In an online meeting earlier this year, a high-level executive at KPMG UK said employees should “stop moaning” about the pandemic and dismissed staff fears about proposed salary and pension cuts as “playing the victim.” Although he later apologized to his team for his choice of words, the leaked video of his comments prompted a public outcry and lead to his resignation from the company. How do executive coaches deal with cases of clients feeling humiliated or humiliating others? Konstantin Korot...
May 17, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Over 1.3 million people worldwide live with a disability. Yet for too long, their rights and opportunities in the workforce were left from the diversity inclusion agenda. Caroline Casey is the founder of The Valuable 500, a global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda of the world’s national and multinational private-sector corporations. To date, the CEOs of over 440 companies have committed to The Valuable 500 initiative, including Google, Fujitsu, Microsoft, and Unileve...
Apr 01, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Dr. Nakeema Stefflbauer (nakeema@post.harvard.edu) is the founder of FrauenLoop, a nonprofit organization that selects and trains motivated women-identified persons for professional jobs in emerging tech. She’s also the founder of Tech In Color, a network of tech leaders in Europe focused on expanding visibility and opportunities for senior tech professionals from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Dr. Stefflbauer holds MA and PhD degrees in Modern Middle East History from Harvard University...
Mar 02, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Ines Amri ( ines.amri@tu-berlin.de ) is a research project lead at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and a doctoral candidate in the department of Trust in Digital Services (TDS) in the faculty of economics and management at TU Berlin. The ECDF collaboration with the German development agency GIZ supports European-African exchange in the digital transformation; Ines Amri’s research focuses on digital economic development in Tunisia. Amri holds an Executive MBA from ESMT Berlin as well as...
Sep 10, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dr. Alberto Ares is a Jesuit and an associate professor and researcher at the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, where he serves as the director of its Institute for Migration Studies and teaches in international migration and development cooperation. The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is dramatically transforming economies globally. In episode #8 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, we discuss the differing impact of the coronavirus crisis on marginalized and underrepresented grou...
May 28, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Klara Lindner is a researcher and consultant on renewable energy solutions and the co-founder of Mobisol. Now owned by ENGIE, Berlin-based Mobisol develops off-grid solar energy products for communities in Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania that are underserved by typical energy market providers. Christoph Burger is a senior lecturer at ESMT Berlin, with a research focus on blockchain/innovation in the energy market’s transformation ("Energiewende"). Together with Jens Weinmann from ESMT and two other ...
Apr 08, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Martin Unger is the managing director of WATTx, a company bringing deep tech solutions to traditional industry. Mandy Hübener is a program director at ESMT, with a primary focus on organizational culture and change. In episode #6 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, the two discuss the modern workforce in the age of AI. Is machine learning and other digital innovation supporting new work models that truly encourage autonomy, cooperation, and collaboration? Or is all so much “blockchain blah...
Mar 03, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Chris C. Demchak is the senior cyber scholar of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute (CIPI) of the US Naval War College. Henning Lahmann is an expert in international law and a senior researcher at the Digital Society Institute at ESMT. In episode #5 of Campus 10178, the ESMT Berlin podcast, the two speak on cyber security and transnational security strategies, and how so-called wicked actors are reshaping the internet landscape for authoritarian ends. Links: Cyber and Innovation Policy Ins...
Feb 03, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Didi Hopkins is an actor, director, voice-over artist, and lecturer. As a senior associate at Dramatic Resources, she trains business school students and corporate professionals on how to use acting techniques for body and voice to achieve in business communication and leadership. In Episode #4 with Campus 10178 co-host Sascha Rödel, Hopkins differentiates between message content and message delivery, discusses the gendered context for women in leadership, and answers why, oh why, people continu...
Jan 08, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Chengwei Liu joined ESMT Berlin as an associate professor of strategy and behavioral science in the summer of 2019, coming from Warwick Business School. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and MIT, among others. He speaks with Campus 10178 about his latest book, "Luck," and how, somewhat counterintuitively, luck can be studied and managed to win business success. Find "Luck: A Key Idea for Business and Society, 1st Edition" on Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Luck-A-Key-Idea-for-Busines...
Dec 11, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Ina Budde is the co-founder and CEO of circular.fashion, a sustainability-focused agency in fashion and textiles. After she studied fashion design, she soon realized that she didn’t want to contribute to “business as usual” in the sector. Hannes Gurzki is a program director at ESMT and an expert for branding, marketing, strategy, and luxury. After studying music and business, he worked in consulting with a number of luxury brands. Together, our guests discuss future challenges in fashion, how th...
Nov 04, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Simone Menne is a German top manager and a prominent advocate for women's leadership in the executive suite. For five of her 27 years at Lufthansa AG, Menne served as the company's CFO. Today, she is a supervisory board member at BMW, Deutsche Post DHL, and Springer Nature; serves as a non-executive board member at Johnson Controls International; and runs her own art gallery in her hometown, Kiel. She speaks on efforts to change corporate culture to welcome diversity in executive leadership. Abo...
Oct 01, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
