Disrupt Your Career

Sven Sommerlatte is CHRO of Boehringer Ingelheim, based in Germany. He started his career in management consulting and held a broad range of HR roles at Sanofi, most recently HR Head of the Global Consumer Healthcare Business Unit. Sven created the YouTube channel OTIUM to help people learn more about personal development, improve their career strategy and become better leaders. Sven holds an MBA and a Ph.D in organizational development.We connected with Sven as we share a common passion for career counseling and career strategy. We talk with Sven about his own career journey, his first 100 days and priorities as CHRO of Boehringer Ingelheim, his view on how companies are managing talent, why he created OTIUM and what he has learned through this journey, the biggest mistakes people make and his advice to better manage career, and his wishes for 2022. Links from the episode: Sven’ personal pageSven's Linkedin profileOTIUM YouTube channelBoehringer Ingelheim’ careers pageRead the transcriptThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Utkarsh Amitabh is the founder of Network Capital, one of the world’s largest career intelligence communities. He writes for Harvard Business Review, Mint, Economic Times, and World Economic Forum and published the book The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work. He is a TED speaker, Chevening Fellow at University of Oxford and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. An MBA graduate from INSEAD, Utkarsh previously worked at Microsoft and helped build India’s first smart village which was recognized in the Prime Minister’s Book of Pioneering Innovations. We connected with Utkarsh as we share a common passion for how people build their careers. We talk with Utkarsh about how his career unfolded, why and how he created Network Capital, his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs, the core ideas of his book The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work, his practical suggestions for those who want to make a career change and more career advice inspired from his reflections and interactions with global leaders.  Links from the episode: Network CapitalUtkarsh’ Linkedin profileUtkarsh’s book – The Seductive Illusion of Hard WorkUtkarsh’s Harvard Business Review articlesThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Jan has been a successful entrepreneur and business leader. She is now an adviser to CEOs and chairmen and is also a qualified executive coach. She spent 20 years as a headhunter and has over 30 years’ experience of being a non-executive director.   Jon is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and leadership coach. He is a Director of Stokes & Jolly, a leadership advisory firm. He taught for many years at Said Business School at the University of Oxford and is on the faculty of Meyler Campbell.We connected with Jan and Jon who share with us a passion for better life and career transitions and published Changing Gear: Creating the Life You Want After a Full On Career earlier this year. We talk with the pair about their own career changes, why they wrote Changing Gear, the challenges of transitioning into the third stage of life, the psychological frameworks they use as coaches, and an eight-step transition process to help people find their new selves.  Links from the episode: Jan Hall and Jon Stokes Changing Gear bookJan Hall’s Linkedin profileJon Stokes’s LinkedIn profileJan’s advisory firm Number FourJon’s advisory firm Stokes & JollyThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Dorie Clark is a highly recognized author, consultant and keynote speaker, who teaches at Duke University and Columbia Business School. She is the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, Stand Out, The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World (just published in September 2021). Dorie has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards.We connected with Dorie as we share a common passion for self-reinvention and helping others make work-life changes. We talk with Dorie about her own career reinvention, how to get others on board with your career transition, how to mitigate risks in your career, how to build your network in a more virtual environment, and some of the key ideas, stories and advice from her recently published book The Long Game.Links from the episode: Dorie’ personal pageDorie’ Linkedin profileDorie’s new book – The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term WorldReinvent You Self-AssessmentEntrepreneurial You Self-AssessmentThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in people analytics, talent management, leadership development, and the Human-AI interface. He is the Chief Talent Scientist at Manpower Group, co-founder of Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling, and former CEO of Hogan Assessment Systems. Tomas is a professor of Business Psychology at both University College London, and Columbia University and previously lectured in numerous academic institutions. He has published 10 books and over 200 scientific papers, making him one of the most prolific social scientists of his generation. He is a frequent contributor to Fast Company, the Guardian, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review.We connected with Tomas as we share a common belief that science and technology can help organizations and people better predict human performance. We talk with Tomas about how AI and psychometrics can help individuals better manage their careers, why people aren’t so good at choosing the right job, how people may decide whether it may be time for a career change, why is the self-promotion strategy not working and why the current environment is actually more suitable for changes than we may think.  Links from the episode: Tomas’ personal pageTomas’ Linkedin profileDeeper Signals homepageRead the transcriptThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Andy Storch is an author, consultant, coach, speaker and facilitator specializing in helping clients turn strategy into action and people doing the best work of their lives. He is the host of two podcasts, including The Talent Development Hot Seat and Andy Storch Show, and also the author of the book, Own Your Career Own Your Life, published in 2020.We wanted to connect with Andy who impresses us with his passion and energy to advise and guide people towards the best version of their career possible. Andy pivoted last year, as the pandemic struck, and as he faced his own health challenges. We learned from him the power of always adapting in an agile way. As a huge believer in the strength of networks and community, Andy also has a lot of advice to share about how each of us can leverage that, as exemplified by his successful business. Links from the episode:  Andy’s homepage Andy’s book Own Your Career Own Your LifeAndy’s Linkedin profileThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Gianpiero is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, where he directs the Management Acceleration Programme, the school’s flagship executive programme for emerging leaders. His interests bridge the domains of leadership, identity, adult development and experiential learning. He speaks widely to academic and corporate audiences on the topic of how to develop and exercise leadership in fast-changing, uncertain and diverse workplaces. A Medical Doctor and Psychiatrist by training, Gianpiero has worked as an executive coach and practiced as a psychotherapist. We came across Gianpiero through INSEAD – where we both studied – and have been avid followers of his research and ideas. In this episode, we talk with him about his own career story, the importance of meaning at work, his work on the gig economy and independent workers, leadership transitions, experiential learning and his current interest in the value of friendship at work. Links from the episode: Gianpiero’s homepageGianpiero’s Linkedin profileRead the transcriptThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Sonal is an experienced HR Director and Career Strategist with a career spanning nearly two decades in senior HR positions. She has lived and worked in Chile, Belgium, France, India and Uruguay. She has helped recruit, build and evolve highly talented teams for large companies like GE, PwC, family-owned firms, and startups. This gives her a unique vantage point to help people with their careers, no matter what situation they find themselves in now.We connected with Sonal as we share a common passion for helping everyone to live a career and life they actually love. We talk with Sonal about her own career story, how she supports her clients through a combination of coaching, mentoring, consulting and training, the channels where she shares her content and ideas, the trends she is seeing in career management, and what’s next in her journey. Links from the episode:  SuperCharge homepageSuperCharge Youtube ChannelSonal’s podcast ‘How I Got Hired’Sonal’s Linkedin profileThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Monique is an executive coach, keynote speaker, and workshop leader. She has served as a professor of management on the faculties of EDHEC Business School and Boston College and has built high-level coaching experience in multiple countries and industries. She is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review on leadership, sustainable careers, talent management, communication, work-life integration, mindfulness, and well-being.We connected with Monique as we share a common belief that everyone has the right and the capacity to thrive at work and in their lives beyond work. We talk with Monique about her own career story, her research on work-life integration, how to avoid and beat burnout, and her coaching work with leaders around purpose, resilience, trust, engagement and collaboration.  Links from the episode: Monique’s homepage Monique’s Linkedin profileArticles published by MoniqueThanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast

Anna is HR consultant and applied researcher at eelloo. She holds an MSc In Psychology from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology from Justus-Liebig-University. Anna’s research focuses on proactive career behavior, sustainable employability and the role of identity in development and finding work. As a consultant she helps organizations to align work with people's personal stories. We connected with Anna as we share a common passion for helping people find work that is meaningful to them in a changing environment. We talk about Anna’s own career story, her work on the theory and application of Career Adaptability, a tool she created to help individuals write their career story, how her company is experimenting with the way they work and new projects on the horizon.Links from the episode:  Anna’s Linkedin profileEelloo’s website (in Dutch) A recent research paper from Anna “Enhancing career adaptive responses among experienced employees: A mid-career intervention” in the Journal of Vocational Behavior Thanks for listening!Visit our homepage at https://disrupt-your-career.comIf you like the podcast, please take a moment to rate it and leave a review in Apple Podcast