Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he continues a special series on the nature and practice of innovation. In Episode 3, Daniel talks with Gene Keselman of MIT and Chris Wolfel of Northeastern University about the connection between Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. How do leaders develop great innovators? What qualities must an inno…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Drs. Andy Van Schaack, Yair Shapira, and Svitlana Volkova about how Generative AI is fundamentally changing education and learning in today's digital world. This podcast is a follow-up to (not a repeat of ) a panel discussion led by Daniel on Generative AI and training at I/ITSEC 2023.…

Bonus material! Join host Daniel Serfaty for a bite-sized discussion with innovator Curt Carlson on the magic of value creation using the NABC methodology. To listen to the rest of the interview with Curt Carlson, check out Episode 1 of MINDWORKS Season 4.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he kicks off Season 4 with a special series on the nature and practice of innovation. In Episode 1, Daniel talks one-on-one with Curt Carlson, Founder and CEO of The Practice of Innovation and a pioneer in the development and use of innovation best practices.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 2 of a very special two-part conversation with global thought leader and best-selling author Dr. Raj Sisodia, and Kelly Lockwood Primus, an expert on inclusive leadership and cultural dynamics, and a thought leader and contributor to Forbes, as they explore the role that leaders and leadership play in the…

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible. Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation …

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible. Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation …

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible. Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation …

Culture. Inclusion. Consciousness. Diversity. Empathy. Community. Leadership today is not only about setting a vision for the road ahead and a business plan to execute against it, but also about building a culture and mindset that makes business success possible. Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty for Part 1 of a very special two-part conversation …

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with world-renowned leadership expert Betsy Myers and Denovo Ventures CEO David Shimoni as they explore the yin and the yang of what makes great leaders in today’s complex world: leadership from the head and leadership from the heart.By Daniel Serfaty

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams…

Once you learn good leadership skills, are those skills are transportable to other domains? Join Daniel as he explores with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin whether good leadership skills universal. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild with Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin” o…

An aspect that is not very well studied in leadership studies is the notion of followership. How does one develop followership skills? Is that something that we assume everybody has, or is that something that should be done intentionally? Join Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin as they ta…

With +15,000 books available today on “Leadership,” what are the most important attributes that leaders must have, no matter what? Learn more Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin as they share what impactful leaders have in common. Listen to the full interview in “Leadership in the Wild wit…

In today's highly connected world, where you can have access to anybody at any time, are leaders more or less important than before? In a sense, is technology lessening the impact of leadership or enhancing it? Join Daniel as he talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin why human leadership is needed more to…

How did leadership impact which companies survived—and which ones thrived—during Covid? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about what Covid taught leaders about resilience in the face of adversity. Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” on…

What skills does it take to be a good follower? How do great leaders make great followers? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about the role of followers in the leader-follower relationship and their influence on how the leader sees, understands, and reacts to the situation. Listen to the full interview in “T…

How can you develop leadership skills in people that are in your organization? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about what academic research can teach us about leader development. Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MINDWORKS.…

Can a great military leader become a great industry leader? Do leadership skills automatically transfer from one domain to another? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how the skills and capacities of leadership are the same across different domains—and where good leaders stumble. Listen to the full inte…

What is leadership? Are leaders born or created? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how we differentiate the leader from the quality of leadership, and what makes a leader a leader. Listen to the full interview in “The Evolution of Leadership with Dr. Stephen Zaccaro and Dr. Ronald Piccolo” only on MIND…

In a interconnected world where access to information is decentralized and automated, is leadership dead? Are leaders less important than they used to be? Join Daniel as he talks with experts Dr. Steve Zaccaro and Dr. Ron Piccolo about how the nature of work and technology is changing the role of leadership—and how leaders must adapt to survive. Li…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he takes break from our Leadership series to talk with Dr. Mike van Lent of SOARTECH, Dr. Greg Zacharias of Pasteur Labs, and senior consultant Dr. Fred Diedrich to explore what sort of training will be needed—for both humans and artificial intelligences—to ensure that hybrid human-AI systems and human-AI teams…

Many businesses hang a set of values on the wall—“We value integrity, initiative, the entrepreneurial spirit…”—but what are they doing in terms of developing their leadership to reflect those values? Listen as Daniel Serfaty talks with Leadership experts Scott Flanagan, Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin about lessons learned from the U.S. Army that …

In Episode 2 of this five-part series, host Daniel Serfaty talks with retired U.S. Army Master Sergeant Scott Flanagan, cognitive scientist Dr. Fred Diedrich, and Morgan Darwin, founder of service and technology company Sophia Speira, about the nature of leadership and the development of successful leaders. Join Daniel as he talks with Scott, Fred,…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he kicks off Season 3 with a five-part series on Leadership. In Part 1, Daniel talks with experts Dr. Stephen Zaccaro of George Mason University and Dr. Ronald Piccolo of the University of Central Florida about the evolution of leadership, how Covid is changing the nature of leadership, and what the future of w…

In human performance engineering, we talk about the notion of matching the work structure to the organizational structure, or to the informational structure, or some other dimension of human structure. That congruence, while elegant, was a theoretical concept. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have realized how important that harmony is. MI…

Before taking a deeper dive into work into the 21st century, how important it is to reflect really of the past 16 or 18 months, to really understand the shifting nature of work? For example, had work shifted already and that was just the catalyst that exacerbated a trend? MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalk…

Just like a human partner, for an intelligent cognitive assistant to truly work well with humans, it is going to need to know a lot of data about us. How will said data be protected? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks to the experts: Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima. Listen to the entire interview in Inte…

In the near future, it will become very natural for us to work with different intelligent cognitive assistance for different tasks. Daniel asks the experts, Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima, what domain areas of work or play do they believe intelligent cognitive assistances will have the strongest impact? Is that at …

About 20+ years ago, HABA-MABA (Human Are Best At - Machines Are Best At) was a hot topic in human machine interaction design. This notion that if we can partition the world into two categories: things that machines are good at and things that humans are good at, we can design that world, and everybody will be happy. Obviously, it didn't happen bec…

For humans to successfully collaborate with cognitive assistants, what do they need to know about us? Likewise, what do we need to know about them? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he poses these questions to the experts: Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima! Listen to the entire interview in Intelligent Cognitive A…

Through technology, we can increase the level of expertise at which a maintainer, a commander, a surgeon can perform. When you think about it, this is a daring proposition, as sometimes it takes 20 years to develop that expertise. Could we accelerate the pace at which expertise is developed through AI or a digital sidekick? However, what is prevent…

In Part 2 of this special two-part edition of MINDWORKS, host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist Mary Freiman, and industrial organizational psychologist Dr. Kara Orvis on what we have learned from working through the COVID pandemic that we can take forward and help us reimagine work in the 2…

COVID 19 has been and continues to be the seminal event of our lives. In addition to the obvious threat to our health and safety, it has affected the way we work and perform as humans in very profound ways. In this special two-part edition of MINDWORKS, host Daniel Serfaty talks with workspace designer Karin Sharav-Zalkind, human language scientist…

These days, whether we are in our cars, at our desks, or at play, we are increasingly surrounded by automation and so-called “intelligent” devices. Do they help us, or do they make our lives more complicated? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Valerie Champagne of Lockheed Martin and Sylvain Bruni of Aptima, experts in human-machin…

Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty, as he talks with Wishroute founder Jessica Lynch, Sparta Science CEO Dr. Phil Wagner, and Aptima’s Marine Corps fitness planner engineer Angelica Smith, to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the way people use their respective fitness solutions and technologies, as well as our understanding of fitness as…

Given the large number of wearable sensors and fitness apps in the market, it begs the question: “what's good about them”? Are Americans more fit because of all these technologies that we wear around our wrists or throw in our pockets? MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty talks with Wishroute founder Jessica Lynch, Sparta Science CEO Dr. Phil Wagner, and …

When it comes to injury prevention, the slogan “the customer is always right”, can be dangerous, not only for their wellbeing, but for the image of your brand/product. What do you do if the customer wants to do something that increases their risk of injury? Nobody wants to hear “don’t do this”, so how you steer the customer in the right direction? …

Thanks to gadgets such as Apple Watch, Fitbit, Peloton, and other smart devices, we can track just about every aspect of our health and wellness. What do we with all this data? Join MINDWORKS host Daniel Serfaty as he talks with Wishroute founder Jessica Lynch, Sparta Science CEO Dr. Phil Wagner, and Aptima’s Marine Corps fitness planner engineer A…

After more than a year of coping with COVID-19, Americans are more concerned with their health and fitness than ever. The fitness and wellness market is today a $1.5 Trillion business. There’s been huge growth in this industry not only because of the increased prevalence of chronic lifestyle-related diseases like diabetes and obesity, but also beca…

Famous last words: “what’s the worst that can happen?" When introducing automation, artificial intelligence, and compute robotic devices into our lives, what should we be worrying about? MINDWORKS host, Daniel Serfaty, asks Prof. Julie Shah, associate dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT, and Laura Majors, Chief Technolog…

In the domain of human systems, quite often, progress has unfortunately been made after big disasters. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident, for example, in the '70s prompted people to rethink about how to design control rooms and human systems. Some accidents with the US Navy prompted the rebirth of the science of teams and on. With robots, inev…