Nordic Leaders
In Fail Smart - Lessons in Leadership and Life, our guests on the Nordic Leaders Podcast open up about themselves with the courage to talk about setbacks: the stuff that didn't quite work out how they intended, but how they came back stronger and wiser. We've got all the best elements of the Nordic leaders podcast still there, but there's a few extra questions about the ups and downs of life. Join us, David, Nick, and Stefano as we explore failing smart with our hyper successful guests - and hey, five star ratings are okay if you like what you hear!
Episodes
65 episodes
65 - Upgrade your thinking and make better decisions. Agile HR with Natal Dank.
Natal Dank is the Co-founder of PXO Culture, Chief Trendwatcher at the HR Trend Institute and named one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers of 2022 by HR Magazine. Recognized as a pioneer of Agile in the people profession, Natal hos...
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Season 7
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Episode 65
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45:59
64 - Samstag: The Intersection of Psychology and Leadership
Dr. Nicholas Samstag is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist based in New York City. With a diverse background spanning theater to ancient Greek and Latin studies, his journey into psychology and psychoanalysis has been influenced by a ran...
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Season 7
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Episode 64
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39:41
63 - Paradoxical Leadership with Ivo Brughmans
Immerse yourself on a journey of discovery in this conversation about Paradoxical Thinking and Leadership with author and philosopher, Ivo Brughmans. Get ready to challenge your own assumptions and self-perception.Ivo delivers a...
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Season 6
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Episode 63
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43:40
62 - Transforming leadership with Taneli Rantala
🗨️"Create habits that create a good life." In this episode we catch up with Taneli Rantala, CEO of Lifted, and dip in to highlights of Taneli's journey from a strategy consultant to a visiona...
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Season 6
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Episode 62
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42:10
61 - Connecting Opposites; a blueprint for a world of dilemmas, with Fons Trompenaars.
A warm and polished performance from Dutch organizational theorist Fons Trompenaars, recognized around the world for his work as a motivational speaker, consultant, and author of several books on culture and business.He spent over 30 years ...
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Season 6
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Episode 61
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43:09
60 - Environments in which Everyone Can Thrive with Celine Pasula
Celine Pasula has over a decade of leadership experience in top mobile gaming companies including startups and bigger companies. Today, as the Managing Dir...
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Season 6
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Episode 60
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38:15
59 - Nitin Sawhney on the power of letting go
"Music attracts luck" - Nitin SawhneyIn this episode we have a warm and uplifting chat with Nitin Sawhney, musician, producer and composer, known around the world for his albums, film scores, DJ skills, and collaborations with Pau...
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Season 5
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Episode 58
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47:18
58 - Questions are the Answer with Hal Gregersen
You’ve probably heard of Hal Gregersen… A global name in leadership and academia.An author and senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, an...
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52:48
57 - Johanna Småros; ‘an introvert engineer who gets stuff done on time’.
Now here’s a conversation we can all relate to, on the nature of working life today and how to navigate people, tech, and change, gracefully. Johanna is co-founder of RELEX Solutions, a huge success story and the wor...
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Season 5
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Episode 57
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47:22
56 - How People and Organisations Learn with Charles Jennings
Fail Smart: Lessons in Leadership & Life The brilliant Charles Jennings covers everything you need to know about life and learning in way less than an hour: Recognised as one of the world's leadin...
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55 - Fail Smart with Tendayi Viki
Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer Fail Smart - Lessons in Leadership and Life: The new series from the Nordic Leaders. We couldn’t possibly imagine a better way to start our Fail Smart series than this sp...
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Season 5
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Episode 55
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37:53
54 - Harnessing Informal Power in your Organisation with Dr. Matt Offord
In this episode we welcome Dr Matt Offord, esteemed lecturer in Leadership and Management from the Adam Smith Business Sch...
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Season 4
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32:25
53 - How improv principles can help leaders thrive in a changing environment - Patricia Ryan Madson
This week we host Patricia Ryan Madson.Patricia is the author of "improv wisdom" and a professor emerita at Stanford university, where she started teaching in 1977.In 1996 sh...
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Season 4
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30:37
52 - Why the next revolution is human with Perttu Pölönen
Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, inventor and author. In 2018 MIT Tech Review honored him among the 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe.He has written two books and his latest, “
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Season 4
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31:49
51 - Emilia Järvinen - Vegfluencing the World
“Everyone should do something to make the world a better place.” Listen in to the inspiring tale of 17000+ vegetable boxes and recipes delivered to Finnish families. The social economy in the EU comprises...
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Season 4
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27:32
50 - Care, Trust, Transparency: how storytelling turns values into action with Essi Knuutila from Futurice
We explore the world of meaningful values, story telling and The Inclusion Canvas with Essi Knuutila of Futurice.Essi is Global Head of Digital Marketing and discusses how Futurice's values of 'Care, Trust, Transparency and Continuou...
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Season 4
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34:06
49. How to cultivate diversity and win over the algorithms - Mikko Alasaarela
We dive into the world of influence with Mikko Alasaarela, but influence with an algorithmic twist.Mikko is an impact-focused AI entrepreneur. He has founded and invested in several ...
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Season 4
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33:14
48. Matt Abrahams and the secrets of communication: how to go from silence to brilliance
In today's episode we are delighted to welcome Matt Abrahams, communication expert and lecturer at Stanford University. We will tal...
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Season 4
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33:19
47. Adaptability, Extremely Fast Growth And How To Hire Amazing People - Kati Tammisto
In this episode, recorded in June 2021 our guest is Kati Tammisto, (then Head of CX at Sympa and now) CMO at Precisely
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Season 4
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27:25
46. Failure and redemption with Tommi Lähde
"I'm not a loser - the story I told myself for years" In this very frank episode Tommi Lähde - Founder and CEO of
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Season 4
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30:50
45. Underpromise, overdeliver: how to win in the nordics with André Noël Chaker
Welcome to Season 4 of the Nordic Leaders Podcast! In this episode we interview André Noël Chaker, speaker, entrepreneur, executive and lawyer t...
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Season 4
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31:04
44 - Nurturing a high trust culture - Merja Ranta-aho
Building on 140 years of engineering innovation, Merja Ranta-aho, Executive VP of HR at Elisa, Finland’s leading telecom, shares her own learning with Stefano, Nick and David on •Daily experimentation and continuous improvement as ...
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Season 3
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34:38
43 - Joel Willans - How to create a buzz online. Bonus episode!
In this bonus episode we share some more Joel Willans with you. Joel describes how he works his magic online to build high value content which reaches more people, including pointers on:How to create more buzz, build a communi...
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Season 3
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26:24
42 - Leading with a big heart - Elli Holappa
In this episode we explore with Elli Holappa, CEO of Jungle Juice Bar, values-based leadership during a crisis. Elli had spent just 12 days with her new management team in spring 2020 when the global pandemic struck. Listen in to our fasc...
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Season 3
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33:57
41 - Making a Business Model out of Confusion - Alf Rehn
Alf Rehn, thinker, contrarian and provocateur leaves his day job as Professor of Innovation, Design and Management at the University of Southern Denmark, for half an hour to share with us his secrets including 🎧 What does it reall...
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Season 3
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