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Influential Visions
650+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype.
Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it.
Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is…
Episodes
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S15 Ep8: “We Are Past Singularity” — Michael Tobin CBE on AI, Data Centres & Your Job
Is the public backlash against data centres fair, or are we scapegoating infrastructure for our own digital consumption? In this episode of Influential…
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S15 Ep7: How to Pivot Your Business or Career Before AI Makes the Decision for You — with Kristin Zhivago
The old rules of business did not just change, they vanished. Whether you run a company or manage your own career, relying on past playbooks in an AI-driven…
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S15 Ep6: AI Just Got a Body: The $16B Shift to Physical AI & Humanoids
Breaking news: AI just got a body. In this episode of Influential Visions, host Nat Schooler sits down with AI Robotics expert and EU Digital Ambassador…
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S15 Ep5: How to Prompt AI to Design Your Next Career Promotion (Step-by-Step)
The traditional 9-to-5 is disappearing, and with AI automating up to 70% of daily work activities, simply protecting your current role is no longer a viable…
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S15 Ep4: EU Chat Control 2.0: Is Mass Surveillance Ending Digital Privacy? | Nat Schooler & Steven J. Manning
Are your encrypted messages actually private, or is mass surveillance becoming the new normal? In this episode, host Nat Schooler is joined by business…
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S15 Ep3: The Trillion-Dollar Price of Broken Focus
Meta just disclosed in federal court that it faces up to $1.4 trillion in penalties for building addictive algorithms. If you lead a team, this is not a tech…
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S15 Ep2: Job Hopping Good or Bad? The Man Who Stayed 20 Years and Won
Steven J. Manning built a $47 billion career by doing the one thing everyone around him refused to do — staying. At 21 he went to work for a tiny company…
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S15 Ep1: Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose
Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose. US white-collar payrolls have contracted for 31 consecutive months. While tech optimists point to a…
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S14 Ep12: The Claude Fable 5 Ban, The Amazon Alarm, and the Threat of AI Brain Rot
Anthropic has disabled its top-tier models for every customer on the planet. In this episode, I detail the national security directive that forced the sudden…
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S14 Ep11: Trump Banned Claude Fable 5: Good for America or Not We Discuss
The US government just shut down access to Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after launch. Steven J. Manning joins Nathaniel…
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S14 Ep10: Sovereign AI Who Controls the Machine Controls the Future
Sovereign AI: The Geopolitical Weapon Being Built Right Now Influential Visions with Nat Schooler The foundation model era is over. The sovereign AI era has…
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S14 Ep9: China Moved Its Data Centres Into Space. Here Is What Every Leader Needs to Know
Global data centers now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. While most boardrooms treat AI as a software decision, the world's superpowers…
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S14 Ep8: Managed Decline In The UK: Why AI as Human Replacement with Darrell Mann
The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann…
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S14 Ep7: WHEN GOVERNMENTS DECIDE, CAREERS PAY THE PRICE AI, Power, and the Future of Work
Governments are making decisions about artificial intelligence right now. You were not consulted. But the consequences are heading for your career regardless…
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S14 Ep6: Chatbots Are Killing People and Nobody's Stopping Them
AI job losses in 2026 have passed 142,000 in tech alone. Chatbots have been directly linked to multiple deaths. The FDA has issued its first ever warning…
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S14 Ep5: Why India Is Winning The AI Race Nobody Is Watching | Tushar Kansal
The world's biggest AI conversation is happening without India in the room. That is a mistake. One in eight of ChatGPT's weekly users sits in India. Eighty per…
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S14 Ep4: Sovereign AI: The US vs China Money War (And Why Spending More Is Not Winning)
Sovereign AI is the race for every nation to control its own artificial intelligence — and the US versus China money war just exposed why spending more is not…
Influential VisionsS14 Ep3: Who Really Controls Your AI? The Sovereign AI Race Nobody Noticed
Who Really Controls Your AI? Two of the biggest moments in AI this year happened in the same fortnight and almost nobody noticed. Five companies quietly agreed…
Influential VisionsS14 Ep2: Governments Are Running on AI at Scale—What That Actually Means
"Governments Are Running on AI at Scale" Guest: Nicolas Babin, EU Deputy Mayor & Digital Ambassador What if I told you that your government is running on AI…
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S14 Ep1: AI in Government — Five Facts That Change the Map
Every country is running a different AI experiment on itself right now. Most people only see one of them. For five years, the AI story had four postcodes — San…
Influential VisionsS13 Ep12: The New Executive Presence [How Leaders Build Real Influence]
In this episode, I sit down with Shayna Davis, founder of the Executive Signals Group, to break down why executive presence needs a complete reframe — and what…
Influential VisionsS13 Ep11: High-Humanity Advantage: Unlock AI Career Success Beyond Your Comfort Zone
Stop signing your own resignation letter by staying comfortable.. In the Great Detachment of 2026, the only "job for life" is the one you architect yourself…
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S13 Ep10: AI is Hollowing Out Middle Management. Is Your Role Next?
AI is coming for the middle managers—here’s why that might actually be a good thing if you’re human. In this briefing, Francisco Marin (CEO of Cognitive Talent…
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S13 Ep9: AI Will Replace Weak Managers: Why Culture is Your Only Competitive Advantage
While most people fear that AI is coming for their jobs, the real disruption isn't the technology—it’s the culture behind it. In this episode, Nathaniel…
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S13 Ep8: AI-Proof Your Career: The Workplace Psychology EQ Framework
Beyond the Golden Rule with Dr. R. Karl Hebenstreit The "Golden Rule" is a career killer. Treating people "how you want to be treated" is a lazy strategy that…
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S13 Ep7: AI Career Survival 2026: The Truth About "Executive Presence" (And Why It's A Trap)
Join the 1% who survive the AI shift: Get 1/11 Seats Nat Schooler.com Is "Executive Presence" a lie in 2026? In this episode, Nat Schooler (Ex-IBM Futurist)…
Influential VisionsS13 Ep6: Future of Work 2026: Will AI Replace HR & Managers? (Survival Guide)
Is your HR career obsolescence-proof? By 2026, the "People Function" will effectively be a "Data Function." The way we manage talent today is about to be wiped…
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S13 Ep5: 300M Jobs Vanishing? How To Survive The AI Displacement w/ David Asarnow
300 million jobs will disappear by 2030. Is yours on the list? The "AI Displacement" wave is here, and middle management is the primary target. In this…
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S13 Ep4: Scale Without Hiring: The '1 CEO > 100 Staff' AI Operating Model
The greatest constraint on your company's revenue isn't capital; it is human overhead. The old playbook taught that to grow bigger, you had to hire more. That…
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S13 Ep3: Personal Branding or Unemployment? [AI Career Reality]
By 2025, 87% of global companies and 99% of Fortune 500 firms will use artificial intelligence for candidate screening, fundamentally changing the recruitment…
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S13 Ep2: Your 2025 Performance Review Will Decide If AI Replaces You (What HR Won't Tell You)
Year-end HR is chaos. Right now, professionals are facing performance reviews, retention battles, and high-stakes compensation decisions in what Nathaniel…
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S13 Ep1: A Fortune 500 HR Chief Just Revealed How to Keep Your Job in 2026
We are being told that AI will dehumanize the workplace. But Fortune 500 CHRO Donna M. Brown argues the exact opposite: AI is the only thing that can save us…
Influential VisionsS12 Ep12: Billion-Dollar CEO: Staying Irreplaceable When AI Breaks the Rules
We’ve been lied to. They say "people hate change." That is nonsense. People love change—they love new cars and vacations. What they hate is being changed by…
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S12 Ep11: Why the Chief AI Officer Is the Only ‘Safe’ Executive Role Left
The "Wild West" of AI is ending. With the EU AI Act 2026 on the horizon, the era of "move fast and break things" is being replaced by "move fast and build…
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S12 Ep10: Your AI Strategy Is Failing Because of This One Psychological Blind Spot
2/2 I host a powerhouse conversation with Katz Kiely (20+ years transformation expert, TEDx/SXSW speaker, UN/BBC/GSK advisor) and Steven J Manning…
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S12 Ep9: GM Lost $10 Billion on AI, IBM Failed, Babylon Collapsed: What They Did Wrong
1/2 $15B in AI disasters decoded. GM's Cruise, Babylon Health, IBM Watson failures reveal why human-centered transformation wins. Expert roundtable with…
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S12 Ep8: Cybersecurity Expert: "AI Is the Weapon Now, Not the Shield" (What to Do)
Cyber Defense Strategy for Executives with Lisa Ventura MBE Lisa Ventura MBE destroys the dangerous myth that AI is a cybersecurity "silver bullet"—and reveals…
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S12 Ep7: If You Don't Control Your Digital Identity by 2026, AI Will Replace You
I will be joined by business leader Steven J. Manning as we dig even deeper into this critical topic. Are we looking at 1984...we will ponder that..and the…
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S12 Ep6: Two Leaders Who Built $50B+ Reveal: How to Scale Without Losing Your Humanity to AI
How do you build a business that scales and has a soul? Tomorrow, I'm joined by two leaders who have done it: Richard Morris FRSA M.Eng C.Eng ($2.3B exit) and…
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S12 Ep5: Your Boss Is Watching: 85% of Companies Monitor You With AI (How to Stay Safe)
The corporate surveillance revolution is here. By 2025, over 85% of large corporations are using employee monitoring tools - up from just 50% before 2020. This…
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S12 Ep4: The 2030 Wealth Shift: How Global Leaders Are Preparing for the AI Economy (And How You Can Too)
Artificial intelligence is accelerating a significant concentration of economic power and reshaping industry at an unprecedented pace. In this discussion…
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S12 Ep3: The $133 Billion Identity Crisis: Why You Must Claim Your Digital Persona Now
Why Digital ID is a Huge Deal for Businesses Right Now The market for Digital ID (verifying who someone is online) is exploding. It's expected to be worth over…
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S12 Ep2: Beyond the Hype: The Single Most Critical AI Reality for CEOs
In a fascinating conversation exploring the intersection of technology, economics, politics, and social constructs, EU digital ambassador Nicolas Babin shares…
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S12 Ep1: Future Unlocked: Global Trends in Economics, Politics & Technology 2030
Step inside the boardroom with Future Unlocked, where the world’s most influential business luminaries gather for candid conversations and some roundtables…
Influential VisionsS11 Ep11: 9 CEO Hacks That Save 20 Hours a Week (And Stop AI Replacing You)
Gain insights into effective time management with these actionable productivity tips for CEOs and executives. Discover time-saving business tips and life hacks…
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S11 Ep10: Why I Ended My Other Podcast (A Journey of Focus & Productivity)
This is the story of why I shelved a successful 6-year podcast. It was a journey of relentless focus, going "lean," and optimizing for productivity. In this…
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S11 Ep9: High Performance or Digital Slavery? The Strategic Detox Every Executive Needs in 2026
In today's hyper-connected world, technology has become both a blessing and a curse, just why we explored these digital detox secrets. Digital overload is a…
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S11 Ep8: Billion-Dollar Speed: The Raw Truth on What It Actually Takes to Excel in Global Commerce
In this week's discussion, business leader Steven J. Manning shares profound insights into achieving success, productivity, and personal growth. His narrative…
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S11 Ep7: Ai Productivity Secrets From Sony's Robotics Pioneer Nicolas Babin
The executive who brought AIBO to life at Sony Europe now is an EU Digital Ambassador. Nicolas Babin reveals Ai productivity secrets/ framework that bridges…
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S11 Ep6: AI-Powered Time Management: How Top CEOs Use Technology to Multiply Their Productivity in 2025
Discover how top CEOs use **ai tools for productivity** to optimize their workflow and boost efficiency. Learn **how to manage your time** effectively and…
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S11 Ep5: The CEO’s 5-Step AI Framework to Reclaim 20 Hours a Week (Without High Tech)
Is your company's AI strategy failing? You're not alone. In this episode of Influential Visions, host Nathaniel Schooler sits down with two of the most…
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S11 Ep4: The CEO's AI Productivity Playbook: Strategies You Can Steal Right Now
Join Influential Visions host Nathaniel Schooler and special guest Nicolas Babin, EU Digital Ambassador and former Head of Sony Europe in AI and Robotics, for…
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S11 Ep3: Deep Work Mastery: A Framework for Uninterrupted Focus
In our fast-paced digital landscape, the loss of focus has become an epidemic. In this classic interview, I sit down with business leader Steven J. Manning to…
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S11 Ep2: Focus Mastery How CEOs Cut Through Digital Noise
Unlock the secrets to unstoppable focus in a world overloaded with distractions. In this exclusive premiere, ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler sits down with…
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S11 Ep1: BOOST Your Peak Performance Like a CEO!
Join me as I take on the challenge of boosting my peak performance to CEO levels in just one week! 77% of CEOs report they get enough sleep, and they are 36%…
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S10 Ep12: The Death of Free Speech: What It Really Means for Your Future
Free Speech in the Digital Age: A Critical Conversation In this powerful episode of Influential Visions, Nathaniel Schooler and Steven J. Manning dive deep…
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S10 Ep11: The New Gatekeepers: Who Controls Speech in the Age of Algorithms and TikTok?
Are you ready to dive into one of the most thought-provoking discussions of the year? Join me Nathaniel Schooler today, along with distinguished guests Michael…
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S10 Ep10: You Have 18 Months: Why the 2026 Skills Gap Crisis Is Your Biggest Career Threat
The world of work is undergoing an unprecedented transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements and evolving global demands. At the heart of this…
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S10 Ep9: Beyond the "Smart Home": How Domestic AI Is Reshaping Your Daily Life Right Now
What will your home look like in 2025? Join me, Ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, as I interview AI Expert and EU Digital Ambassador Nicolas Babin to uncover the…
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S10 Ep8: Goldman Sachs Says 300 Million Jobs Could Vanish to AI | How Will This Affect You
Goldman Sachs estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by this fast-growing technology. Yes AI. You cannot ignore AI, try as hard as you like to…