Psychology
Individuals need new tools and psychological strategies as they face the current unprecedented pace of change.
Duignan brings a unique combination of being a strategy and clinical psychologist leveraging his clinical skills together with his extensive experience working in very high pressure organizational settings.
Focuses on helping top leaders and other navigate high-pressure roles, major life transitions, and problems that do not have easy answers.
AI Shock
AI has now moved from a standard new technology to a overwhelming force reshaping work and society.
This has resulted in the ‘social singluarity’ where social institutions can no longer respond fast enough.
Duignan’s new book Surfing AI develops new ways of thinking for smarter strategic, business, psychological and social responses to AI.
AI challenges at the economical, businesss, organizaton and at the indiidual existential level. identity.
Outcomes/Strategy
Today’s central organizational challenge is speeding up the planning and implementation and innovation cycle.
Working with hundreds of organizations in different settings Duignan developed outcomes theory and DoView Planning.
These approaches extract the strategic logic of organizations and initiatives and represent it in the form of hands-on very accessible visual models.
These work as ‘visual shared thinking tools’ speeding up all organizational and societal level strategic decision-making
Synergistic strategy psychology approach
These areas of expertise work synergistically to:
Reduce cognitive load on leaders and teams dealing with rapid change
Get strategy out of people's heads and documents and into shared visual models that distributed teams can actually work with (directly analogous to using blueprint plans in construction and maps for military planning)
Provide faster ways to specify and align on strategic intent in conditions of high uncertainty
Apply outcomes theory as a framework for taking action that works equally for human action, AI action, and hybrid combinations of both
Provide psychological coping tools for individuals as AI-accelerated work and life demands push many people to breaking point.
Psychology
psychology tools
Psychology Tools
Dr Paul’s Tools for Living for use by individuals, coaches, clinicans practical tools
Seeing individual clients
Provides practical tools which can be applied in real world settings at the organizational and individual level.AI Shock
Surfing AI new concepts, The AI Scan Risk and Opportunity Analyzer
He provides media commentary, presenting at conferences and consulting on smarter high-levels organizational and societal AI strategic responses
Outcomes/Strategy
Outcomes theory and DoView Planning high-level consluting on organizations wanting to use DoView planning to speed up their planning, implemetation and innovation cycles.
Background
Duignan (MSocSci(Hon), MA(Applied), PhD) has worked in many management, consulting, research, clinical and university roles. These include managing research units and national research strategies and as well as serving as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. He has consulted for organizations across nearly all public and nonprofit sectors and for international bodies such as the International Monetary Fund. His software startup achieved internation Gartner Cool Vendor status. He is also a registered clinical psychologist.
Paul’s new book out! Smarter ways of talking about AI. Download now.
update yourself or your clients by Watching Paul’s new video on the skills AI has acquired in the last six months.
Paul’s Latest podcast, his full presentation on Eight Questions Educators Should Ask About Artificial Intelligence.
Use The cHILL tool to deal with AI-anxiety. aI is sweeping the world and causing concern for some people. here is how to chill out and deal with it.
9-minute radio clip and transcript on AI including brief discussion of some concepts from paul’s new book Surfing AI.
Workshops and webinars
We offer workshops and webinars on AI impact for companies, organisations and schools. Get in touch.
Recent Media pieces on AI and other topics
Recent short media interviews on AI. Effect of chatbots and AI on jobs, particularly white-collar jobs, on education and assessment and on how politics may be flooded with well-written propaganda.
