The Days of Change

Sarah Glenister is a psychologist from Perth, Australia. With her, I talk about how people show up at work, how they react to threats and how they can gently be influenced to do things that are good for them and the world. We continue to debate whether we as human beings have a free will and the need for connectedness in virtual teams.

How can we use networking technologies to our best? What are new cultural practices we need to develop in order to build strong and lasting networks? Mind you, the majority of people started to read only after the printing press was invented and this changed the course of the world. How can we believe that under this fast development of technologies we can just continue without adopting new skills, mindsets and heartsets? This podcast proposes four essential cultural practices that we need to grow.

Brigitta is an extraterrestrial sent to Earth to make the planet a better place. She has served as a visionary and empathetic leader in her organisation for 15 years. With her, I spent an exciting week discussing how to create containers for loving relationships at work and for cultural change. May the force be with you!

Dana Pharant calls herself a badass business performance coach. She is a former dominatrix. In this episode we talk about how to calm our minds, assertiveness, persuasion, good communication, resistance to change and pain in change processes.

This is my new format: I am spending a week with extraordinary people who have to say something about change and transformation. This podcast is a summary of daily video episodes with bonus material. You will find the video versions of this conversation on my LinkedIn profile. I will continue with the longer episode of the Days of Change Podcast with monthly episodes.

Peter Gardiner-Harding followed his passion and started to work as a professional actor in his thirties. Soon he discovered that he can combine his business background with the theatre experience and created a company which helps clients to change by engaging in theatre play. In the episode, we explore his approach to using carefully crafted scenarios to let his clients look into the mirror and learn from engaging in play. Holger and Peter perform a simulation, and they end this episode by some careful reflections on God.

Kelly Okamura has been a change agent in the fashion industry for 30 years, and she is a systems thinker. In this episode, we first talk about a dark chapter of Canadian history and then move to an analysis of change drivers which impacted the global fashion industry in the last two decades. My guest reflects on the slow but steady pace of change before we move into the issue of ethical consumer choices. I am tested to the bones!

At the beginning of each Days of Change Podcast episode there is a remarkable quote of my guest. This episode brings you the 24 quotes plus the songs my guest sang. And sorry, listeners, sometimes I sing too!

Troy Yorke is a Renaissance man. And as such, he bridges disciplines and art forms, mixes them and produces something new. In this episode, we talk about his extraordinary life - from the Arctic Circle via the concert halls of New York and the film studios of Hollywood to a coaching institute in Paris and beyond. We talk at length about Troy's philosophy in coaching and the different levels that a coachee can access. from story to game, from dream to source. This episode is an attempt to reach the source.

How to listen to connect? In this episode, Ute Franzen-Waschke and I explore together what happens in the brain when we are turning to another person. What is the "conversation cocktail" of hormones which either drives us towards or from connecting with each other? How can we stay true to our intention? In another part of this episode we discuss the issue of transparency - what do leaders need to observe it they want to form effective teams?

When do you have the chance to talk to a polymath? This episode with Phoebe Tickell covers so many different subjects: What is the meaning of inner space in which we find peace? Does the inner space exist at all and if so, how do we cultivate it? How is the outer space in which we work and live changing and how does it integrate with virtual space? Are Decentralised Autonomous Organisations replacing the traditional brick and mortar companies? And what is the BLACK MATTER, the "thing" between the three spaces? Is it what we need to address if we want to change organisations and the world - but we don't so so, maybe because we don't have yet a language for it?