

Leading Transformational Change with Tobias Sturesson
Heart Management
We are passionate about helping leaders, HR, and ethics professionals build healthy cultures that enable mission success, a thriving workplace and responsible impact.
Every other Thursday we post insightful and actionable conversations with leading thinkers, researchers, and practitioners on culture, values, ethics, and transformational change.
Every other Thursday we post insightful and actionable conversations with leading thinkers, researchers, and practitioners on culture, values, ethics, and transformational change.
Episodes
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Apr 23, 2020 • 39min
012. Siobhan McHale: A Guide to Culture Change in A Time of Crisis
Siobhan McHale is the author of The Insider's Guide to Culture Change and EGM People, Culture & Change at DuluxGroup. She has worked across four continents, helping thousands of leaders to create more agile and productive workplaces. She led a radical seven-year change initiative at ANZ that transformed it from the lowest-performing bank in Australia into one of the highest-performing and most admired banks in the world. Professor John Kotter used her work with ANZ as a Harvard Business School case study designed to teach MBA students about managing change.
In this episode, Siobhan shares her insight into organizational culture as not merely the sum total of espoused values and individual behaviors, but as hidden agreements, patterns, and roles, where the focus should be on the "dance" itself, not only the individual "dancers",
It will help you understand and develop your culture in the midst of the crisis.
Siobhan also shared some great insight into how HR leaders can encourage senior leadership to take organizational culture change seriously.

Apr 16, 2020 • 15min
011. 5 Vital Practices For Leading Through Crisis
In this episode, Tobias shares five practices that will empower you to build trust and strengthen culture as you lead through the current COVID-19 crisis. Through Creating Clarity, Building Unity, Ensuring Integrity, Practicing Courageous Humility and Developing Resiliency your organization will become stronger and healthier.

Apr 9, 2020 • 13min
010. What a Crisis Reveals About Your Organization
A crisis offers us a gift. A gift of clarity. It reveals the state of our hearts and the health of our organizational culture.
In this episode, Tobias shares his insight from helping leaders navigate severe public crises. How the current corona pandemic crisis (COVID-19) can be an opportunity for you to strengthen your culture, build unity and trust within your organization if you are ready to see, reflect, act and learn.

Apr 2, 2020 • 31min
009. Ron Carucci: Building an Honest Organization
Ron Carucci, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Navalent, helps CEOs at some of the world’s largest companies lead transformational change. He is a bestselling author, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes and TedX.
Ron shares his insight and research on why building honesty, unity, and integrity into the fiber of your organization is vital in order to experience great organizational health and lasting success.

Mar 26, 2020 • 3min
008. How Vision Leads to Transformation
It’s not enough with a great compelling vision to achieve transformation. You also have to pursue the needed organizational culture shift that can enable your organization to make the journey.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders Tobias & Lena talk about how to make your vision come alive and lead to actual change.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
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Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
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Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
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Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias

Mar 19, 2020 • 4min
007. Vision Statements - 3 Vital Questions
When defining a vision statement for your business or organization, it’s easy to start with the wrong thing - the statement itself.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder, Tobias Sturesson gives you three vital questions to ask together with your leadership team before you begin crafting a vision statement.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
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Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
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Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
+ + +
Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias

Mar 18, 2020 • 6min
006. What Great Leaders Must Have
What is the one thing leaders must have to build a consistently healthy organization and lead transformational change? Courageous humility.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders, Tobias and Lena talk about why courageous humility is so important and how you can practice it in your leadership.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
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Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
+ + +
Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
+ + +
Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias

Mar 18, 2020 • 3min
005. Organizational Culture vs Corporate Values
Too often, when leaders encounter organizational culture issues in their organization, they attempt to address by merely stating a list of corporate values. However, for any real change to take place, you have to start with the understanding that corporate values and organizational culture are not the same things.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder, Tobias explains the difference between espoused corporate values - the compass and organizational culture - the inner steering system of the boat.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
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Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
+ + +
Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
+ + +
Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias

Mar 18, 2020 • 3min
004. How Leaders Influence Culture
Organizational culture is built up of people, the tacit agreements they make and the beliefs, values and motives that are shaped as a result. However, everyone within the organization can potentially have an impact on whether that culture will be healthy or become corrupted.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founder Tobias Sturesson uses a glass of water as a picture of culture. Customers, coworkers, suppliers and even society drink from that glass when they interact with the organization. And every leader and employee contribute something to the content of the glass.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
+ + +
Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
+ + +
Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
+ + +
Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias

Mar 18, 2020 • 5min
003. What is Organizational Culture? Really?
Many leaders and HR staff are confounded by organizational culture, according to Harvard Business. However, an organization’s culture impacts every aspect of how it operates, whether we are aware about it or not.
In this episode of Leading Transformational Change, Heart Management co-founders Lena and Tobias answer questions on what culture is and how leaders can get a deeper understanding of the four dimensions of culture to lead change more successfully and build organizational health.
We would love to hear Your thoughts and questions in the comments!
Subscribe, like and share to join the vision of a world in which organizations with a healthy heart become the norm and not the exception.
+ + +
Tobias Sturesson is the co-founder of Heart Management. He coaches leaders and organizations in change and crisis. Tobias has dedicated his professional life to helping leaders lead and build organizations that can attain and sustain a healthy heart—inner life—free from hidden agendas, inner corruption, and hypocrisy.
Tobias is convinced that the inner state of an organization greatly influences the lives of employees, customers, and society at large.
+ + +
Heart Management helps leaders build healthy businesses and organizations that can thrive, empowered by a flourishing culture and aligned around a shared purpose and vision.
+ + +
Website: https://heartmanagement.org
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiassturesson/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heart.management/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heartmanagement.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sturessontobias


