Today we are joined by Dr Jana Matthews, Director and Professor at the Australian Centre for Business Growth at the University of South Australia. Since launching in 2014 the Centre has worked with more than 400 Australian companies to help accelerate their growth and improve performance, with impressive results. Our story starts back at a young Jana growing up in small town USA loving reading and curious about the much, much wider world, then going on to study at the University of London and Ya...
May 02, 2019•1 hr 18 min
If you love the idea of living an eclectic life of creativity, surf music, wine and fringe arts, well strap yourself in for David's story. His own wine brand 2 Mates, surf music label Bombora and much more. Starting out as a kid with parents running a drive in and a home adjoining it, David's life was seeded early on with the importance of the Arts and living a life embedded with creativity. On telling his typically cool and calm dad of his plans to quit uni and go into advertising the mood chan...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Today, we are joined by Yarmila Alfonzetti. How do you innovate and reinvigorate an opera company in the era of short attention spans, the Bachelor and everyone wants to be famous talent shows? That is just the burning deck and challenging situation Yarmila was faced with when she recently took on the role as Executive Director of State Opera South Australia. If you think a podcast about opera sounds boring, then think again. Today's show is anything but boring, with insight flying a mile a minu...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 39 min
Geordie Brookman is Artistic Director at State Theatre Company South Australia, a role he has held since 2012. We talk with Geordie towards the end of his highly successful time at the company. We go back to Geordie's childhood, with a love of reading and with the Arts in his DNA. We discuss his journey and the importance of theatre and the arts in our cultural fabric. A fascinating exploration into themes from the role of risk taking and collaboration in theatre, to the significant economic ret...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Elena is Resident Artist at State Theatre Company South Australia, NIDA Graduate and a highly accomplished actor and now playwright, including State Theatre's latest The Gods of Strangers. A play set in 1947 Port Pirie in regional South Australia and is inspired by Elena's childhood growing up in the region, her own ancestory and oral histories of Greek, Cypriot and Italian migrants. We go on a wonderful journey from Elena's childhood playing as cast and audience in the backyard in Port Pirie, a...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 12 min
We are joined by Teena Munn and Geoff Cobham to discuss all things not growing up boring, innovation, why the Arts matters so much to children and adults and a whole lot more. Teena and Geoff recently joined Patch Theatre as Producer and Artistic Director. I have been a director on the Board of Patch Theatre for 10 years, so this interview is particularly close to my heart and passion. Patch Theatre has been creating high quality theatre for 4-8 year olds since 1972, and in that time has present...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 18 min
André and Jason softened into the couches upstairs at Square Holes HQ and pontificate about all things belonging, business for good and growing tribes. And, why some businesses do bad, often when they forget where it all began and the goodness in their DND. André is Founder of Cult Tribal an agency he recently launched to help brands unite tribes. Go to culttribal.com for more. As it says on the website "By connecting with purpose, by standing for something, something that people want to be a pa...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 20 min
Professor David Corkindale takes us back to the pioneering days of marketing. David is Emeritus Professor of Marketing Management at the University of South Australia. We go back to David's boyhood in a small town in the UK, his early career when marketing was largely unknown. We hear about David's time working in advertising in London during the crazy and exciting 'Mad Men' era. This is a wonderful journey through a very successful career, from UK to Australia. And, from the commercial world to...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Barry Burgan joins us to talk about music, life and the economic and cultural impact of festivals and the Arts. Barry is Professor of Management, Deputy Dean, Director of the BBT MBA, Bond Business School. And, has a successful academic career, including the Head of the University of Adelaide Business School and a key role in consulting to public and commercial. We discuss a wide range of topics, including Barry's area of particular interest, the measurement of the value of our social and cultur...
Oct 25, 2018•58 min
Andrew Killey joins us to tell his story of music, writing and advertising. Andrew is or was the 'K' in KWP! The hugely successful creative agency he initially founded in 1991 with Peter Withy, to rethink the traditional agency model and to put the creatives in more direct contact with clients. Andrew has now exited KWP and consults through 'BrandA Agency' and has and continues to hold numerous board positions. You can follow Andrew on Twitter via @KilleySA. Andrew shares his story from growing ...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 1 min
We talk to Peter Joy about all things people, brands, trust and the importance of products and places telling a compelling story. Peter is well recognised as a leading brand thinker and strategist, building on a highly successful career in advertising and marketing. Peter has held senior executive roles in local and globally focused brand and advertising agencies including Clemenger BBDO, Young & Rubicam and Jam Shop. Peter is currently Executive Chair of Brand South Australia, a not-for-pro...
Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 17 min
Today we head to Mangoplah in rural New South Wales to chat with Ginny Stevens the Founder and General Manager of Active Farmers. From humble beginnings as a regular fitness class in a farming community south of Wagga Wagga in 2015, Active Farmers has rapidly grown to 24 communities across rural Australia, including New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria, with 30 communities planned by the end of 2018, and even bigger goals ahead. Ginny discusses growing up on a farm in Tasmania, and...
Sep 18, 2018•38 min
Today we dive deep into the world of Steve Sammartino! It was awesome to be invited into Steve's home and to go on a wonderful trip back to his adventurous childhood, and to hear his exuberant passion for all things entrepreneurship and rethinking how we live and work. Steve is a highly regarded and in demand futurist and keynote speaker, and author of two most amazing reads - The Lessons School Forgot and The Great Fragmentation. Steve also writes a 'must' subscribe and read weekly blog you can...
Sep 12, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Phil Reedman is a wine educator and consultant to wineries, importers and retailers in Australia, the UK, China and beyond, a wine show judge and Editor of Australian Wine Showcase Magazine. This is one of my favourite episodes so far, mostly from the conversation about the world of wine, and partly because Phil came with a wonderful bottle of 2014 Landaire Padthaway Chardonnay to share. We discuss consumer, varietal and geographic trends and how one brand might differentiate from the thousands ...
Sep 06, 2018•1 hr 35 min
In this episode, we are joined by Craig Swann. An award winning Music Technology Vet and Founder of Looplabs.com, a free online music making community with around 1 Million users, Craig has been living, playing and building on the internet for 27 years - since the Web was B&W. Craig is also event director of SouthStart, an event in Adelaide South Australia November this year. It is a gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and more. Find out more at http://southstart.co. We discuss...
Sep 03, 2018•1 hr 19 min
There is likely no better man to talk to about where market research is heading and where it has been than Nottingham UK based globally trotting Ray Poynter. Starting out 40 years ago as a programmer on innovative market research tools, he has since had many pivots in the sector and is author of multiple market research publications, from mobile market research, to online and social media and semiotics. In 1999 Ray Founded the Future Place, a provider of market research training and consulting. ...
Aug 30, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Our unconscious decision making, and what stimulates our brain in a positive or negative way, can conflict with what we think we think. Ex-Olympian, neuroscientist and researcher, based in Copenhagen, Dr Elvira Fischer today shares how the 'hype' around using neuroscience in research to measure advertising and other decision making has now settled, as the cowboys leave and the experts offering value remain. Elvira works at iMotions as a neuroscientist and product specialist to support clients in...
Aug 23, 2018•44 min
How we form connections with each other when looking into each other's eyes versus via a click of our smart phone makes a big difference to the emotions we ignite and trust we build. Dr Fiona Kerr shares her research and expertise including the neuroscience of human-to-human and human-to-technology interaction, neurogenesis, and how good leaders create organisations that flourish. Dr Kerr is Industry Professor, Neural and Systems Complexity, at the University of Adelaide. She builds on 30 years ...
Aug 23, 2018•1 hr 40 min
There's no business like show business, and that at least partly explains how Fiona Blades grew up in a small village in the north of England wanting to be a ballerina, studied Drama and Literature at University, then went on to establish MESH Experience in 2006, a global consumer insight agency with offices in London, New York, Sao Paulo and Singapore. MESH specialises in understanding people's experiences - with brands, within categories and across their behaviours, working with global icons i...
Aug 17, 2018•55 min
From growing up as an active outdoors obsessed young girl with a big imagination and a note book of business ideas, Kristi Zuhlke has launched and exited successful start-ups and is now the CEO and Founder of Knowledge Hound, a global tech company working with brands as diverse as Spotify, lyft, Procter & Gamble and Whirlpool. Kristi is passionate about the role of data to help the world better understand people, and how decision makers can better make sense of the huge volume of data availa...
Aug 15, 2018•53 min
Dr Phillip Alvelda, artificial intelligence innovator, technologist and educator, joins us from Washington DC. We joined Dr Alvelda during Hybrid World Adelaide, just after his mind boggling 60 minute deep dive into Artificial Intelligence. Please stay tuned following my interview with Dr Alvelda in today's episode for a fascinating 20 minute slice of his talk about the amazing world of AI. Dr. Alvelda is the founding CEO of Cortical.ai, a U.S. based developer of anthropomorphic AI and machine l...
Aug 09, 2018•51 min
In this episode we sit down with polar explorer, speaker, film maker and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis. A very 'cool' interview in many ways that is likely hard to not be inspire one to fulfil the dreams we had as a child to explore the unchartered and to live a life worth living, even if it all seems scary. Tim's latest focus project is 25zero - please click here https://www.25zero.com/ for more! As it says on the web site ... "25 mountains at the equator had a glacier at the time of the U...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Today we meet with Michael O'Brien on the country of Kaurna people. We recognise Kaurna as the Traditional Owner and Custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise the significance for Kaurna people and of their cultural and spiritual relationship with the land, sea, waterways and sky, cultural heritage and beliefs. The acknowledgement is of continuing importance to Kaurna people living today. Thank you to Mickey for the welcome to Kaurna country to start this episode. Mickey is a spokesperson,...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Finland's André Noël Chaker is the author of acclaimed books including the Finnish Miracle, which explores Finland's success in building a strong and successful culture. In today's interview, Andre shares his story as a young boy growing up in Montreal, becoming a member of the New York Bar, leading two major global scientific organisations and becoming a successful entrepreneur. Being the leading force in many science, technology, gaming and sports related start-up ventures. He has worked with ...
Jul 31, 2018•52 min
Today's very cool episode is with Robert Tercek, one of the world's most prolific creators of interactive content, a ground breaking pioneer in digital media since the early 1990's and author of the Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World. Jason sat down with Robert in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel in Adelaide, South Australia while on his visit from Los Angeles. He was in town in his role as Creative Director for Hybrid World Adelaide, a digital entertainment...
Jul 24, 2018•46 min
Kristina Dryza is a futurist, archetypal consultant and author. Over the past 17 years, Kristina has found herself based between Australia, Europe, America and Asia. Kristina travels the world gaining insight into emerging social, cultural and consumer trends to create new corporate strategies, products, services and experiences. Working with many of our leading world brands and leaders. In today's interview, we hear about the importance of following the seasons and the rhythm of nature. And, we...
Jul 23, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Suhit Anantula is an impact strategist, designer and blogger at humanomics.co. Suhit is Partner Business Models Inc, Industry Fellow at the University of South Australia and father to two young child. Suhit works across sectors such as families, child protection, domestic violence, ageing, arts and cultural sector, educational challenges, indigenous issues, digital technology, environment, food and nutrition. In today's talk we go back to his boyhood growing up in India, with its 150 languages a...
Jul 16, 2018•1 hr 28 min
Joining us on our inaugural episode is Martin Read, Partner at Deloitte Digital Australia. Martin has just returned from two years as Managing Partner for Deloitte Digital South East Asia, based in Singapore. During that time the team had a massive revenue and team growth, building from 12 staff to more than 200. Martin is a very clever guy, with loads of interesting stories and wisdom to share, covering topics as diverse as transformation, digital, parenting, user centred design and how digital...
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 27 min
