Leading Professionals

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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/ [https://www.lauraempson.com/] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals [https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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/ [https://www.lauraempson.com/] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals [https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 [https://www.lauraempson.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals [https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 [https://www.lauraempson.com] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals [https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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/ [https://www.lauraempson.com/] Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals [https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.