In this conversation, our guest Maury Shenk, founder and CEO of LearnerShape, and Director and General Counsel of PeopleCert, talks with Bethan about the importance of lifelong learning in the fast-changing world we live in.

They delve into the need for education to prepare people for the types of work required in the 21st century and the significance of personalisation in the future of education. They also explore the role of technology in enhancing traditional learning environments and creating a more flexible learning experience.

Join us as we dive deeper into the future of education and the potential impact of technology on the way we learn.

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In this episode we explore how AI, with the specific example of chat GPT, is shaking up the marketing and wider content sectors, what we can use it for, and what are its strengths and weaknesses.

This episode is a conversation between Bethan Vincent, founder of Open Velocity, Jon Paget, one of our senior partners, and Katie Thompson, managing director of content marketing agency Katie Lingo. It was originally broadcast as a live webinar in January 2023. If you're interested in attending future live events, you can sign up for email notifications on the open velocity website.

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The new year is a time when a lot of us think about making positive changes to our health and fitness.

In this episode, we interview founder and CEO Toby Cannon about the motivations and challenges behind Myles, an app supporting fitness and wellbeing in a work environment.

We talk about the inspiration behind Myles, the challenges workers face when breaking free from their desks and the risks of sharing health data with your employer.

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Is modern life driving driving insomnia? How do you build a trusted brand in a traditionally controversial space? How can D2C brands navigate recessionary and inflationary pressures?

In a rather wide ranging conversation I ask Joe Welstead, CEO and Co-Founder of Motion Nutrition, about building a trusted health brand and how his experience as an athlete made him re-think the role of supplements.

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Can we trust machines with commercial decision making? What are the advantages and limitations? Can we truly use data to get insights into irrational human preferences?

In this episode I speak to Peter Denby, COO of Hyper Group, about decision intelligence. What is it? How are companies using it and how can machines augment human decision making.

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In an era of accelerating technological change and digital disruption, how do companies robustly respond to and adapt to uncertainty and rapidly shifting foundations?

This is the question that preoccupies Tom Goodwin, Author, Consultant, Speaker, TV Presenter and guest on this episode.

We speak about the meaning of Digital Darwinism (a term coined by Tom), adapting to cultural change, the potential end of our guilded age and how to become a changemaker.

It's admittedly a wide ranging discussion, but well worth a listen. Tom has the uncommon ability to simplify the complex while retaining nuance.

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Welcome back to series three of The Brave! We're kicking things off with a really interesting episode which explores how we can use new technologies for good.

In the first episode of our new series I speak to Katie Gibbs, Founding Partner at Emergence Partners, a tech consultancy on a mission to drive the thoughtful adoption of technologies including AI. Emergence has a bold manifesto which focuses on achieving net zero unemployment through AI. We chat about what this means and how companies can approach adopting new technologies without harming employees or their wider sphere of influence.

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Emergence Partners - https://emergencehq.com/

Emergence's manifesto - zero-unemployment-manifesto-designed.pdf">https://emergencehq.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Net-zero-unemployment-manifesto-designed.pdf

Connect with Katie on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-gibbs-82b6ab84/

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The recruitment industry has a divisive reputation, especially in the digital sector. Low barriers to entry encourage cowboy operators, misaligned incentives lead to low-quality hires and poor practices lead to poor candidate experiences. However many companies rely on recruiters to identify, access and tempt talent, a challenge that is ever-growing in candidate-scarce sectors.

Companies and candidates are rightly starting to ask - is there a better way to hire and be hired?

In this episode, we speak to recruiter and tech founder Shannon Smith about how we might re-imagine the recruitment industry for the better and build inclusive hiring models that work for both companies and candidates.

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In this episode I speak to Dr Karen Parkhill about the different reactions the unfolding climate crisis has provoked across communities and governments and explore the fundamental role technology can play in both deepening and responding to the crisis. We also dig into the power of individual and community action, and contrast that with larger-scale, national and international approaches, including geoengineering. 

Karen is a lecturer in human geography at The University of York. Her research interests span energy geographies and geographies of risk. She uses qualitative methods to explore how the public engages with/resists notions of low carbon lifestyles and low carbon transitions, including examining how they themselves consume and perceive energy.

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In this episode of The Brave we take a look at the future of inner-city transport through the lens of micromobility, which, if you don't know, refers to the shared electric scooters and bikes popping up in cities around the world.

My guest this week is Georgia Yexley, Head of Cities for the UK and Ireland for TIER Mobility, Europe's largest operator of shared e-vehicles. We explore the explosive expansion of this new industry, unpick the implications this has for how we get around, and find out how these new options fit into existing transport infrastructure.

TIER is also an environmentally neutral company, and we dig into the way increased climate awareness is changing the landscape (if you’ll pardon the pun) within which infrastructure businesses operate, and the innovative ways of working this requires.

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