The latest Self Centred with Roann podcast, launching tomorrow (Thursday 29 October), features David Price OBE, co-founder of We Do Things Differently, a UK culture change consultancy.
David is a global thought leader and author, specialising in helping organisations learn, to innovate and make themselves fit for the future. In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to education.
In this episode, host Roann Ghosh discusses with David how the response to COVID-19 has shone a light on people-powered innovation, how you can find your way out of a career and life that you aren’t passionate about, and why line-managers are no longer necessary.
David, who recently released a book titled ‘The Power of Us’, offers listeners and readers a tool kit of ideas to show how we can foster our own cultures of creatives, in order to transform our lives for a better future.
On the podcast, he says: “We need to create a culture that is so rich that ideas flourish from the bottom up and that innovation spreads horizontally, not just vertically. So we’ll not just have more successful organisations, but inevitably we’ll have the kind of diversity in our organisations where people actually look out for one another.”
David also explains why so many people find themselves in a system that dictates their way of living, distracting them from finding their true passion and purpose.
It comes down to our education system, David believes, he says: “I’ve spent around 30 years in education, and I speak to parents all the time who still haven’t found their passion or the thing that drives them.
“I think we have to start with our education system – the only way you can find out what drives you or really fulfils you is the ability to be able to out try lots of different things, and have lots of different experiences.
“There is an incredible school in Cambodia called the Liga Leadership Academy, where they’re set up to create leaders of the future. How do they do that? Well, they don’t scaffold skills or knowledge, they scaffold experiences.”
Self Centred with Roann is available on Apple, Spotify and all major podcast platforms.
