Paul is an experienced, innovative and entrepreneurial Board Director and Executive who has earned a stellar reputation for achievement during a distinguished career in both the Finance and Not for Profit sector. Paul has been acknowledged for his contribution to the Banking and Investment Industry by being awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Paul has also been recognised for his contribution to the not for profit industry by being awarded the Ernst &a...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Matthew has more than 20 years of experience in starting and running high-growth tech companies, especially in the areas of machine learning, predictive analytics, and decision optimisation. He is currently the CEO of Complexica, a provider of Artificial Intelligence software for supply & demand optimisation, and a director of several ASX-listed companies. In today's podcast, Matt and Daniel discuss Matthew's book in which he co-authors, called The Rise of Artificial Intelligence. Matt's boo...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Bruce Djite is currently the director of Football at Adelaide United, a club where he as a player, won all domestic trophies with Adelaide United, including the Premiership and Championship double in 2016 and tops the list as Adelaide United’s record goal-scorer. Bruce has also represented Australia as a Socceroo and has played football all around the world for clubs in several countries including, Turkey, China, South Korea and Indonesia. Bruce spent over 4 years on the Executive and Governance...
Nov 04, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Ben Smit is an entrepreneur and highly skilled at growing scale-up companies and leveraging technology to solve human problems, with a focus on engaging team members to own and advocate the improvement process. He is a co-founder and CEO of Teamgage, software that enables team collaboration, wellbeing, and continuous improvement. The system measures behaviours and sentiment aligned to the strategy of the organisation and drives teams and managers to action their own improvements in real-time. Be...
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Jo Stewart-Rattray has 25 years' experience in the technology field, where she's worked in multiple industries and multiple positions and worked her way up to into Chief Information Officer roles and Chief Security Officer. She currently works as a consultant helping her clients through strategic technological issues and opportunities. In today's episode, we spoke about Joe's journey, how she rose to the positions where she is now and how she and we can all enable more women in technology. We al...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 15 min
David Scarsella is currently the CEO of a renewable energy company called Solmech specialize in solar farm technology across Australia and NZ and is passionate about energy, innovation and technology, and really wants to make a difference in this world. David also had the luxury of playing and coaching at a professional level of football in the UK, and Australia, and was the inaugural goalkeeper for the South Australian elite team Adelaide united. In today's episode, we dive into David's journey...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Michelle Holland is an international best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and the Founder and Creative Director of SynergyIQ. She has over 20 years of experience helping businesses to create better outcomes through processes, people and customer engagement. In this episode, Michelle talks about the top 10 reasons people resist change, according to her experience and research, and what you can do about it. For more, download our free ebook and find out how to overcome resistance and lead cha...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr
Michelle Holland is an international best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and the Founder and Creative Director of SynergyIQ. She has over 20 years of experience helping businesses to create better outcomes through processes, people and customer engagement. In this episode, Michelle talks about the Dare to Lead ™ which is an empirically based courage-building program based on the research of Dr Brené Brown, designed to be facilitated by organisational development professionals. In the balmy...
Sep 22, 2020•59 min
Sharyn Broer is a highly experienced and strategic executive leader in the national not-for-profit food and health sector. In her current joint roles as CEO of Meals on Wheels South Australia and Meals on Wheels Australia President, Sharyn has a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of communities through the delivery of high-quality community services and programs. Sharyn leads South Australia's largest community-based volunteer organisation and is responsible for 80 branches, 7000 vol...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Shayne Harris is the Asia Pacific Device as a Service Leader at Lenovo and has worked with customers throughout Asia and Australia while being in senior roles in HPE and Australian Cloud providers before continuing his career at Lenovo. Currently, he focuses on enabling customers to continuously evolve and transform by providing strategic direction and insight on how they manage the lifecycle of their technology. He is responsible for the Device as a Service business for the Asia Pacific and wor...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Dan Levy is the principal of More Space for Light . More Space for Light is an Innovation and Strategy Consultancy. Their design-led approach to solving business problems helps leaders and teams overcome constraints related to strategy, product, service, or process. Dan is also active in tertiary industry education lecturing and also speaking nationally on the subjects of Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking and Strategy. In this episode, Dan shares the story of More Space for Light and the pow...
Aug 21, 2020•1 hr 12 min
Michelle Holland is an international best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and the Founder and Creative Director of SynergyIQ. She has over 20 years of experience helping businesses to create better outcomes through processes, people and customer engagement. In this episode, Michelle talks about the importance of culture and shares some of the steps from her book 'Culture Inc: Create a business that delivers results and people love’ to transform your culture. Join the conversation on Synergy...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Matthew Michalewicz is a speaker, author and entrepreneur who has more than 20 years of experience in starting and running high-growth tech companies, especially in the areas of machine learning, predictive analytics, and decision optimisation. He is currently the CEO of Complexica, a provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales & marketing activities, and a director of several ASX-listed companies. He is also the author of several books, including Life in Half a Second,...
Jul 30, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Kylie Morton has developed a deep appreciation for the value of work and the potential of people in her career as an enabler of improvement and change. As the enterprise leader for Change Management at BAE Systems Australia, she is building a team, a capability and an experience that she hopes will leave a lasting legacy and improve work for thousands of people. She's a lean six sigma black belt who's terrible at math, a failed graphic designer, a terrible hip hop dancer and a wannabe neuroscien...
Jul 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min
While most people instinctively avoid confrontation, leadership coach, facilitator and speaker Ally Nitschke knows confrontation and Courageous Conversations are central to getting results. In this episode, Ally brings her expertise through tough conversations to the forefront and creating a culture of feedback which significantly reduces performance issues. Ally shares her mission to change the way we perceive 'tough conversations in the workplace' and to inspire, empower and motivate leaders t...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr
Amanda Sheedy is a leadership and development coach that helps people, teams and organisations increase their self-awareness, harness their strengths and discover new approaches. She has 25 years of experience working in senior roles across diverse industries and is specialised in operations management and strategic and transformational change projects. In this episode, Amanda talks about leadership and development coaching and how it helps people move past the mental brick wall, the benefits of...
Jun 23, 2020•52 min
Today our chat is with Roy Papalia , who is an exercise physiologist and a workplace rehab specialist. He has over 15 years of industry experience, and he runs his own business called Allied Health Consulting, a company specialised in injury prevention, injury management and focused on the movement of the human body. In this episode, Roy shared with some great tips for us to think about and how to be proactive instead of reactive when thinking about your body and health when working from home. H...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Pete Holliday is an organisational futurist and business agility expert specialising in helping leaders and organisations be fit for the future and understand new ways of working. Pete’s specialities include creating agile teams & high performing cultures. He works with leaders of multi-national organisations, helping them to rethink leadership development, assisting organisations in redefining high performance in the 21st century. In this episode, listen as Pete and Daniel talk about the fu...
May 27, 2020•51 min
Fiona McAllister is an executive coach and has a track record of connecting people to purpose through coaching, culture change and leadership development. She describes her job as “creating clarity for leaders and refining their leadership identity”. Listen as Fiona and Daniel talk about self -awareness and the power of coaching, as well as her personal journey and challenges throughout her career. Join the conversation on LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram (@synergyiq) and please support other l...
May 07, 2020•59 min
Andrew Ferguson , more commonly known as Ferg, is a communication specialist with over 20 years of experience as a writer, editor and trainer, designing and implementing business information solutions for clients in a wide range of industries. He may also be familiar to some listeners around Adelaide as singer/storyteller Fergus Maximus . In this episode, Ferg and Dan talk about the art of storytelling and how it can help people through challenges in business and life. Join the conversation on S...
Apr 28, 2020•34 min
Michelle Holland is an Authentic Leadership and Courageous Culture specialist and has helped business to transition from ineffective to effective practice in Australian and overseas. Listen as Michelle talks about why Organisational Culture matters in times of uncertainty the world is going through with Coronavirus (COVID19) and some of the challenges that business is facing in consequence of the changes. Join the conversation on Synergy IQ LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram (@synergyiq) and plea...
Apr 17, 2020•38 min
Michelle Holland is an Authentic Leadership and Courageous Culture specialist and has helped business to transition from ineffective to effective practice in Australian and overseas. Listen as Michelle talks about the challenges of business, what the future has in store for workplaces, and the essential characteristics required in tomorrow’s leaders. Join the conversation on Synergy IQ LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram (@synergyiq) and please support other leaders by liking, subscribing and shar...
Apr 08, 2020•46 min
