Leading Professionals

Laura Empson

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Welcome to Leading Professionals. Join Professor Laura Empson as she talks to senior leaders from some of the world’s most successful professional organisations about the crucial issues they are currently facing.Each episode reveals the realities that lie beneath the ‘professional’ veneer these highly successful organisations, and their leaders, present to the outside world. Laura uses insights from her lifetime of researching and advising professional organisations to uncover and make sense of the complex, messy and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professionals, and to identify key learning for all professionals.If you are a professional in a leadership role – or if you...

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Recent episodes

  • S4 EP6 - Leading Complex Change: Breaking Through Practical Barriers and Political ResistanceDec 1, 2025 · 43 min
  • S4 EP5 - Becoming "Professional": How to Look, Sound, Act and Feel like a ProfessionalNov 17, 2025 · 37 min
  • S4 EP4 - Considering the Future: How AI and Private Equity Will Change Professionals' WorkNov 3, 2025 · 35 min
  • S4 EP3 - Electing Leaders: How to Choose Your Leaders and How To Get ElectedOct 20, 2025 · 32 min
  • S4 EP2 - Doing the Right Thing: How to Make Ethically Tough DecisionsOct 6, 2025 · 34 min
  • S4 EP1 - Leading in Uncertain Times: How to Respond to Geopolitical Change and AI DisruptionSep 22, 2025 · 43 min
  • S4 EP0 Welcome to Leading ProfessionalsSep 15, 2025 · 5 min
  • David Bickford: Spies as professionalsDec 11, 2023 · 28 min
  • Katherine White: Leading discretelyNov 27, 2023 · 35 min
  • Gianpiero Petriglieri: Coming out of the psychological closetNov 13, 2023 · 36 min

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