Episodes

Martin Wezowski is my guest on Episode 69 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Martin works as Chief Futurist for SAP’s Technology & Innovation. He is lecturing as a faculty member of Futur/IO, a European future institute and other education programs. He moved across a range of disciplines from UX, to systemic design to define innovation visions and strategies. Right now, he is on the mission to map, build and inspire a future we want to live in, more specifically, he crafts future outlooks, conc...

Paul Newnham is my guest on Episode 68 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Paul heads up the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 Advocacy Hub as Director, an initiative bringing together NGOs, advocacy groups, civil society, the private sector, and UN agencies to coordinate global campaigning and advocacy to achieve SDG2. To this end, the SDG2 Hub facilitates a network of 800 chefs from 80 countries to support chef action on the SDGs. Chefs are equipped with a simple set of actions called the C...

Douglas Gayeton is my guest on Episode 67 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. In 2009 Douglas founded the Lexicon of Sustainability alongside his partner Laura Howard Gayeton. The Lexicon’s work accelerates the adoption of practices that build more resilient food systems and help combat climate change. Douglas is an information architect, filmmaker, photographer and writer. He has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media since the early 90’s. He directed t...

Raphael Gielgen is my guest on Episode 66 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Raphael is a Trend Scout for Vitra. Raphael has spent most of his professional life working on making the office environment a better place. Even some of his own colleagues think he’s a little crazy. His irrepressible curiosity, his restless quest for explanations, and his delight at upending everything can occasionally make him an uncomfortable companion. When he appears at the office after returning from a long trip,...

Audrey Tang Digital Minister of Taiwan is my guest on Episode 65 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Audrey is a civic hacker and Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation is known for revitalizing global open source communities such as Perl and Haskell. Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee, K-12 curriculum committee and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. Prior to joining the cabinet, Audrey was a consultant with Apple on computatio...

Sam Van Aken is my guest on Episode 64 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Sam is a contemporary artist who works beyond traditional modes of art-making, crossing artistic genres and disciplines to develop new perspectives on such themes as agriculture, botany, climatology, memory, and the ever-increasing impact of technology. Sam works in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of narrative, sites of placemaking, collective learning, and in some cases have bec...

Prof. Shalanda H. Baker is my guest on Episode 63 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Now Deputy Director of the US Department of Energy for Biden Kamala Administration. Shalanda is a professor of law, public policy, and urban affairs at Northeastern University. She has spent more than a decade conducting research on the equity dimensions of the global transition away from fossil fuel energy to cleaner energy resources. She teaches courses on renewable energy development, energy justice, and env...

Mark Dorfman is my guest on Episode 62 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Mark is a New York City-based Senior Principal and lead chemist at Biomimicry 3.8, where his work is centered on the premise that living organisms, by necessity, have developed sophisticated, highly effective, life-friendly chemistries that could inspire provocative, high-performing, sustainable technology for modern society. Mark seeks out and applies the design principles of nature's time tested chemical strategies to t...

Melisa Arnautovic is my guest on Episode 61 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Future of Work & Education - Transforming our World Melisa is a Thought leader, international speaker, experienced trainer, entrepreneur, educator, transformation coach, CEO & Founder of LIV.In Training and a human being. Her purpose is to positively impact the world by empowering people and organisations to expand their consciousness in order to experience their exponential potential. Melisa lives her purpose eve...

Stuart Scott is my guest on Episode 60 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Stuart refers to himself as an eco-social strategist. After working a conventional career with assignments for IBM, Merrill Lynch, and several universities, in 2008 he gave up working for money and since has devoted himself through a series of volunteer staffed initiatives, to awakening humanity to the ecological and climate catastrophes that our growth economic system is creating. His latest effort is an initiative calle...

Dr. Prof. Vanina Farber & Dr. Peter Wuffli are my guests on Episode 59 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Vanina Farber, PhD, is an economist and political scientist with twenty years of teaching, researching, and consultancy experience. She holds the elea Chair for Social Innovation at IMD. Previously, Vanina was Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Associate Professor at Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. Peter Wuffli, PhD, is a senior leader and entrepreneurial philanthropist. He is t...

Michal Ziso is my guest on Episode 58 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Michal is the founder of ZISO, a studio working at the intersection of architecture, innovation, space, and human equality. She is also a Space Architect focused on human experience, a trailblazer by dealing with social and psychological diversity aspects; and an active member of WiSpace - Israeli Professional Women in Space Association. A visionary architect practicing for almost a decade in Israel and NYC, she has exten...

Kim Polman is my guest on Episode 57 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Kim has been recently promoting a modern version of the Golden Rule: “Treat others and the planet as you wish to be treated” She co-authored, Imaginal Cells - Visions of Transformation on this very philosophy, a collection of essays from thought leaders addressing the most pressing issues of our time. Kim co-founded Reboot the Future foundation and has become a public speaker. Kim is also co-founder and Chair of the Kiliman...

Serge de Gheldere is my guest on Episode 56 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Serge is CEO and co-founder at Futureproofed, a company driven by the belief that a sustainable, fossil-free future is a better, more attractive future. Serge believes that it’s within our power to reverse the climate crisis and build a fossil-free, circular economy. Taking action represents the biggest business opportunity of the century, and action will sort the winners from losers both in business and amongst citi...

Rich Sheridan is my guest on Episode 55 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Rich is CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations, is a successful entrepreneur and author of two best-selling books—Joy Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love and Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear. Rich’s passion for inspiring organizations to create their own joy-filled cultures has led him to address audiences across the world—through four continents and 18 countries...

Olga Grönvall Lund is my guest on Episode 54 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Olga is a Swedish entrepreneur who has worked with food-related projects her whole professional career. She has mainly been active in Stockholm and Berlin but has also hosted events, catered, and done productions in other parts of the world such as Hong Kong, London, Bologna, Copenhagen, and Paris to name a few. In 2019 Olga founded Reformaten – a people’s movement for a new food system where everyone’s winner - hu...

Patrick Holden is my guest on Episode 53 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Patrick is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust. After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots, and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese. He was the founding chairman of British Organic Fa...

Bart de Witte is my guest on Episode 52 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Bart is one of Europe's leading and awarded experts on the digital transformation of healthcare, and one of the most progressive forward thinkers focuses on finding alternative European strategies for the current postmodern world to create a more desirable future with greater social benefits. He is the initiator of the HIPPO AI Foundation in Berlin, which aims to make artificial intelligence in medicine a common good. Wi...

Doris Naisbitt is my guest on Episode 51 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Doris Naisbitt is an observer of global social, economic and political trends. She is Director of the Naisbitt China Institute, author and co-author of bestselling books, and columnist in German, Chinese and Nepalese media. In addition to her research on future global developments Doris Naisbitt is dedicated to foster personal growth. Her personal experience to start a successful career later in life has inspired audie...

Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht is Marc's guest on Episode 50 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. The End of Evolution the nature of life and Biodiversity One of the most famous German evolutionary biologists Matthias sees the greatest loss of species since the dinosaurs became extinct as a worldwide biological tragedy. The greatest threat to the existence of all living beings is definitely humans, whose own future is at stake. The book published by C. Bertelsmann on "The End of Evolution. Man a...

Learning a fresh food future with Stephen Ritz Episode 49 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Stephen is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning educator, author of best-selling book, The Power Of A Plant and Founder of Green Bronx Machine. Known as America's favorite teacher, Stephen is responsible for creating the first edible classroom in the world. He and his students have grown more than 100,000 pounds of vegetables in the South Bronx, have been celebrated at the Obama White House three t...

Parenting, circularity and health with Majbritt Kristense Episode 48 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Majbritt Kristensen is my guest on this episode of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Majbritt’s Scandinavian & Mediterranean upbringing triggered her passion for Circularity. Her interest and understanding of circularity led to past and current experiences with startups in Silicon Valley, WEF Davos, local NGOs and private projects. Serious childhood health issues led her to explore lifestyle/food...

Energising the future, with Prof Jennie C Stephens Episode 47 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley Jennie is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the Director for Strategic Research Collaborations at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, and is affiliated with the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the department of Civil ...

Governmental futures and the SDGs with Felix Dodds Episode 46 on Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance for thirty years. Now an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina where he is the Principal Investigator for the Belmont Forum funded project Governance of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Sustainable Development. At UNC he co-directed the 2014 and 2018 Nexus Conferences on Water-Food-Energy and Climate. He...