Change is happening all the time and faster and faster, part of what we're trying to help people do is internalize that understand what does it mean to accept that and then to depart from there on your developmental path.

It's not about getting through any one change. It's not about any one critical moment. It's about all the moments that will come.

Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today we welcome Gabriela Kellerm into the show. Gabriela is the Chief Innovation Officer at Better Up and the Head of Better Up Alabs.

She is also a Harvard-trained physician with expertise in behavioral and organizational change, digital health, well-being, and AI.

As a thought leader, Gabriela has been published in the Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, JAMA, and the Harvard Business Review.

Her first book is called Tomorrow Mind, which she co-authored with Professor Martin Seligman.

In this episode I talked to Gabriela Kellerm in about prospection and future-proofing the workplace in the 21st century.

According to Gabriela, the 21st century is always changing and she argues that we can plan for uncertainty by cultivating creative leadership,

building rapid rapport, and learning resilience. We also touch on the topics of imagination, kindness, and positive behavioral science.

It was great fun to nerd out with my friend Gabriela about imagination, prospection, creativity, and other awesome skills that I like to study as well,

which we can infuse in the workplace to really help everyone deal with the growing and rapid uncertainty we're facing in our lives right now.

So without further ado, I bring you Gabriela Kellerm in.

Gabriela Kellerm in, so great to have you on the podcast.

It's great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

So congratulations on your new book Tomorrow Mind, thriving at work with resilience, creativity, connection, now, and in an uncertain future.

It's quite the subtitle there.

You co-authored this with Martin Seligman, Martin EP Seligman. How did that collaboration come about?

Yeah, so about five years ago, Alexi Robeshow, the CEO of Butterup asked me to start Butterup Labs.

As you know, it's a lab where we are looking to develop and accelerate development of the knowledge base of how to build critical skills that we need to thrive in our personal professional lives today at the overlap of the two.

And the person that I most wanted to work with in that endeavor was Marty's obviously been working on these problems his whole career, his writing and works been influential for me.

It's been influential for Alexi for so many of us at Butterup and we made the pilgrimage out to Philadelphia to meet with him and pitch him the idea.

And I think he understood the potential for this to be what he calls the Bell Labs of Positive Psychology, which is still something we're trying to live up to.

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