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Leading Professionals
By Laura EmpsonBusiness
Leading Professionals episodes
- S4 EP6 - Leading Complex Change: Breaking Through Practical Barriers and Political Resistance
Guest: Dame Emily Lawson, formerly COO, NHS England, and Head of Number 10's Delivery Unit
Emily has considerable experience of leading change in complex professional organisations, including leading the initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine programme across the UK.
Laura asks: How do you manage to not be overwhelmed by complexity or discouraged by failure? How do you bring the right team together and deal with covert resistance?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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44 min - S4 EP5 - Becoming "Professional": How to Look, Sound, Act and Feel like a Professional
Guest: Paul Lewis, Firmwide Managing Partner of Linklaters
If you do not fit the conventional image of an elite professional, how do you persuade others that you are, and how do you learn to feel like one?
Paul and Laura discuss his own very personal experiences of “becoming professional”. What can be done to help people from non-professional backgrounds to thrive within elite professional organisations?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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38 min - S4 EP4 - Considering the Future: How AI and Private Equity Will Change Professionals' Work
Guest: Michael Izza CBE, CEO (former) of ICAEW
For almost 20 years, Michael led the ICAEW, with more than 200,000 members in almost 150 countries.
So he has a distinctively long-term and global perspective on the accounting profession.
Focusing on the interrelated changes of Gen AI and PE ownership, Laura and Michael explore: What is already happening and what changes lie ahead?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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36 min - S4 EP3 - Electing Leaders: How to Choose Your Leaders and How To Get Elected
Guest: Michael Ensser, Chair of Egon Zehnder
Laura asks Michael: Why does a world leading firm of leadership consultants choose to elect their senior leaders, and how do their elections actually work?
They discuss what really goes on behind the scenes of professional service firms’ carefully stage managed leadership elections.
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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33 min - S4 EP2 - Doing the Right Thing: How to Make Ethically Tough Decisions
Guest: Georgia Dawson, Senior Partner of Freshfields
If you are a lawyer you may be able to guess why Laura asks Georgia to explore the challenging theme of professional ethics with her.
In a complex commercial, social, and political environment, how do you balance the competing interests of multiple stakeholders?
How do you decide, what is the 'right' thing? And then, how do you make sure you do it?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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34 min - S4 EP1 - Leading in Uncertain Times: How to Respond to Geopolitical Change and AI Disruption
Guest: Fabien Curto Millet, Chief Economist of Google.
Fabien joins Laura to discuss how he and his team of economists anticipate, analyse, and understand the scale of change with which Google must contend.
How does he lead his team of professionals, and manage himself, during these uncertain times? And what does he remember from when Laura taught him Strategy at Oxford 25 years ago?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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44 min - S4 EP0 Welcome to Leading Professionals
Professor Laura Empson introduces key topics and guests from the upcoming series.
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5 min - David Bickford: Spies as professionalsWhat are the parallels between the worlds of espionage and professional services? Laura and Tony talk to David Bickford, previously General Counsel to MI5 and MI6, about his role as the agencies’ Legal Director and Under Secretary of State. They explore how to build trust when professionals are working remotely, how to collaborate when knowledge is shared on a need-to-know basis, and how to stop powerful professionals from going rogue.
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29 min - Katherine White: Leading discretelyLaura and Tony speak to Katherine White, the first Chief Talent Officer of global executive search firm, Spencer Stuart. They explore the challenges of being a senior leader when you are not a fee-earner, and of leading the so-called talent when the fee-earners themselves do not see you as the talent. Katherine explains how she built trust and influence, and how she learnt to add value quickly while working slowly and discretely to bring about change.
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36 min - Gianpiero Petriglieri: Coming out of the psychological closetGianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor at INSEAD, is ranked as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world. Laura and Tony talk to him about the difficult emotions that often stay hidden and suppressed in organisations and individuals, and how leaders of professional organisations can become more effective when they engage more directly with these emotions.
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About Leading Professionals
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to Leading Professionals.
Join Professor Laura Empson as she talks to senior leaders from some of the world’s most successful professional organisations about the crucial issues…
they are currently facing.
Each episode reveals the realities that lie beneath the ‘professional’ veneer these highly successful organisations, and their leaders, present to the outside world.
Laura uses insights from her lifetime of researching and advising professional organisations to uncover and make sense of the complex, messy and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professionals, and to identify key learning for all professionals.
If you are a professional in a leadership role – or if you simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently.
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About Professor Laura Empson
Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action.
She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022).
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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