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 simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently.
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About Professor Laura Empson
Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action.
She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022).
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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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 simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently.
Click the subscribe button and to be the first to get episodes of Leading Professionals as soon as they drop.
About Professor Laura Empson
Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action.
She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022).
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Paul Lewis, Firmwide Managing Partner of Linklaters
If you do not fit the conventional image of an elite professional, how do you persuade others that you are, and how do you learn to feel like one?
Paul and Laura discuss his own very personal experiences of “becoming professional”. What can be done to help people from non-professional backgrounds to thrive within elite professional organisations?
Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.