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People My Dog Would LikeA chat with Andrew Dickson – on the African Solar Taxi, renewables and saving livesThis week I spoke with an inspiring creative engineer working in the renewables space in Australia. He’s got an interesting side project that sounded incredible, working to save lives in rural Africa.
Andrew Dickson is a renewable energy project developer with 15 years of experience developing large scale wind and solar projects across Australia. He’s currently Project Manager for the Asian Renewable Energy Hub project, a very large scale wind and solar project in the Pilbara, Western Australia. The project is set to export energy to Indonesia and Singapore, to power mines and mineral processing in the Pi...2018-11-2728 minPeople My Dog Would LikeChat with Shantha Bloemen, Founder of Mobility for Africa, on renewables, social impact and gender equalityThis week I had the opportunity to speak with Shantha Bloemen, Founder of an exciting new startup whose mission is set to transform the lives of small scale farmers in sub-saharan Africa. We talk about her love for Zimbabwe and the belief that the country is on the path to a stronger, brighter future.
Mobility for Africa is a social enterprise that aims to bring renewable community based transport solutions to rural women in Africa that are affordable, efficient and environmentally friendly. Seventy percent of Zimbabwe’s agriculture are small scale farm holders so if the upcoming pilot...2018-10-2942 min
People My Dog Would LikeDr David Chong - Plastic Surgeon | Operation Smile | Mercy ShipsThis week I had a chance to speak with Dr David Chong, a brilliant paediatric plastic surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. David also works tirelessly in the charity space, including with Operation Smile and the Mercy Ships organisation.
I was particularly keen to talk to David about the incredible work he’s been doing with Operation Smile and Mercy Ships. David regularly volunteers his time and expertise on the Mercy Ships, an organisation that brings life saving medical assistance to developing countries irrespective of their socio-economic status. David’s schedule takes him abroad regular...2018-10-0946 min
People My Dog Would LikeConversation with Adelle MacDonald – Co-founder and Owner of Botanic Baby on doing nappies smarterThis week I had a chance to speak with Adelle MacDonald, Owner and Co-founder of Botanic Baby, a cloth nappy service in offering an ecologically sustainable nappy delivery service in Melbourne Victoria. Now, i’d normally not speak to an owner of a nappy business on the show. However this one is different. This service is the only one providing a service like this in Melbourne, delivering clean cotton nappies/biodegradable nappies in the city.
Melbourne has a population of five million people. And only one nappy service using a circular economic model, with only 200 clients? I fou...2018-09-2849 minPeople My Dog Would LikeBoyd Cohen - Autor | Urban Strategist | Global Smart Cities LeaderThis week I had a chance to speak with Boyd Cohen, an author and urban strategist focused on the areas of urban innovation, sustainable development, entrepreneurship, smart cities and the Internet of Mobility. He’s lived everywhere, he’s published 3 books (Climate Capitalism, 2011; The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, 2016; Post-capitalist Entrepreneurship, 2017) and speaks regularly in the smart city space globally. Currently based in Barcelona, Boyd co-founded IoMob in 2017, a blockchain startup seeking to decentralize the mobility sector by providing an open protocol for the Internet of Mobility (IoM).
It was super interesting drilling down on his current project...2018-08-2650 minPeople My Dog Would LikeCreativity is the future of work and innovation with Monica KangThis week I had fun speaking with Monica Kang, Founder and CEO of InnovatorsBox® based in Washington DC. For several years Monica has been a powerhouse of a creative educator, transforming today’s workforce through the power of creativity. She’s driven by the belief that everyone is innately creative and that creativity can be used to catalyze personal and professional change.
Monica and her company work with some of the most innovative companies in the world, including Facebook, IBM, John’s Hopkins University, Booz Allen Hamilton and Georgetown University to name a few and her work has been...2018-08-0549 minPeople My Dog Would LikeA Hacker, Hipster and Hustler in the blockchain space, Founder and CEO of Agriledger, Genevieve LeveilleThis week I had the BEST time catching up with Genevieve Leveille, Founder and CEO of Agriledger. Agriledger is a social impact startup creating crypto ledger and mobile technology solutions for agricultural providers globally. Genevieve is also Co-Chair of the UK’s Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) working group. She’s an ex-banker and identity management professional, she has been a major change agent throughout her career and as such has super useful insights on how DLT can solve current problems in both agriculture but throughout other industries.
In our chat Genevieve talks about how important it is to get y...2018-07-0859 minPeople My Dog Would LikeLife is a Blood Sport – Truth Telling is Hard with Jennifer Sertl – Author and FuturistThis week I had a chance to chat with Jennifer Sertl, an internationally recognized influencer in social media. She is President and Founder of Agility3R, a leadership development company dedicated to strengthening strategic skills and helping leaders become more resilient and responsive and she’s a respected thought leader in the emerging field of corporate consciousness. Such a joy having her on the show.
We talked about a few things that excited us and troubled us.
Jennifer shared some insights that were big take aways for me.
“Our issue today is not informa...2018-06-1743 minPeople My Dog Would LikeThe State of Play on Cannabis and Other Drugs with Dr Nicole LeeThis week I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Dr Nicole Lee. Dr Lee is an expert in alcohol and other drug treatment and policy. She is Director at Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug specialist consultancy, 360Edge, and Professor at the National Drug Research Institute. She currently serves on the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and other Drugs. She has published more than 100 journal articles, guidelines, chapters and books on alcohol and other drug treatment, and is a regular contributor to The Conversation.
Dr Lee has over 20 years experience in the bot...2018-06-0338 minPeople My Dog Would LikeRiding the Mushroom Revolution with Lifecykel co-Founder Julian MitchellWow, what a crazy few weeks I’ve had.
I recently found out I had cancer (BCC) and as the situation unfolded I was told I needed to go under the knife asap – so I did – not pretty 😉 – I haven’t been able to speak properly for a couple of weeks. Great for my family – I’m sure silence has never seemed quite so golden. Alas, no podcasts for the last 3 weeks so hope you all understand people, that sometimes, one’s health just has to take front seat at the theatre.
Anyway.
It’s been an intere...2018-05-1744 minPeople My Dog Would LikeJan Owen - CEO Foundation for Young Australians | Education LeaderThis week I had the chance to sit down and have a chat with Jan Owen, CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians. We talk the future of work, education, dogs, cats, and have a laugh. A remarkable woman, doing pioneering work with youth in Australia and globally.
We talk about her lifelong passion for young people and their vast potential and creativity and her desire to tinker with the current education system and economy so we can pivot into a smarter, sustainable world with better social outcomes – a generative, compassionate and fulfilling world that young people wa...2018-04-231h 09People My Dog Would LikeConversation with Dr Jemma Green – Co-Founder and Chair of Power LedgerThis week I had the chance to speak with Dr Jemma Green, Co-Founder and Chair of Power Ledger, a Perth based blockchain energy trading company. It was really interesting to hear Jemma’s journey from Perth to London and back to Perth to ultimately form the company which I believe is a welcome disrupter to the energy ecosystem space.
Power Ledger launched Australia’s first home grown Initial Coin Offering (a cryptocurrency IPO) where they raised $US27 million in funding in October last year. The funding is being used to make the Power Ledger platform globally accessible in t...2018-04-0838 minPeople My Dog Would LikeGreg Bernarda - Author | Design Thinking LeaderThis week I had the opportunity to post my conversation with Greg Bernarda, co-author of Value Proposition Design, where I would go so far as to say there is a copy of on every successful company’s desk.
Greg now works with individuals, teams and organizations on strategy, creativity and innovation. His call is to work collaboratively to design a future that employees, customers, and communities can all recognize as their own. He has a very human approach to work, to business and to relationships. I loved what he had to say about the future of work, col...2018-03-2554 min
People My Dog Would LikeConversation with Peter Dostis – CEO Runway Geelong – on why startups and their success is so important for Australia’s culture and economyThis week’s episode is with Peter Dostis, CEO of Runway Geelong, an accelerator and incubator program that launched this year helping startups succeed locally and globally. A big picture kind of guy, Peter has extensive experience in the corporate sector including retail, manufacturing, ICT and agriculture and is now at the helm of Runway Geelong where he’s here to talk about the startup community in general, how accelerators help startups, why the education system should incorporate entrepreurship into schools and why driving a startup ecosystem in the region is so important to Geelong and Australia. He has a passion for...2017-09-1251 minPeople My Dog Would LikeJon Yeo - TEDx Melbourne Curator & Convener | Author | SpeakerIn episode 4 of People My Dog Would Like, we sit down with Jon Yeo, Curator of TEDx Melbourne and Chapter President of Professional Speakers Australia and leading light at The Slow School of Business. In this episode Jon talks about why he loves TED and what it stands for, his passion to empower people to reach their full potential and encourages them to do the same for others. He talks about the humility of TEDx speakers, the immergence of new tribes seeking an alternative kind of leadership that addresses the social and economic inequity in the world and how import...2017-09-041h 01People My Dog Would LikeSteve Sammartino - Author | Speaker | Futurist - about embracing the futureThis week’s episode is with Steve Sammartino. Steve is one of Australia’s most respected futurists and business technologists who drives important conversations around embracing our future and the endless possibilities it holds for all of us. Steve has spoken to well over 100,000 people around the world in the past two years. Uniquely combining anthropology and technology, Steve will leave you excited about what the future holds. In this episode we talk about his new book The Lessons School Forgot, a survival manifesto for an era of AI.
We talk about the new economy and...2017-08-171h 13People My Dog Would LikePaul Fairhead - CEO of YakTrak and intrepid game changer
This week’s episode is with Paul Fairhead, intrepid thinker and CEO of new startup, yaktrak. In this episode we talk about Paul’s long stint as an entrepreneur in Vietnam, the soft skills he believes are what make us human and how those skills need to be cultivated and cherished in a future economy. He talks about his transition to work in Australia, the differences he sees between Melbourne and Sydney, the importance of investing time in businesses that can scale and his desire to give back to build the kind of tribe Australia needs in the startup spac...2017-08-1553 minPeople My Dog Would LikeConversation with Paul Bishop, Councillor at Redland City Council on Preferred Futures and the Renaissance of CommunityMy guest for this episode is Paul Bishop, the founder of Arts Evolution (and their Chief Inspiration Officer), Director of The Red Place and an elected councillor for the city of Redland in Queensland. Arts Evolution is an ethical enterprise approach to many of the existing and emerging challenges facing the arts, the community, the non-profit sector and local small-medium enterprises as the global economy forces us into a ‘climate of change’. He and i met recently through a futures program with Sohail Inayatullah and Colin Russo on the Gold Coast which inspired me and left me thinking he’s got a lo...2017-08-081h 07