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Send us Fan Mail Lynda Mansson spent close to thirty years in the nonprofit sector, most recently as Director General of the MAVA Foundation, a large family philanthropic foundation. She started her career about as far from philanthropy as it gets: as a stockbroker. Today she's a leadership coach for mission driven leaders, working from a framework of six practices that separate those who sus...

Send us Fan Mail Boardrooms in Transition is a five-part special series from Inside CVC by U-Path on how boards make decisions when the information is incomplete and the stakes are real. Start with Episode 1 and listen in order.   All five episodes are live now.  Support the show Catch up on all episodes of Inside CVC at www.u-path.com/podcast.

Send us Fan Mail  This is episode 1 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition, a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. Start here and listen in order.  In the opening chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , IMD professor and globally recognized governance expert Didier Cossin examines why so many boards fail—not because they lack information, but because they fail to act on what they already know. Drawin...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 2 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the second chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , former Deloitte...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 3 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the third chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , seasoned public c...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 4 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In Part Four of Boardrooms in Transition , former Deloitte Global CE...

Send us Fan Mail Hayley van Loon is the CEO of Crime Stoppers International and spent the first eight years of her career in counterterrorism operations in Australia. She joins Inside CVC to explain why criminal networks are not a parallel economy. They run directly through yours. In this conversation, Hayley walks Steve and Philipp through what Crime Stoppers calls the Illegal Empire: a $4 trilli...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode 5 of 5 in Boardrooms in Transition , a special series from Inside CVC by U-Path. We recommend starting with Episode 1 and listening in order. This episode opens with a short recap. If you are listening to the full series in one sitting, use the chapter marker to jump straight to the conversation.  In the final chapter of Boardrooms in Transition , veteran public co...

Send us Fan Mail David Betts spent two decades at Deloitte building a healthcare strategy practice, ultimately leading a public health business serving 20 states with 400-plus people. Then, at the peak of his career, he was diagnosed with ALS. His response wasn't to step back. It was to build something. In this conversation, David walks Steve and Philipp through how a non-developer used AI as...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore, we revisit a conversation that feels even more relevant today. Pete Horsley, founder of Remarkable, challenges one of the biggest blind spots in corporate innovation: why disability and accessibility are still treated as compliance or charity initiatives rather than engines of growth, talent, and competitive advantage. Pete shares why designing for disab...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore, we revisit our conversation with Salesforce Chief Futurist Peter Schwartz and You.com founder and CEO Richard Socher. We explore what leadership looks like in a world where technological change is no longer sequential, but simultaneous and accelerating. Drawing on their experience shaping AI strategy at Salesforce years before the current wave, they unpa...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore episode, Deborah Elms joins Steve and Philipp for a timely conversation on the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s use of IEEPA tariffs—and why the ruling did not end tariff uncertainty. Deborah explains what happened in the first 72 hours after the decision, why companies faced immediate confusion over tariff rates, exemptions, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this Inside CVC Encore from Season 1, Episode 1, we revisit his conversation with J. Carl Ganter, founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and a veteran storyteller whose work spans National Geographic, network TV news, and NPR. The episode lands at a moment when desalination plants and water infrastructure across the Middle East are making headlines as targets in the Ir...

Send us Fan Mail Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the originator of Theory U, the foundation of U-Path. In this conversation, Otto walks Philipp and Steve through what it actually means to lead from an emerging future rather than the past, and why that distinction matters more now than ever. They dig into the four levels of listening. Downloading. Factual. Empathic. And the one most l...

Send us Fan Mail Oliver Zeidler made history at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, winning gold in the men's single scull and breaking the Olympic record by nearly five seconds in the semi-final. But he will tell you the medal wasn't won in Paris. It was won three weeks earlier, at a World Cup race in Lucerne, where he finished second. In this episode of Inside CVC, Philipp and Steve sit down...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Inside CVC, Joanna Massey explores how AI and digital platforms are reshaping boardroom governance. The conversation examines how polarization, employee stress, and shifting expectations around free speech are impacting decision-making inside companies. Joanna introduces the concept of “mass incitement” and explains why boards must take a more active role in ove...

Send us Fan Mail The CVC Open Innovation Summit began as a small gathering of corporate venture, strategy, and innovation leaders looking for something missing in the market: a trusted environment where decision-makers could collaborate on the challenges shaping industry. In this special episode of Inside CVC , Steve Schmith speaks with Philipp Willigmann of U-Path Advisors and Daniel Kennel of Bo...

Send us Fan Mail When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration illegally imposed tariffs under IEEPA, markets reacted fast. But relief quickly gave way to confusion. In this episode, Deborah Elms, Head of Trade Policy at the Singapore-based Hinrich Foundation , explains what happened in the first 72 hours, why some countries now feel blindsided, and how the administration’s pivot...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you leave a world class platform like Deloitte without a plan, and then choose to spend your next chapter on a problem hiding in plain sight? In this episode of Inside CVC, we sit down with Janet Foutty, former CEO of Deloitte Consulting in the United States and Executive Board Chair of Deloitte US, now focused on driving impact across women’s health, tech for go...

Send us Fan Mail Longevity is not just a healthcare issue. It is a workforce issue. It is a competitiveness issue. It is an everything issue. In this episode of Inside CVC, we sit down with Katharina Janus, founder of Fourth Quarter Life and a longtime healthcare leader across managed care, hospitals, academia, and consulting. She shares the personal moment that changed her work forever. Navigatin...

Send us Fan Mail What do the Hindenburg, the Titanic, Boeing, and the Challenger disaster have in common? According to historian and author Edward Tenner, they were not failures of incompetence. They were failures born from success, confidence, and blind spots. In this episode of Inside CVC, Tenner explains why highly capable organizations still make catastrophic mistakes. From the smoking lounge...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Inside CVC , we’re joined by David Homan , author of Orchestrating Connection , for a wide-ranging conversation on why trust, gratitude, and intentional community building are no longer “soft skills,” but strategic advantages in corporate venture capital and M&A. Drawing from more than a decade of building a global, high-trust network spanning family offices...

Send us Fan Mail In Part Two of our special Inside CVC series recapping the CVC Open Innovation Summit in Berlin , the conversation moves from diagnosis to execution. Episode One explored urgency.  Episode Two focuses on alignment. As Europe faces accelerating technological change, geopolitical pressure, and widening capital gaps, the challenge is no longer awareness. It’s how leaders align capita...

Send us Fan Mail In late November, leaders from across Europe gathered in Berlin for the first European edition of the CVC Open Innovation Summit. What emerged was not another debate about whether innovation matters, but a far more urgent question: is Europe actually set up to execute? In Part 1 of this special two-part Inside CVC series, host Steve Schmith takes listeners inside the Berlin summit...

Send us Fan Mail Europe once led the world in autonomous driving. Massive public investment. Breakthrough demonstrations. Real vehicles on real highways long before autonomy was mainstream. So what happened? In this episode of Inside CVC , we sit down with Christian to unpack the rise, stall, and potential resurgence of autonomy in Europe. Drawing from decades of experience across research labs, O...