M.R. Rangaswami is an entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. His career as a technology CMO, angel investor, corporate eco-strategist, and philanthropist demonstrates a unique talent for fostering innovation and creating impactful networks.

This episode will cover:

- Ways to create impactful networks

- The differences between networks and networking

- The value of community in the future of work

Scott Smith discusses takeaways from his book “How To Future”. He talks about his work as a futurist, guiding large organizations towards better futures with a blend of foresight, narrative design and strategic thinking.

Topics covered in this podcast include:

- Creating futures with agency

- Design thinking and prototyping

- Designing futures with a common grammar and framework

- AI, AI Ethics

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor to established high-tech enterprises,  including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google, and Splunk.  He is a partner at Wildcat Venture Partners.  In this podcast interview, I ask Geoffrey for his insights on how startups and large companies can benefit from his books including "Crossing the Chasm" and "Zone to Win".

Topics covered in this podcast: 

- Disruptive and sustaining innovation 

- Crossing the chasm

- Innovation in large companies 

- Technology adoption lifecycle

Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, focuses on the challenges start-up companies face transitioning from early adopting to mainstream customers. It has sold more than a million copies, and its third edition has been revised such that the majority of its examples and case studies reference companies come to prominence from the past decade. Moore’s most recent work, Zone to Win, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when embracing disruptive innovations, even when it is in their best interests to do so.

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter.

The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.” Her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award.

She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She chairs the boards of

DACS and FilmBath and is a Trustee of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.

www.mheffernan.com

Dr. Raghunathan talks about the importance of happiness in the future of work. He asks  " If intelligence helps with decision-making, smart people should naturally make better life choices. So why are so many of the smartest, brightest, most successful people profoundly unhappy?".

Raj is a Zale Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in exploring the impact that people’s judgments and decisions have on their happiness and fulfillment. Raj’s work has appeared in top journals, including The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Research, The Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Information Systems Research, and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His work has also been cited in several mass media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Inc, Fast Company, and The Los Angeles Times.

Raj writes about his views on happiness, creativity, and leadership on his popular Psychology Today blog (with over 2 million page views), Sapient Nature. His six-week long Coursera course on happiness (titled, A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment) currently has over 350,000 registered students from 196 countries, and was recently voted the Top MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) of 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018, and one of the Top 100 MOOCs of all time. His second MOOC on edX (Happier Employees and ROI Course) has over 5000 registered learners and was voted one of the top MOOCs of 2019. Raj’s book (titled, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?) was released in the Spring of 2016 in the US, UK, and India subsequently released in 13 other languages around the world.

"The Change Alchemist" is a future of work podcast in which Shobhana Viswanathan, a Silicon Valley executive interviews thought leaders, business leaders, professors, data scientists, CEOs, CIOs and CMOs to help you navigate the rapidly changing workplace.