Episodes

Gareth Lock on Human Risk in Diving

Aug. 2, 2021

How do human factors influence an inherently risky activity like scuba diving? That’s what my guest on this episode, Gareth Lock explores in his work as the founder of The Human Diver — a company that specialises in teaching the diving community...

Professor Olivier Sibony on Noise

July 27, 2021

Why might judges in the same Court give vastly different sentences for the same crime? The answer is noise. When experts who assess the same situation come to very different conclusions for no good reason, we risk bad outcomes. On this episode, I’m...

Richard Fenning on Tales from the Risk Business

July 20, 2021

How can we manage risk in an increasingly complex world? My guest on this episode, Richard Fenning, has spent three decades advising multinational companies on geopolitics and security crises. He’s been involved in helping to manage situations...

Dr Nick Morgan on connecting in a virtual world

July 16, 2021

How can we make better connections when we're on virtual calls and webinars? My guest on this episode, Dr Nick Morgan is a speaking coach and writer who helps people to find their voice in a physical and virtual world. For personal reasons, that he...

Lasse Frost & Jakob Danelund on Gamification & Storytelling

July 7, 2021

If we want to mitigate human risk, we need to engage the humans that might crystallise it. But how can we do that effectively? My guests, Lasse Frost and Jacob Danelund have been working on this challenge for some time. Their focus is on engaging...

Professors Benjamin van Rooij & Danny Sokol on Compliance 2.0

July 2, 2021

What does the word 'compliance' mean? On the face of it, we've all had experience of it under COVID as governments have introduced rules to influence our behaviour to stop the spread of the virus. But its influence is far broader than that, with...

Lisa Richardson on the Psychology of Peloton

June 27, 2021

Why is Peloton - a company that sells bikes that allow you to take on-demand and live classes at home - so successful? With a Net Promoter Score of 94 (that's 94% of customers who would recommend it to someone else), there must be a psychological...

Jon Levy on Influence

June 23, 2021

How can we create better connections with other people to help us meet our objectives? On this episode, I’m speaking to a Behavioural Scientist that was introduced to me by my good friends Tim Houlihan and Kurt Nelson, hosts of the Behavioral...

Professor Eliana La Ferrara on fighting HIV with MTV

June 19, 2021

What does MTV have to do with fighting HIV? My guest on this episode Professor Eliana La Ferrara of Bocconi University in Milan knows the answer and she joins me to tell me more about her work as a development economist. Her specialism is in...

Alex Chesterfield on Behavioural Regulation & Depolarization

June 16, 2021

On this episode, I'm tackling two seemingly unrelated topics: how regulators use Behavioural Science & Depolarization. What combines the two is my guest Alex Chesterfield. She's a Behavioural Scientist that has worked inside a regulator, looking at...

Dr Leidy Klotz on Subtraction: the untapped science of less

June 10, 2021

Why, when solving problems, do we tend towards addition, rather than subtraction? Not in a mathematical sense, but rather in terms of how we think about things? That's what my guest on this episode Dr Leidy Klotz, has been exploring in some research...

Ian Leslie on Conflict - why arguments are tearing us apart & how they can bring us together

June 5, 2021

Why do we have arguments & why might they actually be a good thing? That's what my guest, Ian Leslie, explores in his new book Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together. In it, he explains how conflict is the...