Inspirational Insights Podcast - Insight To Action

Ksenia Benifand and Dawna Jones talk about how to design for a better future with less waste and more opportunity. The conversation connects Ksenia's work with diverse stakeholders to gain deeper insights about user & ecosystem needs, pinpoint strategic interventions, co-design solutions, and facilitate iterative prototyping, in order to bring a collective vision to tangible on-the-ground projects.Keywords: circular economy, design change, pandemics, archetypes of emerging future and opportunities that go with it.Ksenia Benifand has spent her life and professional career navigating liminality - the transitory, in-between state, characterized by ambiguity, messiness, and hybridity. She has been exploring the "edges of change" to gain deeper insights into the drivers of socio-cultural, political, environmental and technological changes and developments. By exploring and experimenting with different narratives, lifestyles and practices, she has gained a unique perspective. Not afraid to test her ideas, she spent over a year living zero-waste and actively participating in and building the sharing economy as part of her research and solution design for transitioning consumer behaviours towards Circular Economy business models. She plays in various contexts to study how human needs, limitations, and capabilities adapt to new and unexplored environments while building community resilience. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Beneath the surface executives and employees see, runs a hidden network of real influence. Episode 77 with Maya Townsend explores how dynamic these networks are, why this is valuable to decision-makers in dispelling bias, revealing emergent strategy and engaging more power from inside the company. Guest Maya Townsend, founder and lead consultant of Partnering Resources, helps individuals, teams, and organizations thrive in our networked world. She works with corporations, communities, and nonprofits to help develop strategy, mobilize networks, and influence change. Co-editor of Handbook for Strategic HR (AMACOM), her writing on networks, change, and business ecosystems have appeared in strategy+business, People & Strategy, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other publications. She is a certified Deep Democracy practitioner and leads professional chocolate tastings in her free time. Intro music by Mark Romero Music - AlignmentSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Global pharmaceutical company Roche tasked its global affiliates with transforming their operation giving them the freedom to decide how to and how much. Roche Sweden Transformation Lead Christian Feinberg talks about how they iteratively shifted from command-and-control to an environment that allowed people at all levels of operations to bring their best self to work.Christian Feinberg is the transformation lead and current enabling team coach for multiple therapeutic areas at Roche Sweden. Before Roche, Christian was part of Pfizer / Pharmacia Pharmaceutical for eight years. His personal mission is to support and develop people to be their best selves in order to deliver outstanding value for Swedish patients. Our conversation covers principles, the power of purpose and the systems and processes that had to change to allow people to be engaged in all conditions. Aso watch the webinar sponsored by CRISP Sweden, hosted by Mathias Holmgren that inspired this conversation with Christian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPqBYpXwkoIntro music by Mark Romero Music - AlignmentSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Soumyasanto Sen is an Advisor and Leader in Digital HR, Workforce Transformation, Technologies, and Analytics, ranking among the top global Influencers and thought leaders in HR Technology, Transformation, and People Analytics. A well-known keynote speaker, Soumya is also the Founder of the Management Advisory firm People Conscience based in Frankfurt, Germany and the author of Digital HR Strategy: Achieving Sustainable Transformation in Digital Age and co-author of The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society. Soumyasanto lays out the blindside and missing gaps organizations face in adapting to digital transformation - an opportunity to think and do things differently. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Each person, each company responded differently to 2020. In this special episode, Dawna reflects back on what a global pandemic invites us to do as decision-makers, whether it is personal, or in a business professional role. She covers linear decision making, bifurcation, shifting consciousness, the value of adapting to work with complex systemic issues and the opportunities ahead to develop resiliency and self-efficacy. Intro music courtesy of Mark Romero MusicSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

In the first of this series on using Covid to advance business thinking and doing, High Performance Story founder Cameron Powell draws on his own experience with adversity, and the importance of meaning, to explain why the way companies search for talent actively filters out talent, as well as diversity and innovation - and why adversity is a good teacher for unpredictable times. “You can’t find the growth mindset of innovators,” he says, “from the fixed mindset of today’s hiring.” In this provocative, contrarian, and wide-ranging conversation, you’ll learn:Why the capacity to manage scary uncertainty - evident in the courageous non-conformity of artists, deep readers, meditators, and entrepreneurs - is absolutely critical to creativity and innovationWhy we should focus on underlying strengths - strategy, empathy, problem-solving - instead of taking lazy shortcuts of asking for specific credentialsWhy the self-employed are masters at the self-engagement and autonomous work that’s crucial to working remotelyWhy using applicant tracking systems to scan resumes can be “the biggest con” in talent, offering us the illusion we’ve discerned things worth discerningWhy “prior experience” ignores learning in, passion for, or even success in an experience - but actively filters out diversity of thought and innovationWhy HR needs more of just about every background but MBAs and people with HR credentialsWhy cover letters should ask candidates to focus on how they get into the Flow stateCameron is a founding member of Humancentric Labs, a consultancy specializing in freeing up human potential for maximum worker engagement and productivity. Cameron has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Cameron recently published Ordinary Magic: Promises I Made My Mother Through Life, Illness, and a Very Long Walk.Intro music is a track called Alignment by Mark Romero MusicSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

COVID 19 is a wake-up call that reminds us that we are part of the living system and it is showing us how ill prepared we are to adapt to uncertainty. While some companies have taken the higher ethical road, others have made short-term decisions that will likely not recover from. We are at a critical time to adapt our intelligence, to meet the complexity of these issues and the uncertainty of them.The COVID virus has exactly the same characteristics as climate change does. COVID is much more immediate, but it's having exactly the same impact on how decisions get made and whether they get made understanding impact and system-wide effects. It has an impact on strategy, how we think about where we're going and what we're doing. It has an impact on humanity and the relationship between humanity and the living world, which is a profound and critically important connection that is long been broken. We are in the midst of what is known as a systems level bifurcation.Systems theorist. Ervin Laszlo says we are at a split in the evolutionary trajectory. I quote, "there are laws of complexity, including laws of the evolution of complexity that apply to all systems. A nonlinear system level transformation called a bifurcation is one such law. A bifurcation indicates a change, a radical change in the evolutionary trajectory. Of the system, but a time will come when such a linear evolution is no longer possible. The system faces a stark alternative, transform or collapse. This is the point of bifurcation."This is the moment that we are in. It's an exciting time because it invites us to change our decision-making from linear, which has caused enormous waste and a negative impact on society to impact based decision-making based on recognizing and respecting the systemic effects. It is having an impact on the assumptions that we make underlying how we hire people, how, people are treated.In this series, I'll be introducing and interviewing different people bringing different perspectives on what opportunities business has and you have to really adjust thinking to adapt to the complex times were in and to take advantage of the moment to co-create better solutions that allow for humans to bring them whole selves to work, to express their talent, their creative talent, and to work with complex issues, respecting their character and their nature. Complex issues do not respond well to linear approaches. I invite you then to join as we learn from this simple virus which may have brought enough of a pattern interruption to allow us to rethink and reinvent what we want in the world and to co-create it together.My name is Dawna Jones. You can find me on LinkedIn at DawnaHJones or on From insight to action.comMy work involves adapting decision-making to meet complex situations, emergent strategy where we don't have a clear picture of the end point anymore, transforming organizations using complexity principles, which are far more effective and provoke, different ways of thinking and ways of making sense of situations.Join me on this series.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Andrew Holm Julian Wilson and Dawna Jones met in 2015 when Dawna was nomadically wandering Europe in search of management innovators. The morning spent resulted in their first podcast so in this one, after the publication of book #2 Dawna and Andrew dive deeper into the temptations of transformation, how to meet the messiness of switching out a business model while measuring increases to customer service, quality, price and value. Steering their decisions using data, we talk about the dangers of relying on data alone, and the man in the mirror conversations when self-leadership and self-management meet. Designed on the building blocks of natural systems we cover how Matt Black achieved a 500% in productivity while believing it wasn't possible. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/500-transformed-productivity-self-leading-organisation-ebook/dp/B08HJLWHXHAnd the first interview here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-road-to-self-management/id1006636782?i=1000441169724 Podcast Intro music courtesy of Mark Romero Music. Alignment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Teams need diversity and care to perform well says Diana Larsen. In this conversation Diana talks about the relevance of Agile Fluency beyond the boundaries of teams reaching into social issues like racial inequity. Diana talks about fear being the driver of American business culture and conflict avoidance the greatest threat to society. In avoiding the trust and skills to learn from conflict is the US escalating the tension to violence? In the context of a pandemic and forest fires in Oregon, Diana shares her view on how what is being on with teams applies to wider issues. Find Diana at AgileFluency.orgIntro music by Mark Romero at MarkRomeroMusic.com Host: Dawna JonesSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Jan De Visch is an executive professor of Organizational and Human Capital at Flanders Business School whose research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure and sustainable growth. His work assesses the extent to which top teams can flexibly adapt their business models and strategy execution to changes in their environment. As founder and managing director of ConnectTransform, his practice focuses on strengthening collaborative intelligence using levers for strategy execution. https://connecttransform.be/ Jan has developed two products: The Thinking Game found on the website and the Dynamic Collaboration Software App https://dynamiccollaboration.app/ In this conversation, Jan talks about "we" spaces, human development as a determinant for collaboration and transformation, explaining the nuances of transforming and execution in organizations. Inspired by individuals sourced in complexity, epistemology, process consultation and constructive adult development, Jan links those inspirations directly to the work of adapting to dynamic conditions. His new book is Practices of Dynamic Collaboration: A Dialogical Approach to Strengthening Collaborative Intelligence in Teams. Springer, 2020.Twitter: @jandevischLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-de-visch-469580/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Raised in Alaska, Shannon Huffman Polson climbed Denali at age 19 then went on to become one of the US Army's first female attack helicopter pilots. In this episode, she talks about what grit is, decision making leading an Apache flight platoon on deployment to Bosnia-Herzegovina, the difference between purpose in the military and purpose in the corporate world and why we need everyone's capacity to contribute at the table. Now. Head over to ShannonPolson.com or thegritinstitute.com for more information.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Richard Atherton, host of the Being Human, First Human podcast and Dawna talk about what he's learned from his guests about a range of topics: dealing with Covid, complexity, how grounding and other outlier concepts bring stability to people and how all this helps in his work supporting companies and executives through transformation. Find Richard at https://www.firsthuman.com/meet-the-team/ Richard Atherton interviewed Dawna on Being Human Episode #105: Life Interrupted https://youtu.be/LOsIoDwjUpESupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta is the author of Sand Talks: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World and lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In this conversation Dawna talks to Dr. Yunkaporta about complexity, diversity, the structure of commerce, the butterfly effect of Dutch explorers landing at Cape York; and that's just to get started. The source of trauma, role of authority, distributed cognition and more in an engaging exchange that we hope you'll find interesting. Dr. Yunkaporta is from the Apalech clan in Western Cape York, Northern Queensland. Sand Talks is available now through online booksellers.Support the Inspirational Insights podcast on Patreon.com/dawnajonesIntro music by Mark Romero MusicSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Well known Polish internet entrepreneur Marek Zmysłowski documents the wild ride of starting up companies in Poland and in Nigeria. Fortunately he has a fairly high level of comfort with chaos. The author of Chasing Black Unicorns talks about the value of crisis, and the worst setback he's experienced out of many. He shares information he learned about the biology of executive decision-making and weighs in on the question, Does Africa need aid post-Covid? We also talk about the value of crisis and learning from working in a foreign culture working with different unwritten rules. All proceeds from sales and speaking about the book go to charity. See http://www.ChasingBlackUnicorns.com for more information.The podcast intro music is generously provided by Mark Romero of Mark Romero Music. Mark's music restores coherence to the body.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Front line workers who face risk every moment and people who depend on certainty for their personal security had the rug pulled out with COVID. Apart from shining the light on systemic issues, like the readiness of the health care system, there is a personal cost and opportunity. Terry Earthwind Nichols is the founder of Evolutionary Healer. He has developed a back door method for neutralizing trauma that bypasses the typical defence systems protecting the wound. We talk about the role of indigenous traditions in understanding trauma and the value of clearing out the emotional hard drive to achieve more functionality. Terry's books are on Amazon. The one he mentions in the conversation is Profiling for Profit. His website is www.evolutionaryhealer.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

While the world is grappling with Covid-19 and the widespread interruption, decisions are being made. Some are compassionate and some make things worse. John O’Grady is a 30-year vet with the US military. Military training and experience is made for Coronavirus like environments where there is a high level of uncertainty, you’re working with unknown variables, ambiguity and dynamic situations. In this discussion with Dawna, Colonel O' Grady demonstrates box breathing and talks about the neuroscience-based tools used whether dealing with your teenage daughter or in combat environments. We talk about how this applies to executive decisions today and why this is a golden moment for every person to adapt to a changing decision-making context that won't return to business as usual. John is now the Founder and Owner of, O’Grady Leadership Consulting Services, where he works with high performing and high potential individuals, executives, coaches, players, teams and organizations to become the very best version of themselves. Find him at strategicleadersacademy.com Email [email protected] music is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: Music for Peak PerformanceSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Co-founders of Corporate Rebels Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar quit their jobs and went wandering to seek out companies where work was fun and brought creative value to the world. Building their Bucket List they visited manufacturing, retail, financial services plus a company doing the most innovative transformational work in Spain; a company that had successfully transformed seventy companies. In Pim's conversation with Dawna you'll learn what makes a transformation from traditional management to self-management successful, the focus self-managed companies have that releases freedom to employees and insights to apply to your workplace. Corporate Rebels have released a book called, wait for it! Corporate Rebels. Learn more at Corporate-Rebels.com.Intro music is by Mark Romero of Mark Romero MusicHost is Dawna Jones who supports leaders at all levels in going beyond limits and working with blind spots.Support Dawna's podcasts at https://www.patreon.com/dawnajonesSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Tom van der Lubbe is the cofounder of Viisi, a Dutch mortgage advisory firm on a mission to change finance. Powered by intrinsic inspiration, Tom and his colleagues have drawn from self-management pioneers and alternative models to craft a way of working and serving that is unique to Viisi and the financial sector. Every inspired, purpose driven business has a compelling Why sourced in the life experience of the founder and Viisi is no exception. Tom shares his pivotal epiphany during the episode. For more on Viisi see https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/ Tom can be found on LinkedIn. You can also read about the visit Corporate Rebels made to Viisi in their blog post Employees First, Customers Second, Shareholders Last.Intro music on the podcast is courtesy of Mark Romero Music: a short clip from a harmonic track called Alignment.The host, Dawna Jones, can be found on LinkedIN.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Paul Tolchinksy is a co founder of the European Organizational Design Forum and managing partner of Performance Design Associates, a small boutique international consulting firm based in Scottsdale Arizona. His extensive experience in organizational design incorporates the early work done in Whole Scale Change. Clients bring him in when they want to hear the truth and are ready to move forward.Paul and Dawna had this conversation in Madrid, Spain at the Choices Conferences hosted by Cocoon Projects in October 2019.We talk about the difference between design and development, when organizational design applies, how to know when (or if) to stop paying attention, communication and decision-making.Intro music is courtesy of MarkRomeroMusic.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Doug Kirkpatrick was part of MorningStar Self-Management when it began and is a pioneer in restoring autonomy to work. How work gets done is undergoing a makeover as complexity pressures companies to rely less on authority and more on engagement. We talk about the role of free will, the use of power in traditional versus self-management governance, overall trends going on in the world, and why self-management practices benefit traditional companies as well.With the move to #HumansFirst and a logical and sensible approach to treating people as adults comes a higher level of explicit commitments to how decisions are made, and how initiative is required and supported. Doug's insights give anyone dissatisfied with their working environment a way to move forward no matter what role you are in.Doug's latest book is the No Limits Enterprise published by Forbes and available on Amazon world-wide and Barnes and Noble plus regular book sellers.Intro music is by Mark Romero Music.Host is Dawna Jones - FromInsightToAction.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Bill Sanders is the founder and managing director of Roebling Strauss, a business transformation and process innovation consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area. A co-author of From Hierarcy to High Performance Bill specializes in helping operations adapt and implement strategy. In this episode he and host Dawna Jones explore the challenges and ways to implement a strategy for addressing digital transformation so that a company can remain viable as the economic and market environment changes. They also talk about how companies place additional stress on employees by being unaware of the complex interrelationships embedded in the demands to deliver, remain agile and perform the day to day in the face of metrics that work against implementation. They explore:The importance of paying attention to digital transformation.Why much human potential is not being tapped by existing company practices and how to change thatWhy being busy doesn't drive productivity or prioritiesHow to ensure strategy does not get buried by day to dayWhere the conflict in priorities exists between day to day and digital transformation.Prior to establishing Roebling Strauss, Bill held executive positions at Publicis Dialog and Real Branding. Bill was a founding member of ROCG Consulting, and helped launch and later ran the first ecommerce site for Mattel Interactive.Bill has helped more than 200 organizations, including such global brands as Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, General Mills, Lipton, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and WebEx. He’s conducted business in three continents, is a past president of the San Francisco American Marketing Association, and has published in the American Management Association’s quarterly journal, and provides commentary in the media on issues in organizational culture, productivity, and innovation.Intro music is donated by MarkRomeroMusic from a track called Alignment. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Have you ever walked into a workplace, perhaps yours, and felt 'off'? Or noticed that you feel better when you're not at work? Architects Ricardo Peralta and Vladic Roskin are dedicated to changing that feeling by designing workspaces people love. By paying attention to sound, light, flow, green spaces and the tone and mood, they've found that companies benefit. In this conversation we talk about environmental physics and how you design workspaces as a strategic decision.Healthy human interaction relies not just on personal and interpersonal skills but also on the way the space supports interaction. In Decision Making for Dummies I included the reported statistic from a large drug manufacturer that decision-making speed and accuracy improved 47% when consideration was given to people flow.Vladic Roskin is an architect who believes that, at its best, architecture has the unparalleled ability to implicitly influence our behaviours - how we feel, think and engage with others. He is the co-founder at design and innovation consultancy Places People Love that supports leaders in transforming their organizations, environments and people by understanding human interactions with technology, culture and physical space. Fascinated by the various ways our built environment can stimulate a deeper engagement with ourselves and others, Vladic has cultivated a deep passion for human nature enriched by nearly a decade of architectural design experience. His collaborations with renowned architects, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social enterprises resulted in successful projects in the private and public sphere.Vladic holds a masters degree in engineering sciences and architecture and is on a life-long quest to uncover the mysteries of the human mind. His work is supported by a decade of research and personal experiences living across cultures, travelling to awe-inspiring places and encounters with visionary individuals. Ricardo Peralta is an architect and an urban planner passionate about integrating different disciplines with ancient wisdom to create spaces that nurture and heal. His explorations have led him from design to interdisciplinary healing forms; from organizational strategy to deeper practices of spiritual development. He has participated in the design of numerous large-scale projects, residential and commercial developments, office complexes, eco-resorts, eco-communities, and retreat centers. He was also part of a team that created three entirely new cities based on an innovative holistic approach to urban planning and wellbeing. Ricardo sees architecture as an instrument to connect to one's soul and spirit, enjoys life's celebration, treasures the warmth of a hug, and strives to live a life rooted in the wisdom of the heart. Ricardo has consulted for projects in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe.He is the other co-founder at design & innovation consultancy Places People Love. Intro music is courtesy of Mark Romero Music. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Great work cultures don't just happen. As a leading indicator of adaptability, paying attention to the six components of great work cultures helps you and your company avoid the slippery slope into confusion that takes place when company growth fails to match cultural health. Author of Great Mondays, Josh Levine, talks to host Dawna Jones about why relationships are synapses of culture, why culture is bigger than ping pong tables, and how to design your culture to engage. Part workbook, Josh also offers a framework for continuously evolving immediately applicable.Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Battle4Humanity is a social movement and mobile game that takes you into superhero zone by participating in making the world better. Complete a mission and transform your community. Jessica Murrey is the inspiration behind Battle4Humanity. She talks to Dawna about the three key ways ordinary people can team up to do extraordinary things.Jessica Murrey is an awarding-winning communications specialist and common ground activist. She is the creative mind behind Battle for Humanity, a mobile game designed to forge real-life heroes. Jess specializes in social change communication, awareness campaigns, and getting in the audience’s head. At age 24, She received a Northwest Regional Emmy for Community Service for her lead role in “Don’t Turn Away,” an anti-child abuse media campaign. Months later, her PSA “Meth Mirror” won Oregon Association of Broadcasters' Award for “Best PSA 2012”. Since then, she spent four years running Search for Common Ground’s global communication department. During that time, she established new organizational branding, messaging, internal systems of content gathering and distribution, and strengthened programs’ capacity in storytelling, social media, and brand creation. She has developed communication strategies and awareness campaigns for projects from Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria to Myanmar, and major international events like the Global Forum on Youth Peace and Security. Most recently, Jessica returned from giving a Social Change Communication training in Colombia around mobilizing citizens towards reconciliation in a post-conflict situation. Learn more about Battle4Humanity at http://www.Battle4Humanity.comThis is a time when more than ever together we can strengthen our humanity in the face of forces that would suppress it. Taking charge of how each person responds to conflict constructively will make a difference to how we treat and see each other in the world. - Dawna JonesIntro music is by Mark Romero Music.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

While people flee violence in their home nations, young people are pressured to join in leaving many to conclude they are the perpetrators. Saji Prelis breaks open a lot of assumptions about the source of conflict, who the victims are statistically, and sheds light on how technology has formed a violence of exclusion particularly in the key decisions impacting the lives of young people. Young people are choosing to stay in their home nations, even in the face of peril to build a future of hope from within. In this conversation you will hear their stories and what is being done around the world for humans to do a better job of handling their differences.Guest Lakshitha Saji Prelis is the Co-Chair, UN-INGO-Donor Inter-Agency Working Group, Youth and Peacebuilding; Director, Children & Youth Programs, Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. Six years ago he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-INGO--Donor working group on Youth and Peacebuilding that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Prior to joining SFCG, he was the founding director of the Peacebuilding & Development Institute at American University where he co-developed training curricula exploring the nexus of peace building with development.Find the resource list here: http://www.frominsighttoaction.com/flipping-negativ…ce-truth-podcast/Saji Prelis has served as an adviser to governments and governmental agencies in over a dozen countries. He has also played an advisory role to the Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Ministers on youth and peacebuilding. In June 2017, Mr. Prelis received the distinguished Luxembourg Peace Prize for his Outstanding Achievements in Peace Support. Follow him on Twitter: @NetworkforyouthLinks mentioned in this episode include: Search for Common Ground: https://www.sfcg.org/SFCG tools and resources: https://www.sfcg.org/children-and-youth/Soliya: https://www.soliya.net/Intro music by Mark Romero MusicSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Afghanistan is associated with conflict world-wide yet inside young entrepreneurs are laying the foundation to restore hope and prosperity through entrepreneurial initiatives. The co-founders of a co-working space in Kabul, Sher Shah Rahim and Matiullah Rahmaty share the opportunities on the path. They talk about the solution to funding shared with startups worldwide and provide insights into what is needed to support their success. Matiullah is also a co-founder of impACT, another episode on this podcast.Matiullah Rahmaty is a Global Shaper for the World Economic Forum, cofounder of impACT – a social entrepreneurship network for countries in conflict or post conflict and cofounder of CoWorthy and Brightpoint. Sher Shah Rahim is CEO of a private company called IAP, Co-founder of Tamveel and CoWorthy and is also on a Jury at World Summit Awards UN. You can learn more about them through their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/coworthy/Any authors or generous people willing to help fill the CoWorthy library please contact Mati and Sher through Facebook or contact Dawna for the mailing address.Host Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights and decision-making leadership.Intro music to the program is provided by Mark Romero Music.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Anurag Maloo is an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect who supports entrepreneurs inspired by hope to transcend very challenging conditions to rebuild economies. Regional Manager for South & Central Asia with Techstars and Startup Weekend, he is responsible for the cultivation and sustained growth of vibrant startup ecosystems in India, SAARC nations (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Maldives) and Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). He is incredibly passionate about fostering entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem, grassroots leadership, and building strong collaborative startup communities. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Anurag shares what makes him tick and how he approaches communities and people ready to do something different even when in the context of war or conflict. None of this is easy which is why Anurag attracts people who hold hope for a better future, and willing to do what it takes. In some countries living is high risk illustrated by the recent death of Startup Grind's Chapter host in Mogadishu Somalia, Mohamed Sheikh Ali, who was gunned down. As chapter host he did inspiring work to support entrepreneurs. Facing To tough situations takes courage, vision and empathy in order to work together to create better options that transcend existing conditions. Yet that is what it takes in emerging economies and for citizens in countries working to a future with greater hope. If you haven't already listened to the impACT interview please do. You will find Anurag Maloo on social media channels listed here: tps://about.me/anuragmalooHost Dawna Jones specializes in transformational insights that activate the power of the human spirit to work creatively with designing a future with hope and connection to what matters. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

How can living without a home for nine years restore a broader consciousness level and be at peace. Author, speaker, podcast host, workshop leader in the field of transformational insights three months ago landed a home after nine years of homelessness and nomadic wandering. This is what she learned and how it is relevant to business.This episode takes you into the story of treating yourself as a startup by exploringWhat Otto Scharmer's leading from the emergent future looks like when you are nomadicHow societal expectations and the weight of judgement suppress human potential and true leadershipWhat steps help to work with resilient moments and avoid depressionWhy the three areas of balance in a startup applied to being human and finding your way in uncertain confusing territoryWhat do you do when the rules of the game of life prove to be wrong.On the second of two personal episodes Dawna walks you through how she became homeless and why it served to return her to a unified place of consciousness and be at peace with chaos. "Knowledge and expanded consciousness exists outside of belief"Intro music is by Mark Romero Music. Clip from a track called Alignment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Anurag Maloo is an an Indo-Asian startup innovation Community Architect. In this episode he interviews the host of the Evolutionary Provocateur and the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones on her personal journey, sacrifices, the meaning of friends and staying true to purpose. In early 2002-2004 Dawna shifted her role from facilitating change to facilitating leadership and broader consciousness to support ethical decision making. Things did not go according to plan but the experience has been mind expanding and a process of aligning with personal power. Anurag and Dawna chat about the personal story people don't often see behind the scenes. Dawna Jones specializes in seeing what others don't - insights that allow for a shift in perspective, clearing of blocks and barriers to human and organizational potential. She is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo and co-author of From Hierarchy to High Performance. Her work engages deeper aspects of human intelligence to move collectively forward on the large complex issues that face companies and the planet through ethical decision-making and bold leadership.Find Dawna on Twitter at EPDawna_Jones, LinkedIN and FromINsightToAction.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Beyond Budgeting Round Table offers companies exploring how to transform their company governance a place where they can find engaging workplaces, individual autonomy and peer-to-peer support. Franz Röösli explains the background of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, a practitioner and science community that has developed the Beyond Budgeting approach in the last twenty years as a pioneering agile mindset and a framework for action. With host Dawna Jones they also talk about the need for mature leaders who are conscious enough (age is irrelevant), to inspire their organizations for a transformative journey into a future to stay viable and relevant. In that part they also include the finance sector a bit more specifically.Prof. Franz Röösli, Ph.D. is head of the Center for Enterprise Development at the ZHAW School of Management and Law. He researches, teaches and advises companies in the fields of organizational design, leadership and strategy.At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (www.bbrt.org), an international practitioner and research community that deals with questions of future-oriented leadership and organization and has developed the Beyond Budgeting leadership and organizational approach.Before joining university, Franz Röösli worked for many years in management positions in SMEs and large companies. See https://www.zhaw.ch/storage/sml/institute-zentren/zue/upload/Beyond_Budgeting_as_a_mindset_and_a_framework_for_action.pdf for more information.Host Dawna Jones specializes in releasing imperceptible blocks to company transformation while advancing leaders decision making skills and mindset to lead transformation successfully.Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Companies world-wide are adopting agile for development and to accelerate adaptability to business conditions. Seen from a traditional view of how things get done, Agile appears to take short cuts or take longer when a short cut will do. Authors of Agile Methods for Safety Critical Systems Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker combine their diverse areas of expertise to reduce safety risks in the medical device field. The insights offered in this conversation inform change agents why Agile is a mindset and why it makes self-management easier to implement well. With host Dawna Jones, Brian and Nancy also explain what differentiates Agile implemented well from ‘fake’ Agile, where the vocabulary is learned but the practices stay rooted in traditional management styles. Offering plenty of real examples of companies built to adapt quickly Nancy and Brian have learned how to spot companies that are pretending from companies committed to reducing risk and increasing collaboration. Nancy Van Schooenderwoert is an electronics and software engineer for medical, aerospace, industrial applications. She was among the first to apply Agile methods to embedded systems work. Nancy has been coaching Agile teams and managers since 1998. Brian Shoemaker is an independent validation consultant to FDA-regulated companies, with a background in medical devices, clinical diagnostics and software quality management. Nancy’s Website: (Lean-Agile Partners)http://leanagilepartners.com Brian’s website: (ShoeBar Associates) http://www.shoebarassoc.com/ Book web site:http://agilemethodsforsafetycriticalsystems.com Intro music is by Mark Romero Music.com Dawna can be contacted through www.FromINsighttoAction. T: EPDawna_Jones or on LinkedIn.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Dennis Wittrock of encode.org shares a case study of Hypoport, a fintech company that opted to implement Holacracy. Despite the assumption that Holacracy is flat and unstructured it is the opposite. Dennis walks us through the process of moving from deciding on self-management to implementing it in a company with many moving parts, growing through acquisition and diverging cultures. What each self-managed governance model brings is an explicit structure that enables stronger peer-to-peer relationships. Included in Holacracy and Sociocracy 3.0 is using tensions as a means to work with conflicting zones. Related interviews are found on my previous podcast either on iTunes or the last twenty are posted on www.management-issues.com/eprovoc and on EP15 of this podcast with Tom Tomison.Dennis Wittrock, M.A., Holacracy Coach at Hypoport, partner at encode.org, founder of Integral Europe, founder and former co-director of the IEC 2014 and 2016, served 5 years as CEO and board member of Integrales Forum and the Integral Academy in Germany. His purpose is to create spaces for the emergence of integral consciousness. www.integral-con-text.de Our conversation took place just before the European Integral Conference.Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics and perceiving systems result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #facilitator #podcasterSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

The Global Challenges Foundation inspired change agents worldwide to collaborate on a fresh strategy and approach for facing the biggest risk humanity faces. No group illustrates that better than impACT, a global network of social entrepreneurs who are combining their vision to achieve what most would prefer to think is impossible.In this discussion with host Dawna Jones you will meet:Matiullah, a visionary Afghan who believes in Entrepreneurship and social change,A'laa, a young Lebanese entrepreneur on a social mission,Nicole, a published author, social entrepreneur, co-founder of the impACT movement and guest expert on the topic of power dynamics in the international context at Freie University in Germany and,Tobias whoworks as advisor innovation manager at GIZ, a German enterprise providing international cooperation and development services, while pursuing a startup that connects the private sector with academia. Views expressed are his own.Together they share with you the origins of impACT and its role in offering a fresh narrative for young people infused with positive energy and hope through social entrepreneurship succeeding in different contexts world-wide, conflict, post-conflict and no conflict.Less than a year old, imPACT is rapidly building momentum toward being a force in citizen engagement and in particular, in the role of entrepreneurs in to provide power to the people, especially minorities who are becoming role models for leadership. Diversity makes it work. For more info go to: https://m.facebook.com/impACTheworld/Host Dawna Jones designs change strategies that reach deep into intrinsic motivations to transform from one state to a higher state restoring ethical decisions and care for all life. #decisions #conscious leadership #transcendencePodcast intro music was provided by Mark Romero Music from a track called Alignment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Last year the Global Challenges Foundation launched a contest for the design of a better governance model for handling the tough issues posing the greatest risk to the survival of humanity and the health of the earth. Sponsored by Swedish billionaire Laszlo Szombatfalvy the prize fund of $5 million inspired responses from 2700 participants from 122 nations world-wide. The award of 3 finalists out of 14 identified took place May 27-29th in Stockholm. Dawna was there participating in the workshops with other committed change agents from countries all over the world.In this episode, Dawna shares what happened, what is next and what kinds of conversations took place. For more information go to the https://globalchallenges.org/ website.Intro music to the podcast is contributed by Mark Romero Music.Host Dawna Jones is the author of Decision Making for Dummies, speaker, and designer of transformational processes particularly in complex systems.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

In 2014 at the Business as Agents of World Benefit conference in Cleveland's Case Western University a design lab launched Aim2Flourish. Business students and schools all over the world gathered stories of companies who were doing things differently. As of this episode one thousand stories have been gathered. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, Claire Sommer - the Director of Aim2Flourish - shares:The story of an innovative bakery providing brownies in Ben and Jerry's ice cream.What business students are learning in answer to the question: Can business really marry profit and purpose?One Swiss health agency's approach to decreasing isolation.How gathering inspiring stories changes the lives and mindset of business students.Closing the schism between business just being made for profit and the potential to do good in the world.How a strengths based approach shifts focus and outlook.Claire Sommer is a professional writer who has taken on the role of Director of AIM2Flourish, an initiative of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University. Learn more at AIM2Flourish.com. Roberta Baskin, the previous director, was a guest on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast, Dawna's previous podcast.Host Dawna Jones designs novel ways to transcend wickedly complex problems by working with the human spirit and tech. Extensive research, profound insight, combine with biology, physics; perceiving systems together with transformational know-how result in reigniting the power of the human spirit. www.FromInsightToAction.com #speaker #author #strategic insights #change innovator #podcasterMusic intro is a clip from Mark Romero Music called Alignment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Laurent Ledoux has been implementing what we now call participatory governance for years in the financial sector and in the public sector. Isaac Getz and Frederik Laloux are peers and it is thanks to Isaac that this episode talks about how to implement participatory governance in the public and private sector. Laurent brings practical how-to information on working with hierarchical constraints, distributing decision making and autonomy to the extent possible and on his role transforming companies to green-teal models(F. Laloux) and liberating leadership (Isaac Getz).We talk about how to get started, the simplicity of principled decision making as a transformational means to create a psychologically safe workplace, how to respect the intrinsic equality of all through practical measures like cleaning up salary inequities, finding the sweet spot for personal growth, revamping training and a more human role for HR. What happens when you treat employees like adults? That's only one of many insights you'll hear in this episode where we also talk about the role of boundaries in achieving liberties and why working on yourself holds the highest power in transforming organizations. When Laurent talks about liberating organizations he means from the ego of managers. That's powerful and profound!Laurent Ledoux has twenty-five years general management experience as CEO, BU Manager, HRM, Financial Director; in private, public & not-for-profit sectors; for small, medium or large (1.000 +) organizations; in Western & Eastern Europe, and Africa; ten years experience in reinventing (Laloux) & liberating (Getz) organizations: as CEO; led 3 TEAL turn arounds. Has taught executive classes & facilitating public events (mainly on business ethics, CSR & leadership) for ten years. He is fluent in seven languages. In this conversation he talks about his time at the Federal Ministry of Mobility and Transportation implementing autonomy and participatory governance. His current focus is on transforming companies and turning around companies in crisis ethically and through principles that generate psychological safety.Dawna Jones, podcast host, provides insight to business decision makers to strengthen accuracy and opportunity for greater agility in complex environments. She brings a holistic view and profound insights to leaders and decision-makers in complex situations.Podcast intro music if provided by Mark Romero of MarkRomeroMusic.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Clearlink attended the Mob Programming conference in 2017 and came away thinking folks there were either crazy or genius; possibly both. One year and a half later they had implemented mob programming, where a team writes the code rather then each person sitting in their cave. Learn from Torrey Powell, Nate Wixom and developer Charlie King how collaborative coding helped the company scale, the journey from Bare Bones Manifesto, from working in a Dev cave to working with others along with some tips for introducing a new way of working into the workplace. You'll also hear about the management issues that melt away when you give autonomy and trust to the team.Torrey Powell is Tech Leader, Nate Wixom is Director Marketing Tech and Charlie King is Web Dev for Clearlink. Clearlink is a digital marketing and sales company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. www.Clearlink.comThis episode was recorded live on site at the Mob Programming conference 2018 in Boston, MA where host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones, was delivering a workshop on using conflict to expand skills. Find Dawna on LinkedIn or at her website: From Insight to ActionPodcast intro music is provided by Mark Romero Music.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

The Imaginal Cells-Visions of Transformation was released by co-authors Kim Polman and Stephen Vasconcellos-Sharpe to activate engagement in wider change by ordinary people like you and me. It would not be the first time ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things like helping change how we care about each other and the shape of the economy and the impact on ecological health. In this conversation with host Dawna Jones, the universality of the Golden Rule as a decision making principle becomes fundamental to shifting decisions to more ethical territory. The three requirements of the contemporary definition of the Golden Rule, the important role of the consumer in instigating and demanding change is a part of how anyone who cares can make a positive difference by doing things differently. Kim also speaks to the shift from the linear economy to the circular economy - essential for companies that wish to remain relevant and economically sustainable.April 5th is Golden Rule day - an international day for restoring empathic connection and responsible decision making.The book The Imaginal Cells includes contributing authors Al Gore, Desmond Tutu, Mohamed Yunus, Paul Polman, William McDonough, Johan Rockstrom, Thomas Lovejoy, Jonathon Porritt. You will find more information on the ReboottheFuture.org website.Host Dawna Jones provides insights accompanied by advanced decision making awareness for clarity greater accuracy and increased responsiveness especially in complex environments.Her transformational insights free personal and organizational potential to be more creatively responsive to high speed change. Speaker, author, strategist and educator. Author of Decision Making for Dummies, contributor to The Intelligence of the Cosmos, and host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna works with diverse thinkers and travels the world.The intro to the podcast comes from Mark Romero music. Mark's music is known for restoring coherence to the body.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

As AI enters the home and workplace, drives our cars issues for governance arise. Guest Robbie Stamp talks to host Dawna Jones about the five areas where we can take responsibility for asking questions before making decisions. Do we employ protocols over rules? How do companies create the conditions for unethical decision making now? There is a risk that by failing to ask questions and explore to make a more conscious choice that decisions makers will fail to collectively accept responsibility for governance. Bias exists in AI. How do we monitor the roll out of AI to see that it is doing what we hope it can. Listen in to a fascinating conversation exploring AI, ethics and governance issues.Robbie Stamp ie is Chief Executive of Bioss International, a company founded by Gillian Stamp. Bioss is a global network of organization and people development consultancies that work in the private, public and third sectors. Their work supports effective decision-making at all levels and helps clients develop and deliver on their strategies in an increasingly complex world. Bioss.comPrior to this, Robbie was Chairman and Chief Executive of The Digital Village, a media company founded with the late Douglas Adams, which pioneered social networks to create content on the internet. He also created HandHeld History, a mobile phone content company.Between 1995 and 2000, Robbie was CEO of h2g2, formerly The Digital Village, the company he co-founded with the late Douglas Adams in 1995. The company created the computer game Starship Titanic and h2g2.com, the real 'Earth edition' of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was sold to the BBC. TDV, an early pioneer of online communities and user-generated content, was also involved in television, mobile Internet distribution, and e-commerce deals.Host Dawna Jones offers intuitive insights giving forward looking decision makers and responsible leaders high leverage ways to transform, and reinvent in complex environments with greater clarity and accuracy. FromInsightToAction.com.Intro music is by Mark Romero Music. Mark's music is known to create coherence/harmony for listeners.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Wickedly complex problems such as the ones companies face and we face globally (climate change effects, poverty, economic inequality, health) demand a frank and yet hopeful look at how being better as humans can balance emerging application of AI and other disruptive tech. Host Dawna Jones brings forward a conversation with Michael Mainelli and Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva who each bring a perspective that provide insight into what you can do and what business can do to stop throwing money and human potential away and start contributing to being better in and for the world.The topic is timely given the selection of semi-finalists for the Global Challenges Foundation contest in designing better governance and decision making models to handle the complex issues globally. Though my submission was not selected, I still see the value of merging narrative (with Dr. Thomas Juli) with decision making and elevated consciousness, to support nations in being able to work with issues having many fast moving parts.Guests:Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen boasts a core team of respected professionals as well as numerous associates, and is well-capitalised due to successful spin-outs and ventures. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. His PhD was on the application of risk/reward methodologies involving chaotic systems. Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, followed by a decade in finance, then two decades at Z/Yen. www.zyen.comDr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker & author -- specializing in reinvention. She oversees a group of companies active in real estate, investment, & consulting. As a consultant, Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, Kohler, L'Oreal, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation & many others to reinvent their products, processes, & leadership practices.Nadya has personally contributed to the development of more than 5,000 executives from over 60 countries & 20 industries teaching courses in leadership, strategy & sustainability at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she also served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has been teaching in business schools around the world, including Case's Weatherhead School of Management (USA), IPADE Business School (Mexico), and CEDEP (France), where she also contributes to the Academic Committee of the school. Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the term embedded sustainability which has caught on to differentiate authentic commitment from superficial efforts to look responsible. You'll also find Nadya's insights via three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia & the US.Show host Dawna Jones provides transformational insights to decision makers leading change in complex environments or issues. You'll find her at FromInsightToAction.com She has written or contributed to two books: Decision Making for Dummies and The Intelligence of the Cosmos and written for Business Expert Press on Moving Successfully to an Executive Role.Intro music is by Mark Romero. Mark's music restores physical coherence to the body. MarkRomeroMusic.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Over a casual dinner conversation organizational psychologist Andras Viscek learned that research work his father was doing provided insight into organizational change. Out of the conversation grew an invaluable tool for internal and external change agents: OrgMapper. In this conversation with show host Dawna Jones they discuss:What can pigeons teach us about how humans network and communicate3 mistakes executives consistently make when directing organizational changeHow to increase the speed and engagement of organizational change by understanding who the real change agents are.Andras Viscek, Co-Founder of Maven7, is a researcher, a management consultant and a trainer specialized in organizational and social network analysis with a solid background in change management, team and organizational development. He has a degree in work and organizational psychology from the Eötvös Loránd University of Science in Budapest. He is a board member at the Mérei Sociometric Workshop (a professional association for European sociometry practitioners), and has organized several related international events including Circuits of Profit 2011, a conference for business related SNA applications.Andras is also the developer of OrgMapper, a web-based Organizational Network Analysis tool for internal and external change agents. He frequently holds OrgMapper Organizational Network Analysis certification trainings for change management and OD practitioners from various regions of the World. Before founding Maven7 with his partners, he gained vast experience as the head of several HR-focus international research projects regarding work stress, motivation, loyalty and employer branding. His specialities include: change management, organizational development, business process improvement, knowledge management, team development, KOL mapping, social media analysis and network data mining.Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is specializes in personal organizational and global transformation strategies that engage the power of the human spirit guided by science. She wrote Decision Making for Dummies, blogged for Great Workplace Cultures on the HuffPo, and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Follow Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones or www.frominsighttoaction.com Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

“Agile” has become a buzzword in the software development industry as well as the wider business landscape. And for good reason – several organizations have cited Agile principles as the influence behind results such as better financial performance, project success, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. In fact, 92 percent of executives said they believe organizational agility is critical to business success (Forbes/PMI). However, a deep understanding of Agile frameworks at the board-level is necessary in order for implementation to be effective. If this deep understanding is coupled with enthusiasm, CEOs and the C-Suite can initiate an overall digital transformation that directly impacts the bottom line and boosts the potential of every employee – and nobody knows this better than Dave West.Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org and former VP and Research Director at Forrester Research for software development. Through his analyst work with several different organizations, Dave has experienced first-hand the barriers to agility and knows the steps that leaders need to take to become more agile.Based on the principles of Scrum and the Agile Manifesto, Scrum.org provides comprehensive training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery.In his position at Scrum.org, Dave works to carry out the organization’s goal of enabling teams to deliver software in a more effective way, raise the skill level of the software development industry, and in turn, influence the production of great software with the power to change the world. Prior to his work at Scrum.org, Dave led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. He also was Chief Product Officer for Tasktop Technologies and Managing Director of the Americas at Ivar Jacobsen Consulting. Host – Dawna JonesDawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant who works with progressive thinkers and bold leaders to elevate value at a human, organizational to global level. She has been a monthly blogger for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Business Expert Press just published Successfully Moving to an Executive Role. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organization stimulated a lot of thought particularly in people working inside corporate aware that traditional patriarchal organizations could not serve the vision. Instead, creating the conditions for people and customers to flourish is the challenge facing startup founders. It comes with the caveat that scaling your learning and way of working with power and control is essential to scaling value. Susan Basterfield is host Dawna Jones's guest in this episode where they talk about prototyping, beyond a growth mindset, and explore what happens if you imagine a different relationship to work. Susan Basterfield has lived and worked in 20 different countries, Susan chose New Zealand as home in 2003 which is where she talks to Dawna in this episode. From working in multi-nationals she now serves the Enspiral Foundation as a Director and Catalyst, and does her work from within an Enspiral Livelihood Pod.Catalyst and convener, she helps individuals and organizations release potential through participatory creation—unique manifestations of ways of working and being beyond traditional hierarchical models. These include ongoing experiments in Self-Management, Agile Beyond Tech, Deliberately Developmental Organizations, and Facilitative Leadership. She is a prolific writer and speaker, and has shared her experiences from India to Korea, Canada to Chile, Sweden to Australia and most places in between.Susan is the creator and convener of the Practical Self Management Intensive at Leadwise Academy. She holds a BA in Communications, a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, and in 2015, received the Perkins Award for most exceptional body of work in the second cohort of Seth Godin’s altMBA. https://academy.leadwise.co/?partner=enspiral&utm_source=several&utm_medium=link&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=leadwise-academyhttp://www.thepeergarden.com/Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogged for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Writer, speaker, and change innovator, you can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

In this program, host Dawna Jones shares her view on what lies ahead for 2018 in terms of how the wicked problems facing humanity globally, and business can be addressed. She talks about using anxiety to advantage, about collaboration over separation, about the pitfalls of working with a limited view and about the role you can play and the skills leaders require today. Consider it a forecast and summation of what opportunities lie ahead in 2018 for business and humans to be better for the world and in the world. Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and transformational leadership consultant specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures, wrote Decision Making for Dummies, and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn. Dawna is also exploring VR and XR to augment human decisions and restore health to people and workplaces simultaneously. Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Daniel Ospina is a chef who turned his attention to social systems, the reinvention of democracy and our relationship with power. Organizational designer, he looks deeper to work with diversity as a perspective shifting value to R&D. Daniel is an organisation designer, working through his company, Conductal. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer at Said Business School (Oxford University) and co-founder of a community for cross-disciplinary experimentation called Crossmodalism. See Conductal.org for more information. Host Dawna Jones is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Conversational intelligences, the art of not triggering the cave-brain, when faced with low trust and high uncertainty, is directly informed by neuroscience. Host Dawna Jones and CreatingWE's Judith Glaser talk about the power of:conversation understood through neuroscience to create more human workplaces;questions asked in complex change and the art of creating safety;non-judgement on children's academic performance;communicating through transparency and truth to create trust;quality conversations in transforming workplace cultures. Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business and deep dynamics to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!) Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Robin Anne Fitzgerald is from Newfoundland, Canada and she has been working in Norway for years for Eidsiva Energi AS, one of 270 companies serving Norway’s energy needs. Inspired by the Beyond Budgeting Round Table discussions she led her company to get rid of the budgeting process. The way she handled the process offers lessons for anyone responsible for implementing what appears to be a radical decision. Debunking the myth that change is hard, long and difficult we talk about why the way she designed the process worked to give more confidence and greater value to the Board.We talk about:The four reasons why budgeting was working against company profitability.What they use instead of budgets to monitor performance.What shift in focus results from removing budgetingHow she pitched the idea to the board then implemented the decision without creating resistanceTips for companies thinking about doing things differently but having trouble getting started.Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is business change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. Deep skills for leading and decision making in complexity equip business leaders with the awareness to stay effective and balanced while handling uncertainty. She blogs monthly for the Huff Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Katz Kiely is an award-winning expert in open-innovation, participatory systems design and digital engagement. She converts complex challenges into memorable experiences, smart solutions and strong innovative cultures. In this program, Katz and the host of the Insight to Action podcast, Dawna Jones talk about the Burning Man social experience, using digital innovation to free human potential, and her startup BEEP. Katz's experience in large organizations such as the BBC and the UN shed real insight into why disengagement levels are high and how low expectations truly are. A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she is a regular speaker at global conferences including TED, SXSW and IBC and regularly writes for b2b publications on stuff like this: http://www.cmo.com/features/articles/2016/8/18/recruit-change-agents-and-save-11-trillion.html#gs.Cja9aQUKatz is a proud ambassador for the Burning Man Foundation.Host Dawna Jones specializes in custom designing transformation experiences that merge the sciences with perception of the deep dynamics holding or supporting change. Her work leads to quantum culture change touching the personal and leadership levels through decision-making. The intro music on the Insight to Action podcast is a clip out of Alignment by MarkRomeroMusic dot com. Mark's music has been proven to restore coherence (balanced alignment) to the listener. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

The new purpose of business, to evolve consciousness through a higher purpose, is included in Ervin Lazslo's new book The Intelligence of the Cosmos. Practitioner and innovator in transforming leadership and company cultures, Dawna Jones, also the host of this show, draws from her practical observations to provide insights on what holds companies back, how companies and their leaders can make the quantum leap needed to stay relevant to the times.Jack Barnard, guest hosts this program. Jack is a speaking coach, master of change, an artist and much more. He brings a wonderful sense of humour to help people see themselves and situations from a different perspective. Dawna's website is FromInsightToAction.comT:EPDawna_JonesIntroductory music by Mark Romero of MarkRomeroMusic.com is a clip from the track Alignment. Mark's music has been proven to establih coherence in the body. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe

Why do companies ask employees to come up with innovations and then work hard to block it? Gary Klein, author of Seeing What Others Don’t and countless other books on decision-making, shares his research with host Dawna Jones about the value insights bring to companies, and how companies block innovation and work against themselves.You’ll learn:What insights are and why they have such high value to business for innovation and solving wicked problemsHow Six Sigma and stamping out errors stamps out innovationWhere insights come from and how you can recognize your insightsHow chains of command filter out insights and why no one person should have the right to veto an ideaWhy curiosity is better than counting errors and why celebrating being right is more effective than focusing on errors.Gary Klein is a research psychologist famous for his work in pioneering the field of naturalistic decision-making. Among his books are Sources of Power and Intuition. In this interview we talk about his book, Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights. His keen observations and inquiry skills builds a bridge between theory and life. You will find Gary’s books online at Amazon and other retailers. His work is also included in Dawna’s Decision Making for Dummies. Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and change innovator specializing in the deep dynamics of transformation at a human and organizational level. She blogs monthly for the Huffington Post Great Workplace Cultures; wrote Decision Making for Dummies and has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos being released in mid-October, 2017. You can find Dawna on Twitter EPDawna_Jones and on LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Get full access to Navigating Uncertainty: Visionary Resilience at dawnajones.substack.com/subscribe