Episode 36F with Guests Jan Klakurke, Candice Chow, Roger Spitz and Rauli Nykänen

Episode 36F with authors from the book "Leadership For the Future."

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INTERVIEW 1 (00:00 - 16:05) 

Jan Klakurka 

Jan Klakurka is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Studies at Huron University and long-standing instructor within the strategy department at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. With over twenty-five years of professional experience in industry and management consulting, Jan advises C-Level executives and executing on the ground and has served organizations across private and public sectors through his practice. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janklakurka/)

Candice Chow
Candice Is professor at DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. She teaches technical know-how as well as values-based leadership focused on moral values, self-reflection, critical integrated thinking, courage and compassion. Candice’s consulting services enable holistic strategy development through engaged advisory, workshops and team-based coaching. She co-founded Elevae Strategic Advisory to bring fresh values-based perspectives, novel evidence-based models, pragmatism, and a future-conscious mindset to help your organizations become purposeful, strategic, innovative, responsible and sustainable.(https://www.linkedin.com/in/candicechow/)

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INTERVIEW 2 (Starts at 16:05) 

Roger Spitz, President of Techistential & Founding Chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute

Based in San Francisco, Roger Spitz is the President of Techistential (Foresight Strategy) and founding Chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute. A member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF, Washington), he sits on a number of Advisory Boards of Companies, Venture Capital funds & Academic institutions worldwide. Techistential's renowned Board, Governance & Investor practice works with leaders and their organizations globally to capitalize on disruption as a springboard to drive value. An advisor, speaker and author on Artificial Intelligence, Roger has invested in a number of AI startups.  Roger has two decades leading investment banking businesses, advising CEOs, founders, boards and shareholders of companies globally on strategic M&A transactions, and has advised on deals with overall value of $25bn.(https://www.linkedin.com/in/rogerspitz/)

Rauli Nykänen, Research Fellow & Chair of Center for Philosophy at the Disruptive Futures Institute

Based in Finland, Rauli has a background in humanities and philosophy. After a Masters in European Philosophy, he attended doctorate studies focusing on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.  He has a keen interest in a process philosophy approach, ontology, as well as philosophy of science. Rauli is currently conducting research at the Disruptive Future Institute where the focus is on the philosophical questions involved in complexity, artificial intelligence and decision-making. The aim is to present views on the nature of physicalist scientific speculation in such a way as to equip audiences with the ability to better appraise both capabilities and limitations of scientific solutions and the technological applications derived from them.

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About  the Book "Leadership For the Future"

In this book, twenty authors from around the globe present, explore, and discuss such approaches from multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, and planetary perspectives for the 21st century. They embrace a variety of diverse values, cognitive maps, definitions, and frameworks. Some approaches are more academically oriented; they discuss and develop theoretical perspectives. Others focus on the practice of leadership in and for the