Episodes
Noah Rabinowitz, Moderna Vice President, and Global Head of Learning, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown, and Garrick Jones in a fascinating exploration of curiosity and learning as the catalyst for accelerated change and achievement of mission, purpose and potential. Why should we reject mediocrity and focus on the commitment to excellence and mastery? How can leaders help prepare their people for the future with all the change that's going on around them and the technology that's changing...
Published 05/25/23
Mike Vaughan, CEO of The Regis company, Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones focus on AI, Neuroscience and Learning in this powerful episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast. Subscribe today to hear about mental models, team effectiveness and agility. What are the new business models that AI presents? How will AI be critical in the future of learning? What’s the role of ‘better questions’ – in curiosity and in AI tools?  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation,...
Published 05/10/23
Microsoft’s Brian Murphy, leading Career Development for the Global Sales organisation, meets Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in this fascinating episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast to talk about AI, meta career competencies, L&D, the future of work, the role of curiosity in navigating the new world of work, skills as a new currency and much more!  How has Microsoft been adopting AI?  How can we adapt and thrive with the rise of AI? What are the skills and capabilities...
Published 04/19/23
This week Paul, Simon and Garrick interviewed ChatGPT directly and had AI read the responses. They also had ChatGPT generate the questions they asked. The result is surprising, coherent, thought provoking and worth listening to.  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors of The Curious Advantage, and keep exploring curiously!  #AI #ChatGPT #Curiousadvantagepodcast #curiosity #explorethefuture #AItechnology #thefutureisnow    About the Curious...
Published 04/03/23
“Even as assertively companies are automating and integrating technology, it's always going to be about the people.”  Brandon Carson, Walmart’s VP of Learning and Leadership, meets Paul, Simon and Garrick in this episode of the Curious Advantage Podcast to talk about curiosity and learning at a massive scale. Hear Brandon’s curious journey from Sun, Yahoo! And Microsoft, to Home Depot, Delta Airlines and now one of the companies employing the most people in the world, Walmart. What are the...
Published 03/22/23
Loretta Beruning, Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, Academic and Author meets Paul, Simon and Garrick in a fascinating conversation on Endorphins, happy neurochemicals and curiosity! Listen to Loretta’s journey of exploration of the brain chemistry we share with earlier mammals. How do neurochemicals govern our feelings? What makes us happy? What happens in the brain when we are curious? How can people make peace with their inner mammal?  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the...
Published 02/10/23
Diana Kander meets Paul Ashcroft and Simon Brown on this Curious Advantage episode, to talk about cracking the Curiosity code for exponential growth and about achieving better results by asking better questions! What is the Curiosity Muscle? What happens to organisations that are not curious enough or that loose curiosity? Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors, and keep exploring curiously! #CuriousAdvantage #curiosity About the Curious...
Published 01/17/23
“Curiosity has mysterious ways and it can tell you one passage that you do not expect” Gana Pogrebna meets Garrick Jones and Simon Brown in a fascinating conversation the role of curiosity in behavioural data science and social engineering! Join them to hear about navigating through AI, human vs machine bias, cybersecurity and cybercrime, insights into Gana’s new book the ‘Big Bad Bias’ and much more! How do we understand data? What are the hybrid models between human decisions and machines?...
Published 11/08/22
In this new episode of the #CuriousAdvantagePodcast, Michael Spencer shares with Garrick Jones, his curious journey from being a full-time performer, violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra to becoming Head of Education at the Royal Opera House and to working and teaching in Japan. How does curiosity help us engage with completely new contexts? What’s the role of curiosity in our decision making, in connecting with new people, in enabling us experience different cultures? How can we...
Published 10/12/22
The new episode of the Curious Advantage is out now! Join Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in this fascinating conversation with Sanyin Siang. Recognized by Thinkers50 as the world's Most Influential Coach & Mentor, Sanyin shares her impressive journey and talks with Paul, Simon & Garrick about coaching, leadership, superpowers, the role of curiosity, curiosity as a superpower, how to unlock and cultivate it and much more!  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the...
Published 08/12/22
In the New Curious Advantage Podcast Episode, Paul, Simon and Garrick speak with Daniela Proust, Head of Global People Enablement and Growth at Siemens. How do you develop an organisation’s top leaders, particularly with the world moving as fast as it does today to successfully lead a global organisation? What is the role of curiosity? How important is it in a learning strategy and culture to drive growth?  Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation, connect with the authors,...
Published 06/20/22
The journey from Web 0 to Web3! A fascinating evolution in marketing! In the new Curious Advantage Podcast, Paul, Simon & Garrick meet Marc Mathieu, global marketeer and Salesforce strategic customer transformation & innovation lead.  What does Web3 mean for the user? How is Web 3 connected to the metaverse, crypto, NFTs and blockchain technology? What does Web3 mean from a creativity and curiosity perspective for people? How has marketing shifted from selling to serving? What’s...
Published 05/17/22
“Learning is self-love”. Join the latest Curious Advantage Podcast on which Vidya Krishnan Ericsson’s CLO meets Simon Brown & Garrick Jones to talk about Learning and building a curious culture in a global organisation. How do you shift an organisation’s culture and what are the key challenges to overcome? What’s the role of curiosity and what are the benefits it can have on mindset? How do we nurture the will before the skill? Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the conversation,...
Published 04/01/22
In the new Curious Advantage Podcast, Paul and Simon meet Scott Peltin, Founder and Chief Performance Officer of Tignum, a company that helps executive clients achieve their full potential. Discover Scott’s curious journey from a frontline firefighter in Phoenix to a coach of the world’s top executives and professional athletes! What are the mindset killers?  What is the gap between our performance and our potential? How can recovery, nutrition, mindset and movement help us live up to our...
Published 02/25/22
Alison Horstmeyer, talent development consultant, executive coach, humanistic researcher, founder at Intrinsic Curiosity and pioneering scholar practitioner on workplace curiosity joins Paul, Simon and Garrick in the latest Curious Advantage Podcast. Join them to explore curiosity as a mental, emotional, and motivational system. Is curiosity a process? How can curiosity be connected to quantum physics?  How can the Expert Explorer Framework support leadership teams to evolve and excel? Can...
Published 01/27/22
Join Paul, Simon and Garrick in a new fascinating Curious Advantage Podcast with guest Natalie Nixon - a creativity strategist, a global keynote speaker, a TED speaker, and author of the award winning, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work. Why is Curiostiy the engine for innovation?  How is it connected to creativity? What is WonderRigor™ and the 3i Creativity™ Framework? Jazz, compex systems, ambiguity and much more!  Are you curious? Subscribe today!...
Published 12/14/21
The New Curious Advantage Podcast episode is out now! Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones are joined by Jennifer Garvey Berger in a fascinating conversation on leadership, curiosity and complexity. Jennifer is the founder & CEO of Cultivating Leadership, a coach to top executives and the author of three highly acclaimed books, Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Simple Habits for Complex Times, and Changing on the Job. What are some of the most common leadership mindtraps? What does...
Published 11/15/21
In the new Curious Advantage Episode, Garrick welcomes the renowned studio potter and Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts since 2018, Dame Magdalene Odundo in a wide ranging conversation, exploring context. Dame Magdalene is an artist and artists really make us look at the familiar with new eyes!  Garrick and Madgalene, curiously explore pottery and the form of pots as a vehicle for thinking about the human body and its relationship to space and the Matrix. How does the idea of...
Published 10/27/21
In the new fascinating Curious Advantage Episode, Paul, Simon and Garrick are joined by Dan Pontefract, award-winning leadership strategist, thinker, academic, keynote speaker and best-selling author.  “Lead, Care, Win” - How do you become a leader who matters? Why is curiosity important for leaders? What is the advantage of organisations with curiosity genes? Proactive learning, failure, hope, breakthrough, and success. Leadership, behaviours and learning in the digital world and much...
Published 10/07/21
In this fascinating Episode, Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones are joined by Pamay Bassey, entrepreneur, executive, world traveller, educator, writer, comedian, philosopher and Chief Learning Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company!   How can leaders create a culture of continuous learning and drive the company's global learning and development strategy and initiatives? What is ‘Learn like an Owner’? What are sacred spaces in our contemporary world? How does the sacred link to...
Published 09/09/21
Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Award winning expert on the psychology of organisations and author of the bestselling books 'Rebel Talent: Why it pays to break the rules at work and in life', and 'Sidetracked: Why our decisions get derailed, and how we can stick to the plan', joins Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft & Garrick Jones in their latest fascinating Curious Advantage Podcast.    Why should organisations be curious? How can...
Published 07/20/21
John Hagel, consultant, entrepreneur, speaker, and author with 40 years in Silicon Valley, joins Simon Brown, Paul Ashcroft & Garrick Jones in their latest Curious Advantage Podcast. Explore the importance of narratives, platforms, the passion of the explorer, and how these are connected with Curiosity. What does the future look like?  How can learning platforms support the need for life-long learning? What will be the future of work?    Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the...
Published 06/27/21
Philippa Neave, senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology, Activist, Connector, Consultant and expert in Journalism, and Public Outreach, joins Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in their latest Curious Advantage Podcast. Discover fascinating stories from around the world, working with young people in difficult environments where curiosity is at the edges! How important is context and how does it inform the tools used to form a campaign, what are the visual languages and skills...
Published 05/21/21
Curiosity Expert and Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, Spencer Harrison, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones in their latest Curious Advantage Podcast! The world of work is changing in radical ways. Organisations have seen unprecedented shifts over the past year. How does curiosity help in times of change and ambiguity? Research suggests that Curiosity is an Investment trade. Why is curiosity a superpower? Are you curious? Subscribe today! Join the...
Published 04/29/21
Michael Bungay Stanier, #1 thought leader on coaching, author of bestselling “The Coaching Habit” and Founder of Box of Crayons, joins Paul Ashcroft, Simon Brown and Garrick Jones, authors of the bestselling book ‘The Curious Advantage’ in a fascinating conversation! “Curiosity in the best possible way, can disrupt the status quo, can challenge what we take for granted”. How does curiosity unlock possibilities for people, individuals and leaders? What makes curiosity so powerful?  What’s the...
Published 04/14/21