Today on The Salience Podcast we tackle the subject of culture and domestic violence, especially the challenge of managing exit risk. Our guest is Stella Avramopoulos. Stella is the CEO of Good Shepherd, a not-for-profit focused on tackling the significant issues impacting women, girls and families. And one of the biggest issues is domestic and family violence. Tune in to hear Stella talk about the importance of gender equity and overcoming systemic disadvantage, on weak signals for domestic and...
Feb 01, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode of The Salience Podcast, we explore the culture of learning, being overly busy, and what to do about it. Our guest on The Salience Podcast today is Diana Renner. Diana is a writer and leadership consultant based in Melbourne. Her first book Not Knowing: the art of turning uncertainty into opportunity was published in 2014 and won the U.K. Management Book of the Year award in 2015.Her second book, Not Doing: the art of effortless action , was published in 2018. So listen in to hea...
Jan 19, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Today on The Salience Podcast we explore organizational culture with our guest Jessie Xia. Jessie is the Global Chief Information Officer of Thoughtworks, a global technology company with over 50 offices in 18 countries. Thoughtworks has been internationally recognised as one of the “Great places to work”, and we discuss how the organization has managed its culture as it has scaled. We discuss the benefits, as well as challenges of having a strong culture. Jessie has been with Thoughtworks for 1...
Jan 04, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Today on The Salience Podcast we do a deep dive into culture and child sexual abuse in institutions. Today’s topic could be raw or triggering for some listeners. I encourage you to continue listening, though as always, there’s a fine line between having an appropriate emotional response, perhaps one that signals to you to act, and the sort of signal that lets you know that you should probably tap out and get some support to process your lived experiences. If you need guidance, check out our book...
Dec 23, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Today on The Salience Podcast we explore the impact of culture on safety. Our guest is Jeff Mongomery. Jeff has a distinguished career as a US Navy pilot, with 30 years of leadership, team building, and management experience in aviation. He completed 5 active deployments involving combat in the middle east and is just transitioning from being a test pilot to flying for a medical life flight organization. In addition to a career in aviation, Jeff is a passionate backcountry skier and he teaches a...
Dec 07, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 2
The first season of The Salience Podcast explored various aspects of resilience, from managing risk, to hosting effective online meetings, and even learning about how to manage chronic pain from folks that enjoy spanky time. For the next season, we explore culture, especially how culture influences relationships, for good and bad. To explore these topics, we are heading into conversations with people who have successfully navigated some challenging cross-cultural differences, such as national di...
Nov 23, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Daniel Moore. Dan is a holistic osteopath and coach who is currently exploring what we can learn about reframing chronic pain from folks that like spanky time! Dan is one of the people we featured in Resilience by Design for a super simple and effective technique he developed for reducing states like stress and anxiety. The solar panel is one of the most popular techniques we use, alongside box breathing and quitting crappy jobs to find sustainable purp...
Nov 08, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Anthea Fisher. Anthea’s resume reads like an adventure novel. Her experiences range from Mountain Rescue in New Zealand to planning and logistics coordination for humanitarian services in Africa and remote islands in the Pacific. Anthea survived an avalanche at Everest Base camp, and led one of the most difficult, complex and ultimately tragic rescue missions to remote mountains in Antarctica. Anthea has a remarkable depth of experience in resilience, r...
Oct 25, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Judy Rees. Judy was named a ‘Top 100 influencer in Remote Working’ in 2020 by Onalytica. With Steve McCann, she is the co-founder of ReesMcCann, a boutique training company specialising in making online gatherings better than in-the-room. Judy has written several books on the use of metaphors for change at work and throughout life. Listen in to Judy on The Salience Podcast to learn how she tracks symbols and metaphors in online meetings…like turning scr...
Oct 12, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Steve McCrone. Steve is co-founder of AGLX, a boutique management consultancy with a focus on adaptive strategy. Just about every management consultancy does strategic planning of some sort, the reason I wanted to interview Steve today is his approach is grounded in some fascinating life experiences, in this case, in a previous life, Steve was a bomb disposal expert! So we’re going to explore Steve’s journey from dealing with bombs to corporate strategy...
Sep 28, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Kristy Hitchens. Kristy is the Founder and Chair of The Pink Belt Project, an Australian registered charity that aims to empower women in need by connecting them with the martial arts. Pink Belt is a peak body for women involved in martial arts and an authority on martial arts for violence prevention and recovery. Domestic violence affects both men and women, although it is a far bigger issue for women. A woman is murdered every few days in Australia by...
Sep 14, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Dr Caitlin Walker. Caitlin is the author of From Contempt to Curiosity: Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate Using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling Caitlin also recently graduated with her PhD in CLEAN LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING, CURRICULUM DESIGN IS LIKE WHAT? With application to HIGHER EDUCATION. Caitlin is also the founding director of Training Attention, a niche change company based in the UK that uses clean language. At Frontline Mind,...
Aug 30, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our guest in this episode of The Salience Podcast is Brian Rivera. He’s a former top gun pilot, co-author of The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity and Co-founder and CEO AGLX North America. Brian’s work with the Flow Consortium offers an important contribution for leaders and organisations looking to innovate and step up into the high-performance realm. You can find out more about Brian's work at https://www.aglx.com/ For more information about The Sal...
Aug 16, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Usually, in The Salience Podcast, we interview authors or amazing people that inspired us while we were writing Resilience by Design. The podcast was conceived as a way to explore people and their ideas in more depth than we could cover in the book. This episode is something of an exception… and somewhat to our embarrassment, we have to admit that we missed Staffan’s important contribution to resilience when we did our research. Somehow, we managed to miss THE most published book on how to be pr...
Aug 02, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week's guest is Dr Jeffrey Funk. Jeffrey is a consultant and academic whose career is focused on the emergence and uptake of technology. Jeffrey is a best-selling author on technology and has taught at several prestigious universities including 9 years at the National University of Singapore. Jeffrey’s teaching, publishing, consulting and blogging aim to help individuals and companies navigate the hype and nonsense of tech startups. Running with the theme of Salience, what cuts through the ...
Jul 20, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This week's guest on the Salience Podcast is Nick Littlehales, author of the best-selling book “Sleep”. The danger of talking too much about sleep is we may end up feeling, well, sleepy! Despite the cunning title of Nick’s book, his book is very engaging and provides a number of super practical tips. Nick is much more than an academic author; he is the sleep coach to many sports teams and elite athletes. Listen to the interview with Nick that describes how to have micro-rests even when you're st...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Episode 2 of The Salience Podcast features Greg Layton. Greg is the bestselling author of Chief Maker and is the CEO of a company of the same name. Greg has a really tight niche in the talent development market focussing on helping people in organisations who are perhaps under the most pressure - the Senior Managers or General Managers who I describe as the meat in the sandwich. They have to deal with pressure from the Chiefs above, and staff and other managers below, and breaking into the C-sui...
Jun 21, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Michele Wucker. Michele is the internationally bestselling author of Gray Rhino. A “ grey rhino ” is a metaphor for a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat. Whereas the elephant in the room is the big obvious problem that everyone avoids talking about, and the black swan is an improbable and unforeseeable extreme event; Ignore a charging rhino at your peril! Find out more about Michele and her work by visiting her website . For more informat...
Jun 08, 2022•34 min
The Salience podcast is a weekly dive into the frontiers of advanced human performance. Host Dr Ian Snape interviews expert guests and game-changers from the world of science, art, sports, business and defence, to discover how we can all become better at surviving and thriving in complex and uncertain times. For more information about The Salience Podcast and Frontline Mind please visit our website at https://www.frontlinemind.com/the-salience-podcast/ You can also sign up for our newsletter her...
Jun 03, 2022•3 min0
