Sam Green is the CEO at the City of Playford in South Australia, and a former participant of our leadership programs. In this interview he discusses the challenges of managing one of the fastest growing Local Government Areas in Australia.
Read MoreAndrew Bell is a former participant who recently stepped down after ten years as the CEO of the Fred Hollows Foundation in New Zealand. In this podcast he describes the work of tackling "needless blindness" and the impressive achievements of the Foundation, and discusses some of the challenges of managing in the community and philanthropic sector.
Read MoreDeborah Young is the CEO of the RegTech Association, and her background is in Investment Banking and the Finance Sector. In this interview she talks about the remarkable growth of RegTech and how Australia has become a leader in developing technological innovations and solutions for the regulatory and compliance needs of firms and organisations.
Read MoreSohail Inayatullah is a globally recognized Futurist, Academic and UNESCO Chair of Future Studies, and Rob Burke is a Futurist, former CEO and Collaborator at Searle & Burke. In this terrific interview they talk about their twenty year partnership teaching Futures Thinking at Melbourne Business School Executive Education, and about some of the key issues facing business and society in the near future and beyond.
Read MoreAmanda Sinclair has been a long time Professor and faculty member at Melbourne Business School. In this terrific interview she talks very candidly about her career and her leadership work, and about her special interest in women and leadership, and mindfulness in leadership.
Read MoreInterview with Peter Cebon who runs the Innovation Practices Program as part of the Masters of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He explains how engineers are dealing with the same challenge facing the finance sector, law and even medicine, namely, the rapid automation of professional skills and roles.
Read MoreThis is an interview with client and former participant Kirsten McMahon, Regional Business Executive with NAB Business. Kirsten discusses the reasons, advantages and lessons behind her career transitions from a senior corporate marketing manager at Shell, to management roles in the Not For Profit Sector, and now her return to a senior commercial and management role with NAB Business.
Read MoreCraig is one of three former construction managers from the larger Probuild who are Directors of the Maben Group. Maben was named by BRW Magazine as one of the top 100 fastest growing small businesses in Australia last year. Craig talks about how their commitment to teamwork and developing their own very young leaders has paid off for them.
Read MoreNedine Thatcher Swann has recently been appointed as CEO of Gisborne District Council in New Zealand. Nedine talks about Maori history and presence in the Gisborne region and about the opportunities and challenges facing the city of the First Light. She discusses a traditional idea of Piritahi or connectedness as a guiding value for her own leadership work within this local government organisation.
Read MoreTracey Lester is an artist, entrepreneur and owner-manager of the Carlton Club and a range of very successful bars and restaurants and health juice outlets in Melbourne. In this interview Tracey explains how she has combined her passion for creativity with her knack for business.
Read MoreHeath Wilson, the recently appointed CEO of the merged Peninsula Kingswood Golf Club, which has 2,500 members and a wait list. The redevelopment of Peninsula is one of the largest golf projects currently underway in Australia. Heath talks about the process and the hurdles which have included legal opposition by some members to the merger taken all the way to the High Court.
Read MoreAn interview with Debby Blakey, CEO of HESTA, which is an industry superannuation fund with 800,000 members, 80% of whom are female, and $34 Billion in funds under management. Debby talks about her views on leadership and about ways to boost savings for women which still lag at only 50% of male rates at retirement.
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