The Change Makers Podcast

When we talk about change, nowadays we always think of technology as the main driver for it. So today, I invited three software engineers to join me in a discussion on this topic. We are talking about the role, responsibility, and ethics of a developer, lifelong learning in a fast-paced tech environment, the community of open-source sharing, the cost of scalability, and the state of Artificial Intelligence.

Questions:

1:01 Introductions

3:51 The role of creativity in engineering

7:42 Technology as one of the main drivers of change

11:49 Lifelong learning in the role of a developer. Do developers need a degree?

21:17 The community of open source sharing

29:45 The balance between day to day problem solving and looking at the bigger picture

37:10 Why should we make businesses scalable and where is the limit?

41:11 What is the cost of scalability in the long term?

47:48 Morals and ethics in the role of a developer

53:41 Artificial Intelligence: How far are we from software writing software?

1:00:26 What is impact for you?

1:06:08 What is the change you would like to contribute to?

About the interviewees:

Rasmus Reiler is an entrepreneurial minded software developer and certified pasta expert that's always looking for new ways to expand his horizon with new skills.

Simon Kristensen is a software engineer who strives for a strong collaboration with anyone he works with. He puts aside ego and focuses on a result-driven process, as well as a work environment that constantly allows the growth of skills and capabilities.

Stefan Schonert is the co-founder and CTO of Statum, a digital recruitment agency specializing in scale-ups.

Music Credits:

🎶Curl Up into a Ball- Joey Pecoraro

Marco van Hout is the co-founder of the Digital Society School, a new hub in Amsterdam focused on engaging, meaningful and impactful learning experiences for students and professionals.

Marco CREATES, TEACHES and SPEAKS about transformation design, digital society, human(ity) centered and UX design + how we can collaborate across cultures and borders in order to build a global innovation chain to finally tackle those global challenges from local perspectives.

Questions:

01:20 From UX design to humanity centered design

https://bit.ly/2xFT0j9

03:21 Design Waste & the Responsibility of designers

https://bit.ly/2JqZglx

7:16 Cross-cultural collaboration in design

https://bit.ly/2G3mUSP

10:53 The dialogue about the need for collaboration

https://bit.ly/2YRxSCE

16:22 Design Activism and the difference between change and transformation

https://bit.ly/2LgxM4e

19:29 It’s not about the tech, but the integration of tech

https://bit.ly/2XVsG38

28:47 Innovative Education Model

https://bit.ly/2NNyWGn

31:05 Impact

https://bit.ly/2S3sHww

35:37 Entrepreneurial Wisdom

https://bit.ly/2XIcSSk

41:17 Digital Society School in the future

https://bit.ly/2xEYpXB

44:15 Inspirational End

https://bit.ly/2S7kNCg

References:

www.design-emotion.com/about/

digitalsocietyschool.org/

papanek.org/

Rona van der Zander aims to create sustainable change and innovation in the education sector and facilitate change for organizations and institutions. She is a true global citizen. Her curious spirit and her keen eye for interesting trends and developments have led her to work in 8 different countries, in different types of organizations from large businesses to NGO’s and international organizations such as the United Nations. Currently, Rona is based in Berlin, working on her own initiative. GrowBeyound is a consultancy that works with universities, businesses, and individuals and supports them to reach their full global potential.

https://www.growbeyound.com/

Questions:

0:59 https://bit.ly/329M0Ju

Introduction & Background

2:23 https://bit.ly/2NBX92g

What led you to jump between all these fields from business to politics to starting your own business within education?

4:50 https://bit.ly/2NBYcze

How did you make this decision of going and studying in different contexts?

8:18 https://bit.ly/2XojtB7

What was your main learnings? Especially related to what you mentioned before about reverse culture shock?

9:56 https://bit.ly/32aDCt6

What were your main learnings from a professional perspective?

13:13 https://bit.ly/2xxTh7z

What was the need you saw in universities to start GrowBeYound? And what is your vision?

14:50 https://bit.ly/2Xpog08

Do you see some difference in this topic across countries different countries?

17:01 https://bit.ly/2xGaZpP

What is GrowBeYound?

19:17 https://bit.ly/2FSxcoY

What was the biggest challenge from working with universities?

20:52 https://bit.ly/2Jeh4jH

How do you usually approach these universities?

22:08 https://bit.ly/2XQXbHq

What are the 21st century skills?

25:13 https://bit.ly/2RT53CZ

How would you imagine an education system that trains the 21st century skills and prepares students for multiple careers?

28:47 https://bit.ly/2xxhECo

What is students’ feedback on the workshops you did?

30:25 https://bit.ly/2Jgi5rH

How should we teach skills such as empathy, skills that are not repetitive and cannot be measured?

34:03 https://bit.ly/2FQJIW8

What were some education trends that really attracted your attention?

37:21 https://bit.ly/326waz3

What, in your view, future of work will look like?

39:26 https://bit.ly/30m3PTZ

Where is this whole topic of burnout actually coming from?

43:20 https://bit.ly/2XmwjLb

In the countries where you lived in, how is the attitude towards the future of work topic?

45:46 https://bit.ly/2NyMjKF

You mention that you want to be a cheerleader...

49:29 https://bit.ly/2FSESaM

Do we need more caring in leadersip?

51:06 https://bit.ly/2XuSjZp

Who are changemakers for you?

52:32 https://bit.ly/2YAXLWW

What is the change you would like to see in your lifetime?

55:17 https://bit.ly/2JsPrCg

What would be the impact you would like to create within education?

56:36 https://bit.ly/2JoBvt3

What would be the advice you would give your younger self?

For the last 2 years, Tom has been leading his organization Extraordinary Life, a non profit foundation dedicated to empowering people to living more meaningful working lives. One core mission of EL is to evolve the notion of work.

Essentially, Tom aims to create a more meaningful working world where people can wake up each morning and be excited to go to work, working with teams, doing things that excite them, and making the impact they believe in.

https://www.extraordinarylife.eu/

Questions:

* 1:27 Introduction Tom Marshall and Extraordinary Life

https://bit.ly/2RnVATQ

* 6:28 What did you study? What were your expectations after graduation and have they been met?

https://bit.ly/2Jar9Nx

* 9:24 How come we have this system with money flowing upwards and task flowing downwards? How can we overcome these pyramids in corporations?

https://bit.ly/2Ivkiz4

* 13:33 What do you think will be the impact of automation? Can we expect people to just reinvent themselves?

https://bit.ly/2IsIPEE

* 18:14 What do you think needs to change in education today to meet this work scenario? Shall we keep preparing and training people for roles and professions?

https://bit.ly/31GeCtz

* 22:08 One of the core missions of Extraordinary Life is to evolve the notion of work. What should change in the current view that we have?

https://bit.ly/2XXASwM

* 24:02 How would this notion of work integrate on a global level? We are in a privileged position to talk about purpose, how would that work in other areas that have different cultures and other levels of development?

https://bit.ly/2ZzxqZw

* 28:54 How can we help people to discover the impact they want to make?

https://bit.ly/2Y2qzY2

* 34:50 What is the change for you? And what is the change you would like to create in your lifetime?

https://bit.ly/2IsgiiG

* 36:53 Who is a changemaker for you?

https://bit.ly/2X1xiW4

* 38:03 What would you tell your younger self?

https://bit.ly/2L4ExoP

* 40:43 How do you define success? What is your vision for Extraordinary Life?

https://bit.ly/2ItKJVB

Resources mentioned in this interview:

📚The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Daniel Susskind

🎵 Music credits: nymano- back to reality

Danielle is an Employee Journey Advisor at ING Bank, with a passion for meditation and mindfulness. She is a volunteer for very diverse causes, and she strongly believes in the power of giving back and strengthening the community feeling. She started her own charity, Stichting Enlight, a day dedicated to meditation, inspirational speeches, and spiritual music.

Her ultimate vision is to reduce the number of people suffering of anxiety, depression, and burnouts. She wants to help people grow and feel happy about their lives. She wants to give purpose to the lives of those in need or in weaker positions of society.

Questions:

* 1:11 Introduction & Background Danielle- https://bit.ly/2MAgtMN

* 3:42 How did you discover meditation? https://bit.ly/2K9hfi1

* 7:31 What is the importance of meditation in the 21st century considering the trend of mindfulness, but also trends in the work field? https://bit.ly/2IKwgnp

* 11:01 Is meditation a topic important enough to be included in the education process to develop this mindset of awareness? https://bit.ly/2K9FfSa

* 14:21 What in your experience, how are companies integrating spirituality and mindfulness in their employees’ lives? https://bit.ly/2K9ieid

* 16:26 How did you get into the area of volunteering? https://bit.ly/2WwLOA1

* 23:13 From all the volunteering experiences, what is the feedback of people that you have helped? https://bit.ly/2K8Hrcn

* 24:56 What is the importance of gratitude? https://bit.ly/2wNjY8a

* 27:50 Who are change makers for you? https://bit.ly/2MzGKLg

* 30:30 What has been the impact of buddhist readings? https://bit.ly/31qvjc2

* 32:01 How come we don’t talk so much about the moments of struggle? Should we start sharing them more? https://bit.ly/2I845Q0

* 34:00 What is purpose for you? https://bit.ly/2Wyablv

* 35:40 Is this life of service what gives our lives purpose?https://bit.ly/2WXTXS9

* 37:43 What is the change that you would like to create? https://bit.ly/2R2u6De

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Resources mentioned during the interview:

The World Peace Meditation event: https://www.facebook.com/StichtingEnlight/

https://www.imovefoundation.org/

https://alphabetclub.org/

🎵Music credits:

nymano- green tea

Marion King is the founder of Les Enfants Terribles, which is a school, a community, and an initiative for good new work. Marion confesses she always felt a little bit different from the other kids; with time and experience, she realized that being 'un enfant terrible' turned out to be a good quality. Speaking up, being loud, pointing to the elephant in the room is essential for making significant impactful change.

In this podcast, we discuss new work. What needs to change in the current way we work? What are the alternatives? What is the importance of collaboration, community, and leadership? Tune in for Marion's inspiring story and interesting insights on the topic.

http://enfants-terribles.org/

🎵nymano- truly happy

Our guest today is Michael Sano, higher ed community manager at EdSurge, a news organisation focused on the future of learning. In this conversation, we reflect on the following questions within higher education:

* The impact of the economic recession on education

* the balance between financial sustainability and quality talking for all

* the role of technology and communities within lifelong learning

* how did the needs of students change in the context of digitalisation and access to information?

* The role of an instructor in the 21st century

* The need to rethink the growth mindset that we are trapped in and the assessment measures for student achievement

* Shifting from “how can we use tech to personalise learning" to “how can we employ more people that can provide a personalised human to human learning experience”?

* The paradigm shift in choosing careers: will organisations dissipate into networks of self employed professionals?

* The role of education within social change

For more information about EdSurge, access the following link: https://www.edsurge.com/

🎵credits: Rise Above (prod. Mad Real)

Today, we have as a guest Tamara Veldboer, an expert and consultant on Circular Economy, who aims to have a valuable contribution towards the realization of the circular economy and inspire others to think holistically.

In this conversation, we reflect on the topic of sustainability, no waste and inequality, philanthropy, doughnut economics and re-thinking our current economic model and mindset.

https://www.circle-economy.com/

In this Change Makers Episode we have Leon Reiner, the co-founder and managing director of Impact Hub Berlin, whose vision is to create an ecosystem where change makers bring their ideas into action.

In this interview, Leon is sharing his thoughts on impact investing, the collaboration culture in the social innovation field, entrepreneurship as a tool for social positive impact, and the balance between profit and purpose.

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Impact Hub is a community, a consultancy and a creative space. As part of the biggest global network for social innovation, Impact Hub inspires, connects and enables the local community of changemakers to develop their ideas for a more sustainable world.

https://berlin.impacthub.net/

🎶 Credits:

Sinh, Masego- Early Spring

In today’s episode we have Celine Wuarin, a teacher at heart, driven by the question: what experiences do students need to build their identities, broaden their understanding of the world and make choices that will fulfil their lives?

She is the director of Student Pathways at Compass Academy based in Colorado, but is currently in the Netherlands, exploring the Dutch secondary education choices with the aim to take best practices and models back to the US.

In this episode we talk about differences and similarities between American and some European education models, we question the current measures of student performance and growth and we also reflect on the complexity of the teacher profession.

http://www.compassacademy.org/