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The Mike Litton Experience

From Auditor to Empathy-Driven Leader | Søren Thygesen on Trust, Transparency & Business Breakthroughs

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with Søren Thygesen, an internal auditor and insightful leader from the media industry, to explore how empathy, curiosity, and the power of questions have transformed his professional journey—and how you can apply those lessons to elevate your own business, leadership style, or organization.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • How Søren turned a traditionally intimidating role into one of trust-building and collaboration.

  • The secret behind unlocking transparency in resistant teams.

  • Why asking the right questions can shift the entire direction of a business or negotiation.

  • Lessons from FBI negotiators and Chris Voss’ bestselling book Never Split the Difference.

  • How fiction and storytelling sharpen your empathy—and why it matters in leadership.

  • The hidden superpower of seeing others’ perspectives in business growth and personal development.

🚀 Whether you’re a business owner, executive, team leader, or aspiring entrepreneur—this episode offers real-world strategies on how to connect deeper, lead smarter, and achieve more by starting with empathy and understanding.


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0:00.0

And all he had to say, he had to ask the person about his parents and then he did this.

0:04.7

So it's when you get too personal with people or it's just like an insecure stance that people have when it gets too close.

0:13.5

And I see it often at my work where you, I've also done like controlling visits where I do internal audit in the media company,

0:22.8

going to different, different under companies that report to the group.

0:28.7

But it's just like that kind of transparency.

0:32.1

I think, yeah, that openness.

0:35.8

I think it goes a long way.

0:37.3

So do you think that's a fear of criticism?

0:42.2

Like a fear of being wrong or a fear of, you know what I'm saying?

0:48.9

Is that what you're thinking?

0:51.1

Right.

0:51.9

And he talks about sort of some of the not so good memories, like some of the things that have happened where they were really bloody outcomes. And Congress got involved and said, hey, you need to figure this out. And so they ended up, they ended up changing their approach. So instead of going in and just talking at people and

1:12.0

trying to pigeonhole them and make them fearful, right? Yeah, I think if you understand each

1:19.7

other, you might not always agree and you might find out that you don't agree and you have to

1:25.3

take some sort of confrontation, but I think that

1:28.0

that a lot of things will go more smoothly if you understand other people and can see from their

1:35.2

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1:43.8

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1:46.3

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