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Better World LeadersTim Collings makes a promise beyond ableness in offering a Sourcing frameworkHello and welcome to the final co-created conversation of our sixth season.
In this episode, Tim is hosted by former BWL guest Dimity Podger, in a conversation focused on a framework which has been generated through Tim. The Sourcing framework is designed to provide awareness of the sources of our thinking and actioning, so that we can generatively discern our choices and pathways into shared futures.
You can explore the Sourcing framework also via the accompanying article on Medium - https://timcollings-betterworldleaders.medium.com/what-are-you-sourcing-my-from-c999c0e428f7
Deep gratitude to Dimity for...2025-01-0652 minBetter World LeadersSimon Kavanagh is exploring transformational learning and approaches to systemic changeIt was great to understand more deeply the story of the emergence of KaosPilots, the core frameworks of their approach to transformational learning and how these can be applied in this free flowing dialogue with Simon Kavanagh.
It's always particularly exciting and enlivening for me to co-create conversation with someone whose work I'm already benefiting from. In recent years at work I've been guided by fellows-in-the-work Dimity Podger and Burju Taskin in KaosPilots frameworks, and myself having completed one of their Masterclasses with Ramon Marmolejos and begun my own practice creating learning journeys and...2024-11-251h 08Better World LeadersChristopher Marquis reveals the underlying change framework within his latest work...Very rarely do we host guests who get in touch requesting an interview on Better World Leaders, however the nature of Christopher Marquis' note stood out and I'm delighted that we have somehow entangled to create this conversation.
Christopher is Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University and has a background in both social and organisational change movements. In this conversation we explore the focus of his last book, The Profiteers, and he reveals the underlying framework for change embedded within that work.
This conversation provides...2024-06-171h 11Better World LeadersBill Sharpe shares futures practices for transformations over 3 Horizons...This conversation is as serious as it is playful, as practical in exploration of practice as it is theoretical in examination of a framework, and as generative a journey for me as a practictioner as it is fascinating as a podcaster! Welcome to the wonderful, rich and informative dialogue with Bill Sharpe, co-creator of the 3 Horizons futures framework.
For anyone interested in leaning into futures thinking and creating experiences of futures work for leaders, groups or whole organisations, this conversation could well be of interest.
Having been aware of 3...2024-05-131h 03Better World LeadersBen Haggard guides how to create frameworks for living systems approaches to life, work and transformationOn the very short list of organisations, entities and gatherings of folk that I've been wholly nurtured, enabled and impacted is Regenesis Institute.
One of the key creators of developmental programs at Regenesis is Ben Haggard, and I've been fortunate to participate in several programs Ben has led and created. Ben is the Director of Educational Programs at the Regenesis Institute of Sustainable Communities, a core element of Regenesis Group.
In this episode we concentrate most explicitly on the functioning of frameworks, their utility for considering and interpreting the world, designing intentional development experiences and...2024-04-291h 21Better World LeadersLoes Damhof is building capability in the present with Futures LiteracyI was first introduced to Loes, and Futures Literacy, by another BWL guest, Laureline Simon. When Laureline shared in her network that she was co-hosting a course on Futures Literacy for transformative climate action, I was drawn in and joined the cohort to experience this wonderful, exhilarating and enlivening work myself.
Those days immersed in the Futures Literacy framework were the first of what has now become a continuing interaction with Loes Damhof, UNESCO Chair of Futures Literacy at Hanze University in Gronigen in Holland. I've been honoured and delighted to have co-created this...2023-12-0557 minBetter World LeadersMel Geltch is hosting and harvesting conversations which matterI first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program.
That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning...2023-11-251h 14Better World LeadersMel Geltch is hosting and harvesting conversations which matterI first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded to the expression of interest for that program, I also wrote to Mel and expressed that sense, and that I wondered whether we'd find ourselves weaving together beyond the duration of that program.
That inception moment was the genesis of two threads which have great meaning for me - the beginning...2023-11-021h 28Better World LeadersSamantha Slade unfolds practices for life-affirming organisations.This conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire Co-op (more on Campfire in the next episode) and I had also participated in a Going Horizontal workshop
led by Samantha and one of her Percolab colleagues, co-hosted with Campfire.
I share that context upfront, as it's not often that I'm conversing with someone with whom...2023-10-2941 minBetter World LeadersSamantha Slade unfolds practices for life-affirming organisationsThis conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire Co-op (more on Campfire in the next episode) and I had also participated in a Going Horizontal workshop led by Samantha and one of her Percolab colleagues, co-hosted with Campfire.
I share that context upfront as it's not often that I'm conversing with someone with whom...2023-10-2741 minBetter World LeadersDaniel Hires introduces us to the Inner Development GoalsI've had the good fortune to encounter today's guest, Daniel Hires, via LinkedIn during the pandemic, as we seemed to frequent a similar social media ecosystem, commenting on many of the same posts and engaging with the same discourses on social, ecological and economic transformation.
Daniel and I had held an intention to create a BWL conversation a while back on those transformational themes, and life, work and the world aligned for us to create a conversation here, now, in this season on frameworks as Daniel has shifted into the team creating the emergent...2023-10-061h 28Better World LeadersKaren O'Brien declares that you matter more than you think, as she provides a means to engage with quantum social changeWhen I first came across Karen O'Brien's 2021 book early last year, I was immediately drawn to it. Both title and subtitle - You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World - called to me, having been exploring the sourcing from quantum theory in Carol Sanford's approaches and recognising the systemic nature of change need to shift paradigms and move us towards holistically better worlds. Not only are the words intriguing and enticing, the incredibly beautiful and meaningful illustrations of artist Tone Bjordam both enliven and deepen my experience of being with the book and...2023-09-151h 13Better World LeadersCarol Sanford returns to explore self-determining pathways to evolving our role in life, work and planetary systemsCarol Sanford returns for her second episode in this season, introducing the core disciplines within the framework she introduces in her latest work - No More Gold Stars (a full transcript of this conversation is available here on Medium)
In this conversation Carol shares the 6 disciplines which provide the framework for ways of being, collaboratively interacting and organising at home, work and in community which are grounded in self-determining, regenerative paradyms. Carol calls out the pervasiveness of behaviouralism, the profound challenges this approach has manifested in our social systems, and how the approach she offers in No...2023-08-2856 min
Leading by NatureTim Collings: Director of People, Culture & Sustainability at HussmannEpisode 10 of Leading by Nature, sees Giles Hutchins joined by Tim Collings, Director of People, Culture & Sustainability at Hussmann. We hear of the appetite for transformation amongst the leadership of larger historic companies, the responsibility that comes with being a change agent for building trust and why Tim believes that the essence and potential of regenerative leadership is within everyone.For more information on Leading by Nature, you can follow Giles Hutchins on LinkedIn, or visit gileshutchins.com for free downloads of tools and practices for regenerative leadership and future fit business.Also, wat...2023-08-2220 minBetter World LeadersDan Palmer sources ways of organising in work and life through living design process - Episode 2 of 2 with Dan PalmerThis is the second part of the very special whole conversation with Dan Palmer. Dan and I designed these two conversations to flow together as one greater dialogue, which is way for the first time I'm sharing two episodes together on Better World Leaders.
If you'd landed here before listening to the other episode because this one is at the top of your feed, I most warmly encourage you to tune into Part 1 on Holistic Decision making first, so as to approach these two episodes as a whole. This element of these shared dialogues...2023-06-211h 15Better World LeadersDan Palmer invites us to make holistic decisions - Episode 1 of 2 with Dan PalmerThis the first of two very special conversations with my dear friend Dan Palmer.
I am greatly privileged to have been in fellowship with Dan within Carol Sanford's developmental community - Change Agent Development - where Dan was my guide and became a dear friend. I first encountered Dan at the threshold of Carol's community, and from that first exchange and over many connections and conversations that followed both in community and directly, I always felt both nurtured and provoked to deepen my developmental processes by my relationship with Dan.
2023-06-211h 10Better World LeadersCurtis Ogden generates and explores four frameworks of network and energy systems for social changeIf you've been enjoying this season on frameworks so far, you're in for a real treat! Our guest today has been of great source of inspiration to me over the past few years since we connected on LinkedIn after co-habiting several spaces in feeds of mutual connections. Every time I see a post from Curtis Ogden, my heart swells and my mind expands. His massive generosity in sharing wisdom, expressing deep intention and practicing possibility is a blessing to witness, as you are able to experience in this episode.
Curtis' life-long work is in developing capacity for...2023-06-042h 06Better World LeadersZoë Routh visions how we can develop into our shared futuresZoë Routh returns for her second BWL conversation, focusing a story of climate change impacted human exploration. Zoë is the author of many books, her latest 'The Olympus Project' being her first work of fiction.
In this work, the stage is set by unravelling ecologies on Earth, driven by unmitigated climate change impacts and turbulent cultural tensions. Humankind's path seems destined for new worlds, and the book focuses on the team selected to lead an inter-planetary colonisation mission. The story unfolds as deep-seated values, biases and cultural norms emerge and are carried with the ch...2023-05-071h 02Better World LeadersTim Hollo charts pathways towards living democracyOnce you start to engage with systems change, it's becomes increasingly necessary to examine every system. How each operates, functions, inter-relates to every other system, and is co-dependant for sustained change on the rate of change of many points of convergence. And so, on a podcast primarily focused on the role of leaders in organisations, we come to explore the need for change in our political systems. Why? Because so often we find the desire, capacity and capability for change at scale to be caught up in the intermeshed webs of layered systems that are woven through, created by...2023-04-161h 10Better World LeadersPaul Hawken provides frameworks to reconnect to life to address the climate crisis as a symptom of degeneration, and invites us to become regeneratorsPaul Hawken has been striving to bring attention to new ways of organising, working and living for longer than I have been alive. Of his many books, I have been most inspired by 'The Ecology of Commerce' which I discovered at university in the late 90s, and 'Blessed Unrest' in the mid-2000s. I have been consistently impressed by his capacity to bring into the mainstream approaches and frameworks which are much needed, and only adopted at the margins, and his relentless flow of articles, talks and books and continually expanded those margins and enabled people like me to...2023-03-301h 33Better World LeadersFour Arrows awakens us that our fundamental worldview is driving the problems at the heart of, and preventing the solutions to, our greatest crises.Our conversation with Four Arrows focuses on how fundamental worldviews are to inform our interpretations of the world around us, informing and guiding our decisions, interactions with our fellow humans and the more than human world, and influencing our actions and how we perceive the consequences of those actions on others.
Pivotal to this discussion an invitation exploring your relationship with the more than human world, especially the plant world, as an exploratory way of practicing this shift of worldview in a practical way.
We explore cultural appropriation, the increasing understanding of this in non-Indigenous...2023-03-151h 31Better World LeadersGiles Hutchins shares how to create life affirming value propositions, regenerative cultures and future-fit organisationsFrom the first moment I was in dialogue with today's guest, I felt a warmth, a sincerity of curiosity and a genuineness of intention. Being with Giles Hutchins in deep dialogue building up to this conversation, during and beyond it as we've begun to walk a shared path, I've come to appreciate a depth of will to hold well intentioned folk such as myself as we shift, unravel and re-weave ourselves and our organisations into more regenerative beings and networks.
This is complex, meaningful, challenging and often confronting work, as I have myself experienced in my own j...2023-02-2848 minBetter World LeadersCarol Sanford invites us to disrupt the attachment we have to our current methods, and instead learn to work IndirectlyToday's guest is the most deeply provocative, developmental and loving regenerative guide I have been honoured to connect with and be developing within her communities.
Carol Sanford is acknowledged by many as a matriarch within the resurgent global regeneration movement, having been in deep practice in her own life, family and work both in multi-national organisations and in developmental education for over 45 years.
Carol is the author of 6 books, several of which are cited as essential reading at Harvard and Stamford. She is the founder of the Carol Sanford Institute and Seed Communities, a developmental c...2023-02-1456 minBetter World LeadersWelcome to Season 6 - Frameworks for co-creating better worldsIntroducing the sixth season of Better World Leaders, focused on frameworks for you, and all you lead striving to co-create better worlds.
Frameworks have become essential and integral to my way of being, learning and developing and I'm delighted to be co-creating conversations with the sources of many of the incredible frameworks for knowing, being and doing which are guiding the emergence of better worlds and futures.
Here's who you can look forward to experiencing co-created dialogue with...Carol Sanford, Giles Hutchins, Paul Hawken, Four Arrows, Tim Hollo, Zoë Routh, Michelle Maloney, Sally Gilespie, Karen O...2023-01-3120 minBetter World LeadersSeason 5 Review - How have we nurtured conditions for better world leaders to emerge and thrive?As we wrap up our fifth season, and our journey through 2022, we offer a brief reflection on the themes which have emerged through 13 fabulous conversations.
We've been delighted to host and co-create conversations with these incredible guests, David Drake, Wayne Visser, Lauren Tucker, Hugh Mackay, Ben Newsome, Laureline Simon, Dimity Podger, Michelle Maloney, Alice Howard-Vyse, Steve Moir, Charlotte Connell, Jeanine Bailey, Sue Glendenning & Catherine Ashton.
We're also reflecting on what's shifted through the year, and what changes we anticipate bringing to the podcast next year.
We're super excited for all that awaits in...2022-12-3032 minBetter World LeadersCatherine Ashton asks ‘And Then What?’ as we discuss collaborating for long-term approaches to challenges no nation can solve aloneThis is a conversation I was not anticipating, and I enjoyed greatly, with someone whom I was deeply honoured to co-create a conversation with.
Catherine Ashton is unique in many ways, as the first EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, the former Leader of the House of Lords (British Parliament upper house) with multiple Ministerial tenures in the British government.
In this conversation we discuss the very real context in which so much leading is done behind the scenes via the craft of diplomacy, that there are no significant challenges that any nation...2022-12-201h 02Better World LeadersSue Glendenning, Jeanine Bailey and I are co-creating spaces for those who are hopeful for changing what must be changedThis is a conversation between three fellows in the work. 3 friends and colleagues who have been deeply exploring how to co-create conditions for systemic change to be activated and sustained. I invite you into the conversation with Sue Glendenning, Jeanine Bailey, and myself.
As we reach the culmination of this year-long Better World Leaders’ Season 5 on nurturing conditions, we wished to share our collective intention to nurture conditions in communities of change makers, to support, enable and deepen their potential to radically shift systems, structures and processes that can provide pathways to the better worlds that are so...2022-12-1243 min
Better World LeadersCharlotte Connell is striving to enable a mass body of beings energised about the opportunity to create climate positive venturesI first came across Charlotte in my LinkedIn feed around a year ago, when she shared a beautifully poignant and vulnerable post about talking to her kids about the bushfires. Without needing to check her profile, I knew this was an aligned being, and invited her to connect. A few months later, we spoke for the first time to explore co-creating a conversation here discussing our shared energies for working with change makers in the climate ecosystem in Australia and beyond.
I’m now knowing Charlotte as a deeply intentional being, a lover of nature, the ocean in...2022-11-2452 minBetter World LeadersStephen Moir is building communities of professionals seeking to pursue purpose into action on climate changeAs long as I’ve been in Australia I’ve been aware of Stephen Moir, someone with whom I share many professional alignments, yet his journey always seemed ahead of my own. More recently I’ve found the alignment even greater, especially since being invited by one of my clients to join Steve’s community ‘Professionals Advocating for Climate Action’.
Steve’s background as a recruiter and founder of the long established and highly successful Moir Group doesn’t indicate anything radical or activist, and yet he and his partner Caroline found themselves inspired to do more, and to work with...2022-10-1850 minBetter World LeadersMichelle Maloney asks how do we nurture the conditions for humans to care about the more than human world?Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly aware of and inspired by a being known as Michelle Maloney. Over and over, some of the most interesting areas that were drawing my attention and curiosity, I found Michelle immersed in the heart of them in Australia and beyond. Regenerative initiatives, centring Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being, new pathways to economic progress, ways of organising ourselves, our communities and societies in ways that respect and revere nature – Michelle not only shows up, she convenes some of the most meaningful spaces that attract both the well intentioned and thos...2022-09-0751 minBetter World LeadersAlice Howard-Vyse guides us how we can listen more deeply, to nurture ourselves and the whole we are all a part of.In this conversation, I welcome back a dear friend and guide in the great work, who on her first visit here hosted me and beautifully held the space for exploration of one of my formative narratives. Here, we return to our usual flow, as I host an abundant and deep conversation with Alice Howard-Vyse.
Alice is a practitioner of many approaches to living systems practice. She is Lead Convenor for Regen Sydney, Founder of Humanise This, an alumnus of Schumacher Collage (UK) and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership. Ever since meeting Alice shortly before the...2022-08-161h 01
Better World LeadersDr Dimity Podger invites us to explore how we regenerate humanity's role on the planetIt is always a great honour to co-create and share with you each and every conversation on Better World Leaders. It's an even deeper pleasure to co-create a conversation with someone who I have been knowing for some time, and deepen my knowing of their being as we create a shared dialogue, which we then share with you. The conversation with Dimity Podger is a beautiful combination of these strands woven throughout this flowing exploration of how we nurture conditions to regenerate ourselves, our role on the planet and the ways we come together.
Dimity is a fellow regenerative practitioner...2022-07-2650 min
Better World LeadersSeason 5 halfway review, look ahead and invitation to our first live event...Welcome to this review of our Fifth Season so far, discussing the convergent themes and poignant prompts which have emerged from the six fantastic guest co-created conversations we've been honoured to host in the season so far.
These conversations have been co-created with David Drake, Wayne Visser, Lauren Tucker, Hugh Mackay, Ben Newsome and Laureline Simon.
In this season focused on nurturing conditions for the co-creation of our better world, the emergent themes from the conversations so far are empathy & kindness, nurturing systems, generating new meta-narratives and evolving cultures.
Looking ahead, we're very much looking forward to sharing with you...2022-07-1625 min
Better World LeadersLaureline Simon urges us to treat the root cause of the ecological crisis, our damaged relationships with ourselves, others, and nature.This conversation is deep. Existential. Radical. Why? Because Laureline Simon speaks to the root cause of the harm that's impacting on each of us, every community and ecosystem across the breadth of our shared planet. This conversation hits home, in a nurturing, generative way, as Laureline speaks from lived experience striving in global systems and shows meaningful examples of how this harm can be repaired.
It's been an honour to cocreate many wonderful conversations on Better World Leaders over the past two years. In that time there's been many a dialogue which has given me cause for reflection, and this...2022-06-071h 04
Better World LeadersBen Newsome believes we need to nurture conditions of empathy, dialogue, fearlessness and resilienceOf the many new connections I made through the lockdowns of 2020, very few matched the energy and capacity for both vastly expansive and hyper detailed dialogue than today's guest. Ben Newsome is an educator, a Founder and ambassador for progressive educational practice and I'm delighted to welcome him today.
Ben Newsome founded Fizzics Education to deliver science education across Australia, having now reached 2 million kids since 2004. He is a qualified science teacher and has a host of accolades to his name, including being a 2013 Churchill Fellow, 2020 AMP Tomorrow Maker, 2015, 2016 & 2018 Australian Small Business Winner for Children's Education Services, 2020 WSABE Outstanding Business...2022-05-2646 min
Better World LeadersHugh Mackay would like us all to start a revolution by making kindness our way of being in the worldIn the midst of a CoVid lockdown, I discovered a book that it felt like was speaking directly to me, and in doing so, touching my soul. The author and I shared a desire to see a significant shift in the country we both love, and in the wider world. That shift speaks of rediscovery. Of a way of being that all humans know, and many appear to have forgotten. What is called for, the author proposed is in fact nothing short of a revolution. A Kindness Revolution. I was moved to write to him, expressing my deepest gratitude for...2022-05-0953 min
Better World LeadersLauren Tucker asks how do we shift the role of our business to create the conditions for regeneration?Have you ever been in a session when someone shows up who you sense you recognise the essence of?
You can't place them, you know you've not met them before, yet something connects you that seems somehow familiar.
That was my experience the first time I met Lauren Tucker.
Part way through a Regenerative Business Summit in which Lauren was Resource for our team, I joined the dots, that I knew of Lauren and her work as Founder of an organisation I had long supported and admired - Kiss the Ground.
What I emerged from our brief conversation that day...2022-04-1158 min
Better World LeadersWayne Visser invites us to thrive by moving from breakdown to breakthrough and from laggards to leadersRarely do I get the opportunity to welcome a guest with such a wonderful range of frames that have been used to describe their work - especially in combination! Our guest today is Wayne Visser, a professor, a poet, a possibilist and a pracademic.
Throughout this season of Better World Leaders, we'll examine the conditions needed to co-create our better world. This conversation with Wayne provides a thorough exploration of the layers of shifting consciousness, discovery of new frameworks and creation of new structures through which we can create not just a better world, but a Thriving one.
Wayne has...2022-04-041h 45
Better World LeadersDavid Drake shares practices to return to our sense of common good and common humanityWelcome to the fifth season of Better World Leaders. Throughout this season we'll be focusing on the theme of conditions, and considering what conditions do we need to nurture for leaders to co-create a better world.
I'm delighted and honoured to bring you the first conversation of the season with a man who has devoted his life to creating conditions for people to discover themselves, transition liminal spaces and learn in ways which are much more conducive to life now (and in the world of the future) than our conventional approaches to learning. Welcome to the conversation with David Drake.
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The Discomfort PracticeEpisode #65: Tim Collings on Empowering Tomorrow's LeadersIn this episode, I talk to Tim Collings, CEO of 4I leadership. Tim is also a leadership coach, guiding on strategy and organizational design to help individual leaders and organizations create a sustainable future. Tim is also a fellow podcast host, producing the “Better World Leaders Podcast”, on which I appeared a few episodes back. On it, he speaks to leaders on a quest to make the world a better place. Tim talks about current leadership styles, many of which are based on authority or hierarchy, and how this type of leadership fails to have the impact soci...2022-03-2740 min
Better World LeadersIntroducing Season 5 - Nurturing Conditions to co-create our better world...Welcome to Season 5 of Better World Leaders! This season we shift our focus to nurturing conditions, following on our past two seasons of catalysing and sustaining change. Let's go a little deeper, into the foundational elements we need to cultivate in ourselves, our communities, societies and institutions in order to bring to life the better world we are striving to create.
I've been deeply honoured, energised and inspired to co-create incredibly insightful conversations with our guests this season, and here's a sneak peak at some of the conversations you can look forward to in this season;
•David Drake, Phd, pioneer of...2022-03-2519 min
Better World LeadersSeason 4 - wrap up & reviewIn this brief review episode, I provide a fly-through of the conversations co-created as part of this season.
The broad theme for the season has been sustaining change, how do we do this, what's important to pay attention to, and how do we sustain ourselves as we strive to co-create our better world.
We've had an incredible range of conversations in this season, spanning November 2021 to March 2022.
If you've not had a chance to review these fully as yet, maybe take a glance at the list below and then scroll through your podcast feed wherever you're reading this and dive...2022-03-2110 min
Better World LeadersJames McGregor believes scalable commercial sustainability solutions are the key to our collective environmental and societal challengesIn the final episode of our fourth season, I was delighted to co-create a conversation filled with pragmatism, hope and energy for tackling the major problems that exist in our world today. I was introduced to James McGregor by our very first BWL guest, Paul Dunn, on the basis of our shared passion and believe in systemic transformation.
James has been involved in the commercialisation of sustainable innovation and technologies for over 15 years and has a wealth of knowledge on how to identify the crux of a systemic problem, converge stakeholders to address the issue and how to align novel...2022-03-0359 min
Better World LeadersRebecca Christianson offers a path from surviving to thrivingThis conversation is a moving and meaningful one focused on how life lessons from adversity can provide opportunities for transformation and shifts into realisation of our purpose and fullest potential.
Rebecca has endured what would be testing circumstances at the best of times, however her greatest challenge came not in isolation but in combination with other significant challenges which would throw many people into turmoil. She navigated these trials with humility, introspection and a devotion to appreciating the small things that become cascades of signals of the kind of work and way of living she is called to.
In this...2022-02-2857 min
Building Teams with TEAMES & COAn Interview with Tim Collings, Founder/CEO 4iLeadershipIn this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tim Collings, the founder and CEO of 4iGroup - a leadership development company that helps leaders who seek to create a better world by developing exceptional people to create extraordinary organizations. Show Highlights:Tim shares his story and what led him to start 4iLeadership (02:30)The group discusses the way to use mission statement and purpose strategically in their organizations (09:15) Tim explains his infamous “Spider Web Analogy” (15:10) Tracy and Tim discuss the challenges faced by new leaders, advice / wisdom that new leaders should follow, and some common watch outs for...2022-02-2442 min
Better World LeadersTracy Eames on why we need to focus on meaningful work, and how to bring more meaning through your teamThis conversation is one of fellowship between myself and Tracy Eames, a leadership practitioner from the East Coast of the USA with whom I have discovered a great affinity and shared devotion to a foundational column of work for both of us - meaningful work.
In Tracy's words, we all spend so much of our time at work with our teams, and all too often people do not find it rewarding. As we all talk about employee engagement and building culture, I often feel like the bigger point is being missed among a checklist of items that don't truly address...2022-02-171h 02
Better World LeadersHernan Haro is investing in Founders who are in love with the world's biggest problems, who lead by learning and embracing diversity.This conversation is perhaps not what you might expect in a conversation with the Founder of a Venture Capital Fund. You won't find any mention here of debt-to-equity ratios, asset valuations or how to scale rapidly for a successful sale. What you will find is what Hernan Haro and I must say myself as well, believe is the essence of the kind of ventures that will transform our world. That brilliant, passionate, highly motivated people chose to start ventures that are orientated towards tackling the greatest challenges of our times because they are in love with problem.
In this discussion...2022-02-0659 min
Better World LeadersMickey Kovari leads in fellowship and community-ship with the custodians of our most regenerative ways of knowing, doing and being.Every once in a while you connect deeply, completely and with absolute alignment with someone whose lived experience has been what you aspire to be. To find someone with whom I align so cohesively with living only a few kilometres across the mountains from my home and to have the opportunity to spend time with them and begin to get to know them is both an honour and a revelation.
Welcome to the conversation co-created with Mickey Kovari, which we recorded side-by-side in 'the Shoalhaven studio' in the workspace of my homeplace.
Mickey is someone who describes himself as being...2022-01-301h 01
Better World LeadersReviewing and looking ahead at the halfway mark of Season 4, Sustaining Change...In this episode I'm coming to you solo as both reviewer and announcer.
I'll reflect on what has been most salient to me from the 5 discussions so far in this season, and share with you what awaits in the 5 conversations that lie ahead...
Reflecting on conversations with;
•Claire Marshall on the role of storytelling in creating our futures
•Rebecca Huntley on where we are with the fight for a healthy climate and the role we can all play
•Pedro Aguirre on planting seeds with and for future better world leaders
•Betsy Reed on embracing discomfort to give birth to our greatest...2022-01-2433 min
Better World LeadersJess Weiss shares her approach to strengths for those who want to make the world betterIt's always a pleasure to converse with someone I know well - especially when that person is someone I greatly admire and am honoured to work alongside, learn from and advocate for.
I've known Jess for a little over 3 years at this point of broadcast, and yet I'm constantly learning more and more about what drives her, makes her tick and motivates her to go on and create even greater impact in the world (including that her favourite food in the entire world is not at all what I'd expect!)
Her business, Human Tribe, is an Associate entity within the 4...2022-01-1350 min
Better World LeadersBetsy Reed shows us that embracing discomfort gives birth to the greatest transformationsIt's a very great pleasure to share with you the conversation I co-created with Betsy Reed. Betsy has spent the past 18+ years working as a sustainability expert, running big advocacy campaigns, working for corporates, running her own sustainability consultancy, lecturing, and being invited to write and publish her first book, 'Communicating Social & Environmental Issues Effectively.' Above all, Betsy is a lifelong social justice activist who wanted to grow up and become a lobbyist (and did). She's spent years honing her skills as a meditation and yoga teacher, as well as embracing and becoming more comfortable in her range of...2022-01-051h 09
Better World LeadersPedro Aguirre shares how to plant seeds and grow the next generation of change makersPedro Aguirre personifies an action-based leader, stepping away from the conventional career trajectory his initial studies set for him, and venturing into social enterprise entrepreneurship and social impact stewardship. Having lived and worked across 4 different continents, he has experienced first hand the universality of intentions to create a better world, and learnt how to nurture diversity through collaboration and shared values.
I really enjoyed this delightful exchange with a leader who keeps complex concepts to a minimum, focuses on what's most important and shows time and time again that providing access to innovation, pathways to activate potential and taking every...2021-11-2943 min
Better World LeadersRebecca Huntley believes we have a fighting chance to create a liveable world for everyoneWorking as a social researcher for decades, you spend endless hours interviewing people and facilitating workshops to understand a broad-spectrum of perspectives of what people want, what they don't want - and most especially what they hope for the future. This has been Rebecca Huntley's journey into addressing one of greatest challenges for better world leaders - Climate Change. As one of Australia's preeminent social researchers, it's an absolute honour to bring this co-created conversation to you.
This episode is about climate change. It's about where we in Australia are a nation on this issue, where the majority actually lies...2021-11-141h 22
Better World LeadersClaire Marshall believes the future is a story, and it's one of the most important that we tellStories are change. Stories are us. We change stories and they change us. Claire Marshall's story is one of being, receiving and informing change - and it is one I'm thrilled to be sharing with you in the first episode of our fourth season.
Key out-takes from this episode;
The role of story
- A story is incredibly powerful, a story frames how we see the world, it frames what we expect, it frames how we see ourselves and it guides our actions
- The story we tell ourselves about the future impacts the decisions we take in the present...2021-11-081h 06
Better World LeadersIntroducing Season 4 - Sustaining Better Things - sustaining change to create our better worldWelcome to Season 4 of the Better World Leader's podcast!
Following right on the heals of the conclusion of Season 3, Doing Better Things - Stories of Transformative Change, we bring you a series of co-created conversations all focused on experiences, approaches and frameworks for sustaining change.
We are at a vital moment as a species, one where radical transformation seems the bare minimum requirement, where disruption and adaption have become the norm, and where change-induced burnout is on the increase.
How do we, as leaders striving to create a better world, sustain the change that must become not a moment, but...2021-11-0110 min
Better World LeadersPurpose, values, connection, story & transformation - reviewing emergent themes from Season 3As we wrap up the third season of Better World Leaders, as has become our habit, we pause to reflect briefly on the 10 fascinating, inspiring and transformational conversations we've co-created.
In review, 5 emergent themes have become prominent.
Purpose & values - in particular how you link your personal purpose & values to creating a better world, and then progress to link your personal purpose & values to that of the organisation you work within. We have also discussed the benefit of reconsidering what success means to us, and also combining passion and purpose to unlock incredible potential and performance.
Connection - transformation by...2021-10-2320 min
Better World LeadersAnika Molesworth illuminates & inspires showing us what is possible & how to do what needs to be doneThis is a conversation that in some ways I was not expecting, but in other ways I sense I have long been waiting for. I was spell-bound throughout the dialogue with Anika Molesworth, as she shows through her experience, knowledge and actions how we can all influence change, be courageous and do things differently to address climate change and preserve our food systems now and for the future.
Anika is a PhD in Agricultural Science, Founder Director of Farmers for Climate Action, Founder of Climate Wise Agriculture, WWF-Australia Governor and the author of the very brilliant 'Our Sunburnt Country'.
Her...2021-10-1658 min
Better World LeadersHearing the call and choosing to act - a collective story of systemic shifts, Alice Howard-Vyse hosts Tim Collings sharing part of his transformational storyIn this episode we have created a slight shift in the experience, reversing the role Tim plays as host and putting behind the guest microphone, whilst the conversational space is held by Alice Howard-Vyse.
The story shared and examined in this dialogue is that of one of the transformative experiences, or rather a combination of experiences, that have drawn Tim into being and doing different things - he would hope better things. This is a story of learning to tune into what you are called to do, of observing self and the affect of lived experience, of listening to the...2021-10-101h 08
Better World LeadersLeaders are trying to navigate a whole new way of leading without the tool set to do so, our conversation with Karren Jensen, CEO of Conductor SoftwareOur guest for this co-created Better World Leaders conversation is Karren Jensen. Karren is a female CEO of a tech company who's over 50 and raised 4 children! We reflect on her journey to get here, and hope that sharing Karren's story will inspire a whole range of entrepreneurs, leaders, women, girls and older generations to continue to strive to bring their greatest ideas to life.
For Karren, leadership is a great privilege and as leaders it is our responsibility to support all our people to feel cared for and respected. She has seen time and time again, when we get that...2021-10-011h 08
Better World LeadersWe need better leadership to get better outcomes, our conversation with Paul Gleeson, Group Director, Sustainability and Managing Director Energy, Resources and Water - Australia & New ZealandAlways endeavouring to curate a diverse range of leaders to seek learning and insights from, we co-create conversations with leaders who have been striving to make the world better for decades, and leaders who have figuring out exactly what their first striving step will be. Paul Gleeson is firmly in the former camp, an experienced leader who made a critical turn in his career many years ago driven by an intrinsic initiative to orientate himself towards making a difference and creating a better world.
Paul works with government and industry leaders to help them navigate away from the way they...2021-09-1359 min
Better World LeadersAccept what is, and build what could be - our conversation with Living Future Institute of Australia CEO Laura Hamilton O'HaraIn this conversation we explore the journey to uncover the many ways you can make a contribution to creating a better world, from ecology and conversation to design and construction. We link conservation and the built environment. We explore how to live theory and practice progressive, sustainable leadership practices. We celebrate operating on the fringe when these ideas enter mainstream thinking. We speak to burnout, and how play, rest and kindness - especially to oneself - are vital skills to learn and lean into to sustain purposeful work and leadership.
Key out-takes from this episode;
- the best way I...2021-08-251h 09
Better World LeadersTo achieve diversity you either need awesome leadership or quotas - our conversation with Diversity Tech CEO Sandra D'SouzaWe explore Sandra's journey of discovering and leaning into purpose, her own transformation from Accountant to Tech Founder CEO, via Digital Marketing, and the many ways she is both actively nurturing and inspiring positive change in the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity space via her Diversity marketplace platform, Ellect.
We're really looking forward to hearing your thoughts and sharing the Better World Leaders journey with you - both Sandra and Tim would love to hear your comments and reviews or directly from you via any of the social links below.
Key out-takes from this episode;
- How to take people on...2021-08-181h 00
Better World LeadersContribution, Connection & Discomfort - 3 emergent themes at the halfway point of Season 3, with BWL Host Tim CollingsWelcome to the halfway review of the third season of Better World Leaders. Our season focus in 'Doing Better Things - stories of transformation towards leading to create our better world'.
In the 5 fantastic, inspiring and insightful conversations we've co-created in this season so far, we've received many gifts of wisdom born from experience, research and practice.
In considering each of these conversations, 3 themes have surfaced as being consistent across all of these dialogues. These are often spoken to directly, explicitly and actively as well more subtly, but they are clear to see as providing a guiding framework around how...2021-07-1934 min
Better World LeadersHow to pursue purpose and transform to make a greater contribution, with PQfactor Founder, Melina Lipkeiwicz.This conversation is about many things. It's about life, loss, leading and above all else, learning to lead from purpose.
Melina is, I'm honoured to say, a colleague, a friend, a constant collaborator and a real inspiration to me. This conversation builds on many discussions that she and I have had over the years, and yet in this most public of forums, she shares things for the first time and I have deepened my understanding of what drives this incredible woman who I have known and worked closely with for years. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to...2021-06-251h 15
Better World LeadersRecognising ourselves as nature and learning from plants to open up better pathways to potential and performance, with Plant Intelligence Practitioner, Tigrilla GardeniaThis conversation is as fascinating as it is free flowing - a diverse dialogue with Technologist turned Plant Intelligence Practitioner, Tigrilla Gardenia.
Tigrilla's journey flows from the conventional definition of success through shifting patterns of turning into spirituality and rising to purpose by aligning her passions, strengths and connective capability to understand how human growth and evolution is linked to our partnership with the intelligence of another kingdom - that of plants.
The key elements of this conversation are;
Ask how can you build positive mental health?
Explore what you can gain when you discover community
Consider how we bring...2021-05-181h 17
Better World LeadersStories that care for Country - the shift that could change everything; with Chris Andrew, GM of Black Duck FoodsChris Andrew is a storyteller who grew up in the most Western of environments as a chemical engineer and investment banker, and who transitioned into playing a role in one of the oldest - working with Aboriginal elders whose storytelling lineage refers back at least 60,000 years.
This early part of this discussion track Chris's journey and development and he transitioned through these stages, bringing us at around the 33 minute mark to explore in depth his current context working as a leader in an Aboriginal Social Enterprise. From here on in we go in depth into the contrast between the Western...2021-04-281h 16
Better World LeadersWe must change what success looks like to create sustainable change and make the world better - with Ronan Mac DomnhaillThis is a deep, informative and inspiring conversation flowing through the peaks and troughs of life and career experience of Tech Entrepreneur Ronan Mac Domhnaill.
The key essence of this conversation flows around the notion of success, what a 'moth to the flame' like draw the common projection of success can be, the impact that can have on our individual mental health, our relationships and our communities. Ronan's latest venture - CRED - seeks to combine technology and neuroscience to address all of these areas, ultimately leading to a provocation that in order to create sustainable change and create a...2021-04-201h 07
Better World LeadersThe most important leaders in anyone's life is themselves - with Brendan Lo, Founder of SmartAss UndiesWe are delighted to be bringing you our third season of Better World Leaders, commencing with this fun-filled, provocative, introspective and meaningful conversation with a deeply considerate entrepreneur.
Brendan Lo is full of life experience, visionary drive and entrepreneurial boldness - as well as a bit of a prankster attitude! His chosen side-hustle, sustainable underwear brand 'SmartAss Undies" is as subtly clever as it is brazen.
Key out-takes from this episode;
- The most important leader in any person's life is themselves
- Memory is fallible, and motivation is perishable. Lean into purpose, mission and impact to keep focused on...2021-03-251h 08
Better World LeadersSpecial Edition - Season 3 coming soon & diving into understanding common traits & behaviours of Better World LeadersIn this episode, Better World Leaders host Tim Collings shares what you can expect from the show in 2021, revealing the themes we will be exploring in the two seasons we will produce in 2021.
Season 3 will focus on Doing Better Things - how leaders are taking bold changes to do what needs to be done to make the world better.
Season 4 Sustaining Better Things - how leaders are persisting with change to make a sustainable impact in the longterm towards creating a better world.
Here we share who are guests are in the first half of Season 3.
We have also created...2021-03-2134 min
Better World LeadersWhat awaits us in 2021, and what to prepare for? A very special edition of Better World Leaders with Ben Bowen, Ronan MacDomhnaill and Sue Glendenning.Welcome to the first episode for 2021 of Better World Leaders, another very special edition with 3 conversations with three guests returning to look ahead at the year we've just begun, anticipating what awaits us and provide advice and insights as to how best to prepare for lies ahead.
We're continuing the format elected to conclude this year with a reflective series of conversations with 3 leaders who have shared their view and insights during 2020. In this episode we posed each of them the same question - What awaits us in 2021 and how to prepare ourselves.
Our guests are;
Ben Bowen - Co-Founder...2021-01-061h 24
Better World LeadersWhat does 2020 mean, and what have we learnt? A Better World Leaders Special Edition with 3 very special guests...Genna Onuchukwu, Sue Glendenning & Ronan MacDomhnaillWelcome to the final episode for 2020 of Better World Leaders. We've elected to conclude this year with a reflective series of conversations with 3 leaders who have influenced our thinking and informed our perspectives this year. We posed each of them the same questions - What has 2020 meant for you? And what have you learnt?
Genna Onuchukwu - Charity Founder and Registered nurse, sharing insights from personal experience and contrasting perspectives from what has been a great year for her as she becomes a mother, yet a traumatic year for those she strives to support (Genna returns to Better World Leaders...2020-12-301h 30
Better World LeadersWhat game-based learning can teach us about motivation... a Better World Conversation - Special Edition with Dr Dave Eng of UniversityXPWelcome to another special edition of Better World Leaders, a better world conversation with Dr Dave Eng.
Dave is the host of the Experience Points podcast, a faculty member at New York University and founder of UniversityXP, a consultancy focused on gaming and game-based learning. Dave describes himself as an intellectual and creative educator, designer, and researcher focusing on games, theory, technology and professional development.
This conversations focuses on motivation, a timely topic for many at the end of a challenging year and a reflective moment as we look ahead at 2021 and consider what challenges to apply ourselves to, and...2020-12-2830 min
Better World LeadersBetter World Conversations - Special Edition - What the US election teaches us about leadership...Welcome to the first of our scheduled Special Editions, this Better World Conversation focused on interpreting the insights for leadership from the US election.
In this discussion we welcome back 3 previous guests - all leadership experts with specific interest and expertise to apply to this contemporary topic of late 2020;
•Victoria Foster, Brooklyn-based CEO of FutureWomenX, Victoria draws on her career in Investment banking and leadership and organisational development, providing an evocative discussion around unity, interpretation of terms, contribution to leadership and most vitally the role we all have to play in moving the world and the USA forward.
•Dr Tom Alan...2020-12-031h 26
Better World LeadersLeaders at all levels have the opportunity and obligation to be the custodians of change - reflecting on the key learnings from this seasonIn this conclusive episode at the end of our scheduled second season, I've set out to achieve 4 things.
If any of these segments are of greater interest to you than another, you can skip forward to these points in the broadcast (as follows) or simple sit back and let this culmination of Better World Leaders so far roll out in front of you.
Reviewing the stand-out moments to me in Season 2 - from 2min52
Reflecting on the key learnings for leaders and leadership - 8min19
Celebrating and expressing gratitude to the Better World Leaders community that has been gathered thus...2020-10-2229 min
Better World LeadersWhy leaders need humility and tolerance, lessons from life and leadership with Dr. Tom Alan- Livernois.In this conversation we welcome the leader of 4i's business in the USA, Dr. Tom Alan-Livernois. I am honoured to be able to call Tom a dear friend, as well as a colleague and business partner. His wisdom, experience and qualifications are vast, deep and contemporarily relevant in so many ways. I'm delighted to be sharing this conversation with you.
Dr. Tom's career has spanned extensive experience in marketing, advertising, leadership and developing leaders. His early career was primarily focused on bringing new services and products to markets, working across numerous sectors and industries bringing 'first in market' offers to...2020-10-151h 10
Better World LeadersProving that profit follows purpose, our conversation with entrepreneur Kevin TanThis conversation is as much a journey, as it is a movement towards a destination. The destination is an entrepreneurial endeavour that provides proof that no matter what the business model, how simple or complex, unique or commoditised, that engraining purpose firmly at the core of our organisation will bring greater outcomes. And since this one is a for profit business - the proof is that profit follows purpose.
This is a fascinating discussion with entrepreneur Kevin Tan, who shares his journey from a promising career in global consulting firm Accenture, on a path of discovering purpose through field work...2020-10-081h 05
Better World LeadersWe can all act with more foresight to ensure the decisions we make today have a positive impact on the world we inherit tomorrow. Our conversation with for Future Super (for purpose Funds Manager) CEO Kirstin Hunter.Every once in a while you come across a corporate leader who really makes you sit up and pay attention. Kirstin Hunter was one such example for me. And not because of a prestigious appointment, or a meteoric rise to prominence or a stellar investor presentation. I paid attention because of bravery, action in alignment with purpose and living ones' values.
I became aware of the organisation she is Managing Director of, Future Super, shortly before Kirstin came into view. Future Super stands out as a prominent advocate, if not activist, in for-purpose, impact-driven investment. Kirstin stands out for not...2020-10-0156 min
Better World LeadersThe world demands a new kind of leadership, and this change needs to happen rapidly and radically - with Adaptive Leadership expert, Brandon SrotWe've have been fortunately to have several deeply moving conversations with Brandon about the role of leaders over the years, and I'm very glad to have been able to create another one here to share with you all.
Brandon was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa, and we begin our conversation recounting salient moments of his upbringing which framed his views of the world, viscerally confronting inequality of opportunity, access to resources and education that need not always constrain the realisation of human potential. From these early beginnings, he has devoted himself to the development of human potential and...2020-09-241h 01
Better World LeadersFailure is something to embrace. If you're not failing, you're not trying" - with Genna Onuchukwu, a nurse who combines passion, purpose and action to take a step off the pre-determined path and make an impact for good.This is one of the fastest moving, punchiest and broadest conversations we've had on
Better World Leaders thus far, one in which we cover a lot of ground and an array of topics, including acting to align passion with purpose, the role of inquiry in leadership - that leaders ask and listen first and then act, without fear of failure. The later point they do because they accept that failure is a step along the road to learning and growth.
A little about Genna...born and raised in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia, she is 1 of 4 daughters and has...2020-09-1741 min
Better World LeadersWe really need to do better things, not just do things better - with Natural Intelligence researcher, Leen Gorissen.Of the conversations we've had so far on Better World Leaders, this is the one that most fills me with hope. Hope that there is another way for us to exist, grow, succeed and live virtuously in a way that leads to prosperity, vitality and opportunity for far more of the world. And vitally, that we do all of this in a way that benefits our world, rather than compromises it.
This is the conversation with Leen Gorissen about natural intelligence. That by studying natural systems design, natural modes of sharing and distributing resources we as leaders can learn another...2020-09-101h 29
Better World LeadersReflecting on Season 2 so far, and looking ahead at what awaits us...Welcome to the half-way point of Season 2 of Better World Leaders.
In this episode we combine a brief reflective review of the season so far with a sneak peak ahead at some of the conversations that lie ahead in the 6 episodes to come before we each the conclusion of this second series of dialogues with leaders who are striving to make the world better.
Our intention in this episode is two fold.
Firstly, to provide any of you that are new to the podcast audience with a chance to quickly get an overview of which areas we have covered, and...2020-09-0325 min
Better World LeadersDigitalisation is a double-edged sword, presenting tremendous benefits as well as severe risks and complex novel challenges - all of which must be managed sustainably; with Simon Carter.Our conversation in this episode with sustainability expert Simon Carter, the MD of Morphosis and chair of the Sustainable Digitalisation Project (SDP).
Simon originally heralds from New Zealand, and as the son of an oceanographer was introduced early on to the appreciation of complex systems in nature and our interaction with and impact on them. His professional journey took him into a focus on the built environment as an architect, and these interests combined with a specialism in sustainability in both buildings and property markets. More recently he has developed expertise in 'sustainable digitisation', an endeavour to address to rampant...2020-08-2757 min
Better World LeadersThe genesis of high performing teams is everyone owning what they know and what they don't know, with creator, inventor and composter - Andrew Hayim de VriesWelcome to Episode 15 of Better World Leaders, our wonderful exploration of the great potential of human creativity to overcome significant obstacles, harness intuition and follow purpose to make a better world for all. In this fascinating conversation we are joined by Andrew Hayim de Vries, founder and inventor of the Subpod composting system.
Andrew is an ecologically focused Australian artist and designer, with a host of professional works spanning more than 35 years. He is a creator, an inventor, and a deeply resilient and persistent figure. He is driven by a passion for recycling and up-cycling, composting and vermiculture. The health...2020-08-201h 07
Better World LeadersResilience and adaptability are fine. It's self-care, recovery and sitting with discomfort that we're struggling with, with Dr Adam FraserIn this episode of Better World Leaders we talk with renown Human Performance Researcher Dr Adam Fraser. This is a vital conversation for leaders at all levels to tune into, covering the true drivers of leadership performance during times of heightened struggle and stress.
Dr Adam Fraser is a peak performance researcher who helps organisations and individuals push beyond their potential. What is unique about his research is that it focuses on how do people go beyond their potential without the collateral damage that normally comes with elite performance.
Dr Adam is sought out by organisational leaders across the world...2020-08-131h 17
Better World LeadersPurpose Powers Profit, with Harvee Pene. How connecting to purpose will improve your leadership, engage your team and attract more of the right customers.Harvee Pene is the Co-Founder of Inspire Accountants - Accountants Who Change Lives, a TEDx Speaker, Author and all-round transformational dude who has been recognised as one of Ten Outstanding Young People in Australia.
In this episode we discuss in so many ways the meaning of life. Or at least, how to lean into the toughness of life in order to learn, grow and find meaning. In particular, we look at the journey of discovery to find a greater purpose than yourself in your work and through your career - in Harvee's experience that as an accountant his opportunity is...2020-08-0653 min
Better World LeadersCuriosity is an essential leadership behaviour, with Michael Bungay Stanier - A conversation on power, control, failure and learning, and the role of curiosity in mastering all of these.Michael Bungay Stanier is a world-renowned expert, author and speaker on developing coaching skills for leaders, the role of advice giving and developing meaningful learning experiences.
His book Coaching Habits is a Wall Street Journal best seller having sold close to 1 million copies.
Michael is the Founder of Box of Crayons, a Toronto based leadership development company, and most recently MBS.works - his vehicle to bring a life of meaning to as many people of possible.
In this dynamic conversation, Michael and I discuss several key elements of his leadership philosophy and approach to developing leaders.
The discuss the...2020-07-301h 10
Better World LeadersDecide what role you want to play in making the world better, with Zoë RouthIn this episode we discuss why as a leader who wants to make the world better, you have some choices to make. Primarily, you must decide how you want to show up in the world. Especially how you show up as a leader.
In Zoë's perfect summation of the kind of leaders we need right now, there are 5 kinds of leadership archetypes that can be adopted to suit varying contexts that will both serve leaders to their benefit and allow more of the positive collective leadership we need now more than ever.
Zoë Routh is a leadership expert specialising in...2020-07-241h 01
Better World LeadersHow to take the next small step towards a Better World - with Tim Collings, featuring Victoria Foster, Sherif Hassenein, Barbara Meister, Rachel Abel & Ben BowenHow to take the next small step towards a better world...
In this final episode of the first our first season, our purpose is to provide a guide to enable you to make progress on your own path towards making, creating and leading towards a better world.
Better World Leaders host and producer Tim Collings reflects on the combination of his own experience and the insights shared with the leaders who have joined us throughout the powerful conversations created so far.
In summary, there are 5 steps to build and move along this progressive pathway;
- Hear the call to recognise...2020-07-0331 min
Better World LeadersWhat do you want to do as a leader to move your community forward? With Head of Making Friends, Rachel AbelEpisode 9 of Better World Leaders, with Rachel Abel.
It is one of those rare and joyful moments when you meet someone for the first time, and immediately fall into an active, intuitive and invigorating dialogue. One that's driven by shared values, heartful openness to create impactful change and a mutual purpose propelling both of you towards the same end point.
That was my first interaction with Rachel Abel, which I share with you here. If you live your values, if you know your purpose and if you want to engage community and improve your leadership to help make the world...2020-06-2557 min
Better World LeadersBe courageous and challenge what we can achieve in life - with world record skydiver Barbara MeisterBarbara is a world record holding skydiver, a Transformation Executive, Charity Director and all-round superstar that I have always been greatly inspired by ever since I first met her over a decade ago.
What I didn't realise until we had this conversation was how little I knew about her background, her intrinsic drivers and the depth of knowledge and expertise over such a wide range of matters relating to high performance. So I'm very glad to be able to share this conversation with you here.
Barbara grew up in rural Switzerland in a seemingly idyllic childhood location close to the...2020-06-1951 min
Better World LeadersBalance, values and behaviours create and sustain leadership success with Sherif Hassanein of PanasonicEpisode 7 of Better World Leaders, with Sherif Hassanein.
Sherif leads the Cold Chain Solutions division of Panasonic in Asia-Pacific. His tenure has involved rebuilding the leadership team, challenging and improving the existing culture to build a business set up for growth and sustainable success.
Whilst refrigeration may not be on the top of everyone's list when it comes to making the world better, it is on the top of one very important list - the Drawdown action plan to remedy climate change. Our conversation touches on the role that Panasonic's products are playing in both reducing climate harming emissions and...2020-06-1249 min
Better World LeadersLeaders need to confront that everything might need to change, with Victoria Foster of FutureWomenXThis week's guest is Victoria Foster, who shares her transformational journey of listening to calling, discovering purpose and championing female leadership.
Her path traverses an upbringing in Chicago, extensive travel and 'global citizenship' and early career in global investment banking. Sometime into this successful profession she reached a critical juncture, when a courageous conversation with her future child led her to choose a different road, a new path, one that took her into international development and global innovation, and leads her to into the conversation with us today.
What drives Victoria is how she can contribute to a more inclusive...2020-06-0554 min
Better World LeadersWhat we've learnt so far, and what lies ahead on Better World Leaders, with Tim CollingsWelcome Episode 5, and to the half-way point of Season 1 of Better World Leaders.
Intention of this episode is to provide an introduction to the purpose of this podcast, an overview of the 4 guest conversations broadcast so far, and a look forward to the 4 episodes that lie ahead.
In each Better World Leaders series, the conversations are with leaders who are shaping our world for good. Their experience shows how for-profit business, not-for-profit organisations, research, high-performance and cutting edge initiatives can all be applied to a single impetus of leadership. That leaders at all levels can be the force for good...2020-05-2840 min
Better World LeadersEveryone is a leader in their own right - Alison FischerAbuse Survivor. Leadership Lighthouse. Trusted Advisor.
This week's guest is Alison Fischer, who shares her incredible journey of resilience and perseverance. She is a champion for survivors of domestic abuse, inspirational speaker and leadership consultant to entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Alison is a survivor, an executive, a 'People-First' leader, Mom to two beautiful girls, a loyal friend and hopeless romantic. Alison's career spans two decades in corporate, including both thriving cultures in established companies and start-ups, as well as times spent in toxic environments with very little positive leadership. During much of this time she was enduring a violent...2020-05-2158 min
Better World LeadersTogether is how we achieve the bigger outcome; leadership lessons from Aboriginal Culture with Ben BowenIn the third episode of Better World Leaders our conversation is with Ben Bowen, an Australian Aboriginal whose career began as a pro-endurance athlete and after a sizeable bump on the road, transitioned into applying high performance insights and Aboriginal knowledge into social enterprise and corporate capability development internationally.
Ben is Co-Founder and Partner of Shared Path, a social enterprise that works to positively impact social issues within Aboriginal communities by achieving economic independence through business development. Shared Path also work globally with First Nations peoples as members of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples, developing technology platforms that...2020-05-141h 01
Better World LeadersUnstoppable teams have values at their core and focus on the customer first - Simon GlendenningIn the second episode of Better World Leaders our conversation is with a former Global Executive and entrepreneur who reflects on the twists and turns of his career with one very consistent theme - that as a leader he is there to serve his team and his customers through his principles.
Simon's professional aspirations began in athletics, but after an unusual injury stopped that dream in it's tracks, his next step was his first of service, first qualifying in and then running a business as a Myotherapist.
After selling this venture he was was offered a role in corporate and...2020-05-0749 min
Better World LeadersYou need a higher purpose than yourself to thrive and perform at the highest level - Paul DunnWelcome to the Better World Leaders' Podcast.
In this first episode, we're joined by an incredibly insightful, purposeful and humble leader who not only inspires with his own experience and story, but in the way he has chosen to spend his 'retirement' years enabling other leaders, business owners and enterprises to align their success to providing for others.
Paul Dunn is a 4 times TEDx speaker.
He's was one of the first 10 people in Hewlett Packard in Australia, he started one of Australia's first computer companies and he founded The Results Corporation, working with and developing over 23,000 businesses.
He's been honoured...2020-04-2943 min
The Future of Leadership130 Do leadership responsibilities extend to making the world better? With Tim Collings Leadership expert Tim Collings joins me in sharing insights on his leadership path, and core tips for leadership that makes a lasting difference, and transformative leadership. Why you should listen: How to find your leadership calling that will sustain you through tough times Steal Tim’s insights on how to lead mixed Gen X and Gen Y teams What to implement to be a transformative leader: imagine, ignite, immerse, and inspire. We explore: Two key success principles; TECHNE - this is mastery. Do something you love that se...2019-12-0349 min
Go All InLeading and Winning in Business with Tim CollingsOn EP97 of the #goallin podcast I sat down with Tim Collings from 4i Leadership.
As many long time listeners of the show would know leadership is one of my favourite topics to discuss and our guest today is an expert in this field.
As you'll hear Tim started out his corporate working career as many of us do. Constrained by the boundaries of a system Tim quickly realised that the way he thought about things was different to the way the boss wanted things done.
Luckily Tim had some great bosses and strong leaders that recognised that his potential...2019-09-041h 25
Interviewing Authors with Tim Knox, Author, Talk Radio Host, Serial Entrepreneur, Small Business ExpMichaelbrent Collings: Novels, Screenplays, and Cool Robot ArmsMichaelbrent Collings is a bestselling novelist and produced screenwriter. His first produced script, Barricade, was made into a movie starring Eric McCormack of TV’s Will & Grace and Perception, and was released in 2012. Michaelbrent also wrote the screenplay for Darkroom, a movie starring Kaylee DeFer (Gossip Girl, Red State) and Elisabeth Rohm (Angel, Law & Order, Heroes). Darkroom is currently set for a 2013 release.
As a novelist, Michaelbrent has written numerous bestsellers, including The Colony Saga, Apparition, The Haunted, The Billy Saga, The Loon, Rising Fears, and others. In addition, he has also written dozens of...2014-05-2247 min