Episode 116

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13th Nov 2025

Leading Well in the GenAI Era: Ethics, Creativity & Human Performance with Professor Andy Miah

Artificial intelligence promises efficiency, creativity, and innovation, but what happens when the speed of progress outpaces our humanity?

In this episode, I’m joined by Professor Andy Miah, Chair in Science Communication and Future Media at the University of Salford. Andy has spent more than two decades exploring where art, science, and technology meet and what that means for how we live and work.

We talk about what it really means to lead in the Gen AI era, how to embrace new technology without losing our sense of humanity, and why reflection matters just as much as innovation. 

From the unseen human cost of progress to the emotional impact on workplaces and education, this is a conversation about doing better, not just faster.

Highlights:

(03:18) The human cost behind rapid AI innovation

(07:50) Generation AI and how it’s reshaping learning and identity

(14:21) Why businesses must create space for AI experimentation

(18:45) Encouraging transparency and psychological safety in the workplace

(24:57) How to stay human while embracing AI

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Obehi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obehi-alofoje-psychologist-aurora/

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About the Podcast

The Wellbeing Rebellion
Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion, an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy.

This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time.

The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within.

This is where the conversation needs to shift.

On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity.

Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice.

If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

About your hosts

Obehi Alofoje

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Obehi is a psychologist and culture change consultant who helps senior HR and business leaders reduce employee burnout, absenteeism & talent attrition through mental wellbeing strategy, training & coaching.

Ngozi Weller

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Ngozi Weller is a culture change consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive.