Leading Professionals

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