'
Nilgin Yusuf 'How to identify and build a positive personal strategy’
Navaz Batliwalla 'Counter-Culture, Design Thinking and...Where Next?'
Leon Kreitzman 'The Resilient 24hr Society vs Fragmentation & Chaos'
Teresa Havvas #PresentProofing = #FutureProofing
Will Skeaping 'Extinction Rebellion and The Great Reset'
John Shaw 'Cockroach brands, cultural dynamics, and the future of work'
Harriet Posner 'Buying What You Stand For...Rewiring the Fashion Sector'
Chemical X 'From ecstasy to Skid Row'
Alex West 'Luxury, Artisanship and Creativity as Soft Power'
Gideon Wilkins 'Natural language analysis, brand deprivation and disruption'
Kate Shepherd 'Why the future client/agency model = expert freelance collaboration'
Kevin Braddock 'Everything Begins With...Asking for Help'
Michael Cohen: 'Developmental psychology: Chernobyl to 9/11'
Katrina Dodd 'Knowledge is Power...Impactful Advertising...Asking Heretical Questions'
Carsten Beck, The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies 'The Post-C19 Future'
Joanna Catalano 'Redefining community and demonstrating leadership'
Stephen Hayward 'Does it feel like you're an extra in Black Mirror?'
Mark Hanis 'The Ukraine Corporate Index: on which side of the war does your brand stand?'
Update on / background to #TheNewAbnormal series…