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Rens is a former strategy consultant who decided to build his own business 7 years ago, Purpose+. Purpose+ is a consulting firm focused on purpose-driven strategy, and has also published two books on the matter in recent years.

In 2018 he also founded KIMO.ai, a friendly AI ‘coach’ that predicts the ideal learning path for an individual.

The show is sponsored by Idea Storm. Contact them at www.ideastorm.co.za or email [email protected].

This week we interview Dea Franko Csuba.

Dea has built up two successful education startups in the past 10 years, She is a regular speaker at events about the future, digitalization and innovation. She was the course leader of the first Digital Leadership, Data-driven Leadership and Agile Leadership courses in Hungary and created inspirational leader and talent development projects for several organizations. She is a guest speaker at ELTE (University of Budapest) in the fields of digital communications, future tech and business insights.

Dea can be contacted on Linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/deafrankocsuba/.

This show is sponsored by Idea Storm, a leading exponential growth consultancy. You can contact them by emailing [email protected] or visit www.ideastorm.co.za.

OpenExO is a fast paced dynamic growing organisation and Kevin Allen - the Chief Community Officer of OpenExO - joins us for an update about what has happened in January 2020 and plans for February 2020.

OpenExO is the global transformation ecosystem with more than 3,000 coaches, investors, consultants and innovation specialists helping organizations, institutions and people unlock abundance to change the world. Their website is www.openexo.com.

This show is sponsored by Idea Storm and you can contact them at [email protected] or visit www.ideastorm.co.za.

Maya Zuckerman is a regenerative entrepreneur, ecosystem thinker, cultural hacker and emerging media consultant who works on ground-breaking tech media projects and companies.

You can contact Maya on her personal website www.mayazuckerman.com or connect with her on Linkedin.

You can contact me at [email protected], www.ideastorm.co.za or book a meeting with me by using https://calendly.com/ideastorm.

Lars Lin Villebaek is an entrepreneur & Coach who leads the delivery of Global Business Transformation Services in the movement "Exponential Organizations" and Founder of Startup organizations on the Edge, such as Educatefor.Life, Sprinthero, Curemunity, Breathingkids.org, Cofoundersclub, Growthenabler and more.

In this podcast we talk to Lars about his experiences as an ExO Sprint coach (https://www.openexo.com/exo-sprint-ext) and his two initiatives Sprinthero (https://www.sprinthero.com/) and Educatefor.life (https://www.educatefor.life/).

You can always contact the host of the podcast at [email protected], www.ideastorm.co.za. or book me on Calendly here https://calendly.com/ideastorm

Augusto Fazioli is a partner of Business Integration Partners, an angel investor with Italian Angels for Growth and a certified ExO consultant with ExO Works.

Augusto has worked on over 10 ExO Sprints as a coach and 2 as a head coach.

I discuss with Augusto the process of preparing for an ExO Sprint as well as successes he has seen resulting from ExO Sprints.

The best way to contact Augusto is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustofazioli/.

The host, Lance Peppler, can be contacted at [email protected], www.ideastorm.co.za or booked on Calendly https://calendly.com/ideastorm.

This is the 25th episode of the Exponential Organisations podcast and I thought I would use the opportunity by telling you my story, giving you an overview of Idea Storm and then my plans for the podcast for 2020.

Please remember you can always email me at [email protected]. or visit my website at www.ideastorm.co.za.

This week we interview Tony Saldanha.

The focus of the interview is how to sell consulting services to the C-suite of a large organisation. The services mentioned are those sold by my company Idea Storm, but anyone selling services to the C-suite will get a lot of value from the interview.

Tony is a globally recognized information technology and shared services executive. Progressive business leader with a breadth of experiences ranging from Disruptive IT/ Shared Services Strategy, Shared Services Outsourcing, Consulting, CIO roles, Technology-enabled business building and IT Systems integration during company acquisitions, among others. Geographical experience from having lived in Asia, Europe and the US - including both developed and developing markets.

Tony worked at P&G for 27 years where he was VP for Global Business Services. Upon leaving P&G he is the president of Transformant which focuses on advising boards and C-suite executives on digital transformation. He is the author of “Why Digital Transformations Fail” and sought-after speaker.

I would be interested in your thoughts. You can email me at [email protected] or contact me via my website at www.ideastorm.co.za.

This week we interview Salim Ismail and he shares his highlights from 2019, plans for 2020 and his own massive transformative purpose.

Salim is a futurist and best-selling author of Exponential Organizations and Exponential Transformation and has been building disruptive digital companies as a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s.

Salim is Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and Co-founder and Chairman of OpenExO, a global transformation ecosystem that connects world-class professionals with organizations, institutions and people who want to build a better future through cutting-edge ideas and actionable methodologies.

You can contact me, the host of the podcast, at [email protected] or visit my website at www.ideastorm.co.za.

In today's episode we discuss the work done at WITS university in Johannesburg around exponential technology.

Why Exponential Technology? Well this is what needs to be harnessed, in either core or edge projects, to drive exponential growth within your organisation.

This episode will feature two guest. The first will be an interview I had with Dr Benjamin Rosman. Benjamin is an associate professor of machine learning and robotics in the school of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. You can stay up-to-date on latest development at http://www.raillab.org/.

This will be followed by a recorded presentation delivered by Abdul-Khalliq Mohamed delivered at our Exponential Organisations event that took place on November 27th. AK is a lecturer at Wits and is involved in creating a low cost 3D printed robotic prosthetic hand.

If you would like to contact me then email me at [email protected] or visit my website at www.ideastorm.co.za