
Jack Fuller is a licensed therapist with an B.Sc. (Neuroscience) from Melbourne University and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in Theology (Ethics) from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.He is the founder and CEO of health and therapy company Toolbox, and was previously a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Prior to that he taught and helped develop products at The School of Life in London.The long-running thread of his work is human development: a curiosity and passion for how humans develop and how we can help ourselves and others towards a full, flourishing vision of maturity.
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Books
The Imagination Machine — Harvard Business Review Press (2021)
Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 2021 Innovation Award
Book chapters
Civilisation as the Good and Ambitious Use of Freedom in Civilisation: Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar — Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation (2013)An Enemy Lying in Ambush in Martial Arts and Philosophy: Beating and Nothingness — Open Court (2010)
Articles
How Surprise Triggers Imagination — Rotman Management Magazine (2022)6 Stages for Fostering and Harnessing Imagination in Companies — World Economic Forum (2021)Unquiet Water: Finding Meaning in Faith — Clerestory Magazine (2021)We Need Imagination Now More Than Ever — Harvard Business Review (2020)What Can Neuroscience and Theology Teach Us About Human Nature? — Theos (2020)Competing on Imagination — Rhodes Scholar Magazine (2020)Getting Uncomfortable on Purpose — BCG (2019)The Playful Corporation — BCG (2018)When SMART Goals Are Not So Smart — MIT Sloan Management Review (2018)Why I’m Giving Up Daily Politics for a Grander Vision — The Conversation (2012)This Christmas, Remember Manners Maketh the Man — The Conversation (2011)Heads, You Die: Bad Decisions, Choice Architecture, and Predictable Irrationality — Per Capita (2009)How a Science of Irrationality Could Reshape the World — Sydney Morning Herald (2009)
Media and speaking
Sunday Brunch, Guest Philosopher — Channel 4, UK (2015)Jack Fuller Is Looking to Philosophy for the Answers, — Dumbo Feather (2014)The Ethics of Ego — Life Matters, ABC Radio National, Australia (2014)How to Think About Exercise — The School of Life, Live at Shoreditch Town Hall, London (public lecture, 2014)Opening Night Keynote — Perth Festival of Ideas (2014)Ethics on the Side of Business: How to Raise Ambitions — Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, The Humanities & Humanistic Values in Society and Business (2013)Goethe on Bildung and Dinner Parties (with John Armstrong) — Casa di Goethe, Rome (public cultural event, 2013)What Do We Want When We Say 'Innovation'? — Alfred Deakin Lecture Series (public lecture series, 2007)
ResearchDesire and the Ethics of Advertising — Oxford University D.Phil. Thesis (2016)An Investigation of the Discussion of Civilization — Oxford University M.Phil. Thesis (2012)Central Projections of Primary Sensory Afferents to the Spinal Dorsal Horn in the Long-Tailed Stingray (with Kitchener & Snow) — Brain, Behavior and Evolution (2010)Variability of the Paracingulate Sulcus and Morphometry of the Medial Frontal Cortex (with Fornito et al.) — Human Brain Mapping (2008)
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