Catching North Stars
Claim This Podcastby Alexis Halkovic
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<p>I created this podcast with the vision of engaging in meaningful conversation with individuals who have identified their core values and have created successful business and/or careers that are rooted firmly in those values. As a consultant and executive and leadership coach and a social psychologist, my mission is to help organizations and people align their values with both their careers and their lives. As such, Catching North Stars is a way for me to identify folks who are creating meaningful work and to share their journeys and successes with others. My goals for the podcast are: 1) to learn and share with others how deep purpose can be transformed into meaningful work; 2) to shine a light on the work of inspirational individuals; 3) to use an Organizational Psychology lens to focus on areas addressing work and workplace issues; and 4) to engage in questions about the meaning of the work and its potential impact on society. I hope the journeys of my guests will inspire you as much as they inspire me! </p><p>With great respect, Alexis Halkovic, PhD</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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6/5/2024
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Recent Episodes
June 26, 2026
Things with Layers: Branded Selves, Broken Politics, and the Cost of Losing Friction with Jose Marichal
Jose Marichal has spent two decades studying what social media has done to politics — not just how campaigns use it, but what it's done to the way people relate to each other and to their own sense of political identity. In this conversation, Alexis and Jose trace a line from the early Facebook groups of the Obama campaign to the concept of "ontological enclosure" — Jose's term for the algorithmically constructed environment that walls off dissent and mistakes that narrowing for freedom. They also get into philosopher Byung-Chul Han's distinction between "things" (layered, resistant, worth sitting with) and "non-things" (smooth, optimized, immediately digestible), and what it means that we're building platforms — and selves — that reward the second kind. Jose's key provocation: the work of politics has always required moving someone 10% toward your position, and we've built an entire media environment that makes that feel both harder and less satisfying than simply performing rightness.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 29, 2026
Hyperadaptive and Human: Envisioning the Future of Work, Deliberately with Melissa Reeve
<p>In this episode, I sit down with Melissa Reeve to talk about her up-coming book, Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI Native. We cover a lot of ground, including: how Melissa become inspired to write this book (spoiler alert - she's got a deep history with lean manufacturing, scaling agile, learning organizations and more that informs her thinking). Melissa's take is optimistic and urgently important. She sees possibility in human curiosity and creativity and she frames her thinking from a systems-perspective. If organizations want to develop through this new AI era, they are going to need to change in substantial ways. This requires mechanisms for expertise to be shared in a bi-directional way and for organizations to flatten their hierarchical structures. Luckily, we have Melissa's framework to help guide us through this. </p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 7, 2026
Riding the Sand Worm: Thriving through Tech Disruption with Crystal Street
<p>In the first episode of our second season, we switch our attention to the elephant in the room - AI and other major tech incursions. I have subtitled this season, "Being Cyborgs," borrowing from Donna Haraway's important essay, "the Cyborg Manifesto," which speaks to this moment in ways I am sure Haraway did not anticipate. </p><p>I sit down with journalist and block-chain innovator, Crystal Street, to discuss the ways she is working with AI to build infrastructure to enable true intellectual sovereignty for those who are losing their careers as AI encroaches on all kinds of thought work. We talk transformation and survival, sand worms, Tantra, and ways of subverting big tech. </p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is Catching North Stars?
<p>I created this podcast with the vision of engaging in meaningful conversation with individuals who have identified their core values and have created successful business and/or careers that are rooted firmly in those values. As a consultant and executive and leadership coach and a social psychologist, my mission is to help organizations and people align their values with both their careers and their lives. As such, Catching North Stars is a way for me to identify folks who are creating meaningful work and to share their journeys and successes with others. My goals for the podcast are: 1) to learn and share with others how deep purpose can be transformed into meaningful work; 2) to shine a light on the work of inspirational individuals; 3) to use an Organizational Psychology lens to focus on areas addressing work and workplace issues; and 4) to engage in questions about the meaning of the work and its potential impact on society. I hope the journeys of my guests will inspire you as much as they inspire me! </p><p>With great respect, Alexis Halkovic, PhD</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates bi-weekly.
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