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Leading Professionals

Leading Professionals

Laura Empson

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/83d. Total Eps: 22

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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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S4 EP1 - Leading in Uncertain Times: How to Respond to Geopolitical Change and AI Disruption

Season 4 · Episode 1

lundi 22 septembre 2025 • Duration 43:16

 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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S4 EP0 Welcome to Leading Professionals

Season 4

lundi 15 septembre 2025 • Duration 04:31

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



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Leadership value chain

Season 2 · Episode 5

lundi 12 juillet 2021 • Duration 26:51

How do you build better leaders in a professional service firm? Empson & Morley speak to Russ Hagey, Worldwide Chief Talent Officer of Bain. They explore Bain’s self-reinforcing leadership development system, and the way “insurgency” is both encouraged and controlled to strengthen the system.

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Ethics and leadership

Season 2 · Episode 4

lundi 28 juin 2021 • Duration 33:09

Why do professionals do bad things? Empson & Morley speak to Professor Brooke Harrington of Dartmouth College, in the USA. They explore the factors which drive some professionals to behave unethically, and the organizational and societal factors which encourage it.

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Extreme collegiality

Season 2 · Episode 3

lundi 14 juin 2021 • Duration 34:02

What is collegiality and how does it work in practice? Empson & Morley speak to Jill Ader, Chair of executive search and leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder. They examine how to create an environment of mutual support, cultural consistency, and equality among peers.

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Leadership duets

Season 2 · Episode 2

lundi 31 mai 2021 • Duration 34:56

Can dual leadership be effective and how does it work in practice? Empson & Morley analyse these questions with the help of Barry Devereaux and Catherine Deane, Managing Partner and Chairof leading Irish law firm, McCann Fitzgerald, who have recently introduced a dual leadership structure. 

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Post-pandemic Professionalism

Season 2 · Episode 1

lundi 17 mai 2021 • Duration 29:40

How can leaders help their professionals prepare for the challenges and opportunities of post-pandemic professional work? Empson & Morley explore this theme with Nick Owen, Chair of Deloitte UK. They consider how hybrid working is calling into question some well-established “truths” about the nature of professionalism.

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Collaboration in a Cold Climate

Season 1 · Episode 6

lundi 22 mars 2021 • Duration 34:54

How do you create and sustain collaboration when you no longer meet each other face to face? Empson & Morley discuss this with Kirsten Edwards-Warren, Executive Vice President EMEA for Compass Lexecon. They examine the distinctive culture, systems, and structures the firm has developed to encourage collaboration and how it continued to thrive during the pandemic.

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Global versus Local

Season 1 · Episode 5

lundi 8 mars 2021 • Duration 32:33

In a global professional organisation, how do you achieve alignment across national offices? Empson outlines one powerful method – social control – and Morley explores his experience of leading partners through the process of global integration. They talk to Philip Davidson, currently Global COO of KPMG about exercising power while walking the global/local tightrope.

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Partnership versus Corporate

Season 1 · Episode 4

lundi 22 février 2021 • Duration 41:42

Empson explains how the culture of partnership is created and sustained while Morley highlights the challenges of growth and scale in this context. To examine the differences and similarities between leadership in partnerships and corporations, they talk to Sir Ian Davis, former Global Managing Partner of McKinsey and now Chairman of Rolls-Royce plc.

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