Walk your Talk Podcast

The Walk Your Talk team brings you something different once again! This time, we returned from a beautiful forest near Nürnberg, full of new insights into forest management, hunting, and wildlife conservation. 

Our guest Martin Pluschke, Head of IT at Nürnberger Versicherung, and a passionate hunter and nature lover, warmly invited us into his favourite environment – thank you for that, Martin! 

But we didn't just learn about wild boars and deer. We also had a great conversation about some of the hottest topics in IT today: 

• The importance of data as a single source of truth in a corporate environment
• Why implementing AI across an entire organization has become a major change management and transformation project
• How to approach token management and AI governance in general
• What Martin expects from his service providers
• And what Zutrauen really means!

Let us share our favourite quote from the podcast:
 
“When it comes to service providers, I think it's very important to get knowledge outside the company to build it further inside the company. My expectation is not that service providers solve our capacity issues. You have to dig wells instead of bringing water! We use service providers to increase our internal knowledge.”
 
We invite you to watch or listen to the full episode to discover the rest!
 

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What happens when a composer used to working mostly alone suddenly becomes part of a production involving hundreds of people? 

In Episode 7 of Walk Your Talk, we walk with Croatian composer Sara Glojnarić, whose acclaimed Station Paradisopremiered at Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2026. 

We talk about the strange scale of creating an opera, about migration, nostalgia and music as a carrier of memory, but also about creativity in the age of AI. As Sara puts it: “Brahms had an assistant who helped him with his work. I have an AI agent. But the creativity is still mine.” 

This is a conversation about composing, collaboration, technology and finding new ways to make sense of a world that no longer seems to follow the rules we inherited. 

With this episode, we wrap up the Peoplechapter of Walk Your Talk — one of the three themes at the heart of the podcast, alongside Businessand Technology. Next, we’re turning back to business and tech. Stay with us! 

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Most business podcasts focus on strategy, growth, technology or leadership frameworks. 

This episode is different. 

Our guest is Stephanie Schoss – leadership expert, executive coach and lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, one of Europe's leading business schools. 

Stephanie Schoss studied at the University of St. Gallen, Singapore Management University and Harvard. She holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen University and is a Director of the Competence Center for Top Team Research at the Institute of International Management at the University of St. Gallen. 

Besides her academic career, Stephanie is a passionate commercial and seaplane pilot and has been an active entrepreneur for the past 20 years – for which she was recognised as manager of the year in 2013 by Generation CEO. 

Besides her professional life, she is a dedicated mother of 4 children and 4 stepchildren and lives part of the year in New Zealand with her family. 

Stephanie studied business with a focus on finance, but throughout her career, she became fascinated by a different question: What makes people truly grow? 

In this conversation, we explore leadership beyond titles and management techniques. We talk about developing the capacity to hold contradictions, why excitement and anxiety often come from the same place, how art and nature quietly shape the way we think, and why hope may be one of the most underrated leadership skills today. 

We also discuss: 

• Ambidextrous leadership and leading through paradoxes 
• Learning through every decade of life 
• The difference between surface-level and deep-level diversity 
• Why does exposure to art and nature matters more than we realize 
• And what Pippi Longstocking can teach us about courage: 
  "I've never done this before, so I must be brilliant at it!" 

If you're expecting another business podcast, this episode may surprise you! 

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In this episode of Walk Your Talk, recorded in Zadar just after our QED conference held in May 2026, Vedrana Miholić talks with Sean Neary from Nexi about the evolving world of fraud prevention, risk management and AI.

With 20 years of experience in fraud and risk management services, Sean explains how fraudsters are now using AI at scale, creating more complex and nuanced attacks - and why fraud prevention has become a race between technology, analytics and increasingly sophisticated bad actors.

The conversation also touches on the future of payments, digital currencies, token transactions, quantum-related risks, and the idea of automated AI fighting automated AI. Beyond technology, Sean shares Nexi’s “change agent” mindset: fail fast, iterate fast, and give people the autonomy to act.

Finally, they discuss the wider social responsibility of the industry — especially the need for better financial literacy and education in a world where scams are becoming harder to recognize.

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In this special episode of Walk your Talk, Vedrana’s and Miri’s guest is Michael Heiss, joining us for a reflection on QED 2026! QED is CROZ’s international BizTech conference that brings together business leaders, technologists, scientists and creatives to discuss the ideas shaping our future.

Together, we look back at some of the most thought-provoking moments, sessions and conversations from this year’s edition of QED, held under the theme “Collective”.

One of the strongest messages of the conference was that technology challenges are no longer purely technical problems, but deeply human and organizational ones that require collaboration, trust and shared responsibility.

The discussions around AI moved far beyond hype and focused instead on the real-world impact of AI on companies, decision-making, governance and the increasing difficulty of separating signal from AI noise in a hyperconnected world.

A recurring topic throughout the conference was the importance of healthy disagreement and open dialogue, especially in a time when public discourse often becomes simplified, polarized or optimized for algorithms instead of understanding.

The conference also explored Europe’s position in the global technology landscape, touching on digital sovereignty, regulation, infrastructure independence and the challenge of staying innovative while protecting societal values.

Finally, many sessions returned to the idea that in a world increasingly shaped by automation and AI, human judgment, experience and “skin in the game” may become more important than ever.

You can exclusively watch our special episode featuring Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the keynote speaker of this year’s conference here: [INSERT LINK]

And subscribe to the channel — many of the QED 2026 talks and sessions will soon be available to watch here!

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·       Why outsourcing trials & errors to the past is called tradition, and what has it to do with olive oil?

·       It’s pretty clear to all of us that jumping 100 times from 1 m and one time from 100 meters is not the same. But why cannot we understand and use this logic in other aspects of life, both physical and mental? 

·       How to expose self to stressors, to challenging intellectual problems, not with the aim to solve the problems but to benefit from the process?

Those are just some of the questions answered by our keynote speaker Nassim Nicholas Taleb at QED Conference in Zadar, organized by CROZ, a German-Croatian BizTech consultancy, in May 2026. 

After learning so much about his master concepts of Antifragility, Skin in the Game and Black Swan, we decided to create this Walk your Talk special and share some Nassim’s thoughts from Zadar with you. 

For other materials and talks from the conference, subscribe to our channel. 

Host: Vedrana Miholić, Chief Revenue Officer of CROZ; Managing Director of DACH office

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In the second episode of our new podcast, Walk Your Talk, hosted by Vedrana and Miri the noble dog, we hosted Sabrina Le Fustec, seasoned professional and IBM executive responsible for the Professional Services unit of IBM Technology Expert Labs in the DACH region.
Sabrina’s experience and mindset align perfectly with the concept of our podcast: a walk with interesting people - experienced professionals who help navigate the complex decisions facing modern organizations and careers.
In this conversation, we explore IBM’s evolution - from a symbol of enterprise reliability to a company redefining its role in the era of hybrid cloud and AI. Sabrina shares her perspective on how large technology organizations reinvent themselves and what it takes to stay relevant through decades of transformation.

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The new podcast Walk Your Talk, hosted by Vedrana and Miri the noble dog, opens with a remarkable first guest: Dinko Eror, Vice President at Red Hat and one of the most experienced technology leaders from this region with a truly global career.

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, has shaped how modern organizations think about openness, collaboration and scalable innovation. As a long-standing partner of Red Hat, CROZ has been part of that ecosystem for years - building enterprise systems on open technologies and sharing the same belief that sustainable digital transformation starts with strong partnerships.

In this episode, Dinko reflects on a career that spans Europe, Japan, Australia and global leadership roles. Despite operating across vastly different markets and cultures, one principle remains constant:
“Business is always about people first, then processes, and only then technology.”

The conversation explores why openness is not just a technological model, but a strategic mindset - especially in times marked by AI acceleration, geopolitical uncertainty and systemic volatility.

Drawing on ideas inspired by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - resilience, longevity, antifragility - the episode asks a fundamental question: what actually remains stable when everything around us is changing?

With its first episode, Walk Your Talk sets the tone for thoughtful, experience-driven conversations at the intersection of leadership, technology and global transformation - quite literally, one walk at a time.

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