The Solutionists

In this episode the Solutionists get focused on your nuts, that is your store of value that’s both worth protecting, and can be defended through all seasons ahead.

In conversation with the OG Punk, Greg Larkin.
In this episode the Solutionists get stuck into where we’re getting stuck with automation, value and values with Punks and Pinstripes founder, Greg Larkin.

Warning : sacred cows were slaughtered.

If your organisation is overwhelmed by AI hype, struggling to tell real value from slop, or watching transformation efforts die before they start, this episode is for you. Bronwyn Williams and Sharon Pearce are joined by Greg Larkin, CEO of Punks and Pinstripes and veteran of 34 Fortune 500 product launches, for a frank conversation about why AI is…

On the future of human work and worth.

In this episode, The Solutionists talk to Siya Mnyanda from Workday about the future (or lack thereof) of jobs.

Is a job the best unit of human worth?
Is life better in or out the box?
Are we ready for life and work out the box?
And what will it take for us to develop a more human future of work that rewards value and citizenship rather than compliance and conformity?

On the future (or lack thereof) of education

Schools are failing students, employers are failing graduates, and parents are failing to ask the right questions - this episode is for business leaders worried about their talent pipeline, HR professionals frustrated by grad programs, educators fighting the system from within, and anyone who has ever wondered whether the money poured into education is producing any real return.

Bronwyn Williams and Sharon Pierce sit down with teacher and educational philosopher Esme Van Deventer to diagnose exactly how schools, systems, and societies are…

In this episode, The Solutionists unpack how and why work isn’t working for workers, employers - or customers. Along with special guest, work futurist, Reanna Brown, they unpack why “skills” won’t save jobs, how surveillance management is sacrificing outcomes (and people) for metrics and question if HR as we know it has a future at all…

But don’t worry, The Solutionists also leave you with some solutions too, on how to realign value (and values) between workers, businesses and the human beings they serve.

Transformation is a process, not a product.

In this episode Bronwyn and Sharon talk about when therapy doesn’t work, how culture is not a commodity, why transformation fails, and why what you do matters more than what you say (however much you paid an internal branding consultancy to tell you otherwise).

Stay tuned for:
- PowerPoint wastelands
- Unicorn mysteries
- Weaponised mediocrity
- Where to find missing motivation
- and more.

If you hope to “transform” anything or anyone, listen up, before you waste your shareholders’ money - and your own precious time.

In this episode The Solutionists dive deep into the productivity paradox and why measuring what does not really matter is killing your business - and your value. We also follow two brave economists into the woods, slay bullshit and buzzwords, have a quick physics lesson, and give you some solid solutions to start applying to your work place to shift from measuring metrics to delivering results.

The therapy session your workplace didn’t know it needed.

Bronwyn Williams and Sharon Pearce, the co-authors of Survive the AI Apocalypse, a guide for solutionists, are tired of treading in BS everywhere in the world of work and business. Bloat, bureaucracy, make work disguised as "efficiency", pointless meetings, overstuffed organograms, corporate cholesterol is everywhere - but everyone, from CEOs , CTOs and CHROs through to middle management and new hires seems too afraid (or too invested) to call the BS for what it is : Bullshit. - or to seem to know what to do about it.

So they…