Foresight and Instilling Strategic Communication Frameworks with Kian Gohar

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld invites Kian Gohar, Founder and CEO of Geolab, to discuss the bionic age and how to utilize foresight to plan different scenarios and future-proof your business. Geolab has partnered with organizations like NASA, Google, the XPRIZE Foundation, and Harvard to help their teams create frameworks to work more strategically. During the conversation the two also touch on the power of AI in your software stack, crowdsourcing customer ideas in the innovation sphere, and the concept of "teaming out."

Key Takeaways:

• [00:11 - 03:16] Meet Kian and Geolabs
• [03:17 - 05:04] The bionic age and what that means to Kian
• [05:04 - 07:13] Taking the humans out of dehumanized work, and the pandemic as an accelerator
• [07:13 - 09:06] Virtual training and the benefits to hybrid approaches in learning
• [09:11 - 11:07] How the metaverse and online training could reduce global carbon footprints
• [11:08 - 12:57] Pushing the edges of industries, and influencing others to follow
• [12:58 - 15:19] Utilizing foresight in different contexts of growing a company
• [15:20 - 17:19] Using foresight can create better commitment to problem solving long term
• [17:19 - 18:46] Highlighting the San Jose Sharks and how it used foresight to plan out reactions to different scenarios
• [18:47 - 20:24] How Kian and Geolabs help facilitate scenario planning
• [20:26 - 23:06] Frameworks for encouraging how you show up to work more strategically
• [23:12 - 25:03] Why teams struggled to communicate during the pandemic despite software solutions
• [25:24 - 26:49] The employee experience and making collaboration more seamless
• [26:49 - 28:52] Resilience and wellness, and being vulnerable
• [28:52 - 32:04] The power of AI in the stack
• [32:07 - 35:00] Embracing diversity and creating a sense of belonging
• [35:01 - 37:13] Crowdsourcing and bringing key customers into the innovation sphere
• [37:14 - 38:47] What "teaming out" means
• [39:03 - 43:05] "Teaming out" and collaborating with small businesses and smaller ecosystems
• [43:20 - 45:13] Crowdsourcing ideas to solve problems isn't new
• [45:14 - 47:52] Shifting mindsets, ownership and responsibility, and time and resources
• [47:55 - 48:42] Hustle culture and accepting working differently