Leading Professional People
Hosted by Laura and Tony and Empson & Morley · Laura Empson
5.0from 8 ratings
- 27
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 8
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Leading Professional People
Welcome to Leading Professionals. Join Professor Laura Empson as she talks to senior leaders from some of the world’s most successful professional organisations about the crucial issues they are currently facing. Each episode reveals the realities that lie beneath the ‘professional’ veneer these highly successful organisations, and their leaders, present to the outside world. Laura uses insights from her lifetime of researching and advising professional organisations to uncover and make sense of the complex, messy and surprisingly emotional challenges of leading professionals, and to identify key learning for all professionals. If you are a professional in a leadership role – or if you simply want to understand your work and your organisation better – then you have come to the right place. Be ready to explore new ideas, challenge your assumptions, and learn to see your world a little differently. Click the subscribe button and to be the first to get episodes of Leading Professionals as soon as they drop. About Professor Laura Empson Laura is widely recognised as one of the foremost thinkers in the fields of leadership and professional service firms. She has been conducting academic research into professional organizations for more than 30 years and acts as an advisor to the leaders of many of the world’s most successful professional organizations. Her focus is always on turning academic insights into practical action. She is Professor in the Management of Professional Service Firms at Bayes Business School, University of London, and Professor of Leadership and Organization at Copenhagen Business School. She also holds Research Fellowships at Harvard Law School and Cambridge University. Her most recent book is Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas (2022). Website: https://www.lauraempson.com/ (https://www.lauraempson.com/) Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals (https://www.youtube.com/@LeadingProfessionals) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-laura-empson-69820773/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Laura Empson
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 Dec 2025
Latest episodes
3 of 27 episodes have a transcript.
1 Dec 2025
S4 EP6 - Leading Complex Change: Breaking Through Practical Barriers and Political Resistance
17 Nov 2025
S4 EP5 - Becoming "Professional": How to Look, Sound, Act and Feel like a Professional
3 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
S4 EP4 - Considering the Future: How AI and Private Equity Will Change Professionals' Work
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S4 EP4 - Considering the Future: How AI and Private Equity Will Change Professionals' Work
Published 3 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] As always the legal sector lags the accounting sector but the direction of travel is clear. I'm extraordinarily impressed and intrigued by the fact that you've managed to remain CEO of the ICAW for almost 20 years. That's a remarkable tenure in any kind of role. So during that time it's been the most significant change that you've experienced within the accounting sector. In the past 20 years I think we've seen nothing short of almost a revolution in audit and audit quality. Remember when I was taking over as chief executive in 2006 we were just in the immediate aftermath of the N -Rong and World Confelius in the United States. […]
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