Professor Game Podcast

A very special episode for me personally, but no spoilers here! Well maybe if you see this on professorgame.com the picture might give us away...

Dustin has experience working in the field of education in various capacities, including consulting, research, and running and hosting tutoring programs. He is now the owner of Board Gaming with Education's brick-and-mortar store "BGE's Tabletop." When Dustin was in the classroom he was always looking for ways to create a more engaging classroom to develop a strong classroom culture and strengthen learning and is thrilled to be able to provide similar positive tabletop gaming experiences to the community at BGE's. And he couldn't do it without the support of his amazing wife Grace. You can find Dustin playing board games with friends, running the store, running around LA training for races, or at any of the "BGE's Tabletop" events. We discuss the pivot that BGE and Dustin have made over the past couple of years and how that came about, listen in for another insightful conversation with Dustin!

Fabian is a Gamification Digital Enablement manager and as well as sits on the Gamfication steerco at First National Bank South Africa with years of experience in delivering Gamification projects across learning, sales performance and across the entire First Rand Group. He believes that it is seldom that an individual finds their passion and their calling in life and believes that gamification is his. It's a passion, it's not a job but rather a way of life. His journey is to make sure that he can share his passion with everyone he meets. This passion has been extended to his organization where 2000 staff members attended a Gamification master class recently held by him. He has been delighted to be named among greats recently in an article by Growth Engineering. His motto is "Show me a problem and I'll show you the possible solutions".

Angela became a learning design enthusiast from early age, creating learning games with pen and paper (and scissors) for her little brother – and deciding then already that this is what she wants to do for the rest of her life. As a business administration and international economics graduate, she has dedicated all her work-life to building, administrating, and facilitating meaningful learning experiences journey for people and organizations around the world. Her mission is to move learning from being a task to being fun.

Mathew is an engineer, inventor, designer, writer, and entrepreneur. And the creator of GoVenture, one of the original and most widely used series of educational games and simulations in the world. Mathew's educational programs have reached millions of people around the world through thousands of schools, nonprofits, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. He is the founder of several companies, author of two books, and recently launched the world's first and only fully game-based training that offers a faster and more inspiring alternative to college business school.

Another special episode Engagers! This time it's about once again taking a step back of what's been going on this year and getting ready for the battery recharge that we all need!

Engagers special episode alert! This time we will be going through one of the game creativity exercises I like to do with my students and workshop participants, so sneak peak into an important part of my work!

Chi is a Clinical Psychologist living in Brisbane, Australia. Chi has worked in many psychology settings, including private practices, correctional centers, universities, and public mental health systems. Chi is most passionate about working with a wide range of clients using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), developing training and group therapy, supervising psychologists, and most importantly, playing a lot of board games. Chi has a simple mission statement, "to promote living a meaningful life in a caring, connecting, and compassionate way".

Dr. Zac Fitz-Walter is a lecturer, trainer and games master sought out for his expertise in gamification and behavior design. He earnt one of the world's first PhDs in gamification design and has since lectured and developed curricula on gamification for universities. He works with individuals, governments and companies around the world, teaching them how to effectively use game design, gamification and behavior design to improve their products, services and teaching. Zac is obsessed with the power of play. He believes play is a universal activity that can connect us, teach us, move us and inspire us to do great things.

Bruno Setola describes himself as a "game thinker". He looks at daily interactions between people as games and aims to make them more fun, fair, and engaging. Bruno helps organizations reimagine the rules of their game. This is always a participatory process in which Bruno inspires the players to apply the best ideas from games in order to redesign the game of living, learning, and working together. Bruno is a consultant with 10+ years of hands-on experience in applied game design, while also researching and teaching gamification at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.