Thinking Ahead
about leadership and culture.
Carter Phipps is a visionary writer, business futurist, and evolutionary. He is the host of the Thinking Ahead podcast, co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Conscious Leadership, author of Evolutionaries, and co-founder of the Institute for Cultural Evolution

“Do you want to know how to grow spiritually as a leader? This is the book for you.”
— The Financial Times, “Fall Book Picks” 2020

Thinking Ahead Podcast
Your world is evolving—find out how with Carter Phipps, co-author of Conscious Leadership. He’s an optimist, a generalist, and an integrative thinker. Now he has an excuse for his insatiable book-buying habit—a show that explores the movements, trends, people, and ideas that are shaping the future. Through in-depth interviews and occasional rants and reflections, the show explores the many subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways that the world is changing and developing across a vast array of domains—from business and politics to science and technology to consciousness and spirituality.
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Christopher Leonard: Did the Fed and Easy Money Break the American Economy?
If you’ve followed this podcast for a while, you’ll know that I’m something of an economics nerd, and occasionally I...
How to Foster Innovation and Create Value
The following is excerpted from my 2020 book Conscious Leadership, coauthored with John Mackey and Steve McIntosh...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Can the Politics of Urban Infrastructure Transcend NIMBYism and Polarization?
“This airport is f—ing insane.” The message flashed across my phone at 11PM Pacific Time. “Yeah it is!” I texted back...
Carter Phipps on Inside Personal Growth
One of the core points we make in Conscious Leadership is that great leaders continually learn and grow. I really...
Strategies to Become a More Thoughtful, Conscious Leader
Conscious Company magazine published this in-depth interview about finding purpose and building a conscious leadership...
Remarkable Leadership Podcast
A great conversation with Kevin Eikenberry in which we discuss how to put purpose first, and why love should be part...
Carter Phipps on Life As Leadership
I really enjoyed this conversation with Josh Friedeman, in which we discuss many of the core themes of Conscious...
Revitalize Your Mind, Body, and Spirit: Conscious Leadership Excerpt
Thrive Global, founded by Arianna Huffington, published an excerpt from Conscious Leadership on the importance of...
FT Selects Conscious Leadership as Fall Book Pick
Just ahead of its Sept 15 release, Conscious Leadership has been selected by the FT as one of their "Fall Book Picks."...
Adam Grant’s “Fall Idea Books to Teach You Something New”
Proud to have Conscious Leadership included in this list. Adam says: The Whole Foods founder is living proof that we...
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