Creating Digital People – A Conversation with Dr. Mark Sagar, Co-Founder of Soul Machines

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Double Academy Award winner Dr. Mark Sagar is the CEO and co-founder of Soul Machines – the world leader in humanizing AI to create astonishing Digital People. Driven by deep research into neuroscience, psychology and cognitive science- they create autonomous, hyper realistic, digital characters with whom we can interact like…

 

A Conversation with Noreena Hertz on Loneliness and How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart.

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In her new book THE LONELY CENTURY: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart, renowned thinker and economist Noreena Hertz investigates how radical changes to the workplace, mass migration to cities, technology’s ever greater dominance of our lives, and decades of neoliberal policies that placed self-interest…

 

A Conversation With Ziya Tong on How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths That Shape Our World.

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Ziya Tong is one of the world’s most engaging science journalists. In her new book, The Reality Bubble she takes a ground-breaking look at the hidden things that shape our lives in unexpected, dangerous and profound ways. Ziya Tong serves on the Board of the WWF, and is Vice Chair…

 

A Conversation with Adam Grant on Why We Need to Think Again, About Everything.

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In his latest book Think Again, Adam Grant - Wharton's top-rated professor and #1 bestselling author - offers bold ideas and rigorous evidence to show how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, encourage others to rethink topics as wide-ranging as abortion and climate change, and build schools, workplaces,…

 

A Conversation with Gad Saad on Parasitic Ideas and the War Against Truth.

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Dr. Gad Saad is a remarkable public intellectual. Alongside hosting the Saad Truth (his hugely popular YouTube show) he is Professor of Marketing at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and former holder of the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption. In addition to his scientific work,…

 

On Race: A Conversation with Dexter Dias QC

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Dexter Dias QC is an award-winning international human rights lawyer who has acted in some of the most high-profile cases in recent years involving freedom of expression, murder, crimes against humanity, terrorism, FGM and genocide.  He is a prize-winning scholar of Cambridge University, where he remains a Visiting Researcher, and…

 

A Conversation with John Kavanagh; One of the World’s Best MMA Coaches

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
“I earn my living from coaching people how to fight….” Writes John Kavanagh in the opening of his book Win or Learn.  He continues “…it may come as a surprise, therefore, to learn that until I was in my early twenties, I was terrified of fighting. I hated arguing, shouting,…

 

A Conversation with Penn Jillette

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
For over 40 years Penn & Teller have defied labels—and at times physics and good taste– by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy. Penn Jillette is the magician, actor, musician, inventor, television personality, and author who forms half of this incredible and…

 

A Conversation with Jocko Willink, Ret. U.S. Navy Seal Officer

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Jocko Willink is a retired US Navy SEAL officer, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Dichotomy of Leadership, host of the top-rated Jocko Podcast, and co-founder of Echelon Front, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer, leadership instructor, speaker and…

 

A Conversation with Brian Grazer – Film Producer & Renaissance Man

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Brian Grazer is a true renaissance man, he is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy award-winning producer and #1 New York Times bestselling author. His films and television shows have been nominated for 43 Oscars® and 195 Emmys and he won the Best Picture Oscar for A Beautiful Mind.   Grazer has been…

 

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Leadership sits at the very heart of everything we do as a civilisation, and to understand more we spoke to a group of the world’s foremost experts on leadership across the military, business, government education and research: General Stan McChyrstal (Founder, McChrystal Group & former commander of US and International…

 

October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Research has shown that evolution has created the psychological mechanisms which have enabled, and emboldened the spread of faux-intellectual movements (anti-vaccination, climate-deniers) and which can explain most of our deep rooted preferences, beliefs, and consumption instincts. To learn more, I spoke to Dr. Gad Saad a professor, evolutionary behavioural scientist,…