Guest: Dame Emily Lawson, formerly COO, NHS England, and Head of Number 10's Delivery Unit

Emily has considerable experience of leading change in complex professional organisations, including leading the initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine programme across the UK.

Laura asks: How do you manage to not be overwhelmed by complexity or discouraged by failure? How do you bring the right team together and deal with covert resistance?

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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?

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Guest: Michael Izza CBE, CEO (former) of ICAEW

For almost 20 years, Michael led the ICAEW, with more than 200,000 members in almost 150 countries.

So he has a distinctively long-term and global perspective on the accounting profession.

Focusing on the interrelated changes of Gen AI and PE ownership, Laura and Michael explore: What is already happening and what changes lie ahead?

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Guest: Michael Ensser, Chair of Egon Zehnder

Laura asks Michael: Why does a world leading firm of leadership consultants choose to elect their senior leaders, and how do their elections actually work?

They discuss what really goes on behind the scenes of professional service firms’ carefully stage managed leadership elections.

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If you are a lawyer you may be able to guess why Laura has asked Georgia Dawson, Senior Partner of Fresh Fields, to explore the challenging theme of professional ethics with her.

In a complex commercial, social, and political environment, how do you balance the competing interests of multiple stakeholders?

How do you decide, what is the 'right' thing? And then, how do you make sure you do it?

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Guest: Fabien Curto Millet, Chief Economist of Google.

Fabien joins Laura to discuss how he and his team of economists anticipate, analyse, and understand the scale of change with which Google must contend. How does he lead his team of professionals, and manage himself, during these uncertain times? And what does he remember from when Laura taught him Strategy at Oxford 25 years ago?

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Professor Laura Empson introduces key topics and guests from the upcoming series.

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