TIE Unearthed

For generations, we've gone to doctors for answers. Now we're increasingly arriving with answers of our own.And sometimes those answers come from AI.The traditional relationship between doctors and patients is already changing. But as technology becomes more involved in our healthcare, who do we trust? Who makes the decisions? And who takes responsibility when things go wrong?In this episode of TIE Unearthed, I speak with Erik Korsvik Østergaard, a futures thinker, author and advisor who works with leaders in complex industries, particularly healthcare and life sciences, to challenge assumptions about what lies ahead.Together, we consider how AI is reshaping healthcare, and how imagining possible futures can help us make better decisions today.It's a conversation that left me thinking about just how much technology could improve our lives, and how important human judgement, ethics and collaboration will be in determining whether it actually does.So, whether you're heading out for a run or settling in with your favourite drink, here's Erik.You can find out more about Erik and his work https://goodmorningapril.com/erikkorsvikoestergaard/👉 In the meantime, don't forget to share your thoughts on the episode, leave a review, and subscribe!If you'd like to stay updated on future episodes and other inspiring stories from TIE, join our newsletter here.If you would like to order my international bestselling book Return on Humanity: Leadership Lessons from All Corners of the Earth, you can do that here.

Why would an artist spend years mastering beauty, only to deliberately destroy it?Internationally exhibited and recognised at the forefront of modern figurative painting and disrupted realism, British painter Ben Ashton combines the techniques of the Old Masters with a radically unconventional approach to painting.And his latest work takes things even further. Extraordinary, meticulously handcrafted paintings that twist, distort and physically emerge from the wall.We talk about beauty, destruction, human imperfection, and what happens when AI makes perfection increasingly easy to manufacture. And what all of this might mean for the value of the human touch.🎨 Ben's new exhibition, May We Live in Impossible Times, runs 10 October–21 November at Dorothy Circus Gallery, London. Follow and explore his work @benashtonart.🎥 Watch the episode on YouTube 👉 Don't forget to share your thoughts on the episode, leave a review, and subscribe!🗞️ If you'd like to stay updated on future episodes and other inspiring stories from TIE, join our newsletter here.📙 If you would like to order my international bestselling book Return on Humanity: Leadership lessons from all corners of the earth, you can do that here.

What if real expertise makes you less certain, not more?And what happens when we already know enough to act, but still don’t?Thierry Courvoisier has spent a lifetime testing what we think we know. An astrophysicist and honorary professor at the University of Geneva, he created and led the science data centre responsible for ESA’s INTEGRAL gamma-ray satellite, and later became President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council, bringing scientific evidence into the world of public decision-making.For Thierry, doubt is fundamental. You cannot think critically without it. But doubt everything, all the time, and you have nothing solid enough to move forward from.That tension sits at the heart of this conversation.We explore why genuine expertise can make it easier to say “I don’t know”; why many of humanity’s biggest challenges may no longer be problems of knowledge, but of judgement and action; and what happens when evidence meets short-term interests, competing priorities and systems that struggle to listen.After more than 400 scientific papers, and years crossing oceans with his wife Barbara, Thierry’s perspective is refreshingly clear: listen widely, filter carefully, then decide.Perhaps knowing more was never meant to make us more certain.So throw on those running shoes, or grab that favourite beverage, and here is Thierry.👉 In the meantime, don't forget to share your thoughts on the episode, leave a review, and subscribe!If you'd like to stay updated on future episodes and other inspiring stories from TIE, join our newsletter here.If you would like to order my international bestselling book Return on Humanity: Leadership lessons from all corners of the earth, you can do that here.

What happens when the people whose job is to know have to become increasingly comfortable with not knowing?We have more data, more opinions and more intelligence at our fingertips than ever before. And yet working out what deserves our attention, and what to believe, may be getting harder.That tension sits at the heart of my conversation with Michael Swaisland, Vice President of Consumer Intelligence and Transformation at Arla Foods.Michael and I have worked closely together over the past couple of years through TIE Leadership’s work with his team at Arla, so this conversation comes from questions we’ve been exploring together in real time.We talk about what happens when AI can analyse more information than any human possibly could, and why that may make curiosity, judgement and empathy more important, not less.We explore the increasingly different realities created by our feeds, what that means for trust, and why expertise alone is no longer enough when every problem can be seen through multiple frames.And perhaps most importantly, why we need to deliberately create space to be uncomfortable, vulnerable and genuinely unsure.A fitting place to begin this new series of TIE Unearthed.So, whether you’re heading out for a run or settling in with your favourite drink, here’s Michael.👉 In the meantime, don't forget to share your thoughts on the episode, leave a review, and subscribe!If you'd like to stay updated on future episodes and other inspiring stories from TIE, join our newsletter here.If you would like to order my international bestselling book Return on Humanity: Leadership lessons from all corners of the earth, you can do that here.

Most conversations about AI begin with speed. What can be done faster, cheaper, with fewer people involved.But almost none begin with what an organisation has never been able to do at all.And that's where my conversation with Debbie Ahenkorah and Cameron Milne ended up, although it started somewhere else entirely.They first met through TIE Leadership during the pandemic. Debbie was leading Golden Baobab in Ghana and needed help translating an ambitious social-impact idea into something the corporate world could understand. Cam, then working in advertising in New York City, became a bridge between the two.Six years later, Cam is the founder of Braid, focused on the human side of AI transformation, and Debbie is part of that work.During our conversation, Debbie makes an interesting observation: for a small organisation that has always had the ambition but not the resources, AI can become “their Cam.”Which then opens up a much bigger question.If capability is becoming less scarce, what might become possible for organisations that have always been constrained by access to it?We talk about what that could mean for social-impact organisations, why AI only becomes useful when people know how to weave it into the work, and the agency we need to have over how we choose to use it.Episode 122 of TIE Unearthed is available now.👉 Don’t forget to share your thoughts on the episode, leave a review, and subscribe.If you'd like to stay updated on future episodes and other inspiring stories from TIE, join our newsletter here.If you would like to order my international bestselling book Return on Humanity: Leadership Lessons from All Corners of the Earth, you can do that here.