From Meth Lab to Ministry: Leading from Within with Michael Buck
Have you ever imagined that the leadership skills needed to spin up a regional methamphetamine lab would transfer to leading a church ? While he couldn’t have known his destiny from the start, this is...
10 Jul 202437min
Climate Science & Action with Dr. Benjamin Strauss, CEO of Climate Central
What makes a story—an ancient myth, a newspaper article, even a map—powerful enough to shape a culture? Dr. Benjamin Strauss asks this question every day in his role as CEO and Chief Scientist of Clim...
19 Jun 202440min
Water, Electricity, Gas, Artificial Intelligence: Insights on the Inevitability of AI from Policy Advisor Ami Fields-Meyer
Imagine AI as a public utility—what would that look like? This episode, Sonja and Jamie ask: What are the hidden societal costs of broad AI adoption? How can we mitigate the implicit bias inherent in ...
5 Jun 202445min
Communicating Climate Urgency: Dr. Zoë Sadokierski and Dr. Timo Rissanen on the Power of Storytelling in the Sixth Extinction
What happens when a bird no longer recognizes the song of its species? What is the role of art and storytelling in building sustainable worlds? Can AI unchain human creativity and center compassion in...
1 Mai 202441min
The Intelligence AI Can Never Create: Dr. Rina Bliss on Humans, Creativity, and Our Future
Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, emotional literacy, mindfulness, learning from our environment: these are aspects of intelligence that are uniquely human, and truly cannot be replicated by AI. Innate...
10 Apr 202435min
How We Get There—Pathways to Leadership: Elite Spartan Racer Nick Miles
Competition, meet collaboration. Solitary grit, meet mutual support. Fierce warrior, meet loyal ally. These seemingly contradictory identities come together in the Spartan Race experience, a symbiotic...
26 Mar 202432min
Human-Centric Leadership in the Age of AI: Mickaël Dufourneaud
What are the true skills humans will need as AI pervades the workplace? How can we use technology to reinforce our humanness and augment our emotional intelligence—even if it has no feelings itself? H...
6 Mar 202440min
How do we know AI is Conscious? A deep dive with Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist Dr. Megan Peters
Have you ever considered the possibility of robots and AI systems possessing a consciousness akin to our own? Dr. Megan Peters joins Sonja & Jamie in a compelling conversation on how we can determine ...
7 Feb 202444min
