Un-Machine Yourself

Kemo Camara is social entrepreneur, community organizer and Diversity & Inclusion Advocate. The past 20 years, he has lived and worked in cities across Africa, The United States, and Europe. He has founded different start-ups, built non-profit organizations, and played various leadership roles in community organizations. His latest founding is called Omek, a professional platform designed to uplift the African diaspora.

In this episode, Kemo explains:

- why a safe space and empowerment are the key elements to let your people (and thus your company) flourish

- why companies at job interviews shouldn’t focus on the hard skills the person has, but on the soft skills

-why looking outside your own bubble is the way to diversity and inclusion

-why you need people at HR positions who really understand the concept of inclusivity and diversity, and truly live it, to make an actual change in your company

More about OMEK:

https://myomek.com/

More network platforms:

AfroTech - https://afrotech.com/

CJS - https://www.creativejamsession.nl/

Afrispectives - https://www.afrispectives.com/

Black Ladies Talk - https://blackladiestalk.com/

Producer: Gabriëlla van der Linden

Tom van der Lubbe is a visionary, sustainable entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. He co-founded Viisi Mortgages, the first financial organization in the world to implement Holacracy: an horizontal, self-governing and self-managing organization. In Holacracy the purpose or goal of the organization that should be the leading factor, and not the CEO or a manager. So Tom believes in a "why" of individuals and organisations. The "why" is the motivational engine that gives fulfilment in what we do. Today we get to talk to him about his most interesting vision on the future of work and organizations.

In this episode, Tom explains:

- why he thinks decentralized decision making is way more productive than micromanagement

- why psychological safety is the key to high performing teams

- why big bonuses are unnatural to us as humans, and are counterproductive

- why everybody should be a leader, and nobody THE boss

More about Tom:

https://www.viisi.nl/over-viisi/team/tom-van-der-lubbe/

More about Holacracy:

‘Getting Teams Done’ - Diederick Janse & Marco Bogers

‘Reinventing Organizations’ – Frederic Laloux

Corporate Rebels: https://corporate-rebels.com/

In the interview Tom mentions the layoffs at Heineken that morning. He decided to write an opion article about those layoffs, which was published in Dutch in the newspaper Trouw: www.trouw.nl/opinie/kiest-de-co…r-belang~b603da91/

And in English at the international platform Corporate Rebels: https://corporate-rebels.com/future-of-capitalism-swinkels-or-heineken-economy/

Producer: Gabriella van der Linden

Binnaz Cubukcu is an established leader and a trusted advisor in learning, knowledge management and leadership within the retail world. During her 20+ years in the corporate world, she has led teams through change, driven learning agendas in digital transformations, created and facilitated relevant and even award-winning learning experiences. Since 2005, she has been working at IKEA, where she has fulfilled many different leadership roles in learning design, competence development and conceptualisation. And she is the learning experience advisor of Hatch. Today we talk to her about one of her areas of specialty: future capabilities and future leadership.

In this episode, Binnaz explains:

- why, as a leader, it is super important to know what makes the people in your team tick

- why curiosity and conversation are the key elements to keeping your team creative and free in their thinking

- why value driven recruitment is the way to diversity and inclusion

- why she believes that the times of bureaucracy, hierarchy, and strict organisations within companies are over

More about Binnaz:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/binnaz-cubukcu-07040a5/?originalSubdomain=nl

Producer: Gabriella van der Linden

Ewout Karel is a Corporate Jammer, Professional tinkerer, and an Innovation Specialist. Since 2015, he has worked as innovation manager at T-mobile. He is co-founder and the innovation director of Chateau, a creative powerhouse in Amsterdam. And his love for jamming and innovation even resulted in his book Corporate Jamming 1.0.

In this episode, Ewout explains:

- why he thinks its super important that big corporates work together with small techs and startups

- why a corporate is NEVER the one that drives the innovation

- why you shouldn’t spend your day on rigid contract conversations, but on creative informal coffee agreements

- why drinking coffee with strangers is the best thing you can do as an innovator

More about Ewout:

https://corporatejamming.com

https://chateau.amsterdam

More about Jelle’s startup Care-Riing: https://care-riing.com

More about David Marquet, retired US Navy Captain, and expert on Leadership and Innovation, watch this video: https://youtu.be/psAXMqxwol8

The Un-Machine Yourself is a podcast by Hatch.

Producer: Gabriëlla van der Linden

Thanks for listening to what isn't even the very first podcast episode of Un-Machine Yourself. We are currently recording interviews with some of the worlds most inspirational leaders and successful CEOs. People whom we've selected, because we believe that they possess some of the most important capacities that we've learned we all need, in the nearby future.

Un-Machine Yourself is created and produced by Hatch - a platform that helps individuals and companies become future-proof. Behind Hatch are Roanne and Martijn.

Martijn is an entrepreneur with great experience in the corporate world; someone who set up several companies in a successful way, managed big teams of people, created startups and sold them again, right in time. He's also someone who foresaw that times are changing, and who warned that the old ways to become successful, no longer work.

That's where Roanne and Martijn connected. Roanne is a social scientist, an anthropologist of the future to be more precise. She is also a board member of the Dutch Future Society, lectures at universities and nowadays, took up the role of chief science advisor at Hatch.

So far, you've all heard the stories and heard the news about the disadvantages of unsustainable growth. You probably know how many burnouts and bore-outs there are on the workfloor. You have had the experience to sit in a room with people, all of them watching at their phones, not each other. You may know how it is to work in an environment that doesn't feel inclusive, or just; where growth is prioritized over people. And you may wonder: is it true that soon, robots will take over my job? Or, by then, will I have become a sort of robot, in order to keep up?

No - we say at Hatch, to the latter. While it IS true that almost all jobs will change in the coming years, and while it is also true that AI, Artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, hyper connectedness and the increase of risk for global pandemics will make this shift as significant as the transitions that prior generations have experienced in agriculture and manufacturing.

BY THE WAY; if you find this interesting, check out our website www.iamhatch.com - we wrote several background articles on this topic.

We also believe that leaders and employees with future-proof human capabilities, will be able to keep their jobs and more: thrive in them.

In this podcast, we tell you which capacities you need, but more than that: together with you, we want to allow ourselves to learn from the best.

We interview the worlds' most inspirational leaders; people who seem to possess exactly those capacities that we all need. People to whom everyone is pointing: they are different, they seem to rock it. For some reason, they just keep up and reinvent and do it in such a way, that it works, no matter how turbulent the world is.

Yup, those are the people we talk to, here. Sure, we'll talk about the future and robots; but mainly, we share real stories, about humane capacities, with concrete examples. We talk vulnerability, courage, resilience - daring to say to your boss or boardmembers that things are NOT ok. Daring to be innovative, to start a project that no-oone believes in, because you know the world needs it. We talk empathy, complex conversations, being truely transparant - and then win over the world.

If you click to follow this podcast, you'll be the first to hear more. If you want to get to know more about us; find us at www.iamhatch.com. Talk soon!