Episodes

Lisa Whited is my guest on Episode 163 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Lisa believes in the art of possibility. She has a passion for improving processes and workplaces. Lisa has a holistic outlook on work: it has a ripple effect on our communities, society, and the planet. She is a change management strategist who is driven to make a dent in the abysmal Gallup statistic that 80% of people worldwide are disengaged at work. Lisa has an MS in Organization and Management from Antioch University ...

Dr. Elaine R. Ingham is my guest on Episode 162 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Dr. Elaine Ingham uncovered the Soil Food Web nearly 4 decades ago and has been pioneering research about Soil Food Web ever since. Widely recognized as the world’s foremost soil biologist, she’s passionate about empowering people to bring the soils in their communities back to life. Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on more than five mill...

Michael Shaun Conaway is my guest on Episode 161 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Michael Shaun is endlessly curious about how life works, why we do things the way we do, and how we might do them differently. This led him to become a phenomenological philosopher – someone who examines life from the way life shows up moment to moment. His current work in Being and Time is rooted in this tradition. Michael Shaun’s purpose in life is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His m...

Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan are my guests on Episode 160 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Corinne started her career at the UN, working on climate change. She has been advising global businesses and governments on climate and sustainability for more than a decade. She is co-founder of the not-for-profit More United. Eric is a policy economist and author with more than twenty years of experience in financial markets. He is co-author with Mark Blyth of the international bestseller Angrynomi...

My guest today on this Special Edition of Inside Ideas is Dr Roland Strauss - one of the most influential figures within the European innovation landscape. For well over a decade, in his role as Founder of the nonprofit, Knowledge4Innovation, he has been the driving force behind the European Innovation Summit held annually in the European Parliament, which brings European commissioners and MEPs face-to-face with the needs of the company’s, organisations, ideas and startups driving innovation acr...

Nicole Masters is my guest on Episode 159 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Nicole is an independent agroecologist, pattern thinker, author, and educator. For over 2 decades Nicole is recognized as a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker on the topic of soil health. CREATE coaching program Application deadline May 15th - Course begins in June. CREATE is the ultimate ag professional development program for highly-motivated people serious about making a real difference in food/fiber production. Th...

Nicholas P. Sullivan is my guest on Episode 158 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Nicholas is a writer and editor focusing on the impact of business and technology on international development. The Blue Revolution is his fourth book. It follows Money, Real Quick: Kenya’s Disruptive Mobile Money Innovation; You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy; and Computer Power for Your Small Business. He has been codirector of The Fletcher S...

Steven Ramage is my guest on Episode 157 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Steven’s lowest grade (C) at school was geography, but he has been working in the geospatial sector and evangelizing location as the third global currency alongside time and money for the last two decades. Steven started studying French, German, Russian and Spanish in the 80s, but moved to commerce and information systems because his grandfather (who supported him through university) didn’t think languages would be usefu...

Luciá Hernández is my guest on Episode 156 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Luciá is an expert on platform-based business models. She has been around the collaborative economy for more than a decade, later Platform Economy, helping organizations of all kinds in the adoption of these mindsets. As an advisor and consultant, she brings the platform-ecosystem mentality to the company building the internal capabilities to think systemic to design platform strategies, in a real guidance and su...

John Elkington is my guest on Episode 155 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief pollinator at Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock tomorrow’s market value. Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors expand their focus from the responsibility agenda t...

Justin Rhodes is my guest on Episode 154 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Justin is a Permaculturalist, film producer, author, and teacher. He helps folks learn to work with nature to produce their own sustenance so they can live a more abundant life. Justin is a seasoned homesteader having enjoyed many years of practicing “beyond organic” and permaculture methods on a 75-acre family farm near Asheville NC. Justin trained under the highly accredited Geoff Lawton of PRI Australia for his Per...

Ashley Colby is my guest on Episode 153 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Ashley is the Executive Director of the Rizoma Foundation. She earned her PhD in Environmental Sociology with a focus on household food production in the United States. Her dissertation was published as a book: Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Connecting to work, nature and community. It was in the process of completing her research that Ashley discovered the creativity in individuals creating diverse informal economies...

Jeremy Lent is my guest on Episode 152 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jeremy, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the c...

Andrew Winston is my guest on Episode 150 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Andrew Winston is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends and how to build companies that thrive by serving the world. Named to Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020 as a “thinker to watch,” his views on strategy have been sought after by the world’s leading companies, including 3M, DuPont, J&J, Kimberly-Clark, Marriott, PepsiCo, and Unilever. Andrew is the author of the bestsellers Green to Gold and The Big Pivot. Andre...

Dr. Thomas Juli is my guest on Episode 150 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Thomas is a Human Business Architect, co-creator and coach for Agile project and business transformation with more than 25 years of experience in various industries and companies. He is the founder, business leader and trustee of Motivate2B, a collective for leaders, teams and entire organizations with the common goal of making business and their companies more human and sustainable. In 2020 he joined Allianz as an exe...

Justin is a Permaculturalist, film producer, author and teacher. He helps folks learn to work with nature to produce their own sustenance so they can live a more abundant life. Justin is a seasoned homesteader having enjoyed many years of practicing “beyond organic” and permaculture methods on a 75 acre family farm near Asheville NC. Justin trained under the highly accredited Geoff Lawton of PRI Australia for his Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and has studied natural chicken care under po...

Paul Goodenough is my guest on Episode 148 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Paul is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning writer, producer, entrepreneur and environmentalist - working across broadcast, comics, digital, games and publishing. Paul is the designer and founding member of BAFTA ALBERT (calculator and sustainability accreditation used by Netflix, NBC Universal, Warner Bros, BBC, IMG, Sky etc) and advises across Gov and the environmental NGO sector, enabling better cohesion and efficie...

Felix Dodds is my guest on Episode 147 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Felix Dodds is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He was the co-director of the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conference on Water, Food, Energy, and Climate. In 2019 he was a candidate for the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). His new book ‘Tomorrow’s People: The impact of disruptive Industries on our lives by 2030 will be out...

Jenny Andersson is my guest on Episode 146 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Jenny is a regenerative strategist, trusted adviser and agent for change who walks side by side with brands, organisations, cities and municipalities who want to be part of the movement to create a new regenerative economy. As a strategist, facilitator and educator, she harnesses the power of the collective intelligence of organisations and communities to create visions for the future they want - together - and finds t...

Tessa Clarke is my guest on Episode 145 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Tessa is Co-Founder & CEO of OLIO along with Saasha Celestial-One COO, a free app tackling the problem of food waste by connecting neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food can be given away, not thrown away. OLIO has grown to 5 million users in just over 5 years, and its impact has been widely recognised, most notably by the United Nations who highlighted OLIO as a "beacon” fo...

Tali Orad is my guest on Episode 144 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Tali is a changemaker, an engineer, and a serial entrepreneur. She is the founder of 1treellion .org a NGO with the mission to collectively make a meaningful global impact by bringing communities together to plant trees and help fight climate change while mitigating the climate effects on small communities. Tali’s first NGO came about after she saved the life of a dying baby, resulting in her founding a NGO to raise awarenes...

Allan Savory is my guest on Episode 143 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Allan Savory, born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa (University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany) pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger in the British Colonial Service of what was then Northern Rhodesia (today Zambia) and later as a farmer and game rancher in Zimbabwe. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification o...

Mark Shepard is my guest on Episode 142 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Mark is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC, founder of Restoration Agriculture Development LLC and award-winning author of the book, Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers. Mark has also been a farmer member of the Organic Valley cooperative, the worlds largest Organic Farmer’s marketing co-op, since 1995. He is most widely known as the founder of New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial ag...

Dr. Parag Khanna is my guest on Episode 141 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Parag is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data, and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is the author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order begi...