Alyssa Gilbert is Director of Undaunted which is a community of creative, proactive people exploring how innovation can help humans tackle climate change. She is also the Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute which was established in

#049 Chapter 3 - Into The Unknown

Apr 5th, 2023 7m 33s

Welcome to On The Edge, a podcast and now also a book, about making unexpected connections everywhere and anywhere.Why should you embrace uncertainty as an opportunity not a threat?How can you connect people and ideas to engineer serendipi

#048 Chapter 2 - This is Happening

Mar 30th, 2023 7m 58s

#047 Chapter 1 - Start at the End

Mar 22nd, 2023 6m 13s

#046 Introduction - The Future is Fluid

Mar 15th, 2023 9m 17s

Welcome to On The Edge, a podcast and now also a book, about making unexpected connections everywhere and anywhere. Why should you embrace uncertainty as an opportunity not a threat? How can you connect people and ideas to engineer serendipit

#045 Preface - Gradually, Then Suddenly

Mar 9th, 2023 9m 2s

Welcome to On The Edge, a podcast and now also a book, about making unexpected connections everywhere and anywhere. Why should you embrace uncertainty as an opportunity not a threat? How can you connect people and ideas to engineer serendi

#044 Ella Goldner - Venture Builder

Jul 8th, 2022 35m 19s

In this conversation I connected with Ella Goldner. Ella is a co-founder of Zinc - a fund that backs entrepreneurs, pre-team and pre-idea, to build new tech-enabled & mission-driven commercial ventures. She is also the co-founder of Alma Angels

#043 Shiv Malik - Data Unions

Jun 24th, 2022 42m 54s

“How do you change the system to take longer term decisions without forcing people and using a government to do that, and the answer is you set up cooperatives and mutuals.” Shiv MalikIn this conversation I connected with Shiv Malik who is a t

#042 Sonja Blignaut - Crossing Thresholds

May 3rd, 2022 39m 49s

In this conversation I connected with Sonja Blignaut. Originally a meteorologist, Sonja now partners with people who need to navigate, make sense of, and lead in uncertainty. She spans the boundaries of leadership, organisational development &

#041 Nick Hare - New World O?der

Apr 2nd, 2022 40m 21s

In this conversation I connected with Nick Hare, founder of Aleph Insights - an analytics consultancy that specialises in supporting strategic decision-making for both business and government in defence, security, intelligence and international

#040 Jon Alexander - Citizens

Feb 8th, 2022 33m 10s

In this conversation I connected with Jon Alexander who is the author of a new book called Citizens. Jon started his career working in the advertising industry, selling some of the world's biggest brands, and winning plenty of awards along the

#039 Anab Jain - Curating the Future

Jan 25th, 2022 38m

In this conversation I connected with Anab Jain who is a designer, futurist, filmmaker and educator.As Co-founder and Director of Superflux - the multi-award winning design agency - they translate future uncertainty into present day choicesOv

#038 Dilbagh Gill - Race to Zero

Jan 14th, 2022 35m 7s

In this conversation I connected with Dilbagh Gill who is CEO of the Mahindra Formula E Racing team since the sports inaugural season in 2014.Formula E is the is a single-seater motorsport championship for electric cars.As one of ten founding

#037 Gurjit Singh Lalli - Make or Break

Nov 4th, 2021 20m 26s

"What gives me hope is that people are getting involved with climate action, not just politicians and businesses. There is a strong show of human demand for change and that’s what we’ve always needed." Gurjit Singh LalliIn this conversation I

#036 Sue Black - Tech for Good

Oct 19th, 2021 41m 52s

In this conversation I connected with Dr Sue Black who is now a Prof of Computer Science at Durham. She is perhaps best known for her instrumental role in helping to save Bletchley Park, the once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebre

#035 Michael Garfield - The Purpose of Polymaths

Sep 24th, 2021 30m 2s

In this conversation I connected with Michael Garfield who is a real renaissance man. A talented musician, artist and illustrator, podcaster, palaeontologist! What is the point of polymaths? He is the host of the Future Fossils Podcast and the

#034 Sharath Jeevan - Intrinsic

Sep 3rd, 2021 40m 20s

In this conversation I connected with Sharath Jeevan who is an expert on how to practically re-ignite the inner-drive (or intrinsic motivation) in our lives.He is the Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs, which supports organisations all aro

#033 Jeremy Lent - Patterns of Meaning

Jul 16th, 2021 49m 5s

In this conversation I connected with Jeremy Lent who describes himself as an author and integrator and “one of the greatest thinkers of our age”, according to George Monbiot.Born in the UK and based for many years in the US, and now lives Ber

#032 Geoffrey West - The Universal Laws of Scaling

Jun 15th, 2021 36m 40s

In this conversation I connected with Geoffrey West who is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute the Santa Fe Institute is the world's leading research center for complex syst

#031 Gemma Mortensen - New Constellations

May 25th, 2021 38m 11s

In this conversation I connected with Gemma Mortensen who is a social entrepreneur, who recently launched New Constellations to help people imagine and create a better, more beautiful future.Prior to that she was Chief Global Officer at Change

#030 Margaret Heffernan - Uncertainty Powers Change

May 11th, 2021 49m 1s

“The capacity of uncertainty to power change, you only really capture if at least you start, not because you know you can do it, but because you simply can’t bear the idea of not trying” Margaret HeffernanIn this conversation, I connected with

#029 Jack Du Rose - Organisations for the Internet

May 4th, 2021 47m 15s

In this conversation, I connected with Jack Du Rose who is cofounder of Colony, a decentralised autonomous organisation (DOA) which provides a platform for building organisations for the internet.Previously, he was a self-taught jewellery desi

#028 Hege Barnes - Green Innovation Nation

Apr 7th, 2021 28m 12s

In the latest episode of the On The Edge podcast I had a great conversation with Hege Barnes who finally answered the question - what’s the best thing since sliced bread?Hege is Director at Innovation Norway, a government entity for building t

#027 Dhiraj Mukherjee - Surfing Crisis to Opportunity

Mar 30th, 2021 34m 55s

In this conversation, I connected with Dhiraj Mukherjee who is co-founder of Shazam - the music recognition app that was founded during the end of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and they surfed multiple crises before finally being acquired 18 years

#026 Christian Busch - The Serendipity Mindset

Feb 8th, 2021 40m 30s

In this conversation I spoke with Christian Busch who is author of bestselling book Serendipity Mindset, which is all about the art and science of creating good luck. Christian is Director the Global Economy Program at New York University. Pre