“We grew up in a Tetris world of trust. There were rules, top-down enforcement and we looked up to people that we trust. Our kids are growing up in a Minecraft world of trust that is completely distributed.”    In this special series we’ve been exploring how we might move from crisis to transformation in an age of pandemics. We’ve been challenged to rethink our place in an entangled world, and to be good ancestors who protect future generations. We’ve explored how to build equitable health systems, inclusive and sustainable economies, and how to address the climate crisis. And ..read more

Social Reset: A New Equity Lens with Baljeet Sandhu   “If we don’t think about the knowledge that is present in all our communities we will continue to privilege the few as knowledge producers and see them as having a larger stake in how we design the future.”       In this series we’re meeting people who are shaking up the status quo, people who remind us that, in the words of the late Elijah Cummings, “we are better than this.” Equity is the only way out of this pandemic. That’s true of all the crises we face in this new decade. Usually when we talk about equit ..read more

Economic Reset: With Halla Tómasdóttir “The pandemic pause has given us an awakening. Capitalism needs an upgrade. We need an inclusive economy that drives shared prosperity on a healthy planet.”       We’re continuing our look at the big existential crises of this new decade, and what it will take to reimagine and reset our broken systems. In this episode, we’re talking global economic reset with the woman who was very nearly Iceland’s president, and is now leading a much bigger movement - Halla Tómasdóttir. This is not your average discourse on economic reform th ..read more

In episode 3 Peter Drobac reimagines what our future could be like if we reset how we live with global climate action leader Christiana Figueres. “Here we are stuck in the norm, without any reason to be stuck.”      Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future. And in this episode we’re talking climate change – what’s at stake, the cost of inaction and the opportunities that exist if we harness the sustainability revolution that Al Gore told us about in the last series. We’re in a perilous moment, but it’s not too late to act. This needs to be our decad ..read more

Health Reset: With Joia Mukherjee and Paul Farmer “There is no contrast between fighting against Covid and fighting for black lives”       In Reimagine Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. In episode 2, Peter talks to global health activist Dr Joia Mukherjee about reimaging our health systems in an age of pandemics. Joia describes herself as an “ass-kicking optimist, healer, singer and lover of humanity”. She is the chief medical officer at social justice and global health non-profit P ..read more

“Our actions in the next decade will determine the future of civilisation.”  (Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs)    The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our world into disarray. Far more than a public health crisis, the pandemic has triggered an economic crisis, a social crisis, and a governance crisis. It has contributed to a long overdue reckoning on deeply rooted systemic racial injustice. Meanwhile, extreme weather events signal the increasing urgency of our unfolding climate crisis.     All of these challenges predated Covid-19. But the pandemic has exposed and ..read more

Reimagine is a podcast about people who are inventing the future from the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School, presented by Peter Drobac. Covid-19 has exposed the deep flaws in our relationship with the world and each other. We all long for a return to normality, but is “back to normal” really what we want? In Series 2: Systems Reset, we’re seizing this moment to reimagine systems that are fit for purpose, and fit for everyone. Meet the visionaries who are revolutionising the story of who we are, and how we engage with the world. We’ll be talkin ..read more

If you’ve been tuning in to series 1 and want to know more about social entrepreneurship, or you’d just like to spend some time in the company of an extremely cool woman with a voracious intellect and a lot of wisdom about how change happens, then this bonus episode is just for you. For two decades Sally Osberg has played an outsized role in growing the field of social entrepreneurship. She was the founding president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, one of the world’s leading organisations in this space. With Roger Martin, Sally was the author of the seminal book Getting Beyond Better: How So ..read more

“We are in the early stages of a sustainability revolution. It will have the magnitude of the industrial revolution yet the speed of the digital revolution” In this special episode Nobel Peace Prize winner, former US vice president and one of the world’s leading climate activists shares his vision for a sustainable future – Al Gore. Reflecting in the context of Covid-19 from his home in Tennessee, Al talks about the lessons for the climate emergency revealed by the current pandemic and his optimism for our capacity to forge a path out of the climate crisis. A just transition with millions of ..read more

“I’m here to prevent the next generation of Big Issue vendors.” Homelessness is an example of a wicked problem – a complex, messy problem with many causes, contradictory forces, and no easy solution. Wicked problems are rooted in broken systems. It’s estimated that 2% of the world’s population are homeless. But many more – perhaps 1 in 5 people worldwide – may lack adequate and secure housing. In this episode we focus on the situation in the UK, where an unprecedented number of people are without a home or living on the streets. That number has doubled since 2010, and continues to trend upw ..read more