Our Best Hope for Global Change | Faisal Naru

You're not looking for silver bullets, but you're looking for golden nuggets. And those golden nuggets could come in a failed experiment. They could come in the diagnostics that you do. But there's a permanent need inside institutions and organisations for them to be able to have this capacity to understand human behavior, whether that is the humans that they are inflicting their services on or their products on, or whether it's the human beings that are inside their own organization.

Welcome to Behavior Grooves, the podcast that explores our human condition. I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Hulahan. The voice you heard at the beginning was Faisal Nehru, who is the founder of Think Test Do, a consultancy that helps institutions and people with organizational change, policy and regulatory reform, leadership, and capacity development.

Now Prior to Think Test due, Faisal was the head of strategic management at the OECD and was the executive director of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Now he's also been a visiting professor at Cambridge and has a long, long history of contributing great ideas to the applications of behavioral science, including, Tim, including his groundbreaking work on making an inventory of behavioral science consultancies from around the world. It's great stuff. Now Kurt and I reconnected with Faisal since we first met during the pandemic in Doha, Qatar, at the BX Arabia Conference, and we wanted to check in with him on some of his current projects.

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