Live Podcast: Innovating in Nervous Systems – live from SXSW London

Our first podcast recorded live at Disruptive Futures at SXSW London is now out in the world. This episode asks: how do we innovate in Nervous Systems – in a state of constant crisis - human, organisational, societal – when the world feels like a rolling state of change?

Our own Tom Morgan is joined by Emily Dent and Joe Spence, two innovation and organisational change gurus, for a wide-ranging conversation on innovation, systems thinking, leadership and creativity in the face of uncertainty.

Key takeaways:

1. Why we’re better equipped for uncertainty than we think. After all we as humans were designed to deal with uncertainty.

2. How we need to get back to systems thinking and copy natures systems – the butterfly effect is real.

3. Leaders need to shift their focus from building organisms instead of organisations – and what systems thinking looks like in practice.

4. How surfacing and testing the assumptions we treat as ‘truth’ can unlock meaningful change.

5. The idea that nothing is ever set in stone and no one’s got all the answers, and why that means that everyone can be an agent of change

6. How great innovation needs freedom with structure, just like any good playground.

7. The value of acting on 70% belief – because waiting for certainty (that never comes) kills momentum.

8. Why the job of leadership now is to activate curiosity – especially in the age of AI.

🎧 Listen now, and bring your uncertainty with you: