181: Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—Yes Change Is Painful But It's Necessary!

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 24px;"><strong>Learn how to see the future through a fresh lens !  </strong></span></p> <p>As you might know, we are setting up leadership academies and personal development programs for our <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">SAMC</a> clients in all types of industries. As <a href= "https://www.simonassociates.net/anthropologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corporate anthropologists</a>, this is very much in line with our misson of helping organizations and the people working within them to change. In today's podcast, I speak with two notable leaders in the field of leadership development—Valerio Pascotto and Amit Raikar—who share with us their brain-based approach to building better leaders within change management. I know you will learn so much here. I did!<strong><img class= "mce-hs-more" style="height: 20px !important;" src= "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /><span style="font-size: 20px;">Today's companies are focusing on the future as well as profits</span></strong></p> <p>More and more, organizations are realizing that they have a much bigger role to play beyond pleasing shareholders with excellent profits. As Amit describes it, "B" corporations (focused on their third bottom line, namely helping their people, their profits and the planet) are shifting the way companies build teams and get people to work together to do better. In turn, this new type of business structure is causing global cultures to redefine what is success. Organizations are now building more inclusive and sustainable economies which will in turn affect the societies which they serve. <a href="../../../what-is-futurism-and-do-you-need-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As I've written about recently</a>, this is a great example of seeing the future through a fresh lens.</p> <p>Valerio talks about how he and Amit use the metaphor of a mirror to help individual clients