The Undercurrents of Change

Marc Bolick and Arne van Oosterom
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In this podcast, Marc Bolick and Arne van Oosterom explore what is really changing beneath the surface of business, leadership, and innovation. Not the headlines, not the hype, but the deeper shifts that shape how organizations actually work.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    To design from trust rather than for it

    Our guest this episode is Jerry Michalski, a former tech industry analyst who worked with Esther Dyson and was writing about neural networks back in 1988. Today he focuses on trust and institutional design through his consultancy, Rethink The Future, where he asks a simple but provocative question: why do we design everything as if people are bad actors? We talk about what it means to design from trust rather than for it, why Wikipedia's open model works when so many locked-down systems don't, why microfinance works, and what happens when institutions assume the worst about people instead of the best. It's a conversation about fragility and possibility, and why this moment of crisis might be the opening trust-first thinkers have been waiting for.

    To design from trust rather than for it

  2. Aug 13

    Keeping technology human in a world of AI and robotics - with Cristina Andersson -

    Our guest is Cristina Andersson, entrepreneur, consultant, and thought leader across a wide range of fields, from sustainability to diplomacy to quantum computing. She advises on AI and robotics policy at the Finnish and EU level. We talk about where technology could genuinely help, especially in healthcare, and where it puts us at risk, particularly around losing control of our own data to big tech. Cristina helps us sort out what's actually new about this wave of AI and robotics versus what echoes past technological shifts, and what it means to keep things human as the pace picks up.

    Keeping technology human in a world of AI and robotics - with Cristina Andersson -

  3. May 12

    How AI is reshaping the world of consultancy

    Undercurrents of Change is a podcast about the signals beneath the surface of change. In each episode, Marc Bolick and Arne van Oosterom explore the deeper shifts shaping business, leadership, and innovation, beyond the headlines and the hype. Through conversations with entrepreneurs, builders, and thinkers, we look at what people are actually experiencing as they navigate uncertainty and transformation in their work. In this first episode, we speak with Miikka Leinonen, entrepreneur, business owner, and co-author of AI Pathway. Mika works closely with leadership teams trying to turn AI ambition into real organizational change. Together we explore how AI is reshaping the world of consultancy, why many leadership teams still struggle to act despite the urgency, and the deeper question many professionals are quietly asking themselves today: what is my real value in a world where AI can do so much of the work? It's an honest conversation about experimentation, uncertainty, and the human side of technological change.

    How AI is reshaping the world of consultancy
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In this podcast, Marc Bolick and Arne van Oosterom explore what is really changing beneath the surface of business, leadership, and innovation. Not the headlines, not the hype, but the deeper shifts that shape how organizations actually work.

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