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The DO Lectures is here to share stories of remarkable people in the hope they will inspire you to go and do amazing things too. There are over 300 talks to listen to, or if you prefer watch on our website www.thedolectures.com. Hit the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform to get the latest episodes when they come out. For our weekly curation of wonder and optimism signup to our newsletter by visiting www.thedolectures.com/newsletter.
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David Hieatt chats to one of the world's most awarded creative minds, Graham Fink, about his new course - Fink Different. Today, everything fights for our attention. If you don’t outshine the competition, you sink. Graham's online course will teach you how to stand out in this busy world. You will learn to use the extraordinary power of creativity …
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David and long-time DO Lectures friend, Duke Stump, caught up on why they think business needs to be done differently. They talk teams, soul and trust - and how the importance of these inspired Duke's unique philosophy on creating more human brands; Bonfire With Soul.Di DO Lectures
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Mark explains how he came to run a small design studio and book publishing company. He provides us with a set of practical design principles (from his handbook 5 simple steps) that he constantly comes back to, changes and refines when he's working on his own projects. Web Designer and Founder of Mark Boulton Design & Five Simple Steps Publishing Ma…
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Winky has been making photographs for as long as she can remember. She has made it her life’s work to capture the moments and moods of growing up. Living in Portland Maine with her husband and three children, Winky mostly shoots her kids, their games and the lives they lead in the West End of Portland and on Isle Au Haut, where the family spends it…
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James Victore runs an independent design studio hell-bent on world domination. He is an author, designer, filmmaker and firestarter. His paintings of expressionist designs can be seen on ceramics, surfboards, billboards and supermodels. Recently described as “part Darth Vader, part Yoda,” Victore is widely known for his timely wisdom and impassione…
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Robert is the Associate Editor of the Observer, and (among other things) the author of an acclaimed biography of PG Wodehouse, several novels, and a stroke memoir, 'My Year Off'. Currently, he is writing a short book about ageing, death and dying for baby-boomers entitled 'Every Third Thought'. It's work-in-progress, with the subtitle "Observations…
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Mara is a social innovator and entrepreneur. Her latest venture, The Flow Collective, is a multifaceted platform redefining the culture of entrepreneurship. It includes a design and tech academy that gives people the tools to solve real-world challenges, and a global incubator promoting mindfulness, diversity, and human-centred design. She has led …
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Tim lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a Creative Director of The Jupiter Drawing Room. I am a strategic creative problem solver with over 14 years of experience at some of South Africa's top creative agencies. I believe that creativity pointed in the right direction can change not only a business but the world. — Recorded live at th…
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Ella shares with us how she conquers fear and embraces bravery in a society that constantly fools us into thinking that we do not have the ability to create our own lives. The essence of a human being is to create. Ella uploaded her first YouTube video in 2011; five years later, she has become a compassionate Vegan with a mission to inspire us all …
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Ian tells us how he got through those tough moment by just being himself. We can think and look for jobs, but there is more to life than that. The world is your oyster, go grab it! Starting his career as a young club and jazz drummer, Ian then went on to joining Al Murray, Keith Keough, Stuart Warmington, and Al Kitching to found the British Drum C…
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Marion tells us that there is no such thing as right or wrong when you draw, how we should use our energy to create a network and most importantly - if all else fails why we should not give up. Marion works with major design and advertising agencies, publishes illustrated children's books and has created a much-loved style of hand-lettering. Her wo…
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Jack Harries is a Filmmaker and Photographer. He is also one half of JacksGap an online blog and video project born out of a love of travelling and storytelling. — Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2017. Watch Jack's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/jack-harries-we-are-all-good-at-fiction…
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Working with Digital Democracy to develop mobile tools and training for remote communities to document environmental contamination and human rights abuses. — Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2009. Watch Gregor's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/gregor-maclennan-how-technology-can-bare-witness…
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Michael created the concept of “Cradle to Cradle” as a young chemist and, in 2002, with his American friend Bill McDonough, the bestseller 'Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things' was published. He founded the chemistry division of Greenpeace. His first-class science mind leaves him sceptical about many popular environmental solutions. B…
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Glen Peters was born in India and grew up in a railway colony near Calcutta. He emigrated with his parents to London and took a degree in Chemistry and later a PhD in information management. In the 80’s he joined Price Waterhouse where he consulted with many of the world’s largest companies up until last year. In 1995, he and his wife began an acci…
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Margaret Mead would have loved Orren. A soulful and gifted young man who has done more to help make a positive impact by 15 than most folks do in a lifetime. — Recorded live at the global event in California, USA in 2012. Watch Orren's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/orren-fox-barefoot-bee-keeper…
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How would we behave differently if our culture mimicked that of nature? Imagine a world where the companies, cities and nature were functionally indistinguishable? As CEO of the fascinating Biomimicry 3.8 group (or as they like to say…a cast of nature circus performers), Chris reveals a new set of principles that are reshaping how we design, behave…
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How my life and the stories of those I’ve documented have taught me that our darkest time can bear the greatest rewards. That whilst we often avoid change, it's the change that enables us to grow. — Recorded live as part of our online Live Lecture Series in 2020. Watch Giles' full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/giles-duley-change-growth-and…
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International consultant in creativity and innovation in education. Kate's expertise lies in raising the profile of inspiring initiatives, with a particular focus on startups and building strong partnerships with a social purpose. Her passion lies in engaging youth voice, and through this work has been awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Educat…
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Alistair Smith has been described as “the UK’s leading trainer in modern learning methods” training educators, parents and developers in the UK and abroad. As Chair of Alite, he helps design and delivers their extensive training and development support programmes for schools. This includes the acclaimed, ‘Going to Outstanding and Beyond.’ Alistair’…
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Liz is the Director at Mittagundi, an outdoor education centre established with the belief that young people, mountains, purposeful work and challenges are natural partners. Mittagundi is situated on a 400-acre property near the old gold mining town of Glen Valley, on the Upper Mitta Mitta River, north of Omeo, in Victoria, Australia. — Recorded li…
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Neil Denny is a collaborative lawyer, trainer and author. He is the author of Conversational Riffs and The Collaborative Law Companion. His third book, Grudgeology is currently being written. He is the Director of Learning and Development for allLD Ltd. Neil has dedicated his work to equipping people to understand this thing called conflict, how it…
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Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organisational pioneer best known for his work developing Holacracy, an organisational operating system that concretely embodies the agile, transparent capacities called for in today’s turbulent times. First incubated at an award-winning fast-growth software company Brian launched at age 23 a…
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Taylor Davidson helps entrepreneurs build innovative ideas into remarkable companies, working with consumer and enterprise businesses in digital media, imagery, mobile, and more. He has invested and advised a number of early-stage startups throughout his career as a venture capitalist, consultant, advisor, and mentor. Taylor was formerly an early-s…
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Andy was appointed Director of Shopping Centre Management of Scentre Group in June 2014. Prior to the establishment of Scentre Group, he was the Director of Shopping Centre Management for Westfield Australia, since joining in October 2007. Andy was previously with FMCG company, Reckitt Benckiser for 20 years in various management roles in Canada an…
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Adam Stofsky is the founder and executive director of the New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map). Adam discovered the power of new media advocacy when working in Nigeria on a massive forced eviction case, which had been stalled in court for fourteen years. He produced a documentary, advised by local lawyers, which allowed the evictees to tell their sto…
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We are all in a pause now. How do we make sense of that and how do we make the most of it? How can we use this time constructively and creatively, to set new priorities or ask new questions? How are we responding and how else might we respond? Rob shares what he learned in writing his book ‘DO Pause’ to turn the situation of being in lockdown durin…
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James was a promising marine at the age of 20, one year later he was sentenced to 15 years to life after a deadly confrontation with a drug dealer. Prison became survival and the first few years he was in isolation, he shared a recreation yard with death row inmates, including Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams, founder of the notorious Crips gang in Los An…
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After studying at Oxford, Robert worked in a number of London best and most colourfully named advertising agencies before leaving to travel the world. He ended up in Spain, from where he never quite made it home. A serendipitous meeting (in Portland, Oregon) gave him away to make work into play (and play into work). The result was On Your Feet, whi…
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Phil Parker is an internationally renowned lecturer, therapist and innovator in the field of personal development. He has also changed the lives of thousands of people by designing the groundbreaking Lightning Process® seminars. He has been lecturing in NLP, Self-hypnosis and Hypnosis, Life Coaching and Osteopathy, at both Undergraduate and Postgra…
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As a teenager unsure of what he wanted to do, Joe opted for something manly – Engineering. Fed up with that, he jumped at the chance of a year’s work experience in Africa. Came back and moved to London. After a number of years, he knew he had to face up to what interested me most – human beings, their experiences, issues and directions in life. He …
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Tim spent more than a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, ending up as Client Services Director of the global advertising agency BBDO. He then co-founded a retail business that achieved a turnover of £17 million. Selling the business in 1992, Tim has built up a portfolio of interests. He set up, and Chairs, three Think Tanks for Chief Executives,…
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In 1981, long before the world got hooked on green juices and chia seeds, Romy opened a small natural health and beauty shop in London’s Covent Garden. And Neal’s Yard Remedies was born. She saw it decades before everyone. Now spending her time at her 300 acres mixed organic farm set in the rolling hills of East Devon. A real pioneer. — Recorded li…
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Hall Newbegin, a hiker, mushroom-forager, wildflower enthusiast and all-around wilderness freak, founded the wilderness fragrance company Juniper Ridge in December of 1998. Hall began bottling the various scents of the West by harvesting plants while on hikes and then distilling them in his kitchen to create natural fragrances that he would sell at…
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Leaving years of Zen monastic training and yet keeping the vow to carry the Bodhisattva spirit, insight and kindness, into the world and workplace was her vision and aspiration. Stepping out from a monastery into a corporate setting … unique courage. Now recognised as a pioneer in integrating the principles and practices of Buddhist teachings into …
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A breathwork session with Michael Townsend Williams, author of DO Breathe. Your breath is the connection between your mind and body. By changing your breathing, you can calm your mind, relax your body and refresh your energy levels. Michael will share a number of useful breathing techniques to manage during these difficult times. How to reset your …
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Long, slow, solo expeditions. Author. Speaker. Filmmaker. Educator. Trainee Psychotherapist. Mum to three donkeys. Sarah Outen is an adventurer by land and sea. Her most recent major expedition was a 4.5-year bid to loop the planet using human power - rowing across oceans, cycling across continents and kayaking the bits in between. An advocate of g…
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Steve Larosiliere is the Founder and President of STOKED, a youth development agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles that uses a combination of action sports (snowboarding, skateboarding, and surfing), mentoring, and after-school programs to empower teens to be successful leaders in their community. Through STOKED, Steve’s work has appeare…
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Brave meningitis boy Luca Williams was so sick his body swelled to twice his normal size at the height of his illness. Distraught parents Mo Syed and Sian Williams had never been through anything so tough in their lives, and then they had to tell their beloved son he was going to lose his limbs. The plan is that the For Luca campaign will raise £1.…
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In 2010, the radiant Maggie Doyne gave a DO Lectures talk in Cardigan, Wales that inspired us all. This year Maggie will be attending as a guest and one of her students, Anjali, will share a powerful story of finding an education, and a home, in a place where life can be rather difficult. A talk not to be missed. — Recorded live at the global event…
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Jan Stewart is passionate about quiet and expanding awareness, and sharing that consciousness in collaborative workspaces. Her fundamental passion is contributing to the evolution of consciousness and culture through service. Her expertise and passion are focused on serving customers. Jan’s work is underpinned by supporting individuals and teams to…
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With more than 200,000 children in shelters across America on any given day, Tyrone decided to do something about it and started NoAppFee.com. For this creative thinker, a career setback became a life-changer. Tyrone wanted to be a firefighter but during a training accident, he suffered a debilitating injury that cost him his dream, his health and …
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Richard Askwith is a desk-bound southern journalist – based in Northamptonshire – whose life was changed by a mid-life encounter with the unforgiving northern sport of fell-running. A decade-and-a-half of running, stumbling, shivering and getting lost in Britain’s wildest mountains provided the raw material for his best-selling book, 'Feet in the C…
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Spending over 4 years cycling around the world, 46,000 miles, 60 countries and 5 continents. Most recently Alastair walked, rowed, ran, busked, trekked to all corners of the world, including the completion of one of his pioneering micro-adventures. Being named as one of National Geographic’s 2012 Adventurers of the Year. — Recorded live at the glob…
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Michael was born in East London in 1968, left school in 1984 and never had a proper job. He started surfing in 1986 whilst living in Queensland during a six-year global wander. He returned home to study anthropology in his mid-twenties and became obsessed with war zones, waves and London. Throughout the nineties, he scratched a living by writing ab…
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An award-winning author, climber, explorer and occasional dustman. In 1987, when he was supposed to be studying to get into university, Paul Deegan discovered that Everest Base Camp had turned into a rubbish dump. So he decided to do something about it. A year later, aged 18, Paul became the world's highest dustman when he co-led a 47-strong team t…
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At the age of 13, Brad’s parents told him he could do anything he wanted with his life. He took it literally and did the thing he loved the most – whitewater kayaking. By 18 he was living his dream; he had signed on as Nike’s first sponsored whitewater kayaker, was on the cover of Outside Magazine, travelling the globe in search of first descents o…
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Tom Taylor makes things that try to delight and disrupt, usually involving software and hardware glued to the internet somehow. He likes to think of the internet as the virtual shed at the bottom of his non-existent garden. He's freelance, and one-third of the Really Interesting Group, a multi-disciplinary organisation that does 'post-digital desig…
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Euan Semple is one of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of social networking into something we can all understand. And, at the same time, learn how to get the most from it. He is a one-man digital upgrade option for us all to download. This world is changing fast, but he makes sense of it because he understands that the cor…
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Jay Rogers is a modern-day Henry Ford. He is going to change the car industry. He has created a community company that will spark a revolution in this capital and time-intensive industry. He is changing both things with a revolutionary approach to the industry. — Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2010. Watch Jay's full ta…
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