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Can businesses still be a force for good?

It's a surprisingly complicated question.

Over the past decade, companies have been encouraged to take stands on social issues, invest in their communities, and think beyond shareholder value. More recently, many of those same organizations have faced growing political scrutiny, shifting consumer expectations, and mounting pressure to focus on short-term performance.

So where does that leave corporate purpose?

In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., Jeremy Goldman sits down with Scott M. Curran—founder and CEO of Beyond Advisers, former General Counsel of the Clinton Foundation, and author of BETTER GOOD: A Simple System for Creating Lasting Impact.

Rather than arguing that organizations simply need to "do more good," Scott makes the case for doing better good: building systems that create measurable, lasting impact instead of relying on one-off initiatives or performative gestures.

Together, they discuss:

• Why corporate purpose has become more complicated in today's political climate.
• The difference between meaningful impact and performative activism.
• Why systems matter more than good intentions.
• How AI can both strengthen—and undermine—authentic leadership.
• Whether businesses should solve society's biggest problems at all.
• How leaders can create cultures of purpose that survive leadership transitions.
• Why trust may be the most valuable currency organizations have in the years ahead.

As AI transforms work and institutions continue to evolve, the conversation isn't simply about doing more good.

It's about designing organizations that can keep doing good—even when the world around them changes.

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For years, we've talked about how artificial intelligence could make government faster, smarter, and more efficient.

But there's another side to the story.

AI isn't just helping governments. It's empowering citizens, businesses, and watchdog groups to interact with public institutions at a scale those institutions were never designed to handle.

In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., Jeremy Goldman sits down with Erica Olsen, CEO of Madison AI, a company building AI-powered tools that help cities and counties modernize everything from public records requests to policy research and administrative workflows.

The conversation begins with a surprising challenge: AI-generated public records requests are overwhelming local governments across the country, creating new tensions between transparency, compliance, and limited public resources.

But it quickly expands into something much bigger.

Together, they explore:

• Why AI is changing the balance of power between citizens and institutions.
• Whether transparency laws are prepared for an age of automation.
• How governments can use AI without sacrificing public trust.
• Why digital infrastructure may become as important as physical infrastructure.
• The difference between automating bureaucracy and improving democracy.
• What responsible AI deployment looks like in the public sector.
• Why the future of government may depend less on policy—and more on operational capacity.

As AI accelerates both sides of the equation, governments face a difficult challenge:

How do you remain transparent, accountable, and accessible when everyone suddenly has superpowers?

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For years, leadership was about managing change.

Today, it feels more like surviving it.

AI is reshaping industries. Geopolitical tensions are redrawing supply chains. Climate events are disrupting operations. Employees expect something fundamentally different from work than they did just a few years ago.

The challenge isn't one disruption.

It's all of them at once.

In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., Jeremy Goldman sits down with Caroline Stokes—leadership strategist, Thinkers50 Radar honoree, and author of AfterShock to 2030: A CEO's Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse—to explore why the old leadership playbook may no longer be enough.

Caroline argues that we're entering an "AfterShock" era, where AI is only one piece of a much larger collision of technological, economic, environmental, and societal forces. The leaders who succeed won't simply adopt new technology faster—they'll develop entirely new ways of thinking, adapting, and leading.

Together, they discuss:

• Why AI isn't the whole story—and why leaders need a wider lens.
• The rise of adaptive intelligence as a leadership advantage.
• Why emotional intelligence becomes more—not less—important in an AI-driven world.
• How organizations can build cultures that thrive amid uncertainty instead of resisting it.

Because the future won't be shaped by leaders who cling to yesterday's playbook; it will belong to those willing to write a new one.