This week Mats meet Corry Robertson. Corry is a leadership Coach from Canada specialized in leadership coaching and organizational culture. Corry and Mats discuss a number of interesting topics: - Emotional intelligence and the importance of that in the workplace - The impact of Zoom working on family life and the importance for managers have staff with kids to take that into account in the new normal - The importance of psychological safety and how people have a 6th sense around whether they fe...
Sep 04, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Mats is sharing some of the statistics for TCC. Which episodes have been the most listened? From which countries and cities are people listening in? Which device and platform is the most used to listen? An episode for statistical nerds. Mats is also promoting the Webinar he is going to hold with Dr Anders Tegnell, the Chief Architect of the rather unorthodox Swedish Stratege: no lock down, no face masks, school open. If you listen to the episode you will find the 50% magic discount code to use a...
Aug 21, 2020•13 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This week Mats sits down with Camille Bonhoure, a young French lawyer and the first French guest on the podcast. Camille grow up in the SouthWest of France and already as a kid beeing part of the local choir group he travelled around Europe to sing. He did a part of his university studies in Denmark where he also worked for the Danish-French chamber of commerce, learnt Danish and got immerged in the Danish culture. His journey took him to Slovakia and now to Prague, Czech Republic where he is wo...
Jul 31, 2020•58 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this episode Mats sits down with Dr. Matthew Gamble and discovers a fascinating story about someone who grew up as a kid being atheist but who became a man of faith after smuggling 3 pounds of Marijuana into the United States from Jamaica and not being caught and taking it as a sign of some higher spirit. After that enrolling in the Seventh-Adventist Church machinery and becoming a pastor. Matthew was a Rock & Roll Pastor running his churches pretty much like a Startup and he travelled 6 ...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 12
A new episode with Mats trying to explain why he has been so slow lately in producing new episodes of the Podcast. He talks about his new job to lead the Swedish-American Chamber of San Fransisco & Silicon Valley, how he talks Swedish at work for the first time in 27 years and how it is to lead a remote office and get up to speed in his new role. He also reflects on Zoom meetings that seems to always start on time and go on forever, the opposite to real life Corporate meetings where people o...
Jun 20, 2020•16 min•Season 2Ep. 11
In today's episode Mats meets with Arend Dittmer from Germany working for Google in San Francisco. Arend is the first Googler in The Corporate Corner and he has an international career that took him from Germany to Canada and then to California. They discuss a multitude of subjects and here is some of things you will here: - How is Google Management communicating to their staff - What makes a difference between IBM and Google - Why should a traditional company having their IT infrastructure go t...
May 22, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 10
This week Mats is doing a solo about his mindfulness journey that has gone from being a constant worrier to be more in peace and less impacted by the ups and downs and curveballs that life is throwing you. He is aware that he might be living in an illusion and that potentially one could lose his/her edge by entering into a meditation world but does it matter? He talks about the tools he is using to meditate (it really helps for modern people to sit down with a guided meditation) such as: - Heads...
May 15, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week Mats sits down with someone who has meant a lot to himself, John Ireland from England. John is a coach, leadership developer and very experienced trainer to leaders at all levels and he is delivering a very popular emotional intelligence training. They talk about John's background and his upbringing in Northern England and how espcially two events shaped and formed him at a young age, the loss of his mother at the age of 11 and how he as a young man started to work for the Samaritans i...
May 01, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In this weeks episode Mats sits down with his Nordic friend, Philip Hilm from Denmark and talk about Philip's exciting life and career as a professional poker player. We'll hear the story about a young Danish man who as a kid didn't naturally read the social cues between people and then spent a lot of energy and time to learn everything about it and when he was in his twenties he was broke and doing small jobs and decided to give poker a go and he became a professional poker player with an outst...
Apr 24, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 7
In this weeks episode I, Mats meet with Mike Robbins, who is an expert in emotional intelligence, leadership, teamwork and company culture. Mike is the author of several books and he just came out with his last book with the for the moment perfect title "WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER". It's a book with the subtitle "Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and belonging" and a the book is full of anecdotes from Mike's experience and life and it has a strong focus on soft skills, authenti...
Apr 18, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week Mats sits down with Alain Hunkins. Alain is a leadership coach and has worked with thousands of groups and leaders in the last decades. He is also the author of his first book: "Cracking the Leadership code: Three Secrets of Building Strong Leaders" We talk about the book and some concrete trips and tricks for leaders. We touch upon a lot of subjects and here is a glimpse: - How to be more emphatic, the importance of really listening when you talk to someone. - Only 21% of people think...
Apr 10, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week we meet Steffen Kaiser from Germany. Steffen is an experienced CFO and has been in a multitude of executive management positions. He has also been the person coming in to a company and having the tough task to massively lay off people, something that deeply affected him. A sample of things discussed in this episode: The challenge for management of involving the people who is actually doing the work into decisions that ultimateley impacts them. How can management get out of their ivory ...
Apr 03, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Mats is sharing his sympathy with everyone impacted by the Coronavirus. From people losing their lives, to sick people and others loosing their jobs. The world will forever be a pre and post Corona. How will this impact the world economy? A thought goes to all people lining up in the unemployment lines (without possiblity to do social distancing) and the hopefully positive energy and new better world that might come out of this. From every crisis something good comes. What will be the future of ...
Mar 27, 2020•8 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In todays episode Mats sits down with Leigh Sembaluk. Leigh is a young Canadian with multiple talents. He grew up being a passionate soccer player and reached his goal and became pro. Unfortunateley he was injured in his first season and turned into coaching. He became more and more interested in what really makes the best players the best and what is really distinguishing them from the others. This lead to a book called Preception and it gives insights into Leigh's experience and gives valuable...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to the 2nd season of The Corporate Corner. In this episode Mats will talk about the why for this 2nd season and also why the 1st season unexpectedly stopped. He will share the intention for this season which is to broaden the scope of the guests and also have some people on their way into the corporate life or who have recently left it. The intention is also to give a voice to people working in what is not always considered corporate, but people who have life stories to share around thei...
Mar 06, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Would it be possible to change the order of things so that what we love to do in life is predominant and that we make money in the spare time? That is a question that Rasto asked himself and after a lot of hesitation he took a break in his corporate career to move to Bali and learn to surf and at his return from Bali he left the corporate security to start his own company. Rasto started to question what is really important when a close relative passed away just at the time when he was retiring a...
Jun 13, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In Today’s episode, Mats is sitting down (via Skype) with Bruce Eckfeldt. Bruce always wanted to become an architect and received two architect degrees at McGill university in Montreal. During his education, he was one of the first classes who had computers on hand and he quickly found himself interested in computer modelling and animation. Not long after, Bruce got into the field of product design and how to develop strategies around products. He was an early adopter of Agile and founded a comp...
May 24, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this weeks episode, Ariel Andersson sits down with Jan "Janko" Palenčár in a deep conversation about finding your path in life, being a servant and what it really means. Jan was interested in computers from an early age and started programming already at the age of 8. He started to work as a software engineer but quickly realized that he wanted something more out of life, that his path was meant to be in another direction, but he wasn't sure exactly what that path was, the last time he met wi...
May 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This week Mats talks to Per-Erik "Perka" Holmström and we'll follow his journey that is a mixture of innovation, corporate life and last but not least Sport, which has been an integral part of Perkas whole life. Perka is a man with ideas and he will never take no for an answer when someone thinks that one of his ideas can not be implemented. Stubborn, talkative and visionaire is all adjectives describing Perka. He'll talk about how Financial Hearing was created and how the task of reporting fina...
Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Mats talks about new TCC Schedule ahead moving away from the weekly wednesday distribution and giving his view on how to stay in good shape while still in corporate. Great to have you here in the Corporate Corner: CONTACT US: ArielandMats@gmail.com 1. If you'd like to work with us in coaching and consulting. 2. If you'd like to be on the podcast with Ariel or Mats, send us a pitch or a details about your story++ *We also do workshops, conferences and voice your story.:) 2025 ACTIONS FOREST INNOV...
Mar 24, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Today’s guest is Bert Muhleman. Bert is a non conformist who has shied away from the corporate life and privileged travel, instead, meeting with other cultures and keeping a free soul and spirit. Bert shares his story and why he chose life outside the corporate world and how it is to live from job to job, from travel to travel, living life, his way. He also talks about his last project that he started during his studies, accomplished in Czech Republic 50+ years old, an off grid portable washing ...
Mar 20, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In today's episode Mats is going on an exploration of targets, target settings and the bell curve. Have you got your targets? Have you made the targets for your staff? The corporate target settings for individuals is a cumbersome, administrative process in many places and often something that just have to be done. Very few are getting their real motivation and drive from these targets written on a paper and people are often cautious when setting their own "stretch" targets. More personal involvm...
Mar 11, 2019•12 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week, we meet Melissa Hahn from California. Melissa has made her career in the beauty and luxury goods industry working mainly in marketing and sales for companies like Chanel, L'Oréal and Levis to mention a few. Her career has taken her to the Caribbean, Panama and Chile and of course California. We talk about the difficulty to sometimes be appreciated for your work when you are just doing the job and not tooting your own horn and how honesty at job interviews sometimes backfires and that ...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Ariel shares ideas, tools and solutions to business and life decisions, through. Intuition. In Northern California words like Intuition, Conscious business and meditation were as common as bread and butter, or maybe I should say rice crackers and tofu. No, seriously, it was part of the norm. Yet, to the regular business world beyond West coast borders, with some exceptions, you rarely heard much about these things, in North America. Today, Intuition seems to be the newest thing buzzing around. P...
Feb 27, 2019•14 min•Season 1Ep. 14
In this episode Mats sits down and talks with Monika Hilm. Monika is a Swedish international hotel manager, book author and driving force in the happiness at work movement. They talk about Monika's book, "PUT YOUR PEOPLE FIRST and the rest will follow" that she wrote while taking a year "off" and where she outlines her management ideas and how to create a Happy Hotel environment. Monika talks about the journey that took her from Sweden where she is native to all over the world working and managi...
Feb 19, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Mats and Halee Fischer-Wright talk about the book she co-authored, The Tribal Leadership. Halee explains what is a tribe and the 5 different stages that individuals and corporations cycle through. Stage 1 - Life Sucks Stage 2 - My Life Sucks Stage 3 - I am great you are not Stage 4 - We are great and better than them Stage 5 - We are creating something for a higher purpose and LIFE IS GREAT They talk about how the different levels effect one another. That even a rockstar CEO can get dragged down...
Feb 13, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In this episode Mats goes solo, for the first time. Mats talks about the suffering he sees around him, in daily life, and how often it is linked to the person that is directly managing someone. As well, he talks about the importance of the direct line manager and how that person can make all the difference. Mats reminds us that speaking your mind is important and expresses that most of the time he is not doing it. Mats tells us how it is to be an unemployed executive, how a life long fear of get...
Feb 06, 2019•14 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This week we are back with David Sobeski and Part II of the talk with him. David talks about his interpretation of the Oprah Winfrey theory and how it can be applied in management. He tells us how he is using 1 on 1 walks with his direct reports to get out of the confined environment that is the office space and how that changes things. We talk extensively about the difference between US and European work culture and the importance of being passionate about what you do. David is dreading the not...
Jan 29, 2019•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This week Mats talks to David Sobeski in a conversation that lasted for nearly 3 hours so it will come in 2 parts. In part 1 we cover: David talks about how he grow up in an American middle class family in Pennsylvania on the US East Coast. He talks about his early interest for computers and how he got his first computer as an 8 year old and started to program very early. David is also sharing the experience from his university years and he early on learnt to under promise and over deliver. He t...
Jan 23, 2019•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Mats & Ariel are back talking in The Cororate Corner, this episode. They share TCC’s first reviews on Apple Podcasts (yeah!) with the listeners and also share some more suprising feedback they had from their first episodes. Ariel shares her view on how each of us have a unique story to share regardless of which position we have in the hierarchy of society, and that we all tend to focus on the more famous, and seemingly succesful ones, and that for some people, it is easy to feel small in com...
Jan 16, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 8
