The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Martin Xiang speaks to Eileen Burnett-Kant, the CHRO at CLP Group, an investor-owned power company in Asia Pacific. Burnett-Kant discusses the transformation CLP’s HR function has been undergoing, sharing what their needs have been and what approaches she adopted for the transformation. She also shar...

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Frédéric Groussolles speaks to Sebastien Rozanes, group chief data officer of Carrefour, a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation. Rozanes discusses the role of chief data officer and how he is managing the growing role of AI at his organization: how and where he is implementing it,...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Laryssa Topolnytsky speaks to Maura O’Neill, a faculty member at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the first chief innovation officer at the US Agency for International Development. O’Neill, who does research on new ventures, innovation, and executive leadership, discusses narrow-mindedness:...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Laila Coffey speaks to Caroline Firstbrook, an award-winning people leader and former COO at Clifford Chance, an international law firm. Firstbrook shares a bit about her leadership journey, focusing on the skills and capabilities she needed to develop or add to her team at Clifford Chance. Regarding sea...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Roman Wecker speaks to Steffen Metzger, member of the group management committee at The Heraeus Group, a Fortune 500, family-owned technology company. Metzger discusses the importance of empathy and inclusion in fostering a culture optimal for innovation and shares some methods for combatting unconscious...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Josh Clarke speaks to John Shagoury, president and CEO at IntelyCare, a leading healthcare workforce management platform. Shagoury shares insights drawn from his extensive career in both operating and investor roles, explaining how these differentiated experiences helped him develop as a leader and what...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Martin Holm speaks to Lise Kingo, an independent board director at Danone, Sanofi, and Covestro. Kingo, who served as chief of staff, executive vice president, and a member of the executive management team at Novo Nordisk and then held a five-year tenure as CEO and executive director of the United Nation...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Victoria Reese speaks to Kimberly Susan Cuccia, the senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary at NiSource, a US utilities company based in Indiana. Cuccia, who has been at NiSource for more than 15 years, shares her leadership development journey at the company, including the ways i...

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Tom Clarke and Michael Thomas speak to Sky Kurtz, CEO and co-founder of Pure Harvest, a technology-enabled agribusiness. Kurtz explores the role of technology, including IoT and AI, in addressing global food security challenges, especially in harsh environments such as the Middle East. He also discus...

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Phyllis Schneble speaks to Dr. Vidya Raman-Tangella, the chief medical officer at Teladoc Health, a global leader in providing telemedicine and virtual care across a wide range of needs. Dr. Raman-Tangella discusses the evolving role of the chief medical officer, from a “luxury investment” to a perso...

In this next episode of our series, “Crypto leadership & talent: Evolution of control functions,” part of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast,  Heidrick & Struggles’ William Bown and David Hui speak to King Leung, head of financial services and fintech at InvestHK, a department of the Hong Kong SAR government responsible for foreign direct investment that attracts an...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Charlie Moore speaks to Luke Miels, the chief commercial officer at GSK, a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in London. In this interview, Miels discusses the changing healthcare industry, both from an R&D perspective and from a commercial perspective, highlighting the changing digital a...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Carlos Garcia speaks to Linzell Harris, former senior vice president of global supply chain and strategy at AstraZeneca. Harris reflects on the supply chain disruptions he’s experienced over his 35 years in the discipline and shares how the leadership challenges have changed over time. He also shares how...

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Chiara Berlendi speaks to Matteo De Rosa, the CEO of Métiers d'Art, a division of luxury company LVMH. De Rosa discusses how diverse teams benefit organizations and shares how his own wide range of experiences, from entrepreneur to CEO, working in China and across Europe, and in organizations of a va...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Guy Shaul and Tom Clarke are joined by Najam Kidwai and Michael Zhao, cofounders and managing partners at C1, a newly launched fund focused on secondary investments and digital-asset-related companies and infrastructure. Kidwai and Zhao discuss the genesis of C1 advisors and the conditions that led to th...

  In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Jennifer Streitwieser speaks to Ying McGuire, the CEO and president of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). The NMSDC is the longest-operating business growth engine for the broadest group of systematically excluded communities of color in the United States. In this intervie...

In this episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Sam Burman speaks to Arun Narayanan, the former chief data officer at Anglo American, about the significance of getting culture right when it comes to driving a digital transformation. Narayanan shares how he came to be the chief data officer of mining company Anglo American and when AI became part...

In this episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Lewis Adams speaks to Luis Lozano, the president of Toyota Mexico. Adams and Lozano discuss leadership through the transformation currently taking place within the automotive industry, moving from traditional automotive to broader mobility. Lozano shares what he sees as the biggest opportunities an...

In this next episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast,  Heidrick & Struggles’ Jacek Chodzko speaks to Anders Nørgaard, the CEO of FirstFarms, a Danish public company focused on investing in and operating agriculture farms in Central and Eastern Europe. Nørgaard discusses the current disruptions in the agriculture sector and how FirstFarms is responding to the...

In this next episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast,  Heidrick & Struggles’ Charlie Moore speaks to Carsten Brunn, the president and CEO of Selecta Biosciences, a clinical-stage biotech company with a commitment to solving the challenges associated with autoimmunityheadquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Brunn, who moved into biotech from Bayer, discusses th...

In this next episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast,  Heidrick & Struggles’ Andy MacLeod speaks to Mathai Mamman, the CEO of FogPharma, a company spun out of Harvard University with a mission to drastically reduce the burden of disease on patients and their families by inventing new types of drugs. Previously, Mammen was a member of the executive commit...

In this next episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Kelley Lang and Adam Howe speak to Cynthia Burkhardt, the global head of talent acquisition at Kimberly-Clark. Burkhardt discusses the hyper-competitive talent market and how organizations must adapt to the changing needs of the workforce, including by moving from hiring for pedigree to hiring for sk...

In this next episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast,  Heidrick & Struggles’ Charlie Moore speaks to Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda’s global portfolio division. Takeda is a global research and development–driven biopharmaceutical company. Sequeira is responsible for the company’s global portfolio division and serves as a member of Takeda’s executive team. In...

In this next episode of  The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast , Heidrick & Struggles’ Phyllis Schneble speaks to Lisa Earnhardt, Abbott's executive vice president of medical devices, about talent in the health tech sector. Earnhardt discusses the necessary skill sets for leadership in health tech, how she thinks about successfully integrating outside talent into the organizatio...

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Sean McLean speaks to Kristina Williams, the CEO of Alberta Enterprise Corporation, vice chair of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), and a non-executive director of North American Construction Group. Williams discusses her experience in the technology and investment industries and shares...