Corporate Unplugged

Corporate Unplugged

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  • Learning to Rewrite Your Script of Success

    Shelley Paxton is an author, speaker and movement maker. Think Brene Brown with a dash of rebel. As former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley Davidson, Shelley found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-empty instead of success-full. And that awakening led her on a profound sabbatical journey that became her mission, her business and best selling book. Today, she's leading a REBELution with a B to rewrite the script of success and liberate one billion souls. 


    In this podcast:


    • Defining your own success
    • On a mission to liberate a billion souls
    • Leaving Harley-Davidson
    • Becoming a rebel role model for other leaders
    • The power of kindness


    Links:


    • Book - Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life
    • Rebel Leader’s Manifesto 
    • Rebel Souls Podcast with Shelley Paxton

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    32 min
  • Changing the World Through Sustainable Investing

    Sasja Beslik is an international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been ranked the world's most influential person within green finance. Sasja is a true sustainability pioneer who has with passion taken on several leading roles in the world of finance: as head of responsible investments, as corporate governance, as CEO, and as head of sustainable finance. And today he's leading the sustainability work at the biggest Danish commercial pension company, PFA. His work has been recognised widely, for example, as a young global leader at the World Economic Forum, and he received a medal from the Swedish King also for Outstanding Contributions within environmental and sustainability theory. He's also the author of several books, the latest one is Where The Money Tree Grows. And his weekly newsletter ESG on a Sunday, is read widely by many impact makers around the world. 


    In this podcast:


    • It’s time to review the results
    • The answer isn’t driving an electric car
    • Why fleeing war changed his life
    • The power of the financial industry to bring about change


    Links:


    • Where the Money Tree Grows
    • ESG on a Sunday

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    42 min
  • Finding your purpose as a human being

    Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker and the author of several books including The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible. His work covers a wide range of topics such as history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and also the ecology movement, all topics which leaders today need to understand to evolve their companies. 


    In this podcast:


    • Why success doesn’t have to be goal driven
    • Our education system doesn’t create leaders
    • How to use business as a force for change
    • The most important quality of a leader 
    • Kindness is the highest form of intelligence

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    34 min
  • Why radical collaboration is the answer to the world’s problems

    William Ury has a passion for helping people, organisations and societies get to seemingly impossible yes’s - i.e. agreements that work for everyone. He's trained as a social anthropologist, he’s worked as a mediator and negotiation advisor in many of the world's toughest conflicts from the Cold War to the Middle East. And he is co-author of ‘Getting To Yes’, a 15 million copy bestseller translated into over 35 languages, and author of the award winning ‘Getting to Yes With Yourself’. He co-founded Harvard’s programme on negotiation where he currently directs the global negotiation initiative, and he’s co-founder of the climate parliament, a forum for parliamentarians and civil society to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. 


    In this podcast:

    • How to get to yes
    • How to negotiate for important things
    • William’s vision for the future
    • Long term solutions for business
    • Go to the balcony
    • What does a win look like?


    Links:

    • www.williamury.com


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    52 min
  • How to Come Back into Balance with Nature

    John P. Milton is an explorer and a true pioneer. He is a professor of environmental studies and has written books on ecology and environmental conservation. In the mid-1960s, he played a key role in fostering the environmental movement. He also helped author one of the earliest publications on the threat of rising global carbon dioxide levels. Starting very young, he pioneered bringing the ancient Vision Quest into a modern one, called Way of Nature. This is a quest on how to connect to the three nature's: the outer, inner and true. 


    In this podcast:


    • A pioneer for the environment
    • The Way of Nature 
    • The Vision Quest
    • Why we need an educational system around the ecosystem
    • The fragility of modern highly centralised systems
    • How leaders can come back into balance with nature


    Links:



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    1 hr 11 min
  • Reimagining The Social Networking Experience

    Johan Premfors is an unconventional entrepreneur with a global experience that is hard to match. He has moved from investment banking to post conflict reconstruction, to building a global coaching school. And today, his focus is on mental health and his and his wife's passion project, Gozamm, a technological platform that will forever change how we consume life changing content, and also how you grow with the people you care most about. 


    In this podcast:


    • Getting closer to the people you care about
    • Gozamm as a platform for change
    • The importance of human connection
    • Create human change within organisations
    • The future according to Johan
    • Advice to leaders and organisations


    Links:


    https://gozamm.com/

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    39 min
  • On a Mission to Eradicate Human Trafficking

    David Batstone is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, on a mission to eradicate human trafficking and the global slave trade. And at the same time, he is what you might call a social justice warrior. David is the Founder and Managing Director of Just Business social impact investment firm. And he's also the founder of Not For Sale, which builds viable and successful companies and returns the profits back to the community. 


    In this podcast:


    • The Not For Sale model
    • Founding Rebbl
    • Saving the Corporate Soul 
    • Designing a better world
    • Eradicating human trafficking 
    • What David can teach the world


    Links:


    • Rebbl
    • Saving The Corporate Soul

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    43 min
  • How To Facilitate Change Through Building Connections

    Charles O'Malley works at the intersection of personal organisational and societal transformation. He has two decades of experience working on social and environmental issues with everyone from startups to large corporations and governments. Prior to that, he worked for a decade in finance and venture capital. He currently spends half of his time as Senior Systems Change Advisor at the UN Development Programme, where he focuses on how to accelerate transformation in global food and agricultural systems. He spends the rest of his time involved in a range of projects that bring together personal, organisational and systemic change.


    In this podcast:


    • Personal organisational and systemic change
    • Collective sense-making process
    • Connecting to a sense of purpose
    • Long term solution for business
    • Make change with the resources you have
    • Why leaders need to slow down


    Links:


    • The Power Of The Powerless

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    55 min
  • Bridging the Gap Between Business and Humanity

    Rebecca Henderson is The John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and also a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rebecca is an expert on innovation and organisational change. Her research explores how much the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy.


    In this podcast:


    • Her dream for the future
    • Reimagining Capitalism
    • Why change in business is necessary
    • Being a tree hugger
    • Lessons from death


    Links:


    • Book - Reimagining Capitalism
    • Rebecca Henderson

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    46 min
  • Creating a Culture of Caring

    Jason Lippert is the President and CEO of LCI Industries (LCII) listed on the New York Stock Exchange. LCII is a global manufacturer of components and engineered solutions for recreational vehicles, marine and transportation industries, with over 90 divisions and 14,000 team members worldwide. The key objective at LCII is to provide a positive experience for all of their customers, and at the heart of the company’s core values lies a culture of caring, which is transforming the company and the communities around it. 


    In this podcast:


    • The journey to caring
    • Sharing the knowledge with other companies 
    • Persuading stakeholders to invest in culture
    • Impressing culture on acquisitions
    • The essence of LCII culture
    • The business culture revolution


    Links:


    • https://www.lci1.com/

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    37 min

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Corporate Unplugged puts the light on impact makers in business. In an informal and seriously playful way, Vesna Lucca is talking to people transforming business – entrepreneurs, leaders, activists,…