The Salience Podcast

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The Salience Podcast

Salience is the state, quality or signal that stands out. It's the difference that makes the difference. Each fortnight in The Salience Podcast, we uncover patterns of sensemaking, thinking and acting from the frontiers of human performance, science and art to provide new and improved ways of acting in complex and uncertain times. 

  1. S4 E09 David Hesse

    FEB 17

    S4 E09 David Hesse

    On this week’s Salience Podcast, we explore the benefits and pitfalls of role clarity through the lens of the Chief of Staff. A Chief of Staff is a relatively new addition to the C-Suite, with an express function to enable the rest of the C-suite to shine. Our guest is David Hesse, who until recently was Chief of Staff at Kitman Labs. David describes how a Chief of Staff can unblock bottle necks and enable faster decision making. For more information about The Salience Podcast a...

    48 min
  2. Season 4 Episode 8 Gareth Lock

    FEB 3

    Season 4 Episode 8 Gareth Lock

    On this week’s Salience Podcast, we explore safety through the intersection of human factors and systems. Our guest is Gareth Lock, founder of The Human Diver and bestselling author of the book Under Pressure: diving deeper with human factors. Before becoming a safety educator with a focus on diving, Gareth had a 25-year career in the RAF. As he started diving more and more, Gareth recognized he could apply what he learned in the RAF to diving. In particular, he realised that safety and perfo...

    53 min
  3. Season 4 Episode 7 Ian Macdonald

    JAN 14

    Season 4 Episode 7 Ian Macdonald

    On todays episode, we will be discussing what it is like to support the transformation of a 100 year-old institution with close to 100,000 employees across different countries. With me today is my friend Ian Macdonald. On top of being an amazing person to work with, Ian has over 25 years of experience in areas spanning entrepreneurship, communication, leadership development and strategy. He also has several creative specialties such as advertising, photography and design. Ian is current...

    53 min
  4. Season 4 Episode 6 Marco Valente

    12/09/2024

    Season 4 Episode 6 Marco Valente

    In this episode, we will be discussing what it means to facilitate strategic dialogue to work on intractable problems. With me today is practitioner of strategic dialogic methods, Marco Valente. Marco is currently a Consultant and member of the executive team at Cultivating Leadership. In this role, he is working primarily as a coach with both individuals and teams, and as a facilitator of executive teams to help them make meaning of their most pressing challenges. He uses a complexity-...

    59 min
  5. Season 4 Episode 5 Ellie Snowden

    11/21/2024

    Season 4 Episode 5 Ellie Snowden

    On this week’s Salience Podcast, we explore anthropology, sensemaking and complexity. Our guest is Ellie Snowden. For those familiar with the Cynefin framework and its developer Dave Snowden, well Ellie is his daughter. Apart from an enormous requirement for personal resilience being Dave’s daughter, Ellie has developed her own deep competency in the field of anthro-complexity and sensemaking. Ellie leads the Cynefin company's work on health and healthcare with her experience of support...

    58 min
  6. Season 4 Episode 4 Dr Steven Shorrock

    11/04/2024

    Season 4 Episode 4 Dr Steven Shorrock

    On this episode of the Salience Podcast, we turn our attention to the relationship between human factors, systems, and analysis of safety incidents and accidents. As you might imagine, a company with a name like Frontline Mind is intimately involved with frontline action. The agencies and people we specialize in work in fast-paced, complex, and at times high-risk environments. Inevitably, there are near misses, incidents and accidents. How we best learn from these is not straightforward...

    58 min
  7. Season 4 Episode 3 Ben Ford

    10/21/2024

    Season 4 Episode 3 Ben Ford

    On this episode of the Salience Podcast we return to cross-domain mapping, exploring how tactical leadership and decision-making taught in the military can be applied to start-up and scale-up challenges for business and as a way to accelerate change in frontline agencies. One of the biggest challenges for military-trained leaders is adapting to the radically different power structure of civilian organisations. For starters, command and control just doesn't work the same way. I often see veter...

    53 min
  8. Season 4 Episode 2 Ken Wylie

    10/06/2024

    Season 4 Episode 2 Ken Wylie

    On This episode of the Salience Podcast, we explore risk and decision-making and consider what we can learn from fatal mistakes. In a number of our interviews, we have stressed the importance of safe to fail experimentation. This is of course the preferred way to learn. However, we can also learn from critical incidents that are not fatal to us. In today's interview we discuss one such profound experience that inspires me to remember some important aspects of human factors in decision making....

    55 min
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Salience is the state, quality or signal that stands out. It's the difference that makes the difference. Each fortnight in The Salience Podcast, we uncover patterns of sensemaking, thinking and acting from the frontiers of human performance, science and art to provide new and improved ways of acting in complex and uncertain times. 

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    Frontline Mind
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    46
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