Human-Centric Leadership with Vanessa Cherenfant (Canada) & Joanne Kennedy (France)

About this episode

The episode explores strategies for creating human-centric organizations through the insights of leadership experts Vanessa Cherenfant and Joanne Kennedy.

Discover key strategies to create human-centric organizations, where innovation, motivation and joy exists at all levels from two Leadership Luminaries (2024): Vanessa Cherenfant, an executive leader in strategy, transformation and operational excellence, and Joanne Kennedy, a communications, R&D and digital transformation senior executive. In this conversation, Joanne and Vanessa also share their journeys, how parenthood has influenced their leadership, how they define success, and what is their recipe for living a joyful life.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Andreea Vanacker

Guests: Vanessa Cherenfant, Joanne Kennedy

Topics covered

• human-centric leadership
• innovation
• motivation
• joy
• parenthood
• success
• living a joyful life

Keywords

• human-centric organizations
• leadership
• innovation
• motivation
• joy
• parenthood
• success

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Canada, France

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