Episode #29 is a repost of one of the fantastic conversations from the first season on the Cool Collaborations podcast. For this episode, I tried something a little different. I was joined by both Anthony Boxshall and Max Hardy, from Australia, for a dive into Authentic Co-design. We explore the stories of Authentic Co-design came from and some of the different angles on how, when, and why you would use a co-design process. In our conversation, Max brings the engagement expertise while Anth brings the leadership, scientist, and government expertise. They are quite the team and I very much enjoyed having this conversation with them.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Max Hardy at Max Hardy Consulting
• Anthony Boxshall at Science Into Action
• Authentic Co-design
• Book: New Power: How Power Works in our Hyperconnected World, and How to Make it Work for You by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
• Book: Collaboration Design: A Step-by-Step Guide to Successful Collaboration by Mark Elliott
• Book: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.