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Conversation with Per Mertsacker

Leadership Gems – A conversation with Per Mertesacker

Leadership Gems is an interview series from the Henley Centre for Leadership that invites listeners to learn from people from across society about their involvement in leadership. Think leadership as a life!

In this fourth episode of Leadership Gems Professor Bernd Vogel from our Centre for Leadership sat down to chat with Arsenal Academy Manager and FIFA World Cup winning defender Per Mertesacker to find out what businesses and organisations can learn from the football ‘bubble’.

Listen as Per and Bernd discuss

  • key leadership learnings along his career
  • how to work with young players
  • the role of football for challenging issues in society, and more… 

Listen to the other episodes in the Leadership Gems series

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