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The word “interesting” comes up a lot in this transcript. I think that word pops up when two curious people end up in a conversation. There is very little I am not interested in. (I confess, this is sometimes a problem for me.) 

Intimacy is not a word that often comes up when discussing technology in the classroom. For many, technology has a distancing effect, but not Jeanmarie and her colleagues, who wrote a book about using technology to teach during the pandemic. 

Jeanmarie is a technological pragmatist — she is not a technophile seeking to use every gadget; she does what works and what allows her to “magnify her presence” with her students. In other words, she uses technology to center the student and doesn’t use the student as an excuse to center the technology. 

One of the more fascinating concepts is how the pandemic forced a reflection on synchronous and asynchronous action — what activities are best done live, what activities are best done alone, and what activities are best done together asynchronously? The cadences of synchrony and asynchrony fascinate many of us as we step out into the future of work and the future of the classroom. 

We had a conversation that could have extended into hours and did after the show concluded— tune in and listen to the half-hour we captured. 

Antony Panteli is a renaissance man; as he says, he can’t be pigeonholed into one role, and that’s his strength. 

Antony is an example of the kind of people we love talking to here at Singular XQ; he understands that digital transformation is not about individual specializations but holistic, systems-level thinking. Cross-functionality isn’t just an operating mode for teams; it can exist in an individual brain and comes from talking to and working with different kinds of specializations. 

Old forms of organizational structure force us to become echo chambers of thought and create false blinders to limit our vision, to “stay in our swim lane,” but this can no longer be the case. SXQ’s client base continues to struggle with designers who lack an understanding of engineering, and engineers who lack empathy for designers, and business managers who can’t embrace the problem-solving approach of their partners in design and technology. It’s a perpetual problem and creates drag on organizations that are trying to become more nimble and pick up speed. 

Our forthcoming e-book talks about the consilience of multiple technological advancements coming together toward a vanishing point on the horizon. Antony is someone who has that 20/20 vision and someone we rely on for a point of view that few people share. 

Tune in and listen to this engaging virtual water cooler conversation and learn what’s going on in his brain. 

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Have you ever wondered how cloud computing is making burgers better? Or how the Cloud is like an Uber? Ashutosh Dixit talks about digital transformation through Cloud technology.

In today’s markets, innovation and creativity are crucial. Yet building teams that are genuinely collaborating creatively — and consequently innovating — is a primal deficiency in organizations today.

Enter Emergent Futures Lab. 

In this conversation with Jason Frasca and Iain Kerr, we discuss the work 

Frasca and Kerr work together at the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at Montclair State University and are a fountain of insights into the history and neurologic underpinnings of creativity and innovation.

If we want the radical transformation leaders say they want, it will take more than just thinking or speaking it into being. Listen to their ideas on where the NEW will be coming from.

Thanks to the kick-ass podcast team at Singular XQ, Caden, Brogan, Iqra, and Abby Ahmad, for allowing us to use her music.

The one in which global CX consultant Anika Sharma shares her "fierce point of view" on the importance of using advances in digital technology to enable a seamless and personalized customer experience.  

Debbie Levitt, Founder of Delta CX, talks about Customer Experience and UX and everything in between...including the proverbial (and literal) kitchen sink.  

Jarvis Moore is a passionate UX leader at Linked In and talks here about why sneakers are a perfect metaphor for UX and the importance of diversity in UX Design.

Fred Gerantabee is Chief Experience Officer at FGX International, an EssilorLuxotica company. An advocate for customer experience and the new service-based economy, we talk about agility, mindsets, the speed of change, and fear of risk. 

The energetic conversation with Nate Chen continues in the concluding part of the interview.