In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.

They discuss:

• What guiding space missions has taught Lindy about successful teams
• Why you have to balance being an individual star against getting the most out of your team
• Why leaders need to think beyond being the ‘best person in the room’
• What individuals can do to make themselves great team players
• When ‘calmness’ is an underrated quality when it comes to driving productivity
• Why leaders need a vision (and why everyone in the room can be a leader)

Host:

Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her most recent Working it Out: Getting Ready for the Redefined World of Work (2023), she is also a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail and the Host of podcast ‘Work and the Future’.

As a sought-after keynote speaker, Linda’s audiences have spanned a range of audiences and have included clients such as The Economist Magazine, LVMH, American Express, and the Bank of Montreal all of whom have benefitted from the way that she can take huge ideas and distill them into information that organizations can use for their own strategic planning purposes.

Guest:

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is the Principal Investigator(lead)of the NASA Psyche mission, Director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, and co-founder of Beagle Learning, a tech company training and measuring collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. Her research concerns terrestrial planetary formation and evolution, and shepromotes and practices inquiry and exploration learning.

Elkins-Tanton received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT. She was a researcher at Brown University, faculty at MIT, a director at the Carnegie Institution for Science and at Arizona State University before moving to UC Berkeley.

Elkins-Tanton has led four field expeditions in Siberia. She is co-chair of the forthcoming NAS report A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars (2025), served on the Planetary Decadal Survey Mars panel, and the Mars 2020 Rover Science Definition Team, and the Europa Clipper Standing Review Board. In 2010 she was awarded the Explorers Club Lowell Thomas prize. Asteroid (8252) Elkins-Tanton is named for her, as is the mineral elkinstantonite. In 2013 she was named the Astor Fellow at Oxford University. She published the bookEarth, co-authored with Jeffrey Cohen,in 2017. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and of the American Mineralogical Society,the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2021 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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