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Future Squared

Stephen Hawking once said that intelligence is the ability to adapt to change... so let’s adapt.

Hosted by author and entrepreneur, Steve Glaveski, Future Squared brings you conversations with preeminent thought leaders from myriad disciplines such as startups and entrepreneurship, technology, corporate innovation, psychology, philosophy, economics, politics, biology, human performance and productivity, motivation and self development, management and leadership, health and fitness and more to help you think in a multi-disciplinary way, avoid relying on the first piece of information that comes to hand, kick goals in your professional and personal life and better navigate what is fast becoming, a Brave New World.

Previous guests include thought leaders such as Adam Grant, Brad Feld, Tim O'Reilly, Gretchen Rubin, Kevin Kelly, Jeremy Heimans, Steve Blank, Neil Patel, Rand Fishkin, Jordan Harbinger, Omar Zenhom, Andreas Antonopoulos, Ryan Blair, Whitney Johnson and various other thought leaders.

Past topics have explored the likes of:

Blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, algorithms, machine learning, artificial intelligence and universal basic income (UBI), sales and marketing, lean startup, design thinking, agile, political correctness, identity politics, cloud computing, geopolitics, neuroscience, data science, fintech, proptech, sports, tech addiction, CRISPR, venture capital, angel investment, nootropics and cognitive therapies, big data, cloud computing, DevOps, fake news, web development, UX and UI, influencer and content marketing, emotional intelligence, Stoic philosophy, mindfulness and meditation, chatbots, automation, IoT, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Trump, tech trends, Pixar animation studios, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, disruption to incumbents, how to measure innovation, extreme ownership, radical transparency and a hell of a lot more!

Future Squared is brought to you by Collective Campus, a innovation accelerator that works with organisations to unlock their people’s latent potential to create more impact for humanity and lead more fulfilling lives. If you need help driving your organisation’s innovation strategy, visit www.collectivecampus.io

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411. Non-Fungible Tokens(NFTs) and Collectable Digital Art with Saatchi Art's Monty Preston

Monty Preston is the Manager of Art Advisory & Curation at Saatchi Art. Prior to joining Saatchi Art in 2018, she worked at female-led, industry-disrupting startups including Beauty Pie in London, whe

410: The Sh*t They Never Taught You with Adam Jones and Adam Ashton

In this episode, I interview the co-hosts of the popular podcast What You Will Learn, and now co-authors of The Sh*t They Never Taught You, Adam Jones and Adam Ashton, for a conversation on all things

409. How to Make it as a Cocaine Trafficker with Jesse Fink

Jesse Fink joins Steve Glaveski to talk Pure Narco: Th real-life tales of Luis Antonio Navia aka 'El Senador'.

Episode #236: Adam Grant on Making Work Suck Less

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world's top 40 business professors under 40.

Episode #235: Why You Should...Leave Things Unfinished?

Today, I want to talk why you should leave things unfinished. What's that you say? This doesn’t sound like the Steve we know. And you’d be right to think that, but please hear me out in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. You might be pleasantly surprised!

Episode #234: 5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Organisation

5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Organisation

Episode #233: Arj Barker on What It Takes to Make It and Sustain It

You might be wondering why I invited a comedian to appear on the show. For one, there are many parallels between making it as a comedian, a musician, an athlete and an entrepreneur and we explore them in today’s conversation. That and Arj’s show, which I was lucky enough to catch on the Saturday night before this conversation, was heavy on tech talk, making fun of our tendency to become furious by 5 minute UBER wait times in this, the age of instant gratification.

Episode #232: Rise of the Rest with Brian Ardinger

Brian Ardinger is the founder of NXXT, the InsideOutside.io podcast, and the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit. For over 25 years Brian has been helping entrepreneurs and enterprises navigate and compete in a world of change and disruption.

Episode #229: How We F*#cked Up

In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on. After building up enough case studies and collateral working with smaller organisations, we worked our way up and eventually hooked our first big A-list client, a global law firm with over 1,200 employees and revenues in excess of US$1B. Long story short, we f*cked up.

Episode #230: VR, Media and Metal with Jon Satterley

Jon Satterley is an experienced entertainment & media industry executive and thought leader. I have been recognized as an innovator with expert knowledge of new products, emerging technology and digital business strategy.

Episode #228: Making Better Decisions with Annie Duke

Making Better Decisions with Annie Duke

Episode #226: The Hidden Power of Networks with David Burkus

In this episode of Future Squared, I welcome back DAVID BURKUS, named one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50 last year.

Episode #225: Better before Bigger

While spreading the butter thin might be good for the waistline, it won’t be as good for your business or career.

Episode #224: The Science of Lean, DevOps & High Performing Organisations with Nicole Forsgren

Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date.

Episode #223: We Are All Teachers

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about something that we are all liable to be blindsided by.

Episode #222: The Case Against Education with Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University.

Episode #221: Amplify Your Introduction Requests

If you’re asking for a warm introduction to somebody, who has thousands of connections, this can become quite the task, nor is there any way to find out just how well connected they are to these people - I often get the response “oh, I don’t actually really know the person of interest”, as is the case with most social networks. Find out what to ask instead in today's instalment of Fast Fix Friday.

Episode #220: Expanding the Limits of Human Endurance with Alex Hutchinson

Alex Hutchinson is National Magazine Award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance for Runner’s World and Outside, and frequently contributes to other publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker.

Episode #219: OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act)

The OODA loop was a tool developed by military strategist John Boyd. Boyd was a US Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant whose theories have been highly influential in not just the military, but in sports, business and litigation.

Episode #217: Amplify your Finishing Kick

The tendency to speed up as we approach the finishing line in a race is called ‘the finishing kick’ by Alex Hutchinson, and it can be found not only in endurance sports, but weightlifting, and if you look closely enough, the workplace.

Episode #218: Virtual Reality with Jeremy Bailenson

Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and a Faculty Leader at Stanford’s Center for Longevity.

Episode #216: Blockchain and the Law with Primavera De Filippi

Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.

Episode #215: The End of Deep Leisure

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I tell a story that encapsulates a worrying trend signifying the end of not only deep work, but also deep leisure.

Episode #214: Discipline

Today, I talk discipline, and how small decisions made repeatedly could be the difference between a super fulfilling life and a less than rewarding one.

Episode #213: The Introverted Leader with Jennifer Kahnweiler

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. Certified Speaking Professional, is an author and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.”

Episode #211: The Rise of Tech Addiction with Adam Alter

Adam is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, a New York Times bestseller about the forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave, and Irresistible, a book about the rise of tech addiction and what we should do about it.

Episode #212: Ideas are Overrated

For today’s instalment of Fast Fix Friday, let's talk why ideas and why they're overrated.

Episode #210: Breaking Down the 80:20 Principle to 50:1

80:20 should be nothing new to listeners of Future Squared but breaking it down in order to identify and leverage your highest value customers to dramatically grow your business might be.

Episode #209: Technology and Innovation in 2018 - Musings and Predictions

In this episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Sean and Shay from Collective Campus to talk about our musings, ponderings and predictions for 2018 when it comes to technology and innovation.

Episode #208: How to Set and Achieve Your Goals

In the very first instalment of Fast Fix Friday for the year, I thought it would make sense to talk about your goals for the year - not only how to set them but some things you might want to put into place to help you achieve them!

Episode #207: Stop Doing the Wrong Things Right with the Five Whys

In recent times when Eric Ries met with senior executives at Toyota, famed for their lean production system, they echoed Drucker’s words and said “we’ve got a system for efficiently producing widgets but we don’t have a system for deciding what to produce in the first place”. Yes, whatever decision you are making in life it’s important to determine whether you are focusing on the right decision in the first place. Thus is the nature of today's instalment of Fast Fix Friday.

Episode #206: How to Make Better Decisions

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I'll provide one way we go about making decisions at Collective Campus, which admittedly, works best when working in a team of at least three trustworthy, radically honest people who have enough experience in said areas to facilitate a constructive process.

Episode #205: Tim O’Reilly on What’s The Future (WTF?)

Tim O’Reilly popularised the terms Open Source and Web 2.0.

Episode #204: 5 Ways Investment Can Kill Innovation

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday we unpack the five ways that investment can KILL innovation.

Episode #203: Perry Marshall on 80/20 Sales and Marketing

Perry Marshall is one of the world's most expensive and sought-after business consultants, endorsed by FORBES, INC Magazine, and the most respected entrepreneurs in the world.

Episode #202: The Most Valuable Thing I've Learned Hosting This Podcast

In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday, I talk the most valuable thing I've learned hosting this podcast.

Episode #201: The Future of Real Estate with Charter Hall, Equiem, realAS and Loc8

In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you our Melbourne panel discussion which took place at Collective Campus and featured Gabrielle McMillan of Equiem, Josh Rowe of realAs, David Hodges of Loc8 and of course, Aidan Coleman, CIO/CTO of Charter Hall.

Episode #200: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google with Scott Galloway

Scott is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, and a public speaker, author, and entrepreneur.

Episode #199: The Difference Between Design Thinking, the Lean Startup, and Agile

As more large companies begin to embark upon audacious transformation plans and set up innovation teams, more corporate professionals are being introduced to a world in which terms like design thinking, lean, agile, pivot, experiment, fail, adapt and so on are used almost interchangeably.

Episode #198: UnBranding with Alison Stratten

Alison Stratten is co-author of 4 best selling business books, co-owner of UnMarketing Inc and co-host of The UnPodcast - the other half of that co, her husband Scott, who was named one of the Top 5 Social Media Influencers in the world by Forbes.com.

Episode #197: What Corporate Innovation Teams Can Learn from Jeff Immelt's Ousting at Ge

Here's what corporate innovation teams can learn from Jeff Immelt's ousting at GE.

Episode #196: Innovation in Water with Sean Hanrahan

Sean is the Senior Environmental Strategist at City West Water where he works across a range of areas including climate change, renewable energy, resource recovery and sustainability.

Episode #195: The Corporate Innovation Trade-Off

More often than not, senior management and the C-suite assume that exploring disruptive innovation is incredibly risky, and it is.

Episode #194: The Future of Entertainment

Collective Campus recently announced the AsiaPac’s first virtual and augmented reality startup accelerator, the Village Roadshow Xperience Accelerator, in collaboration with Microsoft.

Episode #193: Talking Education in Schools with Steve Brophy and Dean Pearman

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the Design and Play podcast with Steve Brophy and Dean Pearman.

Episode #192: How to Use Virtual Assistants to Create More Impact with Your Life

I’ve been using virtual assistants for several years.

Episode #191: Corporate Innovation at Singapore Post with Bernard Leong

Bernard Leong is currently the Head of Post Office Network & Digital Services in Singapore Post, an angel investor within the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Episode #190: Learning How to Learn

The world is changing faster than ever and up to 60% of today’s jobs are likely to be automated in the next 10-15 years.

Episode #189: Find Your Why with David Mead

David Mead is an author and igniter for Simon Sinek, author of three best-selling books: Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last and Together is Better.

Episode #188: Smell Don't Tell: How to Get Buy-In

Winning buy-in from senior and middle management for corporate innovation initiatives is one of the biggest challenges intrapreneurs face.

Episode #187: Liz Wiseman on Multiplier Leadership

Liz Wiseman teaches leadership to executives around the world.