Innovating Humanity

Jude Jennison

Exploring the intersection between technology, humanity and leadership. This podcast features interviews with Jude Jennison and technology leaders on how technology impacts our lives and who we need to be leaders in the future to take advantage of technology and use it for our highest good. How do you use technology to enhance emotional connection and make a difference in the world? How do you ensure it does not create greater disconnection?

  1. 20/04/2022

    23: Jane Fallon on human centred design

    Jane Fallon is Head of Digital for the Midlands for a consultancy firm called Methods that creates human-centred design for the public and private sectors. She talks about the need to start with understanding the needs of the user in order to create digital services that work for humans. Our use of digital is growing exponentially so it’s great to hear how leaders like Jane influence the future of our humanity and ensure it is not overlooked in digital design. The role of technology is changing. As digital is a fundamental part of everything we do in life and work, I love Jane’s idea that bringing together technology, anthropology and sociology enables us to understand what it is to be a human being in a digital world and what the tech needs to do to enhance our humanity. Jane also recognises the critical need to treat employees with the same importance as the customers and use emotions to engage and inspire those employees to do their best work. Who in your team needs re-engaging and re-inspiring?  Topics covered: Birmingham Tech Human-centred design Digital and technology Humility, creativity, collaboration, teamwork Combining research, design, technology and humanity Other free resources: Take the Team Performance Scorecard and discover the 12 hidden dynamics of your team’s performance Join our monthly Team Performance webinars Download White papers Sign up to our Weekly Leadership Hints and Tips www.judejennison.com in partnership with Birmingham Tech

    32 min
  2. 01/03/2022

    21: Chris Blackwell on leadership, technology and the pace of change

    Chris Blackwell is the Founder and CEO of Purpose Led Performance, a consultancy business that works with medium-sized businesses on leadership, growth, performance and sustainability. He is also the co-lead for a tech accelerator, helping technology startups scale and grow as part of Birmingham Tech. Chris is honest about not being a tech native but he recognises that technology underpins everything we do in business. We discuss technology for non-techies, the pace of change, leadership, culture and much more. It's fascinating that every business used to be run by people. Now it’s run by both people and technology. If we want to survive and thrive in business, whether as a small, medium or large business or a rapidly growing one, we need to develop both people and technology and we need to enhance the link between the two. I’m totally on board with Chris’ view that we need to develop the skills to lead distributed networks of people with different skills in order to innovate and lead change. Where do you need to adapt and flex? How can you develop people better to adapt to the rapidly changing tech world we live in with the humanity and leadership skills to remain human in a world of tech?  Topics covered: Birmingham Tech Technology business growth Tech for no techies Leadership culture The pace of change The importance of people in a technology business Other free resources: Take the Team Performance Scorecard and discover the 12 hidden dynamics of your team’s performance Join our monthly Team Performance webinars Download White papers Sign up for our Weekly Leadership Hints and Tips www.judejennison.com in partnership with Birmingham Tech

    38 min

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Exploring the intersection between technology, humanity and leadership. This podcast features interviews with Jude Jennison and technology leaders on how technology impacts our lives and who we need to be leaders in the future to take advantage of technology and use it for our highest good. How do you use technology to enhance emotional connection and make a difference in the world? How do you ensure it does not create greater disconnection?