Welcome to Leading Professionals.
Join Professor Laura Empson as she talks to senior leaders from some of the world’s most successful professional organisations about the crucial issues they are currently facing.
Each episode reveals the realities that lie beneath the ‘professional’ veneer these highly successful organisations, and their leaders, present to the outside world.
Laura uses insights from her lifetime of researching and advising professional organisations to uncover and make sense of the complex, messy and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professionals, and to identify key learning for all professionals.
If you are a professional in a leadership role – or if you simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently.
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About Professor Laura Empson
Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action.
She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022).
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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Welcome to Leading Professionals.
Join Professor Laura Empson as she talks to senior leaders from some of the world’s most successful professional organisations about the crucial issues they are currently facing.
Each episode reveals the realities that lie beneath the ‘professional’ veneer these highly successful organisations, and their leaders, present to the outside world.
Laura uses insights from her lifetime of researching and advising professional organisations to uncover and make sense of the complex, messy and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professionals, and to identify key learning for all professionals.
If you are a professional in a leadership role – or if you simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently.
Click the subscribe button and to be the first to get episodes of Leading Professionals as soon as they drop.
About Professor Laura Empson
Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action.
She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022).
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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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
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
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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
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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/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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Guest: Fabien Curto Millet, Chief Economist of Google.
Fabien joins Laura to discuss how he and his team of economists anticipate, analyse, and understand the scale of change with which Google must contend.
How does he lead his team of professionals, and manage himself, during these uncertain times? And what does he remember from when Laura taught him Strategy at Oxford 25 years ago?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
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Professor Laura Empson introduces key topics and guests from the upcoming series.
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Welcome back to Leading Professional People, the podcast that explores the most crucial leadership questions currently facing professional organisations.
For this third series, Professor Laura Empson, who has dedicated almost 30 years to researching professionals and professional service firms, will be joined by a new co-host, Tony Hall, Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the former Director General of the BBC.
Laura and Tony’s guests include a fascinating selection of senior leaders from professional organisations, including EY, Slaughter & May, Spencer Stuart, INSEAD, the BBC, and MI6.
Join them to explore the challenges, confusions, frustrations, and elations that make professional organisations so difficult to lead and so fascinating to understand.
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