T. Melissa Madian discusses the sales process in the modern era of informed customers and automated e-commerce sites. She believes that salespeople need to use a more agile improv approach that focuses on providing a solution for customers—even if it challenges their assumptions—that aligns with their core beliefs.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

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Eli Fathi is the CEO and President of Mindbridge AI, a company using machine learning to detect erroneous patterns in accounting data. Accounting processes have remained relatively unchanged for decades, Eli discusses how machine learning approaches have the potential to detect error patterns in accounting data including fraudulent transactions. In addition, Eli discusses how machine learning could, in the future, change auditing into a real-time activity potentially detecting intent to commit fraud.

Can Academia and Corporate collaborations drive life-changing research and discovery? Is this the only way that life changing impact can be driven? Or are collaborations simply better use of our human capital? In this episode, we speak to Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, from the National University of Singapore, Martine Docking and Bill Deluise from John Wiley & Sons. On how Academia and Corporate collaborations can drive life-changing research and discovery.

In this podcast, Sana Kapadia, the Chief Impact Investor of Spring Activator, discusses impact investing with a focus on metrics for measuring social impact. She also shares how the average person can use their money to create positive change in the world while achieving a monetary return. A body of literature exists around social impact investing, and Sana discusses the different issues that could arise between social goals, such as measuring impact over time, particularly when the ripple effect of impact is difficult to discern.

Podcast host: James Bowen,is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Jasmine Kitz founder of live history discusses how entertainment has become more experiential and interactive. Audience members want to engage with the experience; telling their own stories and participating in the stories of others. Such experiences offer lessons to higher education institutions as students seek to learn through by experiencing the curriculum, rather than through a lecture. She also discusses implications for work places where the modern employee is seeking a more engaging and evolving place than earlier generations might have.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Bruno Couillard is the President of Crypto4A and a career professional at the intersection of IT security software and hardware. As our society moves to the internet of everything, new security issues continue to emerge. Bruno discusses how IT security has become a societal safety issue.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Simon Morris and Tara Akhavan are the CEO and CTO of IRYstec, a company combining both qualitative and quantitative sciences to produce a new technology product. They discuss the need for healthy machine-human interaction and take an interdisciplinary approach to produce a measurable human health improvement when using computer displays. Simon and Tara also provide their perspective on the need to focus on more than technological functionality in products but also on the human health aspect of interacting with computer devices and the role science can take in achieving that goal.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor, and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Aiste Ptakauske is the director of a new MBA/Entrepreneurship degree at Vilnius University in Lithuania. Ptakauske discusses the considerations around developing the program, including the evaluation approach, support ecosystems around the degree, student creativity, team work and, a life cycle approach to student engagement.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

How to Make Entrepreneurship Your Job Rivers Corbett, entrepreneur-in-residence and serial entrepreneur discusses entrepreneurship as a profession including the education and lifelong learning steps required. Rivers discusses questions such as what society can do to support entrepreneurship and whether we can certify someone as an entrepreneur as with other professions.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.

Dr. Leah Hanes, Executive Director of the Two Bit Circus Foundation, sees a link between ethics and failure, as well as, new market growth opportunities. In this podcast she discusses how to create a people-oriented culture where an understanding of failure is built around metrics such as trust. This culture appears in organizations but has its roots in the emerging attributes of the next generation

as they enter the work force.

Podcast host: James Bowen, is an author, professor and CEO of Experiential Simulations, a producer of simulations for teaching entrepreneurship and ethics.