Celebrating 150 Episodes with Our Friends Anna Petosa & Greg Smith

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11/27/25

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Mark and Naomi celebrate their 150th episode milestone by hosting two special guests: Anna Petosa from Rock Paper People and Greg Smith the author of Safe Brave Places. The conversation covers their HR career journeys, current challenges in the profession, and the importance of community support.

Greg and Anna recently relaunched their podcast, Safe Brave Stories focusing on creating environments that are both psychologically safe and challenging, encouraging growth through shared stories and practical insights.

You can learn more about their work on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-petosa/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-smith-he-him-a8774410/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/safe-brave-spaces/

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Why Feeling Ideas Works Better Than Hearing Them with Guest Andrea Guertin

November 20, 2025

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In this week’s episode Naomi connects with Andrea Guertin who is the Founder & President of Wemaygo.

Andrea was educated in interior architecture but has spent her career in strategy. She taught management consultants how to think like designers to reinvent how they delivered their projects to clients and inspired them on how to introduce emerging technologies into their work. She has also run a design firm where she taught designers to think like consultants to grow the impact of service design work.

Now she helps leaders bring creativity to their complex problems.

You can learn more about Andrea’s work here:

https://www.wemaygo.com/

And you can follow her on LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaguertin/

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Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/
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future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/

And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/

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The Wisdom of Ignorance with Guest Alan Gregerman

December 4, 2025

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39m

In this week’s episode, Mark Edgar connects with author and business consultant Alan Gregerman who shares insights from his latest book “The Wisdom of Ignorance”. Alan provides his perspective on the dynamic world of work and what organizations should be doing to prepare their people to identify new and innovative approaches.

He shares the six skills tied to “not knowing” that can be used to help navigate uncertainty and create breakthroughs. They include being purposeful, curiosity, humility, respect, being future focused and being paranoid!

You can learn more about Alan’s work here:

https://alangregerman.com/about-alan/

And you can follow her on LinkedIn here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-gregerman-a33b236/

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