Listen in to hear about…

- How to change minds and incite action

- Why traditional approaches to change are so ineffective

- What the key barriers are to change and how to mitigate them

- The mistake that many business leaders and governments make in trying to drive change

- What Jonah has learned from studying urban legends and the spread of disinformation

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On our next episode we speak to Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of the books Teaming and The Fearless Organization. In this episode we dive into:

- The importance of psychological safety within organizations and its direct link to preventing failures.

- Why organizations fail at psychological safety, including why employees fail to use their voice.

- The best nudges to support the behaviors that lead to psychological safety in organizations.

- Advice for leaders navigating the uncertainty of today’s world.

To learn more about Amy Edmondson and her publications, you can visit her HBS profile page here.

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On our next episode we speak to Iris Bohnet, the Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and author of the book What Works: Gender Equality by Design. In this episode we dive into:

– The application of behavioral economics, including the use of role models and norms, to accelerate gender equality

– The role and impact of Diversity Training programs in the private sector, and what the data really shows

– The ways in which Harvard has applied gender equality nudges to its environment and hiring processes

– The differential impact of current events and remote working on men and women

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Dilip Soman is a Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Science and Economics and serves as a Director of the Behavioural Economics in Action Research Centre at Rotman [BEAR]. His research is in the area of behavioural science and its applications to consumer wellbeing, marketing and policy.

Please join us to hear…

• How Dilip’s mechanical engineering experience with earth-moving machines got him interested in behavioral science

• Three things that Dilip learned from Richard Thaler as a PhD Student at University of Chicago

• The story behind Dilip’s pioneering MOOC – and several big ideas from his book, The Last Mile

• Two big issues that Dilip thinks will be the future of behavioral science

• Where Dilip sees “win-win-win” opportunities for businesses, consumers and society

For more, check out Dilip’s book, The Last Mile.

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Join us to hear:

- How using mind maps to better understand the biases in recruitment changed the UK civil service’s approach to talent acquisition in the late 1990s/early 2000s

- How reading the book Nudge while in Vietnam, confirmed Faisal’s curiosity and focus on understanding context, culture and behavior

- How do you integrate Behavioral Science into organizations and really mainstream it

- The importance of data and evidence to advance Behavioral Science as a field

- The power of Behavioral Science to change policy and reform in the public or private sector for the benefit of people and business

- How the diversity of thought and backgrounds of practitioners in Behavioral Science are helping to improve the field

- How the talent pool of young enthusiastic behavioral scientists in academia and private enterprise inspires Faisal about the future of our world and development of the field

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Listen in to hear:

– How a VCR changed everything for Kelly and got her interested in behavioral sciences

– Kelly’s roots in financial services and building empirical models to help predict risk

– How she learned that listening to people never helps us get at what they truly need and value

– The most satisfying aspect of Kelly’s 10+ years of applying behavioral science

– Kelly’s perspective on freedom, unity and liberty – and how this relates to the American and Canadian responses to COVID-19

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Caroline Webb: Upgrade Your Workday with Behavioral Science

Our sixth episode features Caroline Webb, workplace productivity expert and author of the best-selling book How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life, which has been published in over 60 countries and in 14 languages. In this episode we learned:

- What a “good day” at work looks like

- How to avoid common productivity traps

- Advice on making the best decisions in the workplace

- The key things to say to persuade organizational leaders to adopt behavioral science learnings

- Tips on working from home, as an employee or a manager, during the coronavirus pandemic

To learn more about Caroline and her work, visit www.howtohaveagoodday.com

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During our fifth episode we speak to Harvard Business School’s Mike Luca and Max Bazerman, co-authors of the book The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World.

In this episode we dive into:

• How experiments were a necessary condition for the development of behavioral economics, and how without them, applied behavioral economics consultants would not exist.

• The birth of experimentation in business and the role experiments are playing in shaping customer behavior.

• Why the tech sector has been a leader in this space, and how the rest of the private sector can catch-up.

• Advice to grow better leaders, including the role of intuition in decision making and what the data tells us.

• A perspective on experimentation in the context of our rapidly changing world.

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Please join us to hear…

- How an “Economics of Happiness” conference and a chance meeting with Daniel Kahneman changed Paul’s life

- Why people are often poor at predicting how health issues will impact our happiness

- Why we all need to “chill out”, stop reaching - and care less about others’ life choices

- What organizations can do to promote happiness in the workplace

- How the lockdown is experienced differently - and one positive outcome that Paul hopes will come from this crisis

- And why sometimes it’s better not to think about what’s next!

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Research conducted by Wendy Wood, psychologist and worldwide expert in habits, tells us that nearly 43% of the time people are engaging in habits, repeating behaviors that they’ve done in the past, in the same context, while they’re thinking about something other than what they’re doing.

We spoke with Wendy Wood, the author of "Good Habits, Bad Habits, the science of making positive changes that stick", where we unpack what she’s learned over her 30+ year career studying habits.

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