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   S1 · E12 · 3 Jan 2023 · 45 min

   Michele Zanini - How conversations change when we cut bureaucracy

   Michele Zanini is the co-founder of the management lab and the co-author of the book “Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them”. Michele helps organisations become more resilient, creative and engaging places to work by inventing new management practices. We have invited Michele to talk about how we can unleash people’s potential by introducing a more humanocratic organisational model. The key topics covered in this episode are: How organisations c...

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   S1 · E11 · 24 Nov 2022 · 51 min

   Wendy Smith – How to create value from competing demands

   Wendy Smith is a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, co-founder of the Women’s Leadership Initiative and author of the book Both/And Thinking. She is an advocate for bold leadership, and much of her work focuses on helping leaders and teams navigate paradoxes. We have invited Wendy Smith to talk about how we can get better at embracing paradoxes and go from either/or to both/and thinking. The key topics covered in this episode are: How we ...

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   S1 · E10 · 1 Nov 2022 · 42 min

   Sheila Heen – Feedback and why you’re not getting the most out of it

   Sheila Heen is the founder of Triad Consulting Group, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and Co-Author of “Thanks for the Feedback” and “Difficult Conversations”. She is consulting with companies ranging from Pixar, Hugo Boss to the NBA around difficult conversations, negotiation and sound decision-making. We have invited Sheila Heen to talk about the conversations around feedback and specifically how we can each be better feedback receivers. The key topics covered in this ...

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   S1 · E9 · 27 Sep 2022 · 40 min

   Gail Gallie - Changing a global conversation

   Gail Gallie is the co-founder and creative leader of Project Everyone. Project Everyone is the organisation behind the campaign launch of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Previously, Gail has run marketing and advertising practices, but she is now focusing on how to drive solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. In this episode, we have invited Gail Gallie to talk about the conversations that led up to the big success that is the Global Goals and how it changed global conversatio...

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   S1 · E8 · 16 Aug 2022 · 45 min

   Julie Diamond – How to increase your personal power

   Julie Diamond is the founder of Diamond Leadership. She works as an executive coach and international leadership consultant, and she authored the book: “Power - A User’s Guide”. Her focus is on creating transformational learning and leadership solutions across sectors. In this episode, we talk with Julie Diamond about the power of power in conversations and how each of us can become better power users. Key topics covered in this episode are: Understanding the difference b...

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   S1 · E6 · 22 Mar 2022 · 34 min

   David Whyte - Courageous conversations

   David Whyte is a philosopher and poet. He explores the conversational nature of reality, focusing on the relationship of human beings to their world, to creation, to others, and to the end of life itself. In this conversation, David challenges us to think of conversations not as an exchange of words but rather as a lens through which you can look at your life and way of being. Key topics covered in this episode are: Being in conversation with the things that are other than usThe concept...

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   S1 · E5 · 8 Feb 2022 · 36 min

   Elizabeth Stokoe - Effective conversations

   Elizabeth Stokoe British is a scientist and Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University where she studies conversation analysis. In this conversation, we explore how Elizabeth’s research and experience could be applied to better understand and change conversations. The key topics covered in this episode are: Our ability to predict the way a conversation is going to goThe way that one word can change an entire conversationMapping conversations to better unders...

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   S1 · E4 · 11 Jan 2022 · 46 min

   Priya Parker - Gatherings that Change Us

   In this episode we meet with conflict resolution facilitator and author, Priya Parker. We discuss takeaways from her book, “The Art of Gathering” and how to make a gathering meaningful, effective and engaging. In the pursuit of designing more transformational conversations and meetings, Priya encourages us to address the deepest need of the moment in our gatherings, to name a meeting according to its purpose, and to think about when a conversation or a meeting should take place in the c...

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   S1 · E3 · 14 Dec 2021 · 33 min

   Roger Martin - Changing conversations in strategy

   Hosts Katrina and Stig are joined by renowned strategy advisor and author Professor Roger Martin. Roger Martin is former Dean and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. In this episode, we discuss Roger Martin’s 5 strategy questions laid out in his book “Playing to Win”. We talk about a case example from the book through the lens of changing conversations: how strategic conversations might have be...

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    S1 · E1 · 15 Nov 2021 · 22 min

    Stig Albertsen and Katrina Marshall Dyrting - Change is changing conversations

    In this introductory episode, hosts Stig Albertsen and Katrina Marshall Dyrting discuss Changing Conversations in organisations and lay out the foundation for this podcast series: why focus on conversations, what could be possible if we do and who we will meet in the coming episodes? The key topics covered in this episode are: Organisations are conversationsIf you want real change, change the conversationThat conversations are the smallest biggest thing we can play with when it co...