The CEO Dialogue
As President of the International Institute for Management Development - better known as IMD - Jean-François Manzoni has a direct line to some of the world’s most interesting and successful business leaders. In this new podcast, he shares that opportunity with you.In each episode, we’ll hear from a different CEO about the path that brought them to the C-suite, the insights they’ve gained at the top -- and the advice they’d like to pass on to the next generation.New episodes every other Thursday.
Latest episodes
Sep 26, 2024 • 47min
Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm: ‘You have to bring hearts and minds with you’
Rio Tinto CEO, Jakob Stausholm emphasizes relationship-building and empathy to restore Rio Tinto's social license and guide its decarbonization efforts.****Read our magazine, I by IMD, here.Discover IMD's leadership programmes here.
Aug 20, 2024 • 45min
Arnaud Vaissié of International SOS
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Jun 26, 2024 • 41min
Ringing the changes: Vodafone ‘insider’ Margherita Della Valle makes some tough calls as CEO
Margherita Della Valle tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how she is delivering radical change to reenergize Vodafone and paving the way for greater diversity in leadership.--Read our magazine, I by IMD, here.Discover IMD's leadership programmes here.
May 28, 2024 • 49min
Why Novo Nordisk’s CEO has learned to trust his gut feeling
Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, CEO of the company which makes game-changing obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, explains how its culture and long-view underpin its recent turnaround.
May 27, 2024 • 46min
Henkel’s Carsten Knobel: A CEO who sticks to his strategy
Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni why he has remained laser-focused on implementing its purposeful growth agenda and why the company decided to exit Russia.
May 22, 2024 • 48min
ACWA Power’s Marco Arcelli: ‘I’m the Chief Facilitating Officer’
A year into the job, Marco Arcelli, CEO of ACWA Power, tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how the Saudi company plans to triple assets to $250 billion in six years by expanding internationally.
May 1, 2024 • 48min
RWE’s Markus Krebber on building energy reserves to keep focused on the long term
Mar 28, 2024 • 43min
TV Narendran, CEO & Managing Director of Tata Steel
Anticipating rising raw material costs, Tata Steel’s CEO & Managing Director TV Narendran tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni how he introduced a change management process to instill a culture of future readiness at the 100-year-old industrial company.
Mar 25, 2024 • 54min
Henrik Andersen, CEO of sustainable energy leader Vestas
Henrik Andersen discusses with IMD President Jean-François Manzoni the challenges of navigating supply chain disruptions and soaring raw material costs over the past three years, and why he changed the wind farm developer’s culture to encourage openness and trust.
Mar 22, 2024 • 47min
Erik Fyrwald, CEO of leading agriculture firm Syngenta Group
Regenerative agriculture techniques are vital to improve the resilience of crops and help farmers achieve humanity’s dual objective of growing more food using less land, the CEO of the Swiss agriculture group tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni, as he advocates for carbon labelling on produce.
