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Today my guests are Lisa Kay Solomon and Chris Ertel, the co-authors of the powerhouse 2014 book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year! I devoured this book 10 years ago and I think you might enjoy it, too! Lisa Kay Solomon is currently a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, where she teaches classes such as Inventing the Future where students imagine, debate and analyze the 50-year futures of emerging tech, and works closely with the K12 community to make futures thinking a mainstay of 21c core curriculum. She has also been named to the Thinkers50 2022 Radar List and is one of ixDA's Women of Design 2020. Chris Ertel is a managing director of Deloitte Consulting LLP with a specialist role designing and providing high-stakes strategic conversations for clients and priority firm initiatives, in the Deloitte Greenhouse® signature environments. Chris is an innovation strategist with 18 years of experience advising leading organizations. He holds a PhD in demography from UC-Berkeley. We talk about  What it really means to be a facilitative leader, and why it's so impactful. As Lisa and Chris say in MOI: “At these critical moments, everyone will be looking at you, not for all the answers, but to help them unearth the answers together” The Five Core Principles of Moments of Impact, which can form a Design Process 1. Define your purpose  (your design intent!) 2. Engage multiple perspectives (with your facilitation skills!) 3. Frame the issues 4. Set the Scene 5. Make it an experience (even an intense or challenging one!) How designing conversations is different from facilitating them: Lisa makes it clear that Conversation Design is about intent and purpose while Facilitation skills are the tool that helps orchestrate those Moments of Impact. Why Conversation Design isn't taught to leaders but should be (Lisa also tells us why it's so hard to teach, since it brings together strategy, psychology and emotional intelligence) Why Chris always coaches leaders to condense and delete content from their strategic meetings (to 10 slides!) instead of making what communications expert Nancy Duarte calls a “Procument” (something that's neither an easy to use and digest presentation or a leave-behind document!) How crucial discussing decision-making rights are - as Chris suggests many leaders want to keep their options open and wind up creating an “air of democracy without the reality of it”  Why You should start becoming a junkie of learning theories The importance of balancing humor and levity with challenging-ness and sparkiness to create productive environments The importance of knowing that the “yeah buts” will come when we're hosting challenging conversations as in:  yeah, but, that won't work here! or… yeah, but, what will we be able to report next quarter? Or… yeah, but who's budget is going to cover that? And so much more! If you have Moments of Impact that you need to shape, design, and lead and you *don't* have Moments of Impact on your desk - get it! Head over to theconversationfactory.com/listen for full episode transcripts, links, show notes  and more key quotes and ideas. You can also head over there and become a monthly supporter of the show for as little as $8 a month. You'll get complimentary access to exclusive workshops and resources that I only share with this circle of facilitators and leaders. Links Get Moments of Impact!  https://www.lisakaysolomon.com/about https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/profiles/certel.html A plan is not a strategy: The short video from Roger Martin we were talking about!

Episode 56: Helping Students Shape Dynamic FuturesHow many of us have taken a history class? What about a class on the future? Or a class on how to navigate ambiguity? These are the kinds of educational experiences Lisa Kay Solomon urges us to design for our students, as we prepare them for an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Guest: Lisa Kay SolomonResources, Transcript, and Expanded Show NotesIn This Episode:“I'll start off and talk about futures thinking and I'll say, so how many people here have taken a class in history? And everybody raises their hand. There's probably some historians, probably teachers of history. Everyone's like, yes, of course I did. And then I'll say, well, how many people here have taken a class in futures? Zero, zero hands, zero. And maybe one person that took like a workshop or something. And then I say, well, which one of those can you influence? And it's like, oh, mic drop.” (8:54)“You gotta practice the stuff that you're gonna need in life. And unfortunately, so much of our K-12 system is based on rewarding things that are knowable, that are performable, that are easily measurable. You know, show me the scale on ambiguity. Show me the person that's like, oh, you got an A in ambiguity, crushed it. We don't have a great vocabulary for it. We don't have a great practice ground for it. So I think about this a lot, because you don't want the first time someone comes head to head with a high stakes, high uncertainty, highly ambiguous situation to be when it matters most. You want them to have done the practice steps along the way, the scaffolding in the safe environment.” (14:11)“You have a really important meeting and you've cleared it on everyone's schedule. People have flown in. They know it's important. And so because it's an important meeting, you go to the important board room that has the big oak table and the leather chairs and no windows and you got the PowerPoint set up. And yes, it's structured, but we have to remember there are human beings walking into that room, and our brains take a look at those signals: big oak table, leather chairs, no windows. And they think status, power, be right, be smart. They're not thinking, be open, be imaginative, be generative, right?” (29:15)Related Episodes: 47, 38, 31, 26, 17, 12, 9, 7, 4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Whether you're a sports fanatic, or you've never stepped foot on a court or field—there's a lot we can learn about citizening from the lens of coaches and athletes. To show us how sports can help us with teamwork, discipline, and a sense of play in our citizening efforts— Baratunde is joined by Steve Kerr, head coach of the NBA championship-winning Golden State Warriors and relentless advocate for gun violence prevention, along with Dr. Kensa Gunter, a clinical and sports psychologist, and Jamie Zaninovich, the Deputy Commissioner & COO of the Pac-12 Conference.   SHOW ACTIONS Internally Reflect - How it feels to work with others For those of you that played team sports, how did teamwork make you feel? What about teamwork was easy for you? What parts were challenging? Or if you didn't play team sports, picture any other team you've been a part of in school or work. What personal benefits did you receive by coming together with others to work on something?  Be Informed - Sites to help you get going Find the issue you're passionate about and start learning!  Go to howtocitizen.com and click on Let's Start to get personalized results that will help you learn about issues you care about. Let curiosity guide you. Once you get your quiz results, let us know what you start learning! If you are an athlete or coach, check out All Vote, No Play to find civic drills you can do together as a team.  Publicly Participate - Your presence has power Bear witness by lending your presence and listening as another way to publicly participate. Join Baratunde as he practices publicly participating in this way. Find and attend a gathering in your community (council meeting, non-profit assembly, school board meeting, church potluck or other community forum) and simply be present and LISTEN.    SHOW NOTES Find How To Citizen on Instagram or visit howtocitizen.com to join our mailing list and find ways to citizen besides listening to this podcast!  Please show your support for the show by reviewing and rating. It makes a huge difference with the algorithmic overlords and helps others like you find the show! How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He's also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet.    CREDITS How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Rowhome Productions. Our Executive Producers are Baratunde Thurston and Elizabeth Stewart. Allie Graham is our Lead Producer and Danya AbdelHameid is our Associate Producer. Alex Lewis is our Managing Producer. John Myers is our Executive Editor and Mix Engineer. Original Music by Andrew Eapen and Blue Dot Sessions. Our Audience Engagement Fellows are Jasmine Lewis and Gabby Rodriguez. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio and Layla Bina. Special thanks to Lisa Kay Solomon, Coach Eric Reveno & D1 Ticker for inviting us to be part of this discussion and being great partners in citizening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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At this week's Round Table, Kenisha, Madeline, and Ava spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon, writer, Associate Professor and Designer in Residence at Stanford Institute of Design, and Co-founder of All Vote, No Play, exploring sports, civics, social change, and the interconnections between them. Lisa teaches an incredibly popular class on futures thinking at Stanford and is also a passionate public educator, spreading the civic gospel well beyond the classroom and onto the courts and playing fields of America. While Lisa is a trained futurist, she emphasizes that thinking about the future is a skill set we all can learn—and it doesn't require having a crystal ball! It entails thinking about what is the range of possible futures that might unfold–recognizing that nothing is fixed or assured– and how we can learn to bring our preferred future to life. All that's required is bold imagination and comfort with ambiguity along with socializing and sensitizing ourselves to different perspectives and world views in order to try to understand the fullest range of possible—and then to try to shape it! At root, futures thinking is about shaping systems and looking for levers of change that are high value and go unnoticed. You know, like student athletes, who have been wildly overlooked in the civic space yet if you think about who has influence on campuses, you can't NOT think of this. On the heels of the murder of George Floyd and the public outcry for social justice reform, this led Lisa to partner with long-time basketball coach Eric “Rev” Reveno ("Rev") on a shared mission to help players register to vote and to flex their civic power more broadly. They asked themselves, “what if we empowered all student athletes to act like citizens, and to model the kinds of behaviors that create the types of societies we want to live in?” Athletes actually have a lot to offer with regard to some of the thorny civic challenges of our time, like bridging differences, which they do every single day in playing on teams and against others. Getting them to transfer those skills to the civic skills is powerful.The pilot Lisa and Rev cooked up together was so successful it led to the participating student athletes proposing legislation to the NCAA to take this an annual event for over 500k students and to form the powerful All Vote and No Play initiative–and they are just getting started! Lisa reminds us that democracy doesn't just happen: it requires individuals putting themselves in positions—including sometimes at risk of harm or threat— in order to protect the kind of democracy we want to be part of. We are incredibly inspired by the vision of All Vote No Play and think you will be too. Thank you for joining us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

In this seventh episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Lisa Kay Solomon gives a peek of the thoughts around her upcoming book about her recent innovative civics exercises with learners. Are our systems designed for short term rewards and is the design of civics and business at odds with the future? The conversation features a broad range of topics from design, futures, civics, the importance of agency to extra high-quality civics education. Futures thinking, practices, and mindsets are teachable and learnable. How might we think differently about the image of the future that we could bring to life, to be a shaper as opposed to a reactor. It might seem hard, but we can start small. Lisa Kay Solomon is a futures and design educator, author, and social entrepreneur focused on helping people develop the leadership skills to become active, compassionate agents of positive change. With nearly over 20 years of design, scenario-planning, and leadership work, Lisa's work focuses on the question: How do we help leaders and learners of all ages not just prepare for the future, but help them develop the mindsets, skillsets and practices required to shape more sustainable, inclusive, robust futures? Named to the Thinkers50 2022 Radar List, Lisa co-authored the bestselling books Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and Design A Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset and Strategy for Innovation, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Lisa created the popular LinkedIn Learning Courses Leading Like a Futurist and Redesigning How We Work for 2021, and has written extensively on helping leaders productively navigate ambiguity through teachable and learnable practices.Currently a Designer in Residence and Lecturer at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Lisa teaches a variety of futures-oriented classes, including one of the d.school's most popular courses, Inventing the Future, which exposes students to practices of applied imagination, strategic foresight, immersive world building, and creativity. Lisa's course design utilizes immersive experiences like participating in 50 year future utopia and dystopia debates on emerging technology in order to move beyond questions of “can we build it?” to "should we build it?” As one student commented after the class, “I used to think that thinking about the future was a gene intrinsic to talent, and now I think I have the skills and tools to shape it myself." In 2021, she launched The Futures Series at the Stanford d.school, which brought diverse futures thinkers from around the world to share and democratize future-shaping practices. Guests included Dr. Lonny Brooks and Ahmed Best on Afrofutures, Meredith Hutchison and Aisha Bain on Ancestral Intelligence, Leah Zaidi on WorldBuilding, Minister Faust on Science Fiction and Pro-social competitions, and Riel Miller on UNESCO's Future Literacy, among others. She also initiated experiential professional development programs such as “Afro-Rithms in Classrooms” with the National Writing Project, and workshops focused on building futures literacies such as building empathy for the future and navigating time scales and polarities.Lisa is passionate about connecting her work between boardrooms to classrooms, bringing her work with executives and leaders at multinational companies to leaders and educators in K12 schools. She recently launched a new podcast called New View EDU, co-hosted with the National Association of Independent Schools, to help school leaders shift their posture and priorities to infuse K12 education with imagination, social and emotional wellbeing, and creative agency for the future. Named one of ixDA's Women of Design 2020, Lisa is also the founder and driving force beyond Vote by Design, Building America's Teammates, and #AllVoteNoPlay, a national initiative which transforms Election Day as a day “off” from official collegiate athletic activities into a day “on” for civic engagement. Working closely with college coaches, civic educational leaders and student leaders, the experiential programs reached tens of thousands of young voters, coaches, and administrators in relevant, accessible, meaningful civic learning and action. Lisa's work in the civics arena is focused on helping next generation voters grow in their own sense of power and agency over the futures they want to inhabit. Through creating design-driven, agency-oriented programs with a bias toward changemaking action, Lisa aims to empower young people to create a more just and inclusive world.Hosted by The Learning Future's very own Louka Parry, indulge your cortex in some modern thinking at the forefront of educational design with our amazing guest.Transcription upon request - e-mail hello@thelearningfuture.com

Listen to an episode from our sister NAIS podcast, featuring bestselling author, speaker, and former Dean at Stanford, Julie Lythcott-Haims. Julie joins NAIS Chief Innovation Officer Tim Fish and author and futurist Lisa Kay Solomon to share her insights on the role of schools in creating capable, responsible adults -- not just high-stat students who achieve academically but struggle to "adult" beyond the classroom.

“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you're in luck, as you're about to find out a whole lot more about why you'd need such a thing… and why you won't find it, alas, in to-day's conventional curriculum (including corporate L&D). In the first full episode of our new Red-Thread podcast—our deep dive into what we're calling capitalism's focus on ‘The Skills Obsession'—we meet passionate educator, innovator and bestselling author Lisa Kay Solomon. Designer in Resi-dence at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (‘the d.school') at Stanford University, Lisa presents in her dialog with Stacia, Dani and Chris something of a masterclass in what thinking about the future actually needs to consist of—and how that feeds into her conviction that, “learning is the currency of possibility.”

How do we support our young people in becoming independent, thriving, adaptable, confident learners? How do we encourage them to develop a sense of their own agency and shape their lives, rather than having their lives dictated to them? And what is the role of schools in creating capable, responsible adults -- not just high-stat students who achieve academically but struggle to “adult” beyond the classroom?The impact of the college admissions race on students and schools is becoming increasingly clear. While students pursue an ever-growing number of advanced courses, impressive extracurricular achievements and other “resume-builders” to boost their chances of getting into top colleges, educators and parents are taking stock of the other skills that seem to have fallen by the wayside. Is the pursuit of academic excellence at all costs leading to a generation of students who don't know how to handle the basic tasks of adulthood? Julie Lythcott-Haims, NY Times bestselling author of “Your Turn,” “Real American,” and “How to Raise an Adult,” joins New View EDU to shed light on how our current concepts in education may be inadvertently restricting students' growth.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon talk with Julie about her personal concept of “rooting for humans” and her investment in helping all people thrive. A former dean at Stanford, Julie shares how her own observations about the emerging harm of helicopter parenting led her to begin exploring how young people suffer when they're deprived of opportunities to develop agency, self-determination and problem-solving skills. She urges school leaders to consider how responsibility and care for the community can be infused into the school experience from the youngest ages, rather than left as “community service hours” check boxes for older students to complete. And in the wake of the pandemic, Julie encourages all adults to reconsider their definitions of both service and success -- understanding that no child can be considered to have “failed” when confronted with a global crisis, and that for many students, stepping up to help at home to fulfill a need may have been the highest form of service possible.More deeply, Julie examines the ways in which true inclusion and care for every student make a stark difference in the educational landscape. Who “matters” in each school and classroom, and how can educators examine the evidence presented to them that shows which students feel seen and which don't? What can educators do to commit to creating school cultures where each and every student feels that they matter deeply to someone? And how can school leaders ensure that everyone within their communities understands, commits to and lives the values upon which the school is founded, using those values to invest deeply in relationships that uplift every person?Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:What opportunity currently exists for school leaders to let go of practices that don't serve their values, and embrace changes that do?How do we design schools to deliberately embrace relationship-building and connection as core concepts, not secondary to test prep and rigor?In what ways might we be able to redefine concepts like SEL and service learning to become more joyful, integrated and internalized, and less performative?How can schools create cultures that support “fending” skills from the youngest ages, and why is it important to do so?Resource List:Your Turn: Julie's bestselling book about “how to be an adult.”The Your Turn Study Guide: A helpful resource for using Julie's book to start “fending” and finding your voice. Julie's inspiring talks: Watch Julie speak on topics relevant to parents, educators, and young people who are trying to grow into competent adults.Hunt, Gather, Parent: The new book by Michaeleen Doucleff Julie mentions in this interview The Daily SEL Leader: Julie's recommended book for educators looking to improve their SEL practices Hella Social Impact and Vaya Consulting: Two organizations Julie recommends to help schools level up their DEI efforts.In This Episode:“You don't just sort of give someone the opportunity to fend at their 18th birthday. It doesn't happen that way. Fending is intrinsically about skills. You don't, we don't go from handling everything for kids to them suddenly being capable of doing for themselves. That's called being cut off cold turkey, and it's cruel, and it leads to, you know, can lead to real devastating results. So we are definitely in for a reframe.” (8:16)“At a very practical level, Home Ec and shop class-- Home Ec and shop class were terrific places to learn some of the fending skills. And in many communities, those courses have gone the way of the dinosaur because we've gotten so enamored of what we think of as enrichment, which we think is only the hardcore academic stuff. So we've jettisoned the stuff of life out the window, and we shouldn't be surprised that we graduate people with high GPAs, who cannot do much for themselves.” (10:17)“I try to hone in on the root, the Latin root educare, you know, educate, educare. Educare, I'm told-- I was never a student of Latin, but I have learned-- means to bring forth. And I tell educators, what's your subject? And they'll say French, Latin, Spanish, Math, English, History, Art, Music, et cetera. And I'll challenge that. I'll say, isn't your student the subject? Aren't you bringing your student forth, and simply your expertise-- math-- is, is what you use to bring them forth?” (14:15)“Our educators are hurting. They're, they're stretched so thin. They've been burning the candle at both ends and in the middle. And we all need to restore the self, if we have any hope of being of use to other humans. And when we can walk that walk, then I think we are reshaping education and reshaping the experience our children have within it.” (20:15)“You know, for some kids, they're just proud they're alive, and we need to celebrate that because people were pushed to the brink. So celebrating, recognizing the stronger capacities and emotional strength that was built because of this struggle. That would be an important thing, I think, to embed at least into this coming fall, if not to make it a part of a much bigger practice.” (27:31)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guest:Julie Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult which gave rise to a TED Talk that has more than 5 million views. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is out now.Julie is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and she holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone.She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner of over thirty years, their itinerant young adults, and her mother. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The way we understand equity in our schools is constantly evolving. Students and staff in our communities reflect a broader and richer spectrum of identity, heritage, and self-discovery at this moment than at any other moment in American history. Yet educational practice is still catching up, and the students most likely to be heavily impacted by trauma, such as the spectrum of recent events, are students of color, students with disabilities, and learners from other marginalized communities. How can a deeper understanding of the struggle for true equity in education inform the way we design schools and learning opportunities in the future? And what opportunities would exist for our school communities if we learned how to design education to be truly inclusive of all voices and perspectives from the very beginning?As educators and school leaders hone their methods in response to a growing understanding of the importance of representation and culturally responsive practices in the classroom, New View EDU dives into the subject with a transformative conversation on the power of structured imagination in creating inclusive cultures. Guests Lonny Brooks and Ahmed Best are, together, the co-hosts of the Afrofuturist podcast and creators of the game Afro-Rithms From the Future. Lonny is also a futurist, scholar, professor of communications, and co-principal investigator for the Long Term and Futures Thinking in Education Project; Ahmed is an award-winning actor best known for his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars films, as well as a writer, director, producer, futurist, and science fiction devotee. They delve into how their shared understanding of the future-thinking orientation inherent in the Black American experience, and the lack of representation of the Black community in the science fiction and gaming worlds, led to their creation of a communal game experience devoted to “democratizing the future.” They also share what their work means for educators and schools everywhere.“For every algorithm of oppression, we have to have an Afrorithm of liberation.” What are Afrorithms? What does the concept of an “algorithm of oppression” mean for the way we build systems and structures throughout our society? Lonny and Ahmed trace the importance of futurist thinking from the historical realities of the slave trade, through the Drinking Gourd and the Underground Railroad, to the present day. With a keen eye toward the voices that are invited to tell and shape stories, and the perspectives that are left out, they examine how marginalization of different communities has shaped a culture that doesn't fully reflect its full diversity of heritage, ethnicity, experience, or thought. In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon ask Lonny and Ahmed to share the inspiration and process behind the creation of their imaginative gameplay experience, and how they have consciously structured a virtual world that invites inclusive participation. Exploring how sensitivity to the importance of every individual's perspective and intrinsic value develops student agency, Lonny and Ahmed reflect on the ways in which educational and social structures may stifle the emergence of vitally needed new voices and points of view. A rich and nuanced discussion sheds light on the growth of Afrofuturism and the potential the discipline holds for transforming the way we learn, share, communicate, and build our future worlds, In what ways do we need to interrogate our well-meaning current practices and beliefs to create meaningful long-term change? And what would education for the next generation look like if we radically shifted practices to bridge divides and intentionally design a more inclusive future?Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:How do we bring structured imagination into our classrooms and communities to reimagine more just, equitable, and abundant futures?What role does the future—or futurism—play in helping us better understand the present?In what ways can school leaders and communities intentionally bring more future-oriented practices into their planning and into their classrooms?What is the value of being “seen,” and what does it take to become a “seer” of our students and community members?Resource List:The Afrofuturist Podcast: Learn more about Afrofuturism and Lonny and Ahmed's work by listening to their podcast.Afro-Rithms From the Future: Check out Ahmed and Lonny's immersive game to democratize the future.Institute for the Future: Familiarize yourself with Lonny's work as a research affiliate for IFTF.The Long Now Foundation: Check out the work of a foundation dedicated to long-term thinking.Afro-Rithms in Action: See Afro-Rithms From the Future played in this video from Fathomers.Community Futures School: Learn about Lonny's work to bring futures thinking and imagination to education.Black Speculative Arts Movement: Dive deeper into the world of Afrofuturism and structured imagination.In This Episode:“Afrofuturism is a combination of speculative fiction and science fiction and fantasy to envision alternative futures and memories about—about the future, leveraging our ancestral intelligence from the Black Diaspora, indigenous, people of color, but fundamentally based in the Black experience of the Middle Passage.” (2:12)“I think African people and those of African descent have always had the futurist mindset, the futurist thinking, and you know what I, what I like to talk about when we play Afro-Rithms, our game, is how as enslaved Africans were brought throughout the Western world, we had no choice but to look forward to a time where enslavement wasn't a possibility. Even the idea of the Civil Rights movement, and even before that, when we're talking about, you know, the 14th, 15th, 16th amendments in the United States, you have to be a futurist in the thinking in order to convince a body, a governmental body of which you have no representation in, that you are worth being moved from commodity to an actual human being.” (4:48)“A lot of times with futures thinking, people don't invest the amount of time that I think is necessary into futures thinking because they believe they can't afford it. Right. I think most people look at the past and try to learn from the past, and hedge the present on the past without looking forward to the future.” (10:03)“The screen is a portal to the universe. And if you are not taking advantage of the portal to the universe, the students are going to find another way to do it.” (11:25)“And I just think, you know, like with any language, the kids come to it more naturally. They are like the natural linguists in adopting that language and implementing it. So my students, you know, have access to putting in—implementing their voices, and especially their own cultural experiences into the game, that really expands and gets them excited about doing this work.” (22:00)“What I am interested in is letting you know that you are the only you in this universe, and that is special. And I want to hear what you have to say, right? I don't want you to do algebra. I want you to do your algebra. What does that mean? I don't want you to learn history. I want you to be able to learn history your way, right?” (30:21)“But I think what's tantamount, what's really important, is we have to, to stop thinking about the 20th century industrial age type of thinking where everybody's going to be on an assembly line and get a job. I think we have to move more toward the individual idea of the process of each person. Believe that each student is special in their own right. And give the student the ability to get a dream rather than get a job.” (34:12)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guests:Ahmed Best was a founding member of the acid jazz group The Jazzhole and starred in the Broadway musical Stomp. He then went on to be the first CGI lead character in a motion picture, starring as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith.A graduate of the American Film Institute, Ahmed is an Ovation Award, LACC Award, Stage Raw Award, and Annie Award winner. He's the executive producer of The DL Chronicles (GLAAD award winner for Best Anthology series); co-director of the web series Bandwagon; and the creator, writer, and director for the web series This Can't Be My Life and the sci-fi comedy The Nebula. Ahmed is addicted to culture and devoted to the future.Lonny J Avi Brooks is an associate professor in the communication department at California State University, East Bay, which is, in turn, part of the newly formed School of Arts Media. He teaches in the public, professional, and organizational concentration in communication, and he is the co-principal investigator for the Long Term and Futures Thinking in Education Project. He has piloted the integration of long term and futures thinking into his communication courses for the last four years.His current manuscript is Working in the Future Tense@Futureland: Circulating Afrofuturetypes of Work, Culture and Racial Identity (in review). His latest articles include the forthcoming “Minority Reports from 2054: Building Collective and Critical Forecasting Imaginaries and Afrofuturetypes in Game Jamming” for the special 2018 issue of the Canadian journal TOPIA: Black Lives, Black Politics, Black Futures, and “Cruelty and Afrofuturism,” a special commentary section for the Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies journal. With Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, Lonny published “Student Visions of Multiple Urban Futures 2050” in Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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Are we creating school environments that allow us to see the “assumed awesomeness” in everyone? Now, more than ever before, school leadership is about modeling hope, resilience, and a sense of possibility, so we can support our communities in developing their collective superpowers.School leadership has never been easy, but at this moment in particular, there are new challenges and opportunities that could completely transform school, for better or worse. What is the role of a leader at this point in time? What are the practices that will help school leaders navigate the ambiguity and uncertainty ahead while staying true to a vision for their communities? This year, and the years ahead, are going to be a test of resilience, trust and courage. And to pass the test, CEO coach, author, and executive director of the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at Duke University Sanyin Siang believes we'll have to make a fundamental shift to prioritizing relationships in our schools.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon invite Sanyin Siang to apply her learnings from working with top leaders from the military, athletics, and global entrepreneurship to the school setting. What are the essential understandings, skills, and practices school leaders can adapt from other settings to create dynamic and supportive environments for students and staff? How can we learn from the legacies of great leaders like Coach K to transform our own teams and live lives of significance? It's a big topic to tackle at a time when many are focused on just getting students back to school and back to the traditions and systems we recognize. But Sanyin argues that in this moment of transformation, we have a unique opportunity to adapt our practices to help our schools thrive in a rapidly changing world.Examining resilience through the lens of leadership, Sanyin explains how individual resilience must give way to a deeper understanding of collective resilience. She offers insights into the difference between developing learning environments for transactional education—such as knowledge acquisition—and developing learning environments for relational education that recognizes the personal contributions each person can make to a team. And she vividly paints the picture of leadership as an art form that chips away all but the “assumed awesomeness” in each person, leaving every student and staff member ready to develop their own superpowers.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:How can seeing themselves as coaches help school leaders model more effective practices?How can we see the full range of value and possibility inherent in every person within our school communities? What does it look like to honor the contributions of each person to a larger team dynamic, rather than focusing on individual achievements? How can we measure the impact of great “assists?”What does it mean to live a life of significance, and how do we shift our leadership practices to model and support lives of significance for everyone in our communities?Resource List:The Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics: Learn more about the center's work on leadership and listen to its “Life of Significance” podcast series.Sanyin's Forbes Profile: Read Sanyin's articles on ethical leadership strategy. The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career: Sanyin's latest book on leadership and inspiration.How You Build Resilience for the Long Haul: Sanyin's article on resilience, which Lisa quotes during the episode.In This Episode:“When we look at our students, we're dealing with human possibilities here. Why can't we look at our teams the same way and say, ‘Hey, I wonder what awesomeness there is that have yet to be discovered about you, that you don't even realize, and how we can draw that out?'” (5:48)“I know the great coaches all care deeply and want to see only the best things happen for the person they're working with.” (9:03)“I think we're also moving from eras of transaction to eras of relationship. When you think about knowledge acquisition, that can feel transactional. Knowledge is very individualistic. But the world is moving so fast, no one single person could have the answers. And so we now are moving to a world of, instead of individuals, to teams. And so with moving to this world of teams, we have to talk about relationships.” (12:51)“And one thing I know about us high achievers is we tend to play our mistakes over and over and over in our head. Instead of thinking about them as mistakes and failures, can we just reframe failures as simply outcomes different than the ones we had hoped for or anticipated?” (19:39)“And what we've discovered is some key themes such as big moments matter, but to be true in the big moments, you have to be true in the small moments. And moments, moments matter.” (38:20)“What is the real role of education? Is it only about knowledge? Is it creating workers for the economy? Or is it about something bigger, more purposeful than that, which is unleashing human possibilities? Because teachers, I think the reason why we think of teachers, is they were among the first to really see us. And when we see someone that's how we matter.” (39:22)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guest:Sanyin Siang is on a mission to discover and enable greatness in others. Whether it's in her work as a CEO coach, educator, startup advisor, or author, she teaches individuals and organizations to find the champions within themselves and gives them the tools to keep on winning.Sanyin co-founded and leads Duke University's Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics at its Fuqua School of Business and is a professor with Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. The center is a leadership laboratory that convenes think-tank gatherings across sectors to explore today's complex leadership challenges. Sanyin has worked with four-star generals, world-class CEOs, athletes, and Nobel laureates.Her ideas on leading innovation, storytelling, culture in an age of disruption, and sports business have been featured in The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. She was named to LinkedIn's Top 20 Global Influencer Voices in 2017 and 2018. She is a member of the 86th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, the Department of Defense's oldest civilian program. Her book, The Launch Book: Motivational Stories for Launching Your Idea, Business, or Next Career, inspires readers through stories of different leaders and gives them an action plan for leveraging change using behavioral science concepts.She is also an advisor for GV (Google Ventures) and Sports Innovation Lab, a faculty member with Story Lab at Duke, and serves on the boards of the Emily K Center and North Carolina Museum of Life and Science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does it mean to be a citizen of this world, of our community, and of our future? What does “citizen” mean, anyway? And what is the role of schools in growing citizens—or what should it be?The current reality facing schools is one of rapidly changing social and political conditions that affect educators, students, and communities as a whole. Whether it's a question of how personal choices impact collective health, or finding the right balance in helping a school community process and respond to current events, school leaders are grappling with the role of educators in teaching citizen behavior in the classroom. Does our current “civics” curriculum go far enough in helping students identify ways they can become engaged members of a thriving society? Or is “civics” just the tip of the iceberg, leaving the larger topics of developing personal agency and community engagement unexplored in our schools?In this episode, Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon are joined by Baratunde Thurston, award-winning writer, activist, comedian, and host of the podcast How to Citizen With Baratunde. Together, they explore the idea of changing our mindset about the word “citizen,” from engaging with it as a noun to treating it as a verb—a set of guiding principles that can be translated into actions each person can take to contribute to society. Rather than thinking about “citizen” as describing where someone is from, Baratunde argues that we should think about it as describing how people behave as members of a community, and that schools should take an active role in helping students develop proactive citizen behaviors that will serve them, and their communities, well.Baratunde shares his “four pillars” of How to Citizen, as well as personal stories about how his experiences as a student at an independent school shaped his own worldview and citizen behaviors. He also explores ideas about the different ways in which school leaders, educators, and students can understand the concept of power and how both individuals and institutions can exercise power effectively. Lisa, Tim, and Baratunde delve together into questions about how schools can create environments that encourage students to clarify their own perspectives, engage in respectful debate, and find ways to participate in creating the change they want to see in their communities.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview about growing citizens and developing thriving citizen behaviors at school include:How does teaching students “how to citizen” fit into our broader ideas about the purpose of schools?Why, and how, should school leaders encourage the active teaching of “citizen” as a verb at this particular moment in history?How can schools provide appropriate opportunities for students to practice personal agency and changemaking?What's the difference between teaching civics and teaching citizening—and how can schools become more deliberate about including both?Resource List:Baratunde's Podcast: Listen to How to Citizen, the podcast that inspired Tim and Lisa's conversation with Baratunde about the role of schools in growing citizens.Baratunde's Newsletter: Sign up to get regular updates from Baratunde and learn more about his work.Living While Black: NBC's Brian Williams called Baratunde's TED Talk “one of the greatest of all time.”In This Episode:“I think the founding of public education, citizenship was a key element. And I remember always wondering, like, what did we mean when we said school was a place where we would create citizens? And are we in fact doing that? Have we ever really done it effectively? And for whom or what, who did we think of as a citizen and what opportunities were available?” (2:19)“(To be a citizen) is not just to be born in a certain place and inherit rights and privileges, but to live in this practice of self-government. We're trying to live together. We're trying to live together with a lot of difference and we're trying to rule ourselves. Not be ruled by others.” (3:08)“We're taught your power is your vote. And your vote is your voice. And it's partially true, but it's not the whole story.” (4:49)“It's such a basic concept, but educational institutions are not just there to educate the students. Everyone should be learning. And I think if you're the leader of a school, that does not exempt you from learning, and that's true in every domain where there's this kind of structural power.” (25:01)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guest:Baratunde Thurston holds space for hard and complex conversations with his blend of humor, wisdom, and compassion. Baratunde is an Emmy-nominated host who has worked for The Onion, produced for The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House, and wrote The New York Times bestseller How To Be Black. He's the executive producer and host of How To Citizen with Baratunde, which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020. Baratunde also received the Social Impact Award at the 2021 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards on behalf of How to Citizen with Baratunde. In 2019, he delivered what MSNBC's Brian Williams called “one of the greatest TED talks of all time.” Baratunde is unique in his ability to integrate and synthesize themes of race, culture, politics, and technology to explain where our nation is and where we can take it.Baratunde serves on the boards of BUILD and the Brooklyn Public Library and lives in Los Angeles, California. Follow Baratunde on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @baratunde Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's easy to say “have a good day at school!” But are we actually designing the environments that will support our students and staff in having good days?In a world that's only becoming more complex, simple concepts like having a good day can almost feel too rudimentary to think about. School leaders have plenty to do without worrying about who's having a good day, and who's not. But having a good day is much more complicated -- and far more important -- than it seems. Some of our most talented staff are burned out. Our highest-achieving students leave the classroom uncertain about their ability to navigate the world with confidence and agency. Leadership expert, executive coach and author Caroline Webb shares the research behind the science of thriving, and how changing your practices to help everyone have better days can fundamentally improve almost every aspect of education.In this episode, Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon grapple with how weary school leaders, staff and students can summon resilience and optimism to return to the classroom. Infusing schools with positive attitudes that instill lifelong learning dispositions, critical thinking skills, empathy and the ability to thrive seems like a big ask. But it's also the kind of environment we know will serve students in the long run. Caroline draws upon her extensive experience in using neuroscience and behavioral research to improve leadership practices, applying her practical methods to the school environment. Caroline's suggestions for leaders are both concrete and unique. Walking through the neuroscience behind why people react as they do in certain situations, she shares how to stop negative reactions in their tracks and create positive outcomes. She also gives advice to leaders on creating welcoming, affirmative cultures that make “having a good day” more possible for everyone in the school community. And she shares the science of intentionally directing our attention so we can make the most of our time and efforts.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview about having a good day and understanding the science of thriving include:How do we teach lasting resilience and thriving to our young people?How can we deliberately reframe our practices so that we uplift “soft skills” as critical to thriving in the long term? We've just come through a year of heightened ambiguity and uncertainty. What can we learn from leaders who navigated it successfully? How might we bring those lessons to our leaders and learners?How can school leaders encourage and deliberately design workplaces that support “having a good day?”Resource List:Caroline's Website -- Learn more about Caroline and her work on leadership and behavioral scienceCaroline's Science Essentials -- The must-have list of scientifically proven practices behind having a good dayHow to Have a Good Day -- Stay up to date with Caroline's consulting practice and bookHow To Have A Good Day in Uncertain Times -- Caroline's video series on thriving despite ambiguityBehavioral Science Will Be More Important Than Ever in the 4th Industrial Revolution -- “We're still uniquely placed to reach deep insight and connection with fellow humans, and to display wisdom and innovation in situations where there is no right answer.”In This Episode:“In order to be the best leader you can be, I've seen this time and again, with leaders in very challenging situations, you need to invest in yourself. You need to not see that as a luxury.You need to take the time to get to know yourself and your patterns, to take a step back perhaps and reflect on the past year and say, okay, now how do I equip myself as best I can for the continued uncertainty that we're all going to face?” (3:40)“I'm very much a fan of things that it takes three seconds to do, because I think, you know, our lives are busy and challenging and if an intervention is complex, then there's an excellent chance that we won't end up doing it. So just simply understanding that giving someone a little bolt of appreciation has such disproportionate effects on their state of reward and therefore their state and their ability to think expansively and in discovery mode rather than go on the defensive.” (19:10)“Leaders often think they're giving plenty of praise and they're not doing it half as much as they think, and they're not doing it in a way that is as effective as it could be.” (19:50)“I can shift my demeanor, then I can shift that person back towards the arms of their better angels.” (31:30)“And it's not hard to learn it, except it is.” (37:00)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guests:Caroline Webb is an executive coach, author and speaker known for being one of the world's leading experts in using insights from behavioral science to improve professional life. Her bestselling book on that topic, How To Have A Good Day, has been published in 14 languages and more than 60 countries. In a previous life she was a Partner at McKinsey and co-founder of their leadership practice, and in an even earlier life she was an economist working on public policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2020 made us think about school safety in a completely different way from before. As we move forward, how can we redefine what we mean by “safety,” and imagine new ways to create school environments, conditions, and cultures of true safety and well-being? It's not just physical safety measures, like masks and social distancing, that mark the pandemic as a turning point for school safety. Some experts believe that the main work of educators in 2021—and for the foreseeable future—will be trying to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and multiple big-picture social and cultural traumas on student achievement. In a landscape where trauma is an ongoing reality of American life for many members of our school communities, how do we envision forward-thinking systems that effectively treat emotional well-being as a core construct for teaching and learning? Celebrated architect Barry Svigals, who helped to reimagine and rebuild Sandy Hook Elementary School after the tragedy, joins us to share his philosophy on school safety. Also with us is Barry's friend and colleague Sam Seidel, Stanford K12 Lab director of strategy and research.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon invite Barry and Sam to share the foundations of the work they do to help communities reimagine school safety. Sam shares one of his moments of inspiration, revolving around a personal experience as a visitor during a school shooting drill that led him to question the purpose—and the hidden costs—of some of our common safety practices. Barry delves into the careful, compassionate, and surprising questions he asked school leaders at Sandy Hook when reimagining safety for their community. And both guests talk passionately about the importance of creating linkages between schools and their surrounding neighborhoods to help foster a sense of communal caring.In addition, Barry and Sam share simple, actionable ideas for exercises schools can implement right away to help them improve well-being and belonging. From starting with love to designing for joy, this conversation about school safety is filled with unexpected approaches to a challenging topic. Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview include:As school leaders think about safety choices they may make for the future—starting “anew”—what should they be considering? What questions should they be asking?If “safety is everyone's job,” what should school leaders know about creating holistic environments of safety for every member of their communities?If feeling safe and being safe are two different things, what does it mean to feel safe, and to be safe, at school?How do we manage the tension between protecting students from physical threats, while also allowing them to feel a sense of agency and empowerment?Resource List:Questions to Your Answers About School Safety: Barry and Sam's thoughtfully designed set of 47 guiding questions school leaders and communities can ask to help make empowered decisions about safety in their schools.Being Safe and Feeling Safe Are Not the Same Thing: “Pre-pandemic, our national obsession was the rare instances of extreme violence, while far greater problems stemming from an inattention to emotional well-being were often marginalized. But who would believe they were greater?”School Safety: Follow the work the Stanford K12 Lab is doing on reimagining school safety.Sam Seidel on Medium: Stay up-to-date with Sam's latest writings on education.The Overprotected Kid: “A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer.”Tim Gill on Child-Friendly Urban Planning and Design: “Children don't live in cities at all. Children live in neighborhoods. … A neighborhood that's good for children has lots of choice.”In This Episode:“The methodology that we need to bring to schools is that we need to start with questions. We need to begin with, first, the most fundamental of questions. We don't start with, ‘What kind of chain link fence should we have?' or ‘What kind of camera systems should we have?' or ‘Who should we hire to be security resource officers in our school?' I mean, a whole other host of things that superintendents and administrators of schools very often begin with. It is precisely the wrong place to begin, because as we know, for a hammer, all the world is a nail.” (10:30) “What allows for a joyful experience in your school? If all our strategies around school safety are put through that lens, you come up with a whole different set of outcomes.” (13:00)“I think we get too often caught up in this idea that it's a zero sum game, that if we prioritize physical safety, we automatically have to sacrifice emotional well-being. Or community.” (20:10)“If you want to know something about a school, there are three people you should talk to: the person at the front desk, the person who works in the cafeteria, and the person who is maintaining the school.” (24:30)“If you don't think kids can change things, think again. If you ask them to be involved, the most extraordinary things can come of it.” (29:20)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guests:Artist, architect, musician, keynote speaker, and thought leader Barry Svigals is helping communities and organizations become more creative and collaborative, making places that express who they are. Trained as both an artist and an architect, he wove those two worlds together in the founding of an architecture+art firm that he led for more than 30 years. At the heart is his passion to challenge his own creativity as well as the creativity of others in service of what is needed in the world. A graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Architecture, Barry's focus on community engagement as well as art enlivening architecture contributed to a long list of projects for diverse clients, among them major universities, corporations, and institutions. The firm's best known project is the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, completed in 2016. Sam Seidel thinks, writes, speaks, and designs learning experiences at the intersections of education, race, culture, and design. He is the director of K12 strategy and research at the Stanford d.school. Sam is also the author of Hip Hop Genius. He has taught in a variety of settings, from first grade to community college, and directed youth programs for young people affected by incarceration. He speaks nationally about education issues and writes for the Huffington Post, among other publications. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine that we have been given the opportunity to completely redesign the concept of school. Where would we go? During the COVID19 pandemic, educators have been forced to reimagine almost every aspect of school, changing our ideas about what's truly essential. As we rest, recover and reflect on the past year, we can also refine our vision for the future. NAIS President Donna Orem and celebrated author and speaker on the future of education, Michael B. Horn, join us to talk about redesigning the purpose and future of schools, collaborations between K12 and higher education, and creating a culture of wellbeing in school communities.In this episode, hosts Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon dig into a number of big ideas, starting with a full examination of the purpose of schools. Donna brings up the historical purpose of education, but one relevant theme that surfaces throughout the episode is that purpose is also the future of schools. But how do school leaders and parents understand the purpose of school? Are they on the same page? And where does higher ed fit in?Building on questions about the way parents and educators view student achievement, Michael points out areas of disconnect between K12 schools and higher education. He shares his views on what needs to change in terms of creating a stronger culture of collaboration between colleges and K12, as well as how the current dynamic feeds a culture of fear among parents. Donna also wonders how that culture of fear holds schools back from creating a more purpose-driven educational environment, and how parents and schools could become better partners in helping students pursue their passions.Some of the key questions Tim and Lisa explore in this interview about the purpose of schools include:We need to increase collaboration between K12 and higher ed. What could that look like? Independent schools should become centers of wellbeing. How might that be the defining value proposition for many of our schools? Purpose-driven education is the future. How do we design schools and universities to develop passion, purpose, and well-being? How do we move from a narrative of fear to one of hope?Resource List:Begin With the End: What's the Purpose of Schooling? -- “As we seek to build schools back better, individual schooling communities must be clear about purpose and priorities.” Michael Horn, in Forbeshttps://michaelbhorn.com/ -- Keep up with Michael's workThe National Association of Independent Schools -- Stay up-to-date on all the developments in the Independent Schools communityHopes and Fears: Working with Today's Independent School Parents -- Make a major difference in how well your school works with parents. Learn practical, empathic advice from psychologists Rob Evans and Michael Thompson in this book from the National Association of Independent Schools.The Future of Education Substack -- “We're living during an amazing opportunity to transform learning worldwide so that all individuals can achieve their full potential.”Future U Podcast - Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn discuss what's next for higher ed and talk with the newsmakers you want to hear from most.Class Disrupted Podcast -- A weekly pandemic education podcast hosted by Michael Horn and Diane TavennerMichael Horn on Youtube -- Hear from Michael on the latest topics of importance in the education worldMore books by Michael:Disrupting Class Choosing CollegeBlended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve SchoolsIn This Episode:“I went back a few years ago and found the historical purpose -- which is to bring people to as full a realization as possible of what it is to be human. Isn't that the greatest purpose to think about? What does it mean to be human today?” (6:36)"Hope is your super power. Don't let anybody or anything make you hopeless. Hope is the enemy of injustice. Hope is what will get you to stand up when people tell you to sit down." (11:59)“I do think that the walls between higher ed and K-12 need to come down in more concerted ways. And you think about how we have divisions between those two institutions. That is a function of history, not perhaps what we need in the current moment.” (19:22)“So I think if K through 12 and higher ed can get together to really figure out how to open up these pathways, how to help students really explore their purpose and to, you know, really meet that potential head on. It's going to create a different society for us and, you know, that's my hope. That's how I want to use my super power, in creating the world that looks like that. “ (26:29)“We need to blow past the zero sum game to get to a positive sum world.” (27:30)Full TranscriptAbout Our Guests:Donna Orem is the President of the National Association of Independent Schools. Prior to joining NAIS, she was the vice president for products and services development at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).Orem speaks frequently about leadership, governance, innovation, trends in independent education, workforce development, and student health and well-being. She is co-author of the NAIS Trustee Handbook and contributes regularly to Independent School magazine, the Independent Ideas blog, the NAIS Trendbook, and Looking Ahead. Connect with Donna on LinkedInMichael Horn speaks and writes about the future of education and works with a portfolio of education organizations to create a world in which all individuals can build their passions and fulfill their potential. He is the author of many books, including Choosing College, and Goodnight Box, a children's story. Michael is also a senior strategist at Guild Education, which partners with leading employers and organizations to help offer education and upskilling opportunities to America's workforce. He is also the co-founder of and a distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a non-profit think tank.Connect with Michael on Twitter: @michaelbhornConnect with Michael on LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you're in luck, as you're about to find out a whole lot more about why you'd need such a thing… and why you won't find it, alas, in today's conventional curriculum (including corporate L&D). In the first full episode of our new RedThread podcast—our deep dive into what we're calling capitalism's focus on ‘The Skills Obsession'—we meet passionate educator, innovator and bestselling author Lisa Kay Solomon. Designer in Residence at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (‘the d.school') at Stanford University, Lisa presents in her dialog with Stacia, Dani and Chris something of a masterclass in what thinking about the future actually needs to consist of—and how that feeds into her conviction that, “learning is the currency of possibility.”

Lisa is a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, where she focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like The Future's Happening to help students learn and practice the skills they don't yet know they need. Delve deep into the world of design thinking and learn how it relates to disruptive innovation, explore the power of an outside/in perspective, and why it is so important to identify the fixed elements in any situation.

In this episode, Lisa Kay Solomon from Stanford University’s Institute for Design, explains her role as a futurist, shares why developing a futurist mentality is critical for heads and trustees to support their school communities, and how independent school boards can design and engage in strategic conversations. Lisa is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of constant change. Lisa is the founding Chair of Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University. She coauthored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and more recently, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation. Lisa is a frequent keynote speaker on innovation, design thinking and leadership at global conferences and business schools. A passionate educator, Lisa is a “Designer in Residence” at Stanford University’s Institute for Design and has taught at the revolutionary Design MBA program at California College of the Arts.

“Vote with Love” “Don't stay in unnecessary pain” It's a mantra that our next guest, educator, designer, speaker, author, and creator of www.votebydesign.org, Lisa Kay Solomon leads with. Why do we stay in “unnecessary pain” when we have the agency to choose a better outcome? Further, are we even aware that we possess this agency in the first place? And as for choice, how do we make one if we lack the necessary information to make an informed one? And how can a focus on empathy, vulnerability and community help empower the agency we all have to make these choices? It gets deep. Tune in and vote (and if you need help with that last part votebydesign.org is a fantastic tool! Just sayin…) Listen to Radio Zamunda on all the podcast-y things like Apple Podcasts, and Spotify and the rest. For all things Lisa Kay Solomon please head here (she's truly amazing): www.lisakaysolomon.com www.votebydesign.org Links to articles The Case for Futures Centered Design, Lisa Kay Solomon Living, Learning, and Leading in a Pandemic, Lisa Kay Solomon From Apathy to Agency What does the Future need from us? What's next: Designing for After the Election Music: “A Piece of Light” -The Roots “Time (You and I)” -Khruangbin “53.59” -Childish Gambino “Brand New Colony” - Postal Service --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radio-zamunda--podcasts/message

Today's guest is Lisa Kay Solomon. She's a designer in residence at Stanford's D school and Founding Chair of the Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University. Lisa is a passionate speaker, author, and educator and thought leader focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible, and resilient in the face of increasing complexity and change. Lisa's work focuses on developing teachers and amplifying skills, mindsets, and behaviors required to lead positive change. She's co-author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact, how design strategic conversations accelerate change, and most recently, design a better business: new tools, skills and mindset for strategy and innovation. Lisa lives with her family in Menlo Park, California.

Chris Fitzgerald Walsh chats with Lisa Kay Solomon about Vote by Design - a non-partisan learning experience to ignite the next generation of voters. World renowned futurist Eammon Kelly also drops in to put a smile on Lisa's face and share insights on the forces shaping education, the economy, and society.¯------------------ ◠‿◠ ------------------ /¯ school180.com@school_180Chris Fitzgerald Walsh: @fitzwalshLisa Kay Solomon: www.lisakaysolomon.comVote By Design: www.votebydesign.orgEamonn Kelly: Powerful Times

What is design? How do you design a life you love? Designer, educator, accomplished author and all-around amazing woman Lisa Kay Solomon tells us how she made the choices that shaped her life. We learn about taking leaps of faith from quitting varsity tennis on an ivy league team and shifting to part-time bartending to moving across the country to work at a startup after turning down a prestigious consulting job. Lisa is a passionate educator, author, speaker and thought leader focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of increasing complexity and change. Lisa teaches at Stanford’s d. School and Singularity University and coauthored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and, more recently, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation.

At this week's Round Table, Sara Chough, Inica Kotasthane, and Riya Mehta spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon-- educator, best-selling author, Designer in Residence at Stanford University's Institute for Design, and creator of Vote by Design, an innovative curriculum and set of workshops to help teens reflect on the personal qualities and political values that are most important to US when it comes to electing leaders. We think you'll be as fascinated and inspired by the approach as we are. Thank you for joining us! Some additional resources from Lisa Solomon Vote by Design Leadership Criteria and Debate Worksheet Knowledge is Power: Rebooting Schoolhouse Rock to Fix our Civics Education Super Tuesday: What does the future need from us? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nextgenpolitics/message

José Antonio Álvarez López, CEO de Exes y profesor de economía en la URJC.Episodio número 38. Lisa Kay Solomon forma parte de esa iniciativa fascinante que es Singularity University de la que os hablado tantas veces.El caso es que Lisa ha publicado un artículo muy interesante, que podéis encontrar en las descripción del vídeo y el podcast, sobre cómo ser LÍDERES EN EL MUNDO EXPONENCIAL, del que hemos hablado en otras ocasiones y que no es nada sencillo, hay que olvidar lo anterior, lo líneal, para pensar en lo exponencial, como escribe Lisa, para “aprender a navegar exitosamente por un mundo en cambio constante” y para ello, hay que “aprender a transformar la sorpresa en conciencia de anticipación” los líderes “necesitan ser curiosos sobre el futuro” Este es un rasgo muy interesante, ya que no sólo hay que preparase para las adaptaciones a lo que está, sino que hay que imaginar como, de forma exponencial, el futuro puede comportarse y liderar, e incluso, generar el cambio y para ello, el líder, esté en el ámbito que esté, deberá crear, innovar, experimentar para conseguir entender de forma muy profunda al cliente, al usuario que está a otro lado de la transacción.El concepto de líder, este líder tan absolutamente “innovador exponencial” tiene un reto fantástico frente a él, ojalá muchos líderes consigan, o consigamos ser capaces de imaginar estos logros.BeDigital es un espacio de divulgación de las nuevas tecnologías aplicadas a la transformación digital y la disrupción actuales conformado por varios espacios, BeDigital en Profundidad, BeDigital Conceptos y BeDigital en Femenino.SI ES TECNOLOGÍA, TIENES QUE CONTARLO.Ya sabéis que estos capítulos se presentan simultáneamente en Vídeo y PodcastSon CANALES ABIERTOS a todo el que quiera participar, queremos contar con todos vosotros. Si sois expertos en “lo digital” os queremos entrevistar, compartir lo que sabéis, ofrecer al mundo el conocimiento compartido, en abierto y gratuito. Nuestro PTM (Propósito Transformador Masivo): Mejorar significativamente el bienestar de las personas del planeta a través del conocimiento útil de “lo digital” y de sus aplicaciones.Suscríbete a nuestros canales de Youtube: https://bit.ly/2z6ekQ1Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/user/bedigitalIvoox: https://www.ivoox.com/bedigital_aj_15666377_1.htmliTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/bedigital-conceptos/id1459368634https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/bedigital-en-profundidad/id1459513186https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/bedigital-en-femenino/id1470201033Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5SK4Bi9ykCfOGJHbNgcdq0?si=lbKJsN_DTNazghqE8tEb7Ahttps://open.spotify.com/show/6Lraqe9D9y4Ef0B6YWQWQL?si=XB7_tKyxTUq73awlKgd8Twhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7rKcCPCStlMdlMJIQGD7xLEn nuestra web: https://www.be-digital.eso escríbenos a: info@be-digital.es

Aviad Stein is the Director of Client Partnerships at Alpha, a consumer insights company. He has worked with Tumbler, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, and Dun & Bradstreet on customer-centric innovation strategies. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Aviad about his experiences with experimentation and digital transformations. Podcast Highlights: - Aviad has taken many companies of different sizes through digital transformation. Created an innovation incubator at Nordstrom. Built online and mobile ecosystem for users engaging in-store and online. Bloomberg Digital team developed Audio/Video digitalization. Bringing content to consumers and creating partnerships. - Advice for working in large companies? Take one challenge at a time. At Nordstrom, identified acquiring new users. How can tech support them? Bring teams together to solve this goal. The business wanted to leverage tech. Customers wanted tech to engage with the company. Gathered customer feedback, then took to tech to create those services and create value. - Alpha Platform: Helps corporations manage products: feature, functionality, and target audience; Runs experiments based on hypothesis or assumptions on ideas at speed and scale to get directional input, and understand market opportunity. Smaller teams can get the same knowledge, as larger teams, and move faster. - Alpha works with one-third of Fortune 100 companies. $900 billion on experimentation is going to waste this year. Need the test and learn methodology. Alpha is a collaboration tool that enables teams to move much faster, based on input from their target audiences. - Mistakes of product people - Can't take action on relevant data. Can they identify business goal and objectives? Need to measure the success of what you've been validating. Must be able to execute successfully. - The Alpha Team is coming to the IO Summit with the Alpha Bar. Helps companies test different assumptions about their business. For More Information For more information, check out alphahq.com to request a demo or connect with Aviad Stein at aviad.stein@alphaux.com For similar podcasts, check out:  Ep. 20 – Lisa Kay Solomon with “Design a Better Business” Ep. 34 – Laura Klein w/ lean startup for product design Ep. 48 – Founders of Nex.tt This week's podcast is sponsored by RSM - Audit, Tax, & Consulting Services for the Middle Market Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play. FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Aviad Stein is the Director of Client Partnerships at Alpha, a consumer insights company. He has worked with Tumbler, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, and Dun & Bradstreet on customer-centric innovation strategies. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Aviad about his experiences with experimentation and digital transformations. Podcast Highlights: - Aviad has taken many companies of different sizes through digital transformation. Created an innovation incubator at Nordstrom. Built online and mobile ecosystem for users engaging in-store and online. Bloomberg Digital team developed Audio/Video digitalization. Bringing content to consumers and creating partnerships. - Advice for working in large companies? Take one challenge at a time. At Nordstrom, identified acquiring new users. How can tech support them? Bring teams together to solve this goal. The business wanted to leverage tech. Customers wanted tech to engage with the company. Gathered customer feedback, then took to tech to create those services and create value. - Alpha Platform: Helps corporations manage products: feature, functionality, and target audience; Runs experiments based on hypothesis or assumptions on ideas at speed and scale to get directional input, and understand market opportunity. Smaller teams can get the same knowledge, as larger teams, and move faster. - Alpha works with one-third of Fortune 100 companies. $900 billion on experimentation is going to waste this year. Need the test and learn methodology. Alpha is a collaboration tool that enables teams to move much faster, based on input from their target audiences. - Mistakes of product people - Can't take action on relevant data. Can they identify business goal and objectives? Need to measure the success of what you've been validating. Must be able to execute successfully. - The Alpha Team is coming to the IO Summit with the Alpha Bar. Helps companies test different assumptions about their business. For More Information For more information, check out alphahq.com to request a demo or connect with Aviad Stein at aviad.stein@alphaux.com For similar podcasts, check out:  Ep. 20 – Lisa Kay Solomon with “Design a Better Business” Ep. 34 – Laura Klein w/ lean startup for product design Ep. 48 – Founders of Nex.tt This week's podcast is sponsored by RSM - Audit, Tax, & Consulting Services for the Middle Market Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play. FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Listen, to learn, from well-known author and commentator on Workplace Learning issues Lisa Kay Solomon on: How a part of The Philly Diaspora ended up in Menlo Park; Why you can be scared or fascinated by the future - but you can’t ignore it; What ‘Outside-In Thinking’ about change would look like - and how it could help your organisation; Why CEOs need to drop the PowerPoint and start a meeting with a bit of Bold Wonderment… but not in a Kumbaya Way; What a journey from Transactional to Mission Learning is all about; Why our minds are coded to remember, not empathise - and how you can exploit that; and finally the interesting - and surprising - self-test to find out if you’re a Designer, too.

If you enjoy listening to my podcast, please take a minute to leave a review here! My guest this week is Chris Pirie, who until recently, was General Manager in Microsoft’s SMGSR organization. Chris led the training and readiness for all Microsoft’s sales, marketing, and technical field employees worldwide. Chris joined Microsoft in September 2004 as Senior Director of Learning Product Development, and subsequently he held global sales and marketing responsibility for Microsoft Learning, the organization’s customer training business. Chris has launched The Learning Futures Group which helps organizations rethink their Learning and Development strategy in the face of historic disruption and change in the workplace. What You Will Learn from this Interview: The most agile companies win: How does learning support this strategy? Bold experiments in learning: How do organizations, companies and networks create the right environment to foster individual agility and fitness to become a better learner? Companies relaxing with learning: It’s not micromanaging the process, but creating an environment that encourages a learning culture and putting some scaffolding around it. Old frameworks and top-down modules of learning are dying: Today the expertise isn’t always at the top of the network or the organization. Things are moving too quickly for old structured processes. The power of the metaphor with learning: Giving companies the ability to take on new ideas and develop new intellectual property, like patents, by their ability to ingest new ideas from outside their four walls. Advanced research in learning using neuroscience: Offering better ways to understand how to move information into long-term memory. Discovering which social and physical conditions can accelerate or throttle the learning process. With this, I want to welcome you to my interview with Chris Pirie. Major Take-Aways from this Episode are: There are about 170 documented cognitive biases, which are a fundamental part of how the brain operates. Research coded into workable models will help learning experience designers to leverage brain chemistry and biases. Collapse expertise’s from Edge to Core of the business. How to use hackathons to build learning cultures. Organizations are creating open opportunities for learning where people teach each other and learn together – using all the resources of the company to do things that they’re passionate about. Scaffolding learning strategies. Organizations not just voicing the importance of a learning culture, but showing their commitment by creating the “scaffolding” to support building one. People organizing their own learning vs. being told what, when, and how to learn. New models are proving that it’s much more useful to give people the skills to organize their own world rather than structuring everything for them. Leaders viewing learning as a source of growth and a source of competitive advantage. Organizations make space for people to bring their natural ability to learn, to be curious and teach each other. Read the Full Transcript Here About Chris Pirie Chris brings a passion for driving disruptive change and innovation, a proven business and people leader of large functional teams in very dynamic enterprise environments. Skilled in strategic Partnerships with leading business schools such as INSEAD, and learning related technology and service providers. Chris has launched The Learning Futures Group to help organizations rethink their Learning and Development strategy in the face of historic disruption and change in the workplace. He was formerly a Partner-Level General Manager at Microsoft and VP of eLearning at Oracle. He built deep expertise in, the digital transformation of workplace learning and technology; including B2C product management, product marketing, enterprise software sales, channel partnerships, sales and technical field enablement, digital transformation, marketing and award winning large scale global talent development programs such as PitchPerfect, Microsoft Business School, Oracle Learning Network, and Microsoft Certifications. Ways to Connect with Chris Pirie LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Instagram  Resources + Links The Learning Future’s Group: Chris recently left Microsoft and started The Learning Future’s Group which helps organizations rethink their Learning and Development strategy in the face of historic disruption and change in the workplace. Why Everything You Know About How Companies Learn Is About to Change, Interview with Lisa Kay Solomon for SingularityHub The Digital Disruption of Corporate Learning – Bertelsmann CLO Summit recoup about digital disruption and transformation discussions from the summit in Berlin Flat White or the Start of a Valuable Learning Journey? This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes. Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you’re doing this for the first time. About Bill Murphy Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Individuals get disrupted, not companies Barry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. In this episode, Barry and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption.  Barry came to the U.S. from Ireland and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He then joined a mobile games development company, which helped him develop an experimental mindset. After this, he moved to Australia to make next-gen content for E-learning in Southeast Asia. Finally, he joined a consultancy in London called ThoughtWorks, where he helped companies reinvent their portfolio management and learn how to fund and test ideas.  In Lean Enterprise, Barry’s first book, he highlights how to create experimentation in enterprises. Amazon does this well because the culture encourages cheap and fast experimentation. They can gather better data, unlearn existing beliefs, and learn new behavior which helps them break through and innovate. In Barry's new book, Unlearn, he says people recognize that they always have to be learning, but it’s tough to learn new things. The limiting factor is the ability to unlearn behavior especially when it’s made the person successful. Barry highlights the most bureaucratic regulated companies and describes how they are making amazing changes.  Barry also hosts Exec Camp, where execs leave their businesses for up to eight weeks to launch new companies that are intended to disrupt their existing companies. It’s like an accelerator for senior leaders. They learn and unlearn new things about themselves. For example, the International Airlines Group came to Exec Camp, to launch six new ideas to disrupt the airline industry. They tested ideas with customers and had to unlearn the behavior of pushing ideas on customers. They soon began to see everything as an assumption. We’re conditioned to believe that the way we solve a customer problem is the only way to do it, however, tech changes how we can solve problems. Individuals get disrupted not companies.  FOR MORE INFO To find out more, go to Barryoreilly.com on Twitter @BarryOReilly. You can also find his book on Amazon. If you liked this podcast, try Ep 99 Ryan Jacoby with Machine, Ep 43 Ash Maurya, Author of Scaling Lean, and Ep. 20 Lisa Kay Solomon with Design a Better Business GET THE LATEST RESOURCES Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Barry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. He and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption.  Barry came to the U.S. originally from Ireland on a student visa and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He soon joined a mobile games development company and created a popular game called Wireless Pets. Soon large corporations started calling asking the company to build games. This caused Barry to develop an experimental mindset. Soon Barry moved to Australia to build next-gen content for E-learning in Southeast Asia. Game design and game theory is teaching new skills in safe environment. It allows for rapid experimentation and behavior. Then Barry joined a consultancy in London called ThoughtWorks. They were pioneers in Agile software development where he worked with companies to reinvent portfolio management and how to fund and test ideas.  Barry’s first book, Lean Enterprise, highlights how to create experimentation in enterprises. Amazon does this well because they have a culture that makes experimentation cheap and fast. They are able to gather better data and are unlearning existing beliefs and learning new ones that can help them break through and innovate.    In his new book, Unlearn, Barry says people recognize that we always have to be learning, but it’s tough to learn new stuff. The limiting factor is the ability to unlearn behavior especially when it’s made you successful. Letting go and moving away from things that limit us, like outdated info. Barry highlights the most bureaucratic regulated companies in his book and describes how these people are making amazing changes.  Barry also hosts Exec Camp, where execs leave their businesses for up to 8 weeks to launch new businesses to disrupt their existing companies. It’s like an accelerator for senior leaders. They learn and unlearn new things about themselves. For example, the International Airlines Group came to Exec Camp, to launch six new ideas to disrupt the airline industry. They tested ideas with customers and had to unlearn the behavior of pushing ideas on customers. They soon began to see everything as an assumption.  We’re conditioned to believe that the way we solve a customer problem is the only way to do it. Tech changes how to solve problems. Startups are able to start with a blank set of assumptions. Individuals get disrupted not companies. If you are adapting your features and behaviors, you won’t be disrupted. May need to shift your tactics or beliefs.  FOR MORE INFO To find out more, go to Barryoreilly.com on Twitter @BarryOReilly. You can also find his book on Amazon. If you liked this podcast, try Ep 99 Ryan Jacoby with Machine, Ep 43 Ash Maurya, Author of Scaling Lean, and Ep. 20 Lisa Kay Solomon with Design a Better Business GET THE LATEST RESOURCES Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

http://austinmeyerfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lisa-Solomon-Promo-Video.mp4 This week on the podcast I am chatting with Lisa Kay Solomon. Lisa does it all. She is a speaker, an author, and an educator focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of increasing complexity and change. She is a currently a Designer in Residence at Stanford University's Institute for Design and founding Chair of Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University. Lisa co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and, more recently, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation. In the first half of this conversation we take a close look at that best selling first book, Moments of Impact. Specifically, we talk about the idea of Designing Conversations. What does that mean? How does it relate to telling stories? And what are strategies we can use to design for impact? In the second half, we talk about the class Lisa is currently teaching at Stanford called Creativity Rules: Inventing the Future, and discuss the value of telling stories about the future. Hope you enjoy!

Being the host of a podcast, I’ve had my share of great conversations, but I’ve also had some that were…not. Whether the blame should be placed on myself, my guest, or both of us, can be left up to interpretation, but I find it interesting that something we do every day—converse with others—is also something that we receive very little, if any, formal training in how to do well. Lisa Kay Solomon wants to change all that. Lisa is the author of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change, and she is passionate about great conversation. In the business world, this passion translates into a careful examination of team meetings and huddles, and Lisa is not afraid to shy away from the awful truth: most meetings are terrible. Americans spend (or waste) 1.2 billion hours every year in meetings, an average of four hours per week per person, and yet most employees feel that the most important discussions occur after a meeting is over, when discovery oriented conversations take place. Show notes and links from the podcast available at http://whitneyjohnson.com/lisa-kay-solomon

Wall Street Journal bestseller and Stanford d. School Professor, Lisa Kay Solomon teaches how to Apple, Dyson vacuums and other leading companies develop a customer experience that systemically and repeatedly wows their ideal and likely buyers.

Ryan Caligiuri speaks with New York Times Best Selling Author, Lisa Kay Solomon the author of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, as they break down her book into a handful of golden nuggets!---Rate and Review the show and send a screen capture of your submission to Podcast@RyanCaligiuri.com and get entered for a draw to win a prize greater than $1,000 every quarter. Enter once and be entered forever!---Tweet any book recommendations you have for Ryan using the hashtag #CutTheCrap on Twitter and everywhere else. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Das Schachspiel galt lange Zeit als Sinnbild für strategische Planung: es ging um Analyse, vorausdenken und darum, sich in die richtige Position zu bringen. Die Unternehmensumwelt hat sich seitdem geändert. Was vor 20 Jahren noch ein guter strategischer Ansatz war, führt heute wahrscheinlich nicht mehr weit. Auch das Bild vom Schachspiel beschreibt das Wesen der strategischen Planung nicht mehr zutreffend. Wir brauchen ein neues Synonym:   Chris Ertel und Lisa Kay Solomon schreiben dazu in Ihrem Buch Moments of Impact - How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change:   "If strategy was like a high-stakes chess game a few decades ago, it's more like hockey today - fast, risky, and hard to follow. There's at least as much improvisataion as there is planning involved."   In dieser Episode erfährst Du, warum das Bild vom Hockey heute tatsächlich eine besseres Sinnbild für strategische Planung ist als Schach.   Bonus Täglich ein schneller Impuls für Deinen Erfolg - Das bekommst Du mit dem Strategieexperten-Erfolgstipp

Leaders face an onslaught of new challenges that demand increasingly innovative solutions. Yet their approaches to finding them often get stuck in either blue-sky brainstorming or bottom-line decision making. Instead, leaders need a path that blends these two approaches -- a middle road that engages not only the minds of their teams, but also their hearts. To address these challenges, Lisa Kay Solomon co-authored the book, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change. Lisa is an innovation, leadership, and design expert and Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University. Her writing has been featured in BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. In this interview, we talk about: Why we need to bring the human side -- our hearts and minds -- to strategic conversations How designing strategic conversations is an important leadership skill How strategic conversations differ from brainstorming and decision making Why strategic conversations are about more than getting the right answer Why these kinds of conversations are about the future of our organizations, of challenging the status quo, and of multiple perspectives, whether that involves new products and services, entry into new geographic regions, new business models, or new ways of staffing How strategic conversations can help us build understanding and help us see what success looks like The power of staying in the exploration space, staying expansive in our thinking Why these conversations are about mindsets, emotions, new ways of thinking, and new possibilities versus logic, right over wrong, or defending particular points of view Why strategic conversations require leaders to develop greater self-awareness and an understanding of their biases Why strategy is emotional How our education and schooling tees us up to think of strategic planning as all about the correct, numeric answer The important role design thinking, empathy, and supposed soft skills play in strategic conversations Why designing strategic conversations is a craft, not a crapshoot The importance of engaging multiple perspectives rather than just identifying participants -- paying attention to diverse ages, people outside the organization, visualizations, etc Why we should prepare participants before bringing them together, so that we set them up for success How background readings, information on who else will be in the room, meeting goals, etc, can help participants do their best work Why we want to design backwards when bringing people together for strategic conversations The importance of asking what participants will be thinking or saying to friends before, during, and after strategic planning meetings Why framing the issue of the strategic conversation is so important and so challenging How framing the issue is like providing the picture on the puzzle box because it is about setting the parameters How we can reframe discussions of market competitors by asking who is delivering value in new ways to our customers Why a school considering adding a high school asked should we do it versus can we do it Why leaders need to get comfortable bringing emotion into the room How setting the agenda is about making it an experience, getting people invested, and engaging emotionally, rather than just about getting things done Why we should value discussing our fears, what we care about, and what makes us nervous about the issues we are discussing Addressing the yeah but of long-term vs short-term thinking and planning Being able to speak to the reality of organizational politics and turf wars Having empathy for knowing how to engage with one another in these ways -- with visualizations, storytelling, conversations, and new ways of thinking Recognizing that strategic thinking can be learned and that it is a set of skills we are not taught and that probably did n...

This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard My guest for this episode is Lisa Kay Solomon. If you are into Design Thinking, expanding you leadership skills, innovation, want to learn how to be agile, flexible, nimble and execute both personally and collaboratively with your teams as an IT Business leader, this conversation is for you. The reason that I asked Lisa onto the show is that she is one of the foremost experts in Design Thinking. We discuss: Why the study of Design Thinking is so important moving forward? The importance of the unique human ability to tell stories. MBA is now called the “Masters in Business Ambiguity”. The definition of Design Thinking. How do you answer the question, "Is it just drawing pictures?" Resistance, Hero's Journey, Corporate Anti-bodies:How to generate ideas and protect yourself against naysayers. What is the definition of a strategic conversation? When is the last time you felt comfortable not knowing the answers? Leading with Curiosity. Best Question on All: If things have gone well, what has happened? What makes for a great day? If you had a perfect ending to your day, what would it look like? Overcoming “yeah butts…” About Lisa Kay Solomon Lisa Kay Solomon is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on building the leadership skills required to ignite change and create lasting impact. Lisa is Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented leaders who want to use exponential technologies to positively impact the world. Lisa coauthored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change (Simon & Schuster), which Publisher's Weekly called a guide every frustrated meeting-goer should read, with advice they should all implement. In it, she provides leaders the tools and frameworks to create strategic conversations and design team meetings that shape the future of their organizations. Her new book, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, was just released with Wiley Publishing. She and her co-authors provide a full set of design tools, strategies and practices that allow individuals and organizations to be more flexible and resilient in the face of constant change. Lisa is a frequent keynote speaker on innovation, design thinking and leadership at global conferences. She has taught at the revolutionary Design MBA program at California College of the Arts and has developed and led popular classes for Stanford d. School such as Networking By Design and Design With the Brain in Mind. A passionate educator, Lisa works extensively with K12 educators and school leaders. She is the Executive Producer of the annual Inspired4Schools conference, a design leadership program for educators, and is on the planning committee for The Nueva School's Innovative Learning Conference, a biennial gathering for trends related to the future of education. Her articles and ideas have appeared in Forbes, Business Week, Medium, Inc., WSJ and the Huffington Post. Lisa earned a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from New York University - Stern School of Business. She resides in Menlo Park with her husband and two daughters. Join her and the conversation about leading innovation at LisaKaySolomon.com. Read full transcript here. How to get in touch with Lisa Kay Solomon Website Contact Form Twitter LinkedIn Website: http://lisakaysolomon.com/ Books: Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations to Accelerate Change Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation The Hero’s Journey – Joseph Campbell and His Life and Work Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers , and Challengers Other Resources: Singularity University Speaker Profile California College of the Arts Profile This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard, a powerful tool that helps you communicate the status of your IT Security program visually in just a few minutes. Credits: * Outro music provided by Ben’s Sound Other Ways To Listen to the Podcast iTunes | Libsyn | Soundcloud | RSS | LinkedIn Leave a Review If you enjoyed this episode, then please consider leaving an iTunes review here Click here for instructions on how to leave an iTunes review if you're doing this for the first time. About Bill Murphy Bill Murphy is a world renowned IT Security Expert dedicated to your success as an IT business leader. Follow Bill on LinkedIn and Twitter.

If you want to build a Steve Jobs-like environment, where innovation and creativity reign, cookie-cutter won’t cut it. Learn from management consulting expert Lisa Kay Solomon as she discusses how to design strategic conversations that accelerate change. Lisa will show you how to get your employees to view themselves as innovators, not clock-punchers. entreleadership.com/podcast Create Core Values Tool Infusionsoft's Free Email Templates Spring EntreLeadership Master Series

Lisa Kay Solomon is co-author of "Design a Better Business." She is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on building the leadership skills required to ignite change and create lasting impact. Lisa is Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University, a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented leaders who want use exponential technologies to change the world. In this interview, we discuss how leaders bear the responsibility to help design a better future...and talk tips and tactics for making that happen.

Lisa Kay Solomon knows that details matter. In this interview with Brian she highlights that much of the necessary skills for innovation aren't taught in typical educations and that top support is crucial for internal innovation to get momentum. Her book "Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindsets for Strategy and Innovation" gives practical advice for corporate innovators and includes dozens of case studies so that you're prepared for even the most finite aspect of your innovation process. Find a preview of her book at designabetterbusiness.com and continue the conversation on Twitter @lisakaysolomon. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Joe Randazza self-described serial entrepreneur and an inventor who has been issued 8 US Patents. In the mid 80's, Joe founded the Hospitality Group, a national employment agency specializing in the restaurant industry where he developed one of the first database retrieval systems for resumes and a voice-processing systems that created an audio employment application in response to a recruitment ad in a newspaper.  he is a partner at Z9 Capital, a venture capital firm with a philosophy that venture capital can and should have a positive impact on the was we all live and connect with each other every day. He is the founder of foundation2recovery.org, a 501C3 charity whose aim is to raise funds to bring disruptive business practices to the fight against prescription narcotic drugs to save our young people Lisa Kay Solomon coauthor of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change which offers innovative teams and leaders a creative framework for tackling high-stakes challenges using the disciplined principles of design thinking. She teaches innovation at the  MBA in Design Strategy program at San Francisco's California College of the Arts, where she helps emerging leaders embrace their full potential as innovators using the concrete skills, tools and mindsets of design  Zac Johnson self taught entrepreneur, Zac's been making money online for nearly 20 years and has been involved in nearly every facet of affiliate and online marketing.  One of Zac's many successes includes his story of “How I Made $860,538.38 Profit in 4 Months!” from one web site, which can be read at his blog at ZacJohnson.com. He continues to focus on his blog, where he provides readers with firsthand accounts of his experiences, successes & failures. In addition to his own success stories,