Focus

'Using psychological toughness
and faster visual planning tools
to confront the shock of the new.'


Roadmap


Offerings

Psychology

AI Shock

Outcomes Strategy


Experience

Dr Paul Duignan (M Soc Sci (Hon), MA (Applied), PhD) has a unique perspective as both a strategy and clinical psychologist. His work ranges from discussing country-level strategy with high-level policy makers, advising organizations on how to speed up their strategic planning and improve their impact by using visual planning, and working directly with leaders and others as they grapple with the human-level impacts of the technological and economic forces now sweeping through all societies.


He has held senior university research positions, been a university Honory Research Fellow, and worked in many management, consulting, clinical and other roles. These include managing research units and national research strategies. Being the director of the Labour Parliamentary Research Unit at the New Zealand Parliament. Working on the development of outcomes theory as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Consulting for organizations across nearly all public and nonprofit sectors and for international bodies such as the International Monetary Fund. His software startup achieved the highly sought-after international Gartner Cool Vendor status. He also runs a boutique psychology practice in his role as a registered clinical psychologist.


Whether it be the person in my clinic strategizing about their career in the face of AI, a team doing planning with a visual strategy model, a discussion amongst high-level decison-makers about policy responses, or citizens discussing who to vote for, sucess (or maybe just survival these days) depends on having the right strategic concepts and language, more efficient planning tools and the psychological toughness for super-fast decision-making under under uncertainty.
— Paul Duignan, PhD

Substacks

Recent posts



Media

Paul’s new book out! Smarter ways of talking about AI. Download now.

update yourself or your clients by Watching Paul’s new video on the skills AI has acquired in the last six months.


Paul’s Latest podcast, his full presentation on Eight Questions Educators Should Ask About Artificial Intelligence.

Use The cHILL tool to deal with AI-anxiety. aI is sweeping the world and causing concern for some people. here is how to chill out and deal with it.

9-minute radio clip and transcript on AI including brief discussion of some concepts from paul’s new book Surfing AI.


Workshops and webinars

We offer workshops and webinars on AI impact for companies, organisations and schools. Get in touch.


Recent Media pieces on AI and other topics


Recent short media interviews on AI. Effect of chatbots and AI on jobs, particularly white-collar jobs, on education and assessment and on how politics may be flooded with well-written propaganda.