The Mindset Economy

What happens when the systems we have relied on for decades no longer make sense? In this episode, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are joined by Ja-Naé Duane and Steve Fisher to explore what they call a series of “super shifts”, fundamental changes that are reshaping how we work, lead, and make sense of the world. As technology accelerates and intelligence becomes increasingly distributed, many of the assumptions that once gave us stability, about value, expertise, and control, begin to break d...

What if the biggest risk in the age of AI isn’t losing jobs, but losing our ability to imagine the future? In this episode of The Mindset Economy, Jean Gomes and Scott Allender speak with futurist Sarah Housley, author of Designing Hope about why our collective imagination about the future seems to have stalled. As AI advances and change accelerates, many people feel less agency, not more. So how do we reclaim the ability to imagine and design better futures? Building on ideas such as protopi...

In this episode, Mithu Storoni joins Jean Gomes and Scott Allender to explore how the way we work has been shaped by industrial-era assumptions about efficiency, productivity, and the brain – and why those assumptions no longer serve us in an age of AI. Mithu explains how, for more than a century, humans have tried to mimic machines, first with our bodies and then with our minds, and how this has restricted human potential. As AI increasingly takes over quantitative work, she argues that this...

After five years and hundreds of episodes of The Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are excited to announce a bold new chapter. In a world that is rapidly being reshaped by AI, climate change and shifting social, political and economic realities, the need for a new conversation is clear. The Mindset Economy explores how leaders can thrive in a world where machines can think. The core premise of The Mindset Economy podcast is understanding the forces transforming work and ...