ISF Podcast

Today, Steve speaks with Harvard professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar Shoshana Zuboff, author of three influential books on tech and society. In this episode, she discusses the themes in her latest book, ​The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: ​The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power​, the new economic order that claims human experience is free raw material for commercial practices, the expanding attack surface for digital information warfare, and more. 

Learn more about ​Shoshana Zuboff​.    

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• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New  Frontier of Power 

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In today’s episode, Steve speaks with actress, voice coach, leadership consultant, and expert in core energetics, or body-led psychotherapy, Kate Montague. Kate discusses the effectiveness in taking time to reset, what happens when you stay connected to your body and your breath, how to take the temperature of the room when the rooms are remote, and more.

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• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

In this episode, ISF CEO Steve Durbin talks with Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London, about the role that listening played when she became the first (and only) female CEO in Lloyd’s more than 300-year history. They also discuss the courage and effectiveness of simplicity in communication, a new style of leadership built on trust, and career advice for both board members and security professionals who are relatively new to the industry.

More about Dame Inga Beale and Lloyd’s of London.

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• Dive In Festival

Today, Steve is in conversation with Tammie Jo Shults, retired Southwest Airlines captain and former naval aviator. Captain Shults received wide acclaim when, on April 17, 2018, she and her crew successfully landed a Boeing 737 after catastrophic engine failure and rapid decompression, saving the lives of 148 people. In today’s conversation, Steve and Captain Shults discuss leadership during a time of crisis, the importance of building trust with your team, how her parents’ example led her as navigated becoming one of the first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots in the United States Navy,  and more.

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• Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF CEO Steve Durbin about the episodes in our second season focusing on Leadership in a Time of Transition. We preview conversations with retired Southwest Airlines captain and former US naval aviator Tammie Jo Shults; global business insurance leader Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London and the only female CEO in its more than 300-year history; Kate Montague, an actor and expert voice coach with a background in body-led psychotherapy; Shoshana Zuboff, retired Harvard Business School professor and the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; and innovative physicist Kate Stone, a non-traditional problem solver who has creatively complex challenges, both personal and professional.

Steve will explain what links these diverse five experts, and what they have to offer you and your teams of security professionals.

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Kate Stone

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about emerging security threats to expect in 2021. Steve breaks down the top five threats for security professionals to be mindful of going into 2021, and offers some tips for securing your organization against them.

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• Cyber Security Strategies: Achieving cyber resilience

Today, Steve welcomes motivational speaker, corporate consultant, and educator Reggie Butler back to the podcast. Reggie last connected with Steve in 2018 for an episode of our videocast (link below). Today’s conversation focuses on what we’ve learned through the experience of working from home during the pandemic, strategies for uniting teams even while socially distanced, and why leaders should model vulnerability and transparency now more than ever.

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In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advancing digital technology, Sir Bob’s hope for fresh ideas, the courage to embrace change, and more.

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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

Today Steve speaks with writer and researcher Brigid Schulte, author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time. Formerly an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, and part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Schulte is a global speaker on time, productivity, leisure, and the value of play, and she serves as the founding director of The Good Life Initiative at the nonpartisan think tank, New America. She’s also the director of The Better Life Lab, a work-family justice and gender equity program.

In today’s conversation, Steve and Brigid discuss the need for leadership — a need that, during Covid, is more urgent than ever before; how to make work work better for everyone; and the opportunity for enterprises to remeasure what they value, and reestablish the value system that threads through the heart of everything they do.

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The Better Life Lab

Today, Steve is in conversation with Dr. Hannah Fry, associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, and a researcher in the patterns of human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting. In this conversation, Steve and Hannah discuss the challenge and imperative of communicating across demographics with simplicity and clarity; the power of storytelling; the moral tensions inherent in data mining; and more.

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