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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 #86: Why Developing Countries Have Ubiquitous Wifi and Countries like Australia Don't

On this episode of Fast Fix Friday, Steve tackles the question of "Why do developing countries like Vietnam command ubiquitous wireless internet access while countries like Australia don't?"

Episode #85: The Future of Apps with Buzinga's Logan Merrick

We're joined by Logan Merrick, co-founder and strategic director of Buzinga App Development to talk about topics surrounding technology trends, healthtech and apps, and the future of apps.

Episode #84: Don't Believe Your Own Hype

On today's episode of Fast Fix Friday, Steve talks about staying humble as something that is critical to work towards maintaining if you want to achieve success in business and in life.

Episode #83: Design a Better Business with Justin Lokitz

We're joined by Justin Lokitz, an experienced strategy consultant and business designer who is responsible for the Business Models Inc. offices to talk about topics such as ideation tools, the challenges of getting companies to become innovative, looking longterm and scaling, and many more.

Episode #82: Human Longevity: What Happens When We Live To 120?

On this episode of Fast Fix Friday, Steve talks about some of the medical technologies and advances that are poised to extend the healthy human lifespan as well as the implications that a considerably longer lifespan would have on different aspects of our world.

Episode #81: Unleashing Teacher Led Innovation with Education Changemaker Summer Howarth

We're joined by Summer Howarth, National Director of Learning for Education Changemakers, to talk about topics such as bottom up innovation in schools, finding and empowering great teachers, teaching kids entrepreneurship, and many other relevant topics.

Episode #80: Fast Fix Friday on Legal Services Disruption

On this episode of Fast Fix Friday, Steve delves into the topic of the shift resulting from the way that legal services are delivered.

Episode #3 - Interview With Humphrey Laubscher, NAB Labs Fintech Innovation Manager

I had the pleasure of catching up with Humphrey Laubscher, NAB Labs' Fintech Innovation Manager, for our latest Future² podcast. We touched on a number of questions relevant for not just banking and financial services organisations, but other large organisations facing similar challenges and startups looking to partner and/or disrupt incumbents.‍

Episode #79: Jenny Blake talks Pivoting Your Way to Your Dream Career

Listen in to hear Jenny Blake, who helps leaders, employees, and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, and engagement. She talks about topics such as PIVOT coaching, passion versus purpose, barriers to entry in working for yourself, and various other similar topics.

Episode #78: Why You Should Follow Your Gut

In this episode, Steve gets personal about making decisions in life and why it's so important to follow your gut.

Episode #77: The 30 Elements of Value with Eric Almquist

On this episode, we are joined by Eric Almquist, a partner in Bain & Company's Boston Office to talk about topics like customer jobs to be done, delivering on elements of value, customers' expectations, and much more.

Episode #76: Fast Fix Friday on Why You Should Stop Digitising Broken Processes

On this episode of Fast Fix Friday, Steve delves into the topic of potential outcome that originates from large organizations taking old and broken processes and digitalizing them.

Episode #75: Customer Experience with Shay Namdarian *midweek bonus*

We're joined by our very own Shay Namdarian, expert on all things customer experience, to talk about topics such as customer experience trends, making the jump from corporate to startup, and other similar topics.

Episode #74: Clayton Christensen's New Theory with Karen Dillon

We're joined by Karen Dillon, co-author of Clayton Christensen's new book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovating and Customer Choice, to talk about topics surrounding customer journey mapping, prioritising jobs to be done, what is a 'job to be done', and much more.

Episode #73: What Are Your Spikes?

This episode focuses on the concept of pivoting in career direction.

Episode #72: What Color is Your Parachute? With Gary Bolles

Gary A. Bolles is the co-founder of eParachute, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup focused on helping job-hunters & career changers, inspired by the best-selling career book of all time, “What Color Is Your Parachute?”

Episode #71: The 5 Funding Traps of Corporate Innovation Projects

In an age where the time between disruptions is getting shorter and the exponential growth of technology threatens the upheaval of almost every industry, certainty is fast becoming a distant memory.

Episode #70: Personal Disruption

After my recent appearance on the Razor Sharp Show with Ray Milidoni, I was invited back for a deep dive interview with Matt Romania, to talk all about a topic of personal disruption

Episode #69: How to Run a Hackathon

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hackathons, and how, while they are a great tool for bringing teams together to move quickly to build prototypes, are often done in a way that doesn't focus on problem solution fit, unique value proposition or business model.

Episode #68: How VR/AR Will Change The Way We Buy

In this mid-week special we bring you the second live edition of Future Squared, in the form of a panel discussion, before an audience at Collective Campus.

Episode #67: How to Be a Great Boss with Rene Boer

If your employees brought their A-game to work every day, what would it mean for your company’s performance? What would it mean for its ability to innovate and capture new growth opportunities?

Episode #66: Increase your Return on Optimisation (ROO)

Many might remember the story of Eric Moussambani, the ‘Olympic swimmer’ from Equatorial Guinea who took 1:52.72 to complete his 100m swim at Sydney 2000, more than twice that of his nearest competitor.

Episode #65: The ASX's Katherine Squire on DevOps, Cloud and Driving Culture Change

Katherine Squire is the General Manager of App Development and DevOps at the Australian Stock Exchange.

Episode #64: Success Metrics for Corporate Innovation Programs and Teams

I was recently asked to partake in a discussion with a newly formed innovation team at an ASX20 company.

Episode #62: Fast Fix Friday on Turning Bad Habits into Good Habits

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk about the power of turning bad habits into good habits and how it can have a profound impact on both your personal and professional life!

Episode #63: Ash Maurya on Scaling Lean

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework.

Episode #61: Singularity University's Pascal Finette on Taking Moonshots

Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.

Episode #60: Gyshido

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk "Gyshido" or Getting Your Shit Done, a movement spearheaded by Singularity University's Pascal Finette, who will be our very special guest on the next episode of Future Squared!

Episode #59: Matchmakers and Marketplaces with MIT's Dick Schmalensee

This week's guest is Richard Schmalensee, the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Episode #58: Fast Fix Friday on Disrupting Yourself

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk why you should disrupt yourself.

Episode #57: My Lean Startup Journey *midweek bonus*

Tune in to hear what Steve has to say about his own lean startup journey.

Episode #56: 500 Startups' Arnaud Bonzom talks How Huge Companies Engage Startups

In this episode I speak with Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups.

Episode #55: Fast Lisp Friday on 13 Ways to Get Buy-In for Corporate Innovation

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I cover a topic that is the bane of existence for many a corporate employee which is getting buy in for corporate innovation

Episode #54: Increase Employee Engagement with Spigit's Maggie Riad *midweek bonus*

Maggie brings more than 12 years of innovation management, market insight analysis and business strategy experience in the financial services sector

Episode #53: From Theatre to Disruption with Sportbet's Head of Innovatoin, Leslie Barry

Tune into this episode to hear what Leslie Barry has to say about topics like why organisations like Sportsbet need to innovate, how to effectively partner up with startups, and many more.

Episode #52: Fast Fix Friday on 50 Lessons from 50 Episodes! Thank You Everybody!

Thank you listeners, we've just turned 50...episodes that is, and to celebrate, I've put together a list of the 50 most memorable lessons from the first 50 episodes!

Episode #51: Agile Government Starts With You *midweek keynote special*

Collective Campus recently hosted an event called Disrupt the Public Sector, as part of the Australian Government’s Innovation Month 2016.

Episode #50: The Age of Discovery with Chris Kutarna

In milestone episode #50, I speak to Chris Kutarna, a two-time Governor General's Medallist, a Sauvé Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar, and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School with a doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford.

Episode #49: Kill Your Ego!

This Fast Fix Friday is all about your ego and why you should kill it!

Episode #48: Techstars, Brexit and Corporate Accelerators with Max Kelly

Max Kelly is currently Managing Director of Techstars London.

Episode #47: Fast Fix Friday on the Books and Resources that Will Change Your Life

This Fast Fix Friday covers off on all of the different books, podcasts and other resources that have made me and can make you a better professional and person in general.

Episode #46: Building an Everyone Culture with Robert Kegan

Bob Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development.

Episode #45: 16 Productivity Hacks on (Not So) Fast Fix Friday

This (Not So) Fast Fix Friday focuses on some of my favourite productivity hacks, 16 of them in fact!

Episode #44: Correcting our 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking with Matthew E May

Matthew E May is the author of Amazon bestseller Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking.

Episode #43: Fast Fix Friday on Why Australia's Innovation Transformation Won't Happen Overnight

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the stakeholder short-termism that plagues not only Australia's Government, but those of countries around the world, as well as tech businesses, sports teams and entertainment companies.

Episode #42: Innovation Tools with Evan Shellshear ***bonus episode***

In this bonus episode, I speak with Evan Shellshear, author of the newly released book, Innovation Tools.Innovation is hard work so you need the best tools. After years of research and dozens of case studies, those tools have been distilled into Evan Shellshear’s latest book.

Episode #41: Transforming Children's Education with Angela Maiers

Angela Maiers is an educator, entrepreneur, leader, disruptor and visionary. She has been creating and leading change in education and enterprise for 25 years, teaching every level of school from kindergarten to graduate school and consulting with companies around the world

Episode #40: Fast Fix Friday on Lean Marketing

In this episode I talk through 8 steps detailing how to pull off your own lean marketing strategy to find new customers for new products.

Episode #39: The Future of the Global Economy with Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm.

Episode #38: Fast Fix Friday on the Corporate Innovation Hierarchy of Needs

In this FFF, I dig a little deeper into what I’ll dub the Hierarchy of Needs for Corporate Innovation.