CORPORATEUNPLUGGED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School
Amy Edmondson is a Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, studying human interactions that lead to the creation of successful companies for the betterment of society.
She's been recognised by the Thinker's 50 Global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and has received numerous top rankings and awards. She studies psychological safety and organisational learning.
Anurag Gupta is a lawyer-turned-social entrepreneur who made it his mission to figure out a way to hack bias. He is also a public speaker, a mindfulness teacher, and an educator. He founded Be More America in order to train professionals to eliminate conscious and unconscious biases. Today he talks about measuring and hacking bias using the PRISM framework, how compassion is the essence of us as human beings, increasing well-being by dealing with the emotions that form biases, remembering to love yourself, and healing the epidemic of loneliness and loss of connection in the modern world by getting out of our minds and going back to our bodies. For full show notes, scroll down.
Ayse Birsel is a designer and innovator who has designed hundreds of award winning products and systems for Fortune 500 brands and was named by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business. She's known for bringing new solutions to old problems and for her humanistic design approach.
David Williams is the founder of Impact, a multi-award winning creative change agency that operates in 17 offices across the globe. Today David talks about helping organizations transform themselves, why businesses are more agile than governments, the essence of experiential learning, why disrupting companies are good, his advice to leaders and why he's tremendously optimistic about the future.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director
Emma Stenström is Associate Professor and Center Director for the Research Center for Arts, Business & Culture at Stockholm School of Economics and one of the founders of Global Challenges, transforming business education. Emma talks about pockets of resistance, what students want, how to revolutionize and humanize business, survival of the kindest and what truly drives her crazy.
Job Titles:
- Chief People Officer at Mindvalley
Ezekiel Vicente is the Chief People Officer at Mindvalley, a company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mindvalley is all about innovating education by using mindfulness and personal development techniques. Today Ezekiel talks about what's in the DNA of a true leader, the failures of our education system, the main values that guide them at Mindvalley, why people seek jobs at organizations they resonate with, why investing in yourself as a person will end up benefiting your business, and why it's important to always remember that we are all in this together.
Garry Ridge is Chairman and CEO of WD-40 Company and has been with the company for almost 33 years. Having worked his way up through the managerial ranks to the top position, he knows what great company culture looks like, so much so, he not only practices what he preaches, he teaches it to the next generation of leaders too.
Job Titles:
- Baby Bathwater Institute 's Co - Founder
Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur from the digital space with an incredible background in internet marketing, sales, and strategy, with a modern-day philosopher's outlook on life, and zest for living. Today, Hollis talks about the Baby Bathwater Institute, maintaining balance when working with a partner, transparency in leadership, the importance of quality over quantity, establishing a brand personality, and why we need to be physically present and truly connect with people.
Baby Bathwater Institute's co-founder Hollis Carter struggles to put it into words.
Art is an application of human creativity, says Taipei based artist, Jayce Pei Yu Lee. It's a way to expand the imagination and create new things.
With so much conflict happening in the world, and so many disagreements not just between people but between countries, we need art to create a space that allows new things to happen, says Jayce, without conflict.
"Everyday, every present something has possibilities, and I feel providing light is also providing a space to seek for new opportunities."
Jen Grace Baron is co-founder, Co-CEO and Chief Inspiration Officer at InspireCorps, an inspiration strategy firm that partners with organisations to drive business growth and innovation.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Group Partners
John Caswell is the founder of Group Partners, the home of structured visual thinking. Their aim? To help organisations make strategies that work and avoid solving the wrong problem really well.
The visual part is key and central to John's work. He says the devil is not in the detail, it's in the bigger picture, but it often hides in plain sight. Which makes it incredibly hard for business leaders, who are in the midst of their business creation, to see it.
John learned how important the detail was at an early age, from watching his father draw images of an aircraft engine. The pictures he drew were obviously of an aeroplane, but the level of detail his father went into drawing the engine, the thing that would power the aeroplane to fly, was mind blowing.
Job Titles:
- CEO and Founder of Way of Nature
John P. Milton is an explorer and a true pioneer. He is a professor of environmental studies and has written books on ecology and environmental conservation. In the mid-1960s, he played a key role in fostering the environmental movement. He also helped author one of the earliest publications on the threat of rising global carbon dioxide levels.
John P. Milton, CEO and founder of Way of Nature, has a unique capacity to help people have an encounter with nature that catalyses their deepest sense of purpose, and their innate capacities as leaders.
John has a lifelong passion to help people connect to nature, and to experience nature as an extension of one's family:
"As I grew up, I began to realise that people were very disconnected from nature, and in many ways from a deeper level of themselves. So I began to go out and spend time alone in nature, and did a version of the Native American Vision Quest at age seven."
That time alone in nature set him on the path for his own life's work - he's committed himself to helping bring the human species back into a deep connection with nature.
Job Titles:
- Organizational Anthropologist and a Specialist
Judith Glaser is an organizational anthropologist and a specialist in conversational intelligence. Today Judith talks about why it's important to understand how our brains work, why it's not healthy to know everything as a leader, how to deal with a conflict, why it's important to give children a voice, why you should help other people grow as a leader, and why we should all have more compassionate conversations.
Lisa Lindström is the CEO of Doberman, an Experience Design firm, and she is also a popular speaker and renown expert on strategic design and customer experience. Lisa talks about her passion for people, the drive to fix the unfairness, lessons from New York, the power of prototyping, why everything is possible, why an itchy feeling is serious, invisible pockets of society, value-driven mindset, and the power of goodness and integrity.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department of ESADE Business School
Marco Bertini is associate professor and chair of the marketing department of ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
He is most interested in helping companies develop better pricing strategies, enabling them to think through the way they profit from the value they provide, and from their hard-earned differentiation, by never losing sight of their customers.
Maria Cristina is incredibly passionate about this ambition, for her, her job is so much more than just what she does at work, it is who she is, what she values and what she strives for each and every day - to better the world we are living in. And that isn't just Enel's purpose, it is Maria Cristina's purpose and vision too.