The All Things Risk Podcast Ben Cattaneo

Today, I welcome back Paula Reid to the show. Paula is known as the “Adventure Psychologist” because of her expertise in adventure psychology, which is all about surviving, coping, and thriving during challenge and uncertainty. So obviously, there are huge parallels to decision-making under or uncertainty and to many of my show's themes.
And we talk a little bit about that at the outset of this episode. However, beyond that, this one is focused particularly around Paula's adventure cycling across the Ukraine from Odesa in the south to Chornobyl in the north, about 400 miles or 600 kilometres. She did so to raise money for Siobhan's Trust, now called “HopeFull” a charity involved in delivering humanitarian aid to Ukrainians.
This one covers an awful lot of ground, from adventure psychology to the origins of Paula's work in Ukraine, to the insight on trauma and mental health. Paula is actually in Ukraine as this goes out.
Video version: https://youtu.be/k_CNfLoFpDY 
Show notes:
Paula’s website
Paula’s Ukraine cycling adventure
Siobhan’s Trust (now called “HopeFull”)
Paula’s fundraising page
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Today, I'm delighted to welcome Laura Fox to the show. Laura is a risk management professional and the founder of Canary Risk, a firm that helps clients with outsourced risk management and to navigate uncertainty. Canary Risk is a relatively new firm, and Laura took her own personal and professional risks to set it up, so we obviously talk about that. We also cover the state of the risk profession, hiring, cognitive diversity, values, and so much more.
Laura's enthusiasm, her curiosity, courage, and authenticity come through so well in this conversation, and my favourite part is towards the end when she talks about her own decision-making approach in deciding to set up Canary Risk. And I won't say too much here because I want you to listen to it, other than to say that it's a powerful reminder that in order to make quality decisions, we need to have clarity about what's It's important to us. And that's different for each one of us.
One-size-fits-all, never fits.
Link to video version of the podcast.
Show notes:
Canary Risk
Canary clinics
Laura on LinkedIn
Michele Wucker
Rogue Waves by Jonathan Brill
How to Measure Anything by Doug Hubbard
Decision Quality by Spetzler, Winter and Meyer
Christian Hunt
FAIR methodology
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Today, we discuss decision-making in international journalism, particularly when it comes to high-risk environments like conflict zones and natural disasters. My guest is Colin Pereira who was the Deputy Head of High Risk Security at the BBC and later Head of High Risk Security at ITN. Now he is a Director of the security consultancy HP Risk Management and a co-founder of Risk Pal, a risk assessment platform. Colin knows all about decision-making and risk to journalists in places like Ukraine and Gaza. 
He talks about that and the result is a fascinating conversation. We cover how decisions to deploy journalists are made, insights into covering the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, the future of international journalism including misinformation, as well as Colin's own decision-making as a start-up founder.
Show notes:
Colin on LinkedIn
RiskPal
HP Risk Management
John Schofield’s death
CNN’s Clarissa Ward
Committee to Protect Journalists
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This is part 2 of 2 with Daniel Wagner on focuses on his fourth and latest book about China: The China Epiphany – Comprehending China’s Relationship With America and The Rest of the World.
Show notes:
Daniel Wagner
The China Epiphany
Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era
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This episode was recorded in June, 2022.
My guest is Daniel Wagner, my co-author of Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era. Daniel had just spent 15 months living and working in China with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This coincided with China’s “zero covid” policy. This is a fascinating conversation that covers:
·      Quarantine in China
·      Life in Beijing as an expat (and under zero covid)
·      Working at the AIIB
·      Geopolitics
·      Much more
Show notes:
Daniel Wagner
The China Epiphany
Decision-Making in the Polycrisis Era
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My latest guest is Garry Honey. Garry trains boards, non-executive directors, and business leaders on strategy, governance, risk, and communication. He is the founder of the consultancy Chiron Risk and runs leadership courses for various business schools.
In this conversation, we cover reputation, strategic risk, leadership, and decision-making in a crisis, why so few organizations try to map out a purpose, and a vision for their futures, uncertainty in the limits of knowledge, human factors, the problem with ESG, and so much more.
If you are a leader in an organization, or if you're interested in some of the challenges with leadership in large organizations, you will want to listen to this. It's fascinating stuff.
Show notes:
Garry on LinkedIn
Chiron Risk
Larry Fink on ESG
Ataraxia
Radical Uncertainty by Mervyn King and John Kay
The Carillion bankruptcy in the UK
Wicked problems
Wilful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan
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