The New Abnormal
The New Abnormal podcast (which has over 250,000 downloads) focuses on 'Now / Next / Why'. Discussing the viewpoints of my guests, who've including activists, creatives, writers, philosophers, strategists, psychologists, lecturers, futurists etc, has led to some fascinating conversations. Re: my bio, I'm a public speaker and futurist. I've 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 divided into Series One [2020-21] Two [2022] Three [2023] Four [2024] and Five [2025]. All rights reserved. #TheNewAbnormal podcast series © Sean Pillot de Chenecey 2020.
Episodes
194 episodes
Jordi Serra del Pino 'Postnormal Times and the Three Tomorrows...'
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 academic programmes and ...
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Andre Spicer 'The Art of Less'
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, leadership and corporate ...
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Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
This 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, journalists and th...
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Jim Dator 'Living Make-Belief: Thriving in a Dream Society'
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 could today be genuinely gi...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jan Berger 'Anticipating Change for Corporate Foresight'
Series Four This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Jan Berger, the Founder & CEO of Themis Foresight. Based in Berlin, his company anticipates economic, technological, social and political drivers of fut...
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Nils Muller 'Helping companies to stay relevant in the future'
Series FourIn this episode of 'The New Abnormal' I interview Nils Muller, CEO & Founder of TrendONE - a specialist agency that's a market leader in identifying key trends in fast moving branches of business. In our disc...
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Chris Arning 'Semiotics: how to make the invisible...visible'
Series FourIn this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Chris Arning, Founder of the boutique consultancy Creative Semiotics Ltd, co-founder of Semiofest, and course leader of 'How to do semiotics in seven weeks'. He wo...
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Michael Beverland 'Brand Management: Co-creating Meaningful Brands'
Series FourThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Michael Beverland, Professor of Brand Strategy, Strategy & Marketing, at the University of Sussex Business School.He's an innovator in marketplace authenticity and...
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Phil Balagtas 'Making Futures Work: integrating futures thinking for design, innovation, and strategy'
Series FourThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Phil Balagtas, author of the superb new book 'Making Futures Work'.Phil is also a former Design Director at McKinsey Design and General Electric (Digital & Aviat...
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Matt Boffey ‘Brands that move people, move the world’
Series FourThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Matt Boffey, Chief Strategy Officer at Design Bridge and Partners. He’s part of its Senior Leadership Team and Executive Committee, managing a business of nearly 300 people in...
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Stephanie Vilner-Sheppard 'Dare, disrupt and be kind'
Series FourThis episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the brand innoventor & commercial strategist Stephanie Vilner-Sheppard, who consults globally on strategy to help clients innovate and futureproof their P&L (for peopl...
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Max McKeown 'Innovation Strategy, Leadership & Culture'
Series FourThis episode of ‘The New Abnormal’ podcast features the strategic psychologist Dr Max McKeown - a writer, consultant & researcher specialising in innovation strategy, leadership and culture. He’s written a se...
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Sohail Inayatullah 'Visioning the Futures'
Series FourThis episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features the political scientist and university professor Sohail Inayatullah, who is the inaugural UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability & Hu...
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Alexis Tennent 'The intricate relationship between memory, time and plurality'
Series FourThis episode of the New Abnormal podcast features Toronto-based Alexis Tennent, who is an innovative leader, design & foresight strategist. She firmly believes that foresight should not be confined to the realms of academ...
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Monika Bielskyte 'Challenging the binaries of dystopia vs utopia and society vs technology'
Series Four This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the renowned futurist and speculative designer, Monika Bielskyte. She's also the founder of Protopia Futures, a life-centric design and collaborative foresi...
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Roman Krznaric 'History for Tomorrow: inspiration from the past for the future of humanity'
Series FourThis episode of The New Abnormal features the leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric, whose books focus on the power of ideas to create change. His international bestsellers, which include The Good Ancestor, Empathy, <...
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