Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In this 'tableturner' episode of Future Squared, your host gets interviewed himself by Logan Merrick, co-founder of Buzinga App Development. This episode originally appeared on Invisage, Buzinga’s podcast. You might remember Logan from episode #85 of Future Squared where we talked all manner of things from app development to 14 day silent meditation retreats! When it came time to turn the tables and appear on Log...
Jan 08, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Hello everybody from 2017… we hope you’re as pumped as we are at Collective Campus about this year and have set yourself some big hairy audacious goals to work towards this year. Before I get into today’s fast fix I’d like to remind you that Future Squared has been nominated for the very first Australian Podcasting Awards people’s choice award, so instead of asking you to like us on iTunes, all I ask, as we endeavour to bring you ...
Jan 05, 2017•5 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy ***Achievement unlocked*** Episode #100 is here and what a super special episode it is! A couple of weeks ago on an episode of Fast Fix Friday called Why I Do What I do, I spoke of a touching email I had received from Alex Henderson, one of the alums of Lemonade Stand, a 2 day kids entrepreneurship program that we run to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. The budding young startup founder wrote to let me in on how the p...
Dec 29, 2016•19 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy The silly season is now in full swing, many of us will make bold promises to ourselves in the form of new year's resolutions. Almost a third of these resolutions would have become unstuck in the first two weeks of 2017, according to research carried out by StatisticBrain. In this episode, I talk about blockers and enablers. Whatever your resolution, make sure you address these first if you want to make it to the end of 2017 amongs...
Dec 28, 2016•6 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In today's episode, we reverse the tables as Future Squared host Steve Glaveski is interviewed by founder and CEO of fashion startup Akagu, Jimmy Zhong, who Steve frequently provides some mentorship to. The topic? How do you prepare for a new year and maintain your mojo throughout. If you're looking to set your body and mind up for a big 2017 and stick to those new year resolutions, then you might learn a thing o...
Dec 27, 2016•39 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on organizational storytelling. He’s a keynote speaker, storytelling coach, and author of the books Sell with a Story, Parenting with a Story, and the bestseller Lead with a Story already in its 8th printing and available in 6 languages around the world. Paul is also a former consultant at Accenture and former executive and 20-year veteran of The Procter & Gamb...
Dec 25, 2016•50 min
Looks like I got you! Nobody was going to open a boring old 'our year in review' episode, but James Brown, Bobby Byrd and a cheeky play on words and BAM! So as the title suggests it's been a huge year for the team here at Collective Campus. We didn't realise just how big this year has been and how much we've achieved until we sat down and reflected on it. We hope you find some time to do the same. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised! I've summarised some of our highlights for 2016 which coul...
Dec 22, 2016•7 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future I recently hosted a live Future Squared panel event where I had the chance to interview Brent Lehmann (GM at Willis Towers Watson, a lading global insurance broker and advisory company, Adrian Wrathall (motor Product Manager and CGU Insruance) and Rob Aktanarowicz (National Underwriter for Commercial and Heavy Motor at CGU Insurance). We explored many topics including the moral dilemma around self driving cars, l...
Dec 22, 2016•43 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Kevin Mulcahy is a highly popular speaker on workplace trends, executive coach to senior executives, and curator of insights on shifts in the workplace and workforce for senior HR leaders at Cisco, GE, Microsoft, MasterCard, Qualcomm, Saint-Gobain and others. He presents globally on the shifts in expectations of employees, the role of new technologies in the workplace and the changing composition of the workforce...
Dec 18, 2016•59 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk all about the power of 10X vision. Most of us chug along trying to grow revenues, our businesses, our personal brands incrementally and sustainably over time. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach., I myself am a big believer in persistence trumping talent 8 days a week, and aesop’s fable, ‘the tortoise and the hare’ favours the slowly but surely approach o...
Dec 15, 2016•8 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future We recently hosted a small party with some of our friends here at Collective Campus in Melbourne and after about 4 glasses of Gray Goose I couldn’t help but do the rounds and ask people in attendance, most of whom are either building startups, are working with emerging tech or are navigating the tangled web of corporate innovation, what kinds of technologies get them most excited about 2017. This came about 4 or ...
Dec 12, 2016•16 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Susan David , PhD, is a psychologist on faculty at Harvard Medical School, co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, and CEO of Evidence-Based Psychology. An in-demand speaker and consultant, David has worked with senior leadership of hundreds of major organizations, including the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured in numer...
Dec 11, 2016•50 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listeners of this show will know that one of the projects we spend some time on is Lemonade Stand, a children’s entrepreneurship program we’ve run across Australia and more recently in Singapore, designed to inspire kids with the entrpereneurial mindset in order to help them become more adaptable in a time where more than half of today’s jobs are set to be replaced in the next 10 to 15 years and today’s kids face...
Dec 08, 2016•4 min
Listen on Stitcher Listen on Soundcloud Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist for 10 years at JP Morgan in New York, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations. Marc has penned several books including Guide to the Financial Markets, The Box - How the Shipping Container Made The World Smaller and the Economy Bigger, and m...
Dec 03, 2016•45 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future I recently returned from a business meets leisure trip to Singapore and Vietnam where I had the opportunity to learn a little more about the latter's history, in particular that pertaining to the Vietnam War, a war that the under-resourced North Vietnamese won against the might of the Americans and its Allies. Large organisations with the vast resources and figurative firepower at their disposal shouldn’t underes...
Dec 02, 2016•11 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Ryan Blair is a serial entrepreneur and self-made millionaire who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. At just 21 years old, Blair founded his first company, 24/7 Tech, and by the age of 34, he has founded and sold numerous businesses for hundreds of millions of dollars. In August 2011, Blair authored the New York Times Best Seller, "Nothing To Lose and Everything To Gain: How I Went From Gang Member To Mu...
Nov 27, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future This week's Fast Fix Friday musing comes from a conversation I had on my current trip to Singapore. Apologies for the audio quality of this episode - recorded in my Airbnb'd apartment in downtown Singapore via my laptop mic (yes, I forgot to pack my headset...fail). So why do developing countries like Vietnam command ubiquitous wireless internet access while countries like Australia don't? Listen to hear some pon...
Nov 24, 2016•6 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Logan Merrick is a co-founder and strategic director of Buzinga App Development, Australia’s leading app development company building meaningful, game-changing apps for emerging tech businesses and innovative enterprises. Logan started Buzinga in June 2012 with his co-founder Graham, spurred on by a passion for technology, customer service and workplace happiness that would make a huge impact in the global app de...
Nov 19, 2016•58 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Just yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Blair, bestselling author as well as founder and CEO of Visalus, a nutrition company which today generates over a billion dollars in product sales. I look forward to bringing you that interview soon but for today’s episode of Fast Fix Friday I wanted to focus on something Ryan raised during our conversation which he says is critical to work towards maintaini...
Nov 17, 2016•3 min
Justin Lokitz is an experienced strategy consultant and business designer who is responsible for the Business Models Inc. office in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA USA. He supports organizations by getting teams to think broadly and expansively about their own strategies and business models. Using his power to connect-the-dots, Justin has an impressive ability to get organizations thinking like start-ups and industry disrupters. What’s more through his expert facilitation skills, Justin has...
Nov 12, 2016•48 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Proponents of human longevity, let’s call them ‘longevists’, are advocating, exploring and commercialising new technologies and methods to effectively slow down or reverse the process of aging in order to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. Longevists such as Peter Diamandis of Human Longevity Inc (HLI) believe that breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine, genomics, nanotechnology...
Nov 10, 2016•12 min
Summer Howarth is first and foremost a teacher with an unwavering belief in the potential of young adolescents and those who work in support of them. Summer has drive for and proven success in unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and has been an instrumental leader in Australia’s contribution to the OECD work on Student Engagement and Australia’s TeachMeet movement. She’s deeply and unashamedly passionate and makes it her business to connect with anyone who pursues an interest in imp...
Nov 05, 2016•52 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future The way that legal services are delivered is changing thanks to advances in technology and business model innovation. This is resulting in a shift towards affordable, standardised services unlocking a new market for disruptors and incumbents alike, efficiencies in how law firms deliver services and inevitably, regulatory changes. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future ...
Nov 03, 2016•11 min
Jenny Blake is motivation personified. She is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love. She is the author of the newly released book Pivot, and previously Life After College which was based on her blog of the same name) Jenny helps leaders, employees and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, engagement, fulfillment and impact. Formerly, Jenny spent over 5 years at Google doing training, coaching and ...
Oct 30, 2016•56 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future In life we are always faced with decisions and they can take us on radically different roads. In this episode, I share something that only my close friends and associates know about me in an effort to demonstrate why you should listen to your gut. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@coll...
Oct 27, 2016•11 min
Eric Almquist is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. He is a leader in Bain's Advanced Analytics practice and a member of the firm’s global Customer Strategy & Marketing practice. Eric has more than three decades of management consulting experience and delivers strategies that work for leading companies. He has led assignments in the financial services, telecommunications, internet, and electric utility industries. In addition, he uses his expertise in customer strategy and mark...
Oct 22, 2016•46 min
Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Many large organisations are guilty of taking old, oftentimes broken, processes born out of 20th Century necessity and digitising them. Such pursuits are internally heralded as shining example of innovation and digital transformation. However, this usually amounts to little more than expensive and at best incremental improvements. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future...
Oct 20, 2016•6 min
Shay Namdarian is the newly anointed GM of Customer Strategy at Collective Campus. Prior to joining CC, Shay spent 8 years in various management consulting roles for the likes of Accenture, Ernst & Young and CapGemini during which time he founded two fashion startups - Barnaby (socks) and Winston, now W-Time (watches). Shay has a passion for all things customer experience and that passion is best exemplified by hearing him speak on the subject in this episode. Topics Discussed: - customer ex...
Oct 18, 2016•42 min
Karen Dillon is co-author of Clayton Christensen's new book, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice” (HarperCollins, October 2016), a groundbreaking book with the potential to reframe industries. It is based on a simple yet profound idea put forward by Christensen in “The Innovator’s Solution”: customers don’t buy products and services; they hire them to do a job. And understanding which jobs your customers need done is key to innovation success. The former editor of...
Oct 16, 2016•40 min
I had the pleasure of chatting to Jenny Blake late last night, hjost of the Pivot podcast and author of Pivot, the book which has been referred to as the Lean Startup meeting a personal playbook for career change. We geeked out on all manner of topics - but honed in on her concept of pivoting, that is - changing career direction, not by doing a full 180, but by keeping one foot planted and focusing on your strengths. I explore one of the key learnings from this conversation in this instalment of...
Oct 13, 2016•3 min
