The New Abnormal
The New Abnormal podcast (which has over 250,000 downloads) focuses on 'Now / Next / Why'. My guests have include a wide variety of experts based in locations from Los Angeles to Shanghai, Rio to Beirut, and Helsinki to Melbourne. Those guests have included activists, creatives, writers, philosophers, strategists, psychologists, lecturers, futurists etc, and asking them to explain their views has led to some fascinating conversations. Re: my bio, I'm a futurist, public speaker, and author whose written two books - my first went to No1 in the business charts whilst my second was shortlisted for the 'Business Book of the Year' Awards. (I'll be writing a third as soon as time allows.) So, I hope you enjoy listening to the series - which was set up during the early days of Covid and is therefore divided into a series per year. All rights reserved. #TheNewAbnormal podcast series © Sean Pillot de Chenecey 2020.
Episodes
204 episodes
Stephen Dupont 'Anticipating Change re: Opportunities and Risks'
This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Stephen Dupont, Principal at Dupont Foresight, who brings a futures mindset to marketing/communications planning and strategy. He also serves on the board of the nonprofit 'Teach the Future' a...
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Erik Ostergaard 'Futures Thinking and Anticipatory Leadership'
Series FiveThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Erik Korsvik Ostergaard, who is a futures-thinker and strategic foresight consultant. He uses futures-thinking to be curious about current and coming trends, and ...
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Isabella Hermann 'Sci-fi re: New Technologies and Socio-Political Value Systems'
Series FiveThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Dr Isabella Hermann, a political scientist who analyses and speaks on the subject of science-fiction.She focuses particularly on how the genre reflects emerging techno...
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Cynthia Scharf 'Climate Tech - The Technologies of Desperation'
Series Five This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Cynthia Scharf, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Future Generations, a European think tank, leading their work on Climate Interventions. Issue of trust, global equity,...
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Diana Stafie "Don't wait for the future - actively create it"
Series Five This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Diana Stafie, founder of Future Station, the renowned strategic foresight consultancy that empowers organizations to navigate change, identify emerging trends, foster i...
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Velislava Petrova 'We shape the future - so shape it well'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Velislava Petrova, Chief Programme Officer at the Centre for Future Generations. She oversees CFG's technical and cross-cutting programs, monitoring impact, a...
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Jonathan Barth 'Escaping Collapse - What Killed Economic Liberalism and What To Do Next'
Series Five This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Jonathan Barth: Founder, Think-Tanker, Brussels Expert and Author of the forthcoming book #EscapingCollapse. His passion is to illuminate how Europ...
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Loes Damhof 'Times are urgent - we must slow down'
Series Five This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Loes Damhof - UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies, award-winning pioneer in higher education, and TEDx speaker. As UNESCO Chair Futures Literacy in Higher Educa...
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Nardia Haigh 'Scenario Planning for Climate Change'
Series Five This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features the author, academic and consultant Nardia Haigh, who has spent nearly two decades helping people navigate uncertainty using scenario planning. She has taug...
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45:21
Bulent Duagi 'Exploring new thinking and connecting the dots'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Bulent Duagi, a 'cross-pollinator' in the Romanian futurists-ecosystem. He works with high-stakes decision makers, facilitating strategy execution and acting ...
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Jordi Serra del Pino 'Postnormal Times and the Three Tomorrows...'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Jordi Serra del Pino, who is a consultant with more than 40 years experience in foresight, strategy and intelligence.As a professor, he’s participated in numerous ...
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Andre Spicer 'The Art of Less'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Andre Spicer, Dean and Professor at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London. He's an expert in the fields of organisational behaviour, l...
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Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Dr Emma Louise Briant, an internationally recognised expert and professor of information warfare & propaganda.She helps policymakers, governments, business leaders, ...
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52:05
Jim Dator 'Living Make-Belief: Thriving in a Dream Society'
Series Five I’m honoured that the focus of this episode of ‘The New Abnormal’ podcast is Jim Dator, who’s had an extraordinary impact on futures-thinking. Indeed, I believe one would struggle to find someone else who cou...
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Dr Joseph Voros 'Futures Thinking in Real-World Contexts'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the famous physicist and futurist Dr Joseph Voros, who helps people and organisations think about the future in serious ways through futures-orientated intelligence and s...
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54:53
Neil Shearing 'The Fractured Age: how the return of Geopolitics will splinter the Global Economy'
Series Five In this episode of The New Abnormal podcast, I interview Neil Shearing, the Group Chief Economist at Capital Economics, where he leads a world-class team of economists and oversees the firm’s global research agenda. ...
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Gergely Nemeth 'Strategic Foresight and Defence Innovation'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Gergely Nemeth, former Head of Strategic Foresight at NATO and now CEO of Hungary’s Defence Innovation Research Institute (VIKI), who reflects on a career ‘impacted by coincide...
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54:35
Lourdes Rodriguez 'Embodied Futures - the next evolution in foresight'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal features Lourdes Rodriguez, a Strategic Foresight Consultant with the European Commission and Co Exec Director at Teach the Future. With a background in Psychology, her work has bee...
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Marie Stafford 'The Future 100 - trends and change to watch'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Marie Stafford, Global Director (Intelligence) at VML. She's a strategic foresight consultant skilled in creating inspiring future narratives, transforming futures insights and...
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Peter Cunliffe-Jones 'Fake News - what's the harm?'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Peter Cunliffe-Jones, visiting researcher at the University of Westminster and Director of Facts Matter Research, a misinformation research and strategy consultancy, where he a...
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50:46
Faris Yakob 'Collaboration is the way to solve problems'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Faris Yakob, co-founder of Genius Steals, who began his career as a strategist during the first dot com explosion, before moving into agency world. He worked for some dyn...
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38:05
Gareth Kay 'Creating tangible value from intangible assets'
Series FiveThis episode of The New Abnormal features Gareth Kay, Partner at The Intangibles 'the transformation consultancy for the intangible world'. He's spent over two decades working in, and learning from, some of the best creative c...
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33:28
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos 'The Future is always uncertain...'
Series Five This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, who is a Foresight, Strategy, Innovation and long-term planning advisor to government, private corporations and NGOs. A high...
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