Podcast appearances and mentions of Keith Johnston

500K people are confiding in an AI alien—and it's on track to generate $4M this year.It's called a Tolan: an animated AI character that can talk to you like your best friend. The company behind it, Portola, has 4x'd their ARR in the last month from viral growth on TikTok and Instagram. Tolan isn't just a hyper-growth startup—they're also exploring AI as a completely new creative tool, and storytelling medium. Their goal is to help their users go from overwhelmed to grounded, and it's working. Today, on AI & I, I sit down with two of the minds behind Tolans:My good friend Quinten Farmer, Portola's cofounder and CEO, and Eliot Peper, their head of story and a best-selling science fiction novelist. We get into:How to build AI personalities users love. During user onboarding, the team gathers information—through a light-touch personality quiz—and then uses frameworks like the Big Five and Myers-Briggs to shape a Tolan that mirrors the user; like an older sibling might. The aim is to create someone who feels familiar enough to be safe, but different enough to be interesting.Why AI characters are “improv actors”. Rather than scripting detailed prompts, the team trains Tolans to improvise—inspired by Keith Johnstone's book Impro, where he talks about building strong narratives through free association and recombination.How “memory” is critical to developing compelling characters. Tolans develop their personalities through “situations”: small narrative setups (a memory, a joke, an embarrassing moment) the Tolan reacts to, remembers, and gradually weaves into its character; accumulating into something that feels like a real lived experience.Why response time is everything for voice AI interactions. A Tolan has at most two seconds to curate the right context about a user and deliver a reply that feels genuine—the team has found that even half a second slower can break the user's immersive interaction with the AI.The future of AI as a totally new creative medium. New technologies bring about new formats and new mediums. AI creates the opportunity for creatives to tell completely new kinds of stories—if they're brave enough to try it.“White mirror” technologies that make you feel more like yourself. Amid concerns that tech drives polarization and isolation, Tolan offers a counterexample: a tool designed to make the best of what humanity knows about being a flourishing individual available on demand. The company's north star is helping users go from feeling overwhelmed to feeling grounded.This is a must-watch for anyone exploring AI as a creative medium—or curious about the future of human-AI relationships.If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more?Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It's usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.To hear more from Dan Shipper:Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps:Introduction: 00:01:30Talking to the Portola CEO's Tolan, Clarence: 00:04:07How Portola went from building software for kids to AI companions: 00:09:11Why response time is everything for voice-based AI interfaces: 00:23:40Tolans don't use scripted prompts—they're taught to improvise: 00:29:54How to know which AI personalities your users will click with: 00:37:23Developing the character traits of an AI companion: 00:42:27What does it mean to build technology that makes us flourish: 00:49:48How Portola evaluates whether Tolans are resonating with users: 01:01:10Inside Portola's viral growth strategy: 01:11:01Links to resources mentioned in the episode:Quinten Farmer: @quintendfEliot Peper: @eliotpeperMake your own Tolan: https://www.tolans.com/ Keith Johnston's book about improvisation: ImproStephen King's book about writing: On Writing

This month, Artslink is hosted by Abbas Hussain. The Kinkonauts on the other hand are much newer to the scene here in Calgary. Created in 2006, The Kinkonauts have been pioneering the scene here ever since, pushing boundaries when it comes to what's possible in improv. Check out one of their shows if you're looking to experience what improv is. Check them out at : https://kinkonauts.com/ Loose Moose is cofounded by Keith Johnston, who is legendary among the improv community not only in Calgary, but throughout the world. Born in England in 1933, he moved first to Ontario before settling here in Calgary, Alberta, to teach at the University of Calgary before retiring in 1995. He's known for creating not only Loose Moose, but also for creating theatresports, which is a form of competitive improv where two teams compete against each other and either the audience or a group of judges “rate” the performances. Check them out at: https://www.loosemoose.com/ Finally, but not least, we have the UofC Improv Club. This is a UofC Club, which means its right here on the University of Calgary Campus. It's a great place to start doing Improv, with like-minded amazing people. Check out on of the shows, or the BOTWIF Festival that takes place every year in February. Check them out on Instagram at @uofcimprov or https://www.instagram.com/uofcimprov/?hl=en

Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets this year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester's Budget Planning Guides' recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.

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Business and tech leaders expect (slightly) bigger budgets next year. How should they use them? On this episode of What It Means, VPs and Group Research Directors Stephanie Balaouras, Keith Johnston, and Srividya Sridharan dive into Forrester's Budget Planning Guides' recommendations for tech, marketing and sales, and customer experience (CX) leaders.

This is the 5th bonus episode of The Podgoblin's Hat, with Nina and Dave. You can find it on it's own feed wherever you get your podcasts. To round off our spring miniseason we've got a final (for now) look at The Spring Tune, with special guest Matt Miller, a poet and theatre maker. Matt's take on this story is fairly different from all the other takes we've heard so far! It's about smoking, doing the washing up, procrastination. We play a round of our unofficial but recurring game: which Moomin character do you feel painfully called out by? And have a think about what kind of participant Little My would be, if you put her in school and made her be in a poetry workshop. Matt's Spirit of the Moomins is Impro by Keith Johnston. Their Spirits of the Podgoblin's Hat are Rusty Quill and Mark Can't Rap. You can find Matt on twitter @mattmiller2805 and on their website mattmillertheatre.com. The Podgoblin's Hat will be back later this year, when we will be continuing our read-through of the short story collection Tales from Moominvalley. The next short story will be A Tale Of Horror.

A new €400,000 European project will help teachers create digital learning content for use in the classroom. The project is a collaboration between Learnovate, a global research and innovation centre in the future of work and learning in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and the TCD School of Education. TD3C (Teacher Digital Content Creation Competencies) is co-funded by Erasmus+, the EU and Léargas, the Irish national agency managing programmes in youth work, education, and training. The project will run from October 2023 to March 2026. The use of digital devices in the classroom has become increasingly common in recent times. However, there has not been significant attention to-date on teachers as creators of their own digital educational content. This is despite teachers being required to play a bigger role in providing accessible digital learning content for students, and content creation for learning becoming a priority for the European Commission under the EU Digital Education Plan. Led by Learnovate and The School of Education in Trinity College Dublin, TD3C brings together schools, universities and research organisations from across Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Italy, to firstly identify the knowledge and skills that enable teachers to create digital learning content in their respective countries, and secondly, to develop a framework to guide teachers' content creation. A small group of teachers across the four countries will be recruited to take part in a small-scale pilot of the framework in February 2025. This will then be followed by recruitment for participants in a much larger trial to start in September 2025, involving 80 teachers and more than 4,000 students. Learnovate and The School of Education in Trinity College Dublin will host a promotion event to mark the end of the project in March 2026. Along with The School of Education and Learnovate in Trinity College Dublin, the partner organisations are: Edmund Rice College Dublin, University of Jyväskylä (JYU) and Konnevesi High School in Finland, Agrupamento de Escolas Gil Paes and NUCLIO in Portugal, and Instituto Comprensivo Toniolo in Italy. While TD3C is in its early stages, researchers expect that competencies identified by the project will include the ability of teachers to pinpoint the learning outcomes they wish to achieve with digital content, and the knowledge of how to tailor their teaching and learning approach accordingly. The TD3C framework will also include guidance on using relevant applications for content creation and modifying off-the-shelf content to suit teachers' needs, as well as guidance on ethical considerations around copyright and fair use. Learnovate Programme Manager Deirdre Green says: "Teachers now have to deal with the increased use of smart and digital devices in the classroom. That means there's an expectation on teachers to come up with innovative digital teaching resources. "The TD3C project is at the core of Learnovate's research expertise. It is a great opportunity to work with the TCD School of Education and our European partners to really examine the current level of use of digital content around Europe, identify the gaps in teacher competencies, and then feed all that into outputs for the pilot programme beginning in February 2025." TCD School of Education and TD3C project lead Keith Johnston says: "TCD School of Education is proud to be working with Learnovate and all our other European project partners on TD3C. Very little work has been done to identify competencies that teachers need to create their own digital content. Similarly, very little has been done to create a framework to guide teachers' efforts. "We are working with teachers to create this framework and the approach is about putting teachers front and centre, acknowledging their role in bringing creativity to the project, and working with teachers to develop a process for content creation. "We're looking forward to the pilot phase and the recruitment of teac...

Keith Johnston is the Founder and Executive Director of Running2bwell, a nonprofit organization that helps those struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues become more physically and socially active. He decided to start the effort after a friend lost his son to heroin addiction and he wanted to try and contribute something positive to society. Keith turned to exercise, since it had always been helpful when he was attempting to manage his own meantal health and addictions, and now facilitates walking/running groups and SMART meetings. In this podcast, he talks about research that links exercise to greater mental clarity and many other benefits. He also shares his belief that not only do we all have issues of some kind, we all have a responsibility to contribute what we can to make the world a better place.

Jennifer Garvey Berger believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. In this topsy-turvy time, when uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are raging, we need a new form of leadership for a new era. To that end, Jennifer designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior leaders and their teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people. In her four highly acclaimed books, Unleash Your Complexity Genius (co-authored with Carolyn Coughlin), Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Simple Habits for Complex Times (co-authored with Keith Johnston), and Changing on the Job, Jennifer builds on deep theoretical knowledge to offer practical ways to make leaders' organizations more successful, their work more meaningful, and their lives more gratifying. Jennifer has worked with senior leaders in the private, non-profit, and government sectors worldwide (like Novartis, Google, KPMG, Intel, Microsoft, Wikimedia, and the New Zealand Department of Conservation).Jennifer is a co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership. She has a masters and a doctorate from Harvard University. Formerly an associate professor at George Mason University, Jennifer learned about deep change more than a decade ago when she turned down the tenure offer and moved to a small seaside village in New Zealand with her husband, two kids, and the family dog. While she still considers herself a Kiwi by choice, you can find her in the French countryside, where she has bought a house with eleven friends who live in community and try to keep the dog from terrifying the cats.A Quote From this Episode"Good leaders design for connection."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeNovelist - Victoria GoddardAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals interested in studying, practicing, and teaching leadership. Plan for ILA's 25th Global Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, October 12-15, 2023.About The Boler College of Business at John Carroll UniversityBoler offers four MBA programs – 1 Year Flexible, Hybrid, Online, and Professional. Each MBA track offers flexible timelines and various class structure options (online, in-person, hybrid, asynchronous). Boler's tech core and international study tour opportunities set these MBA programs apart. Rankings highlighted in the intro are taken from CEO Magazine.About  Scott J. AllenWebsiteMy Approach to HostingThe views of my guests do not constitute "truth." Nor do they reflect my personal views in some instances. However, they are views to consider, and I hope they help you clarify your perspective. Nothing can replace your reflection, research, and exploration of the topic.

Episode 4 uncovers the hidden story of the first all-female film and its British amateur filmmaking club roots. Sally Sallies Forth is a 26-minute comedy romp about a young woman who becomes a maid for a day at a garden tea party. Written, directed and produced by 26-year-old Frances Lascot alongside 9 other fellow female film enthusiasts, the film was shot over two blustery weekends in October 1928 for the December meeting of the London Amateur Cinematographers Association. Host Katie Harman recounts how the lost film and subsequent records of the 10 women who made the film were discovered and made public for the first time in over 90 years by the University of East Anglia and the East Anglian Film Archive. In connection, Katie has a fascinating conversation with Elizabeth Gracen, Founder of the nonprofit, Flapper House Inc. Elizabeth is a filmmaker, writer and actress with a mission to create educational, informational, inspirational content and support creatives across all mediums. She is the owner of Flapper Films, Flapper Press, and the creator of the ongoing documentary film archival project and support platform, The Gen Z Collective. Take a look at Flapper Press' feature on Virtuosa Society! Films and research referenced throughout the episode: Sally Sallies Forth, at the East Anglian Film Archive The Polite Burglar, at the East Anglian Film Archive “Invisible Innovators: Making Women Filmmakers Visible Across the UK Film Archives” report by Dr. Keith Johnston, Dr. Sarah Hill, and Dr Stephanie Clayton TNA Project: Cataloguing of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Women Film Makers' Films “The hidden history of women's filmmaking in Britain” Laura Rossi's Silent Women Film Project British Women Amateur Filmmakers: National Memories and Global Identities by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Heather Norris Nicholson Subscribe to www.virtuosasociety.com and follow @virtuosasociety on Instagram and Facebook for access to bonus materials from this episode. Producer: Katie Harman @katieharmanebner Audio Engineer: Will Cowser @williamcowser Title Song: “Reflection of the Sun” by Anna Landström

A roundtable discussion hosted by Dr Qian Xiao as part of the Human+ Tech Talks series, recorded November 22, 2022. Online education has become a mainstream form of education in many countries during the pandemic. The market for AI-enhanced personalized tutoring systems is therefore growing in great demand and popularity. This allows recording rich information of learner's interactions, thus opening up the possibilities of studying 'learner's behavior at scale using machine learning techniques. In this seminar, we will share the challenges and opportunities when building personalized online education systems. We'll also showcase tangible examples of how we can leverage deep neural networks and large volumes of behavioral data to tackle these challenges. Speakers: Dr Qian Xiao, Human+ Programme Fellow; Prof Vincent Wade, Chair of Computer Science (1990), Trinity College Dublin; Dr Keith Johnston, Assistant Professor, Education, Trinity College Dublin.

Jennifer Garvey Berger: Unleashing Your Complexity Genius Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. She designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people. In her three highly acclaimed books, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Simple Habits for Complex Times (co-authored with Keith Johnston), and Changing on the Job, she builds on deep theoretical knowledge to offer practical ways to make leaders' work more meaningful and their lives more fun. She has worked with senior leaders in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world with organizations like Novartis, Google, KPMG, Intel, Microsoft, Wikimedia, and the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Jennifer also supports executives one-on-one as a leadership coach. Over the last decade, she has developed the Growth Edge Coaching approach. She supports clients to find their current growing edge and then make choices about how they want to develop. She teaches coaches around the world transformational and developmental coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series. Jennifer speaks at leadership and coaching conferences, and she offers courses for coaches at universities all over the world. She is the co-author with Carolyn Coughlin of Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead*. In this conversation, Jennifer and I discuss the reality that most of us don't like uncertainty. That makes experimenting with new ideas and actions in complex environments very challenging. We uncover a several practices that can help us benefit from experimentation in the midst of complexity and how to grow from these experiences. Key Points Complicated situations are hard, but have a clear answer (such as how to send humans to the moon). In contract, complex situations are dynamic; yesterday's answer may not work tomorrow. Most of us really dislike complexity, to the extent that that people with terminal diseases are happier than those who will likely recover. Step-by-step approaches don't work in very complex situations. Instead, take action through thoughtful experimentation. When experimenting, release your attachment to outcomes. Lean into humility and don't shy away from endings. Putting end dates on experiments helps us move forward — and sometimes remove what isn't working. Resources Mentioned Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead* by Jennifer Garvey Berger and Carolyn Coughlin Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes Essentials of Adult Development, with Mindy Danna (episode 273) How to Pivot Quickly, with Steve Blank (episode 476) Help Your Brain Learn, with Lisa Feldman Barrett (episode 513) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

We're making Team Player Podcast History again as we welcome our first ever Canadian-born guest, as well as our first ever published author and varsity football official! We take a trip down memory lane over a career that has spanned 6 decades of involvement with the game of football, including being named to the All Texas College Team and the 1971 All-Canadian team. He is a true Austin College football legend with his induction into the AC Athletics Hall of Honor in 2018. Please welcome Keith Johnston to the show! - While he was born in Toronto, Ontario it seemed Keith was destined to be linked to rodeo as he moved out West at age 4 to the home of the Stampede in Calgary, Alberta and then down South to Dallas, TX at age 11 - Starting a new program as a player at W.T. White HS in Dallas, TX in the 1960's - He formed a special relationship with his Head Coach Roland Hallmark that continued for almost 50 years in the form of reunions all the way up until Coach Hallmark's passing in 2020 - Keith shares some harrowing tales of big comebacks and fun times as a member of the Austin College football team, as well as continuing his college football career in Canada as a graduate student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. - He spent decades on the sidelines but not in the same way as most of our TPP alums. He was a Head Linesman as a Varsity football official in the Houston area, but his career took him all over the world including to England where he officiated a rivalry game the likes of Texas and Oklahoma in the form of Cambridge vs Oxford. Back stateside though, Keith shares numerous stories of sometimes humorous, sometimes threatening interactions with coaches or spectators as we take a look into the life of a football official! - Finally as a published author, Keith is a wealth of knowledge regarding the football history. Therefore rather than a Start/Bench/Cut this week we opted for an open-ended approach with a Mount Rushmore of all-time greats in Canadian and Austin College football history! American fans may enjoy discussing some of the nuances of the Canadian game, and Austin College fans old and new alike will likely enjoy his Kangaroo all-time greats list Start/Bench/Cuts are brought to you by our good friends at MVP Marketing Group: A Turnkey Solution for Schools. Check out their website at mvpmarketinggroup.org to learn more. Reach out to CEO Mike Vogelaar at CEO@MVPMarketingGroup.org or (254)640-1094 to talk about how they can help ease the stress of attracting and retaining sponsors for your program. Tell him Coach Kovo sent you by for a Team Player Podcast discount! Join the Team Player Revolution! The biggest help is to leave a 5-star rating on Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcasts. This is what moves us up the rankings so more people can hear the stories of coaches changing lives. Follow on Twitter @coach_kovo Hit us up at teamplayerpodcast@gmail.com - we lift up our own inside Team Player Nation, all guest suggestions/feedback is welcome! Art for the Team Player Podcast was created by Kaiser St. Cyr Music for the Team Player Podcast is from the single One More/Good Enough by Avrion - available on all platforms --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this conversation, Philip spends time with Jennifer Garvey Berger, author of three acclaimed books, Changing on the Job, Simple Habits for Complex Times (co-authored with Keith Johnston), and Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps. They discuss how our complex realities impact the way we think about and develop leadership. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (https://open.spotify.com/album/3kV0i1qqudjf0PGawJ4jck?si=aVCBkC23T72Mv-QhvJM6Eg) The Low End Theory (https://open.spotify.com/album/1p12OAWwudgMqfMzjMvl2a?si=27W8qG3tRc-MFe7NfQ7xCg) - Midnight Marauders (https://open.spotify.com/album/4v5x3Oo3UjQ9YmF3hRAip5?si=SGc7tRYKT62JLyM2mVM3Fg) - Jennifer's Drop: Einstein's Dreams – Alan Lightman (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/17655/alan-lightman/) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/science/physics-einstein-broadway-lightman.html Special Guest: Jennifer Garvey Berger.

Voici un truc pour garder ton sang-froid et rester zen face aux commentaires négatifs, à la critique et dans les situations imprévues, afin de rebondir de la meilleure façon possible en toutes circonstances. Site web : ggmentalprep.com Quand tu reçois une critique ou un commentaire désagréable, as-tu tendance à réagir sous le coup de l'émotion? T'arrive-t-il d'être impulsif(ve) puis de te dire par la suite que tu aurais pu agir différemment? Lorsqu'on se retrouve dans une situation inconfortable, notre première réaction est souvent d'entrer tout de suite en action pour « corriger » la situation, y répondre ou faire connaître notre opinion. Toutefois, cette attitude nous amène souvent à amplifier le problème et à créer des conflits que l'on aurait pu éviter! Ce qu'on doit comprendre... ... c'est que cette réaction impulsive est déclenchée par notre ego. Notre ego qui est là pour nous protéger de ce qu'il perçoit comme des dangers potentiels. Dans cette nouvelle vidéo sur ma chaîne YouTube, je t'offre une stratégie pour "apprivoiser" ton ego, et adopter l'attitude zen qui te permettra de réagir de la meilleure façon possible en toutes circonstances. https://youtu.be/nihc6vVJoj8 Bon visionnement!Guylaine Crédit photo : Keith Johnston sur Pixabay D'autres épisodes

Complexity deserves an improvised response. In the wake of more than a year of uncertainty, our impulses may be to more tightly control and script the experience of school. But what opportunities might reveal themselves if we instead learn to let go and apply the principles of improvisation to leading our communities? With greater flexibility and a spirit of possibility, can we use this moment to imagine School 2.0?Structure is, and always has been, an important element of school. We create systems, benchmarks, routines, schedules, and ways of “doing school” that allow us to measure and define the learning process. But we know that too much structure can have its downsides, sometimes sapping creativity, joy, and inspiration from the experience of school. How can school leaders create the right amount of structure to support emerging agency while giving space for new ideas? And how can we learn to view challenges or setbacks as new possibilities instead of disruptions? Author, co-founder of the online learning space Yellow, and associate fellow at Oxford's Saïd Business School Rob Poynton joins New View EDU to share how improvisation can be a game-changer for school leaders.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon chat with Rob Poynton about how schools can become more Yellow—or in other words, how the same thoughtful, seemingly loosely structured approaches to learning and discovery Rob has designed in his online learning space might be adapted to K-12 schools. Leading from the insight that improvisation is actually a discipline with its own set of guidelines and practices, Rob shares the deliberate process behind making choices that set the stage for deeper learning and relationship-building in a classroom. This starts with how entering a room, greeting students, or placing chairs in different locations can all have startling effects on class behavior. Exploring the idea that a longstanding standardized approach to education is poised to give way to something new and different, he encourages school leaders to view improvisation not as a last resort in difficult circumstances, but a daily practice that can be incorporated into this new vision of what school can become.What, and who, is education for? What's the necessary and healthy tension between structure and discipline, and freedom and creativity? If both are needed in our schools, how can we learn to constantly adapt to the right levels to allow our communities to grow and thrive? And how can we use challenges as springboards to new possibilities—moving from a problem-solving mindset to one that acknowledges that not all problems can be solved, but all problems can lead to potential growth? Rob reminds us that we can't plan for every outcome, control every circumstance, resolve every challenge, or fill every moment. Instead, he urges school leaders to lean into the power of pause, let go of the need for certainty, and invite every member of their communities to join them in co-creative action as they reimagine what the next version of school could be.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:How can school leaders set up environments that reflect where they want to go, not just where they've always been?What is the value and power of “pause,” and how is intentionally pausing part of good leadership practice?How can we learn to reframe challenges and concerns, such as worry over possible “learning loss,” with a spirit of possibility? How can we learn to approach problems not correctively, but creatively?What does it look like to invite others to co-create a community of learning? How can we become more willing and able to support risk-taking in our schools?Resource List:Rob's Website: Learn more about Rob and his unique approach to using improvisational theater to improve leadership practices.Yellow: Check out Rob's online learning space, offering “generative and re-generative learning journeys for the real world.”Do Pause: Rob's most recent book explores the power of pause in life and leadership.Do Improvise: Rob's foundational work on how the practice of improvisation can benefit all disciplines.In This Episode:“You know, so if you take that last piece of practice, use everything, one of my favorite ways to think about that is to reframe any shortage, shortcoming, error, or mistake as an offer. And this is really important. It's not about being Pollyannaish and saying, oh, it's all lovely, it's not about that at all. It's about being much more pragmatic and saying, OK, this has just been canceled or we don't have the budget or there's no time.How can we use the fact that there is no time?” (10:50)“You know, in improvisation, it's not true that we don't prepare. We don't plan in a detailed, detailed kind of micromanaging anticipatory way, but we do a huge amount of a different kind of preparation. We prepare for a territory, not a path, if you will.” (26:50)“Sometimes we forget that the decisions or choices we make about where to put our attention have what I would call an energetic cost. And so if you choose to spend your time focusing on those things you shouldn't do, and that you have to avoid for compliance, and we all understand how important that is and you obviously can't, you know, you can't shirk that, but if all your energy, and if the mood that accompanies it goes on that, the energetic cost is ... you know, we're all now so exhausted and tired and neurotic and paranoid that, that nobody's going to dare suggest something new or different, or let alone outlandish or playful or crazy.” (32:36)“There are costs attached to safety. I know that sounds completely weird, but, you know, there's a lovely quote from Keith Johnston, who's a guru in the improv theater world, but this one is so deeply relevant to all walks of life, particularly teaching and education. ‘Those few people who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those people who say no are rewarded by the security they attain. Unfortunately, there are more no sayers than yes sayers.'" (34:21)“Pause is not the opposite of action. It's part of action. So pausing is not stopping. It's not surrendering. Pauses enable people to act more effectively more quickly. If you never pause, pause will be forced upon you.” (40:15)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guest:Robert Poynton is the founder of Yellow learning, an online space for regenerative learning, and author of Do Pause and Do Improvise.He lives in rural Spain, in a remote, off-grid house, and is a co-founder of On Your Feet— a consultancy based in Portland, Oregon. He is also an associate fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, where he works on Leadership Programmes, using improv theater as a tool to explore complexity.Rob believes in playing around with things (and people) rather than trying to control them, and is fascinated by the power of place and the absurdity of human attempts to control ourselves, other people, and things around us. Hosted on Acast. 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Mark Ravenhill is one of our greatest living theatre makers. I claim this in part because of the length of his writing career, 25 years+ and still going strong, and in part because of the variety of form and type of work. His work has extended into directing and performing Mark will be co-artistic director (with Hannah Price) of the Kings Head theatre where he is outlining plans to portray stories that would fly under the rainbow flag (an allusion to multitude types of queer stories out there). Podcast notes: Mark articulates why representation now for all kinds of stories that would fly under the rainbow flag is important and sketches out his vision as co-artistic director. We discuss the differences between German and British theatre cultures. The surprising lack of influence from visual art on British theatre (compared to eg German theatre or many other kinds of theatre). The satisfaction of bringing a popular story, like David Walliams Boy in the Dress to a wider (out of London) audience. We chat about how representative (or not) theatre is touching on working class and outside of London audiences, if right wing playwrights are missing considering the British people keep returning right leaning governments; and how, of course, the landscape of public views and opinion is much more complicated than that. The importance of listening in a world where many people are defending their right to speak (and many of those defenders having never been without that right to speak) - making space to listen to other voices. Mark's curiosity and love of life-long learning and what ballet has taught him. The differences and similarities in how he approached his recent biographical work about his mother, father and himself. We play over-rated/under-rated and Mark rates: -Automatic writing -Speaking in verse all day -Dressing up or outside in techniques -Chekhov and non-English theatre -Theatre Games (Only one of these is overrated). We discuss the importance of Keith Johnston's book Improv (note my podcast with Lee Simpson also discuss Keith's work) and how Mark has used the exercises in the book. I ask Mark, what question theatre should be asking today. Mark finishes with advice to creatives on not being swayed too much by others (well-intentioned or not) advice. Transcript and video available here. Follow Mark on Twitter @markravenhill2 Follow Ben on Twitter @benyeohben

Welcome to episode #58!In this week's episode the guys chat with Keith Johnston as he shares his story about how a $15K phone bill due to porn use rocked his world. He also shares about how he came to terms with that moment and how it was a catalyst for him to get help!You will always look for affirmation that you're not receiving Brittni grew up in a home with verbal abuse and toxic relationships. She was never affirmed or told that she was beautiful, so when she got affirmed when stripping at a club on a Mexico holiday, she loved what it did for her confidence. This led to porn producers offering her a spot in the porn industry that she quickly took them up on. No matter how many scenes she did or men she was with though, the need for affirmation was never fulfilled, which drove her to do things for a pay check that she never wanted to do.Abuse in the porn industryPorn directors had Brittni doing scenes that she didn't feel comfortable with at all. She was getting tied up and hit or dressed up as a child portraying pedophilia with an older man. She didn't know that she had a voice in the industry, so instead of saying 'no' to these scenes, she endured the pain. She'd go home crying thinking about how much she hated what she was forced to do, but her pay check was on the line and drugs helped her endure.God rescued herWhen she was smoking heroine and becoming suicidal, she knew she needed help. She went with her Grandma to a church service where she gave her life to the Lord. After this, she was still in the porn industry for over three years, all the while hearing the voice of God and experiencing a greater conviction against evil. When she went back to porn one last time simply for the money, the Holy Spirit spoke to her about the wickedness of leading people into sexual immorality. She quit that day and has been bringing people out of the porn industry and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ powerfully ever since!Share With Your FriendsWho do you know that can benefit from this podcast and other episodes coming in the future? Share it with them so they can subscribe as well.SubscribeNext week, Matt and Braden chat with Brittni's husband, Richard, about how he came to fall in love with her and was able to rise above all of the many complications that come with falling for an ex porn-start who's content is still out there online.ResourcesLove Always MinistriesFree course: Single and ContentYour Pure Freedom Journey through Restored MinistriesPersonal 1-on-1 Coaching with one of Restored Ministries' trained coachesFamilyLife Canada:  Resources and events to strengthen your marriageCovenant Eyes Accountability Software - use promo code RM30 for 30 days freePodcast HostsBRADEN HAFNERBraden is the Regional Director in Alberta for FamilyLife Canada. He has been married for 12 years to his wife Kristen, and they live in Edmonton, Alberta. He is passionate about seeing marriages grow and thrive, and helping couples move to a deeper oneness with one another and with God. FamilyLife Canada has a variety of resources and events to help you and your spouse take your marriage to the next level. See what would benefit you at www.familylifecanada.comMATT CLINEMatt and his wife Louise raise their little guys, David and Oliver, in Edmonton, Alberta. He is honored to do what he can to tackle the epidemic of pornography and sexual perversion in every way possible. Seeing lives and marriages get free and experience the love of God in profound ways is what drives him every day. He leads Restored Ministries, is a certified speaker and coach for the John Maxwell Team, and formerly played hockey in the WHL and for Hockey Canada. You can visit www.restoredministries.ca.

Welcome to episode #57!In this week's episode the guys chat with Keith Johnston as he shares his story about how a $15K phone bill due to porn use rocked his world. He also shares about how he came to terms with that moment and how it was a catalyst for him to get help!Porn use progressively gets worse Often we think porn use will get better over time and that we can just live our lives thinking it will go away on its own. But porn use progressively gets worse over time until eventually we engage in riskier behaviour we never thought we'd engage in. Keith learned this when he was caught at work looking at porn. Like him, if we don't get help we will act out in ways that once would've been unimaginable for us.We need to own our choicesTaking responsibility is an important step in getting porn out of our lives. We can't assume that help will force its way into our life, so we have to actively seek help and community to get porn out of our lives. For Keith, a $15,000 phone bill from porn use led him to realize he needed to engage with the process of healing and get help.You are not alone!One of the biggest lies is "I am the only one stuck in porn." We think nobody will understand or accept us, but God has open arms for us and as we seek Him, we can experience healing with Him and others. We can't beat this alone, we first need God's help and love, and then also need others who will journey with us. You are not alone, but you have to step out of the isolation and shame so that others can walk with you. You can experience full freedom with God's help!Share With Your FriendsWho do you know that can benefit from this podcast and other episodes coming in the future? Share it with them so they can subscribe as well.SubscribeNext week, Matt and Braden chat with ex-porn star, turned pastor, Brittni De La Mora. Tune in to hear her incredible story of finding the Lord while in the porn industry!ResourcesShiloh Youth RanchYour Pure Freedom Journey through Restored MinistriesPersonal 1-on-1 Coaching with one of Restored Ministries' trained coachesFamilyLife Canada:  Resources and events to strengthen your marriageCovenant Eyes Accountability Software - use promo code RM30 for 30 days freePodcast HostsBRADEN HAFNERBraden is the Regional Director in Alberta for FamilyLife Canada. He has been married for 12 years to his wife Kristen, and they live in Edmonton, Alberta. He is passionate about seeing marriages grow and thrive, and helping couples move to a deeper oneness with one another and with God. FamilyLife Canada has a variety of resources and events to help you and your spouse take your marriage to the next level. See what would benefit you at www.familylifecanada.comMATT CLINEMatt and his wife Louise raise their little guys, David and Oliver, in Edmonton, Alberta. He is honored to do what he can to tackle the epidemic of pornography and sexual perversion in every way possible. Seeing lives and marriages get free and experience the love of God in profound ways is what drives him every day. He leads Restored Ministries, is a certified speaker and coach for the John Maxwell Team, and formerly played hockey in the WHL and for Hockey Canada. You can visit www.restoredministries.ca.

Welcome to episode #56!Trey and Lea have been married for 32 years and have more than one thing going for them. They're new grandparents and new empty-nesters, but there's one thing they're experiencing that isn't new to them: sex is better than ever. In this weeks episode Trey breaks down Intimacy busters that can hinder our sex life, and how identifying them can help us in being proactive!There are a lot of intimacy bustersKids are amazing, but when they're sharing your bed with you at night, your marital intimacy will be left longing for something more. Get locks on your door and keep your room sacred for you and your spouse.It's important to smell good. Take care of yourself and stay in shape. If we get lazy in life, lazy in pursuing each other, and lazy with our fitness, our sexual intimacy will be drained along with all of the other forms of intimacy that are so important in marriage.Watch out for getting so comfortable and routined in your marriage that you forget to do the things that keep the romance alive in your home.Picking your battles is wise if you want sexWant to have sex AND talk about those charges on the credit card tonight? You better pick one because both ain't going to happen. Conflict can result in intimacy as you draw towards each other through a disagreement, but it takes time and will kill your hopes for sexual intimacy if you bring certain things up at the wrong times. Use discernment in what to bring up and when to start certain conversations.Flirt no matter how long you've been marriedDate your spouse. Send flirty texts throughout the day reminding them that you're dreaming of being with them. Learn how your spouse loves to flirt with you and do that often. Being playful with each other even in the later years of your marriage will keep the romance alive and bring peace and joy to the home. If you have kids, they need to see you flirting to the point they wish you would just go get a room. When they become adults, they'll thank you for setting that example.Don't lose your trustWe can lose trust in a marriage in a moment and then take years trying to get it restored. Guard your trust with everything you have. It's a key for intimacy in marriage, so breaking trust will destroy the intimacy that is so key to your marriage prospering.Share With Your FriendsWho do you know that can benefit from this podcast and other episodes coming in the future? Share it with them so they can subscribe as well.SubscribeNext week, Matt and Braden talk with Youth Camp Director, Keith Johnston, about his porn story and how porn can affect ministry leaders and youth today.ResourcesTreyandLea.com has their two books, workshop info, and podcast.Your Pure Freedom Journey through Restored MinistriesPersonal 1-on-1 Coaching with one of Restored Ministries' trained coachesFamilyLife Canada:  Resources and events to strengthen your marriageCovenant Eyes Accountability Software - use promo code RM30 for 30 days freePodcast HostsBRADEN HAFNERBraden is the Regional Director in Alberta for FamilyLife Canada. He has been married for 12 years to his wife Kristen, and they live in Edmonton, Alberta. He is passionate about seeing marriages grow and thrive, and helping couples move to a deeper oneness with one another and with God. FamilyLife Canada has a variety of resources and events to help you and your spouse take your marriage to the next level. See what would benefit you at www.familylifecanada.comMATT CLINEMatt and his wife Louise raise their little guys, David and Oliver, in Edmonton, Alberta. He is honored to do what he can to tackle the epidemic of pornography and sexual perversion in every way possible. Seeing lives and marriages get free and experience the love of God in profound ways is what drives him every day. He leads Restored Ministries, is a certified speaker and coach for the John Maxwell Team, and formerly played hockey in the WHL and for Hockey Canada. You can visit www.restoredministries.ca.

Voici trois types de courage auxquels tu peux accéder pour performer en confiance et donner le meilleur de toi-même quand l'enjeu est élevé. Site web : ggmentalprep.com Dans ma dernière vidéo sur YouTube, j'ai présenté trois types de peur liés au regard et à l'opinion des autres. Aujourd'hui, je poursuis sur le thème des trois centres d'intelligence pour te parler de trois types de courage auxquels tu peux accéder pour performer sous la pression en sport: Le courage dans la pensée,Le courage dans l'action,Et le courage du cœur. Lequel des trois est plus accessible et naturel pour toi?Et lequel pourrais-tu entraîner pour bâtir ta confiance? https://youtu.be/0PG3UG0joq4 Dans cette vidéo, je t'enseigne les caractéristiques de chacun des types de courage, et je t'offre des trucs pour performer en confiance et donner le meilleur de toi-même quand l'enjeu est élevé. Bon entraînement!Guylaine Crédit photo : Keith Johnston sur Pixabay D'autres épisodes

Studying the culture of the 17th and 18th centuries gave historian Keith Johnston a vision for how we could mark the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnston says we can draw inspiration from a 10-day festival hosted in Naples at the end of the 1656 epidemic. The Mahabharata is a 2,000 year old sacred text from India whose central message is “everyone dies.” And yet University of Toronto associate professor Arti Dhand has found it a place of solace through the horrors of the pandemic.

Austin and G talk with Clergy Spouses Keith Johnston and Shawn Payne. 

Wanna split £100? You get £50 free AND save money on 100% green electricity by moving to Octopus Energy. Plus I get £50 to support this podcast but ONLY if you do it by using my unique referral code. I moved to Octopus recently and had been putting it off for ages,  but I kicked myself for not doing it sooner, as it’s literally a 5 minute job to give them your details.   Click here: https://share.octopus.energy/free-puma-452   On today’s podcast: UK confirm 2030 ban for new petrol and diesel vehicles Becomes first major car market to bring forward ban to 2030 Massive investment in charging and incentives How UK compares to rest of the world What key figures said in reaction today     Show #932   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Wednesday 18th November. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   UK BECOMES EARLIEST MAJOR CAR MARKET TO ANNOUNCE 2030 COMBUSTION BAN The UK will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030, 10 years earlier than previously announced, as part of a 10 Point plan announced by our Prime Minister today. Boris Johnson is calling this the "green industrial revolution" as wind power, nuclear, hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage all got promoted today part of our legally binding goal to hit emissions targets.   £1.3bn of cash will be injected into new car charging infrastructure and £580m for EV grants to encourage buyers into new models. However one point to note is that hybrids are allowed until 2035 if they travel significant range on electric. That range? Not announced today.     It's a bold move that will give the market a clear sense of direction. It allows for investment in skills training from auto technicians to emergency responders. For fleet buyers to run cost analysis. For towns and cities to press on with plans for zero-emission zones to clear up the air around our kids schools. For charging companies to justify extra investment from their investors.     Here's the plan: "Backing our world-leading car manufacturing bases including in the West Midlands, North East and North Wales to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles, and transforming our national infrastructure to better support electric vehicles."     Following extensive consultation with car manufacturers and sellers, the Prime Minister has confirmed that the UK will end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, ten years earlier than planned. However we will allow the sale of hybrid cars and vans that can drive a significant distance with no carbon coming out of the tailpipe until 2035.   The UK car industry already manufactures a significant proportion of electric vehicles in Europe, including one of the most popular models in the world.   To support this acceleration, the Prime Minister has announced:   £1.3 billion to accelerate the rollout of chargepoints for electric vehicles in homes, streets and on motorways across England, so people can more easily and conveniently charge their cars. £582 million in grants for those buying zero or ultra-low emission vehicles to make them cheaper to buy and incentivise more people to make the transition. Nearly £500 million to be spent in the next four years for the development and mass-scale production of electric vehicle batteries, as part of our commitment to provide up to £1 billion, boosting international investment into our strong manufacturing bases including in the Midlands and North East. This will help protect and create thousands of new jobs, particularly in the Midlands, North East, and North Wales.   We will also launch a consultation on the phase out of new diesel HGVs to put the UK in the vanguard of zero emission freight. No date has been set yet.         So how does the UK compare? California have set the aim of banning fossil cars and trucks by 2035. Whilst that was an executive order, it's still intent. Norway already has around 75% of new vehicles having a plug socket, almost half of all the new cars sold in the first half of 2020 were fully electric.  This is a country built, in part, on oil and gas revenue. And they have an even more ambitious target. 2025 is the date set parliamentary goal for only zero-emission cars, light vehicles and urban buses being sold.   Some German cities already ban older diesels. In China they want 50% of new car sales to be NEV by 2035. India is consulting their vehicle makers on a 2030 ban for new vehicles. Scotland was 2032 before today's announcement, we'll see if they come in line with the PM's ambitions. Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland all 2030. In France and Spain it's currently 2040 but as countries like the UK make these promises, we'll be watched closely to see if green policies are vote winners, or vote losers. Sorry for being cynical! And you’ll notice I've said nothing of Eastern Europe, Russia, Africa, South America, Australia, any kind of U.S. policy which aligns all 50 states.   Why is ambition policy so important? Because there ARE places where it has already been achieved. Shenzhen in Southern China has the largest electric fleet of buses and taxis in the world. They started in the lawmaking 2008 and the buses hit the road from 2010, to improve air quality. And if you want to buy a petrol car, you have to enter a government lottery, or auction. But you can buy an EV any time you want. Money and technology followed policy.     Boris Johnson wrote yesterday for the Financial Times: "we’ll invest more than £2.8bn in electric vehicles, lacing the land with charging points and creating long-lasting batteries in UK gigafactories. This will allow us to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans in 2030. However, we will allow the sale of hybrid cars and vans that can drive a significant distance with no carbon coming out of the tailpipe until 2035.  On Wednesday I will meet UK businesses to discuss their contribution. We plan to provide clear timetables for the clean energy we will procure, details of the regulations we will change, and the carbon prices that we will put on emissions. I will establish a “task force net zero” committed to reaching net zero by 2050, and through next year’s COP26 summit we will urge countries and companies around the world to join us in delivering net zero globally. Green and growth can go hand-in-hand. So let us meet the most enduring threat to our planet with one of the most innovative and ambitious programmes of job-creation we have known."   https://www.ft.com/content/6c112691-fa2f-491a-85b2-b03fc2e38a30   What can we do to help people get into an EV. The U.S. has a $7500 federal tax break for manufacturers who haven't yet sold 200k vehicles - something which many say now unfairly hinders the early adopters who took the risks, like Tesla and GM. So that may change under a Biden administration to boost domestic EV production - a 'Made In America' rebate? In France there's up to 12,000Euros off a new EV if you also scrap an old combustion car. What would make you buy an EV?   For fleets it's Total Cost of Ownership. And so many them are more than ahead of the general public on this. Fleet buyers can see that when you factor in cheaper electricity, they save money with EVs. Large fleet will take a long time to change over, and many do it in step with adding charging at depots or where vehicles are kept often overnight.     Jim Holder is the Editorial director, Haymarket Automotive: "So, new EVs and PHEVs only from 2030, just EVs from 2035. Nothing to fear from the ambition, plenty of challenges in the execution. Huge hurdles ahead, but those that should know say it’s entirely doable with the right investment and mindset. Can we be world-leading? Why not..."   Jonny Smith @CarPErvert: "New piston cars banned in UK from 2030. As I said before, the key word here is new. EV charging is improving every quarter, as car ranges improve. Interesting petrol cars will survive for occasional amusement, EVs do bulk of the miles. I'm cool with that.   Autocar said: "So far, individual manufacturers have been mainly mute on the changes and their effects, although their collective body, the SMMT, called them “extremely concerning” while issuing a broad welcome. BMW has given voice, noting that the UK is only one of its 140 markets and somewhat of a lone voice, but it expects to be well able to supply UK-compliant cars when the law changes."   And Mike Hawes is the head of a lobby group which many car makers, interesting not TEsla, are part of. His job is to speak on their behalf and, as is the point of a trade association, sometimes to say things the car makers don't want to be saying directly themselves. He told the BBC   Andy Eastlake, Managing Director - Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership: “Its clear and ambitious but we believe necessary and achievable, if we work in partnership!”"   Keith Johnston, Cofounder greentech biz @urbaneleclondon  retractable on-st charging hubs."As we scale up for the 2030 ban, we need on-street fast charging infrastructure that "reduces the streetscape impact of charge points, maintaining accessibility of the pavement for pedestrians""   Chris Stark, Chief Executive of the UK's Climate Change Committee: "The 2030 commitment to phase-out sales of petrol and diesel cars and vans is *massive*. It’s a transport commitment, a consumer commitment, and an industry commitment. Crucially, it will drive fundamental change in the whole energy system. So its impact can’t be overstated."   Electric Vehicle Association (EVA) Scotland: "The move towards electric transportation can play its part, and that should include phasing out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2025, instead of the current target of 2032."   Adam Vaughan. Chief reporter, @newscientist: "On petrol/diesel ban, there is a big concession to the motoring industry - govt appears to be allowing new plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to be sold until 2035, judging from language. (e.g. so ones Mistubishi Outlander PHEV okay, mild hybrids like old Toyota Prius prob not)"   Some of the madness media coverage: "The law on having a petrol or diesel car is set to change". https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/law-having-petrol-diesel-car-19299959         IN conclusion: it's unquestionably a good thing.  The devil is in the detail. What do they mean by allowing hybrids which do a significant distance? Is that 10 miles, or 100 miles? And here's the key thing - it's only for new vehicles. And it's 9 years away. EVs are more silicon valley than detroit. It's hard for us, and it's part of human nature, to comprehend the pace of innovation. We either tend to massively under estimate or over estimate innovation. It’s 2020 and I’m still waiting for my hoverboard. And yet the phone I carry around with me is the stuff of science fiction.   So what phone were you using 9 years ago? The iPhone 3G (and apps you could download from the recently launched App Store), Blackberry Bold, Google's Nexus One, Nokia's Symbian-powered N8. We know from VW's plans to sell 20 million EV's a year by 2030, from China's aggressive EV industry, from Tesla's plan to become their own cell maker which allows for a range of 500, 600, 700 miles. And that's probably by 2025, another 5 years after that it will just be normal.   Battery costs have come down over the last 10 years form $1000/kWh to $100kWh. That's the most expensive part of an EV and costs are coming down. EVs are already cheaper to buy than combustion cars when you factor in running costs and lack of servicing over a typical ownership period. Soon, cheaper to buy. At that point you don't need state of national governments to be involved. Economics takes over. The pound in your pocket, the dollar in your wallet is stronger than anything else. EVs are better in every way, and if the trend of the last 10 years continues, soon they're cheaper to buy.   Finally, I'll conclude with perception. I'm interested in this, and so you are because you've got to the end, but most people are busy having a life. They'll read the headlines - "petrol cars being banned!" - and that will impact buying decisions and residual prices. Who's buying a diesel car today when they're going to be worth nothing when you come to sell it. Maybe not reality, but perception.   What do you think? 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Seratona dedicata all'improvvisazione con Elena Lah che ci ha raccontato la sue esperienza di improvvisazione teatrale e che si è sottoposta alle mille domande con parecchia simpatia! Grazie Elena e grazie a tutti i presenti!

Marketing resources can be easy targets in an economic downturn. Yet these cuts are shortsighted and put companies on weaker footing long-term, say Vice Presidents Laura Ramos and Keith Johnston. Learn what companies and marketing leaders should do instead in this week’s What It Means episode.

Marketing resources can be easy targets in an economic downturn. Yet these cuts are shortsighted and put companies on weaker footing long-term, say Vice Presidents Laura Ramos and Keith Johnston. Learn what companies and marketing leaders should do instead in this week’s What It Means episode.

We all make sense of the world differently and make meaning differently. As we move into complexity that becomes a greater challenge.  Do you question the way decisions are taken in complex times? What might be going wrong in the way decisions are made in meetings? I have been observing senior executive meetings and providing feedback and I found Keith Johnston from Cultivating Leadership has some great insights on this topic. What insights you will get from this episode:Typical mistakes executives make in meetings. How early convergence and polite agreements get in the way of solving problems in complex times? Why letting go of – “holding on to rightness” – is so important? What assumptions get in the way of running a great meeting? Key ingredients of running meetings in complex times. About Keith JohnstonKeith Johnston co-authored with Jennifer Garvey Berger  Simple Habits for Complex Times (https://www.amazon.fr/Simple-Habits-Complex-Times-Practices/dp/0804799431) . Leadership development was the focus of his PhD. He has explored the capability for complexity required of senior leaders and how this might be enabled. Email: keith@cultivatingleadership.co.nz Website: https://www.cultivatingleadership.com (https://www.cultivatingleadership.com)

Sascha Korf ist Comedian, Autor begnadeter Crowdworker und Stammgast in verschiedenen TV-Formaten. Heute plaudern darüber, wie man erfolgreiche in Sachen Crowdworke (Improvisation mit dem Publikum) wird, über den Quatsch Comedy Club HotShot und seine aktuellen TV-Projekte. Sascha Korf: http://www.sascha-korf.de/startseite.html hr Straßenstars: https://www.hr-fernsehen.de/sendungen-a-z/strassen-stars/index.html SAT1 - Mord mit Ansage: https://www.sat1.de/tv/mord-mit-ansage-die-krimi-impro-show Sascha Korf absolvierte von 1990 bis 1994 eine Schauspielausbildung sowie eine Lehre zum Theaterpädagogen. Als Bühnenmoderator wirkte er von 1996 bis 2003 unter anderem beim Christopher Street Day in Köln mit. Seit 1999 ist er zudem Texter, unter anderem für Anka Zink (7 Tage, 7 Köpfe) und Marijke Amado (Blond am Freitag) und Kolumnist für diverse Zeitungen. Sein Improvisationstalent bildete er 2001 bei Keith Johnston in Calgary, Kanada aus. Bei dem Theaterstück Der nackte Wahnsinn im Gloria-Theater führte Korf Regie und übernahm die Rolle des Garry Lejeune. Im Gloria Theater spielte er außerdem in der Komödie Ganz oder gar nicht! mit und erfand 2005 Gloria Crown, einen Impro-Wettkampf, und die Gloria Sitzung (Karnevalssitzung). Seit 2002 ist Korf immer wieder beim Quatsch Comedy Club mit einem Stand-Up-Auftritt oder als Moderator zu sehen. Von 2006 bis 2007 war er Autor und Darsteller bei Fang den Mörder. Korf hatte Soloauftritte beim Grand Prix Vorentscheid 2006 sowie Gastauftritten bei den Stegreif-Shows Schillerstrasse, Frei Schnauze, Durchgedreht!, Nightwash und Comedy Lab. Außerdem ist er fast jedes Jahr beim Kleinen Fest in Hannover mit dabei. Die Premiere seines ersten Soloprogramms Tausendsascha feierte er im Rahmen des Köln Comedy Festivals im Oktober 2007 im Gloria Theater Köln.[1] Sein zweites Soloprogramm mit dem Titel Wer zuletzt lacht, denkt zu langsam hatte im Oktober 2011 Premiere in Köln im Theater Gloria. Im Oktober 2014 feierte Korf mit seinem Soloprogramm Wer zuerst lacht, lacht am längsten in Köln im Theater Senftöpfchen Premiere. Sein aktuelles Programm Aus der Hüfte, fertig, los! feierte im Oktober 2017 ebenfalls im Theater Senftöpfchen Premiere. Außerdem ist er Autor und Coach für zahlreiche Produktionen und Künstler.

“I’m thinking about this whole space the way poets think about a sonnet. There are specific constraints. Those constraints mean that most things are impossible, but an artist can figure out how to make great things happen inside the constraints.” Guest host Keith Johnston has an “in house chat” with our normal host Wendy Bittner and Jennifer Garvey Berger about the challenge of helping leaders to learn in a virtual world. They explore what they have learned and the surprising discoveries that have surfaced over the past two months.

Wendy Bittner is a scientist, a former McKinsey & Company consultant, a leader, a coach, a seeker, and an all-around wise person.  In this episode, we explore the concept of leading and living in a complex world, based on her own experience and through the academics and theories that are the foundation for her work.   Wendy first encountered complexity from the scientific side while getting her PhD in inorganic chemistry at Caltech.  From there, she became a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she ran head-first into the complexity of the business world…and the many ways in which we, as humans, are ill-equipped to handle it.  A move into leadership development at McKinsey and beyond brought her into contact with Jennifer Garvey Berger and, later, Keith Johnston, who helped her begin to adapt the learning from the science of complexity into the practical application of complexity to organizations.  Today, as a partner at Cultivating Leadership, Wendy serves a range of clients around the world from non-profits to commercial banking, from small startups to tech giants.  Her work is as wide-ranging as her clients, encompassing individual coaching, team-based interventions, leadership programs and keynotes to larger audiences, but always working at that critical intersection of complexity and  human capabilities, helping her clients to grow into and thrive as their biggest selves. In addition to her work with Cultivating Leadership, Wendy is a periodic guest lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business and a certified MBTI, LVI and Leadership Circle practitioner.  When not following the nomadic lifestyle of a leadership development practitioner, Wendy has the good fortune to live in northern California wine country. Her passions outside of people development include cooking elaborate meals for friends, baseball (full disclosure, she is a Dodgers fan), games of all kinds, and wine. A few links to some of the topics covered in this interview: To read Wendy's bio and learn more about Cultivating Leadership: https://www.cultivatingleadership.co.nz/our-team/wendy-bittner To learn more about the Cynefin Framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8 To learn about Robert Kegan's work on Adult Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUOapqI3rzs  

“That can also happen in the game! In whatever match it is, it can all be going one way, the momentum’s going, and then suddenly a small event--as in complex systems--tips the system . . . and suddenly the whole game is transformed.” Keith Johnston, co-founder of Cultivating Leadership, writer, and passionate fan of the All Blacks, and Wendy talk sport(s) as an echo for human life, a way to understand complexity, and a source of fun.

Innovation in the meetings industry is moving at a fast pace. New tools and creative solutions are making it easier than ever for planners to create impactful events and boost their bottom line. For today's episode, we speak with a pair of experts who have their fingers on the pulse of how the industry is using tech: Keith Johnston, managing partner of i3 and the person behind Plannerwire, and Mark Cooper, CEO of the International Association of Conference Centers, which represents almost 400 venues worldwide. They share their specific tips on how planners can use technology to better reach their goals.

This week, we catch up with Keith Johnston, and frankly, we’re a little out of breath. That’s because he started Running2bWell, a running group open to all fitness levels that offers free training and is geared toward people in recovery. He talks about the science behind how physical activity improves mental well-being, along with the health benefits of connections,  and this group offers both of these things, as inclusiveness is the main focus of activities. Also, those who show up to three running meetups get a new pair of running shoes, he adds. The group is hosting the Buzzard Beach 5K Saturday, July 20 at Munroe Falls Metro Park, 521 S. River Road, in Munroe Falls. To register, visit http://bit.ly/2H77qPV. Registration is open until the event starts. 

Hi everyone, my name is Keith Johnston and welcome to “This Week In Band”, a weekly show about the world of HS and College band. This is a show for band members, band directors, and their friends and families. We’ll talk shop, share some stories, and maybe learn a little along the way. Be sure to join the “This Week In Band” Facebook group to take part in our virtual roundtable, and let us know what topics you’d like to hear us explore. We’ll be launching our first podcast this January everywhere podcasts are available. Thanks for joining me.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/TWIB)

Saturday 19th May 2018. Welcome to a Special Report on the future of urban charging. Earlier this week the Urban Electric ‘UE One’ was unveiled and captured the imagination of EV owners. Designed to solve charging worries for those who have to park on the street, or for those occasions where you need to charge away from your home. I am delighted to be joined by Co-founder Keith Johnston (@keith__johnston) to tell you more about the first trials in the UK.   Please follow them below, and here are the links I promised in the interview if you want to find out more.   Web: http://www.urbanelectric.london/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbaneleclondon https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/768/nominate_your_street_for_the_world_s_first_pop-up_electric_vehicle_charging_points https://newatlas.com/urban-electric-ueone-pop-up-charge-point/54657/  http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/urban-electric-announces-ueone-pop-up-charge-point-for-residential-on-street-charging-of-electric-682632051.html  https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/17/pop-up-ev-charger-disappears-when-its-not-being-used/?sr_source=Twitter http://www.greenfleet.net/news/16052018/oxford-trial-%E2%80%98pop-%E2%80%99-street-ev-charge-points  http://www.nextgreencar.com/news/8393/new-retractable-ev-charge-point-developed/   I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. You can listen to every previous episode of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, Stitcher, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically. It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast. And if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, and I'll catch you tomorrow.   CONNECT WITH ME! evne.ws/itunes evne.ws/tunein evne.ws/googleplay evne.ws/stitcher evne.ws/youtube evne.ws/soundcloud evne.ws/blog

Paul Frith and Keith Johnston both lecture at the UEA, and will be at the Hallowed Histories screening of the Shuttered Room this November. The film is a heady mix of karate, Oliver Reed, family curses, shaky accents and HP Lovecraft. In this brief interview we scratch the surface of Eastmancolor and it's place in revolutionising cinema, and how it gave The Shuttered Room it's lurid look. Please leave a review, subscribe and recommend this podcast to anyone you know with an interest in East Anglia, history, folklore and the macabre. Contact us at hallowedhistories@gmail.com if the spirit moves you.... This episode was recorded at the UEA media suite with research support from the Norwich Heritage Centre, with thanks to them both for their support. This episode was written by me, Richard Sheppard, with research by Dr Linda Sheppard. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hallowedhistories/message

Interview with Actor Keith Johnston about Zora Neale Hurston's "Spunk" at Actors Theatre of Louisville thru Dec 15. More Information at: http://www.actorstheatre.org/play_spunk.htm