TrustTalk - It's all about Trust
Severin de Wit
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Trust is the invisible force that shapes our world - from the personal to the geopolitical. At TrustTalk, we’re committed to exploring trust in all its complexity. Since 2020, we've been engaging with thought leaders from around the globe to unpack how trust influences relationships, business, technology, society, and global affairs.
Every episode offers insightful conversations that reveal why trust matters - and what happens when it breaks down. If you’re curious about the forces that hold people, institutions, and nations together, this is a journey you won’t want to miss.
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Why Trust Matters
In this replay of a 2023 interview, Severin de Wit speaks with Economist Benjamin Ho - Professor of Economics at Vassar College and author of Why Trust Matters: An Economist's Guide to the Ties That…
The Trust We Assume, the Consent We Feel
Imagine standing in a busy train station, asking strangers to answer a few questions. How many people would you need to approach before five say yes? In a now-classic study, Vanessa Bohns predicted…
San Francisco: Where Progress Meets Distrust
We tend to think of trust as something that grows where people agree. Where neighbors share values, where voters share a party, where a city sees itself as forward-looking and inclusive. The more…
Trust Me, I'm Emotional
We tend to distrust people who lead with their emotions. In business, in politics, in negotiation. Someone who gets angry, who shows empathy, who wears their feelings openly is seen as a liability.…
Why Wikipedia Runs on Trust
Wikipedia serves 11 billion pages a month and almost nobody questions it anymore. But how did millions of anonymous strangers, unpaid and from every culture, manage to build the world's largest…
Leading with Trust
Every day, millions of people trust retailers to decide what ends up on their table. But that trust extends far beyond the products themselves. It touches supply chains, leadership decisions,…
When We Only Trust People Like Us
David Bersoff, Head of Research at the Edelman Trust Institute, has spent decades measuring trust across the globe. His most striking finding right now isn't that trust is collapsing, it's that our…
Reasoning Runs on Trust
When we disagree with someone, it's tempting to assume the problem is simple: they're irrational, biased, or misinformed. But what if human reasoning doesn't work the way we think it does? What if…
When Power Replaces Trust
When the United States openly pressured Denmark over Greenland, the immediate dispute faded fast. The damage to trust did not. This episode looks beyond Greenland to a bigger question: what happens…
When Participation Builds Trust
Trust is often talked about as if it were bad weather, something that just happens to us, beyond anyone’s control. But what if trust doesn’t disappear by accident, and what if its erosion has very…
Denmark’s Secret: Trust Is Cheaper Than Control
My guest today, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen challenges one of the most common myths about high-trust societies: that trust is cultural or “in the DNA.” In Denmark, he argues, trust is built, not…
A Season for Trust
On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus joins TrustTalk to discuss trust, doubt, and why listening to ourselves and to others matters as we look ahead to a new year, referring to Rudyard Kipling’s poem "If" on…
Trust in Wartime: Choosing Authority When the State Fails
Our guest, Mara Revkin, a leading scholar of governance and justice in conflict zones, talks about how civilians make trust decisions when the state collapses and armed groups take control. Drawing…
From Boeing to Financial Times: Real-World Lessons in Trust Leadership
Trust isn’t tested in calm moments; it’s exposed when leaders face uncertainty, conflicting demands, and real human consequences. This episode traces that reality across multiple organizations and…
From Boeing to Nokia: Real-World Lessons in Trust Leadership
Trust isn’t tested in calm moments; it’s exposed when leaders face uncertainty, conflicting demands, and real human consequences. This episode traces that reality across multiple organizations and…
Rethinking Financial Trust
Our guest, Kathryn Judge from Columbia Law School, explores how trust quietly sustains the financial system and why it becomes most visible when things start to break. She explains that in finance,…
Why People Don’t Trust Institutions Anymore
Trust in institutions, says Chris Long, professor at St. John’s University in New York City and a leading scholar on trust, control, and institutional contradictions, erodes when there’s a gap…
Justice on Trial, Prosecutors, Politics and Credibility
Few people stand closer to the intersection of politics and justice than prosecutors. In this episode, former federal prosecutor and Columbia Law School professor Dan Richman discusses why public…
On Courts, Politics and Trust
Our guest in this episode is Lord Jonathan Sumption, former Justice of the UK Supreme Court, acclaimed historian, and one of Britain’s leading public voices on law and democracy. The conversation…
Impatience, Vague Requests, and the Strain on Trust
Our guest is Charles Feltman, founder of Insight Coaching and author of The Thin Book of Trust. Charles has spent decades helping leaders and teams strengthen their ability to lead through trust. He…
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