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Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series.

In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of the norm-challenging book, Grow the Pie - How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit.

In this episode we learn:

• Why profit and purpose do not need to be a direct payoff and the route t greater wellbeing for all stakeholders?
• Why those at both extremes of the debate about responsible capitalism have more in common than they think
• How leaders and organisations can find a genuinely sustainable way forward that serves society and investors
• What leaders need in order to create the businesses of the future

Meet our guest: Alex Edmans

Businesses are under increasing pressure to seek their profits in a responsible way. The common view is that aiming for positive social outcomes requires financial sacrifice for investors; or, in the opposite direction, that the pursuit of profit is always at the cost of social and environmental health.

But is there something fundamentally flawed with this worldview? Is there a different route that leads to increased profits and greater wellbeing for all stakeholders?

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of the norm-challenging book, Grow the Pie - How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit.

In this episode we learn:

• Why those at both extremes of the debate about responsible capitalism have more in common than they think
• How leaders and organisations can find a genuinely sustainable way forward that serves society and investors
• What leaders need in order to create the businesses of the future

Meet our guest: Alex Edmans

The multi-systems crises catalysed by Covid-19 have challenged business, society, the world economy, and many of our pre-established beliefs.

In these difficult times we are given endless opportunities to learn and develop, but what separates organisations and individuals that learn effectively from those that don't?

What potential gains can be harnessed by taking a genuine learning approach to experiences, and role do leaders play in this evolution?

Helping to answer these questions is Nick Shackleton-Jones: iconoclast, free thinking learning expert, HR Director, Learning at Deloitte UK, and author of How People Learn.

Meet our guest: Nick Shackleton-Jones

It has never been more important for leaders to master their own emotional and cognitive intelligence. 

In times of crisis everyone is under elevated levels of stress, but leaders bear a greater responsibility to manage their responses with equanimity and empathy.

EQ and IQ are important to effective decision-making, but science is revealing that these intelligences begin in our bodies, as part of a complex system of neurochemicals and hormones.

This system can be refined through basic behavioural changes that lead to increased individual and organisational performance.

Claire Dale and Patricia Peyton are experts in somatic optimisation and are authors of the groundbreaking book, Physical Intelligence.

Meet our guests: Claire Dale & Patricia Peyton

Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series.

In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Jim Lawless, author, speaker and adaptability expert:

• Why we need to let go of industrial era thinking before we can access sustainable adaptability
• The interplay between risk and organisational culture
• Adaptability Intelligence (AQ) and metacognition

Meet our guest: Jim Lawless

20 years into the 21st century and it has become almost platitudinal to observe that what got us here in the past will not get us where we need to go in the future.

By now, we all know that we are living through an age of unprecedented rates of change. We are all well versed in narratives about landscape shifts, industry disruptions, strategy redundancies.

However, familiarity with the challenge does not necessarily equal a solution.

What do we as individuals need to navigate these waters? What skills do leaders especially need to develop to keep their organisations relevant and successful in the 21st century?

These are some of the questions we recently posed to Jim Lawless, author, speaker and adaptability expert.

Meet our guest: Jim Lawless

Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series.

In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Alan Brown, Professor of Digital Economy at Exeter Business School and author of Delivering Digital Transformation - a manager's guide to the digital revolution..

Discover:

• Why digital transformation is a revolution, not just another evolutionary step
• Why human problems are more and more predictive problem, not computational problems, and what that means in unpredictable times
• The importance of asking powerful questions that reveal the responsible, not only useful, potential of digital technology
• The practical steps towards implementing and managing digital transformation in teams and organisations

Meet our guest: Alan Brown

We were fortunate to have Aptar #CHRO Shiela Vinczeller in the studio recently to share her passion for the topic of Diversity & Inclusion.

Shiela was in London for Aptar's powerful custom leadership programme, Campus, co-created with Headspring, by Financial Times & IE Business School, and we used the opportunity to learn about the role of D&I in the evolution of sustainable capitalism.

#DandI #diversityandinclusion #inclusion #diversity #organisationalchange

Meet our guest: Shiela Vinczeller

Professor Alan Brown is an expert in digital economy with a career rooted in private sector tech development. He has driven digital transformation from the inside out and, in this episode of Learning REWIRED, shares some of the many lessons he has condensed into his new book: Delivering Digital Transformation.

Key insights include:

• What makes the current shifts in digital transformation a genuine revolution unlike anything we have seen before
• Why HR and L&D roles are critical to successful digital transformation
• The paradoxes that leaders need to be aware of
• What's at risk for leaders who ignore the need for proactive ownership of digital transformation

Meet our guest: Alan Brown

For those short commutes, long queues, or days that you just don't have the time: Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series.

In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Simon Ashton, business psychologist and leadership coach.

Discover:

• Why mainstream approaches to business education are causing a critical skills deficit
• How emotional intelligence has been misunderstood and poorly implemented
• The tools that leaders need to develop if they are to thrive in uncertain times

Meet our guest: Simon Asthon