Dr. Stein discusses his work consulting with executives and teams as a psychodynamic strategy consultant. He discusses the impact psychoanalysis can have on people and dynamics between people within business contexts. He centers decision making and caring in his work and muses about AI and the future from the perspective of the C-suite advisor role. His work is ultimately about how psychodynamic strategy consulting can be used as an intervention for social good and business success at scale.

Introduction

2:58 — Professional Trajectory + Origin Story

7:33 — From Practice to Deployment

8:10 — Call to Retire Idea of Applied Psychoanalysis

11:25 — Considering the Social in Working with Leaders

13:35 — Differences Between Clinical Psychoanalysis, Conventional Consulting, & Psychodynamic Consulting

18:03 — Value + Benefits of a Psychoanalytic Approach with Executives and Teams: Creating Optionality

23:12 — Scaling Expectations + Meeting Goals

25:09 — Organizations as Human Ecosystems

26:03 — Approaching Varieties of Problems + Issues Across an Array of Practice Areas

27:47 — The Nodal Axis in Multiple Domains: Focused Delivery of Expertise in Decision-Making

29:14 — Human Architecture + Psycho-Social Dimensions in Cybersecurity

31:38 — Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Fraud Matters

33:11 — Psychoanalysis as a Technology to Solve Complicated Problems: Overcoming Challenges + Leveraging Value

35:30 — Building Solutions + Mitigating Risks in Socially Responsible + Commercially Profitable Technologies

40:05 — What Will the Future Hold? Barriers + Upsides to Bringing Psychological Expertise into the Technology Space at Scale

44:33 — AI: Risks, Benefits, Potentials

46:15 — A Critical Assessment of AI as a Project to Replicate + Computerize Human Thought

50:10 — Countering the Deficiency of Care in Developing Technological Applications & Services: Balancing the Psychological + Philosophical

52:25 — More on AI: Implicit Disdain for Humanity as a Driving Force

55:32 — Adverse Consequences of Divestiture of Human Connection

58:02 — How to Course-Correct: Technology Issues are Fundamentally Human not Technological

1:00 — The Value of Care: Shared Moral Responsibilities for Harms & Benefits

1:02:42 — Concluding Remarks + Calls to Action

You can find Dr. Stein at: Dolus Advisors: www.dolusadvisors.com/

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