112. You Only Know Your Values When You're Willing to Lose Something: With Global Pharma Executive Mwana Lugogo

About this episode

Tobias Sturesson interviews Mwana Lugogo about the challenges of aligning values with actions in leadership and organizational culture.

Tobias Sturesson sits down with Mwana Lugogo – veteran Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at global pharmaceutical company Takeda – to explore the hidden gap between knowing the right thing to do and actually being able to do it. This first episode of the Responsible Leaders - Healthy Cultures marks a pivotal shift from responsibility and ethics as a compliance exercise to ethics as a leadership practice, grounded in culture, humility, and human behavior. You'll discover the critical difference between training and practice, and learn a practical model for building environments where people can act on their values – even under pressure. Make your commitment to responsible leadership and get equipped to lead with integrity and transform your culture on: ⁠https://www.healthycultures.co/⁠ In this episode, we explore: (00:00) Why good people in organizations make decisions they later regret (02:42) Finding common ground across cultures and regulatory contexts (08:23) Overcoming the health illusion and uncovering organizational blind spots (25:50) Why we treat a behavior problem like a knowledge problem (27:34) Building environments where courage is less necessary (28:23) Shifting…

People in this episode

Host: Tobias Sturesson

Guest: Mwana Lugogo

Topics covered

• ethics in leadership
• organizational culture
• values and decision making
• compliance and responsibility
• courage in the workplace
• global ambassador programs

Keywords

• leadership
• ethics
• compliance
• organizational culture
• values
• decision making
• training
• human behavior

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Takeda

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