Alex Kahl Saskia Listle Welcome to another conversation with my future skills, the podcast where I talk with interesting people about what skills we have and what skills we need […]

Kaumudi Goda Saskia Listle Welcome to another conversation with my future skills, the podcast where I talk with interesting people about what skills we have and what skills we need […]

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In this episode I talk to Ann Welch. Ann is a talented and versatile educator who enjoys working with learners of all ages to develop vital skills for realizing their dreams and achieving success in life. Throughout her extensive career in education, Ann has guided learners in developing and cultivating self-motivation, growth mindsets, and a better understanding of who they are as learners. This episode is all about growth mindset. Not in a hustle way, though, but with a good portion of self-awareness and self-reflection. We’re talking about growth as an ongoing process and about goal setting. We get to…

In this episode I talk to Nancy Tobler. Nancy started working in HR in 2010. Ever since the people business has captured her when working in different industries, such as Advertising, PR, Digital, and Design. Her mission is to turn growing into an interactive and fun activity with the help of a little bit of agile mindset and a mindful heart. In our conversation we suggest that every HR manager should maybe consider seeing themselves like a UX designer. We discuss how to take a more active role as an HR person as it becomes increasingly important to actively engage…

In this episode I talk to Tracy Sharp. Tracy is a former Design Director with over 15 years of product development experience. Now as an accredited coach she has founded SharpMinds, with the aim to support and empower women in Design and Engineering. She is also the host of the Design thinking Podcast “ A Beginners Guide 2 Design Thinking” Together we use design thinking methods to imagine out perfect inclusive space. We discuss how to improve innovation and level the playing field in businesses by putting egos aside and creating a culture of openness and dialogue. We go into the…

In this episode I talk to Charles-Louis de Maere. Through Exploration Labs, he works with individuals, organisations in order to make sense around the work we are doing together. He facilitates workshops and learning experiences that focus on high participation, on learning by doing and validating that the newly learned concepts are integrated. Bringing people together is something that lives on through this workshops and training. In this conversation we compose our very own “Facilitator’s moonlight sonata”! We analyze the tones and different tempos of facilitation, we ask which instrument we are missing and we keep ourselves accountable as the…

In this episode I talk to Conny Marx. Conny is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Marx Innovations who has experienced the stress and challenges of being a startup founder. Through her own startup journey, she has founded The Healthy Startup and made it her mission to change that and bring more attention to mental health and empower founders on their journey to build healthy and sustainably successful businesses. In this conversation we are talking about the importance of self-care and connecting with oneself to know what is best for them, rather than blindly following the hustle and grind…

In this episode I talk to Ceri Newton-Sargunar. Ceri is an Agile Behavioural Coach, an ex-teacher and a neuroscientist-in-training; her continuing mission is to make evidence-based research accessible and useful to agile professionals. Ceri’s favourite pastimes include creating lightbulb moments, turning assumptions on their heads, and reading literally everything in front of her (because ADHD). Ceri’s passions are tea, agility and also brains (but in a good way). Together we dream up our perfect Agile Wonderland. We talk about the frame in the framework of Agile Methods, we analyse what scrum ceremonies are actually there for and we explore the overall idea…

In this episode I talk to Matthew Bellringer. They are an innovation consultant, neurodiversity advocate and social entrepreneur. They work with individuals and organisations to cultivate, develop and support the exceptional abilities that unconventional people offer. They have a background in technology, psychology and social innovation, and use all of those influences and more to help people establish new ideas, approaches and practices. In this conversation we go on a meta level and take skills apart. We go into the definitions, teaching and adaption of our skills, the use cases and the cycles of everything that we touch with our…