We bring Season One of Transforming Tomorrow to a close with Jan answering some of the questions that have come up during previous episodes. Three big topics are covered.

We take a deeper look at externalities, which have been mentioned several times. Jan explains what they are, and how (not a matter of when) they can be internalised. Jan lays out the case for business to know about externalities and do something proactive to address them before someone else internalises them for you.

Jan also reflects on how the EU creates social and environmental effects outside of its borders and why it is important to know that this can happen.

Justice – in its many forms – has also come up in many of our episodes, and Jan gives a taster of what it involves. Spoiler alert: there are many elements to justice.

Plus, a sneak peek at what is coming up in Season Two.

Find details on the Frontiers of Justice book Jan mentions here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674024106)

And the paper on justice and earth systems is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01064-1

Paul and Jan return to Australia, as Professor Nick Barter, from Griffith University, takes us through ‘future normal’.

Nick discusses the origins of the phrase from his time working with industry while completing his PhD with Jan at the University of St Andrews. And he dives into the eight questions to create businesses your children will be proud of that are the focus of his book.

Covering topics from corporate direction-setting and vision to culture and language, learning from nature, and enabling others, Nick talks to us about how companies can change to be part of a world they want to live in.

Find out more about Future Normal here: https://futurenormal.net/

It’s a full house in the studio as Jan and Paul welcome Dr Elisavet Christou and Violet Owen to enlighten them on the world of creative evaluation.

They are co-authors of the Little Book of Creative Evaluation, and explain just what Creative Evaluation is, and how it can be used across many disciplines, giving examples of how they have seen it applied.

Elisavet and Violet discuss their EViD tool, which helps people with their evaluation processes; the value of hearing from many different voices, the importance of design, and why evaluation is so much more than a tick-box exercise.

Jan gets to talk benchmarking again. And is Paul right to be worried that the team are secretly being evaluated the whole time?

Check out the Little Book of Creative Evaluation here: https://creativeevaluation.uk/

And read a little more about the work here: https://doc.your-brochure-online.co.uk/Lancaster-University_FiftyFourDegrees_Issue_20/34/