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Heading into the fifth week of lockdown caused by Covid-19, health is still the number one priority worldwide. Health workers everywhere deserve our gratitude and our praise, as do all other workers in essential services. World economy is also standing still. Most people are in their homes, some on forced leave, some working from home, and many unemployed. It is very difficult to cope with this level of uncertainty.

To help us get a better grip on the economic aspects of this crisis, I am speaking with James Thornley and Boris Milošević. Boris and James are the founding partners of KP Advisory, a financial and business advisory firm. Before KP Advisory, they spent many years as senior partners at KPMG, and have been involved in most major M&A deals in this region. They both have a wealth of experience in business and finance. 

Crises also drive change, and this one changes our relationship with technology, logistics, communication and healthcare. In the crisis of 2008, there have been many losers and few winners. This is another issue which we are exploring - we discuss potential opportunities from economic and legal perspective with a hope that listeners will gain something out of this pandemic. So, at the time when everyone is looking to understand the scope of pandemic and how to minimize the threat, I will talk with some of the best-informed voices in the business advisory segment in our region – the senior partners at KP Advisory, James Thornley and Boris Milošević.

In this episode we welcome Chris Saul to the program. Chris has spent 39 years at Slaughter & May, a renowned magic circle firm in London, described by some as the most magical of the magic circle firms. Between 2008 and 2016 he was leading Slaughter & May as the firm’s senior partner. When he retired from Slaughter & May he established a consultancy Christopher Saul Associates and continues to share his vast experience as a business leader and transaction advisor, to company executives and key stakeholders in listed and private businesses.

In this conversation we talk about leadership in times of crisis. Having successfully led Slaughter through the global financial crisis 2008, I believe his insights into leadership during difficult times would be a great story to share.

(Language of the episode: Serbian)

In this episode we discuss mental resilience with our colleague - turned business coach, Dragomir Kojic. After a successful as a partner and head of our intellectual property team, Dragomir finished the Jung Institute in Zurich and became a certified therapist. He also finished the Erickson Coaching School and he now supports us in people development, business coaching, HR and internal communications.
We discuss mental resilience in times of crisis. At the time of recording of this episode, most countries in the SEE region were in a lockdown due to the outbreak of Covid 19. In between two recording sessions, a strong earthquake, in fact the strongest for the past 140 years, had shaken Zagreb. As the disease, economic uncertainty and even natural disasters dominate the news in our region, we discuss the actions we can take to help ease the stress and support our mental strength in difficult times.

Original language (Serbian) notes: razgovor za prvu epizodu podcasta vodili smo na srpskom. Naredne epizode vodićemo na engleskom i na drugim jezicima ex-YU.