Colin Ellis is the author of Culture Fix – How to Create a Great Place to Work. In addition to being a best-selling author of 2 books, Colin is also an award-winning international speaker and facilitator. His latest book, Culture Fix , is the world's first 'how-to' guide for building a vibrant team, department or organisation culture. Colin delivers speeches and programs around the world that inspire and motivate individuals to become role models for others, and to provide organisations with the...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 103
David Banger is the author of Digital is Everyone’s Business – A Guide to Transition. In addition to being an author, David is an advisor, Adjunct Professor and speaker. An internationally recognised innovator, he is a thinker and pragmatist. His expertise lies in offering unique and concise insights that enable organisations and their people to realise their technology and digital potential. David founded his business, CHANGE lead, in 2018 and now works with CEOs, Executives, CIOs and their tea...
Jan 27, 2020•55 min•Season 3Ep. 102
Brad Giles is the founder of the strategic planning and coaching consultancy, Evolution Partners. He and is also the author of the book, Made to Thrive, The 5 Roles to Evolve Beyond Your Leadership Comfort Zone . Brad has more than twenty years’ experience as a serial entrepreneur, strategic planner and leadership coach, and has twice been recognised as a BRW Fast 100 founder and an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. He is also actively involved in the Entrepreneurs Organisation. During the c...
Jan 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 101
Join Julian for The Synergen Leadership Podcast Season Finale as he reflects on Season 2 episodes and what it has meant for us, our guests and for you, our listeners. Subscribe or follow the Synergen Leadership Podcast now so that you don’t miss our return for Season 3 in January 2020. Links Julian's LinkedIn Profile Purchase Julian's book Don’t miss Season 3 of the Synergen Leadership Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes , Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast listening app now!...
Dec 23, 2019•19 min•Season 2Ep. 100
Nancy Youssef is the founder of Classic Mentoring & Coaching. As a passionate mortgage broker and educator of new talent, she brings her love of service, teaching, learning and her commitment to the highest professional standards together to make a difference in the lives of her clients and the careers of her mentees. With a personal belief in practicing what she preaches, her ability to dig deep in business and in life to align her values with her Classic-branded businesses has seen Nancy g...
Dec 16, 2019•45 min•Season 2Ep. 99
Join Julian in this Synergen Group Content Ecosystem episode, where he introduces you to the framework called the 9 Box Grid. The 9 Box Grid is an approach to looking at people’s performance and potential, and can be used for succession planning, including identifying potential leaders within an organisation. This is a model which is gaining traction in organisations across Australia due to it’s simplicity and effectiveness. Episode highlights include: Background on the 9 Box Grid. The basis of ...
Dec 09, 2019•30 min•Season 2Ep. 98
Nigel Adams is the author of Match Fit for Transformation – Realising the Potential of Everyday Heroes. He is also the co-founder and director of Hetton Advisory, a boutique advisory firm specialising in building operational excellence capability and the governance to support it. With significant experience as a passionate and innovative Chief Operating Officer, Nigel specialises in Service Operations Management and is known for driving performance and transformational change. After 15 years in ...
Dec 03, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 97
David Pich is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Managers and Leaders and the author/curator of Leading Well – 7 Attributes of Very Successful Leaders. David has a strong and proven track record in the core skills of leadership that include setting strategy, defining culture and leading people. He has also worked with both the State and Federal Government on a series of significant funding projects. David feels truly at home in complex leadership roles, and in 2017 he authored the now bests...
Nov 25, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 96
Pamela Jabbour is the founder and CEO of Total Image Group, a uniform designer and manufacturer for some of Australia’s leading brands including Dan Murphy’s, Ford Australia and Fantastic Furniture. Pamela started Total Image group in 2005 straight after finishing university. To get the business started, Pamela jumped on the phone and made 100 phone calls a day for 12 months before she won her first customer. Her business really took off when she was invited to quote for one of the largest retai...
Nov 18, 2019•42 min•Season 2Ep. 95
Join Julian in this Synergen Group Content Ecosystem episode, where he introduces you to the framework called the Johari Window. The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. The Johari Window model can also be used to assess and improve a group's relationship with other groups. Synergen Group uses the Johari Window concept in some of our leadership programs, and the feedback from th...
Nov 11, 2019•21 min•Season 2Ep. 94
Greg Smith is the author of Career Conversations – How to Get the Best from Your Talent Pool Early in his career Greg realised our motivations and behaviours determine the way in which we work with others, the way we lead, and whether we reach our career potential. In 2006 he completed his Masters in Career Development and later assisted Edith Cowan University in delivery of that program. Over a long and varied leadership career he has benefited from several major transitions. This included lead...
Nov 04, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 93
David Sharrock is the Managing Principal of Sharrock Pitman Legal, a thriving boutique Melbourne based commercial law practice where the credo is: ‘on your side’. David has over 40 years extensive business experience and provides business consulting to the owners and managers of small to medium enterprises. He also works with the executive and board members of not for profit organisations, advising on practical matters relevant to running their enterprises. A nationally accredited and experience...
Oct 28, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 92
Gihan Perera is the author of Disruption by Design – Leading Change in a Fast Changing World. Gihan is a futurist, conference speaker, author and consultant who gives business leaders a glimpse into what's ahead - and how they can become fit for the future. Since 1997, he has worked with leading thought leaders, change agents, business leaders and entrepreneurs, helping them with their strategy for thriving in a fast-changing world. Forbes magazine rated him the #5 Social Media Influencer in the...
Oct 21, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 91
Extend your view of what risk is. Managing risk from a safety perspective is important, however, we need to look beyond safety and explore areas such as customer risk, people risk and competitor risk. Episode highlights include: How we view risk A 4 Step framework for managing risk The risk of relying on one customer – a case study from Synergen Group How we can control risks and why we must always be thinking about risk Links Julian’s LinkedIn Profile Purchase Julian’s Book Email Julian...
Oct 14, 2019•31 min•Season 2Ep. 90
Julia Steel is the author of Buy-In – How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People. Over the last two decades Julia has worked with leaders around the world to plan and execute strategy in their business. She knows that frameworks and PowerPoint are not enough to deliver results on their own. That success depends on the buy-in of people, their ability to deliver, and lead change. When organisations and people struggle to execute, it affects confidence at every level. Values like trust...
Oct 07, 2019•49 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Shane Hatton is the author of Lead The Room - Communicate a Message that Counts in Moments that Matter. Shane has spent more than a decade of his consulting and working in in-house marketing and communications gaining a deep appreciation of effective messaging that enables you to not only be heard but remembered. He spent seven years leading, speaking, coaching and mobilising volunteers in the not for profit sector where he was responsible for building and nurturing the health, growth and cultur...
Sep 30, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Troy McKinna is the author of Brand Hustle – 4 Critical Foundations to Accelerate Brand Growth. Troy believes in the power of building brands because brands connect products and services with consumers. Brands strengthen P&Ls and drive growth. Brands attract the best talent and provide a beacon in the sea of choice. At his business, Agents of Spring, Troy builds brands by creating disruptive, consumer led products and services, by leveraging the creative problem solving framework. Troy helps...
Sep 23, 2019•53 min•Season 2Ep. 87
In many cases, organisations what higher levels of performance from their leaders, but they do not have the systems in place that support better performance. This is what makes leadership enablement so important. Episode highlights include: What is leadership enablement? Why leadership enablement so important and how it is practiced Who owns leadership enablement? A framework for exploring leadership enablement through both a people and process lens Links Julian's LinkedIn Profile Purchase Julia...
Sep 16, 2019•28 min•Season 2Ep. 86
Tony Holmwood is the author of Best Behaviour – Empowering managers and HR leaders to coach and align employee behaviours to supercharge growth. Tony is the founder of Outperf4m Consulting who offer a unique approach to improving business profitability by partnering with HR or management teams. Tony is passionate about human behaviour and people development. He is a commercially focused chartered accountant with substantial business performance experience in large local and global organisations....
Sep 09, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 85
Sandra Hills is the CEO of Benetas, a leading not-for-profit organisation with a mission to provide older Victorians, their families and carers with a full range of quality community-based services and residential homes and apartments. Sandra joined Benetas in 2009 with career experience in health, business management and public policy. Under Sandra's leadership, Benetas has diversified its services to meet new and future demand with a specific focus on innovation, research, workforce developmen...
Sep 02, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 84
Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory are the joint founders of the Impossible Institute and the authors of Forever Skills – The 12 Skills to Futureproof Yourself, Your Team and Your Kids. The Impossible Institute is a strategic think-tank that is designed to help leaders, teams and organisations be people smart and make change positive. Together, Kieran and Dan are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history and have applied their considerable e...
Aug 26, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 83
Networking is an essential component of successful leadership which many leaders struggle with. Join Julian as he introduces the concept of Genius Networking. Episode highlights include: What exactly is Genius Networking? The definitions of networking, including seven networking considerations The 3 Step process for genius networking and how it can be implemented How to follow through and network with purpose Links: Julian's LinkedIn Profile Purchase Julian's book - Give Back. Lead Forward...
Aug 19, 2019•26 min•Season 2Ep. 82
Lynne Cazaly is the author of ish – The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough. Lynne is obsessed with helping leaders lead their teams through transformation and change. This is about business agility, about helping people apply their ideas and adapting to what happens when those ideas are put to practice. Leaders become more capable, boost engagement with their staff and make decisions quicker. Lynne has delivered keynotes, workshops and sessions ...
Aug 12, 2019•44 min•Season 2Ep. 81
Anna Feringa is a Workplace Mental Health Consultant, speaker, trainer and Mental Health Program Strategist. Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion every year according to Beyond Blue. Recent research by Safe Work Australia found more time at work is lost to mental disorders than any other type of injury or illness. As a Workplace Mental Health specialist, Anna supports employers by helping them see that embracing Mental Health in the workplace can help preven...
Aug 05, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 80
Shelley Flett is the author of The Dynamic Leader – Become the leader others are inspired to follow Shelley is a business and leadership trainer & coach who works with leaders to maximise efficiency and build high performance team cultures in organisations of any size. She has been doing this since 2015 after leaving a corporate career in customer service, operations and banking. During the conversation Julian explores Shelley’s book, The Dynamic Leader , in detail. Episode highlights includ...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 79
Managing all the stakeholders in leadership and business is a significant challenge that many leaders face. In this episode Julian introduces content that we use in our face to face leadership programs around stakeholder management. This is our seventh content episode for Season 2, and it is also the seventh content episode of our Synergen Curriculum Eco-system. Episode highlights include: What exactly is stakeholder management? The principles of stakeholder management, and how you can apply the...
Jul 22, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Yu Dan Shi is the author of Come Alive – live a life with more meaning and joy. Yu Dan is known for helping professionals, executives and entrepreneurs find clarity in their life, career and business, so they can focus on what really matters and succeed with joy and meaning. In 2008, she was a senior executive with a young family and seemingly had it all. However, she felt stagnated and unhappy and she wanted to quit. She didn't quit, instead, she began a search for answers. Yu Dan did extensive...
Jul 15, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 77
Gabrielle Dolan is the author of Real Communication – How to be you and lead true. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, educator and author, Gabrielle has worked with thousands of high-profile leaders from around the world and helped countless of Australia’s top 50 ASX companies and multinationals to humanise their communications. She holds a master’s degree in management and leadership, an associate diploma in education and training and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive...
Jul 08, 2019•54 min•Season 2Ep. 76
Evette Cordy is the author of Cultivating Curiosity – How to unearth your most valuable problem to inspire growth. Evette is a human-centred designer who innovates and creates using a unique blend of curiosity and creativity anchored in the framework of Creative Problem Solving. As the Chief Investigator at Agents of Spring, she helps organisations curiously seek out and creatively solve their customers' most valuable problems. As a psychologist she has the expertise to get to the heart of human...
Jul 01, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 75
One of the biggest challenges all leaders face, is not having the frameworks and understanding to deal with conflict in the workplace. Some leaders are naturally comfortable with this and some are not. Episode highlights include: The differences between constructive conflict and destructive conflict. Why many leaders do not resolve conflict and what the consequences of that are. Bell & Harts Eight Causes of Conflict - diagnosing the root cause of conflict. The process to resolving conflict a...
Jun 24, 2019•31 min•Season 2Ep. 74
