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Welcome to RBL Impact—a podcast sharing global perspectives on leadership, talent, HR, and organizational strategy to inspire growth and lasting results.
In each episode, we explore the strategies, practices, and cultural shifts that move the needle—featuring expert voices from around the world. If you’re looking to turn human capability into measurable business advantage, you’re in the right place.
Episodes
Introducing The RBL Group Podcast
Trailer - Introducing the RBL Podcast
Welcome to The RBL Group Podcast, where we explore how building the right capabilities inside your organization drives measurable business results. For more than 25 years, The RBL Group has partnered with leading global organizations to strengthen leadership, shape culture, and build high-performing teams that create real stakeholder value.
In this series, you’ll hear executive perspectives, practical frameworks, and real-world lessons drawn from decades of research and experience — all designed to help you turn human capability into sustained competitive advantage.
Leveraging Human Capability: Mastering Organizational Design
Episode 1 - Leveraging Human Capability: Mastering Organizational Design
In the first episode of The RBL Group Podcast’s Human Capability Series, co-founders Norm Smallwood and Joe Hanson explore how strategic organization design turns human capability into measurable stakeholder value.
They introduce four critical questions that shape high-performing organizations, from clarifying business portfolios and growth strategy to defining customer value and the capabilities required to win. Drawing on client transformations at Intercontinental Hotels Group, Nike, and Harley-Davidson, they reveal how disciplined design choices have driven cost savings, accelerated growth, and strengthened brand power.