Korn Ferry Briefings: Leadership Unfiltered

This week John and Cynthia meet Elad Wallach from Aidoc, an innovative healthcare AI start-up and one of Time Magazine's 50 Genius Companies. Elad discusses how he sees his company's culture as its Operating System the foundation for everything they want to achieve. But he's not afraid of failure. Only by accepting failure as part of the day-to-day can businesses empower people and help them grow within an organization, no matter their size.

Inventor, CEO and equality innovator Sarah Collins is best known as the creator of the Wonderbag, a globally conscious 1-for-1 social enterprise. Over the past 11 years over 1.5million Wonderbags have been activated in the Developed and Developing (majority) world. Sarah's extreme dedication, resilience and determination has earned her Fortune Magazine's Top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Oprah's African Heroines, Fair Lady's prestigious Woman of the Future Award and in 2019 she graced the front cover of Forbes Africa Women Magazine as one of Africa's top six wealth creators on the continent. Her most recent achievement was being awarded the 21st Century Icon Award for the Ardent Techie category in London.

Top-down hierarchies suck the fun and creativity out of organizations and a quick, bad decision is often better than a slow, good one. That's the belief of Jason Trost the Founder and CEO of Smarkets, one of the world's largest betting exchanges. He talks to John and Cynthia about the value of political capital, the necessity of risk, and how teaching people to teach themselves is at the core of his start-up's culture.

Heather Hartnett of Human Ventures has made it her mission to invest in other exceptional founders. She not only believes the best and most successful companies grow out of pain points but that creativity thrives with constraints–"If you're not out of your comfort zone you're not growing." She gives John and Cynthia the low down on cognitive diversity and how partnering with external innovation shops can help larger organizations adopt some entrepreneurial DNA.

Hosts John Palumbo and Cynthia Stuckey talk to Dave Balter managing partner at Flipside Crypto about his management approach. The importance of creating a culture of openness, being each other's clients, the challenges of maintaining that start-up energy as you grow, and why he hired an artist in residence.

They're nimble. Move quickly. Collaborate freely. And are committed to their mission… These are just some of the things that give Davids (those small, emerging businesses and start-ups) an edge over larger companies. And this made us wonder – how do they do it? And what can we learn from them? So we created "Goliath, Meet David" – a podcast series that features leading figures from the start-up world sharing their personal stories and perspectives. Tune in and discover what makes small businesses more than the sum of their parts, and learn the approaches and strategies they use, which can be applied to your own business to become leaner, faster, and more entrepreneurial.

Insights from our organisation strategy experts on how to manage the skilled talent crisis. "Most organisations tend to go straight to the recruitment side, they keep bringing in new people to fill some of these talent gaps. They need to do both, they need to look at the acquisition and development sides of it."... Andrew Lafontaine, Head of Organisational Strategy Practice, Australia Listen now.

Strategies for the next generation of female executives and how companies can pave the road.

Strategies for the next generation of female executives and how companies can pave the road.

Strategies for the next generation of female executives and how companies can pave the road.