Same image, same pixels, two different answers. This week’s five reads are about how we see what we see, and what most of us miss when we stop paying attention.

 

1️⃣ What over 100,000 people a year hear from Graeme Codrington.

Two decades on stage. 500 plus organisations. 150 plus countries. Apple, Visa, Pfizer, Barclays, and Anglo American on the client list. He speaks to over 100,000 people every year on the future of work.

Graeme Codrington’s new showreel pulls all of it together. You see him in action with executive teams, boards, and conferences across six continents, replacing the noise of disruption with clear thinking on AI, adaptive leadership, and how to grow stronger through change.

If your team is planning a leadership retreat, board strategy day, or conference, and you want a speaker who leaves the room thinking differently, watch this.

 

2️⃣ The school system has the same problem as your AI strategy – Both were built for a world where information was scarce, and experts held the answers. Now everyone has access, and the old playbook does not work.

In this episode of the Elephants in the Boardroom, Graeme Codrington and Jude Foulston dig into what schools should be measuring, why dyslexic thinking is often a strength, and what teenagers in a Barcelona classroom are doing with no teacher in the room. Graeme and Dean van Leeuwen also walk through the 5T AI Impact Model and what happens when people stop questioning AI. Listen to the full episode here…

 

3️⃣ Bring future-fit thinking to your staff, parents, and students with Jude Foulston.

If the conversation with Jude in this month’s podcast got you thinking, here is how to bring it into your school.

Jude has spent over a decade working with futurists and strategists at TomorrowToday. She has also pulled her own kids out of mainstream school for a year, tried something different, and watched what happened. She brings both into the room.

Her workshops are built for the questions schools are sitting with right now. What AI means for the classroom. What to assess when machines write the essay. What to hold onto and what to put down.

Four ways to work with her. A single day with your staff, parents, and students. A quarterly toolkit. Ready-to-publish monthly newsletter content. Or a full year-long partnership. If your school wants to lead the future of education instead of chasing it, take a look here.

 

4️⃣ What the viral dress photo teaches leaders.

Remember the viral dress photo? Same image, same pixels, but half the world saw blue and black, and the other half saw gold and white.

Keith Coats uses it to surface a question every leader should be sitting with. When you and a colleague look at the same market, the same customer, the same set of numbers, and walk out with different conclusions, neither of you is wrong. You are looking with different brains.

The leadership question is not who is right. It is what am I not seeing, and who on my team is seeing it? Have a look at his recent post here.

 

5️⃣ What Would Life Look Like Without Fossil Fuels?

This week, Dean shared a really interesting post about how connected our everyday lives are to fossil fuels, often in ways we don’t even think about. From food and clothing to plastics and technology, it’s far more woven into modern life than most of us realise.

His “fossil fuel-free challenge” opens up an important conversation and is definitely worth a read if you enjoy thinking about the bigger shifts shaping our world.

 

The way you see the world is not the only way to see it.

At TomorrowToday, we spend our days helping leaders connect what is shifting in the wider world to the decisions they are making inside their teams. Contact us to start a conversation about how this might look inside your organisation.