Today, we talk geopolitical risk, an area that, if recent surveys are to be believed, keeps CEOs up at night more than anything else. My guest is Derek Leatherdale. Derek is the founder and managing director of GRI Strategies, which helps companies thrive in a volatile world. He does that by helping them think through and…
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Ep. 205: Derek Leatherdale: On Demystifying Geopolitical Risk
Today, we talk geopolitical risk, an area that, if recent surveys are to be believed, keeps CEOs up at night more than anything else. My guest is Derek Leatherdale. Derek is the founder and managing director of GRI Strategies, which helps companies thrive in a volatile world. He does that by helping them think through and…

Ep. 204: Sabrina Segal – On Tolerable Risk in the Humanitarian and International Development ‘Third’ Sectors
Today, I speak to Sabrina Segal about managing risk in the so -called “third sector”, which is the charity and non-profit sector. Sabrina is an international development and humanitarian assistance professional. She has worked on the ground during many humanitarian crises and international development roles in the likes of the Middle East and North Africa, Sub -Saharan Africa, and South Asia. She is an attorney by training, but for the past few years has been…

Ep. 203: Rupert Evill – On Bootstrapping Ethics, Making Risk Relevant, and the Dark Arts of Investigation
Today on the show, I am delighted to bring you my conversation with Rupert Evill. Rupert is the founder of Ethics Insight, a firm that helps organisations make risk relevant and implement risk, ethics and compliance programmes quickly. Rupert has 22 years of experience managing risks and crises in a variety of different environments and…

Ep. 202: Bryce Hoffman – On Red Team Thinking
In this episode of the All Things Risk podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Bryce Hoffman, the founding partner and president of Red Team Thinking. Bryce is our first guest since launching the Decision-Making Studio (and we will be producing episodes more frequently) and I cannot think of a more appropriate guest. Bryce Hoffman…

Ep. 201: Chris Hess – On Expertise, Battle Scars, Business, and More
This episode’s guest is Chris Hess. Chris happens to be a friend of mine from way back in my high school days. He, like me, has created an international career. And he is also based in the UK. I invited him to be a guest on the show because his professional experience and expertise is very interesting,…
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Decision Reactions Ep. 2 – Take the Money and Run
Our second in a thing called “Decision Reactions” Show notes: NPR piece: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/29/104149… Original Al Jazeera piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjV6… Follow The Decision-Making Studio and get our copy of the FOCUS framework primer – www.thedecisionmaking.studio Find the latest episode here!
Decision Reactions – Ep. 1: An Unfair Game
This is the first in a potential series from The Decision-Making Studio called “Decision Reactions” in which we look at quality decision-making practice. In this episode, we tee up our FOCUS decision-making framework and apply it to a great scene from the film Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt. _ _ _ _ _ _ Get a…
Inbetweenisode 19 – When Do you Cross the Rubicon? A Useful Technique for Framing Decisions
The Inbetweenisode makes a return! This one is based on this article – https://medium.com/@bcattaneo/when-do-you-cross-the-rubicon-a-useful-technique-to-frame-decisions-e4fcdf6e9da3 Like what you heard? Subscribe and/or leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/1PjLmK Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-things-risk/the-all-things-risk-podcast Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ben-cattaneo Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiskThings Drop us a note: allthingsrisk@gmail.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _…
Inbetweenisode 18: Open Plan Offices Suck – And What to do If You Have to Work in One
It’s no secret that open plan offices suck. This has been confirmed by a recent study from Harvard. Their only redeeming quality is that they’re cheap – great if the only thing that matters to the work that gets done in them is cost. For everything else, they’re terrible. One of the things open plan…
Inbetweenisode 17: Uncertainty, Overcoming Challenges and a 46 km Run
Some thoughts on uncertainty and that special moment when you know you will meet and overcome a tough challenge. That, and my upcoming 46 km run, The46in219. Show notes: My 46 km birthday run – https://the46in219.carrd.co/ David Goggins – https://davidgoggins.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _…