Nordic Business Forum Audio

About Nordic Business Forum Audio

Nordic Business Forum is the podcast that empowers leaders to change the world. Each episode features insights from a top business expert on topics such as leadership or innovation - and everything in between. Learn about all things business from all of the best in business.

Publisher

Nordic Business Forum

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Feb 2021

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 37 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Michael Beckley - The End of Easy Growth

   In this keynote presented at Nordic Business Forum 2026, professor Michael Beckely explains:- How to challenge the outdated growth assumptions, especially about China, that might be hiding massive risks in your current strategy.- How to build a winning strategy when you’re no longer competing with companies, but with the subsidized power of nations.- How to design a resilient, “shock-proof” supply chain and market strategy for a world that is breaking into geopolitical blocs.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Paul Polman - The Courage to Collaborate

   In this Main Stage keynote, the former CEO of Unilever Paul Polman explains how to:- Build the right partnerships across your ecosystem — from suppliers and peers to competitors and communities — to unlock the kind of collective impact no company can achieve alone, and which sits at the heart of becoming truly Net Positive.- Build the radical trust and transparency required to lead transformative change across your entire value chain.- Turn humanity’s greatest challenges into your company’s biggest opportunities and most profitable ventures.- Find the personal courage to lead with purpose, making the tough, values-driven calls that build unbreakable trust with your team.

3. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Patty McCord - A Team, Not a Family

   Former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, Patty McCord, shared how to build high-performing teams that deliver results at the Nordic Business Forum 2026. More specifically, she focused on: - How to implement ‘radical honesty’ as the foundation for a high-performance culture where trust isn’t just a poster on the wall, but a daily practice.- How to dismantle the traditional HR systems that kill motivation and replace them with a culture of freedom and responsibility that attracts and retains true A-players.- How to build a ‘team, not a family,’ where every member is a high-performer, enabling the level of trust and collaboration required to achieve extraordinary results.

Inside a recent episode

Simon Sinek - Great Leadership According to an Optimist

Published 18 Nov 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I believe in good leadership and creating a space in which people can work to their natural best. And the more of those early adopters we get, eventually we will tip the whole system and completely change the way business is done. And remember, this is not a new idea. Business and leadership has really been in decline for the past 30, 40 years since the late 1970s. There was no such thing as mass layoffs to balance the books on an annualized basis prior to the 1980s. There was no such thing as shareholder supremacy as a theory where we prioritize the wants and needs of the shareholders over the customer and the employee that did not exist prior to the 1970s. […]

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