🎙️How do we change the status quo?

Conventions tend to be, well, conventional. Mingling people in rooms for a few days has been the default for a long time: the challenge is getting the delegates on board to try something new.

Mara Sandoval designs the gatherings for high-level decision makers. For her, experience design plays a key role in generating outcomes when people gather and it needs to be centre stage in the planning process rather than an afterthought. She calls on

🔹Alex McLean, CEO & Co-Founder, Alveole and

🔹Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn

to join her exploration of the burning question: How do we break down the barriers to collaboration when we gather?

• Being a great guest
• Anthropology and graphic design in content and space
• Design as a theory of change
• Bringing collaborative design to boardrooms
• The need for a common language
• Why are we gathering?
• The pivotal role of human interaction
• An easy way to encourage collaboration
• typical conferences = boring
• Bruce Mau incomplete manifesto for change
• Typical conferences
• Power of intention as participant
• The people you need in the room

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.

🎙️How do you find the people you need when you don’t know where to look?

Cindy Gallop's mission is to help end rape culture globally through education and awareness. Cindy has solid experience getting her message across and getting things done: after identifying a lack and a need in the market back in 2012, Cindy created the online platform, MakeLoveNotPorn, a subscription service aimed at providing an alternative to porn. Cindy seeks investors for MakeLoveNotPorn, she knows the money is out there but the typical investor route is not open to her. She explains the situation to:

🔹 Mara Sandoval, Head of Event Design and Interaction, World Economic Forum; and

🔹 Alex McLean, CEO & Co-Founder, Alveole

Together, they address her burning question: How do I find investors/donors who 'get it' for MakeLoveNotPorn?

• Early experiences of earning and saving money
• Origins of MakeLoveNotPorn
• Cindy's Burning Question: How to find investors?
• Barriers and solutions to business growth in sex tech

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.

🎙️ How can nature and humans thrive in cities together?

Alex McLean, started beekeeping at 15 and it’s taken him around the world and into business as Co-Founder and CEO at Alveole, a turnkey urban beekeeping company.

Alex negotiates partnerships with commercial real estate across North America and Europe; one of his main challenges is translating the need for nature alongside us in cities for the people who have the power to improve the urban environment for all city dwellers.

In this tenth episode of The More the Brainier, Alex receives advice from:

🔹 Cindy Gallop, Founder & CEO, MakeLoveNotPorn; and

🔹 Mara Sandoval, Head of Event Design and Interaction, World Economic Forum

Together, they address his burning question: How do I make people care about nature being an integral part of the city?

• Alveole and its mission
• Urban beekeeping 101
• How do we get people to care about nature in cities?
• Moments of awe
• What do bees represent?
• The transformation of Singapore
• Nature as privilege
• Normalising nature
• Outreach to children
• Edible cities
• The link between nature, health and wellbeing
• Storytelling as a tool to bring nature to children
• The power of gardening
• Potential for radical improvement with urban planning
• Bottom-up change limitations
• When top down models for change are necessary
• How can everybody benefit?

Today’s guests:

• Alex McLean, (Main guest); Cindy Gallop; Mara Sandoval

Host: Christine Renaud, Braindate

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This episode of The More the Brainier was produced by Christine Renaud and Jane Gibb. Editing and sound engineering by Jenya Sverlov and Chris Leon.