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In these one-on-one conversations, host Linda Lacina interviews the world's top leaders, change-makers and experts on the solutions they're building to tackle the world's biggest challenges, the habits they can’t work without, and their lessons learned, all from the World Economic Forum

Meet The Leader World Economic Forum

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    • 3.3 • 20 Ratings

In these one-on-one conversations, host Linda Lacina interviews the world's top leaders, change-makers and experts on the solutions they're building to tackle the world's biggest challenges, the habits they can’t work without, and their lessons learned, all from the World Economic Forum

    What adventure taught this eco-entrepreneur about leadership and tackling risk

    What adventure taught this eco-entrepreneur about leadership and tackling risk

    Kat Bruce is an eco-entrepreneur who founded NatureMetrics, one of the world's leading nature technology companies measuring the very tiny traces of DNA that organisms leave in the air, water and soil. She’s also a former jungle explorer who has undertaken expeditions in the Amazon, working in research stations, riding down tributaries on balsa rafts she’s made herself. She shares how such experiences have helped her to be a better leader: to be reflective to find new solutions, to understand different people’s unique roles in a team, and to make tough choices quickly. She also shares the potential environmental DNA provides, and why more leaders than ever are understanding the need to leverage data in new ways to tackle their environmental impacts. 

    This episode was recorded at the Sustainable Development Impact Meeting in the World Economic Forum's New York City office during UN Week September 2023. 

    • 24 min
    What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani

    What workers really want - and how it can bridge the gender gap: Reshma Saujani

    Forget snacks and gym memberships: Today's worker wants to know you value their family. 
     
    When Reshma Saujani founded Moms First -- a movement to drive paid leave for families --she already had a successful non-profit under her belt in Girls Who Code. But she quickly learned that advocating for moms and parents uncovers a host of structural barriers that hold back both women and families.

    In a special conversation recorded at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, she shared how leaders will need to focus on their teams' families to stay competitive and to bridge a host of gaps - including gender pay gaps and labor shortages coming down the line. She also shared how a special AI-powered tool her organization built -- PaidLeave.AI -- is helping thousands better understand leave benefits in New York State and showing how new technologies can expand opportunity in surprising ways. 

    • 26 min
    12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024

    12 leaders share what to prioritize in 2024

    Where do you see yourself and your team a year from now? How can you maximize tech - and mitigate its risks? How can you stay focused despite increasing geopolitical tensions? What impacts will small decisions now have in 5 to 10 years? In this special compilation episode of Meet The Leader recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, heads of top companies, civil society organizations and non-profits shared what leaders should prioritize this year. They share questions to ask yourself, how to set your objectives, ways to better serve your team, the risks to keep on your radar and ways to build your vision for the long term.
    In this episode: 
    Sander van 't Noordende, CEO, Randstad
    Fidelma Russo, CTO, HPE
    Milton Cheng, Global Chair, Baker McKenzie
    Daphne Koller, CEO, Insitro
    Hilde Merete Aasheim, CEO, Norsk Hydro
    Petra Jenner, senior vice president and general manager, Splunk 
    Christy Hoffman, General Secretary, UNI Global 
    Reshma Saujani, founder, MomsFirst
    Olajumoke Adekeye, Founders, Young Business Agency
    Catalina Cock Duque, Co-Founder and President, Fundacion Mi Sangre
    Rudayna Abdo, founder, Thaki
    Jagan Chapagain, Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

    • 27 min
    What's next for the global economy? IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the unexpected

    What's next for the global economy? IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva on AI, preparedness - and the unexpected

    What’s next for the year ahead? Is a much-promised “soft landing” for certain economies possible? And what new impacts can we expect from inflation? Meet The Leader caught up with International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva at the Annual Meeting in Davos to get her take on what's ahead, including how upcoming elections and other global challenges could make some moves especially tricky in 2024. She discusses the findings of a new IMF report exploring how AI will impact jobs in different economies around the world in the decades to come -- and how leaders can get prepared now. She also shares the mindsets and approaches that can help leaders stay nimble in what could be an unpredictable year -- along with what gives this "die hard" optimist hope. 

    • 12 min
    3 shifts all effective collaborators make

    3 shifts all effective collaborators make

    New approaches to partnering and collaboration will be key to tackling climate action. This will require new mindsets, new systems and connecting with people and groups you might have otherwise overlooked. To better understand how collaboration is evolving, this week’s episode talks to Chief Procurement Offers, leaders who do more than acquire goods and services, but who increasingly work across the business and hold a holistic perspective, exposed to everything from the bottom line to changing trade rules, innovations and shifting geopolitical contexts. They share methods they use to collaborate in new ways -- practices any leader can put to work to push climate action forward.

    In this episode: 
    Rachael De Renzy Channer, Global Head of Sustainability, Egon Zehnder 
    Andrea Fuder,  Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group 
    Björn Stenecker, Chief Procurement Officer, Vattenfall 
    Dan Bartel, Chief Procurement Officer, Schneider Electric

    • 19 min
    Davos 2024: A conversation with Diane von Fürstenberg

    Davos 2024: A conversation with Diane von Fürstenberg

    Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy interviews fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg about the designer's life and one-of-a-kind perspective. The spirited, wide-ranging conversation goes beyond the creation of the famous wrap dress and how Furstenburg built one of the world's most recognizable brands, to explore how these two strong female creatives open doors for others and navigate challenges in their industries. 
    Recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 18, 2024. 
    Watch the full session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/wrapped-in-leadership
     
     

    • 33 min

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Wonderful analysis regarding leadership

Linda Lacina does an incredible job at eliciting leadership principles from top leaders. Really serious discussions.

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