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HR Tech TalksHow can technology solve people-related challenges at growth companies?What makes HR technology a game changer in a global organization? In this episode of HR Tech’s Tech Talks, we explore the career and insights of Andy Turnbull, the head of people tech at Bolt. Andy discusses his journey from focusing on Workday in HR transformation consulting to embracing a technology-agnostic approach at Bolt, a fast-growing global company in 45+ countries.
He shares his experiences in deploying HR systems and the strategic shifts necessary for handling business and talent challenges in a hyper-growth environment. Dive into a conversation that illuminates the intersection of HR technology and business st...2024-05-1628 min
Ride AIThe State of the Micromobility Review MarketOn this episode of Ride On! we are talking with Tyson Roehrkasse, the Chief Reviewer at our sister company, Ride Review. Tyson has been with us now for around 4 months and comes from a tremendous background in electric bike reviews, with the majority of his time spent working with Electric Bike Review, the OG of the ebike review space.
Highlights:
- 🚲 Reviews play a crucial role in the success of small electrical vehicles, with online reviews impacting pre-orders, investments, and revenue.
- 🛵 The importance of local dealers and retailers in providing better customer experience and ser...2024-02-2754 minRide AIThe State of the Micromobility Review MarketOn this episode of Ride On! we are talking with Tyson Roehrkasse, the Chief Reviewer at our sister company, Ride Review. Tyson has been with us now for around 4 months and comes from a tremendous background in electric bike reviews, with the majority of his time spent working with Electric Bike Review, the OG of the ebike review space.
Highlights:
- 🚲 Reviews play a crucial role in the success of small electrical vehicles, with online reviews impacting pre-orders, investments, and revenue.
- 🛵 The importance of local dealers and retailers in providing better customer experience and ser...2024-02-2754 min
influencers!Kevin MayneIn many fields we hear about someone who is an ‘overnight
success’. But further research usually reveals that they’ve put in years of
hard work before they seem to suddenly start kicking big goals.
Kevin Mayne is a great example of this. After completing a
science degree followed by an MBA, Kevin worked in the multinational corporate
world for more than a decade before joining the national cycling charity, Cycling
UK, as their CEO in 1998.
Kevin has been working with quiet determination in the
cycling advocacy field for the 25 years since then.
Since...2023-04-1235 min
influencers!Erik BronsvoortIt’s a hard truth that most of us don’t want to here, but just because we buy and ride a bicycle does not mean we couldn’t further reduce our environmental impact.
Sure, bicycles have far lower environmental impacts than cars. They are typically about 100 times lighter, sometimes even more. In the case of e-bikes their battery is also typically about 100 times smaller than an electric car battery.
But as you will here in this interview with Erik Bronsvoort, bicycles still take a lot of energy to manufa...2023-04-0527 min
influencers!Chris NolteChris Nolte is a very quiet spoken, humble guy – especially for an American!
After enduring some life changing trauma in the Iraq war, Chris started questioning
America’s oil based economic system and compromises that this led to.
He became a pioneering retailer of e-bikes in the USA, a heinous crime that earned him a
huge fine in New York City!
But Chris fought city hall and eventually won this David vs Goliath battle. Over the years his
Propel Bikes business has...2023-03-0731 min
Ride AI171: Building the most popular ebike in America - The crazy story of Lectric Ebikes with founder Levi Conlow (also - launch of their XPedition cargo bike!)This week Oliver interviews Levi Conlow who is the founder of Lectric Ebikes. This really is one of the most incredible stories of Micromobility in the last few years. Back in 2019 when they were just starting out, they started with an Ebike that they struggled to sell and no-one wanted to buy. Last year they had the most popular model of a bike in America shipping over 150,000 units, all while being profitable.
It’s stories like this that we love from Micromobility – companies that have really just nailed the product market fit by focusing on the bits that...2023-02-2153 minRide AI171: Building the most popular ebike in America - The crazy story of Lectric Ebikes with founder Levi Conlow (also - launch of their XPedition cargo bike!)This week Oliver interviews Levi Conlow who is the founder of Lectric Ebikes. This really is one of the most incredible stories of Micromobility in the last few years. Back in 2019 when they were just starting out, they started with an Ebike that they struggled to sell and no-one wanted to buy. Last year they had the most popular model of a bike in America shipping over 150,000 units, all while being profitable.
It’s stories like this that we love from Micromobility – companies that have really just nailed the product market fit by focusing on the bits that...2023-02-2153 min
influencers!Joshua HonJoshua Hon has decades of experience in the world of bicycle design and manufacture. His
father Dr David Hon, founded Dahon (a shortened version of his name) which became a well-
known, globally distributed folding bike brand.
After working at Dahon for years, Joshua branched out and set up an entirely new company
from scratch, Tern Bicycles.
Initially Tern was best known for its own designs of folding bicycles, but then Joshua ‘bet the
company’ on an ambitious project to create an e...2022-12-0736 min
influencers!Oliver BruceSome people seem to live on a higher plane than most of our routine suburban lives.
If you look at Oliver Bruce’s resumé he certainly seems to qualify for that category.
After an eclectic global education, Oliver has held a wide range of roles including strategic advisor, corporate manager and angel investor.
He’s also one of a select group of Edmund Hillary Fellows in his native country of New Zealand and co-host of the influential Micromobility Podcast which he co-founded with the inventor of the term Micromobility, Horace Dediu.
To wa...2022-08-3140 min
influencers!Fiona CampbellAs you’ll soon discover, Fiona Campbell is quietly and calmly spoken and rather small in stature. She’s also quite happy to stay out of the limelight.
But when it comes to being a true influencer, Fiona is a giant.
I know that she’s highly respected by her colleagues and peers.
But I suspect that even those that might be trying to block her progress and ideas also develop a grudging respect for the tenacity and sharp strategy that hides beneath her calm, quiet exterior.
To watch the video versio...2022-06-2932 min
influencers!Stephen HodgeInside Australia’s Federal Parliament, our elected members decide how to spend an annual budget that now exceeds half a trillion dollars.
They also enact laws and make policy decisions that affect every aspect of our lives, including how we move around.
There’s only one professional lobbyist inside these corridors of power whose role is to advocate for cycling.
But fortunately, what the cycling community lacks in quantity, it makes up for with quality, as that sole lobbyist is Stephen Hodge.
As you’ll see in more detail in this interv...2022-05-3138 min
influencers!Mike TomalarisMike Tomalaris is a household name for cycling fans throughout Australia. For decades he’s appeared on the screen on SBS-TV as a newsreader and sports commentator.
But Mike’s face is most closely associated with the Tour de France. He began anchoring the SBS Tour de France coverage way back in the 1990’s.
That came to an abrupt end in late 2021 when he was sacked by SBS in very shoddy circumstances that led both to a widespread public outcry and a dark time in Mike’s life.
But his own active cycling journey...2022-04-3030 min
influencers!Lena HudaLena Huda has only lived in Australia for a couple of years so far, but has already had more influence here than many achieve in their lifetime. Despite being a busy mother of four young children spaced just two years apart in age, since arriving here, Lena has thrown herself into full-time advocacy work.
She’s co-founded two organisations:
30 Please is asking for the speed limits on our local streets to be reduced to 30 kilometres per hour, Australia-wide.
Safe Streets to School is advocating for a range of measures that will make it safer for our ki...2022-03-3134 min
influencers!Tom FloodTom Flood lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He’s spent his career in the advertising industry as a ‘creative’.
For years a large part of his work was creating campaigns for the auto industry, even though through much of this time he was commuting to work on a bicycle and facing a hostile environment caused by the very products he was helping to sell.
But Tom’s epiphany only happened when he tried to ride his young boys to preschool. Suddenly he realised that our society has been perpetuating a myth that cars are a good thing...2022-03-0137 min
influencers!FK DayIn our sixth episode of Influencers!, we interview FK Day, Executive Vice President of SRAM and Chairman of World Bicycle Relief.
Of all F.K. Day’s fine attributes, one of the strongest themes that defines this interview is his genuine humility. F. K., who always goes by his initials rather than his full first name, Frederick, has far more reason to boast than most of us.
But at every opportunity during this interview to take even a sliver of credit for some fine achievements, he instinctively deflects praise to others.
Take a jou...2022-01-2828 min
influencers!Matt KeenanIn this entertaining interview, renowned cycling commentator Matt will share in detail three of his secrets that have helped him become ‘The New Voice of Cycling’:
‘Volunteer for the job you want to have.’
‘Infect as many people as possible with the bike bug.’
‘Add value to the pictures.’
Matt also shares what life is like behind the scenes when you’re one of the world’s top commentators, travelling the world for up to six months per year (excepting covid lockdowns of course!)
Matt recounts the experience of his greatest moment in race comme...2021-11-3032 min
influencers!Warren SalomonIf ever anyone has earned the mantle of unsung hero, it would be Warren Salomon.
Warren founded Australia’s first national general cycling magazine. He founded, grew and then donated ownership to charity, one of Australia’s largest mass participation bike rides.
He led Bicycle New South Wales as both President and later CEO, through a golden era of growth and effectiveness.
And he created, what’s to the best of my knowledge, Australia’s first specialist cycling infrastructure consultancy, working with local and state governments Australia-wide.
But as you’ll hear, desp...2021-10-3039 min
influencers!Steven DrakeSteven Drake is one of those people who seems to achieve success at everything that he turns his hand to.
He combined a double university degree with an ever-upwards road cycling trajectory that saw him become Australian road champion, race internationally and represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games.
Then he seamlessly shifted gears into the corporate world, rising through two decades of hard work to Managing Director level of the world’s largest private bank.
For his next trick, Steven returned to Australia and united 18 separate cycle sport entities across three diverse disciplines in...2021-09-3032 min
Ride AI119: Battery Systems and Business Models with Horace DediuThis week Oliver interviews Horace about his recent thoughts on the impact of lithium ion batteries on power tools and how the market and products have developed. He also spawns a new framework: batteries we carry, batteries that carry us and batteries that carry themselves. It’s Horace at his best - riffing and letting his brain do what it does.
In the meantime, make sure that you get your tickets for Micromobility America, the world’s largest summit devoted to small electric vehicles. It returns to the SF Bay Area on September 23, 2021 for an immersive, in-person gathering. The team are h...2021-09-0442 minRide AI119: Battery Systems and Business Models with Horace DediuThis week Oliver interviews Horace about his recent thoughts on the impact of lithium ion batteries on power tools and how the market and products have developed. He also spawns a new framework: batteries we carry, batteries that carry us and batteries that carry themselves. It’s Horace at his best - riffing and letting his brain do what it does.
In the meantime, make sure that you get your tickets for Micromobility America, the world’s largest summit devoted to small electric vehicles. It returns to the SF Bay Area on September 23, 2021 for an immersive, in-person gathering. The team are h...2021-09-0442 min
influencers!Charlie FarrenMelbourne-based Charlie Farren has spent a lifetime riding bikes and also encouraging many others to ride.
She’s the founder of iconic mass participation cycling events including Around the Bay in a Day and the Great Victorian Bike Ride.
Charlie has also volunteered her considerable organisational skills as a director of both the Amy Gillet Foundation and Cycling Australia, now AusCycling. As president of what was then Bicycle Victoria, she played a key role, assisted by her late husband Paul and others, in transforming what was once a tiny, cash-strapped organisation into one of the la...2021-09-0140 min
influencers!influencers! Episode Two Preview Charlie FarrenOn 1st September 2021, the next episode in the Influencers! series will be released with Charlie Farren, wife of the late Paul Farren who passionately collected bicycles from bygone eras, to establish the iconic Farren Collection.
As we walk through the history of cycling, Charlie talks about her past, her involvement in AusCycling and the Amy Gillett Foundation, and her instrumental influence in starting some of the great events in Australia, including her proudest achievement, the Great Victorian Bike Ride.
In this preview of the upcoming Episode Two, Charlie talks about her personal bike collection and how...2021-08-2000 min
influencers!Osher GünsbergWell-known TV presenter Osher Günsberg has a great passion and in-depth knowledge of all things cycling.
In the first episode of Influencers, we explore how Osher first became interested in cycling, how his cycling passion changed after he became a husband and father and a sought after media personality.
We take a journey through his experience overseas in the Netherlands, how the country made the decision to become a healthy transport nation and why he thinks Australia hasn't been able to make the same decisions.
We also discuss how cycling and exercise have...2021-07-3138 min
influencers!Welcome to Influencers!Welcome to our monthly influencers! series in which we’ll be interviewing a wide range of people, both face-to face and via video link, throughout Australia and around the world to talk about the future of cycling and the growth of micromobility.
Everyone that we speak to on influencers! is making a difference in some aspect of cycling or micromobility. Some will be unsung heroes and others will be people that you might already know.
The motivation behind creating the series is to discover how each of us can advance the causes of cycling and micro...2021-07-2801 min
influencers!influencers! Episode One Preview Osher GunsbergIn 2020, Osher Günsberg, the well-known media personality and presenter of the popular TV show The Bachelor, joined the Board of Directors of We Ride Australia, the peak national cycling advocacy group, to make a difference in the world of cycling and micromobility.
In this preview of the upcoming Episode 1, we hear from Osher as to why he chose to take on this important cycling advocacy role.
Subscribe to our podcast today, to hear the full influencers! episode from 1 August 2021.2021-07-1500 min
CamdenersChristoph Domke: The Electric Future of CamdenJeffrey Young is joined by Christoph Domke, a Senior Director, and Clean and Smart Mobility Lead at FTI Consulting. Christoph shares his thoughts on the world of electric vehicles, micromobility, autonomous vehicles, and charging infrastructure, as well as how Camden will look in the years to come.Christoph is a forward-thinking and innovative thought leader in the Greentech space with a passion for cleaner, sustainable, more efficient, and interconnected movement of goods and people. Christoph is a regular speaker and panel moderator at global conferences and was ranked 8 on N20’s 40 Most Influential Global Influencers in Mobility in...2020-12-1126 min
The Micromobility PodcastThe Potential of Abundance - the parallels of Nokia-to-influencers in micromobility2019-11-1558 min
Ride AI47: The Potential of Abundance - the parallels of Nokia-to-influencers in micromobilityIn this episode, Horace and Oliver talk though the flood of news post-Berlin, and how the micromobility is being circulated around by the giants of automotive and large tech, as they work out how to best participate.
We also explore:
- the parallels between feature phone experimentation and the extensive discussions over form factor experimentation we’re seeing in lightweight electric vehicles (ie. the rise of the Scoot/Bird Cruiser)
- why that has the potential to lead to unifying operating systems that unite the fragmentation, and who the most likely contenders are to lead this.
- How implausible the rise...2019-11-1558 min
Micromobility47: The Potential of Abundance - the parallels of Nokia-to-influencers in micromobilityIn this episode, Horace and Oliver talk though the flood of news post-Berlin, and how the micromobility is being circulated around by the giants of automotive and large tech, as they work out how to best participate.We also explore:- the parallels between feature phone experimentation and the extensive discussions over form factor experimentation we’re seeing in lightweight electric vehicles (ie. the rise of the Scoot/Bird Cruiser)- why that has the potential to lead to unifying operating systems that unite the fragmentation, and who the most likely contenders are to...2019-11-1558 minRide AI47: The Potential of Abundance - the parallels of Nokia-to-influencers in micromobilityIn this episode, Horace and Oliver talk though the flood of news post-Berlin, and how the micromobility is being circulated around by the giants of automotive and large tech, as they work out how to best participate.
We also explore:
- the parallels between feature phone experimentation and the extensive discussions over form factor experimentation we’re seeing in lightweight electric vehicles (ie. the rise of the Scoot/Bird Cruiser)
- why that has the potential to lead to unifying operating systems that unite the fragmentation, and who the most likely contenders are to lead this.
- How implausible the rise...2019-11-1558 min