A warm welcome to our listeners, today I'm proud to welcome Dr. Johanna Dahm, CEO of Dahm International Consulting. Johanna is a leading expert in decision-making and leadership, with over two decades of experience researching, advising, and publishing on effective decision-making strategies. She is renowned for helping leaders navigate complexity and uncertainty.

Johanna was recommended for the show by our mutual friend, Olga Troeger. Olga is a Founding member of our Decision Making Institute based in Germany.
We developed an VUCA readiness assessment focusing decision-making competencies.

Ross and Johanna talk about decision making over planning, decision delivery, committing, getting things done, adapting to environments, responsibilities, expectations, listening, pioneering, being responsible, finding solutions, customer orientation, knowing your customers, empathising with customers and understanding how people live. The pair also discuss adapting, learning, growing, fear, merging HR, company development, transparency, measuring return of investment, transformation, everybody in it together, reacting to change, constantly adapting, demarcation, knowing our boundaries, leading teams, pets, having enough and trying new things.


Timecodes:

• 00:15 Intro to Johanna
• 02:31 Communicating decisions effectively in business
• 04:51 Decision making during Johanna's early career
• 10:31 Decision making evolving
• 14:30 Organisations keeping pace and nurturing talent
• 20:25 Customers changing and adapting to it
• 24:37 Dealing with difficult shifts and bravery
• 29:41 Insights to help large scale change in companies and HR
• 35:54 Redesigning of roles and flexibility
• 38:45 Evolving in the future of work
• 42:27 Staying mentally healthy at work
• 47:35 The last time Johanna did something for the first time

Connect with Dr. Johanna:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• EMAIL - JD@Drjohannadahm.com

Connect with Ross:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Moonshot Innovation