The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast

In this episode of The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Andy MacLeod speaks to Martin Mackay, co-founder and CEO of Rallybio, a biotech company. Mackay discusses his passion for science, medicine, research, and innovation, his career in the biotech and pharmaceuticals industries, and how leaders can enable innovation to translate into commercial value. He also...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Josh Clarke speaks to Diana Nole, the executive vice president and general manager for Nuance's healthcare division. Nuance, now a Microsoft Cloud and AI company, created the voice recognition space more than 20 years ago and continues to be a pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovation. Nole share...

Welcome to The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast. In this new series of podcasts, “Crypto leadership & talent: Evolution of the control functions,” Heidrick & Struggles will be sitting down with leaders in crypto and digital assets to explore the current environment, the evolution of control and governance functions in these areas, expectations for the future, and what they have...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Lukasz Kiniewicz speaks to Gurdeep Grewal, CEO of Intive, a global software company. Gurdeep shares his journey to becoming CEO and highlights the importance of creating a value plan, building trust, and listening. They also discuss the necessary leadership capabilities for private equity–backed CEOs, suc...

Welcome to The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast. In this new series of podcasts, “Crypto leadership & talent: Evolution of the control functions,” Heidrick & Struggles will be sitting down with leaders in crypto and digital assets to explore the current environment, the evolution of control and governance functions in these areas, expectations for the future, and what they have...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ David Burd speaks to Jonathan Graham, the executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Amgen, a leading biopharmaceutical company. Graham discusses the challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry, including political and legislative threats, and the need to focus on patients and innova...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Jeff Boyd sits down with Dr. Bruce Levine, the Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy and the founding director of the Clinical Cell in Vaccine Production Facility in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, Univer...

In this episode of our series, “Crypto leadership & talent: Evolution of control functions,” part of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Guy Shaul and Aliceson Robinson speak to Dan Chaplin, a partner and leader of digital assets at technology investment firm Dawn Capital. Chaplin’s investment portfolio stretches across B2B fintech and includes...

In this episode of our series, “Crypto leadership & talent: Evolution of control functions,” part of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Michael Held, a partner at law firm WilmerHale and former general counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses how both traditional finance and crypto and fintech, can navigate the ever-evolving regulatory environment. He share...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Lukasz Kiniewicz and Aliceson Robinson speak to Jamie Fly, the president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's mission is to promote democratic values and institutions and to advance human rights by reporting news in countries where free press is banned or not fully...

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Leanne Arcinue speaks to Katie Stein, the chief strategy officer and global business leader of enterprise services and analytics at Genpact, a global professional services firm, and a non-executive director at CTG, a leading provider of digital transformation ID solutions and services. Stein discusses the evolution of the chief strategy officer role and i...

Given the recent controversies that made some question its credibility, how would the crypto industry start moving forward? In this second episode of our podcast series with crypto and digital assets industry leaders, Heidrick and Struggles' Partner Guy Shaul from London and Sarah Sliva from our New York office speak with Marcus Hughes, the former Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of BitMex. BitMex is one...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles’ Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Mattias Kamber speaks to Pedro Uria Recio, the chief data analytics and AI officer at True Digital, the digital arm of Thailand’s leading telecom company, and managing director of True Analytics, a corporate venture that builds data-driven enterprise solutions in advertising, credit risk, customer intell...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Angela Gardner speaks to Danny Brooks, a brand archeologist working at the intersection of data strategy and storytelling and the co-founder at Penrose, a strategy consulting firm that puts company DNA at the center of all decision making. Brooks discusses what company DNA means to him and how organizatio...

In a series of podcasts with leaders in crypto and digital assets we will be exploring the current environment, the evolution of control and governance functions in these areas, expectations for the future, and what they have learned from their work in these areas. In this episode, Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer and head of global policy for Circle, shares his insights with Julian Ha...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Claudia Schneider speaks to Dietmar Knoess, the CHRO at Puma. Knoess discusses how the HR function has moved into the boardroom, what challenges the function is facing looking into the next decade, and how he promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion both within and outside Puma. He also discusses how he...

  In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ David Burd speaks to Earl Barnes II, the corporate vice president and general counsel for Sentara Healthcare, a large, integrated non-for-profit healthcare delivery system. Barnes discusses what’s driving current trends in the healthcare industry and how those trends are affecting the industry’s ta...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Sean McLean speaks to Kelly Schmitt, the CEO of Benevity, a Calgary-based leading global provider of corporate purpose software. Schmitt discusses the importance of mental well-being and shares how she role models maintaining her own health and wellness to make sure her colleagues feel comfortable doing t...

In this episode of the Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Laila Coffey speaks to Chris Vaughan, the general counsel and company secretary of Whitbread plc, an FTSE 100 company. Vaughan, who also leads the company’s sustainability function, shares how he has embedded ESG into the company, how he empowers other functions in the company to help drive ESG, and some...

In this episode, Heidrick & Struggles’ Jean Allen sits down with two of our colleagues, our very own John Abele and Kristin Deutmeyer. Together, they discuss the blurring lines between leadership roles in communications, marketing, and digital functions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Chiara Berlendi speaks to Luca Sburlati, the CEO of Pattern Group, which is a leading company in engineering, patternmaking for the most prestigious fashion and luxury brands. Sburlati, who started his career in HR, shares how he believes his CHRO experience prepared him for the CEO role and why HR leaders can be successful CEOs. He also discusses the lea...

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Victoria Reese speaks to Kathy Card Beckles, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Verisk, an American multinational data analytics and risk assessment company. Beckles discusses the benefits of making a cross-industry move, both in terms of her own development and how it benefits her company. She also shares how her experiences as an engineer an...

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Silvia Eggenweiler speaks to Patricia Corsi, Bayer Consumer Health’s chief marketing and information technology officer. Corsi discusses the initiative she launched on creativity and consumer health, how she combines a marketing role with a digital and information technology role, how she helps to build a diverse organization, and the importance of p...

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Victoria Reese speaks to James Ford, the senior vice president and group general counsel at global biopharma company GSK. Ford discusses the evolution of the legal function over the past two decades and how it complements the compliance function, which he also leads. He also shares how living in many different countries made him into a better leader, what...

In this podcast, Heidrick & Struggles’ Josh Clarke speaks to Karishma Patel Buford, chief people officer at Spring Health, which provides comprehensive mental health solutions for employers and health plans. Beauford discusses how the role of HR leader is evolving as a strategic business partner and how she identifies leaders who can fit into and thrive in a hyper-growth environment, as well a...