106. Want Better Teams? How Real Leadership Begins with Care and Connection.

In this last episode of 2025, Isabel talks with Professor Alain-Laurent Verbeke, Full Professor of Private Law, Negotiation & Mediation. A conversation about the essential role of care, trust, and long-term value creation in family businesses and entrepreneurial leadership. Alain-Laurent explains that family enterprises perform best when they look beyond financial outcomes and invest deliberately in people, culture, and continuity across generations. The conversation highlights how today’s leaders need more empathy, transparency, and strategic care — not as soft skills, but as drivers of resilience, stability, and innovation. Together, Isabel and Alain-Laurent show that sustainable growth emerges when leaders slow down, listen deeply, and build genuine connection with both their organizations and the broader ecosystem around them. The CARE Principles is a strategic framework for People and Brands in transition. Check out thecareprinciples.com and see how we can help you. Read more about Professor Alain-Laurent Verbeke here:

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106. Want Better Teams? How Real Leadership Begins with Care and Connection. is an episode from The Care Principles by Isabel Verstraete.

This episode is 01:55:15 long.

This episode was published on Nov 21, 2025.

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