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Technology is neither salvation nor threat on its own, it is an amplifier. Artificial intelligence can imitate language, pattern, and human systems, but imitation is not understanding, and acceleration is not discernment. In this episode, Ni’coel is joined by responsible-AI and international data-science leader Ricardo Baeza-Yates where they distinguish wisdom as Human Decision Intelligence: the capacity for reflective judgment in conditions of uncertainty, plurality, and consequence.They explore how contemporary tools often remove the very conditions humans need to grow. They look at the rising tendency to outsource judgment, the difference between alignment and integrity; the risks of proxy data, and the widening divide between humans who develop sapience and those who surrender agency to machines.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a a part-time WASP Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, as well as part-time professor at the departments of Engineering of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Computing Science of University of Chile in Santiago. He has been Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University (2021-25) and VP of Research at Yahoo Labs (2006-16). He is a member of the AI Technology Policy committees of GPAI/OECD, ACM and IEEE. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook that won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. He has won national scientific awards in Chile (2024) and Spain (2018). He has a Ph.D. in CS and his areas of expertise are responsible AI, web search and data mining plus data science and algorithms in general.

Ni’coel and Minh Do explore moral imagination as a core sapient capacity, one that expands the option set before optimization. The episode frames moral imagination as discernment plus analogical reasoning functioning as a pre-decision engine within Human Decision Intelligence. Moral imagination enables people to anticipate harm, identify outcomes worth scaling, and resist the drift toward automated thinking. Ni’coel points out how contemporary systems reward speed over reflection, measurable metrics over meaning, and selection over invention, leaving society to efficiently optimize the wrong things. The episode argues that cultivating moral imagination is no longer optional: it’s one of the essential antidotes to mental and emotional atrophy in an accelerating machine-driven era.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Minh Do is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and speaker. He is the co-founder of Machine Cinema, a collective focused on AI and emerging tech in film and art, and Fantastic Day, where he is cofounder and head of AI, working with musicians, brands, and filmmakers to produce AI content. Minh is also a producer at Fairground.tv, an AI FAST channel with the goal of producing a 24/7 slate of AI content to distribute globally. Drawing from his diverse background as a former VC, journalist, musician, and teacher. Minh is curious about how AI will transform entertainment and how AI will challenge our understanding of consciousness, and in particular, where does Zen Buddhism and AI intersect.Minh is in Creator Partner Programs for Google Labs, Sora, ChatGPT 4o Image, Pika, Luma Dream Machine, Quander, and more allowing him to play, teach, and showcase with the cutting edge of AI image and video generation.

Starkly is a conversation series in Human Decision Intelligence. We slow automated thinking so society and technology serve, not steer human judgment.Context. Now, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, society outsources not only tasks but judgment. Certain social and technological conditions quietly degrade thinking and decision-making. Starkly exists to slow automated thinking so human judgment leads.What HDI is. Ni'coel's pedagogy and framework, not therapy, not productivity hacks, not change-management.What breaks today. Legacy KPIs/OKRs optimize machine-legible outputs (throughput/compliance). Forcing sapience into those yardsticks too early creates category error and brittleness.What we practice.Discernment (precision of perception)Moral imagination (future-consequences with human context)Xenopathy (increasing tolerance for our ignorance and anxiety around other)Metacognition (watching how we think while we think)Analogical reasoning (fit by ontology, not label)Foresight (long-horizon consequence scanning)Working in liminality and existential math (holding uncertainty and doing advanced inter-domain analysis)Cathedral thinking (decisions that compound across long horizons)Responsive tempo (speed calibrated to reality, not dashboards)Spectatorship → Participation (agency recovery)How outcomes change. We repattern perception and decision pipelines so good choices become native under pressure (anxiety). We reduce projection errors, shorten repair cycles, and improve long-horizon bet quality.Human-legible indicators we trackDecision latency (from reflex to optimal)Rework / repair cycles (cycle count and depth)Projection error rate (as surfaced in post debriefs)Ambiguity tolerance (measured in anxiety levels)Relational repair rate (conflict → closure cadence)Principle: stabilize in humans before any machine instrumentation.Explore the global learning hub:humandecisionintelligence.com

Ni’coel and Cephra pry open the cultural certainty around empathy and propose a more intelligent starting point: xenopathy. Rather than projecting sameness: “I know how you feel because I’d feel that way too if I were in your shoes,” xenopathy begins by acknowledging radical difference, and by tolerating the ignorance and anxiety that difference evokes. Empathy, Ni'coel argues, often collapses distinction into relatability, inviting projection, bias, and even performative concern. Xenopathy reframes the task as ethical care without the precondition of identification, imagination, or love. They test concrete cases (grief, gender, race, organizational life, DEI), and return to Human Decision Intelligence's core: skill has less use without capacity. By changing the language we start with, we change the decisions we make, trading tidy heuristics for curiosity, responsibility, and more accurate care across real asymmetries of risk and experience.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Cephra Stuart is a multidisciplinary storyteller, writer, director, actor, and singer. At Mansa and the Walt Disney Studios, she worked on audience research, content strategy, and DEI analytics to champion inclusive storytelling. Earlier in her career, she also supported culture and engagement initiatives at Bumble and Twitter, helping shape the internal environments and strategy behind some of today’s most influential platforms.

Nuance and human context, Ni’coel warns, are sacrificed on the altar of tidy TikTok taxonomies that pose as “wisdom” yet let us hide instead of grow. After years of pattern-tracking, she has traced every breakdown, or breakthrough, of intimacy, leadership, and collaboration to a three-part scaffold:Skill — practiced competency: noticing, naming, communicating, executing.Capacity — nervous-system range: the load-bearing substrate that can stay with pleasure, threat, ambiguity, intimacy without numbing or ejecting.Desire — the animating appetite: willingness to pay the initiation fee of change.This triad serves as a diagnostic dashboard for founders, spouses, and strategists alike: locate the missing leg and you know where to invest practice, regulation work, or motivational fire. Ignore it, and friction-free substitutions accrue “decision debt,” eroding the relational field where real intelligence lives.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel exposes slide-deck theater, the loud drift from participation to spectatorship that dilutes life into counterfeit living. Spectatorship masquerades as ordinary living yet swaps high-resolution, embodied experience for low-fidelity surrogates: KPI dashboards cheered from cushy offices, smart-city “innovators” tweeting triumphs from airports rather than the streets they claim to serve, and relationship tourists orbiting intimacy without ever docking. Human Decision Intelligence happens only where statistical indicators interlace with tacit, embodied data; outsource the experience and models grow brittle, decisions myopic, and humanity machine-like. The hidden ledger tallies surging loneliness, ambient anxiety, a thinning capacity for intimacy and innovation, and a dwindling willingness to risk for what truly matters.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel upend's the Puritan reflex to equate lying with moral failure and discover why deception is a generative ingredient, not a contaminant, in Human Decision Intelligence (HDI). The episode traces a lineage of philosophers, comedians, lawyers, and even children who prove that you cannot grasp truth without first grappling with what makes a falsehood believable. In Human Decision Intelligence terms, every decision is only as strong as the assumptions it smuggles in; lies expose those hidden joints so the architecture can be reinforced rather than quietly corrode.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

In a culture that treats velocity as a proxy for competence, speed is a seductive decoy. It feels powerful, signals decisiveness, and soothes anxiety, yet it quietly accrues “decision debt” that erodes long-term efficiency. Ni’coel and Chelsea dissect one of modernity’s stickiest conflations: equating moving fast with moving well.The episode dismantles the reflexive “faster-is-better” mindset and replaces it with a nuanced palette: speed as one tool among many, wielded consciously, contextually, and in service of outcomes that endure.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel exposes the hidden ecosystem of “substitutions”: the reflexive swap of a fast, friction-free comfort (fast food, caffeine, dating apps, corporate-value posters, one-click “cause” purchases) for the slower, risk-laden labor that would truly satisfy our deeper needs for nourishment, intimacy, meaning, and belonging. Each substitution feels certain and soothing in the moment, yet silently builds decision debt: emotional, relational, and financial deficits that compound over time. When we default to substitutions we dodge the very growth states that sharpen competence and sabotage the skill-building required for lasting change. 🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel takes aim at the reflexive urge to size one another up by birth year, showing how that shorthand flattens our perception of wisdom, talent, and emotional depth. She argues that true pattern recognition emerges not from time logged on the planet but from self-reflection, a closeness to suffering, and the ability to transcend generational scripts. By treating interactions as a chance to mine unexpected realities rather than confirm age-based expectations, the spectrum of human intelligence widens.This perceptual shift lies at the heart of Human Decision Intelligence. HDI asks us to question every inherited heuristic, especially those like age, that silently drives hiring algorithms, social hierarchies, and even self-talk. Removing age from our personal sorting mechanisms disrupts the machine-like defaults that favor the median and overlook the exceptional. Practicing HDI means scanning for diverse cognitive signatures, honoring intergenerational reciprocity, and designing decisions that privilege insight over chronology.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel traces instinct, intuition, and discernment back to their innate “centers of intelligence”: body, heart, and mind. Reclaiming an ancient framework from corporate cliché, they show how each center captures non-literal data, relational atmospherics, and pattern-rich subtext, that conventional analytics can’t register yet remain essential to Human Decision Intelligence (HDI). Warning against the casual misuse of these terms, Ni'coel proposes that instinct delivers pre-mental/pre-emotional hits; discernment refines data through neutral contemplation; and intuition lets the heart read emotional truth beneath social camouflage. In a world awash with dashboards, our sharpest strategic edge may lie in honoring these quiet, emergent human intelligences.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

This episode breaks down “cathedral thinking” as a counter-myopia practice: slow innovation, "unfinished" as an ethos, and devotion to craft beyond efficiency. Ni'coel stresses that cathedral thinking demands “skin in the game”, moving from passive observer to active builder, where the project becomes embodied rather than merely admired. The episode weighs speed against legacy, shows how Human Decision Intelligence thrives on zooming both in and out, and draws parallels between multi-generational projects, epigenetic healing, and relationships that require continual upkeep. Tune in for existential math, artisan mindsets, and practical tips for weaving long-view vision into this week’s to-do list.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel divorces "deviance" from its taboo baggage, showing how stepping outside accepted norms ignites Human Decision Intelligence, fueling intimacy, inspiration, and innovation. Through intelligent risk and mischievous play, they dismantle moralized “shoulds,” from etiquette’s policing of profanity to HR departments that safeguard corporate machinery. Their stories prove that a single, well-aimed deviation can rewire whole systems: converting punitive feedback into a self-invented promotion, separating legal compliance from genuine human care, redefining efficiency beyond speed, and letting friendships breathe by presuming everyone will inevitably mess up. Tune in to learn how to spot a rule that’s only habit, tilt the prism for a fresh angle, and watch an unseen road unfurl beneath your next step.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel prys open the black box of “sound reasoning” to reveal how airtight arguments often rest on shaky heuristics, social conditioning, and personal myths. They map logic as a spectrum, each decision point swinging between sharply accurate data and wild misreads, and show how the aggregate quality of those points makes or breaks a conclusion.Ni'coel offers a practicum on assessing the quality of reason: quick debrief rituals, preference-surfacing prompts, and rule-breaking experiments that let you recode outdated shortcuts. Treat every belief as provisional, every heuristic as editable, and watch clearer intelligence emerge where over-certainty once stood.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel and Chelsea reimagine generosity as a counter-economic act, gratitude-driven, attention-rich, and brave enough to both give and receive or wisely withhold when over-giving masquerades as virtue.They expose fear, entitlement, and invisible social contracts as the true cost of connection, while everyday gestures, listening without rush, bending a rule, that turn recognition into gratitude and then gratitude into generosity, emerging as quiet forms of human intelligence that bring repair and grace to a transactional world.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea McKena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni’coel reveals the dark side of “sound” reasoning, how smart people construct logical frameworks or virtuous personas (risk-taker, tireless giver, slow-and-steady partner) that secretly shield fear, ego, and unmet needs. She shows how airtight logic can be perfectly right yet profoundly untrue, fueling self-sabotage and dodging accountability. Tune in to spot where your own finest arguments might be intelligent camouflage.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

N’coel overturns the fixation on immediacy and efficiency, revealing how genuine ritual, anchored in symbol, repetition, and deliberate lingering, fuels clarity, creativity, and embodied decision-making. In relationship to Human Decision Intelligence, they show how convenience culture trades depth for quick fixes and invite listeners to recast everyday acts, from brewing matcha to that first post-travel shower, as counter-cultural micro-rituals that root meaning, nurture community, and restore the artistry of being human.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of getting to root causes. In response to the immediacy of pain, people skip the diagnostic work of locating the source(s). The cycle of addressing symptoms instead of their causes amplifies negative outcomes. Mastering the ability to address root causes instead of symptoms becomes a crucial focal point in enhancing decision-making intelligence.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:Think back to a time when a decision that you made led to more downstream negative consequences. How did the symptoms and pain you were experiencing lead you to solve the wrong problem? And, looking back, what do you now see as the root cause?

Ni'coel presents the most fun and foolish HDI landscape. The skills needed to engage in playfulness may not be what you think. Playfulness is a state of being, while play is the performance. We discuss what Human Decision Intelligence can be learned when we take ourselves less seriously, highlighting how specific forms of play can fast-track the development of trust and resilience, reveal fresh insights, alleviate stress, and minimize risk, all of which significantly improve our decision-making abilities. Consider the unique kind of intelligence, freedom, and potential that emerges when you let go of inhibitions, take new risks, and embrace unconstructed playfulness. 🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:When you encounter playfulness in others, what surfaces for you? Are you intrigued or put off by a seemingly wasteful or less productive approach? Consider how a playful approach may surface new types of less visible intelligence.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Liminality. Liminal space facilitates the integration of internal and external states, fostering growth and the ability to make more informed decisions that shape future paths. We delve into the importance of time, tension, and creating space to process both what is known and what remains unclear to get to a new awareness. Liminality is where deep processing occurs and often gets sidestepped or entirely avoided. This avoidance hinders discovery and exploration where moments of confusion and feeling stopped play a crucial role in shaping people's understanding and decision-making abilities. 🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:Think about a decision you made that, in retrospect, could have benefitted from waiting. And consider how your tolerance for discomfort and confusion affected your decision. What information could have surfaced from sitting in the discomfort instead of ejecting from a waiting period?

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Paradox. Paradoxes represent spaces where seemingly contradictory concepts coexist, offering insights into aspects that may not yet be fully comprehended and become rich areas of new information.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:Identify when you’ve been both good and not-so-good on the same day (both selfish and caring? or both disrespectful and kind?) How do these expressions invite you to consider a context in which you were one thing and then the very opposite? How does this shift your view of absolutes when evaluating information and thinking through a decision?

Ni'coel presents the culmination episode of Human Decision Intelligence pedagogy. Becoming more human is both the beginning and the end of decision intelligence and leadership. As our technology and societal structures push us toward a more mechanized existence, humans have become more machine-like, and human processing has now become both the fundamental point of failure and the core remedy in our technological age.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:Think of a recent conflict with a work or life partner where they weren’t following the rules. Could trusting their approach have resulted in a better long-term outcome? Identify how your priorities, biases, and social/corporate norms are impeding your growth and how giving less weight to the ways we’ve been conditioned could result in becoming a better decision-maker.

Ni'coel presents the HDI landscape of Existential Math. What is Existential Math and why it's a necessary new skill? Decision-makers could develop more comprehensive strategies but instead, bypass including less visible and less measurable information. Learning existential math skills advances the decision-making process. By accounting for human variables and adding new equations that factor more context, people can solve and prevent inefficiencies and breakdowns more intelligently.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:In thinking about your own decisions, notice the degree to which you prioritize external, measurable information compared to internal, less measurable information. How do these two domains merge in your circumstance to create new considerations that might change your plans and approach?

Ni'coel delivers how all six points of Human Decision Intelligence pedagogy connect and how each is anchored by the concept of becoming a different kind of decision-maker. The episode is a quick overview to see the scope of the framework and how it ties to becoming more human in a world where we are increasingly conditioned to become more like the machines and the products we make.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.▶️ TO BEGIN WORKING WITH THE MATERIAL:Where is your need for speed and certainty causing you to abandon a more thorough process of decision-making?

Ni'coel and Chelsea discuss how anxieties dictate the way humans make decisions. Decision-makers get caught in the trap of responding to their less conscious anxiety and make flawed decisions. In this episode, we discuss processing skills to increase Human Decision Intelligence and reduce negative fallout.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel and Chelsea discuss how Human Decision Intelligence can help businesses overcome anxiety and performance issues during economic downturns. As companies face layoffs and resource constraints, they explore more effective solutions to maintain a healthy and productive work environment.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel and Chelsea explore the need for a culture shift in how companies retain and grow individual workers, and the benefits of moving in and out of positions more quickly. We also suggest the idea of rewarding employees to create entirely new jobs based on their unique talents. Join us as we challenge the status quo on what it means to build a successful career in today's fast-paced world.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel begins by defining what innovation is not and discussing how to get out of the way of naturally innovative thinkers. We recognize the critical importance of making more room for the process of innovation and highlight how in doing so companies are not only generative but preventative.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.

Ni'coel challenges the conventional wisdom that boundaries are as essential as people think they are and argue that they can actually limit potential. We explore how broken HR systems often fail to protect employees, and how some rule-breakers can actually be positive deviants who push boundaries and drive innovation. Join us for a Human Decision Intelligence conversation that will challenge your assumptions about self-protection, HR systems, and rule-breaking.🔸Explore the global learning hub: humandecisionintelligence.com🔸Cohost: Chelsea Makena’s work spans leadership development, enablement, engagement, and performance. She partners with founders and tech executives to build humane, high-performance systems. As one of CHDI’s earliest collaborators, she brings a grounded people lens that elevates our conversations on human systems.