"I think I’ve got an idea for another study. I think we should talk about how we lie in the Army” Lenny Wong, Research Professor at the US Army War College, discovered, while doing a study on why junior officers weren't innovative enough, that the Army had put so many requirements on officers that it was physically impossible to get it all done. However, everyone would still report that everything got done because that was what the system required. Lenny and his research partner found that this ...
Nov 05, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Anna & Michaela share their learnings, building up ethics, and compliance at the Telia company in the wake of a corruption scandal. Michaela Ahlberg is a lawyer with over thirty years of experience working with ethics & compliance programs at several multinational companies and is currently the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Getinge. Anna Romberg is an anti-corruption, compliance, and corporate governance expert who has deployed ethics and compliance programs in global organiza...
Oct 22, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Richard Bistrong shares his story - from being a successful Vice President at a Law Enforcement and Defense company to being sentenced for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, going undercover for the FBI, and finally to prison. Today Richard speaks and advises leaders, HR, and compliance professionals on ethics and compliance challenges. We talk about: How leaders and organizations need to navigate the tension between the pressure to succeed and the pressure to comply. How we can make t...
Oct 08, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Strauss Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, takes us through four key aspects of ethical leadership, based on his new book - Better, Not Perfect. Max shares how research on decision making can help give better output on philanthropy, why we need to make wise trade-offs to decrease waste and how we can all be a part of disrupting corruption. The key is our moral obligation to notice and not close our eyes when we see signs of corruption ...
Sep 24, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Rob is the former Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb. A role he took on after nearly 4 years as Airbnb’s General Counsel. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Rob worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney. He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA’s Outstanding Service Medallion. In 1999, Rob moved to California to become eBay’s third attorney and was later promoted to Vice ...
Sep 10, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Mary Gentile is the Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and senior adviser at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. She is the creator and director of Giving Voice to Values, a pioneering business curriculum for values-driven leadership, which has been featured in publications such as, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and piloted in over 1200 business schools and organizations globally. Mary is t...
Aug 27, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Joan Lurie is a development psychologist and one of Australia’s leaders in systemic change & culture, known from her expert commentary in the media on organizational culture. With over 20 years of experience both as an internal change leader in organizations and as a consultant, she founded Orgonomix in 2008 with the mission to help leaders and organizations be free from the systemic patterns keeping them stuck. Joan has developed ‘Orgonomics’ – a proprietary systemic methodology, designed t...
Aug 13, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Sesil Pir is an industrial/organizational psychologist who has worked in Global HR Management roles on four continents in multinational corporations like Novartis and Microsoft. Sesil is currently acting as an HR functional thought leader, founder of SESIL PIR Consulting, a boutique management consultancy, focusing on changing the status quo of work; and of Whirling Chief, a global digital collaboration and learning platform, championing humanity into the workplace. She is a frequent Forbes cont...
Jul 16, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Terentia Browne has spent many years, first as an engineer and then in management positions, at multinational corporations like Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. She holds a bachelor of science and has been awarded a Rising Star Award from the Health Care Businesswomen’s Associations. She was chosen to be a part of the Ascend Accelerated Women’s Leadership Program within Johnson & Johnson. She is the founder of Greenleaf Leaders where she supports introvert emerging leaders to enhance thei...
Jul 02, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Alison Taylor is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director at Ethical Systems. Ethical System's mission is to harness research, from leaders in academia, to transform the ethical practice of business in the corporate world. Prior to joining Ethical Systems, Alison was the Managing Director of BSR Business For Social Responsibilty. Alison is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption and writes frequently for Ha...
Jun 18, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this episode, Tobias talks about how the current moment is putting the spotlight on racism and injustice. And how leaders' response to the killing of George Floyd serves as an example of a dilemma that every leader and HR professional will be facing at one point or another. Will we, as leaders, be ready to practice courageous humility and deal with the underlying heart issues in our organizations, or will we cover-up, shift blame or just try to move on.
Jun 12, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode, Tobias shares how having a strong culture with high employee engagement shouldn't be the sole focus of our culture efforts. How a too-narrow focus on engagement and strong culture can lead to internal corruption or hinder us from achieving our strategy. Tobias proposes that we need a combination of three different aspects - a healthy culture, a strong culture, and a culture that enables our purpose and strategy - in order to build a flourishing organization.
May 14, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Carolyn is the co-founder of Walking the Talk, a global culture consulting firm, and she is globally recognized as the most experienced consultant and speaker on how to change corporate culture, having personally worked with over 100.000 leaders and helped lead over 200 culture change journeys in 35 countries. Carolyn is the author of Walking the Talk, a best selling book on culture change and values-based leadership. Robert Joss, Dean Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business calls it “An ...
Apr 30, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Siobhan McHale is the author of The Insider's Guide to Culture Change and EGM People, Culture & Change at DuluxGroup. She has worked across four continents, helping thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. She led a radical seven-year change initiative at ANZ that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in Australia into one of the highest-performing and most admired banks in the world. Professor John Kotter used her work with ANZ as a Harvard Business Scho...
Apr 23, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode, Tobias shares five practices that will empower you to build trust and strengthen culture as you lead through the current COVID-19 crisis. Through Creating Clarity, Building Unity, Ensuring Integrity, Practicing Courageous Humility and Developing Resiliency your organization will become stronger and healthier.
Apr 16, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 11
A crisis offers us a gift. A gift of clarity. It reveals the state of our hearts and the health of our organizational culture. In this episode, Tobias shares his insight from helping leaders navigate severe public crises. How the current corona pandemic crisis (COVID-19) can be an opportunity for you to strengthen your culture, build unity and trust within your organization if you are ready to see, reflect, act and learn.
Apr 09, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Ron Carucci, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Navalent, helps CEOs at some of the world’s largest companies lead transformational change. He is a bestselling author, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes and TedX. Ron shares his insight and research on why building honesty, unity, and integrity into the fiber of your organization is vital in order to experience great organizational health and lasting success.
Apr 02, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 9
It’s not enough with a great compelling vision to achieve transformation. You also have to pursue the needed organizational culture shift that can enable your organization to make the journey. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders Tobias & Lena talk about how to make your vision come alive and lead to actual change. We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments! Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which org...
Mar 26, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
When defining a vision statement for your business or organization, it’s easy to start with the wrong thing - the statement itself. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder, Tobias Sturesson gives you three vital questions to ask together with your leadership team before you begin crafting a vision statement. We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments! Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with...
Mar 19, 2020•4 min•Season 1Ep. 7
What is the one thing leaders must have to build a consistently healthy organization and lead transformational change? Courageous humility. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders, Tobias and Lena talk about why courageous humility is so important and how you can practice it in your leadership. We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments! Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy he...
Mar 18, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Too often, when leaders encounter organizational culture issues in their organization, they attempt to address by merely stating a list of corporate values. However, for any real change to take place, you have to start with the understanding that corporate values and organizational culture are not the same things. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder, Tobias explains the difference between espoused corporate values - the compass and organizational cultu...
Mar 18, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Organizational culture is built up of people, the tacit agreements they make and the beliefs, values and motives that are shaped as a result. However, everyone within the organization can potentially have an impact on whether that culture will be healthy or become corrupted. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder Tobias Sturesson uses a glass of water as a picture of culture. Customers, coworkers, suppliers and even society drink from that glass when they...
Mar 18, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Many leaders and HR staff are confounded by organizational culture, according to Harvard Business. However, an organization’s culture impacts every aspect of how it operates, whether we are aware about it or not. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders Lena and Tobias answer questions on what culture is and how leaders can get a deeper understanding of the four dimensions of culture to lead change more successfully and build organizational health. We woul...
Mar 18, 2020•5 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Leaders who care about the heart - the inner life - of their organizations can develop a healthy culture, create alignment around a shared purpose and vision and build an organization that operates with integrity. In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders Lena and Tobias sit down to answer questions on what the heart of an organization is, why it’s important to care about the heart and what that means practically for business leaders who desire to lead tran...
Mar 18, 2020•4 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Why deep, lasting Transformational Change is crucial and why so many leaders and businesses don’t experience it. Episode 001 of Leading Transformational Change. A video series where we answer questions from leaders on topics like change management, organizational culture, corporate values, vision and how to lead with courageous humility. We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments! Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy...
Mar 18, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
