RMIT FORWARD Podcast
1) Hot Takes - is strategy dead?
We’re in a world where five-year plans don’t last five months, market dynamics shift overnight and AI rewrites the rules weekly. Traditional strategy-making is cracking under pressure. The question ...Show More
2) Hot Takes: Reskilling at Scale
In this episode of Hot Takes, Peter Thomas from RMIT Forward leads a discussion on the challenges and solutions in scaling reskilling programs. He is joined by experts Josie Gibson, founder of Catalys...Show More
3) Hot Takes: The Future of Trust in Distributed Work
In this episode of Hot Takes, Peter Thomas from RMIT Forward, discusses the intricacies of trust in distributed work. The conversation features insights from FORWARD Fellows Jerry Michalski, founder o...Show More
4) Hot Takes: Zoom Fatigue Was Just the Start – What’s the Long-Term Impact of AI Assistants?
In this episode of Hot Takes, Peter Thomas discusses AI assistants and their impact on human attention with RMIT FORWARD Industry Fellows Sam Spurlin, an organization design strategist from The Ready,...Show More
5) Hot Takes: How design Fiction is Shaping Strategy Today
Design fiction invites us to prototype the future - not through predictions, but through artefacts and provocations. It helps organisations rehearse what could be, challenge their assumptions, and exp...Show More
6) Hot Takes: Meet your AI Co-worker
In this episode of Hot Takes, host Peter Thomas, director of RMIT FORWARD, is joined by digital sociologist and ethicist Lisa Talia Moretti and Andrew Spence, author of the Work 3 Substack newsletter,...Show More
7) Hot Takes: The Future of Global Talent and The Shifting Geography of Work
In this episode of RMIT University FORWARD Hot Takes, Peter Thomas talks to RMIT Industry Fellows Serafina Maiorano, global leadership strategist and founder of Our Global Table, and Stowe Boyd, work ...Show More
8) Hot Takes: Beyond Sustainability – What Does a Regenerative Future Look Like?
In this episode of Hot Takes, Peter Thomas talks to RMIT's Professor Chris Speed about regenerative futures. Moving beyond traditional sustainability, regenerative futures focuses on not just minimi...Show More
Hot Takes: Beyond Sustainability – What Does a Regenerative Future Look Like?
12:46 | May 16th, 2025
9) Hot Takes: The Future of Global Talent and the Shifting Geography of Work
In this episode of RMIT University FORWARD Hot Takes, Peter Thomas talks to RMIT Industry Fellows Serafina Maiorano, global leadership strategist and founder of Nine Muses and Stowe Boyd, work ecologi...Show More
10) Hot Takes: Narrative Intelligence
In this episode of RMIT University FORWARD Hot Takes, we explore narrative intelligence, a crucial leadership capability that extends beyond communication. In an era marked by disruption, complexity...Show More