The New Abnormal
#TheNewAbnormal podcast (which has over 250,000 downloads) focuses on understanding today and anticipating the future. Discussing these subjects via the viewpoints of my guests has led to some fascinating conversations with activists, creatives, writers, philosophers, strategists, psychologists, lecturers, futurists, etc. Re: my bio, I'm a strategist, author and speaker. My 1st book went to No1 in the business charts, whilst my 2nd was shortlisted for the 'Business Book of the Year' Awards. (The podcast partners with The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, a global leader in applying futures studies to solve strategic challenges, helping clients to be #FuturesReady.) So, we hope you enjoy listening to the series - which was set up during the early days of Covid, and is divided into Series One [2020-21] Two [2022] Three [2023] Four [2024] and Five [2025]. All rights reserved. #TheNewAbnormal podcast series © Sean Pillot de Chenecey 2020. Please note that it's currently on hold, as I literally don’t have the time to record any episodes at the moment, but it’ll return in late summer...
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Gergely Nemeth 'Strategic Foresight and Defence Innovation'
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Gergely Nemeth, former Head of Strategic Foresight at NATO and now CEO of Hungary’s Defence Innovation Research Institute (VIKI), who reflects on a c…
Lourdes Rodriguez 'Embodied Futures - the next evolution in foresight'
This episode of The New Abnormal features Lourdes Rodriguez, a Strategic Foresight Consultant with the European Commission and Co Exec Director at Teach the Future.
With a background in Psychology, h…
Marie Stafford 'The Future 100 - trends and change to watch'
Series Five
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Marie Stafford, Global Director (Intelligence) at VML. She's a strategic foresight consultant skilled in creating inspiring future narrati…
Peter Cunliffe-Jones 'Fake News - what's the harm?'
Series Five
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Peter Cunliffe-Jones, visiting researcher at the University of Westminster and Director of Facts Matter Research, a misinformation researc…
Faris Yakob 'Collaboration is the way to solve problems'
Series Five
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Faris Yakob, co-founder of Genius Steals, who began his career as a strategist during the first dot com explosion, before moving into agen…
Gareth Kay 'Creating tangible value from intangible assets'
Series Five
This episode of The New Abnormal features Gareth Kay, Partner at The Intangibles 'the transformation consultancy for the intangible world'. He's spent over two decades working in, and lear…
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos 'The Future is always uncertain...'
Series Five
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, who is a Foresight, Strategy, Innovation and long-term planning advisor to government, private corporatio…
Jan Berger 'Anticipating Change for Corporate Foresight'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Jan Berger, the Founder & CEO of Themis Foresight.
Based in Berlin, his company anticipates economic, technological, social and political…
Nils Muller 'Helping companies to stay relevant in the future'
Series Four
In this episode of 'The New Abnormal' I interview Nils Muller, CEO & Founder of TrendONE - a specialist agency that's a market leader in identifying key trends in fast moving branches of b…
Chris Arning 'Semiotics: how to make the invisible...visible'
Series Four
In this episode of The New Abnormal, I interview Chris Arning, Founder of the boutique consultancy Creative Semiotics Ltd, co-founder of Semiofest, and course leader of 'How to do semiotic…
Michael Beverland 'Brand Management: Co-creating Meaningful Brands'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Michael Beverland, Professor of Brand Strategy, Strategy & Marketing, at the University of Sussex Business School.
He's an innovator in mar…
Phil Balagtas 'Making Futures Work: integrating futures thinking for design, innovation, and strategy'
Series Four
This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features Phil Balagtas, author of the superb new book 'Making Futures Work'.
Phil is also a former Design Director at McKinsey Design and General …
Matt Boffey ‘Brands that move people, move the world’
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Matt Boffey, Chief Strategy Officer at Design Bridge and Partners. He’s part of its Senior Leadership Team and Executive Committee, managi…
Stephanie Vilner-Sheppard 'Dare, disrupt and be kind'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the brand innoventor & commercial strategist Stephanie Vilner-Sheppard, who consults globally on strategy to help clients innovate and fut…
Max McKeown 'Innovation Strategy, Leadership & Culture'
Series Four
This episode of ‘The New Abnormal’ podcast features the strategic psychologist Dr Max McKeown - a writer, consultant & researcher specialising in innovation strategy, leadership and cultur…
Sohail Inayatullah 'Visioning the Futures'
Series Four
This episode of 'The New Abnormal' podcast features the political scientist and university professor Sohail Inayatullah, who is the inaugural UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies at the Sejahte…
Alexis Tennent 'The intricate relationship between memory, time and plurality'
Series Four
This episode of the New Abnormal podcast features Toronto-based Alexis Tennent, who is an innovative leader, design & foresight strategist. She firmly believes that foresight should not be…
Monika Bielskyte 'Challenging the binaries of dystopia vs utopia and society vs technology'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the renowned futurist and speculative designer, Monika Bielskyte.
She's also the founder of Protopia Futures, a life-centric design and c…
Roman Krznaric 'History for Tomorrow: inspiration from the past for the future of humanity'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal features the leading social philosopher Roman Krznaric, whose books focus on the power of ideas to create change. His international bestsellers, which incl…
Falk Fuhrmann 'Investigative Anthropology, Cultural Empathy and Brand Strategy in China'
Series Four
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Falk Fuhrmann, Executive Director at Shanghai HuiLue Business Consulting Co, and Visiting Professor teaching International Brand Communica…