At The Den

At The Den is a podcast for and by leaders inside professional services: creative agencies, design studios, digital boutiques, consultancies, and innovation teams. In each episode, Pauline and Alexey, both ex-McKinsey, founders of Polar Bear, sit down with a guest for an honest 1:1 to talk about building teams where people want to grow, leadership at different scales, the future of work, and the impact of AI on craft and human interactions. Join us if you're looking for honest, human, and real conversations.

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  Episode #6

  S1E7 Karn Malhotra: Founder personal brand as agency mirror

  Jul 16, 202640 minS1

  <p>Karn Malhotra has spent 20 years building brands for companies. Now he builds them for people, and his argument is simple: in a world flooded with AI-generated content, your human narrative is the only thing that compounds. Karn and Pauline get into the mechanics of personal brand as a system, not a performance: why agency founders who let the work speak for itself are burning energy every time they walk into a room, when a founder brand needs to separate from the company brand, and how to use an LLM as a thinking partner without sounding like one.</p><p><...

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  S1E6 Stefan Moritz: Taking bold moves to grow into

  Jul 14, 20261h 10mS1

  <p>Stefan Moritz has spent 25 years at the edge of design: helping name service design when it barely existed, building one of Europe's most unusual creative studios in a Swedish forest, running design and employee experience at McKinsey, and now co-founding the Doodle Time Institute to study how humans relate to time. He and Pauline go deep on what made Veride's culture genuinely unreplicable, why agencies that survive the AI transition will be the ones who kept their creative instinct instead of chasing efficiency, and why the right question is not how to balance life and work but how to...

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  S1E5 Denis Frolov: Employer branding as a long-term game

  Jul 9, 202645 minS1

  <p>Denis Frolov has spent 15 years in communications and nearly a decade building employer brands, and his starting point is always the same question: what problem are you actually trying to solve? In this conversation with Pauline, Denis reframes employer branding entirely: not as a function, not as a content calendar, but as a product with users, conversion rates, and a feedback loop. He gets into why small agencies can build a warm candidate pipeline with zero budget, why AI-generated job descriptions are eroding trust faster than they fill roles, and why the companies ignoring junior hiring today are quietly...

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  Episode #4

  S1E4 Olesia Skibinska: Growing people in a world without clear paths

  Jul 7, 202649 minS1

  <p>Olesia Skibinska has spent the past six years as a partner at Enrian, a boutique tech and innovation consultancy in Prague, where she leads people growth and learning for a team of 20-plus nationalities. The company's average tenure sits close to six years — almost twice the industry norm — and this conversation is largely about why. Olesia and Pauline explore what responsible freedom actually looks like in practice, what they learned from overengineering our skill framework and ongoing search for a more lightweight approach, and why feedback is both a right and a responsibility, depending on where you sit.</p><p><...

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  S1E3 Pedro Tolipan: Driving innovation from within

  Jul 2, 202651 minS1

  <p>Pedro Tolipan spent 20 years designing digital experiences at some of the best-known agencies and in-house teams in the world, from Razorfish to the BBC to a decade at McKinsey Digital Lab. Now he leads FutureLab, an internal innovation unit inside one of Azerbaijan largest financial holdings, tasked with something harder than any client brief: shifting an entire organization toward human-centered thinking, from the inside. He and Pauline get into what it actually takes to influence without ownership, why AI is 10% a technology problem and 90% a human one, and how you hire and grow a team of talented sponges when...

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