cooperate culture

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke with Jeffrey Burgdorf. Jeffrey is a Professor at Northwestern University who dedicated his career to the neuroscience of positive emotions. Amongst many things, he found out that rats can actually laugh and identified genes activated by play that promote neuronal growth. I wanted to know how scientists explain the phenomenon of human play,...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke with Robert Poynton. Robert is a highly experienced facilitator, an associate fellow at Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford, and the author of four books that I all read with great interest. In his work, Robert focuses on the application of ideas from improvisation to everyday life, the relationship with time and the everyda...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke with François Taddei. François is the founder, president and “Chief Exploration Officer” of the Learning Planet Institute in Paris. He is an internationally renowned researcher in evolutionary molecular biology who now devotes his time to the science of learning and teaching - especially working on how we as humans can learn to care better...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke with Anna Christina Günster from the European Space Agency (ESA). Anna is an HR professional in ESA’s HR Center of Competence and an Industrial-Organisational Psychologist with 25 years’ international cross-sector HR experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development & Organisational Development. Anna has an impressive career path...

In this episode of cooperate culture, I spoke with Gabriela Ourivio Assmar. Gabriela currently works as Mediator at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, where she is responsible for workplace conflicts worldwide. Originally from Brazil, she has almost 30 years of professional experience in multinational top management and as an entrepreneur. Gabriela set up two legal departments,...

In dieser Folge von cooperate culture habe ich mit Philipp Jahn gesprochen. Philipp ist aktuell der Regionaldirektor der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Zentralasien und wohnt seit 2021 in Bishkek. Zuvor war er bereits mehrere Jahre für die FES im Sudan tätig und hat für die GIZ in Aserbaidschan, Äthiopien und Afghanistan gearbeitet. Angesichts einer so bunten Auslandserfahrung wollte ich natürlich vo...

In dieser Folge von cooperate culture habe ich mit Tamara Wyszynski gesprochen. Tamara ist systemische Business Coach, Facilitator und Transformationsgestalterin. Was mich von Anfang an sehr an Tamaras Arbeit interessiert hat, ist ihr starker Bezug zur Natur. Tamara nutzt nämlich die Natur und die Arbeit im Freien, um Menschen in beruflichen Herausforderungen zu unterstützen. Wir haben über Tamara...

 In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke to Dr. Paul Meerts. Paul Meerts is a Political Scientist and International Negotiation Analyst. He wrote his PhD on the evolution of Diplomatic Negotiation and holds an honorary doctor title from Mongolian State University, as well as an Order of Merit of Austria and Romania. Paul became the Head of Diplomatic Training at the Netherlands S...

In this episode of cooperate culture, I spoke with Dr. Johannes Katsarov. Johannes is an Ethicist, Educational Scientist and Serious Game Designer. Currently, he is the Head of the Serious Game Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany and manages a team in diverse game-based education initiatives. With Johannes, we discussed what serious games are, why it makes so much sense to play in educa...

Dans cet épisode de cooperate culture, j’ai parlé avec Bernard Cazaban Matagrin. Bernard est le directeur de l'Alliance Française de Zurich et supervise les opérations stratégiques, administratives, éducatives et culturelles de l'organisation. Ses responsabilités comprennent entre autres la supervision de l'école de langue française, la programmation culturelle, la communication et la...

Dans cet épisode de cooperate culture, j'ai discuté avec Marie Emart. Marie est consultante en stratégie d'impact social et directrice associée chez Connexe Consulting. Dans le cadre de ses fonctions, elle accompagne des organisations à révéler leur potentiel d'impact positif sur la société. Au cours de notre conversation, Marie m'a expliqué ce qu'est l'impact social, pourq...

In dieser Folge von cooperate culture habe ich mit Carsten Gabbert gesprochen. Carsten ist der Regierungspräsident des Regierungsbezirks Freiburg und damit Chef einer Verwaltungsbehörde mit über 1.700 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern. Sein beruflicher Werdegang ist bunt: Nach dem Studium hat er zunächst in einem Software-Unternehmen gearbeitet, war dann 16 Jahre lang Bürgermeister in Baden-Württe...

In this episode of cooperate culture, I spoke with Frans Schram. Frans is a negotiation expert and accredited mediator with almost two decades of professional and personal experience in the fields of diplomacy, negotiation, conflict resolution, interculturality and European affairs. He trained more than 5000 negotiators and other professionals from close to 160 different nationalities, and worked...

Diana Oser works as a systemic change manager. She loves connecting people and ideas to make positive change happen. In sustainability and community projects, Diana brings ideas to life through structured planning and organized project management, creating spaces where diverse voices can co-create solutions. As an enabler, she helps teams and networks unlock their potential, always guided by curio...

Sophie Pénicaud is an experienced advisor in the humanitarian sector and currently works for an international NGO in the field of children’s rights. In this episode of cooperate culture, we spoke about how it is for her to work in such a challenging, but at the same time so relevant environment. I was curious to know why Sophie chose her career path, what her everyday work life looks like, and wha...

In this episode, I spoke with Ida Manton about diplomacy at work. Ida is a consultant, trainer, lecturer and researcher in international negotiations. For more than 20 years, Ida worked for International Organizations, both as local and as international staff. She studied International Relations and Diplomacy in the Netherlands and then specialised in training various audiences in negotiation and...

Adam Lawrence is many things. He is a facilitator, speaker, author, professor, consultant, educator, singer, actor, improviser, comedian, director - and the list goes on. Maybe that is one reason why Adam knows so much about improvisation. And as an experienced improviser, Adam agreed to actually not prepare anything for this podcast episode, and we simply improvised. What came out of it was...wel...

Adam Ambrozy is the Co-Founder of MakeTeamWork, a company that helps organisations, teams, and individuals thrive in today’s fast-paced digital landscape. In the cooperate culture podcast, we talked about what makes a team work, why Adam cares so much about it, and what we can do to work better with others. Adam shared many professional and personal stories about what really matters for good teamw...

Caroline Zamor is a Senior Sustainability Professional and currently the Head of Sustainability for a leading international law firm. In the cooperate culture podcast, we talked about Caroline's work, what sustainability really means, and what we can actually do about it. It became clear to me that there are indeed many things we can do to be more sustainable - both on an individual level, but...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, we speak with Gamification Coach Henk van der Wath about what gamification is all about, how it works, and whether we can gamify our lives. As a Gamification Coach, Henk helps purpose-driven individuals infuse playfulness and intentionality into their lives. By combining concepts from gamification, psychology, and design thinking, he empowers creat...

In the first episode of 2025, we want to start the year playfully! Together with playfulness expert Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell, we talk about what playfulness actually is, what adults can learn from children, how we can be more playful at work, and much more.  Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell, Ph. D. is the Founder and CEO of Cultural Inquiry, a micellium company located in Switzerland that op...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I spoke with Dr. Tsisana Shamlikashvili, an international expert in alternative dispute resolution, mediator, lawyer, neurologist and psychologist. As a practicing mediator, Tsisana has vast experience in a wide range of cases from complicated cross-border commercial disputes to family conflicts, as well as intellectual property, workplace, financi...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, my guest was Fabian Grauel, an Agile Coach, Design Thinker, Scrum Master and Innovation Consultant with working experience at Deutsche Bank, PwC, launchlabs and various other places. In our conversation with Fabian, we talked about how teams and organizations can improve cooperation and innovation at the workplace. How can coaches, facilitators and...

In this episode of the cooperate culture podcast, I had the pleasure to speak with Dr. Juan Camilo Herrera, a distinguished legal academic and now director of Greystone Consulting Group Latinoamérica in Bogotá, Colombia. Juan provided interesting insights about his career shift from academia to consulting, what makes it special to work in Latin America after spending many years abroad, and what fo...

What is the right temperature for keeping offices warm? How to connect with your colleagues without wifi? And can good lighting improve our view on complex business problems? Facility management deals with all of these highly important aspects of our daily work. That is why we took the time to talk about it with Mario Fernandez, who works as a Data Analyst and Market Researcher in Facility Managem...