Chief Wellbeing Officer

Chapter 3 from the new Sustaining Executive Performance audiobook which looks at the foundations of design thinking and how it may be taught within the business school world.

Find the book on Audible or Amazon. Go to: www.thelabcn.com/sep#audiobook1 for links.

To mark the release of Chief Wellbeing Officer as an Audiobook we make available Chapter 6: Leading Through Physical Intelligence.

The Audiobook can be purchased on Amazon, Audible and iTunes, and is available free when signing up to a trial subscription. Go to: www.thelabcn.com/cwo#audiobook

As we approach the 1st year anniversary of the podcast we reflect on the 11 episodes to date before talking to Paul Hughes of the Center for Creative Leadership. With a background in Law, MBA and PhD Paul discusses how a deeper view of leadership is required today for effective leadership development, to reflect the changes that are happening in organisations worldwide.

We return after a longer than anticipated summer break with Jenny Campbell, founder and CEO of the Resilience Engine. We talk of a new, more positive understanding of resilience and some of the research that Jenny and her team are undertaking in Edinburgh. Hero leadership, resilience 'assets', and the role of learning in being more resilient are all covered.

Here Steven talks to Kenneth Mikkelsen, author of The Neo-Generalist with Richard Martin, a 2016 book that challenges head-on society's fascination with hyper-specialism and labelling. Neo-Generalists, according to Kenneth "live in more than one world" with the conversation covering mental agility, life-wide learning, the education system, the discomfort of being a Neo-Generalist, and how they may play an ever more important role in the future of work.

In episode 9 we talk to Neil McIntosh, a pioneering journalist and the managing editor of BBC online. Responsible for the BBC homepage which has 8 million visitors per week and 1 billion clicks per year we talk to Neil about news and journalism today including the dangers of fake news, our online habits, and where health and wellbeing fits in a 24-hour a day industry.

Episode 8 of the Chief Wellbeing Officer podcast is the Executive Education special.

In the introduction Rory and Steven reflect on how IESE Business School got to number 1 in the world, according to the Financial Times rankings. Rory helped set up the international executive education division 20 years ago as its first director and Steven has taught on 106 executive education programs since 2009.

We then talk to Nathalie Labourdette and Frederic Frantz of the Eurovision Broadcasting Union (EBU) Academy during their recent executive program at IESE. We discuss public service broadcasting in Europe, the need to equip journalists with a new set of tools to deal with disruption, and some of the results of the Sustaining Executive Performance element of the program.

Reflecting on the pilot of a new Agile Ways of Working program for Telefónica we speak to Jeff Gothelf, a global expert in the areas of lean and agile, about why agile is so important for the world of work today, covering benefits for health and wellbeing as well as his own de-risking strategy in moving his family from New Jersey to Barcelona.

Produced by Alejandro Yllarramendy.

We catch up with John McCusker at the 6th annual HR Core LAB in Barcelona and talk of his personal journey, cultural agility, finding purpose, and developing talent in one of the world's most emblematic family-owned businesses. And yes, this interview between two Scotsmen did take place in a bar..

Produced by Alejandro Yllarramendy.

Recorded after the first week of the Glasgow School of Art's annual Winter School in their Forres campus in the North of Scotland Episode 5 looks at what is special about the Scottish Highlands.

In the introduction Rory and Steven talk of being there together at the end of January to celebrate Rory's 50th birthday before we talk to three leading design professors and members of the Winter School faculty.

Dr. Gordon Hush is the Director of the Innovation School at the Glasgow School of Art which organises Winter School. Dr. Catherine Morel is the Director of the Master in Management & Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy at Audencia Business School in Nantes and Dr. Philippe Mairesse is a Contemporary Artist and Associate Professor at Audencia.

Produced by Alejandro Yllarramendy.