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Disrupt Your Career

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Welcome to the Disrupt Your Career podcast series hosted by Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard. We talk with those on the forefront of talent and career management — academics, HR professionals, coaches — to explore the most interesting and cutting edge ideas in the world of career transition and development. Join us as we reimagine careers https://disrupt-your-career.com/. 

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Research Express: Evgenia Lysova Talks About her Research on Meaningful Work and Careers

April 15, 2024 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB

Dr. Evgenia Lysova is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  In this second episode of Research Express, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Evgenia about her research on meaningful work and careers.  See Evgenia’s personal profile Read Evgenia’s paper on what enables us to better experience our work as meaningful Thanks for listening! Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career...

Author Chat: The Digital Coaching Revolution by Anna Tavis

April 07, 2024 20:00 - 13 minutes - 9.01 MB

How is digital coaching transforming employee experience and the future of work as we know it? Anna Tavis explores this important and timely question, shining a light on the rapid growth of professional coaching in the workplace and its superpower to change behaviors and transform organizations. In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Anna Tavis about her book co-authored with Woody Woodward, The Digital Coaching Revolution: How to Support Employee Development With C...

Riet Grond: Leadership and Career Lessons from the Summit

April 01, 2024 04:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

Riet Grond is a Human Resources executive with 25 years of experience. He has a successful track record in strategic HR leadership, with in-depth experiences across major functional HR areas (Data & Analytics, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Organization and Culture Development), covering geographies such as China, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe, and the USA. He is recognized for excellence in leading transformative change, developing diverse talent, managing difficult situations,...

Octavia Goredema: Career Strategies for Underrepresented Professionals

March 04, 2024 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

Octavia Goredema is the founder of Twenty Ten Agency, a career coaching company and the author of PREP, PUSH, PIVOT: Essential Career Strategies for Underrepresented Women. Her mission is to help underrepresented professionals advance their careers. Octavia has coached leaders at renowned companies including Google, American Airlines, Tinder, General Motors, Nike and Dow Jones. She is the host of the Audible Original series How to Change Careers with Octavia Goredema. Originally from England...

Author Chat: Inflection by Sharath Jeevan

February 07, 2024 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.74 MB

Inflection moments are those points at which we stand at a crossroads and ask ourselves, as leaders, what’s the next mountain to climb? Sharath Jeevan explores the question of how to navigate those crossroads with the right roadmap, in his newly released book, Inflection. In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Sharath about his latest book Inflection: A Roadmap for Leaders at a Crossroads (Intrinsic Press, February 2024). Sharath believes that these critical moments...

Valerie Sutton: Creating ‘Career Consciousness’ and Aligning Your Career Path with Your Unique Identity

February 01, 2024 02:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

Valerie Sutton is a thought leader in career theory, coaching, and leading teams. Creating “career consciousness” with clients is her passion. A seasoned career coach with specialization in the MBA and education sectors, she has successfully overseen offices catering to over 900 students on an annual basis and is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor. Valerie’s prior experience includes the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. We talk with...

Research Express: Jos Akkermans Talks About his Research on Career Success

January 15, 2024 01:00 - 9 minutes - 6.71 MB

Jos Akkermans is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Organizational Behavior at the School of Business and Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In this first edition of Research Express, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Jos Akkermans about his research on what makes a career successful.  Read Jos personal homepage https://www.josakkermans.com Watch Jos’ TEDx Talk VU Amsterdam: What makes a career successful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DICR_TgRLfE T...

Author Chat: Aha... Wow! Yes by Gunnar George

January 05, 2024 12:00 - 6 minutes - 4.53 MB

Aha... Wow! Yes : how to accelerate learning, collaboration and transformation: towards a world of hope and joy” (Com-passion, 2023) explores nine mindset shifts essential when facing our future. It also outlines ten marks you need to make when leading transformation of organizations, systems and culture. In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Gunnar George about his book Aha... Wow! Yes. Join Gunnar and his learning expeditions around the world – full of observati...

Julia Goodman: Crafting Presence and Developing Your Authentic Personal Brand

January 01, 2024 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Julia trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (UCL) and went on to a successful career as actor, director and producer in television, film and theatre. She launched the pioneering You Brand methodology and philosophy in 1989, at the start of a major recession, and she and her team have been using it to help people and organizations realize their full potential ever since. We talk with Julia about her career journey from actress to leadership coach and the lessons she learned...

JP Elliott: Inspiring the Next Generation of HR Leaders

December 01, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

JP Elliott is a forward-thinking global human resources executive with extensive experience implementing human capital initiatives across a broad spectrum of industries. He is currently the Chief People Officer at WilliamsMarston and previously worked at companies like McAfee, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Brink’s, Lenovo, IBM and Taco Bell. JP runs his own podcast, The Future of HR, the only podcast whose mission is to inspire the next generation of HR Leaders. He received his PhD in Organizationa...

Author Chat: The Right—and Wrong—Stuff by Carter Cast

November 03, 2023 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.52 MB

Your career might be in danger of going off the rails. You probably have blind spots that are leaving you closer to the edge than you realize. Fortunately, Carter Cast shows you how to avoid career derailment by becoming more self-aware, more agile, and more effective. In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Carter Cast, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, about his book, The Right - and Wrong - Stuff: How Brilliant Careers Are...

Jo Owen: 21st Century Leadership - Building a Successful Career in the New World

November 01, 2023 02:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

Jo Owen is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and social entrepreneur. Following a business career, he now helps great leaders, managers and teams become even better through coaching, writing and speaking. Jo started eight not for profit organisations and is a founder of Teach First, a top graduate recruiter in the UK. His books have been published in over 100 editions globally and he has appeared in major media including BBC, Fortune, Financial Times and The Times. We talk with Jo ab...

Author Chat: The Seven Games of Leadership by Paolo Gallo

October 22, 2023 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

The Seven Games of Leadership is a guide for readers through seven key phases of personal and professional development, with the aim not of climbing a corporate ladder but of finding true and lasting satisfaction in what they do. In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Paolo Gallo about his book, The Seven Games of Leadership: Navigating the Inner Journey of Leaders (Bloomsbury Business, October 2023). Paolo provides the tools and practical advice you need to reasses...

Ellen C. Taaffe: Unlock What’s Blocking Your Career and Open the Door to New Opportunities

October 12, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

A former Fortune 50 senior executive turned board director, professor, leadership coach, and author, Ellen Connelly Taaffe is on a mission for women to have more seats and voices at the table of workplace decisions. In her book, The Mirrored Door (Page Two, October 2023), Ellen uses her vast experience to help women understand and navigate through internal and external obstacles to create the future career they desire. We talk with Ellen about how her own career unfolded and the lessons she...

Author Chat: I, Human by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

October 05, 2023 19:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MB

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Tomas about his book, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique (Harvard Business School Press, February 2023). Tomas looks at what it means to be human in the age of AI and explains how AI has the potential to change our lives for better or for worse. To order Tomas’ book Tomas’ homepage  Thanks for listening! Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.com If you like the podcast, please take...

Richard Rosser: Helping (ex)Consultants and Finance Professionals Build Careers They Love

October 01, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

Rich Rosser is an ex-McKinsey consultant turned start-up co-founder of Movemeon with Nick Patterson. Their vision is to get all the best jobs for strategy, management consultants and freelance consultants in one place, with none of the frustrations of agencies or job boards. Rich holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. He is a dad of three and spends Fridays looking after his kids. We talk with Rich about his own career journey, the lessons he learne...

Author Chat: Successful Career Strategy by Sven Sommerlatte

September 26, 2023 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.36 MB

In this edition of Author Chat, Disrupt Your Career speaks with Sven Sommerlatte about his new book Successful Career Strategy: An HR Practitioner’s Guide to Reach Your Dream Job (Springer, June 2023). Sven Sommerlatte, the CHRO of Boehringher Ingelheim, explains that advancing your career in the best possible way requires a well-structured and targeted approach. An edited version of the conversation follows. To order Sven’s book Career Stories on Sven’s blog Thanks for listening! Visit ...

Chris Parke: Developing Under-Represented Talent and Building Inclusive Organizations

September 01, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes - 26.6 MB

A business leader, psychologist and executive coach, Chris Parke is passionate about building inclusive organisations where business and individuals thrive. Following a career in investment banking and consulting, he co-founded Talking Talent in 2005 to help organisations link strategy to inclusion and remain relevant in rapidly changing diverse markets. Chris has a diploma in Clinical Organisational Psychology from INSEAD and was awarded a scholarship MBA from Imperial College London. We ...

Dr. Aliya Hamid Rao: How Family and Gender Play Out in the Workplace and Careers

August 01, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 25.8 MB

Aliya Hamid Rao is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. Her research interests span the study of work and organizations, family, gender, economic sociology, and emotions. Her first book, Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, provides a detailed examination of how professionals in the US contend with unemployment. Her research has be...

Amanda Goodall: Why We Need Leaders with Expertise

July 01, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

Amanda Goodall is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Bayes Business School. She started in fashion, then to NGOs, and finally into to academe.  She completed her PhD in leadership at Warwick Business School. Her research looks at the relationship between leadership and organizational performance; it shows that leaders should have a deep understanding of the core business of the organizations they are to lead. Amanda publishes in academic journals, practitioner publications and in the media. ...

Janine Mathó: Propelling Women in Early Career and Keeping them Moving Forward

June 15, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutes - 28.4 MB

Janine Mathó is a global leader with 20+ years of experience in external relations. A first-generation Cuban-American, she overcame poverty, homelessness, and family trauma in her early career. She has held senior roles in world-class organisations including Pearson and Harvard University. Janine is cofounder & CEO of ExponentialChangemakers, a growing global network for women in the first ten years of their careers working to close the early-career gender gap. She is also an Executive Coach...

Michel Buffet: Unlocking Your Potential and Cultivating Your Leadership Resilience

May 14, 2023 15:00 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MB

Michel is a Senior Client Partner and a member of Korn Ferry’s Leadership Development Solutions Group. He has extensive experience in executive assessment, coaching, and designing leadership development portfolios. He is passionate about helping leaders and their teams unlock their unrealized potential and cultivate their own and others’ resilience in the face of change and uncertainty. He holds a PhD in organizational psychology from Columbia University and a doctorate in clinical human sci...

Abel van Staveren: Playing with FIRE - A Portfolio Careerist's Guide to Lifestyle Design

April 14, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes - 27.9 MB

Abel van Staveren is a location-independent portfolio careerist with a passion for helping others achieve their goals and live life to the fullest. As a CEO, Chartered Accountant, Non-Executive Director, and digital nomad, he has built a successful portfolio career spanning various industries, from the shipping sector to private equity and investment management. When he is not busy helping others chart their paths to success, you will find Abel indulging his love for sailing, teaching, and c...

Mpume Ncube-Daka: Talking About Change

April 01, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 24.3 MB

Mpume is an internationally qualified corporate level coach based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She founded About Change Conversations following a corporate career in companies like Unilever, MTN, Ericsson and Multichoice. She is passionate about personal development and has gained a deep understanding of what is required to identify each individual’s unique talents and passion to ultimately benefit organisations while facilitating personal growth. She is the host of the Change Conversation...

Tayo Rockson: How to Connect, Communicate and Build a Career in a Cross-Cultural World

March 01, 2023 02:00 - 36 minutes - 27.2 MB

Tayo Rockson is a writer, speaker, consultant, podcaster, professor, co-founder and brand strategist at UYD Management, a strategic consulting firm. As the son of a diplomat, he grew up understanding the nuances of multicultural diversity while living on four continents. He is the host of the podcast As Told by Nomads, author of Use Your Difference To Make A Difference, a professor at the Imperial College Business School and has spoken at TEDx, the Chautauqua Institution, and the United Nati...

Andrew Bartlow: Accelerating Your Career and Scaling for Success in High-Growth Organizations

February 15, 2023 03:00 - 35 minutes - 26.7 MB

Andrew Bartlow has 25 years of Human Resources and Talent experience at organizations across a wide variety of sizes, stages, and industries. He is the co-author of Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High Growth Organizations, has a masters degree in HR, and has been CECP, SPHR, Six Sigma, and executive coaching certified. Andrew leads Series B Consulting, which helps businesses to refine their people strategy and accelerate their growth, while navigating rapid change. He currently s...

Patti and Jack Phillips: Applying ROI Thinking to Achieve Professional Success

February 01, 2023 01:00 - 38 minutes - 29 MB

Patti and Jack Phillips are internationally recognized authors, consultants, and researchers. Together, they lead the ROI Institute, Inc., the leading source of Return on Investment (ROI) evaluation education, research and networking. Both former executives, they provide consulting services to major global organizations. Authors, co-authors and editors of more than 100 books and articles, they conduct workshops and present at conferences throughout the world. We talk with Patti and Jack abo...

Jeffrey Shaw: The Art and Science of Successful Self-Employment

January 14, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes - 36 MB

Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey Shaw helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business. Jeffrey’s portraits have appeared on Oprah and CBS News, in People magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine. Jeffrey’s TEDx Lincoln Square talk is featured on TED.com. He’s the host of the podcast The Self-Employed Life, author of The Self-Employed Life and LINGO, a keynote speaker, a LinkedIn Learning instructor and contributing writer to Entrep...

Al Dea: Helping Individuals and Organizations Flourish in the Changing World of Work

January 07, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes - 28.8 MB

Al is the founder of Betterwork Labs, a talent advisory firm, and works with companies on how to attract, develop, and retain diverse workforces. Throughout his professional career, he has helped hundreds of professionals build growth-oriented mindsets and achieve their career goals. He also writes, researches, and speaks about trends related to the future of career development, learning, and the employee experience. Al received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Theology from Boston Coll...

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox: Gender, Generational Balance and (Much) Longer Careers

December 15, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes - 27.4 MB

Avivah is a speaker, author, consultant and CEO of 20-first, one of the world’s leading gender balance consultancies. She is a global expert on 21st century leadership, gender and generational balance, longevity and the future of work and careers. Avivah is currently finishing up a year at Harvard as a 2022 Advanced Leadership Fellow researching longevity and gender differences in aging. She blogs at Harvard Business Review and has authored several best-selling books. She speaks widely at le...

Mark Zides: How to Find Your Own Pace and Create Early Career Success

December 01, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutes - 21.2 MB

Mark is a coach, mentor, advisor, consultant, angel investor, and executive. He is the founder and CEO of CoreAxis Consulting, an award-winning learning & development and talent management firm, Katama, an agency specializing in sales strategy, marketing, and customer success, and Recipi, a digital marketing agency. His book "The #Pace Process for Early Career Success" is designed to help young adults prepare for the workforce and explain the challenges you will experience chasing your dream...

Mark Zides: How to Find Your Own Pace and Create Early Career Success

December 01, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutes - 21.2 MB

Mark is a coach, mentor, advisor, consultant, angel investor, and executive. He is the founder and CEO of CoreAxis Consulting, an award-winning learning & development and talent management firm, Katama, an agency specializing in sales strategy, marketing, and customer success, and Recipi, a digital marketing agency. His book "The #Pace Process for Early Career Success" is designed to help young adults prepare for the workforce and explain the challenges you will experience chasing your dream...

Michael Wenderoth: Ethically Leveraging Power and Politics to Advance Your Career

November 15, 2022 02:00 - 36 minutes - 26.6 MB

Michael Wenderoth is an executive coach who helps leaders ethically leverage power and politics to ascend. He has written for Harvard Business Review, Forbes and is the author of Get Promoted: What You're Really Missing at Work That's Holding You Back. Prior to becoming an executive coach, Michael served for 20 years in senior roles on breakthrough businesses in the U.S., China and Europe. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and trained as an executive coach at Columbia Univer...

Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov: Developing and Leveraging Edge in Your Career

November 01, 2022 02:00 - 46 minutes - 33.5 MB

Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov work and write about the complex science of human performance, while making it simple. Both are practicing senior executives in talent management, leveraging Fortune 500 experience gained across four continents. Angela and Sergey equip leaders with practical tools for success. They are researchers, adjunct professors at IE University, regular contributors to journals and the authors of “FairTalk: Three Steps to Powerful Feedback.” We talk with Angela and Serg...

Joseph Liu: Relaunching Your Career to Do More Meaningful Work

October 07, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 27.4 MB

As a keynote speaker, career consultant, podcast host, webinar host, and certified coach, Joseph Liu leverages 10 years of experience relaunching consumer brands combined with professional coaching to help people relaunch their personal brands. As host of the Career Relaunch® podcast and an international keynote speaker, he has crossed paths with thousands of professionals during their career turning points, sharing and learning about what it takes to successfully change career directions. H...

Joseph Liu: Relaunching Your Career to Do More Meaningful Work

October 07, 2022 15:00 - 37 minutes - 27.4 MB

As a keynote speaker, career consultant, podcast host, webinar host, and certified coach, Joseph Liu leverages 10 years of experience relaunching consumer brands combined with professional coaching to help people relaunch their personal brands. As host of the Career Relaunch® podcast and an international keynote speaker, he has crossed paths with thousands of professionals during their career turning points, sharing and learning about what it takes to successfully change career directions. H...

Karen Loon: Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations

September 01, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 20.2 MB

Karen Loon is a Non-Executive Director and a former Big 4 senior partner. A recognized thought leader and speaker on workplace diversity and inclusion, she is the author of the book Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations: Lessons from Those Who Smashed the Bamboo Ceiling. Karen has qualifications in system psychodynamics and governance from INSEAD, and research interests in identity work and organisational change. We talk with Karen about her own career journey, the lesson...

Elina Rebuel Tretiakova: Strategic Advice for Early Career Professionals

August 04, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 26 MB

Elina is a career strategy and talent management expert. She is the founder of Careergenic, helping clients all over Europe find their next career placement in top companies without applying online. A former Human Resources manager with international experience in talent acquisition, development and training, she held senior positions at IE Business School with responsibility for MBA Employability, Career Strategy, and Employer Relations and Partnerships. Elina holds an MBA degree from IE Bu...

Sharath Jeevan: Finding Deeper Motivation, Purpose and Mastery in our Work

July 01, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Sharath is a leading expert on intrinsic motivation, direction and potential. He is the Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs and the author of Intrinsic: A Manifesto to Reignite Our Inner Drive. Sharath was awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen's New Year's Honours for founding and leading STiR Education, an initiative which re-ignited the motivation of 200,000 teachers, 35,000 schools and 7 million children in emerging countries. He holds degrees from Cambridge University, Oxford University and ...

Sharath Jeevan: Finding Deeper Motivation, Purpose and Mastery in our Work

July 01, 2022 01:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Sharath is a leading expert on intrinsic motivation, direction and potential. He is the Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs and the author of Intrinsic: A Manifesto to Reignite Our Inner Drive. Sharath was awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen's New Year's Honours for founding and leading STiR Education, an initiative which re-ignited the motivation of 200,000 teachers, 35,000 schools and 7 million children in emerging countries. He holds degrees from Cambridge University, Oxford University and ...

Marc Miller: Building a Meaningful Career in the Second Half of Life

June 01, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

Marc Miller’s career journey included 22 years at IBM, several tech startups, a stint as a high school teacher, a gig raising funds for a community association and a near-fatal bicycle accident that changed his perspective forever. After thirty years of multiple career pivots, Marc realized he’d found his vocation and would use his extensive experience to help others—especially Baby Boomers—find careers that they could grow into. Marc is passionate about his work and the clients he serves. H...

Ann Hiatt: Bet on Yourself and Create a Career of Your Own

May 01, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

 As a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience as the Executive Business Partner for Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!) and Chief of Staff to Eric Schmidt (Google), Ann Hiatt applies lessons of innovation, ambition, growth at scale, and forward-thinking leadership to expand businesses and individual careers. As a Leadership Strategist, she helps entrepreneurs do this through strategy consulting, training, workshops and more. Her new book, Bet On Yourself, offers guidance a...

John Boudreau: Radically Rethinking How to Organize Work and Careers

April 02, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

Dr. John Boudreau is Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization and a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Effective Organizations at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He is recognized worldwide for breakthrough research on the bridge between superior human capital, talent and sustainable competitive advantage. His latest book, Work without Jobs, co-authored with Ravin Jesuthasan, lays out a roadmap for the future of work. We talk with John ...

Anna Tavis: Reimagining Work and Careers in Human-Centered Organizations

March 01, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

Anna Tavis is a researcher, global educator and coach focusing on the Future of Work. She teaches at New York University and lectures globally. She is an Academic Advisor to a variety of organizations and serves on the Editorial Board of Workforce Solutions Review. Her new book "Humans at Work" is about the new pivot towards human-centered organizations. We connected with Anna as we share a common passion for developing innovative approaches to talent and organizations. We talk with Anna ab...

Marc Effron: How to Build Better Talent and Grow Yourself Faster

February 01, 2022 01:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Marc founded and leads The Talent Strategy Group and consults with global corporations. His prior experience includes talent management roles at Bank of America and Avon Products and consulting at Hewitt Associates. He co-authored the Harvard Business Review Publishing best-seller One Page Talent Management and 8 Steps to High Performance and publishes Talent Quarterly magazine. Marc has an MBA from the Yale School of Management. We connected with Marc as we share a passion for building tal...

Winnie Jiang: How to Find, Pursue, and Sustain Meaning at Work

January 15, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MB

Winnie Jiang is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. She studies the dynamics of meaning-making at work, work as a calling, career mobility and transitions, and personal and professional development. Prior to joining INSEAD, Winnie completed her PhD in Management at Yale University. We connected with Winnie as we wanted to learn more about her research around factors that help unleash people’s fullest potential and realize their purpose at work. We talk with Winnie a...

Sven Sommerlatte: Strategies to Build a Successful Career

December 07, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MB

Sven Sommerlatte is CHRO of Boehringer Ingelheim, based in Germany. He started his career in management consulting and held a broad range of HR roles at Sanofi, most recently HR Head of the Global Consumer Healthcare Business Unit. Sven created the YouTube channel OTIUM to help people learn more about personal development, improve their career strategy and become better leaders. Sven holds an MBA and a Ph.D in organizational development. We connected with Sven as we share a common passion f...

Sven Sommerlatte: Strategies to Build a Successful Career

December 07, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MB

Sven Sommerlatte is CHRO of Boehringer Ingelheim, based in Germany. He started his career in management consulting and held a broad range of HR roles at Sanofi, most recently HR Head of the Global Consumer Healthcare Business Unit. Sven created the YouTube channel OTIUM to help people learn more about personal development, improve their career strategy and become better leaders. Sven holds an MBA and a Ph.D in organizational development. We connected with Sven as we share a common passion f...

Utkarsh Amitabh: The Power of Community in Building a Successful Career

November 13, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

Utkarsh Amitabh is the founder of Network Capital, one of the world’s largest career intelligence communities. He writes for Harvard Business Review, Mint, Economic Times, and World Economic Forum and published the book The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work. He is a TED speaker, Chevening Fellow at University of Oxford and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. An MBA graduate from INSEAD, Utkarsh previously worked at Microsoft and helped build India’s first smart village which was recognized i...

Jan Hall and Jon Stokes: Creating the Life You Want After a Full-On Career

October 26, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

Jan has been a successful entrepreneur and business leader. She is now an adviser to CEOs and chairmen and is also a qualified executive coach. She spent 20 years as a headhunter and has over 30 years’ experience of being a non-executive director.    Jon is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and leadership coach. He is a Director of Stokes & Jolly, a leadership advisory firm. He taught for many years at Said Business School at the University of Oxford and is on the faculty of Meyler C...