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Collegial Leadership in Practice

Theory is grey. How is Collegial Leadership actually lived? How do companies deal with it? What do they do differently? These podcast episodes show exactly that.

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Experience Collegial Leadership in Practice

These episodes show how different organisations live Collegial Leadership. From family businesses to care homes to IT companies. Each episode is available on Spotify and YouTube.

Podcast Trilogy
The Arineo Trilogy: Collegial Leadership, EOC and Steward Ownership

Three episodes that together form a complete picture: How do Collegial Leadership, ownership and steward ownership connect in practice? Arineo shows the way.

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Collegial Circle Organisation as a Lever for Effectiveness
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Employee-Owned Company: Ownership as a Logical Consequence
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Steward Ownership: The Business Case
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#54
Family Business · Succession
From Family Tradition to Self-Organisation: How CIM GmbH Lives Collegial Leadership

How do you hand over an established company to the next generation without falling back into old patterns? Friederike Kammann and her sister show their courageous path away from classic hierarchies.

Guest: Friederike Kammann, CIM GmbH · Software for Warehouse Management · 100+ Employees

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#47
IT · Transformation
From Agility to Collegial Leadership: The Transformation Journey of Seibert Group

Seibert Group embarked on the journey from an agile to a collegially led company in 2020. Step by step, the foundations were laid for who may decide what and how.

Guests: Joachim Seibert & Alina Hamm, Seibert Group · 418 Employees · Germany & USA

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#46
Social Enterprise · Care
Collegial Leadership in a Social Enterprise: How Bathildisheim e.V. Combines Self-Organisation and Participation

How do the Christian promise of freedom and the mandate for participation align with an organisational structure based on external management? Bathildisheim e.V. has set out on this path.

Guest: Dr. Christian Geyer, Bathildisheim e.V. · ~1,000 Employees · Northern Hesse

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#44
Large Company · Retail
Collegial Leadership at dm: How the BAW Division Redistributes Responsibility Within the Team

Susanne Blüml, as Head of Learning & Organizational Development, transferred her leadership responsibility to her colleagues using the tools of Collegial Leadership — effectively making herself redundant as a manager.

Guest: Susanne Blüml, dm-Märkte · 46,000+ Employees · Germany

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#40
Care · Switzerland
From Hierarchy to Collegial Leadership: How Heime Kriens is Transforming the Care World

In care settings, classic hierarchical management is still common. Zoran Nacev and the employees of Heime Kriens show what modern, participatory leadership can look like. 2019: 1st place Swiss Employer Award.

Guest: Zoran Nacev, Heime Kriens AG · 450 Employees · Canton of Lucerne

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#34
IT · Cooperative · Origin
oose eG: Where the Collegially Led Company Was Born and Is Still Lived Today

The oose cooperative is the birthplace of the collegially led company. This is where the model was developed and documented by Bernd Oestereich and Claudia Schröder.

Guests: Tim Weilkiens & Sarah Schuh, oose eG · Hamburg

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#33
IT · Product Development
How mindmatters Combines Collegial Leadership and Agile Product Development

mindmatters has been in transition to an employee-led company for five years, drawing on Agile Organisational Development and the ideas of the collegially led company.

Guests: Frank Schmitz & Thomas Nelis, mindmatters · 25 Employees · Hamburg & Berlin

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#9
IT · Switzerland · me&me Engagement
How Netstream AG Evolved from IT Pioneer to an Agile Learning Organisation

By 2015 it was clear: change was needed. Alexis Caceda shares why conventional approaches didn’t fit, how the collaboration with me&me came about, and what role his personal development played in it.

Guest: Alexis Caceda, CEO Netstream AG · ~40 Employees · Switzerland

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#3
HR · Transformation · Switzerland
How Leandra Moser Enabled the Transformation of Netstream AG into a Collegially Led Company

Leandra Moser recognised: individual measures are not enough. Only a profound change in corporate and leadership culture can solve the challenges. Her journey from HR manager to transformation facilitator.

Guest: Leandra Moser, former Head of HR, Netstream AG

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Collegial Leadership — understand and apply

The podcast episodes give you a feel for it. If you want to go deeper — our free e-learning module provides the foundations, principles and practical tools.