This is my live keynote speech delivered at the Safeguard 2019 Conference.  The theme of the conference was Dare to Disrupt.  That was an idea which I respectfully disagreed with and explained why in the opening keynote when I encouraged the audience, and you, to go disrupt yourself. 

I don't think this interview needs much introduction, except to say one thing: if you are inclined to turn off because the words innovation or entrepreneurialism seem too fluffy or not relevant to you, stick with this: you'll be surprised like I was. 

Here's today's guest, Liz Jackson:

I, like you, have been spending a lot of time in the same workplace for a while now, my home office.  And yet despite the amount of time I spend here, it was only recently that something struck me when I saw things that had been there the whole time but hadn't recognised for what they are.  My space, and probably yours, are filled with theatre props - the things which bring our professional performance to life. 

Rory Gallagher is the Asia Pacific Director of the Behavioural Insights Team, and a founding member of it's parent organisation within the British Government.  This work as always fascinated me, ever since I read the book Nudge, based on Nobel Prize winning work by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. 

Have you ever thought, 'well that person's response or behaviour or inion surprised me, because it didn't seem logical or rational?'.  That curiosity is at the heart of this idea that heaps of government policy, regulation and regulatory activity, system design and economic theory is based on flawed assumptions about humans and behaviour.  Sound familiar, health and safety?

This is a juicy episode, I hope you squeeze lots from it, here's Rory Gallagher: