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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.
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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/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/
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S4 EP2 - Doing the Right Thing: How to Make Ethically Tough Decisions
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Oct 06, 2025 |
S4 EP1 - Leading in Uncertain Times: How to Respond to Geopolitical Change and AI Disruption
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Sep 22, 2025 |
S4 EP0 Welcome to Leading Professionals
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Sep 15, 2025 |
David Bickford: Spies as professionals
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Katherine White: Leading discretely
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Gianpiero Petriglieri: Coming out of the psychological closet
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Nov 13, 2023 |
June Sarpong: Leading as an outsider
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Chris Saul: Subtle power
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Oct 16, 2023 |
Steve Varley: Profiting from sustainability
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Oct 02, 2023 |
Welcome Back
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Sep 28, 2023 |
Leadership in the spotlight
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Leadership value chain
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Jul 12, 2021 |
Ethics and leadership
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Jun 28, 2021 |
Extreme collegiality
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Leadership duets
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May 31, 2021 |
Post-pandemic Professionalism
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May 17, 2021 |
Collaboration in a Cold Climate
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Global versus Local
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Mar 08, 2021 |
Partnership versus Corporate
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Feb 22, 2021 |
Ambition versus Reluctance
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Feb 08, 2021 |
Leadership in crisis
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Jan 25, 2021 |
Paradoxes of Leadership
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Jan 11, 2021 |
Welcome to Leading Professional People
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Dec 17, 2020 |