Episode 31: Collective Mental Health & Positive Communication

Guest Bio

Sir Geoff Mulgan is Professor at UCL; former CEO of Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts); former CEO of Young Foundation; head of policy in UK Prime Minister’s office; head of UK government strategy unit; director of Demos. PhD in telecommunications. Visiting professor at UCL, LSE, Melbourne; senior visiting scholar Harvard. Author of many books including most recently ‘Another World is Possible’ (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2022), ‘Social innovation: how societies find the power to change’ (Policy Press, 2019) and ‘Big Mind; how collective intelligence can change our world’ (Princeton University Press, 2017). Also senior fellow at Demos Helsinki and the New Institute Hamburg.

Recap & Takeaways

• [00:45 – 02:25] Meet Geoff Mulgan
• [02:58 – 05:02] Making change happen, and why the United States seems particularly pessimistic right now
• [05:02 – 06:24] Business and the question of collective mental health
• [06:25 – 08:00] A period of discovery with mental health, and knowing the questions but not the answers
• [08:03 – 09:49] Mental wellness and addressing impact on GDP
• [09:50 – 10:46] Understanding how mental health affects physical health
• [10:48 – 12:24] Socializing, plants, and the effect on recovery and growth
• [12:26 – 14:32] Being accountable for the experience of life outside the workplace
• [14:46 – 17:07] Creating a safe environment for receiving feedback as a leader
• [17:08 – 21:10] Net zero, democratization, and the availability to solve problems through people’s specialties
• [21:10 – 23:46] Co-creation and partnerships in education dealing with social problem-solving and engineering
• [23:48 – 26:31] Project-based learning and the idea of Renaissance Studios for schools
• [26:31 – 30:09] The containment theory of education and preparing children for the future of job and skills growth
• [30:10 – 33:07] Industry specialization across the world, with Bangladesh as an example
• [33:07 – 36:59] Auxiliary roles and micro-credentialing
• [37:00 – 38:50] Anonymized assessments and pressuring teams to be mutually supportive
• [38:51 – 41:38] How we organize meetings
• [42:06 – 44:33] Understanding the differences in remote, hybrid, and in-person work and how to communicate better at each
• [45:08 – 50:06] Industry 4.0 and capturing attention about what industry 5.0 looks like
• [50:07 – 52:36] Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 looks different across regions of the world