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Hear about the Leadership Programme and future of leadership at Cefetra, with their HR Director Mirjam Ruiten, Financial Times contributor Michael Skapinker and Headspring’s Meike Gil.

In this podcast, Paul Lewis speaks with Adam Kingl, Author of Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset. They discuss why the corporate world stifles creativity, what we can learn from creative industries, and how leaders can help address the problem. You will also hear about:

Businesses have to change at a fast pace today to stay relevant. But that doesn't mean transformation is easy, as most people are resistant to change. In this podcast, we speak with Lyndsey Jones and Balvinder Singh Powar about going digital: best practices for navigating cultures that are at first opposing change, how to avoid roadblocks, and how to convince the naysayers.

Andrew Mawson and Thiago Kiwi discuss how leadership has changed, how leaders can make virtual models work better, mental health and productivity, and some leadership challenges of the future.

What does good culture look like? Why is having a shared purpose within organisations so important? And where do formal processes go wrong?

How can you build trust in teams and organisations? What are the challenges with doing this remotely? And what happens when there's no trust? In this podcast, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Dr John Blakey about leadership and trust.

Conscious leadership must start with the self. In this podcast, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Marika Messager about authentic leadership, leading in alignment with your beliefs, and creating better habits.

How can we get more women in leadership roles? How can we overcome biases and imbed D&I in company culture? In this podcast, Silvia Pavoni speaks with Tine Arentsen Willumsen about Women's Leadership and Inclusion.

Our host, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Rupert Morrison, author of Data-Driven Organization Design, and CEO of Orgvue. Kiwi and Morrison speak about the importance of data driving your organisational design, including: - how this can lead to better engagement and satisfaction among employees, - what most companies do wrong when they restructure, and - why HR should do the workforce planning, and which skill sets are needed for this new function.

In our first podcast of the season, our host, Thiago Kiwi speaks with Ruth Kudzi, founder of the Optimus Coach Academy and author of Is it is? The Smart Woman's Guide to Finding Work You Love. Kiwi and Kudzi speak about the science behind high performance, from how to prioritise work to how to get your team to perform their best.

Beth Davies is the former Director of Learning at Tesla and host of the super-popular Career Curves podcast, sharing a progressive voice in the domains of HR and L&D. In this fast-moving interview we explore the death of the linear professional path and consider the prospects of the evolutionary career. Meet our guest: Beth Davies

AI has been called everything from a fantasy to a curse. Between the extremes we find something more practical and useful: a tool that can be used to automate unwanted human functions and augment our ability to make good decisions. As our guest in this week's episode, Sana Labs CEO, Joel Hellermark, says: AI in corporate learning is still in its infancy. But what is its potential? We invite Joel to comment on: Meet our guest: Joel Hellermark

It has never been more critical for organisations to be authentic about inclusiveness. Yet, many leaders still lack the self-awareness, language or emotional skills needed to engage effectively and empathetically with LGBTQ+ members of their business. In this episode we meet Victor Nieves, Partner in EY Capital Markets and longstanding leader of LGBTQ+ and D&I initiatives. We discuss the pressures and pitfalls facing organisations today as they move more consciously and assertively towards greater LGBTQ+ inclusion. Meet our guest: Victor Nieves

Resilience has long been a staple of leadership development, but through the global crisis this quality has come to define successful individuals, leaders and organisations. Through our conversations with leading thinkers, practitioners and development experts, Headspring has had access to multiple perspectives on the topic of resilience. In this review we collect some of the insights shared with us over the past few months, distilling key lessons about the roots of resilience, how to foster it, and what leaders need to become more resilient in an uncertain future. Includes leading-edge contributions from Marieluise Maiwald, Sudhanshu Palsule, Claire Dale, Patricia Peyton, Adam Kingl, Vlatka Hlupic, Stephen Frost, Jim Lawless, Nick van Dam, Jacquiline Brassey, Alex Edmans, and Alan Watkins. Learn more

The accelerated rate of change we are experiencing will not disappear with the subsidence of Covid-19 - this is the new normal. How can leaders build the capacities they need to engage with this rapidly evolving landscape? In this episode of Learning Rewired, Alan Watkins - neuroscientist, international leadership expert, bestselling author and Founder and CEO of Complete - argues that L&D functions within organisations need to move beyond L (learning) and focus on D (development). In this interview: Meet our guest: Alan Watkins

Diversity and Inclusion have been “important but not urgent” issues for some time, but are we living in a pivotal period in history, when the momentum of social movements finally accelerates organisational change? We posed this question to Stephen Frost: CEO and consultant at inclusion specialists, Frost Included. Stephen was previously diversity and inclusion advisor to both the UK government and former White House office, as well as Head of Diversity and Inclusion for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Listen to the full podcast for: Meet our guest: Stephen Frost

"Until recently, it was assumed that the business interest was on a collision course with social and environmental concerns. Yet recent research findings challenge this assumption. It turns out that you can secure superior financial returns through highly engaged staff displaying social and environmental responsibility." These are the words of Vlatka Hlupic, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Transformation at Hult Ashridge Executive Education, Global Faculty Member at Headspring and Founder and CEO of Management Shift Consulting. Vlatka is internationally awarded thought leader and her latest book is the groundbreaking Humane Capital: How to create a management shift to transform performance and profit. In this enlightening interview Vlatka shares: Meet our guest: Vlatka Hlupic

Learning REWIRED's FLASH INSIGHTS is a short and sharp distillation of key takeways from our podcast series. In this episode, the highlights of our interview with Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of the norm-challenging book, Grow the Pie - How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit. In this episode we learn: Meet our guest: Alex Edmans

Businesses are under increasing pressure to seek their profits in a responsible way. The common view is that aiming for positive social outcomes requires financial sacrifice for investors; or, in the opposite direction, that the pursuit of profit is always at the cost of social and environmental health. But is there something fundamentally flawed with this worldview? Is there a different route that leads to increased profits and greater wellbeing for all stakeholders? Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School and author of the norm-challenging book, Grow the Pie - How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit. In this episode we learn: Meet our guest: Alex Edmans

The multi-systems crises catalysed by Covid-19 have challenged business, society, the world economy, and many of our pre-established beliefs. In these difficult times we are given endless opportunities to learn and develop, but what separates organisations and individuals that learn effectively from those that don't? What potential gains can be harnessed by taking a genuine learning approach to experiences, and role do leaders play in this evolution? Helping to answer these questions is Nick Shackleton-Jones: iconoclast, free thinking learning expert, HR Director, Learning at Deloitte UK, and author of How People Learn. Meet our guest: Nick Shackleton-Jones