Daniel Downing is a culturally curious change champion. Fundamentally he believes that everyone has either had - or will have - similar challenges and that we all benefit from sharing great examples across traditional silos. Working for Nordea, a large Nordic bank, he leads a team of 800 software developers across the Nordics, Poland and India, where one of his responsibilities was to increase the skills of the developers, including soft skills. In parallel, he has been part of co-creating technical standards to build and run solutions, avoiding the "not invented here" syndrome and breaking traditional silos. He has helped to roll out across 8000+ people from various backgrounds. All whilst the company itself has been undergoing a cultural transformation.

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• I am passionate about working out how to empower people within large enterprise companies where checks and balances are required, but often people can – even with the best intentions – create micro managing and/or complex structures which slows down others at best and disempowers them at worst.

Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic region and one of the biggest banks in Europe. We want to make a real difference - for our customers and for the communities in which we operate - by sharing our broad expertise based on 200 years in the banking business. We are a full-service universal bank and the third largest corporation in the Nordic region and one of the top 10 financial services companies in Europe based on market capitalisation. We are present in 17 countries, including our four Nordic home markets which together constitute the 10th largest economy in the world. As demand for digital services increases, we're continuously working to become your future digital bank by improving the products and services we offer, such as new online banking platforms, mobile payments and analytics tools, to name a few. The shares of Nordea Bank AB (publ) are traded on the Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen stock exchanges.