Focus
'Using psychological toughness
and faster visual planning tools
to confront the shock of the new.'™
Roadmap
Offerings
Psychology
Use the free Dr Paul’s Tools for Living for building resilience and leadership skills in the face of today’s challenges
Individual clinical psychology and leadership coaching sessions
Schedule an organizational workshop or conference presentation for insights on dealing with stress in the face of hyper-change, workplace communication, AI-related career planning, work-life balance/wellbeing.
Free self-development tools from Dr Paul’s Tools For Living substack, see below.
AI Shock
Read the new book Surfing AI: 30 New Concepts for Getting Your Head Around AI Shock book for free
Use the AI Scan: Opportunities and Risk Analyzer to predict the impact of AI on any role or organization and get concrete suggestions
Schedule a keynote presentation on individual, organizational and societal AI Shock and what to do about it
Schedule an AI Scan workshop to update your organizational AI strategy.
New articles from the AI Shock substack, see below.
Outcomes Strategy
Use the DoViewPlanning.Org website to plan and implement anything
Find multiple examples of DoView strategy diagrams and use the AI DoView drawing prompt to automatically build a free powerpoint DoView of any organization or initiative
Schedule a training workshop for your organizatio on DoView Planning
Schedule a workshop to amend a draft DoView strategy diagram of your organization for use for faster planning and implementation
New articles from the Outcomes Theory substack see below.
Experience
Dr Paul Duignan (M Soc Sci (Hon), MA (Applied), PhD) has a unique perspective from being 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, researching the impact of new technologies, and working directly with leaders and others as they grapple with the human-level impacts of the technological and economic forces upending their businesses and societies.
Duignan has held senior university research positions, been a university Honorary 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.”
Substacks
Recent posts
Media
Paul’s new book out! Smarter ways of talking about AI. Download now.
One of my videos predicting the course of AI Developments Two years ago.
Paul’s full presentation on Eight Questions Educators Should Ask About Artificial Intelligence.
As Disrupts everything, you can use the CHILL Tool to deal with AI Shock.
9-minute radio clip and transcript on AI including brief discussion of some concepts from paul’s new book Surfing AI.
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 will be flooded with well-written propaganda.
