64 episodes

In Fail Smart - Lessons in Leadership and Life, our guests on the Nordic Leaders Podcast open up about themselves with the courage to talk about setbacks: the stuff that didn't quite work out how they intended, but how they came back stronger and wiser. We've got all the best elements of the Nordic leaders podcast still there, but there's a few extra questions about the ups and downs of life. Join us, David, Nick, and Stefano as we explore failing smart with our hyper successful guests - and hey, five star ratings are okay if you like what you hear!

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    • Business
    • 5.0 • 18 Ratings

In Fail Smart - Lessons in Leadership and Life, our guests on the Nordic Leaders Podcast open up about themselves with the courage to talk about setbacks: the stuff that didn't quite work out how they intended, but how they came back stronger and wiser. We've got all the best elements of the Nordic leaders podcast still there, but there's a few extra questions about the ups and downs of life. Join us, David, Nick, and Stefano as we explore failing smart with our hyper successful guests - and hey, five star ratings are okay if you like what you hear!

    Nicholas Samstag: The Intersection of Psychology and Leadership

    Nicholas Samstag: The Intersection of Psychology and Leadership

    Dr. Nicholas Samstag is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist based in New York City. With a diverse background spanning theater to ancient Greek and Latin studies, his journey into psychology and psychoanalysis has been influenced by a range of experiences. In this episode, Nicholas discusses how his varied path shaped his approach to psychoanalysis and leadership, and offers elegant insights into human nature and leadership, reflecting on:🎙️parallels between theater and therapy, em...

    • 39 min
    63 - Paradoxical Leadership with Ivo Brughmans

    63 - Paradoxical Leadership with Ivo Brughmans

    Immerse yourself on a journey of discovery in this conversation about Paradoxical Thinking and Leadership with author and philosopher, Ivo Brughmans. Get ready to challenge your own assumptions and self-perception.Ivo delivers an insightful message about embracing the ‘power of both sides’ of our personalities. Reaching out for the side of our personality that we don’t see or use, or even like that much is truly challenging.As a ‘very serious person at work’, Ivo describes how he managed to c...

    • 43 min
    62 - Transforming leadership with Taneli Rantala

    62 - Transforming leadership with Taneli Rantala

    🗨️"Create habits that create a good life." In this episode we catch up with Taneli Rantala, CEO of Lifted, and dip in to highlights of Taneli's journey from a strategy consultant to a visionary entrepreneur. Taneli´s philosophy emphasizes the importance of leadership style, organizational culture, personal development, and taking hard decisions to create successful, resilient leaders. Listen in to get insights into 🎧Enhancing organizational culture and productivity.🎧Creating a consisten...

    • 42 min
    61 - Connecting Opposites; a blueprint for a world of dilemmas, with Fons Trompenaars.

    61 - Connecting Opposites; a blueprint for a world of dilemmas, with Fons Trompenaars.

    A warm and polished performance from Dutch organizational theorist Fons Trompenaars, recognized around the world for his work as a motivational speaker, consultant, and author of several books on culture and business.He spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders build meaningful connections to manage and solve business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance.Recognized by Thinkers 50 as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world, Fons was ...

    • 43 min
    60 - Environments in which Everyone Can Thrive with Celine Pasula

    60 - Environments in which Everyone Can Thrive with Celine Pasula

    Celine Pasula has over a decade of leadership experience in top mobile gaming companies including startups and bigger companies. Today, as the Managing Director of Ubisoft RedLynx, she's working with experiences on all platforms, mobile, PC, and console. Celine is not only an expert in leadership, finance, legal and business development but also in building a great company culture. She is a fast-thinking leader with a big heart for game development. When it comes to gaming itself, she is one ...

    • 38 min
    59 - Nitin Sawhney on the power of letting go

    59 - Nitin Sawhney on the power of letting go

    "Music attracts luck" - Nitin SawhneyIn this episode we have a warm and uplifting chat with Nitin Sawhney, musician, producer and composer, known around the world for his albums, film scores, DJ skills, and collaborations with Paul McCartney, Sting, Jeff Beck, Ellie Golding, Annie Lennox, Will Young, Bob Geldof, Andy Serkis, Mira Nair, Anushka Shankar, Nora Jones, Herby Hancock and David Gilmore. In a wide ranging conversation on music, intuition, collaboration, leadership a...

    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

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18 Ratings

18 Ratings

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Meaningful and insightful discussions

Discussions that in the end turn out into insights and learnings. Perfect pod to listen to when you go for walks or cook dinner.

Kati.T. ,

Inspirational thoughts from diverse leaders

Fun, witty and well-curated talks with diverse Nordic leaders. The hosts manage to be funny and ask questions that actually create even more valuable discussion and bring practical tips on the table.

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Insightful and deep. A pleasure to listen to.

The show is great. It is easy to listen to and insightful at the same time.

The best thing is that it gives very practical tips that can help a leader in everyday life.

Every episode is just the right length, not too short nor too long.

Highly recommended.

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