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From Gloves to Hands
From Gloves to Hands

How a breakthrough insight transformed a medical device company with Katriina Öberg and Casey Dusenbery, EVP and R&D Director respectively within the Gloves business area at Mölnlycke Health Care.

Getting Flying Taxis Off the Ground
Getting Flying Taxis Off the Ground

How Wisk is Building an Ecosystem for Autonomous Aviation. A Conversation Between Becky Tanner, CMO at Wisk, & Ian Dull, partner at ReD Associates

Pioneering future DNA testing and diagnostics
Pioneering future DNA testing and diagnostics

A conversation between Fredrik Alpsten, CEO at Devyser
and Mads Holme, Managing Partner at ReD Associates.

Culture as the key ingredient in successful M&As
Culture as the key ingredient in successful M&As

Our leadership interview with Mikael Wedell-Wedellsborg, VP Corporate Development at Novo Nordisk and Eric Dessertenne, CEO at Biocorp on culture as the key ingredient in successful M&As.

How To Build Belonging At A 350,000-Person Company
How To Build Belonging At A 350,000-Person Company

Jacob Aarup-Andersen, former CEO of ISS Group and current Carlsberg Group CEO, on making belonging a top priority in a giant people organisation and putting the S in ESG on the leadership agenda.

Scaling the ‘special sauce’ of a culture in a global organisation
Scaling the ‘special sauce’ of a culture in a global organisation

Millie Arora sits down with Chris Cozic, Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer at Genmab to discuss how to scale and cultivate culture.

Stepping out of the corporate comfort zone in medical care
Stepping out of the corporate comfort zone in medical care

Zlatko Rihter (CEO at Mölnlyck) speaks to Martin Gronemann about trusting the ethnographic process, embracing a customer-oriented approach, and uniting the worlds of business and social sciences to build strategy.

Taking the climate fight to the oceans and aquatic foods
Taking the climate fight to the oceans and aquatic foods

WorldFish’s interim director general on shifting the climate narrative and using social science to lead organisational change

Deep context: A strategic approach to organisational change
Deep context: A strategic approach to organisational change

Ed Whiting (Wellcome Trust’s Director of Strategy) speaks to Mads Holme about the big organisational shifts required to deliver on Wellcome’s new strategy, how deeper, more reciprocal partnerships lead to more long-term solutions, and the importance of human understanding in both effecting change and creating equitable cultures.

Being customer oriented never goes out of fashion
Being customer oriented never goes out of fashion

A conversation between Britt Meelby Jensen, CEO of AMBU A/S & Mads Holme, Managing Partner at ReD Associates.

Building a Growth Engine by Balancing Soft and Hard
Building a Growth Engine by Balancing Soft and Hard

A conversation with the CEO of Karo on how he made his healthcare company more human-centric.

Waking up the sleeping customer
Waking up the sleeping customer

The key to being a proactive insurance provider is to be present in the many moments when people’s uncertainties are activated.

Kristian Villumsen, Coloplast’s SVP Of Global Marketing, On Innovation In Healthcare
Kristian Villumsen, Coloplast’s SVP Of Global Marketing, On Innovation In Healthcare

An interview with Kristian Villumsen, a SVP at Coloplast, on how ReD helped the healthcare company innovate.

Growing Beyond Your Core
Growing Beyond Your Core

Business history is littered with examples of companies that missed out on major changes in their industries and paid a hefty price.

CGAP: It’s Not About Savings, Credit or Insurance. It’s About Clients.
CGAP: It’s Not About Savings, Credit or Insurance. It’s About Clients.

Charlotte Vangsgaard discusses at CGAP why the underlying needs and aspirations is key to putting oneself in the shoes of customers.

Quartz: How To Get Ahead As A Businesswoman - Order A Whiskey On The Rocks
Quartz: How To Get Ahead As A Businesswoman - Order A Whiskey On The Rocks

The changing role of businesswomen in emerging markets is causing major shifts in alcohol consumption.

Washington Post: We Need More Humanities Majors
Washington Post: We Need More Humanities Majors

What good is a degree in the humanities in the real world of products and customers? Far more than most people think.