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Why Finland Plays It Safe: Talent, Ambition, and the Nordic Leadership Gap with Terhi Klemetti
Apr 10, 2026
49m 01s
68 - Satu Rämö - Where Discipline Meets Imagination
May 15, 2025
58m 21s
67 - Jarmo Suominen: Drop the Idea That Everyone Thinks Like You
Dec 19, 2024
36m 45s
66 - The Essence of Leadership: Lessons from Asko Känsälä
Nov 18, 2024
35m 56s
65 - Upgrade your thinking and make better decisions. Agile HR with Natal Dank.
Aug 19, 2024
45m 59s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 4/10/26 |  Why Finland Plays It Safe: Talent, Ambition, and the Nordic Leadership Gap with Terhi Klemetti✨ | leadershipexecutive search+3 | Terhi Klemetti | Nordic Leaders PodcastGMV Media | — | Nordic leadershipexecutive talent+3 | — | 49m 01s | |
| 5/15/25 |  68 - Satu Rämö - Where Discipline Meets Imagination | The Nordic Leaders meet Nordic Blue Crime! In this episode, we sit down with Satu Rämö — bestselling Finnish author, Icelandic resident, and creator of the hugely popular Hildur crime series. Satu is a master of paradox. She’s a crime writer who can’t stand the sight of blood. A daily runner who lives by strict routines, yet writes fiction filled with wild unpredictability. A storyteller who leads with trust — even when it has cost her dearly. We explore: How discipline can fuel creativityW... | 58m 21s | ||||||
| 12/19/24 |  67 - Jarmo Suominen: Drop the Idea That Everyone Thinks Like You | In this episode of Nordic Leaders: Fail Smart, we welcome back Jarmo Suominen, CEO of Rejlers Abu Dhabi, marking his second appearance on the podcast—our first returning guest! We explore leadership lessons from one of the UAE's fastest-growing professional services firms, diving into resilience, growth, and adapting to an ever-changing business landscape. Key Takeaways: 1. Focus and Learning from Failure: 🎙️ Focus on the task at hand and avoid over-planning. 🎙️ "When you’re somewhere, focus ... | 36m 45s | ||||||
| 11/18/24 |  66 - The Essence of Leadership: Lessons from Asko Känsälä | In this insightful episode of Fail Smart, we sit down with Asko Känsälä, former Deputy CEO of Elisa, a leading telecommunications company in Finland. Known for his sharp thinking and profound insights, Asko shares the experiences, philosophies, and failures that have shaped his leadership journey. Together with Asko we explore what it means to lead with empathy, balance, and impactful simplicity. Key Takeaways from the Episode: Failures and Successes Don’t Define Us:Asko discusses his belief ... | 35m 56s | ||||||
| 8/19/24 |  65 - Upgrade your thinking and make better decisions. Agile HR with Natal Dank. | Natal Dank is the Co-founder of PXO Culture, Chief Trendwatcher at the HR Trend Institute and named one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers of 2022 by HR Magazine. Recognized as a pioneer of Agile in the people profession, Natal hosted the first London-based Agile HR Meetup in 2016, which has since grown into a global movement reshaping the L&D and people profession. Helping to make workplaces the kind of places people want to be a part of. She is co-author of; Agile HR: Deliver Val... | 45m 59s | ||||||
| 5/21/24 |  64 - Samstag: The Intersection of Psychology and Leadership | Dr. Nicholas Samstag is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist based in New York City. With a diverse background spanning theater to ancient Greek and Latin studies, his journey into psychology and psychoanalysis has been influenced by a range of experiences. In this episode, Nicholas discusses how his varied path shaped his approach to psychoanalysis and leadership, and offers elegant insights into human nature and leadership, reflecting on: 🎙️parallels between theater and therapy... | 39m 41s | ||||||
| 1/25/24 |  63 - Paradoxical Leadership with Ivo Brughmans | Immerse yourself on a journey of discovery in this conversation about Paradoxical Thinking and Leadership with author and philosopher, Ivo Brughmans. Get ready to challenge your own assumptions and self-perception. Ivo delivers an insightful message about embracing the ‘power of both sides’ of our personalities. Reaching out for the side of our personality that we don’t see or use, or even like that much is truly challenging. As a ‘very serious person at work’, Ivo describes how he manage... | 43m 40s | ||||||
| 11/27/23 |  62 - Transforming leadership with Taneli Rantala | 🗨️"Create habits that create a good life." In this episode we catch up with Taneli Rantala, CEO of Lifted, and dip in to highlights of Taneli's journey from a strategy consultant to a visionary entrepreneur. Taneli´s philosophy emphasizes the importance of leadership style, organizational culture, personal development, and taking hard decisions to create successful, resilient leaders. Listen in to get insights into 🎧Enhancing organizational culture and productivity. 🎧Creating a co... | 42m 10s | ||||||
| 9/12/23 |  61 - Connecting Opposites; a blueprint for a world of dilemmas, with Fons Trompenaars. | A warm and polished performance from Dutch organizational theorist Fons Trompenaars, recognized around the world for his work as a motivational speaker, consultant, and author of several books on culture and business. He spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders build meaningful connections to manage and solve business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance. Recognized by Thinkers 50 as one of the most influential management thinkers in the world, Fons wa... | 43m 09s | ||||||
| 6/14/23 |  60 - Environments in which Everyone Can Thrive with Celine Pasula | Celine Pasula has over a decade of leadership experience in top mobile gaming companies including startups and bigger companies. Today, as the Managing Director of Ubisoft RedLynx, she's working with experiences on all platforms, mobile, PC, and console. Celine is not only an expert in leadership, finance, legal and business development but also in building a great company culture. She is a fast-thinking leader with a big heart for game development. When it comes to gaming itself, she is ... | 38m 15s | ||||||
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| 12/21/22 |  59 - Nitin Sawhney on the power of letting go | "Music attracts luck" - Nitin Sawhney In this episode we have a warm and uplifting chat with Nitin Sawhney, musician, producer and composer, known around the world for his albums, film scores, DJ skills, and collaborations with Paul McCartney, Sting, Jeff Beck, Ellie Golding, Annie Lennox, Will Young, Bob Geldof, Andy Serkis, Mira Nair, Anushka Shankar, Nora Jones, Herby Hancock and David Gilmore. In a wide ranging conversation on music, intuition, collaboration, leadersh... | 47m 18s | ||||||
| 12/12/22 |  58 - Questions are the Answer with Hal Gregersen | You’ve probably heard of Hal Gregersen… A global name in leadership and academia. An author and senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management, a former executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, and ranked in the Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers in 2021. His latest book, Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life is based on 200+ interviews with catalytic questione... | 52m 48s | ||||||
| 9/13/22 |  57 - Johanna Småros; ‘an introvert engineer who gets stuff done on time’. | Now here’s a conversation we can all relate to, on the nature of working life today and how to navigate people, tech, and change, gracefully. Johanna is co-founder of RELEX Solutions, a huge success story and the world's coolest provider of retail planning solutions! Johanna describes what it’s like navigating the ‘hard skills’ world of engineering, data and tech, and at the same time sharing her experiences of collaboration and leading people and teams through change. ... | 47m 22s | ||||||
| 8/12/22 |  56 - How People and Organisations Learn with Charles Jennings | Fail Smart: Lessons in Leadership & Life The brilliant Charles Jennings covers everything you need to know about life and learning in way less than an hour: Recognised as one of the world's leading experts on building and implementing learning and organisational performance strategies. He’s led pioneering work with the 70:20:10 model for 20 years + and led learning and performance improvement projects for multinationals, government agencies, not-for-profits, and more, fo... | 54m 02s | ||||||
| 5/27/22 |  55 - Fail Smart with Tendayi Viki | Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer Fail Smart - Lessons in Leadership and Life: The new series from the Nordic Leaders. We couldn’t possibly imagine a better way to start our Fail Smart series than this sparkling conversation with Tendayi Viki. Tendayi advises leaders across the globe on strategy and innovation, helping companies to explore and create the future. He is a speaker, facilitator, advisor, and he’s written three books on innovation, his latest book is Pirates I... | 37m 53s | ||||||
| 12/10/21 |  54 - Harnessing Informal Power in your Organisation with Dr. Matt Offord | In this episode we welcome Dr Matt Offord, esteemed lecturer in Leadership and Management from the Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow University. Matt is a former Naval Officer with extensive experience leading agile 21st-century teams in high tech and data rich environments. Matt shares many fascinating insights which include; · ‘Harnessing informal power is a very healthy thing; the idea that informal networks are not helpful, is not helpful’ · Le... | 32m 25s | ||||||
| 11/23/21 |  53 - How improv principles can help leaders thrive in a changing environment - Patricia Ryan Madson | This week we host Patricia Ryan Madson. Patricia is the author of "improv wisdom" and a professor emerita at Stanford university, where she started teaching in 1977. In 1996 she founded the creativity initiative at Stanford, an interdisciplinary Alliance of faculty who share the belief that creativity can be taught. Among other things she taught Design Improv for the School of Engineering and has been a guest lecturer for the renowned Stanford Technology Ventures Program and for the Mayfie... | 30m 37s | ||||||
| 11/16/21 |  52 - Why the next revolution is human with Perttu Pölönen | Perttu Pölönen is a futurist, inventor and author. In 2018 MIT Tech Review honored him among the 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe. He has written two books and his latest, “Future Skills”, is out just now. In this book he argues that the next revolution is a human revolution. To counterbalance the world we digitalized, we need to develop creativity, perseverance, compassion, and curiosity—those same soft skills that give our lives meaning and set us apart from machines. In this interesting i... | 31m 49s | ||||||
| 11/2/21 |  51 - Emilia Järvinen - Vegfluencing the World | “Everyone should do something to make the world a better place.” Listen in to the inspiring tale of 17000+ vegetable boxes and recipes delivered to Finnish families. The social economy in the EU comprises 2.8 million enterprises and organizations, 13.6 million jobs and 8% of GDP. It’s an important part of the economy, and the influence is increasing - so it was high time we invited Emilia Järvinen , co-founder of Venner, on to the pod to hear the story of rapid growth and... | 27m 32s | ||||||
| 10/27/21 |  50 - Care, Trust, Transparency: how storytelling turns values into action with Essi Knuutila from Futurice | We explore the world of meaningful values, story telling and The Inclusion Canvas with Essi Knuutila of Futurice. Essi is Global Head of Digital Marketing and discusses how Futurice's values of 'Care, Trust, Transparency and Continuous Improvement' shape this global digital innovation and engineering company. Essi also describes how the values came into being, 'We didn't invent our values — we found them on our journey'. She also describes the best leader she ever worked with and what she ... | 34m 06s | ||||||
| 10/19/21 |  49. How to cultivate diversity and win over the algorithms - Mikko Alasaarela | We dive into the world of influence with Mikko Alasaarela, but influence with an algorithmic twist. Mikko is an impact-focused AI entrepreneur. He has founded and invested in several tech startups that have raised over $30M and employed over 700 people in Finland, Germany, and the USA. He currently serves as CTO of Cuckoo Workout and consults companies about AI, blockchain and algorithms at inbot. He is an expert in algorithmic influence, ok but what is algorithmic influence? That is what w... | 33m 14s | ||||||
| 10/12/21 |  48. Matt Abrahams and the secrets of communication: how to go from silence to brilliance | In today's episode we are delighted to welcome Matt Abrahams, communication expert and lecturer at Stanford University. We will talk all things communication. The episode is packed with insights so please take a notepad and make sure to take notes. We are going to explore: How communication has changed during the pandemicHow to help our audience to be more engagedHow to make a great podcast even greaterThe most important skills of a podcasterThe importance of authenticity in com... | 33m 19s | ||||||
| 9/28/21 |  47. Adaptability, Extremely Fast Growth And How To Hire Amazing People - Kati Tammisto | In this episode, recorded in June 2021 our guest is Kati Tammisto, (then Head of CX at Sympa and now) CMO at Precisely. Kati is a modern leader with an entrepreneurial background who puts people front and centre in everything she does. Kati shares her insights on working in 'extremely fast growth' environments and the adaptability and flexibility that one needs to operate therein. She also explains the importance of recruitment and how to lead excellent people in growth companies. "What we... | 27m 25s | ||||||
| 9/14/21 |  46. Failure and redemption with Tommi Lähde | "I'm not a loser - the story I told myself for years" In this very frank episode Tommi Lähde - Founder and CEO of The Other Danish Guy brand - opens up with courage and radical candour. Listen in to this most candid of interviews with the only CEO in the world to work just in his underwear for the first two weeks on the job. What we cover: 🎧 being honest with yourself and bouncing back (1,47) 🎧 facing failure and dealing with imposter syndrome (5,55) 🎧 building ... | 30m 50s | ||||||
| 9/8/21 |  45. Underpromise, overdeliver: how to win in the nordics with André Noël Chaker | Welcome to Season 4 of the Nordic Leaders Podcast! In this episode we interview André Noël Chaker, speaker, entrepreneur, executive and lawyer that came from Canada to Finland 30 years ago. What we cover:André's beginnings and his move from Quebec to Finland(4:54) What Arnold Schwarzenegger taught him(6:09) How he turned a hobby into a profession (and got all these cool "gigs")(9:23) Trust as a key driver of value(14:06) The essence of great speaking (20:14) The secret of his success(22... | 31m 04s | ||||||
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