Influential Visions
by Nat Schooler - Business Futurist
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650+ conversations with global executives. Unfiltered. No hype.
Hosted by ex-IBM Futurist Nat Schooler, Influential Visions is the show for leaders and professionals who need to understand what is actually happening in business, AI, and the future of work — and what to do about it.
Every episode is a direct conversation with the people overseeing tens of billions in commerce. Leadership, strategy, AI, geopolitical shifts, digital transformation — decoded for people who need to act on what is coming.
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- S15 Ep8: “We Are Past Singularity” — Michael Tobin CBE on AI, Data Centres & Your Job · 44 min · Season 15 Episode 8Is the public backlash against data centres fair, or are we scapegoating infrastructure for our own digital consumption? In this episode of Influential Visions, Nat Schooler sits…
- S15 Ep7: How to Pivot Your Business or Career Before AI Makes the Decision for You — with Kristin Zhivago · 21 min · Season 15 Episode 7The old rules of business did not just change, they vanished. Whether you run a company or manage your own career, relying on past playbooks in an AI-driven economy is a fast…
- S15 Ep6: AI Just Got a Body: The $16B Shift to Physical AI & Humanoids · 34 min · Season 15 Episode 6Breaking news: AI just got a body. In this episode of Influential Visions, host Nat Schooler sits down with AI Robotics expert and EU Digital Ambassador Nicolas Babin to explore…
- S15 Ep5: How to Prompt AI to Design Your Next Career Promotion (Step-by-Step) · 33 min · Season 15 Episode 5The traditional 9-to-5 is disappearing, and with AI automating up to 70% of daily work activities, simply protecting your current role is no longer a viable strategy. In this…
- S15 Ep4: EU Chat Control 2.0: Is Mass Surveillance Ending Digital Privacy? | Nat Schooler & Steven J. Manning · 33 min · Season 15 Episode 4Are your encrypted messages actually private, or is mass surveillance becoming the new normal? In this episode, host Nat Schooler is joined by business strategist Steven J…
- S15 Ep3: The Trillion-Dollar Price of Broken Focus · 5 min · Season 15 Episode 3Meta just disclosed in federal court that it faces up to $1.4 trillion in penalties for building addictive algorithms. If you lead a team, this is not a tech story — it is an…
- S15 Ep2: Job Hopping Good or Bad? The Man Who Stayed 20 Years and Won · 35 min · Season 15 Episode 2Steven J. Manning built a $47 billion career by doing the one thing everyone around him refused to do — staying. At 21 he went to work for a tiny company heading toward…
- S15 Ep1: Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose · 21 min · Season 15 Episode 1Why New AI Roles Won't Fill the Jobs We're About to Lose. US white-collar payrolls have contracted for 31 consecutive months. While tech optimists point to a projected 78…
- S14 Ep12: The Claude Fable 5 Ban, The Amazon Alarm, and the Threat of AI Brain Rot · 10 min · Season 14 Episode 12Anthropic has disabled its top-tier models for every customer on the planet. In this episode, I detail the national security directive that forced the sudden shutdown, the…
- S14 Ep11: Trump Banned Claude Fable 5: Good for America or Not We Discuss · 43 min · Season 14 Episode 11The US government just shut down access to Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, days after launch. Steven J. Manning joins Nathaniel Schooler to close…
- S14 Ep10: Sovereign AI Who Controls the Machine Controls the Future · 5 min · Season 14 Episode 10Sovereign AI: The Geopolitical Weapon Being Built Right Now Influential Visions with Nat Schooler The foundation model era is over. The sovereign AI era has begun. Every…
- S14 Ep9: China Moved Its Data Centres Into Space. Here Is What Every Leader Needs to Know · 7 min · Season 14 Episode 9Global data centers now consume more electricity than the entire United Kingdom. While most boardrooms treat AI as a software decision, the world's superpowers are realizing the…
- S14 Ep8: Managed Decline In The UK: Why AI as Human Replacement with Darrell Mann · 40 min · Season 14 Episode 8The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann knows exactly what…
- S14 Ep7: WHEN GOVERNMENTS DECIDE, CAREERS PAY THE PRICE AI, Power, and the Future of Work · 9 min · Season 14 Episode 7Governments are making decisions about artificial intelligence right now. You were not consulted. But the consequences are heading for your career regardless. This series brings…
- S14 Ep6: Chatbots Are Killing People and Nobody's Stopping Them · 11 min · Season 14 Episode 6AI job losses in 2026 have passed 142,000 in tech alone. Chatbots have been directly linked to multiple deaths. The FDA has issued its first ever warning letter citing AI misuse…
- S14 Ep5: Why India Is Winning The AI Race Nobody Is Watching | Tushar Kansal · 30 min · Season 14 Episode 5The world's biggest AI conversation is happening without India in the room. That is a mistake. One in eight of ChatGPT's weekly users sits in India. Eighty per cent of Indian…
- S14 Ep4: Sovereign AI: The US vs China Money War (And Why Spending More Is Not Winning) · 8 min · Season 14 Episode 4Sovereign AI is the race for every nation to control its own artificial intelligence — and the US versus China money war just exposed why spending more is not winning. Fresh data…
- S14 Ep3: Who Really Controls Your AI? The Sovereign AI Race Nobody Noticed · 6 min · Season 14 Episode 3Who Really Controls Your AI? Two of the biggest moments in AI this year happened in the same fortnight and almost nobody noticed. Five companies quietly agreed to let the US…
- S14 Ep2: Governments Are Running on AI at Scale—What That Actually Means · 13 min · Season 14 Episode 2"Governments Are Running on AI at Scale" Guest: Nicolas Babin, EU Deputy Mayor & Digital Ambassador What if I told you that your government is running on AI systems that operate…
- S14 Ep1: AI in Government — Five Facts That Change the Map · 8 min · Season 14 Episode 1Every country is running a different AI experiment on itself right now. Most people only see one of them. For five years, the AI story had four postcodes — San Francisco…
