Podcasts about evolutionary provocateur

Driving value through clarity on who you are, what truly matters is what differentiates a company from the crowd. Brand strategist and author Marilijn Boumeester talks to Dawna about integrity, values, leadership, and other soft concepts hard to bring to a meaningful level of experience. The character of leaders, stewardship management, and the value of reflection for insight and clarity are a few of the topics discussed. Marilijn is a brand strategist and change strategist based in Amsterdam. Her work and the conversation touch on what you do as an entrepreneur or company in a new era with your values and the role change plays in dealing with complexity.We had a lot of fun collaborating on a complexity quiz published in her freshly published book Van hoofdkantoor naar hartszaak. Yes, it is in Dutch but the conversation isn't. Join us for a bit of a fun fireside type of conversation.Contact Marilijn Boumeester at https://buroboumeester.nl/ or on LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/marilijnboumeesterReferences: She mentions Rajeev Peshawaria https://rajeevpeshawaria.com/ and Joseph (Jay) Bragdon and his latest book Economies that Mimic Life. Jay is also interviewed in EP4 of this podcast and in the early part of the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes.Follow the Inspirational Insights podcast on Spotify or on iTunes.Connect with Dawna on LinkedInConnect on InstagramSubscribe to the monthly newsletterBook a conversation here to discuss decision-making and leadership adaptations during interruptions like a pandemic.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rod Collins believes that we are in the midst of a epochal change. What does this mean to you? To jobs? To Workplaces? Tracing the path from bureaucracies, how power is being transferred to today’s peer to peer networks, Rod maps out changes to the fundamentals of social dynamics at work. Through original stories about Wikipedia, and Craigslist Rod provides insight into how an idea displaces a business without intending to.You’ll hear:The 3 evolutionary laws of networks that operate in a hyperconnected worldThe 4 attributes required for collective intelligence to emergeThe real meaning of digital transformationThe two massive tasks facing society in response to digital revolution and the need for a new economyThe larger implications of innovation on beliefs and healthWhy a universal basic income is a bad ideaRod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, where we used the principles and the practices of Wiki Management to realize the greatest five-year growth period in the 54-year history of the business. Today he is the Director of Innovation at Optimity Advisors, an international management consulting firm. Author of Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World (AMACOM Books, 2014) Rod’s passion is to work with forward thinking business leaders who understand that managing great change means changing how we manage. Rod writes a monthly blog for the HuffPost Great Workplace Cultures. He’s done two episodes for Dawna’s other podcasts – The Evolutionary Provocateur. One is on the Death of Command and Control; the second on Wiki-management. Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Raised on pioneer Morning Star’s self-management practices, Doug Kirkpatrick knew autonomy from the start. His book Beyond Empowerment: The Age of the Self-Managed Organization has been revised to include updates and more stories of companies taking steps toward self-management and the compelling benefits. In this interview with Insight to Action host and global change agent, Dawna Jones, they talk about:Why the term is ‘beyond empowerment’ and the fatal flaw in empowerment programs,Why the term employee is obsolete and the importance of language in the future of workWhy you are already self-managing and didn’t realize itWhy you can’t be fired in a self-managing companyWhy change is fluid and non-threatening in a self-management contextHow decisions get madeUsing scenarios and game theory to handle the unpredictable nature of financial planningHow big to small companies are applying the principles and practices of self-management including manufacturing giant Haier.Doug Kirkpatrick is an organizational change consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, executive coach, writer and educator. Doug played the first season of his business career in the manufacturing sector, principally with The Morning Star Company of Sacramento, California, a world leader in the food industry. He now engages with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute and other vibrant organizations and leaders to co-create the future of management. Doug is part of the Great Workplace Cultures network and he regularly blogs for the Huffington Post Great Workplaces.Dawna previously interviewed Doug for her Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. That replay is posted on Management-Issues.com Tomatoes and Self-Management or in iTunes.Host Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished while strengthening health. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision-making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body. In other words, you feel better. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For many people, 9-5 jobs are energy sucking and unfulfilling. At some point it’s clear a change is necessary. Becoming more aligned with your personal purpose means changing how you respond to what is going on in your inner and outers world.Mariusz Bocian. Polish documentary filmmaker, openly shares his inner process with moving from a toxic work environment to being more aligned with his purpose. He shares what he uses as a compass every day, and what he’s learned by diving deep.Mariusz and Dawna talk about:The pivotal point for doing things differentlyHow he dismantled limiting beliefsHow he uses feeling uncomfortable to reflect and see the sourceWhy diving deep reveals the pivot point for a different response.The Reinvention-Movie and corporate reinventionTips on abundanceMariusz Bocian, passion and intuition follower, is focused on creating sustainable value for people. He is creating a documentary movie about personal and organizational transformation towards workplaces where people flourish. You’ll find the documentary film on www.reinvention-movie.comRelated interviews: Kevin O’Brien on Letting Go of Control is on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast: on my iTunes page: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dawnajones/id1218439755?mt=2&ls=1Or on http://www.management-issues.com/podcasts/356/letting-go-of-control/ Dawna Jones designs creative ways to get tough conversations and small to large transformational tasks accomplished. Her expertise lies in using personal and organizational energy for creative and constructive purposes, decision making in complexity and self-realized leadership. www.InsighttoAction.com Follow me on Twitter http://Twitter.com/EPDawna_Jones or LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/ The intro music is provided by Mark Romero of www.markromeromusic.com. Mark is the former CEO of a semi-conductor firm whose music has been scientifically tested and proven to create coherence in the body. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

HR innovator Karen Rivoire guest hosts a conversation with author and change agent Richard Barrett, founder of the Barrett Values Center. In this conversation he talks about ego-soul dynamics as it relates to human and organizational health.You will hear:About the role of a leader as a guardian of valuesThe verticality of all life at different stagesEmotions – what they are and how they serve youThe ego’s need and soul’s desireThe fundamental human needs companies often fail to meetFulfilling fundamental human needs in teenagersWhy Millennial is one of the most miss used termsHow soul and psychology got separated and why it is time to bring it backAbout a 4th dimensionA question around AI and soulRichard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognized thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the founder and chairman of the Barrett Values Centre®, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank. He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools® (CTT) which have been used to support more than 6,000 organizations on their transformational journeys. To date, more than 5,000 change agents, consultants and coaches have been trained by the Barrett Values Centre to use the Cultural Transformation Tools in over 50 countries. See www.values-centre.com Listen to an earlier podcast Dawna did with Richard on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast. Karen Rivoire, co-host for this episode, is a curious people pioneer activating the global human revolution inside companies. Passionate about aligning people’s experience with company purpose, she prefers to solve tough business challenges. Because she values difference, she disrupts unhelpful patterns responsibly and empowers people around a purpose-driven future. On top of her long experience in large and entrepreneurial world-class organizations she advises business leaders, tech founders and mentors at Microsoft Accelerator. Karen is bilingual French and English. Find her on LinkedIN.Dawna Jones, host of the Insight to Action podcast, is an author and practitioner 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 she has contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to Ervin Laszlo’s The Intelligence of the Cosmos published by Inner Traditions. Find Dawna on T: EPDawna_Jones and LinkedIn.Intro music is provided by MarkRomeroMusic.com. Mark’s music is scientifically proven to restore coherence to the human body. (You feel better!) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last year Dawna Jones, host of the Evolutionary Provocateur and Insight to Action podcasts, attended Agile Games New England and the Mob Programming Conference that followed. She sat down with a group of ‘Moberators’ to learn why the team approach to coding creates faster and better quality, with the added benefit of skill development, learning, and communication.

The costs of management are a significant factor in the search for better organizational designs and management structures. Holacracy One started in 2007. Ten years later encode.org is following the 500+ companies that have implemented Holacracy to pick up on the legal and people side needed to balance the structural implementation of Holacracy. Tom Thomison, a co-founder of Holacracy One, and Dawna talk about:The value of a distributed authority system,What Holacracy is and is not,The value of embedding an entrepreneurial stance to doing the work,Is profit a purpose or a measure?What does purpose of business mean and how does it replace Mission, Vision and other traditional elements,The pivotal question for moving from a traditional model to a self-managing system,The need to re-envision a world without employeesThe importance of Like-purpose (not like-minded) diversity.A seasoned entrepreneur and business builder with more than 30 years of experience, Tom Thomison is a recognized leader in self-organization practices and methods. In 2007, he co-founded HolacracyOne, LLC to further develop and mature Holacracy®, now a gold-standard replacement for conventional management hierarchies. Tom is currently a Founding Member and Partner at encode.org, an organization focused on the creation of necessary legal, financial and social structures to further support self-organization and the new world of work. Tom is active as an entrepreneur having been involoved five early stage companies prior to encode.org and he has served as advisor to several startups and remains a Partner and Investor at HolacracyOne, LLC.In the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast on iTunes Dawna interviewed Anna McGrath on what Holacracy is and its implementation in Zappos.Dawna Jones is the host for the Insight to Action podcast. Dawna works with companies and leaders to adapt their decision-making and deepen leadership skills to make the bold, creative decisions to evolve and design tomorrow. She's the author of [Business] Decision Making for Dummies, and a monthly blogger for Great Workplace Cultures on the Huffington Post . She’s contributed a chapter on the new purpose of business to The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo. See Mastering the Split in Consciousness. www.FromInsightToAction.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In Episode 8, you met Rich Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. and CEO of Menlo Innovations which is well known for it's great workplace. Agile Enterprise coach David Grabel and the HR Director for Vistaprint also met Rich at the Agile for Executives Forum. Several site visits later and a visit from Rich, and Vistaprint was on it's way to transformation. In this episode you'll hear David explain what they've learned and how they've moved forward. Also:Why self management and self organization aren't synonymous.In the conversation David mentions Doug Kirkpatrick. I interviewed Doug from MorningStar on my other podcast. You'll find the program on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. Tomatoes and Self-ManagementThen I talk to Steve Denning, founder and facilitator (and Forbes Contributor) for the Learning Consortium, a peer to peer learning community engaging in site visits. You'll hear the 2016 report results and a reflection on the Drucker Forum recently held in Vienna, Austria. Steve talks about the threads that tie all these companies together. Why Spotify can learn from Riot Games and why logistics company CH Robinson also learned from Riot Games. Learn why bosses still exist in big companies and what makes them different from the traditional command and control role. You can find out more information on the Learning Consortium report from www.sdlearningconsortium.org Intro music is graciously provided by Mark Romero Music. Host Dawna Jones is a speaker, author and transformational guide for companies and people seeking to flow with change. #decisionmaking #leadership See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When you swipe your card at your local coffee shop it takes 3-5 business days for the transaction to take place. Will blockchain change that? Blockchain tech refers to mutually distributed ledgers that underpins cryto-currencies like Bitcoin. Michael Mainelli started designing shared distributed ledgers 20 years ago . He’s a leading thinker in fintech and Emeritus Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, London. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank established in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. In this episode you'll learn:What blockchain is and isn't and what it means to you.How blockchain will impact you and other possible applications. How disruptive will blockchain tech be and how are financial institutions responding.What applications are emerging out of mutual distributed ledgers.Will blockchain change the transaction fees charged by banks? What difference will blockchain make to the 2.5 million people who don't have official identity?How blockchain tech can be a force for good. BLOCKCHAIN DEFINED A mutual distributed ledger – more simply referred to as a blockchain is a computer data structure with the following capabilities: n Mutual – blockchains are shared across organizations, owned equally by all and dominated by no-one; n Distributed – blockchains are inherently multi-locational data structures and any user can keep his or her own copy, thus providing resilience and robustness; n Ledger – blockchains are immutable, once a transaction is written it cannot be erased and, along with multiple copies, this means that the ledger’s integrity can easily be proven. Another way to think of blockchains is as permanent time-stamping engines for computer records. Timestamps can be used to prove that data elements were entered at or before a certain time and have not been altered. - M. Mainelli from www.longfinance.net To learn more about the movement toward long term economics go to www.longfinance.netHost Dawna Jones also interviewed Bernard Lietaer on complementary currencies as a way to stablize the monetary system. How about Reinventing it... on the Evolutionary Provocateur on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is a little different. A joint experiment. A nebulous mission. In this inspiring international discussion, I was honored to be joined by two co-hosts: Dawna Jones of Vancouver and Gert Penne of Belgium. And three guests: Willow Bumby and Lindsey Henwood of Vancouver, and Josh Shaffer of Tampa. With 6+ participants, spanning 3+ countries, 3 continents, and 3 generations we explored not only the future of work, but also the future of education. Dawna Jones is the AUTHOR of DECISION-MAKING for DUMMIES. Her book appears on Steve Denning's (Forbes) list of 8 Noteworthy Books for 2014. Dawna is also the host of the “Evolutionary Provocateur” podcast. Gert Penne, an account executive in the tech industry, is a an Empathic Problem Solver, who takes a principle-centered approach to teaming across cultures, disciplines, and generations. At the end of a 2-continent, 3-country Skype call, Dawna, Gert, and I found ourselves talking about generational differences globally. With the goal to learn how the next generation sees the Future of Work, we decided to invite 3 Millennials to a follow-up call. This show is that call. Millennials fall just after the Gen-Xers. They were born between 1982 and 2004. We were fortunate to have 3 Millennials join us. Josh Shaffer is an early Millennial, and works for Accenture in Talent Acquisition in Tampa. Willow Bumby is an iOS Engineer, designer, and writer, as well as a teacher at Lighthouse Labs in Vancouver. Lindsay Henwood is a User Experience Design Instructor at Red Academy, a rapidly growing Tech School startup in Vancouver. Two other Millennials joined us virtually. Lauren Kirmil is a Marketing and Media Specialist and a former technical recruiter in the San Francisco Bay Area. During her extensive travels throughout Southeast Asia she worked as a freelance travel writer. Grace Liu is a former Outreach Support Officer at the British Consulate in Guangzhou, China. She recently received funding to start a venture in Shenzhen. With the assistance of her NYU professor she also plans to start an NGO incorporating ancient contemplative practices, including meditation. In this discussion we covered a wide range of topics. Distributed workforces and workplace flexibility and the big American offensive to change the workplace. Self-responsibility, self-awareness, self-perception. Cultural fit: the “techie” mold and the pressure to fit in. The dying days of the industrial model, the irrelevant university degree and the rise of bootcamp style education. The need to understand the next generation, and the companies which will die. The rise of the robots and the growing fear of job loss. Capitalism and its schizophrenic booms and busts: do we want an economy based on self-interest or creativity and collaboration? Tribalism and the need to belong: do we become global citizens or nationalists? Surviving the industrial model and designing the new workplace. The need to shift easily into different industries and the costly risk in over-specialization. The silliness of our current system and people's inability to work with power. And the power coming from the “Millennial values”.

Forget organizational planning, budgeting and performance appraisals; these are all tools of the past. Companies that really want to navigate their way through complexity need to be able to think, not just steer. In this episode of Evolutionary Provocateur, systems theorist and practitioner, Niels Pflaeging, talks to Dawna Jones talk about what thinking differently means in an organization context.

The Evolutionary Provocateur bi-monthly show is for executives, managers, and supervisors (OR for leaders at all levels) who have noticed that it is not what you know but who you are that has the biggest impact. Dawna Jones, the show's host, believes that by raising awareness and understanding we can make a quantum leap to a new level of innovation in business - but it has to be done collectively. What better way to do it than by provoking the evolution of how you see yourself and your role!

The Evolutionary Provocateur bi-monthly show is for executives, managers, and supervisors (OR for leaders at all levels) who have noticed that it is not what you know but who you are that has the biggest impact. Dawna Jones, the show's host, believes that by raising awareness and understanding we can make a quantum leap to a new level of innovation in business - but it has to be done collectively. What better way to do it than by provoking the evolution of how you see yourself and your role!