Transforming Leadership and Team

<p>Do we need to change the way we think about leadership? Axelle Bagot stops by the show to have a deep and transformative conversation about teams and leadership. She shares stories about her fascinating international career that has taken her to several continents and offers advice on how to make it through challenging times.</p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p>Axelle Bagot is an organizational consultant and teacher of leadership. Her work focuses on creating in people the capacity to transform themselves and others to achieve a collective purpose.</p><p>Originally from France, where she studied Political Sociology and Arabic, she started her career at the French Embassy in Damascus, Syria. Stationed there at a time of high diplomatic tensions, she worked with artists, organizers and intellectuals who would later be involved in the Arab Spring. Back to Paris, she worked at the City Hall of Paris, where she designed and implemented many projects of international cooperation in the Middle East at the municipal level, which required the French and International public servants to find new ways to communicate, partner and co-create. She moved to Boston in 2014 to attend a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and work as a Research fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She focused her studies on the nature of innovation, the reactions to it and the conditions of its orchestration at the individual and collective level. She has taught leadership and social innovation in several institutions, including Brown University, Harvard University, the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, the African Development University in Niger and the Albert Einstein Medical School of Sao Paulo. She co-created her consulting company, the Leadership Lab International with Dr. Houman Harouni of Harvard University in 2019. </p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p>Support the show on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/norlund" target="_blank"><strong>@norlund</strong></a></p><p>Thank you so much!