Today I am talking to Siri Chilazi about equality and inclusion. Most companies are not very good at this unfortunately. There is a connection between equality and modern performing businesses. In our conversation we will explore if we are going in the right direction or what needs to change in order for us to do so. Even if we have an equal board or management team, are woman and marginalized groups really included and can they speak up? Listen to Siri and hear her thoughts.

In this episode I get the opportunity to talk to marketing guru Sangram Vajre. He has launched a book called MOVE that is one of the best selling business books at the moment. It is a go to market framework that all businesses that wants to launch it´s products successfully could and should use. He is also passionate about marketing and today we will talk about being a CMO and what to focus on to be successful. What should a CMO report on and what should a successful CMO/CEO relationship look like? Fasten your seatbelts.

Meet Bjorn Radde, Head of Digital Marketing at T-systems International. In this episode of Voice of Success Bjorn will talk about Social Selling and LinkedIn. He will also talk about how to enter the German market successfully and how to get the most out of your digital marketing efforts. Enjoy!

Matt is an award-winning author, speaker and consultant on Customer Experience and strategy. As a speaker, he has addressed industry leaders at every kind of organization imaginable, from Microsoft to the FBI.

In this episode we talk about how businesses out there are constantly trying to predict the future, to what results? Listen to Matts reflections on how to create a predictable strategy.

This is #TheVoiceOfSuccess with Sophie Hedestad. In this episode I am speaking to Pratik Thakker who is Israel's Tech Ambassador to India. He found love, he followed his heart and moved to Israel. He left his homeland India and he explains how tough the first year was leaving his family and friends for a new culture and language. Of course, as always in Voice of success, we also talk about success and how Pratik defines being successful. He shares why he has been really successful at LinkedIn! He tells us how he came up with the crazy idea to post something on LinkedIn for 1000 days and how you create engagement by the ones that follows you.

Since Pratik is a successful marketer, of course we also touch a little bit upon how businesses should do their marketing these days and what competence is mot valuable for marketing departments if you can only recruit one person.

Meet Kristine Hofer Næss. She is the Chief Customer Officer at Amesto and she is located in beautiful Oslo, Norway. Kristine is customer obsessed, a very good thing since most companies strive to build a customer obsessed culture and would not survive without paying customers. We will talk about the Customer Experience program Kristine built and how Amesto are gathering feedback from customers to make data driven decisions.

She has previous experience from tech giant Microsoft and also started the network "ODA". ODA is the leading meeting place for women in tech in the Nordics with more than 10.000 members and more than 50 strategic partners across various industries.

She will share why she has been successful in life as well as how to make data driven decisions based on insights from customers.

Companies must simplify their strategies and focus on two things only: Employee Experience and Customer Experience. Often can companies can create complexity that is confusing for the employees. Strategies can sometimes even be conflicting and overwhelms employees.

Listen to Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee from Harvard Business School and get inspired how you can simplify your strategies. By aligning strategies leaders will improve both Employee Experience and Customer Experience.

Mikkel Drucker is newly appointed CEO of the successful SaaS-company Netigate. He gives a background to himself and why he has been successful in life. He shared what the most inspiring workplaces been like and his way of viewing leadership.

Research shows that Employee Experience drives Customer Experience, but how do you build a successful and strong company culture? Mikkel has the answers, do not miss out.

In this episode I am talking to Natalia Brzezinski she works as Head Of Strategy at fintech company Klarna. Did you know how Natalia got Barack Obama to her Brilliant Minds event in Stockholm or what Hillary Clintons last words to her where before moving to Sweden? Listen to the #VoiceOfSuccess!

If you work within any technology or SaaS-company Natalia is supporting you, she is building bridges between US and Europe. She lived many years in Stockholm, Sweden and got to know many tech entrepreneurs in Scandinavia at the time.

We are also talking about what role your childhood plays in being successful and what the differences would be for her children compared with herself.

This is the voice of success with myself, Sophie Hedestad.

In this episode I am talking to Catherine De La Poer. She is Putting Emotional Intelligence at the heart of Leadership Development. She is a keynote speaker within digital transformation, and she is passionate about human sustainability.

Of course this is also the topic, we will talk in depth about emotional intelligence.

I was fascinated when Catherine talked about how trust is created, which is key, if you are working with leadership!

Trust is actually a chemical process in the brain, when you trust someone you are releasing oxytocin. When you fear someone on the other hand you release cortisol. When you release cortisol you freeze and are not able to contribute and produce the results needed.

That is why every leader need to practice emotional intelligence, it is not too late. Let Catherine de la Poer inspire you.

This is the voice of success with myself, Sophie Hedestad.