Season 2 - Episode 14 - Henry Cohen - Leadership during transformational change

Talent Smart Podcast

Henry is an experienced and successful CxO and change professional, with excellent stakeholder management and inter-personal skills. He has significant years of experience in managing large-scale businesses and technology change programmes (£5m to £800m), especially in the digital space, for a wide variety of UK and European-based Insurance and Media companies and Central Government departments.

In this episode, Henry shares with us his approach to leading a large-scale transformation, focusing within established organisational structures and he gives us a great insight into what the key first steps are to take when setting a transformation strategy.

Henry also shares his methods that have been the most effective for gaining 'buy-in' from stakeholders across different levels during transformational change and how to balance whilst maintaining current operations with the push for transformational change.

He also advises on how to address resistance to change, and what strategies to employ which help bring sceptical team members on board and what are some essential qualities or characteristics to look for in building a high-performing teams.

We also take a quick Look into the future and Henry gives us his take on what trends or shifts will impact the way high-performance teams are created and sustained.