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Join Co-Founder and Author Ross Thornley in weekly conversations with special guests on the dimensions of adaptability. From resilience, grit and motivation, to stress, character and environment. Ross explores the science and real-life stories of adaption. Helping you learn the tools, mindsets, and actions to thrive in an ever-changing world.

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The Future of Work

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Steve Cadigan
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Steve is a best selling author and one of the foremost thought leaders in the world of people and talent. Retained by leaders, investors, organisations and governments around the world who seek to create a better future of work.

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Ankita Poddar Sr. HR Business Partner at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Ankita Poddar
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Ankita Poddar is a blogger, writer, and host of the podcast - HR Bandit, passionate about all things HR & Behavioural Economics. People Matters India identified her as one of 15 'Emerging HR...

The Secrets to Happiness at Work

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr. Tracy Brower, PhD
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Dr Tracy Brower is author of two books, The Secrets to Happiness at Work & Bring Work to Life. She is a contributor to Forbes.com and spent two decades at Herman Miller. Now a Principal, at ...

Helping Shy, Stressed, and Anxious People Be Themselves

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Mark Metry
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Mark Metry dedicates his life to being of service to others, by making an impact in the industries of mental health. His life goal is to change the education system, meaningfully in a way that guar...

Mentoring and optimising success

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr. Ruth Gotian
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Dr. Ruth Gotian is a prolific mentor and educator, leading important research into the secrets of success.” A contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today, personally coached and mentored thousands o...

Navigating Leaders Through Change

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Tony Martignetti
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Tony is a Chief Inspiration Officer, trusted advisor to accomplished leaders, career navigator, The Virtual Campfire Podcast host  and author.  He has 20 years of experience in navigating people an...

Thriving with Disruption

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Charlene Li
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Charlene Li  is a Digital Transformation and Disruptive Leadership expert. For the past two decades, she has been helping leaders and organizations see the future and thrive with disruption - as an...

Insights from 16 years at the world's largest contract food service company in the world

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Erich Kurschat
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Erich is a HR advocate, DiSC nerd, and connection coach who helps organizations build and grow teams that value productive communication with diverse personality styles. He also spent 16 years at C...

Business Futurist & Digital Transformation expert

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Greg Verdino
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Greg Verdino is a Business Futurist & Digital Transformation expert, keynote speaker, author and advisor. With 25 years spent working at the forefront of change, during which time he has advise...

World Champion in Project Management

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
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Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is World Champion in Project Management,  a professor, author and executive coach. He is fluent in five languages and been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious awar...

The Bolder Company

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Jenny Drescher and Ellen Feldman Ornato
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The Bolder Company is the catalyst for the lasting behavioural change that empowers businesses to thrive. They connect individuals to themselves, to each other, and to the futures of their organiza...

The Future of Coaching

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley and guest Magdalena Nowicka Mook CEO at ICF
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Magda acts as strategic partner of the ICF’s leadership, including the Board and variety of committees and task forces. Specializing in strategic planning, cultural competence, ethics, internationa...

Executive Director of Thunderbird Global at Thunderbird School of Global Management

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Doug Guthrie
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Doug Guthrie's had a career researching, writing and teaching about 3 topics.Organizational development - covering leadership, culture and social responsibility.The Chinese economic reforms, and...

How to Adapt and Deal with Getting Fired

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Suzanne Lucas - Evil HR Lady
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Susan Lucas runs Evil HR Lady. She can make your resume better, your conference sparkle, and your website attract HR experts. She also specialises in writing, webinars, resumes, coaching and keynot...

Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University - The new rules for work

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Gary A. Bolles
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Gary Bolles is Chair for the Future of Work at Singularity University; Co-founder of eParachute.com; Partner, Charrette; Speaker & Writer. He leads Singularity University's activities related t...

4 daily principles to “make a lot of money, help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. David Meltzer
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David Meltzer has created a platform that uses four overarching principles—gratitude, empathy, accountability, and effective communication—and these principles have allowed him to communicate and m...

Entrepreneurial Team Success

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Shannon Waller
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Shannon Waller, experienced Director and Coach with a demonstrated history of working in the entrepreneurial coaching industry. Skilled coach, speaker, program designer, interviewer, author and pas...

Slowing Down To Speed Up

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Shane Ram
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Shane Ram is CEO of GoFor10. He provides Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, Career Development Coaching and Life Coaching.GoFor10 is an education and technology company that provides th...

Scaling Coaching

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Marva Sadler
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Marva Sadler, MBA, TOC Jonah, is CEO of the World Business & Executive Coach Summit, named the fastest-growing education company in the UK in the INC 5000 in 2018. She also sits on the editoria...

Compassionate Capitalism

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Blaine Bartlett
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Blaine is an entrepreneur, author, executive & leadership coach. He is the host of Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett Podcast and Possibility to Profit Mastermind. Ross and Blaine talk ab...

Fundamentals in E Learning and immersive technology

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Lars Hyland, CTO Totara
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Lars Hyland is a well-known figure in the HR and workplace learning community, advocating the adoption of adaptable and flexible technology designed to support the new world of work. Lars is an exp...

What does adaptability mean to you?

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Mini Episode with Dan Sullivan
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Dan is founder and president of Strategic Coach®. A visionary, an innovator, and a gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 40 years’ experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic p...

Why adaptability is so important for investing and scaling business

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Jay Jacobs
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Jay is the Co-Founder of paperlessPARTS, Manufacturing Technology Expert and Investor. He has also recently colaborated with Ross on the mini documentary:Adaptability and the Future of Work: Seein...

Four steps to our next evolution

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Manda Scott
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 Manda Scott is a Novelist, Shamanic dreamer, trainee homeopath and podcast host at the massively successful Accidental Gods: transforming ourselves, transforming the world . She is also a best sel...

Life changing loss, and how to move forward

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Ashley Bugge
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Ashley is a  speaker,  award-winning author, explorer and military widow. Using personal stories of turning tragedy into triumph, Ashley offers a unique perspective into what it means to overcome a...

Welcome to 'cloudlandia'

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dean Jackson
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Dean Jackson is the co-creator of I Love Marketing and many other programs, is often regarded as the Marketing Buddha, a marketing philosopher, and marketing genius.Ross and Dean discuss collabora...

Sharing positivity for success

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Julio Maria Muhorro
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Julio Maria Muhorro is an award-winning professional with a positive attitude, organization, and dependability. Julio uses his 7 years' experience within management, training and research environme...

Unlocking innovation through flexibility & cross industry learning

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr Gary Richter
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 Dr Gary Richter is an established Holistic Veterinarian who offers medical solutions not previously available to pets. His services include acupuncture, herbal therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, ...

End of Talent Management as we know it

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Professor Anna Tavis
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Professor Anna A. Tavis is a researcher is a writer, speaker, global educator and coach focusing on the Future of Work. Her passion is to develop innovative approaches to Talent and Organizations a...

Making the BIG decisions

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Matt Burns
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Matt is a passionate, innovative & accomplished global HR Executive, Advisor, Consultant, Speaker & Podcast Host who sits at the intersection of technology, data & culture.  Today, as C...

Overcoming resistance to change

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr Mindy L. Gewirtz
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Dr. Mindy, an MCC certified coach, author, entrepreneur, executive, is Adjunct Faculty at Lewis University and Faculty and Honorary Director at Potential Genesis, Chennai India. She is President of...

The Principles & Power of Acknowledgment

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Judith W. Umlas
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 Judith W. Umlas is Sr. Vice President, author and trainer at International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), a global corporate training company.  She is also the author of the ground-breaking b...

Mental training for maverick leaders and the secrets from a decade of working with Navy SEALs

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Renita Kalhorn
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Renita is an executive coach who’s worked with 1,200+ high-performers in 40+ countries, from Fortune 500 executives to Inc 5000 entrepreneurs. Tapping 10+ years of working with future Navy SEALs, s...

Creating Organisational Coaching Cultures

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Beth Miller
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Beth Armknecht Miller is CEO of Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm. Beth is a trusted executive consultant, Vistage Chair Emeritus, and committed volunteer. S...

Driving Innovation and adaptability at the United Nations

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Jason Slater
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Jason is currently the Head of Financial Management of Technical Cooperation at UNIDO providing financial management, monitoring, control and reporting of all technical cooperation programmes.  Hos...

Talent Development for the 21st Century

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr Esther Jackson
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Dr. Esther Jackson is National Advisor for the Association for Talent Development (ATD). She's had 20 years in HR. mostly in talent development. Is an organisational employee development specialist...

Navigating our new VUCA world

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Ira Wolfe
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 Ira Wolfe is the President and Chief Googlization Officer at Success Performance Solutions. Terrified and fascinated by VUCA-level change, a future of work global thought Leader and author. Host R...

Former MD of Exponential Leadership & Education at Singularity University

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Gregg Carey
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Gregg is the CEO of 'Section 119' selling high-quality apparel for the professional.  Previously consulting during dotcom boom (sapient.com) serving F500 enterprise clients navigating disruptive ch...

Lessons from 37 years at IBM on diversity and authentic inclusion

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Frances West
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Frances is the founder of FrancesWestCo, a global strategy advisory company working with public, private, non-profit and start-ups to operationalize inclusion as a core business imperative to drive...

How Improv can help us adapt

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Nancy Watt
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 Nancy is President of NANCY WATT COMMUNICATIONS, a specialized consulting and creative agency that works with all sectors exploring the social science of collaboration, communication and connectio...

Future Proof Your Business

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Tom Cheesewright
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Tom Cheesewright is an applied futurist that helps organizations to see, share, and respond to clearer visions of tomorrow. Host Ross Thornley and Tom discuss his recent book “Future Proof Your Bus...

Lessons from 'The CEO Whisperer' about being open and honest

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Cameron Herold
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Cameron Herold is the founder of COO Alliance, a best-selling author, and speaker. At age 21, he had 14 employees. By 35, he’d helped build his first two 100 Million Dollar companies. By the age of...

'UNLEARN' to breakthrough

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Barry O'Reilly
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Barry O’Reilly is an author, software developer, and founder of ExecCamp. Host Ross Thornley and Barry talk about his book, “Unlearn,” the importance of co-creation within the marketplace, and why ...

Founder of Hacking HR

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Enrique Rubio
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Enrique Rubio is the founder of Hacking HR — a global learning community that converges HR past, future, and technology. An electronic engineer and HR specialist by trade, Enrique talks with host R...

Ethical AI, chatbots and digitial coaching

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Nicola Strong
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Nicola Strong is a trainer and facilitator, the director of Strong Enterprises Limited, and a senior consultant at the Institute for Ethical AI, Oxford Brookes University. Nicola and host Ross Thor...

Founder of The Family Office Club

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Richard Wilson
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Recorded at the quarterly meetup for Strategic Coach, host Ross Thornley sits down with Richard Wilson from the Family Office Club. The pair discuss how adaptability is perceived no matter the indu...

AI Digital Twins

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Amanda Solosky
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Amanda Solosky is the co-founder and co-CEO of LA-based Lifekind.ai (formerly Rival Theory). She has successfully delivered AI-based products across interactive entertainment, VR, and Hollywood, us...

Personality isn't Permanent

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr. Benjamin Hardy
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Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist, an esteemed author, and a renowned speaker. Host Ross Thornley talks with Dr. Hardy talks about his new book, "Personality Isn’t Permanent...

Lessons from the former CHRO of P.F. Chang's

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Michael Keane
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Michael Keane is a Strategic Innovative Change Director and managing partner of the Sierra Institute. Host Ross Thornley speaks with Michael about the capability of repackaging a product, mitigatin...

The Adaptation Advantage

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Heather McGowan -
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Host Ross Thornley talks about adaptability requiring vulnerability — as does learning. Being deeply optimistic about humans, Heather McGowan reflects upon getting in touch with your identity — and...

What is holding you back?

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Dr. Diane Hamilton
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With an intense curiosity on perception, Dr. Diane Hamilton touches on the four main things that hold people back, why empathy springs from asking questions, and how she’s helping organizations ach...

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