Meet The Leader

Trust time. Pick your moments. Find joy in doing. Know the future is not ordained. These are just some of the hard-won lessons learned that have guided the top minds in government, civil society, business on Meet the Leader. This 101st episode collects the program's highlights, from Jane Goodall's run-in with a grumpy cabbie, to a moment that changed how Al Gore communicates, to a habit that Verizon's CEO can't work without. Dig in and take a tour though the one-of-a-kind insights, aha moments and turning points that shaped the world's biggest changemakers. In this episode: Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence. Related article: 5 leaders and the turning points that changed their leadership approach Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Mountford is the president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a philanthropy platform that has granted more than a billion dollars to worthy projects and grantees in more than 50 countries since 2008. She's a key partner in a World Economic Forum initiative that launched this year called GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action - and she'll tell us why philanthropy can be a critical way to fund and experiment with new ideas that can be scaled further by the private sector and how it creates an ecosystem to make big change possible. About GAEA: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/home About ClimateWorks Foundation: https://climateworks.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discover insights from a special survey on sustainability goals, including worries and blindspots. Learn about involving the General Counsel in sustainability plans. Explore how the speaker's background as a pianist influences problem solving. Find out about traits of excellence for public leaders and recommended books.

Dylan E. Taylor is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Space, a space infrastructure company and one of the firms helping with efforts to replace the aging International Space Station. He and his team are working hard to ensure there's no 'space station gap', all while getting the infrastructure in place so as many people as possible could one day live and work in space. In this episode, he talks about why expanding access to space motivates him, how his own visit to space changed him, and his experience travelling to one of the deepest parts of the ocean. In this conversation, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares his approach to risk taking and how he prepares for big challenges - and how that strategy helps him make decisions quickly and navigate the unexpected. Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yvr4zxbt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trust time, make one thing better everyday and keep upgrading yourself. CEO Yuxiang Zhou shares the lessons he has learned in co-founding Black Lake Technologies and his journey to help digitise factories -- a too-often analog world where too many still depend on paper and pencil. It's a trip through big ideas, big disappointments (including a failed startup), and the slow process of building back from the ground up. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer talked to Forum video producer Kateryna Gordiychuk at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China this summer, sharing the potential he sees for manufacturing and for cloud computing to connect factories in new ways. He also shares how taking a job on a factory shop floor and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro helped him pivot and get the perspective he needed to focus on the right solutions and priorities. Episode Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/yuxiang-zhou-black-lake-technologies-startup World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Program: https://initiatives.weforum.org/technology-pioneers/home Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can something as simple as a seed help the world begin to make progress across big challenges such as protecting water, tackling climate change and even strengthening food security and opportunity? Ponsi Trivisvavet, the CEO of seed design company Inari, shares the innovations that are helping to protect the earth while tackling stubborn problems like hunger. She also shares her leadership journey, the question she feels is key to strengthening any leader's resilience and the unique approaches to biotech innovation that help this company drive cutting-edge solutions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is your team solving the right problems and building the right solutions? Are they truly pushing the envelope - in the short- and long-term? This compilation episode shares the questions top innovators ask themselves and their teams, across engineering, biotech, healthcare and more. It also highlights the practical tactics and strategies they use to keep teams challenged, focused and engaged so they are poised to develop the leading ideas that will truly reshape the future. This episode features: Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm; Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Royal Philips; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO, DSM-Firmenich; Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO, Inari; Rodrigo Santos, president, Crop Science Division, Bayer Crop Science; Lars Stenqvist, Volvo Group; Alex Liu, Managing Partner, Kearney. Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/top-innovator-strategies-tactics Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chief Risk Officers (CROs) are firefighters, investigators, counselors and -- critically -- the people trained to ensure companies have the systems, frameworks and culture in place to identify, assess and monitor big challenges ahead. They also help teams take meaningful action and chart a path forward. On the launch of the World Economic Forum's Chief Risk Officers Outlook, Bahare Heywood, the first ever CRO at global law firm Clifford Chance, shares her take on the report's highlights as well as the real-world approaches she believes are critical to make risk management effective in any business. She discusses strategies she used to help build a risk management culture, her personal lessons learned and the one thing all risk management plans must consider right now. Report: Chief Risk Officers Outlook Release: Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Conditions Pose Severe Risks to Organizations, say Chief Risk Officers Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/clifford-chance-bahare-heywood-risk Podcast highlights: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/07/chief-risk-officer-management-culture/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Qualcomm has long served as a tech pioneer, driving innovations in cellular connectivity, AI, autonomous driving and more. CEO Cristiano Amon shares how digitalization will further transform our lives -- from health and retail to energy and the future of work. He also shares how Qualcomm drives innovative thinking in its teams and the simple framework any leader can use to decide which disruptive ideas to take forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hard-fought battles by leaders around the world have helped better protect nature in recent years but more work is needed to secure everything from future economic resilience to progress on climate action. Dr. Andrew Steer of the Bezos Earth Fund shares what transitions must happen this decade and the new approaches to philanthropy, policy, technology and more that can bring those transitions past the tipping point for true change. In this episode recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares how he's changed as a leader over his long career: from earning his Economics Ph.D., to roles at the World Bank and the World Resources Institute and other organizations, developing the approach he takes today that helps him better balance a range of competing challenges to solve the problems he wants to solve most. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.