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Bob Johansen has spent the past 50 years studying the impact of technology on humans and our society. With a deep background in faith coming from divinity school and a fascination with world religions, Bob does a masterful job of helping us think about the way religion can help us cope with a rapidly changing world, and the way religion may have to change to be relevant in the future.
Meet the Speakers:
Host: Gilad Berenstein Is currently working in venture capital in Seattle after founding and leading a successful travel personalization startup and serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Gilad holds masters and undergraduate degrees from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Speaker: Bob Johansen is a distinguished fellow with the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley. For more than 50 years, Bob has helped organizations around the world prepare for and shape the future, including corporations such as P&G, Walmart, United Rentals, and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as a range of major universities and nonprofits.
Bob is the author or co-author of 15 books, including Get There Early, The New Leadership Literacies, and Full-Spectrum Thinking, Office Shock, and The Reciprocity Advantage. In 2025, he co-authored the 3rd edition of Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI (with Jeremy Kirshbaum and Gabe Cervantes) and Navigating the Age of Chaos (with Jamais Cascio and Angela F. Williams). Bob’s books are used widely in corporations, universities, nonprofits, and at the Army War College.
In 2016, Bob was named the H. Smith Richardson Jr. Visiting Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership. Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois, which he attended on a basketball scholarship, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University—as well as a master’s degree focused on world religions. Bob is currently working on a new book tentatively titled “Generating Faith in the Future,” with Bishop Andy Doyle and GenAI artist Jeremy Kirshbaum.
Recent books by Bob Johansen:
- Leaders Make the Future: 10 New Skills to Humanize Leadership with Generative AI, 3rd edition
- Navigating the Age of Chaos: A Sense-Making Guide to a World that Doesn’t Make Sense (pre-orders)
Views and opinions expressed by podcast guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the view of AI and Faith or any of its leadership.
Production: Pablo Salmones and Penny Yuen
Host: Gilad Berenstein
Guest: Bob Johansen
Editing: Isabelle Braconnot
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