April Rinne is a “change navigator,” speaker, investor, and adventurer whose work and travels in more than 100 countries have given her a front-row seat to a world in flux. She is one of the 50 leading female futurists in the world, a Harvard Law School graduate, a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is also a trusted advisor to well-known startups and companies, financial institutions, nonprofits, think tanks, and governments worldwide.
Earlier in life she was a global development executive, an international microfinance lawyer, and a hiking guide. She spent nearly four years traveling solo (with a backpack and a shoestring budget) to better understand how to help shape a more inclusive, equitable world.
From her varied and vast experiences, she developed her concept of Flux—how to adopt a mindset that thrives in our world's pace of constant change. In this episode, she'll share with us the eight mental shifts you need to make to thrive in a state of constant change, and why you should not try to run fast, but instead run slower.
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"The flux mindset, you just nailed it, because one of the ways I'll define it is: It is the state of mind or the ability to see every change whether it's good or bad, loved or hated, unwelcomed or unexpected as an opportunity, as a means of growing and improving even the hard stuff, it’s not a threat but to be able to harness those silver linings."
-April Rinne
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Episode Timeline:
00:00—Introducing April + The topic of today’s episode
1:48—If you really know me, you know that...
2:15—What is your definition of strategy?
2:53—What got you interested in strategy?
3:47—Could you describe the flux mindset?
5:00—Why does a strategist need to get their head around to build their awareness about a flux mindset?
5:48— Can an organization or a sector or community also have a mindset?
7:09—What's the right perspective to approach flux from?
9:18—Could you explain the concept of slowing down, even if the world is accelerating?
11:14—What are some of the other eight superpowers that we should be mindful of?
13:30—Could you tell us more about the superpower of scenario planning?
15:10—What do people usually get wrong?
16:52—What's some advice or something you wish you had learned earlier?
19:28—Where can people find you and connect with you and learn from you?
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Additional Resources:
Flux website: https://fluxmindset.com/what-is-a-flux-mindset
Personal website: https://aprilrinne.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilrinne/
#18—April Rinne: Navigating Continual Change with the Flux Mindset