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In the 2nd episode of the Leadership Sessions, host Tom Van Dyck talks with Brandon Strong, Finance Director at Google.

“If people think you have the best interest at heart, then they are open. Trust equals phycological safety, open to ideas and the unvarnished truth.”

Their conversation covers topics that include how phycological safety is a key factor at Google and what that means and how it impacts teams. Also, the key success factors for managing high performing teams and how to hire the right people for the right job!

The Leaderships Sessions is a podcast series of captivating conversations with exceptional leaders from around the world sharing their insights, experiences, thoughts, and personal opinions about what leadership means and what it takes to be effective.

Brandon Strong is a senior leader at Google in San Francisco, California. With more than 60,000 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of products that are used by billions of people around the world, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and of course Google Search.

Tom Van Dyck is a member of the Management Board of TPC Leadership and managing partner of TPCL Belgium.

TPC Leadership is a dynamic global partnership specialising in leadership solutions that deliver cultural transformation and financial impact. With offices around the world, covering 100+ countries, a network of 350+ partners, consultants and associates from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds, TPC Leadership delivers transformational leadership solutions in service of people and business results.

The Leadership Sessions is a podcast series of captivating conversations with exceptional leaders from around the world sharing their insights, experiences, thoughts, and personal opinions about what leadership means and what it takes to be effective.

In this introductory episode, we are joined by:

Annelieke Jense, Managing Partner of TPCL The Netherlands and Tom Van Dyck, Managing Partner of TPCL Belgium.

Anyone can be an inspirational leader in their field and sometimes it is those who are least expected to show great leadership who are the most inspirational. With the Leadership Sessions, we do not just target the C-suite of big corporates but aim to draw from a cross section of inspirational leaders. 

How often are we able to draw back the curtain and hear them candidly discuss their thoughts, concerns, insights, and preoccupations about the issues that confront them? How do they manage their leadership roles and balance the rest of their lives? How do they frame the major issues that businesses and societies are being forced to deal with: diversity, multi-culturalism, redefinition of the workplace, flexible working and recognising employee individuality, social responsibility, and sustainability in all its forms…? Listeners are a fly one the wall, listening in and being part of the conversation. 

Like their musical namesake, the Leadership Sessions aim to be an open format, each guest deciding for themselves how and what to contribute to the conversation. And as with a musical jamming session, the aim of each conversation is to allow it to follow its own flow and meander, and to discover where it will end up. 

Engaging, resonant, relevant, thought provoking, the Leadership Sessions offer a front row seat to all existing and aspiring leaders to consider the elusive meaning of leadership. Whether you are a senior executive, a team leader, an HR professional, a line manager, the Leadership Sessions will have something for you that will challenge your thinking, help you deal with that next hurdle, or inspire your next step. 

Join us on the Leadership Sessions. We would love to continue the conversation with you.

PS: If you have a specific topic that you would like us to cover, please contact us.