Why Technology Won’t Solve Your Problems

Adapting through crisis, why hierarchies can be useful, and empowering leadership

Ryan Purvis
1 min readOct 21, 2021

From my Digital Workspace Works podcast. Please enjoy the episode and show notes: Podcast Link: https://www.digitalworkspace.works/why-technology-wont-solve-your-problems/ Adapting through crisis, why hierarchies can be useful, and empowering leadership Ryan shares an insightful conversation on digital transformation and leadership with Mike Stopforth, founder and director of Beyond Binary. Meet Our Guest Mike Stopforth is the founder and director of business and leadership transformation specialist Beyond Binary. He is an entrepreneur, start-up investor, author and global speaker. He is recognised for his provoking insights into disruption-driven change, its impact on people, business and markets, and, notably, building the new leadership skills and strategies essential to navigate uncharted territory. Mike is a successful digital pioneer. Before Beyond Binary, he founded leading African social media agency Cerebra. It was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013. In 2007, he co-founded Afrigator.com, an African content aggregator which was bought by Naspers. In addition to his Beyond Binary role, Mike serves as a disruption and innovation advisor on a number of corporate boards. He has been recognised as an influencer by Mail & Guardian, GQ and Destiny Man.

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Ryan Purvis

I enjoy learning and sharing what I learn. I’m actively involved in AI, Machine Learning and Bot projects. Opinions are my own.