Listen to thoughts on the possible futures

In the Good Morning April podcast we explore and evaluate possible futures, primarily focusing on the future of work, leadership, organizations, and culture – with a strong focus on change, transformation and futures thinking.

The podcast is a mix of cornerstone content in the area of future of work and change management and interviews with interesting, global thought leaders and practitioners.

We have produced the Good Morning April podcast in seasons with different themes. In each season we invite guests to give their insight on the theme. In this way you as a listener will have a deep dive into different perspective on the same overall theme inspiring you to explore and evaluate many possible futures.

This podcast is created by Good Morning April, a Danish-based organization that strives to shape the futures of work, together with our partners and customers.

Guests with insights

We have asked people with insights or thoughts on the possible futures of work to join us in the Good Morning April podcast looking forward and evaluating what’s to come.

Below you’ll find a complete list of our guests from each episode and season.

Season 2: The Future of Organizational Design

Nathan Evans is Co-founder of Peerdom, an online platform that supports you in documenting your roles and responsibilities in the organization. He describes himself as a Technologist, Neuroscientist, Musician – and Connector of dots. Nathan has a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in neuroscience, both from the University of Lausanne.

Nathan appears in more episodes throughout this season as our guest with insight in orgnizational design both from a human and technical perspective which adds from his experience working with clients on documenting their organizational design.

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Joseph Fuller is Professor of Management Practice and co-head of Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School. With a long career in academia, Joe has strong and well-documented insight into trends and movements within the changing world and how work is changing. Joe’s knowledge and passion is focused on technology, people, and business, and reaches both local and global views. Finally, he is also board member in the private sector, so he has a broad acumen that really shines through.

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Ted Rau is a governance designer, and a sociocracy consultant, trainer, and thinker. He works to make collaborative systems, based on willingness and dignity. In his own words, “The focus of my work is sociocracy – in a joyful and non-dogmatic way”. Ted has a background in linguistics, and is the co-author of the sociocracy handbook “Many Voices, One Song”. A few years later he wrote a book on decision making, named “Who decides who decides”. Lately, Ted has focused on governance literacy, and on how we can be better – also as kids – to understand and shape our governance and decision-making.

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Tom van der Lubbe is the Co-Founder of Viisi NV, a Dutch financial service company that offers mortgage solutions for highly educated customers. At Viissi they have worked with new ways of working for many years, and Tom shares their and his learnings and approaches on many occasions. Viisi experiments with sociocracy and Holacracy, with new approaches to salary and bonuses, and with trust and loyalty as the foundation for everything, also for how they spend money. And Visii has been nominated as Great Place to Work since 2016. Finally, Tom is a seasoned podcast host himself and runs several podcasts, including the “Reinventing Finance Podcast”.

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Season 1: A global view on the Future of Work

Timm Urschinger

Timm Urschinger is based in Switzerland. He is Co-Founder and CEO of LIVESciences, a consultancy with a mission to contribute to a more sustainable world by catalyzing the success within the corporate world. Timm and LIVEsciences are amongst other things interested in Teal, a culture based on wholeness, self-leadership, and evolutionary purpose, as coined by Frederic Laloux. And the company is also behind the Teal Around The World event, an online conference with an impressive list of presenters.

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Vivek Menon

Vivek Menon has been leading the eSteering Business Unit at Danfoss Power Solutions until recently, whose purpose is to build the future of off-road steering.

As a business unit with more than 100 colleagues and 15 nationalities in an international corporate business, their journey into the world of self-management and modern leadership has rightfully stirred interest from near and far. Vivek himself has a global background, adding a nuanced and interesting cultural perspective to his reflection and learning.

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Carsten Beck

Carsten Beck, a Danish futurist, has been working with trend analysis and scenario processes as a Director of research at Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies for more than 30 years in more than 30 countries.

Carsten strives to help us understand how global and local trends shape the future for organizations, companies, and societies. His focus is how to drive processes for clients in order for THEM to prepare for the future.

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Lisbeth Chawes

Lisbeth Chawes is an experienced and award-winning tech leader. She has founded and lead several startup, scaleup and grownup companies, and is active as mentor and board member too.

She strives to be part of shaping the future. Her interest in the development in technology and society shines through in her engagements in software, in robotics, in women in technology, and in gamifying the thinking processes towards possible and preferable futures.

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Perry Timms

Perry Timms is the founder and Chief Energy Officer of PTHR, a small global consultancy, setting out to create better business for a better world. Their organization is B Corp certified and have been embracing the 4-day work week for a long time.

Perry himself is a two-times TEDx speaker and an award-winning writer on the future of work, HR & learning. In 2017 he published the book “Transformational HR: How Human Resources Can Create Value and Impact Business Strategy” and in 2020 “The Energized Workplace: Designing Organizations Where People Flourish”

Perry has just recently been ranked number 1 on the HR Most Influential Thinkers List 2022.

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Virginia Morris

Virginia Morris is a Founder, Managing Partner & Leadership Strategist at Bamboo Difference. Their tagline is “We help people develop the qualities of bamboo: resilient, fast growing, flexible and self-sustaining.”

Virginia is an Associate Professor at Hong Kong University in the Business and Economics MBA program. She’s an accomplished leadership strategist, coach and facilitator working with executives and senior leadership teams globally.

Virginia is a futurist with her roots solid planted in humanism.

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Together we apply and combine Futures Thinking, Futures of Work and Progressive Leadership to create a new way of working.

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