The Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen

Story-Driven Business challenges how leaders think about growth, culture and communication in the AI era. Hosted by Susanna Rantanen, it explores why strategy alone doesn’t drive change, leadership behaviour and narrative do. Through insightful conversations and solo reflections, the podcast helps CEOs and decision-makers turn complexity into clarity, build trust, and lead organisations that people truly want to belong to.

The Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen is a business podcast hosted by Susanna Rantanen, with 216 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Susanna Rantanen hosts The Story-Driven Business podcast with Susanna Rantanen, a business show with 216 episodes published.

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  #219 What Global Talent Data Is Telling Leaders Right Now with guest Mika Sallinen of Universum

  May 27, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>The hiring market feels easier. </p><p>But, Universum’s employer attractiveness data says be careful.</p><p>My guest in this episode is Mika Sallinen. He heads Universum's business in Finland and leads global analytics for the group. He brings fresh, multi-market research from 21 countries to this conversation. </p><p>What he is seeing in the data right now should concern every leader who thinks the talent challenge is over.</p><p>▪️Safety has replaced ambition. </p><p>▪️Employability is the new currency. </p><p>▪️A significant wave of talent movement is building beneath the surface. </p><p>▪️And AI is already...

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  #218 How to move your organisation from AI curiosity to AI capability, with John Munsell

  May 13, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>🎙️ Is your organisation only using AI, or has it actually built the capability to transform with it?</p><p>There is a significant difference. And most leaders have not yet had to reckon with it.</p><p>In this episode, I am joined by John Munsell, who helps organisations operationalise AI fast and at scale, to explore why most AI initiatives stall, what separates AI curiosity from AI-first culture, and what leaders must do to close that gap before their competitors do.</p><p>What you will hear in this episode:</p><p>✅ Why 86% of companies that claim to have "adopt...

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  #217 The Number One Reason Why Business Transformations Fail

  Apr 15, 202621 minS0

  <p>Most business transformations don't fail because the strategy was wrong. They fail because the meaning never reached the people who needed it most.</p><p>If you've led or lived through a transformation that felt heavier than expected, where the strategy made sense, the team was aligned, and execution still wobbled, this episode is for you.</p><p>In this episode, Susanna unpacks why change initiatives lose momentum in the same place every time, why it has nothing to do with people resisting change, and what leaders can do differently to make transformation actually stick.</p><p>You'll learn:<...

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  #216 Leadership in the AI Era: Why Trust, Feedback and Psychological Safety Matter More Than Ever, with Guest Emma Collyer

  Apr 1, 202641 minS0

  <p>AI won’t fix bad leadership. It may expose it faster.</p><p>What matters most in leadership during the AI era?</p><p>In this episode of the Story-Driven Business Podcast, Susanna Rantanen is joined by the executive team and career coach Emma Collyer to explore why trust, feedback and psychological safety matter more than ever in today’s fast-changing world of work.</p><p>As organisations focus on AI, speed and transformation, many leaders are under more pressure than ever. But real change does not succeed in strategy decks or technology plans. It happens in everyday leadership beha...

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  #215 AI Leadership and Trust: How Leaders Can Adopt AI Without Losing the Human Edge with Guest Arshavir Blackwell, PhD

  Mar 25, 202657 minS0

  <p>This week on the Story-Driven Business Podcast, I’m joined by Arshavir Blackwell, PhD, cognitive scientist, AI consultant, founder of Your VoiceCraft and principal at Arvoinen Consulting. </p><p>We talk about why AI adoption is not just a tech rollout, but a leadership and trust challenge. </p><p>In this episode, we explore how leaders can adopt AI without losing the human edge, why vague communication destroys trust, and how to keep humans clearly in the loop when using AI in business. </p><p>If AI feels both exciting and slightly terrifying, this one is for you.</p><p>...

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