Tomorrow Comes Today

In this episode of Tomorrow Comes Today, Matt and Rob are joined by technologist Azeem Azhar, writer Karla Starr and social engineer Jenny Radcliffe to discuss the importance of accessing a new way of thinking in which our minds must be clear of the panic of the here and now, in order to help us plan for the problems of the future. 

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Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producer: Sera Berksoy

Editing: Nathan Copelin

Assistant Producers: James Busby, Stuart Knott, James Lawrence

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To kick off the third season of Tomorrow Comes Today, Matt, Rob and our new host Harriet exploring the idea that understanding your mindset and amending your behaviour can change the outcome in any pursuit. We speak to three very special guests: Daniel Yergin, author, historian, and energy expert; LaRae Quay, former counterintelligence agent; and Melanie Eusebe, author and business strategist.

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Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter, Harriet Shepherd

Producer: Sera Berksoy

Editing: Nathan Copelin

Assistant Producers: James Busby, Stuart Knott, James Lawrence

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This special edition webcast was hosted by Matt Potter, Chief Content Officer at John Brown Media, and Rob Gardner, Director of Investment Management at St. James's Place, as they were joined by three climate experts to discuss:

• How money, invested responsibly, can be used as a powerful force for good and why investors don't have to sacrifice returns to do the right thing
• Whole-of-society mobilisation in the fight against climate change – a collective role for consumers, makers, investors and citizens
• The ground-breaking ideas and innovations that will power the green revolution
• The circular economy – and why sustainable business is good business

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Learn how your money can be a powerful force for good.

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Season 2, Episode 2: Moving beyond our assumptions

In this episode of Tomorrow Comes Today we ask the questions: How can the biases we hold within us affect the decisions we make and the work we produce? Ultimately, how do they shape our future?

Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster explore these questions through three different lenses with our guests this week - the future of the world we live in with futurist Mark Stevenson, the future of aging with Professor of Economics Andrew Scott and the algorithms that shape our lives with Dr Safiya Umoja Noble. 

Presenters: Vicki Foster, Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producer: Sera Berksoy 

Editing: Nathan Copelin

Assistant Producers: James Lawrence, Stuart Knott, James Busby

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Season 2, Episode 1: Talk is cheap

How do you get past the easy answers and arrive at meaningful action? To mark International Women’s Day, Matt Potter, joined by St. James’s Place’s Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster, talks to journalist and author Annabelle Williams about just that – exploring why women are poorer than men and what to do about it. He also catches up with the ex-head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria when the war broke out, Louai Al Roumani, about how to manage in a crisis. And he asks the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Nigel Inkster, who will win the looming techno wars.

Presenters: Vicki Foster, Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producers: Sera Berksoy, Stuart Knott

Editor: Nathan Copelin

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Episode 6: Reframing your perspective

How can shining a light on different perspectives encourage us to learn, grow and develop? In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner talk to some very special guests who are helping to shine that light. George Magnus, one of the world’s foremost experts on China, tells us how stepping away from the media narrative can increase our understanding of what’s really going on. Astrochemist Ashley Walker discusses how she is working to get black and female voices into science, while Barnaby Spurrier and Greg Nugent talk about their documentary, Rising Phoenix, which looks at the advent of the Paralympic Games and the future of the Paralympic movement.

Bank ranking source: S&P Global Market Intelligence report of the 100 largest banks in the world, data correct at the time of recording.

Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producers: Sera Berksoy, Nathan Copelin, Stuart Knott

Assistant Producer: Chris Marais

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Episode 5: Superstar tennis coach Judy Murray

What can we learn from one of the most legendary coaches in the world of sport, and apply it to our own choices, investments, and lives? Judy Murray has steered her sons Andy and Jamie Murray to greatness, founded competitions, and coached countless successful players as kids and adults. In this very special episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner delve deep into the psychology, method and instincts of the game, to reveal some often-surprising truths about the value of advice.

Sources:

Rob Gardner: FCA, “The changing shape of the consumer market for advice”, August 2018

Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producer: Sera Berksoy

Editing: Nathan Copelin

Executive producer: Chris Marais

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What’s on the horizon and what does the future hold? In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people putting in the hours to investigate what our world might be like in the years to come. Gavin Serkin, author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, has travelled the world scoping out frontier markets, while Nicholas Booth and Elizabeth Howell, authors of the new book The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time, have examined the ultimate frontier market. Finally, we meet Future Today Institute founder Amy Webb, the futurist who doesn’t predict the future but models it – with a methodological approach and by challenging her own biases. 

Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producers: Sera Berksoy, Nathan Copelin, Stuart Knott

Assistant Producers: Chris Marais



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If data really is the new oil, how do we use it to get to where we want to be? In this episode, hosts Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Claire Trott are joined by the FT’s Undercover Economist Tim Harford, who explores the perils of prediction, with cautionary tales of unexpected crashes in stock markets and computers; Baroness Camilla Cavendish, former advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron and author of the acclaimed book Extra Time: 10 Lessons For An Ageing World, discovers some intriguing possible futures as our populations age; and we meet Toby Heaps, the ‘clean capitalism’ pioneer, who reveals how greater transparency has allowed investors to become a powerful force in global efforts to make business more sustainable.

Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter, Claire Trott

Producers: Sera Berksoy, Nathan Copelin

Assistant Producers: Chris Marais, James Hedley

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Episode Two: The new normal

How does sleeping help us make smarter decisions? Will working from home challenge the need for big cities? What can history teach us about the journey from crisis to ‘new normal’? In this special recorded-under-lockdown episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people whose job it is to help turn those crises into opportunities.

We meet legendary crisis comms specialist Phil Hall – the man CEOs, companies and celebrities have on speed-dial for when it all hits the fan – who reveals what we can all learn from recent big business successes – and failures. From Melbourne, veteran investment fund manager Michael Stapleton tells how wise investors can emerge stronger from dips by focusing on a few fundamental truths. And from Cape Town, leadership coach Lani Carstens reveals the techniques that help the best leaders find their true north – and stay calm and focused – when the chips are down.

Presenters: Rob Gardner, Matt Potter

Producers: Nathan Copelin, Sera Berksoy

Assistant Producers: Chris Marais, James Hedley

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