Andrew Stirling is the Head of Product Compliance at Tanda, the world’s #1 platform for rostering, attendance, labour insights and workforce success, and a local Brisbane technology success story. Andrew has been in this role for 18 months, following him making the very bold decision to leave solid partnership prospects at a top tier law firm. We go wide with Andrew, with discussion including what prompted him to make this significant career pivot, the challenges and successes of his journey so ...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Alex Correa is one of the leading legal recruiters in the Brisbane market. She has built Alex Correa Executive over 10 years on a relationship first approach, mentoring countless lawyers through their professional journey. In a conversation that aims to understand the trends technology is driving in the recruitment industry, Alex presents an optimistic view of the future for all knowledge workers by explaining how technology has allowed her to drive more energy into the mentoring side of her bus...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 14
Jacqui O’Dea is the Chief Risk Officer of GPT Group, one of Australia’s largest diversified property groups with $24.5 billion of retail, office and logistics property under management. Jacqui transitioned from Deputy General Counsel to CRO in March 2019, giving her about 10 months to prepare for arguably the biggest risk challenge of a generation. We hear how Jacqui skilled up quickly, gathered support from within and outside the organization, and has helped this major landlord navigate the cha...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr
Dr Andrea Blake is a Senior Lecturer in property economics from the Queensland University of Technology Business School, and in this episode we unpack her post pandemic predictions. In sum: we are witnessing a critical shift of power from the city centres to the suburbs. Andrea brings a wide range of real estate expertise to the table in this episode, with research in such diverse topics as the impact on rural land values of carbon sequestration to the outcomes of projects involving seniors livi...
Nov 09, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Fiona Thatcher, Aaron Brooks and Barton Donaldson are three talented, aspiring young Australian lawyers working in London. As with most lawyers, since about March of this year, that work has been based at home. We hear a lot of commentary on how people are adapting their work around the pandemic but we wanted to hear from this younger cohort directly. Fiona, Aaron and Barton talk of how life was and how it now is, the things they hope the pandemic has changed for good, and of a future of wo...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Overview Kernel Property is one of Australia’s leading tenant advisory firms, with a strong track record in working for professional services firms, particularly law firms. We speak with two of its Directors, Kai Schindlmayr and Steve Urwin, to discuss their perspective on the impact of the pandemic now, and how things might change in the future. This is the third in a series of episodes focusing on emerging future trends in commercial real estate driven by the pandemic. From the unfortunate lac...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Events Will Change. How physical events will look different in a post pandemic world, with Jen Williams, Deputy Executive Director for the Property Council in Queensland. This is the second in a series of episodes focusing on emerging future trends in commercial real estate driven by the pandemic In this discussion, Jen shares a range of very relevant perspectives, including the PCA’s involvement in the pandemic driven regulation on commercial real estate and the outcome reached; how the b...
Aug 03, 2020•56 min
Observations and predictions on the impact of the pandemic on commercial offices from Mark Grant of White & Partners, a real estate advisory firm based in Brisbane. This is the first in a series of episodes focusing on emerging future trends in commercial real estate driven by the pandemic. Our conversation with Mark includes discussion of a broad range of changing elements in office design, from human density in offices unwinding, to the importance of lighting and acoustics to facilitate al...
Jul 15, 2020•53 min
Bradley Price, General Counsel for Frasers Property Industrial, joins the podcast to talk about innovation within the legal function and the broader business. Frasers has a very impressive framework for driving innovation, which Brad shares with us, but three things from this discussion really stood out. First is the power of incremental innovation across the entire organisation. Small things matter. Second is the importance of involving the customer (both internal and external) in the innovatio...
Jun 25, 2020•35 min
We are talking with Tim Franklin: lawyer, triathlete, coach, motivational speaker - a true multi-disciplinary human being. We will talk about juggling professional pursuits, his passion for movement, his amazing feats whilst in quarantine (including a full marathon inside his apartment!), and how the world might see movement differently after this difficult time. You can follow Tim at: Instagram: @timmyrfranklin || https://www.instagram.com/timmyrfranklin/ Facebook: Tim Franklin || https://www.f...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Kim is a former COO of both Cox Architecture and Architectus with involvement in projects including The Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast University Hospital and the Singapore Marina Bay Helix Bridge. But Kim's career took an interesting turn about 5 years ago when she was prompted into action, beginning her transition from architecture into the world of politics. We speak with Kim about this transition, what it is like to be a local member, and how this differs from ...
Jan 28, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In the latest episode of The Field Trip podcast, we speak with Stephen Kho of Micro Focus . Micro Focus provides big data analytics and data security solutions to some of the world’s biggest companies, including Uber and Facebook. Stephen talks us through some of the problems he helps customer overcome (which became a crash course in enterprise data security!) and then goes on to explain practical applications of big data by taking a deep dive into three different industry use cases –...
Nov 21, 2019•58 min
On the day of recording Louise was appointed the Program Manager for Technology and Innovation for real estate, for AMP Capital. Louise started her career as an electrician in the mining industry, moved into real estate facilities management to ultimately lead that function for AMP Capital, and has now combined these skills, her industry know-how and executive savvy to take the lead for a mission-critical strategic initiative for one of Australia’s most significant landlords. Louise shares a wid...
Oct 28, 2019•52 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In the second episode of the Field trip podcast, we talk to Jim Groves, CEO of Rubberdesk , the leading online marketplace for flexible office space in the Australian market. With current listings exceeding 15,000 desks, Rubberdesk is injecting flexibility of use into the traditional commercial leasing framework, benefiting landlords and tenants alike. What I found most interesting, however, was the community aspect to Rubberdesk - how it is facilitating strong and diverse business networks...
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 2
In our kick-off episode, we talk about co-working now and in the future, with leading tenant advocate, Steve Urwin of Kernel Property . And it is hard to have that discussion without continued reference to the biggest show on the global stage, weWork! Steve explains who is actually using these type of services, how different industries differ in their approach to flexible office space, how weWork is growing its focus on big enterprise, and what the crystal ball is telling him about the fut...
Feb 26, 2019•50 min
