PostNormal Times

Future-Proofing Your Future


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0:00: Host Andrew Vosko welcomes guest Michelle Bligh, interim executive vice president and provost of CGU and professor of organizational behavior in the Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences.

1:30: A Claremontian, Michelle traces her trajectory from an undergraduate at Pomona College to how an anthropology course changed her direction.

4:15: Andrew elaborates on the debt that transdisciplinary thought owes anthropology.

5:30: Michelle describes how a study abroad program led her to a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya, and then into a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies and then a management PhD.

11:30: Michelle describes how serendipity—the 9/11 attacks—led her back to Claremont.

15:30: Andrew talks about the challenges and opportunities that occur in moments of crisis, when worlds collapse, and how we tend to react.

17:50: Andrew talks about the value of a transdisciplinary education in future-proofing your future. 19:40: Michelle talks about her decision to join CGU.

22:45: Michelle talks about what she learned from her first experience teaching.

24:50: Michelle describes mentoring as a collaboration.

30:45: Michelle describes two noteworthy classes that she has been teaching for over 20 years, including one in leadership/followership, and an MBA course in management she taught at the NEOMA Business School in France with 24 students from 24 different countries.

38:00: Michelle talks about navigating another world collapse after returning to the United States during a heavily charged political moment and having to advocate leadership.

42:30: Andrew talks about the need to embrace complexity when advancing true solutions. 46:00: Michelle talks about making the jump from dean to provost.

49:10: Andrew and Michelle talk about the beauty of imperfect systems.

52:30: Andrew asks if the current crisis of higher education is actually another world collapse.

57:00: Michelle discusses the opportunities presented by world collapse and the possibilities to be extracted through transdisciplinary work for reconfiguring education.

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PostNormal TimesBy Claremont Graduate University