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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 #37: Innovation = STEM + Creativity with David Cropley

In this midweek bonus, I speak with David Cropley, an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of South Australia.

Episode #36: Google Ventures' Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky on Solving Big Problems in Just Five Days

In this episode, I bring you not one but two guests, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky - co-authors of the book 'SPRINT - How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days'.

Episode #33: The Sharing Economy with Arun Sundararajan

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Episode #34: The Art of Persuasive Leadership with Patrick King

Patrick King is a social interaction specialist based in San Francisco, California, and has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com.

Episode #32: David Allen on Getting Things Done

David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity.

Episode #31: Creating a Culture of Innovation with Dave Gray

Dave Gray is an author and management consultant who works with the world's leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies.

Episode #30: Fast Fix Friday on Setting Up a Corporate Innovation Project

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the key questions you need to ask BEFORE embarking on an innovation project in order to optimise returns and give your organisation a significantly improved chance of success.

Episode #29: Artificial Intelligence with Brian Christian

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011, and has been translated into ten languages.

Episode #28: Fast Fix Friday on Innovation Metrics

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on innovation metrics.

Episode #27: Innovation Project Management with Paul R Williams

Paul R. Williams, PMP has over twenty years of project, program & portfolio management leadership experience with information technology, innovation management and strategic business initiatives in the investment, banking, insurance, legal, manufacturing and professional services industries.

Episode #26: Fast Fix Friday on Engaging Startups and Small Companies to Drive Corporate Innovation

Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the power of engaging startups and small companies to drive corporate innovation efforts.

Episode #25: Alex Tapscott on the Blockchain Revolution

Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures. For seven years in the Canadian and U.S. Capital markets, Alex has worked tirelessly to help entrepreneurs realize their goals, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in critical growth capital and providing sound advice and counsel.

Episode #24: Neil Patel on Growth Hacking for Large Companies

In this episode I chat with top online marketer and one of the top influencers on the web, Neil Patel, serial entrepreneur, investor and blogger.

Episode #23: Fast Fix Friday on Embracing Awkward Silences to Foster Creativity

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk awkward silences and why you should EMBRACE them rather than try and put an end to them by saying the first and usually least valuable thing that comes to mind.

Episode #22: Rand Fishkin on Online Marketing for Large Companies

Rand Fishkin uses the ludicrous title, Wizard of Moz. He's founder and former CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing software companies Moz, an online marketing platform that is worth more than US$120M.

Episode #21: Fast Fix Friday on the Five Minute Idea

Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the questions you can ask to come up with an idea worth exploring within five minutes.

Episode #20: Evangelos Simoudis on Corporate VC, Incubators and M&A

In this episode we dive into some of Evangelos' thought leadership on topics pertaining to: - corporate VC - corporate accelerators and incubators - acquisition of startups

Episode #18: Garrett Dunham on Corporate Startup Partnerships and Reverse Pitching

Garrett Dunham is an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor. He’s founded 2 accelerators, including Prebacked, a reverse hackathon connecting corporates with startups, and Singulairty University Labs

Episode #19: Fast Fix Friday on Hacking the Corporate Culture

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hacking the corporate culture to support innovation, a topic inspired by my recent interview with Silicon Valley godfather Steve Blank.

Episode #17: Stop Treating Corporate Innovation Like a Project

In episode #17, I confront an issue that seems all too common amongst large organisations trying to deal with this thing called disruption.

Episode #16: Fast Fix Friday - Pixar's Braintrust

In this episode, I look at Pixar's brain trust - a mechanism the company uses to do away with sugarcoating and the human tendencies to not say what we really think - which ultimately stands in the way of creativity and innovation.

Episode #15: How to Increase Employee Productivity by 500% and Boost Innovation

In this podcast, co-founder Steve, talks about the importance of the 'flow' state in employees and productivity.

Episode #14: Braden Kelley on Charting Change for Innovation

Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation and change speaker, trainer, and digital transformation strategist.

Episode #13: Whitney Johnson on Disrupting Yourself

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption.

Episode #12 - Steve Blank on Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank is considered by many to be the godfather of Silicon Valley and is credited with spearheading the customer development model which birthed the lean startup, popularised by his former pupil Eric Ries' book of the same name

Episode #11: Ted Rubin on going from ROI to Return on Relationship

In this episode of the Future² podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with New York native and one of the most influential CMOs in the world, Ted Rubin.

Episode #10: Lean Analytics for Large Companies with Ben Yoskovitz by Future² - Innovation

In this podcast, we talk to Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics, a guide for organisations who want to use data to grow new businesses faster.

Episode #9: David Burkus on Rethinking Business as Usual

David Burkus is the author of The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas.

Episode #8: David Binetti on the Innovation Options Framework - Measuring Learning in Dollars

David Binetti talks to us about Innovation Options, a valuation framework that supports measuring learning in dollars and helps organisations innovate faster with less risk.

Episode #7: Kmart's Innovation Program Manager, Fabio Oliveira, Talks Innovation in Retail

We sat down with Kmart Australia's newly anointed Innovation Program Manager, Fabio Oliveira, to talk about innovation in retail.

Episode #6: An Hour with Niel Robertson, World Champion Entrepreneur and Investor (not snooker player...)

In this episode of Future², we were lucky enough to be joined by world champion entrepreneur and investor, Niel Robertson

Episode #5: Reinventing Higher Education with Annie Fergusson (airEDU)

In this podcast, we catch up with Annie Fergusson, change facilitator and founder of airEDU, a platform she is designing and building to resolve challenges in the higher education marketplace.

Episode #4: Idea Platforms and Contests

In this short Future² podcast, find out some of the best methods for running idea contests in your organisation.

Episode #2 - Futuresquared Corporate Hackathon EP

In this podcast, Sean Qian interviews Collective Campus co-founder Steve Glaveski to dissect what the corporate hackathon is, what the benefits are, how it's broken and how best to approach running one.

Episode #1: Predictions For Enterprise Innovation 2016 with KPMG Innovate's Brenton Charnley

The rate of disruption to industry incumbents is increasing and 2015 was a testament to that.