1️⃣ New Podcast Episode: The school system isn’t broken. It’s just not built for this.
A new episode of the Elephants in the Boardroom is live, and this month’s guest is our very own Jude Foulston. The conversation opens with a harder question than most: are we doing more harm by sticking with the school system we know than by trying something different?
Jude shares what she’s learned from working with schools and parents around the world and from her own family’s year of learning differently. If you’re raising kids, teaching them, or hiring them, this one is worth your time. Listen to the full episode here…
2️⃣ Same AI. Same questions. Very different answers.
Earlier this year, Oxford University gave the same medical scenarios to AI chatbots. First, with 100 doctors at the keyboard; then, with 1,300 non-experts. The doctors got 95% accuracy. The non-experts got 34%. Same AI. Same scenarios. Different humans.
In this week’s ThrowForward Thursday, Graeme Codrington makes sense of why that gap matters, not just for medical questions, but for how the rest of us are using AI at work. Watch this week’s episode here…
In the episode, Graeme also introduces our 5T AI Impact Model – built for leaders who’ve heard enough about AI and now want to do something useful with it.
3️⃣ Parenting in 2026: the questions we’re not always ready to answer.
If you’re a parent, you’ve probably had one of those moments. Your child asks something at the dinner table – about AI, a job that didn’t exist five years ago, or whether university is still worth it, and somewhere between the pasta and the dishes, you realise you don’t quite know how to answer.
Jude Foulston writes honestly about that moment in her latest post and why it’s actually a sign you’re paying attention, not falling behind.
Jude works with parents and schools to help make sense of the world we’re raising our kids in. Alongside her writing for parents and her Future Smart Parent podcast, she runs workshops for school staff and leadership teams. If that sounds like a conversation your school community needs, get in touch.
4️⃣ EBITDA is not the endgame – So why are we leading like it is?
Most leadership teams can quote their financial targets with precision – EBITDA margins, cost curves, return thresholds. But ask the same teams what they’re actually building, and the answers get vague.
Dean van Leeuwen makes the case that financial metrics have quietly become a substitute for strategy in too many organisations and explains why that’s a problem.
Ford didn’t talk about margins. Gates didn’t sell ratios. They described something people could see, understand, and commit to. The economics followed. Read Dean’s recent post here…
5️⃣ The uncomfortable truth about learning in the age of AI.
AI isn’t replacing teachers, but it is changing what learning asks of us. When answers are everywhere, the real shift is toward helping young people think, question, and make sense of complexity. It’s less about what they know and more about how they engage with the world around them.
Maybe the real question is – are we still teaching for a world that no longer exists? Read the full article here by Harvard Business Impact…
This week’s edition leans heavily on the work of our colleague Jude Foulston. Imagining a new world of education, together with the frameworks our team at TomorrowToday Global provides, is the work she’s most passionate about. We’re grateful for the work she does and the perspective she brings.
If you’d like to learn more or book Jude for your next workshop, contact us here, and we’ll connect you.