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June 2021

14/06/2021
View Sesil Pir‘s Leadership Mindsets Course on LinkedIn Learning
14/06/2021
Workhuman Conference 2021
11/06/2021
Announcing Sesil Pir’s debut book on Leadership
11/06/2021
Not An Equation That Computes: Why Leaders Need Let Go Off Control To Shift Cultural Experiences
11/06/2021
Evolution Of Business And Why Every Organization Needs To Embrace Caring Leadership
11/06/2021
8 Mindsets That Will Re-Shape The Future Of Work Experience
11/06/2021
The Symphony Of Evolution: Why We Need To Redesign Future Organizations With Conscience
11/06/2021
Going Forward With Imagination: Workplace Trends Of 2021 And Why HR Is Called To Action

January 2021

18/01/2021
Sesil Pir on TNTESQ Podcast
18/01/2021
How To Keep Pace To Perform More Sustainably Going Into The New Year
18/01/2021
The Gift Of Self Reliance: Why You Shouldn’t Send A Box Of Goods For Thanksgiving
18/01/2021
A Meeting Is A Gathering: The Most Common Work Practice Desperately Needs A Redesign
18/01/2021
Caring In The Workplace: Why Allyship Matters More Than Ever Now
18/01/2021
In Mourning: Why World Leaders Are Acting Out And How We Can Choose Differently Next Time
18/01/2021
Embracing The Power Of Silence And Vulnerability On The Way To Making Right People Choices

August 2020

06/08/2020
N-Gage 2020 – Think You Got The Company Culture Down? Think Again!

July 2020

27/07/2020
Sesil Pir on Leading Transformational Change Podcast
27/07/2020
It Takes More People To Produce Less: Why You Should Rethink Productivity To Unleash Potential Inside Your Organization
27/07/2020
Why Your Company Culture Is A Lie And What You Can Do About It

May 2020

28/05/2020
Listen to Podcast with Sesil Pir
28/05/2020
A Call To Reimagination: How Can We Relate To Others And The System Differently
20/05/2020
Announcing New LinkedIn Learning Course: Improve Your Mindset to Shift Your Work Experience
20/05/2020
Let’s Not Go Back To Any Normal: Why We Need To Redefine Growth To Shift The Status Quo Of Our Work Experiences
19/05/2020
What Are The Behaviors Of Human-Centered Leadership?
19/05/2020
Why We Need Human-Centered Leadership?
05/05/2020
The Well Of Strength We Keep Inside: How To Build Organizational Resilience When Coping An Unexpected Event
05/05/2020
Swimming In An Experience Tank: Why We Must Lean Into Hope To Overcome Anxiety
05/05/2020
The Future Workforce Is Whole In One: How Are You Breaking The Patterns Of Gender Inequality Inside Your Cultures
05/05/2020
If It Is Broken, Fix It: Why We Need HR To Take Risks In Building Next Generation Of Leaders

April 2020

02/04/2020
What It Means To Put Humanity At The Center Of Business In The 21st Century

February 2020

20/02/2020
Hyper-Personalization: How Organizations Are Rethinking The Employee Experience
20/02/2020
HR Fest Budapest Conference 2019
04/02/2020
Unicorns Die Young: Why Businesses Should Reject Perfectionism In 2020

January 2020

30/01/2020
Transforming Experience: How Blurring Of Lines In Business Calls For Iteration And Experimentation
07/01/2020
How Much Change Can Your Inner Child Take? Why We Need To Grow Into Adulthood As Leaders Of The 21st Century

December 2019

09/12/2019
A Human Way Of Business: Organizational Behaviors Necessary To Redefine Leadership

November 2019

21/11/2019
Finding Our HR Voice: Unfolding Courage, Creativity And Compassion

October 2019

16/10/2019
We are on LinkedIn Learning!
14/10/2019
Agility Requires Fragility: Why We Must Embrace Science And Humanity In The Future Of Work
07/10/2019
The Future Of Work Is Here, What Is Your HR Organization Working On?

September 2019

30/09/2019
The Art Of Learning Side-By-Side: Why The Way We Develop Is Not Working For Our Workforce
18/09/2019
Structural Change Is An Easy Way Out: Why We Need To Own Our Corporate Cultures
05/09/2019
The Path To Mastery In Leadership: What It Is And How To Develop It

July 2019

24/07/2019
Open-Heart Surgery For Fairness: Why We Need Compassion In The Future Of Work
17/07/2019
Morality In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Why Do We Need Wisdom To Lead In The Future?
03/07/2019
Wonder In The Workplace: How Curiosity Can Prepare Us For The Future Of Work

June 2019

26/06/2019
Challenge is Different than Stress…
05/06/2019
Developing A Sense Of Responsibility: Why Emotional Insight Is Critical For The Future Of Work
03/06/2019
The Importance Of Foresight: Why Intuition And Imagination Will Be Critical In The Future Of Work

May 2019

29/05/2019
Conquering Institutional Fear: Standing Up For Ourselves And Others
27/05/2019
Everyday Abundance: Why We Must Invest In Finding Purpose
22/05/2019
Can Business Drive Meaning And Meaningfulness In The Workplace?
20/05/2019
The Transformative Power Of Love In Leadership: How To Cultivate A Culture That Leads From Love
06/05/2019
Which Leadership Behaviors Drive Positive Employee Outcomes?

April 2019

01/04/2019
The Transformative Power Of Love In Leadership

March 2019

21/03/2019
Integrity as a Form of Expression
12/03/2019
Building Work Cultures of Trust & Wellbeing One Human at a Time

February 2019

25/02/2019
A Newfound Context For Business: Workplace Considerations For 2019
20/02/2019
Redefining Leadership: Ten Commandments for the Digital Age

January 2019

30/01/2019
Effective Leadership Behaviors
14/01/2019
Getting Ready for a Review? Start by Shifting Focus!
07/01/2019
Wishing You A Year of Compassion!

December 2018

21/12/2018
Happy Holidays!
17/12/2018
Human Leadership: What It Looks Like, And Why We Need It In The 21st Century
12/12/2018
We Have Over 1,000 YouTube Subscribers! ⭐️
10/12/2018
Going Back To The Future: Designing Organizational Cultures Of Compassion, Wisdom And Well-Being

November 2018

26/11/2018
Are There Really Generational Differences in the Workplace?
14/11/2018
HR by Love: An Invitation to a Collaborative Future
08/11/2018
Evolutionary Culture Transformation: The Greatest Dream We Never Realized
01/11/2018
Business is No Longer an Island

October 2018

17/10/2018
How to Build Trust as a Leader

September 2018

27/09/2018
Trust as a Foundation of 21st Century Organizations
25/09/2018
Changing the Status Quo of Work!
19/09/2018
Transcendence: Leading for the Highest Good of All
10/09/2018
Re-Imagining the Way We Work!
05/09/2018
‘Awakening Humanity at Work’: Leadership in the New Age

August 2018

29/08/2018
21st Century Leadership Calls for our Wisdom
27/08/2018
Creating a Climate of Understanding (for Humanity & Profitability)
22/08/2018
At the Core of Leadership: Choice
20/08/2018
What’s Love Got to do with Work?
15/08/2018
The Illusion of Permanent Progress
13/08/2018
If Leaders Could Dance to the Wind of Energy…
08/08/2018
Trends We’re Observing in the Workplace
06/08/2018
A New Welcome Video!

July 2018

11/07/2018
On Vacation!
09/07/2018
Unleashing Performance Potential
04/07/2018
Looking Inside to Lead Ahead
02/07/2018
Taking Back Our Employee Experience

June 2018

25/06/2018
The Human Side of Business
18/06/2018
In Tribute to Kate & Tony…
06/06/2018
How We Damage Our Workforce’s Path to Finding Meaning Everyday
04/06/2018
Meaning at Work

May 2018

30/05/2018
Leadership 101: Path to Self-authentication
21/05/2018
Great Leadership… a Path to Authenticity…
16/05/2018
Adjusting to a New Workplace… A Mutual Responsibility…
14/05/2018
“Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?”

April 2018

30/04/2018
Interested in a Life Experiment?
25/04/2018
A Human Way of Leadership
18/04/2018
Awakening Humanity at Work: A Leadership Model for 21st Century
16/04/2018
Can Work Feel Like Not Work?
11/04/2018
The Birth of a Movement!

March 2018

27/03/2018
A Value… A Living Thing…
21/03/2018
For Life Long Learners!
19/03/2018
Compassion in the Workplace
14/03/2018
To Sleep or Not To Sleep?
07/03/2018
Digitalization ‘Mania’
05/03/2018
Does Friendships Really Matter At Work?

February 2018

26/02/2018
Building Thriving Organizations
21/02/2018
Build Up That Creativity Muscle
14/02/2018
Why is “Purpose’’ SO Important?
12/02/2018
The True Power of ‘Being’
07/02/2018
The “Greatest Transformation” and Leadership
05/02/2018
The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage

January 2018

31/01/2018
My Dispatch from Davos
29/01/2018
How Can Poetry Benefit Business?
24/01/2018
A Job For All: Making Our Work Experience Better…
22/01/2018
Forget Diversity, Are We Ready to Talk About Inclusion?
17/01/2018
Escaping the Prison of Life
15/01/2018
Collaboration over Competition
10/01/2018
Neuroscience of Social Interaction
08/01/2018
…Let Them Become the Leaders…
01/01/2018
Business 2020

December 2017

13/12/2017
Our Holiday Message for Humanity
11/12/2017
Our ‘Best of’ This Year
06/12/2017
One Value Your Organization Must Live in the 21st Century
04/12/2017
Work Trends for 2018

November 2017

29/11/2017
Digital Transformation and The HR Function ?
27/11/2017
An Interview with Expertera on the Agile Future of Talent
22/11/2017
DisruptHR Talk: Sesil Pir
20/11/2017
Designing Your Organization Around a Singular Mission
15/11/2017
What Impact Does Emotional Intelligence Have on the Organization?
13/11/2017
Taking ‘Human’ Back in Human Resources (& Business) of 21st Century!
08/11/2017
Supporting Each Other in Career Development
06/11/2017
What is Organizational Development?
02/11/2017
An Open Letter to HR: Let’s Lead the Change Journey in Gender Equality in the Workplace!

October 2017

30/10/2017
The Neuroscience of Human Bias
25/10/2017
Is Your Career Ready?
23/10/2017
How to Build Accountability & Trust
18/10/2017
3 Simple Things We Can All Do to Advance Inclusion
16/10/2017
Interview with Dave Gartenberg, Slalom Consulting
11/10/2017
Team Performance Through Intention, Interaction & Influence
09/10/2017
There are Only Two Things in this World…
04/10/2017
How to Build Effective Mentoring
02/10/2017
Emotional Intelligence for Business Professionals & Leaders

September 2017

27/09/2017
We Invite You to Join our Workshops!
25/09/2017
Professions of the Future
20/09/2017
Fold Up that Corporate Ladder, Hop on the Career Jungle Gym!
18/09/2017
Congrats, You’ve Hired New Talent! Now How Do You Keep ‘Em?

July 2017

05/07/2017
Our Summer of Love…and Thanks!
03/07/2017
Top 3 HR Trends: How do You Measure Up vs. the Competition?

June 2017

28/06/2017
Self-reflection: Uncover the True Leader within You
26/06/2017
Why HR Professionals Need to be More Selfish…in a Positive Way
21/06/2017
Attracting and Keeping Talent Requires, Well, Talent
19/06/2017
Think You Know HR? Think Again!
14/06/2017
Women in Business – This One’s for You!
12/06/2017
Videos from HR Tomorrow Conference
07/06/2017
The Future: Part 2
05/06/2017
Teams at the Heart of Transformation

May 2017

31/05/2017
What Does the Future Hold in Store for Us?
29/05/2017
The Problem with Change…
24/05/2017
Upcoming Workshops
22/05/2017
How Does Culture Evolve During Times of Change?
17/05/2017
Tips for a More “Rewarding” Work Experience
15/05/2017
What Happens in an Engaged Brain
10/05/2017
Running HR Due Diligence in Mergers & Acquisitions
08/05/2017
Are Women and Men Equals in the Workplace?
03/05/2017
Work Evolution in the Public Sector
01/05/2017
The Future of Talent Management
01/05/2017
Don’t Go Overboard with the Overtime!

April 2017

26/04/2017
Notes from the HR Tomorrow Conference
24/04/2017
Top 3 Questions on Performance Management
19/04/2017
Future Focus Areas on the Evolution of Work
17/04/2017
Having Talent vs. Being a Talent (And Why You Should be Transparent)
12/04/2017
Where in the World is Work Headed?
10/04/2017
Our People Practices are Desperately Seeking Science
05/04/2017
How to Humanize the Workplace in an Era of Machines
03/04/2017
Why Would We Want Self-Aware Employees?

March 2017

29/03/2017
The Future of Work Centenary Initiative
27/03/2017
Safety as an Enabler of Performance
22/03/2017
An Interview on Emotional Intelligence
20/03/2017
Leading Self
13/03/2017
Where is Your Executive Team Located?
08/03/2017
Well, Is Democracy at Work Possible?
06/03/2017
Eight Reasons Strategic Execution Fails
01/03/2017
The Power of Presence

February 2017

27/02/2017
Making Our Teams Matter
22/02/2017
5 Reasons Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence
20/02/2017
Case Study on Strategy Execution
15/02/2017
How to Create a Thriving Organization?
13/02/2017
What Does a Thriving Organisation Look Like?
08/02/2017
Managing a Workforce Across Multi-Regions
06/02/2017
Which Non-Monetary Rewards Work Best?
01/02/2017
The Future of ‘Benefits’ in the Workplace

January 2017

30/01/2017
Let’s bring more positive and human leadership to the workplace!
25/01/2017
An Interview with Deloitte’s Don Miller
23/01/2017
What is a Thriving Organization?
18/01/2017
How a Chief of Staff Role Can Bridge the So-Called Generational Leadership Gap
16/01/2017
Importance of Feedback
11/01/2017
Rethinking Performance Management
09/01/2017
Let’s Try to Redefine ‘Work’

December 2016

19/12/2016
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. Seriously, Thank You.
14/12/2016
Leadership Development Curriculum Coming Up in 2017
12/12/2016
Who are you under your suit?
07/12/2016
Tips to Improve Recruitment and Selection
05/12/2016
Can new age engagement tools save us?

November 2016

30/11/2016
Prepare for the New Year…Mentally and Physically!
28/11/2016
Project/Program Management: A core skill for HRBPs
23/11/2016
Leadership Starts with Knowing (and Loving) Yourself
21/11/2016
How to Design Jobs and Think of Workforce Planning
16/11/2016
TEDx Talks About People First
14/11/2016
Capability Building
09/11/2016
The Power of Self-awareness
07/11/2016
Now That We’ve Reached a Milestone, Let’s Reflect
02/11/2016
A Few Questions for the CEO of Knolskape, a Software Company Focused on the Future of Learning

October 2016

31/10/2016
Pursuit of Fulfillment
28/10/2016
I wish I was Dory!
26/10/2016
Human Resources Management Intro for HRBPs
24/10/2016
3 Key Ingredients of Effective Teams
21/10/2016
Another word about Organizational Design
19/10/2016
Why we dislike the word ‘diversity?’
17/10/2016
Being a Leader and Attracting Followers
14/10/2016
A word about Organizational Design
12/10/2016
Role of a HRBP
10/10/2016
Introduction to HR Strategy Building
07/10/2016
Human Resources Management Intro for Managers
05/10/2016
10 Signs of People Who Lack Emotional Intelligence
03/10/2016
How to Create a Healthy Workplace?

September 2016

30/09/2016
Conflict as Part of Team Development
28/09/2016
Systems Thinking – Psychological patterns to effectively lead change.
26/09/2016
Change Management:
Why do we suck at it?
23/09/2016
Defining Human Resources Management
21/09/2016
Top HR Management Schools
around the Globe
19/09/2016
Digitalization of Work and Impact on HR.
16/09/2016
Let’s Collaborate!
14/09/2016
The No. 1 Differentiator of Thriving Organisations
12/09/2016
We are featured on Newly Swissed!
09/09/2016
Should HR professionals
be trained in HR?
07/09/2016
Engage Everyone – and release
their full potential
05/09/2016
A few burning questions for the Igniter
02/09/2016
Future Role of Human Resources

August 2016

31/08/2016
The Goosebumps1 Test
29/08/2016
Want to be a better manager?
Better be authentic!
26/08/2016
Engagement vs. Direction Setting:
the jury is in!
24/08/2016
Building a Successful Team
22/08/2016
Go Team!
19/08/2016
Agile Talent II
17/08/2016
Agile Talent I
15/08/2016
Welcome to the Age of Agility.
12/08/2016
Job Rotations: Time to pull a 180°?
10/08/2016
Everlasting Principles of Performance Management
08/08/2016
Let’s see what develops…
05/08/2016
Operational Excellence: What does it look like for new age HR?
03/08/2016
How TAD is Revolutionizing Organizational Effectiveness
01/08/2016
Here’s a ‘TAD’ more than you expected today.

July 2016

29/07/2016
Tips for First-Time Managers
27/07/2016
Seriously, are HR Metrics really ‘all that?’
25/07/2016
To strategy, or not to strategy? That is the question.
22/07/2016
How our perceptions shape our actions that ultimately shape the results we get.
20/07/2016
Whirling Chief: a great platform for exchanging ideas
18/07/2016
Are employees due for a checkup by management?
15/07/2016
How to Adjust to a New Workplace
13/07/2016
Managing Millennials
11/07/2016
Time for your ‘performance’ review!
08/07/2016
Welcome to the Whirling Chief Experience
08/07/2016
Why Whirling Chief? Who are we as a team?
07/07/2016
Launching Whirling Chief YouTube Channel
06/07/2016
King Managers, continued…
04/07/2016
King Managers: Skills you should learn before losing time!
01/07/2016
Should we really “split” HR? continued…

June 2016

29/06/2016
When clients say only good things about your HR Business Partner?
27/06/2016
Should we really “split” HR?
24/06/2016
Leading from the Heart
22/06/2016
What drives employee satisfaction at work?
20/06/2016
What’s the fuss about employee engagement? Are we not 20 years late?
17/06/2016
When do we know an organizational culture is not a good “fit” for us?
14/06/2016
Why a Platform?