Coburn Ventures Podcast

Matt Wallaert, a social psychologist and author of "Start at the End," dives into the profound impact of identity on behavior change. He discusses how understanding our identities can enhance decision-making and personal growth. Wallaert introduces cognitive dissonance, illustrating how conflicting beliefs can shift perceptions. He emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse identities and perspectives, particularly in the finance sector, to foster resilience and improve teamwork. His insights highlight the transformative power of identity in shaping our experiences.

Continuing on the topic of decision making, we walk through the data chain and how to use it to identify where you are in the process and to then make the conversion from one node to the next.

JC Herz guides us through risk avoidance vs. risk acceptance, resilience and fragility, and why your first step must be to identify and write down the answer to this question: what is your source of maximal regret?

We know investors are particularly prone to some common decision making biases. We start the discussion today on some of the tactics and tools to bring awareness of these biases to the forefront in order to ameliorate the problems they can stir up.

Data scientist and business leader JP Rangaswami expands on the impact of starting from a point of view of stewardship vs. monetization; how he expects the quality of investment metrics associated with ESG to improve, and the conditions required to act with real stewardship in business governance.

Continuing our series of tools to assess change, we apply Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief to managements ability to assess reality and lead through periods of massive change.

A deeper dive with Corey, Pip and Brynne into Coreys piece Living in the Bardo.

Part 3 in a series intended to help you study possibilities for the future with fewer investment biases, more context, and easy to use tools.

“Omni” means all, but we have used the term omnichannel to describe retailers who compliment brick and mortar with e-commerce and mobile. In this mini-cast, we start an examination of how omnichannel is accelerating and what forms it is taking on with regard to how we work.

Adversity comes every day. What can we do to mentally prepare for it and handle it in the moment it arrives? Dr. Morris Pickens is back to explain his “locker room” process that he uses with his clients, some of the best professional golfers on the tour.