Thinking the Unthinkable with Nik Gowing
Thinking the Unthinkable with Nik Gowing
Podcast Description
Welcome to the Thinking the Unthinkable podcast, hosted by BAFTA award-winning former BBC broadcaster Nik Gowing.
In a world of rapid disruption and deep uncertainty, we bring you bold conversations with visionary leaders, innovators, and change-makers. From the climate crisis to technological upheaval, leadership challenges, and corporate responsibility, we tackle the biggest issues shaping our future.
Join us as we challenge conventional wisdom, rethink strategies, and explore radical solutions.
Follow us on Spotify. #Leadership #ClimateCrisis #Innovation #AI #FutureofWork
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The podcast covers significant topics such as climate crisis, leadership challenges, corporate responsibility, and innovation, with episodes like 'We Must Stop Talking to Ourselves in Climate Jargon' focusing on communication strategies in climate activism and 'Leadership Revolution' which discusses the need for a radical reimagining of leadership roles in the face of disruption.
Welcome to the Thinking the Unthinkable podcast, hosted by BAFTA award-winning former BBC broadcaster Nik Gowing.
In a world of rapid disruption and deep uncertainty, we bring you bold conversations with visionary leaders, innovators, and change-makers. From the climate crisis to technological upheaval, leadership challenges, and corporate responsibility, we tackle the biggest issues shaping our future.
Join us as we challenge conventional wisdom, rethink strategies, and explore radical solutions.
Follow us on Spotify. #Leadership #ClimateCrisis #Innovation #AI #FutureofWork
Thinking the unthinkable is not a theoretical exercise. It is a leadership necessity. And most important it is achievable.
In this conversation, Kylie Porter, a CEO from northern Queensland in Australia, explains how she has done it. “It’s a big hairy topic that must not be avoided,” she tells TTU’s Nik Gowing.
Her organisation, GW3, is leading the economic transformation away from mining in the city of Mackay. She describes how it did a somersault, moving from resistance to readiness when facing an uncertain future.
“It’s like flying a plane while building it.” And a main secret was to take her 15 employees – all of them women – on the urgent journey of change.
There are no perfect models to follow. “We can only manage risk… we can’t eliminate it.” Instead, Kylie outlines the new mindset required to navigate uncertainty: curiosity, persistence, and “a good, big dose of bravery.”
As global shocks increasingly impact even the most remote regions, the unthinkable must not be regarded as a distant irritation. In Mackay it was already happening.
In this podcast Kylie Porter sets out a practical blueprint for CEO’s and leaders like her to face the complex unthinkables of profound, long-term change.
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