Workforce Episodes

Dec. 21, 2022

Existential Risk conversation with Chat GPT

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrep...

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May 24, 2022

Managing Remote Work Presence

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. Join ...

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March 15, 2022

How to Demystify Technology

Jennifer Byrne (@jenniferabyrne1), CEO of Arrived Workforce Connections, is futurist Trond Arne Undheim's (@trondau) guest in episode 111 of the Futurized (@Futurized2) podcast, the topic is: How to Demystify Technology. In this conversation, they talk a...

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Feb. 8, 2022

Teen Entrepreneurship

Today, Anjalee Naranthiren, the 19-year-old speaker, founder and Program Director at Startup Dojo and host of the YoungPreneur podcast is our guest on the Futurized podcast (@futurized2). In this conversation, we talk about teen entrepreneurship, how to ...

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Nov. 15, 2021

Simple is the Future

Lisa Bodell (@LisaBodell), futurist and CEO of FutureThink (@futurethinktank) is interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur in episode 135 of the Futurized podcast (@futurized2), the topic is Simple ...

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Aug. 24, 2021

Play, Uncertainty and Growth

Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author. In episode #108 of the podcast, the topic is: Pl...

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Aug. 10, 2021

Tech in Tomorrow's Learning Organizations

Michael Leckie, Founding Partner of Silverback Partners LLC, author of the new book The Heart of Transformation, published by Kogan Page, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, they talk about how organizational ch...

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July 27, 2021

Regenerative Business

Alan Moore, Designer, Consultant, and Author, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talk about what regenerative business practices truly entail which is to go well beyond sustainability. We discuss h...

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May 4, 2021

Orchestrating the Freelance Economy

Matt Coatney, CTO at HBR Consulting, interviewed by host Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, investor, and author. In this conversation, we talked about the book Matt Coatney co-authored, The Human Cloud: How Today's Changemakers Use Artificial Intelligence an...

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April 20, 2021

Workforce, Humanity, and Future Tech

Alexandra Levit, 8x author, speaker, and career expert, interviewed by Trond Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, we talk about the future of careers and strategic HR. We discuss a recent book by Levit: Humanity Works: merging tech and pe...

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Jan. 26, 2021

AI Talent Diversity

Taniya Mishra, Founder of SureStart, the diverse AI training platform, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about why STEM or STEAM is not enough. They discuss pre-college and post-college--the leaky inflection poi...

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Jan. 21, 2021

The Future of Personal Development

Nick Jankel, transformational futurist, the CEO and co-founder of Switch On, and author of the new book Now Lead The Change, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about The Personal Development Market. VUCA (volatil...

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Jan. 12, 2021

The future of learning experience design

Jon Tota, CEO and founder of Syntax + Motion and host of the Learning Life Podcast, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about The future of learning experience design. Shifting focus from the teacher to thinking abo...

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Dec. 31, 2020

The Next Generation Marketplaces

Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about  the results from building and investing in 1st...

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Dec. 17, 2020

The Future of Social Learning

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth, CEO and co-founder of CanopyLAB, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talk about empowering learners, and about blended learning, moving beyond screen time to Virtual immersionm AI/AR – how to use ...

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Nov. 30, 2020

Startup Mentoring in UAE

Wafa Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, we talk about startup mentoring in the ...

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Nov. 24, 2020

The Future of Peer-to-Peer

Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, we talked about how the world may have reached a tipping point where the balance betwee...

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Nov. 23, 2020

Future Tech - a preview

In this mini-episode, futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021. He also reads an excerpt from the book. Future Tech explains ...

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Nov. 20, 2020

The Serendipity of Social Innovation

Christian Busch, Director, NYU Global Economy Program, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author.  In this conversation, they talk about serendipity, the art and science of creating good luck, and how it is intimately related to future trend...

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Nov. 17, 2020

Living the Future of Work

Gary Bolles, Chair for the future of work at Singularity University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim.  In this conversation, they talk about how organizations try to channel human energy-but still need processes and practices, that can become ...

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Oct. 12, 2020

Global Innovation Index

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Professor Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University, co-author of Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Foundation. In this conversation, they talk about measuring innovation, the challenges...

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Sept. 17, 2020

The Future of Work

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ian Barkin, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of Sykes and host of the OneTake podcast. In this conversation, they talk about The Future of Work, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), automated outsourcing, experienc...

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Aug. 27, 2020

The Future of Engineering Education

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interiews Babi Mitra, founding Executive Director of the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) initiative at MIT. They talk about the urgent need to update the way we educate our engineers which is an effort happenin...

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Aug. 17, 2020

The Future of K-12 Education

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeff Wetzler, co-founder at Transcend Education, a nonprofit leading the way in holistic school design. They talk about learning science, the necessary leaps to make towards 21st century learning, as well as the imp...

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