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In this MINDWORKS Mini, join host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Drs. Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, and Svitlana Volkova about real world examples of how AI is fundamentally changing education and learning and the challenges of measuring its impact. Listen to the full episode, The GenAI Education Revolution with Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, & Svitlana Volkova, on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Join host Daniel Serfaty for a MINDWORKS Mini exploring the creation of Deep Fakes — and how the technology is only going to get better — with Vladimir Barash of Graphika and Laura Cassani of Aptima. 

How do we distinguish fact from fiction in an age where seeing is no longer believing? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he explores one of the most intriguing and controversial developments of artificial intelligence today – Deep Fakes – with Vladimir Barash of Graphika and Laura Cassani of Aptima. 

MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with guest Gene Kesselman of MIT about the impact of GenAI on its human users' ability to innovate. Listen to the full episode, "Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation," with Chris Wolfel and Gene Kesselman, only on the MINDWORKS Podcast.

MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with guests with Drs. Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, and Svitlana Volkova, about whether GenAI will eliminate the need altogether for human teachers. (Spoiler alert: The answer is "No.")Listen to the full episode, "The GenAI Education Revolution," with Drs. Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, and Svitlana Volkova only on the MINDWORKS Podcast.

For more, listen to the entire episode, "Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation with Chris Wolfel and Gene Kesselman."

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he continues a special series on the nature and practice of innovation. In Episode 3, Daniel talks with Gene Keselman of MIT and Chris Wolfel of Northeastern University about the connection between Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. How do leaders develop great innovators? What qualities must an innovator have to succeed? And how is generative AI changing the nature of innovation and what it means to be innovative?

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Drs. Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, and Svitlana Volkova about how Generative AI is fundamentally changing education and learning in today's digital world.This podcast is a follow-up to (not a repeat of ) a panel discussion led by Daniel on Generative AI and training at I/ITSEC 2023. 

Bonus material! Join host Daniel Serfaty for a bite-sized discussion with innovator Curt Carlson on the magic of value creation using the NABC methodology.To listen to the rest of the interview with Curt Carlson, check out Episode 1 of MINDWORKS Season 4.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he kicks off Season 4 with a special series on the nature and practice of innovation. In Episode 1, Daniel talks one-on-one with Curt Carlson, Founder and CEO of The Practice of Innovation and a pioneer in the development and use of innovation best practices.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 2 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in these new constructs.

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible.  Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in these new constructs.

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible.  Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in these new constructs.

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible.  Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in these new constructs.

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible.  Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in these new constructs.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today's complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams will work optimally together.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams will work optimally together.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams will work optimally together.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams will work optimally together.

Once you learn good leadership skills, are those skills are transportable to other domains?  Join Daniel as he explores with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin whether good leadership skills universal. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin” only on MINDWORKS.

An aspect that is not very well studied in leadership studies is the notion of followership. How does one develop followership skills? Is that something that we assume everybody has, or is that something that should be done intentionally?  Join Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin as they talk about how good followership matters, regardless of leadership. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin” only on MINDWORKS.

With +15,000 books available today on “Leadership,” what are the most important attributes that leaders must have, no matter what?  Learn more Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin as they share what impactful leaders have in common. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin” only on MINDWORKS.

In today's highly connected world, where you can have access to anybody at any time, are leaders more or less important than before? In a sense, is technology lessening the impact of leadership or enhancing it?  Join Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin why human leadership is needed more today than ever. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin” only on MINDWORKS.

How did leadership impact which companies survived—and which ones thrived—during Covid? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about what Covid taught leaders about resilience in the face of adversity.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.

What skills does it take to be a good follower? How do great leaders make great followers? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about the role of followers in the leader-follower relationship and their influence on how the leader sees, understands, and reacts to the situation.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.

How can you develop leadership skills in people that are in your organization? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about what academic research can teach us about leader development.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.

Can a great military leader become a great industry leader? Do leadership skills automatically transfer from one domain to another? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how the skills and capacities of leadership are the same across different domains—and where good leaders stumble.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo" only on MINDWORKS.

What is leadership? Are leaders born or created? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how we differentiate the leader from the quality of leadership, and what makes a leader a leader.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.

In a interconnected world where access to information is decentralized and automated, is leadership dead? Are leaders less important than they used to be? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how the nature of work and technology is changing the role of leadership—and how leaders must adapt to survive.Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams will work optimally together. This dynamic conversation is a continuation of the I/ITSEC 2022 panel of the same name, moderated by Daniel with guests Mike, Greg, and Fred. How will training be designed and apportioned for the human, and the AI, and for the joint system? Or conversely, will humans and AI adapt and evolve regardless of any training that we design? 

Many businesses hang a set of values on the wall—“We value integrity, initiative, the entrepreneurial spirit…”—but what are they doing in terms of developing their leadership to reflect those values? Listen as Daniel Serfaty talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin about lessons learned from the U.S. Army that can help develop leaders in any organization.Listen to the entire interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin.”

In Episode 2 of this five-part series, host Daniel Serfaty talks with retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant Scott Flanagan, cognitive scientist Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin, founder of service and technology company Sophia Speira, about the nature of leadership and the development of successful leaders. Join Daniel as he talks with Scott, Fred, and Morgan about the lessons learned about Leadership in their work with the US Army and how those skills translate to business, individual development, and beyond. 

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he kicks off Season 3 with a five-part series on Leadership. In Part 1, Daniel talks with experts Dr. Stephen Zaccaro of George Mason University and Dr. Ronald Piccolo of the University of Central Florida about the evolution of leadership, how Covid is changing the nature of leadership, and what the future of work and leadership will look like.

In human performance engineering, we talk about this notion of matching the work structure to the organizational structure, or to the informational structure, or some other dimension of human structure. That congruence, while it was an elegant, it was a theoretical concept. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have realized how important that harmony is matching.MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist Mary Freiman, and industrial organizational psychologist Dr. Kara Orvis on what we have learned from working through the COVID pandemic that we can take forward and help us reimagine work in the 21st century.Listen to the entire interview in “The Future of Work and the Workspace Part 1 with Karin Sharav-Zalkind, Mary Freiman, and Kara Orvis”

Before taking a deeper dive into work into the 21st century, how important it is to reflect really of the past 16 or 18 months, to really understand the shifting nature of work? For example, had work shifted already and that was just the catalyst that exacerbated a trend? MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist Mary Freiman, and industrial organizational psychologist Dr. Kara Orvis on what we have learned from working through the COVID pandemic that we can take forward and help us reimagine work in the 21st century. Listen to the entire interview in “The Future of Work and the Workspace Part 1 with Karin Sharav-Zalkind, Mary Freiman, and Kara Orvis”

Just like a human partner, for an intelligent cognitive assistant to truly work well with humans, it is going to need to know a lot of data about us. How will said data be protected? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks to the experts: Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima. Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive Assistants with Valerie Champagne and Sylvain Bruni

In the near future, it will become very natural for us to work with different intelligent cognitive assistance for different tasks. Daniel asks the experts, Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima, what domain areas of work or play do they believe intelligent cognitive assistances will have the strongest impact? Is that at home, in defense, in cyber, in healthcare, in gaming? Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive Assistants with Valerie Champagne and Sylvain Bruni.

About 20+ years ago, HABA-MABA (Human Are Best At - Machines Are Best At) was a hot topic in human machine interaction design. This notion that if we can partition the world into two categories: things that machines are good at and things that humans are good at, we can design that world, and everybody will be happy. Obviously, it didn't happen because, and this is Daniel's question to Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima, is there something else when we design an intelligent cognitive assistant today, that it's not just enough to have a human expert in that and a machine expert in that, we also must engineer, the team of the human and the assistant together? Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive Assistants with Valerie Champagne and Sylvain Bruni.

For humans to successfully collaborate with cognitive assistants, what do they need to know about us? Likewise, what do we need to know about them? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he poses these questions to the experts: Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima! Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive Assistants with Valerie Champagne and Sylvain Bruni.

Through technology, we can increase the level of expertise at which a maintainer, a commander, a surgeon can perform. When you think about it, this is a daring proposition, as sometimes it takes 20 years to develop that expertise. Could we accelerate the pace at which expertise is developed through AI or a digital sidekick? However, what is preventing people from saying: “Oh, the heck with it, it's too complicated for a human. Let me just invent a new device that can do that humans job.” Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he poses these questions to the experts: Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima! Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive Assistants with Valerie Champagne and Sylvain Bruni

In Part 2 of this special two-part edition of MINDWORKS, host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist Mary Freiman, and industrial organizational psychologist Dr. Kara Orvis on what we have learned from working through the COVID pandemic that we can take forward and help us reimagine work in the 21st century.

COVID 19 has been and continues to be the seminal event of our lives. In addition to the obvious threat to our health and safety, it has affected the way we work and perform as humans in very profound ways. In this special two-part edition of MINDWORKS, host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist Mary Freiman, and industrial organizational psychologist Dr. Kara Orvis on what we have learned from working through the COVID pandemic that we can take forward and help us reimagine work in the 21st century.

These days, whether we are in our cars, at our desks, or at play, we are increasingly surrounded by automation and so-called “intelligent” devices. Do they help us, or do they make our lives more complicated? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima, experts in human-machine capabilities to support decision-making, as they explore what it will take to build a truly intelligent cognitive assistant—one that could more seamlessly improve human performance in mission-critical environments. 

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty, as he talks with Wishroute founder Jessica Lynch, Sparta Science CEO Dr. Phil Wagner, and Aptima's Marine Corps fitness planner engineer Angelica Smith, to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way people use their respective fitness solutions and technologies, as well as our understanding of fitness as a whole. 

Given the large number of wearable sensors and fitness apps in the market, it begs the question: “what's good about them”? Are Americans more fit because of all these technologies that we wear around our wrists or throw in our pockets? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with Wishroute founder Jessica Lynch, Sparta Science CEO Dr. Phil Wagner, and Aptima's Marine Corps fitness planner engineer Angelica Smith, to find out!