Season 46
The Global Interview Season 46 featuring creatives, leaders, and thinkers.
“If you don't know the answer to something, don't pretend you do.”
Barnaby Taylor
Barnaby Taylor
Lecturer in Film and Creative Media, Dublin Business School
Barnaby is an experienced creative media scholar constantly developing collaborative teaching environments in which theory and practice combine to create dynamic opportunities for individual storytelling. He is alive to new possibilities and always looking for ways to reconsider existing paradigms, frameworks and methodologies. He sees challenges as reasons to grow and flourish in collaborative environments. The pandemic has taught him that he will never stop learning.
“Empathy and creativity are some of the most important skills that humanity possesses, especially in an age increasingly dominated by technology.”
Niall O'Driscoll
Niall O'Driscoll
CEO, vStream
As Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder of vStream, Niall works at the cutting edge of designing and developing new patient-centric platforms using virtual and augmented reality technology. These platforms use psychoeducation and neuroeducation techniques. To empower patients and form part of digital therapy techniques to reduce stress and increase adherence to medication administration. In addition, the platforms represent the patient's point-of-view to address issues of empathy between patients and health-care professionals, as well as family, friends and careers, also addressing mental health issues such as feelings of isolation.
“Vanessa believes that through blockchain technology, we can use the future to rewrite the cultural wrongs of the past.”
Dr. Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat
Dr. Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat
Founding Cultural Chair, Walking Between Worlds
Dr Vanessa Lee-Ah Mat (PhD) is a First Peoples Australian with over 25 years of experience in cultural brokering and governance. Facilitating between the different layers of culture for groups of people, not-for-profit organisations, businesses, government, communities, tribes, clan groups, digital worlds, and ethnic, sex, gender and racial groups. Through her leadership, Dr Lee-Ah Mat bridges the cultural divide to determine a smooth interaction to achieve outcomes which ensure Indigenous people, LGBT, and women, globally maintain their sovereign rights.
“Passion and purpose are both significant multipliers of human potential.”
Jamil Qureshi
Jamil Qureshi
Speaker, Entrepreneur, Author, Business Owner
Jamil Qureshi is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance-enhancing psychology and is an expert in high-performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the world's most talented business and sports people and teams, helping six individuals get to World Number 1. In 2006, captain Ian Woosnam appointed him as the first-ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team. They made history by winning by a record-equalling margin. Jamil has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including Lee Westwood, Paul McGinley, Graeme McDowell, Darren Clarke, Paul Casey, Thomas Bjorn, Sergio Garcia and two world number one's.
“Business is so much more satisfying when you are pleasant to deal with, and a good reputation is a treasure.”
Milly Johnson
Milly Johnson
Author, Simon and Schuster
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 19 published novels (to date), four short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and is an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper and magazine columnist and a seasoned after-dinner speaker. She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture in 2015 and the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020.
“Surround yourself with positive people who work hard, enjoy life, are kind and decent and get things done.”
Niall MacCarthy
Niall MacCarthy
Managing Director, Cork Airport (daa plc)
Niall MacCarthy is Managing Director of Cork Airport, the second largest airport in the Republic of Ireland, with an extensive route network which comprised pre-COVID, 50 routes with nine scheduled airlines. The airport handled 2.6m passengers in 2019. After a very difficult two years of COVID-19, Cork Airport is forecast to process over 2 million passengers in 2022, which represents over seven times the passenger traffic handled in 2021. This represents a very strong 77% recovery to pre-pandemic traffic, which exceeds European airport forecasts for 2022.