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Liz Volpe Dare to Dream active CEO Podcast Ambisie

active CEO Podcast #67 Liz Volpe Dare To Dream

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Liz Volpe – Founder Ambisie

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Liz Volpe about Dare to Dream, inspirational stories through Ambisie, Imposter Syndrome and #give1hour. We also delve into the League of Extraordinary Women, being present and switching off, and how a pitch off competition reminded her of getting out of her comfort zone.

Liz Volpe – Dare to Dream

Liz Volpe is an incredible entrepreneur who dares to dream, connects & inspires women to bring out their extraordinary, and loves to inspire the next generation through a collection of stories worth sharing. She is a purpose driven leader, global change agent, proud mother of two, Latin dancer and is on a mission to educate a million disadvantaged youth by the year 2020.

Her education includes a BA Honours in Media Communication and Media Studies form the University of Leads. In her spare time she is a fundraising volunteer at The Australian Cambodia Foundation, Sunrise Cambodia. As an entrepreneur our special guest is a Director of Zest Possibilities, Co-Founder of The League of Extraordinary Women, Founder of Project Gen Z and most recently the Co-Founder of Ambisie.

Liz talks about:

  • Dare to Dream
  • Growing up in Rochdale, a small town in Northern England.
  • Having 30 jobs by the age of 21.
  • Being inspired by Australian TV show, Neighbours.
  • Learning who she was while studying Media and Communications.
  • Thriving on change and a challenge.
  • How a dream board propelled Zest Possibilities.
  • Imposter Syndrome still popping up into her head, once per week.
  • Co-Founding The League of Extraordinary Women, in 2012.
  • How a visit to Sunrise Cambodia led to Project Gen Z & Dare to Dream.
  • Vision to educate a million disadvantaged youth by the year 2020.
  • The catalyst to, her latest venture, Ambisie
  • #give1hour to help kids explore careers and tap into their passion.
  • Being a little bit crazy with huge ideas and somehow manage to pull them off.
  • “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.”
  • Having strict rules and structure for health and wellness.
  • Go into meditation through dance and having a break just for me.
  • Entering a pitch off competition for investment.
  • Solving the problem of stress and mental health with young people.

Active CEO Performance Tip

Mental Toughness Is A Skill – We often hear the term Mental Toughness. What does it really mean? Mental toughness is a personality trait that determines how well we can consistently perform under stress and pressure. It is our ability to respond to challenge, stress and pressure, irrespective of the circumstances. A good way to describe mental toughness is our ability to keep going when the going gets tough.

Tweets

“What can I do next, what can I develop and what can I try that will bring fear back to me, as fear is healthy.” Liz Volpe talks about getting out of her comfort zone, on the active CEO Podcast.

“A little bit crazy with huge ideas and somehow manage to pull off.” Discussing Liz Volpe’s leadership style, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Liz Volpe Website www.lizvolpe.com
Liz Volpe LinkedIn
Liz Volpe Facebook
Liz Volpe Instagram
Ambisie www.ambisie.com
Ambisie LinkedIn
Ambisie Facebook
Ambisie Instagram
Project Gen Z www.projectgenz.com.au
League Of Extraordinary Women www.leagueofextraordinarywomen.com
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

active CEO Podcast Bill Coletti KIth reputational resilience and transformation

active CEO Podcast #66 Bill Coletti Reputational Resilience And Transformation

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Bill Coletti – CEO Kith

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Bill Coletti about reputational resilience and transformation, crisis preparation, opportunities that arise from adversity, and the 7 Levers of Reputation from the book Critical Moments. We also delve into being involved in political campaigns and elections, Bills time in Bulgaria as CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce and advising the Prime Minister, Kith approach to crisis management, and the speed of response during a crisis.

Bill Coletti – Reputational Resilience And Transformation

Bill Coletti is a reputation and crisis guru, who has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns. Bill is the CEO of Kith, a best-selling author of Critical Moments, has a passion for safe-guarding reputations, is a Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panellist, and enjoys sailing, riding his bike and unwinding through yoga.

He studied a BA Political Science and Government, Communications at Florida State University and an AA General Studies at St Petersburg College. His career has included co-leading the Global Risk Management and Crisis Communications Practice for Hill+Knowlton Strategies; Executive Director of Bill McCollum for US Senate; served in the Republic of Bulgaria as a senior advisor to the prime minister, Council of Ministers, and the Labor minister; and was the first ever executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria. Through his various roles, our special guest has worked with major corporations such as AT&T, Target Corporation, American Airlines, The Home Depot and Xerox, as well major universities and global NGOs.

Bill talks about:

  • Reputational resilience and transformation.
  • Leadership by stereo with comments from both the left and the right.
  • Becoming the first ever American Chamber of Commerce Bulgaria in 1995.
  • Honing negotiation & communication skills while Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister.
  • Building the structural requirements & a communications strategy to join the EU.
  • The key personality characteristics as a crisis and reputational management expert.
  • Reputational damage hurts more personally when it is an individual.
  • The mindset and behaviors that separate the leaders that perform best during a crisis.
  • The key differentiator between good and great in crisis management, is speed of response.
  • Impact on a crisis is very often finite.
  • Build a reservoir of goodwill as the market place will be more willing to accept.
  • Crisis management is more than just getting back to normal.
  • Needing quiet quality time to think and process what is going on.
  • Love to solve the question of how to cure cancer.
  • Why aren’t more people happy?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Conditions Will Not Be Perfect – Our environment changes from year to year, month to month, day to day and minute to minute. As leaders we need to be prepared for the conditions not to be perfect. We need to be agile and ready to adapt at a moments notice. It is our responsibility to utilize our wide range of experience, skills and expertise to deliver our best performance no matter what is in front of us.

Tweets

“The nature of your character was more important than the size of your car.” Bill Coletti describes life in Bulgaria in the 1990’s, on the active CEO Podcast.

“The crucible of crisis doesn’t develop your leadership it reveals it.” Bill Coletti discusses leadership during crisis, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Bill Coletti www.billcoletti.com
Bill Coletti LinkedIn
Bill Coletti Twitter
Kith Consulting www.kith.co
Hill+Knowlton www.hkstrategies.com
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Critical Moments The New Mindset of Reputation Management https://www.criticalmomentsbook.com/

Gabrielle Dow Green Bay Packers Experience active CEO Podcast Leadership Performance

active CEO Podcast #64 Gabrielle Dow Green Bay Packers Experience

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Gabrielle Dow – Vice President of Marketing & Fan Engagement Green Bay Packers

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Gabrielle Dow about the Green Bay Packers Experience, her love of sports marketing & fan engagement, and why the Green Bay Packers are the most successful NFL club of all time. We also delve into her experiences with the LA Lakers, Portland Trailblazers and other sports teams; the legacy of Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi; and why people love the Green Bay Packers.

Gabrielle Dow – Green Bay Packers Experience

Gabrielle Dow is an energetic, flamboyant, outgoing, generous, creative and extremely humble leader. Known as one of the world’s top sport marketing leaders, Gabrielle has been recognised as a Maryland Top 100 Women and Smart CEO Executive Management Award winner.

She earned her BA in English Literature, MBA in Warsaw Sports Marketing and Doctor of Law degrees from the University of Oregon. Gabrielle has 25 years of diverse experience in professional sports, entertainment and venues. Her career has included being the Marketing Manager at AEG where she marketed the LA Lakers and a number of venues such as the Staples Centre, as well as senior executive marketing roles with the Florida Panthers, Baltimore Ravens and most recently the Green Bay Packers.

In her current role as Vice President of Marketing and Fan Engagement, Gabrielle has ensured that the Green Bay Packers remain at the cutting edge of commercial innovation. The Packers are stronger than ever with initiatives such as Packers Everywhere, Packers Pass, and the Packers Perks Program.

Gabrielle talks about:

  • Growing up in Marin County, San Francisco, with a dream to be an FBI Lawyer.
  • Her dad playing NFL for San Jose State, Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams.
  • Studying Journalism, Law and an MBA at the University of Oregon.
  • Telling Rick Burton, “some day you are going to tell your class about me.”
  • First internship with the Portland Trailbllazers.
  • Working with the LA Lakers, to sell the NBA to non-NBA markets.
  • Dropping massive blocks of ice all over Florida.
  • Developing the Purple campaign to engage females.
  • Why Purple Friday was a powerful catalyst to bring the community together.
  • Her first day walking into Lambeau Field as a Green Bay Packers employee.
  • The power of a community owned sports franchise.
  • Always being on brand and stewardship as key values to the Green Bay Packers.
  • How a city with the population of only 104,000 people, has won 13 world championships.
  • Planning for the 100th anniversary of the Green Bay packers.
  • The Packers Everywhere initiative enables fans to be a part of something bigger.
  • Growing the Packers fan base with the Packers Pass and Packers Perks Program.
  • Her passion for being a Board Director for Special Olympics Wisconsin.
  • Habits to achieve high levels of daily productivity and mental clarity.

Active CEO Performance Tip

Titles Don’t Reflect Intelligence – Many people consider that having a title means they know more, have better answers and make better decisions. As a leader you need to be bring people to the table that know more than you do and be the conductor of intelligence in the room. Your roles as a leader is to guide, nurture and make sense of the collective intelligence, so that as a united team you can deliver something more special than any one individual. It is collective skill stacking, which allows the team or company to own its own space. This is how you develop true competitive advantage.

Tweets

“How do we continue to steward so that everything we do is it going to make us better if we leave tomorrow.” Gabrielle Dow talks about the value of stewardship at the Green Bay Packers, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Who controls the purse strings, who is going to be interested in coming to the venue and getting attached to this brand. We thought women!” Gabrielle Dow discusses how the Purple campaign was launched, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Gabrielle Dow LinkedIn
Gabrielle Dow Green Bay Profile
Green Bay Packers www.packers.com
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Unsung Business Heroes Charles Fairlie

active CEO Podcast #63 Charles Fairlie Unsung Business Heroes

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Charles Fairlie – Unsung Business Heroes

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Charles Fairlie about Unsung Business heroes, inspiring leaders, crowd funded book models and sailing on Sydney Harbour. We also delve into Netwalking, Dick Smith Electronics and lessons from the media industry.

Charles Fairlie – Unsung Business Heroes

Charles Fairlie is a passionate people person who loves sharing the stories of Unsung Business Heroes. He is a honest, persistent and driven son of a boat builder, purposeful entrepreneur and has a passion for the backstory of a business.

With a Bachelor of Communications in Marketing from the University of NSW, our guest is a Board Director of the Australasian Pioneers Club. His 30 year career in media includes sales and account manager roles at Channel 9, Macquarie Radio, Sony Music Australia and the Australian Associated Press. In recent years he transitioned from being the Client and Marketing Director of Clickthru to founding his own company Purpose Publishing Australia.

Charles talks about:

  • Writing Unsung Business Heroes to record his dad’s records and accomplishments.
  • Selling fax machines as Promotions Manager for Dick Smith Electronics.
  • 30 year career in media industry.
  • Being as a sales manager at 2Day FM and Channel 9.
  • Working with incredible leaders who had long-term vision and seeing the bigger picture.
  • Kerry Packer saying, “You only get one Alan Bond moment in time, and I have just had mine.”
  • A gift that stays around forever.
  • People really appreciate it when people share intimate things.
  • Crowdfunding book model with production cost sharing.
  • Belonging to the The Pioneer’s club.
  • Netwalking, a networking event walking around botanical gardens and Sydney opera house.

Active CEO Performance Tip

Trust Based Leadership – Trust affects a leader’s impact and has a profound affect on a company or team achieving their goals. It is the foundation of a business. Like a building if the foundation is weak and shaky it can crumble. Trust based leadership is all about allowing your staff’s competence and motivation to get the job done. Signs that trust-based leadership is working include high-levels of autonomy and low levels of unnecessary control. Employees have the freedom, independence, and discretion to schedule work, make decisions and choose the methods used to perform tasks. Trust helps avoid hostility, improves change acceptance, receptiveness to negative feedback, builds team motivation, increases employee loyalty, encourages idea sharing, boosts morale and increases productivity.

Tweets

“To be a good interviewer, you have to listen, be prepared for where the talk is going and open up so they can share transparently and authentically.” Charles Fairlie delves into interviewing, on the active CEO Podcast.

“An honest person doesn’t need a good memory. You don’t have to remember the lies from the past and cover them up.” Charles Fairlie talks about authenticity, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Unsung Business Heroes Website
Charles Fairlie LinkedIn
Charles Fairlie Facebook
Charles Fairlie Twitter
Charles Fairlie Instagram
Unsung Business Heroes Podcast 
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

 Unsung Business Heroes Link

Amanda Jacobs She Leads With Empathy

active CEO Podcast #62 Amanda Jacobs She Leads With Empathy

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Amanda Jacobs – General Manager Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron

On this episode of the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Amanda Jacobs about She Leads With Empathy, empowering women in sport, working at the London 2012 Olympic Games and the ultimate elevator pitch. We also delve into entrepreneurship and working in corporate life, balancing family life, imposter syndrome and the 3 major ingredients to a successful Olympic Games event.

Amanda Jacobs – She Leads With Empathy

Amanda Jacobs is a champion of great ideas, engaging leadership coach for sport event professionals, and the creator of the ICC Method. She is an empathetic and creative leader, who is passionate about encouraging more women into leadership roles, empowering people through The Event Show Podcast, and spending quality time with her three young children

She has a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Theatre from the University of Wollongong, in Australia, and is a Chisholm Institute certified Trainer and Assessor. Amanda loves being involved in major sporting events with roles as Venue Manager at the 2007 World Swimming Champs in Melbourne, Event Acquisition Manager for the Victorian major Events Company, Head of City Operations Manager at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Strategic Business Management at Limelight Sports.

As a busy entrepreneur, she has founded Like Minds Create, She Leads, The Event School Global, www.amandajacobs.com.au, and in her spare time, she is the General manager of Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron.

Amanda talks about:

  • She Leads with empathy.
  • Following a pathway that she loved.
  • Her first experience with imposter syndrome.
  • The amazing experience of working at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
  • Managing multiple stakeholders under pressure.
  • Taking your own personal objectives out and thinking of the bigger picture.
  • The ultimate Elevator Pitch that led to the 2012 London Olympics.
  • Connecting people with the bigger picture.
  • The Blairgowrie yacht Squadron motto of Family, Friendship & Sailing.
  • Her key leadership strengths of empathy, creativity and collaboration.
  • Having a professional coaching appointment once per month.
  • Empowering women in sport through She Leads.
  • Females not being able to see a visible pathway to leadership.
  • “You’ve got this” through Like Minds Create.
  • Changing habits and restoring some balance in my life.
  • How do we inject more play and creativity on a daily basis?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Your Main Job Is To Develop Talent – Leadership development is a vital ingredient to company or organization success. As a leader your main job is to develop talent. How are you observing and then developing talent within your environment?  Identify, nurture, develop and challenge the talent within your organization and ensure that it is aligned to their internal motivation and purpose.

Tweets

“Its all about collaboration, getting the most the skillset in that room, creating an ensemble that is high performing, understanding how that theatre show is going to connect best with the audience and a really early insight into what emotional intelligence is, and read peoples emotions and understand why they are making certain decisions.” Amanda Jacob shares her leadership lessons from theatre, on the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast.

“When I worked out that empathy is what I lead with, that’s when I became the leader I am today, with confidence.” Amanda Jacobs discusses leading with empathy, on the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Amanda Jacobs www.amandajacobs.com.au
Amanda Jacobs LinkedIn
Amanda Jacobs Twitter
Amanda Jacobs Instagram
Amanda Jacobs Facebook
Like Minds Create www.likemindscreate.com.au
Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron www.bys.asn.au
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Mark Turner – Coaching Saved My Life

active CEO Podcast #61 Mark Turner Coaching Saved My Life

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Mark Turner – Coaching Saved My Life
Mark Turner – Lead Performance Coach Triathlon Scotland

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Mark Turner about how coaching saved my life, losing humility, being vulnerable and establishing a high performance environment.

We also delve into the lessons he learnt working in the Queensland Police Force, being an agent for change, losing it all after selling a highly successful Shapland Swim School franchise, establishing Triathlon Nation and being recruited as the Lead Performance Coach at Triathlon Scotland.

Mark Turner – Coaching Saved My Life

Mark Turner is a leader who focuses on developing people to maximize their potential athletically, unlock their true why and purpose, and creating a sustainable and healthy lifestyle. He is a passionate, driven and humble leader who has raised over $100,000 for Epilepsy Queensland and Special Olympics, Mark Turner.

His education includes an Advanced Certificate in Policing from the Queensland University of Technology; and Management Development Post-graduate Program at Queensland Police Service.

He has a passion for serving the community with 13 years in the Queensland Police Service, a business owner of the Shapland Swim School Everton Park, Head Coach for the Brisbane Girls Grammar School athletics team, General Manager of Healthstream Aquatic and Fitness Queensland, State Manager and Elite Programs Manager AFL Umpiring Queensland and Coaching Director of Tri Nation Triathlon. Earlier this year our guest was recruited as the Lead Performance Coach for Triathlon Scotland.

Mark talks about:

  • Being a shy child, who lacked confidence, growing up in a socially minded family.
  • Key lessons from a thirteen-year career in the Queensland Police Force.
  • Learning how to read people, listen to people and look at behaviours.
  • Switching from serving the community to building your own community.
  • How a lack of humility, meant losing it all.
  • Not being able to pay rent, and not have a job or a business.
  • Putting a peg in the ground and starting again, when he lost it all.
  • Making the decision to go full-time coaching.
  • Living in a mate’s garage and the struggles behind the scenes.
  • Coaching Saved My Life.
  • Excepting he had depression in 2014 after a full breakdown.
  • What he had been through was significant and didn’t need to battle alone.
  • The power of vulnerability is amazing.
  • As humans we are designed to live in communities and be connected.
  • Chasing the dream of being a high performance coach.
  • Lead Performance Coach for Triathlon Scotland.
  • Building open and honest relationships, having a genuine care for the athletes and having the technical expertise.
  • What causes people to react in two different ways emotionally?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Playing the Long Game – It’s so easy to get caught up in the detail of the business and forget to look after the health and wealth of your company long term. Focus on long game and put things in place so that in the future your company is thriving, growing and stepping up the game so you can stay one step ahead of the game in the market place.

Tweets

“We need to be at our best for the athletes that we coach to get them to be at their best. It’s is the same for us. If we are not at our best, how do we expect the athletes to be at their best?” Being a high performing leader with Mark Turner on the active CEO Podcast.

“Getting the basics right. Getting all the things right that don’t require talent and holding each other to account.  Having environments where there is psychological safety where you can have open and honest challenging and candid conversations between coaches, support staff, athletes-to-coaches.” Mark Turner discusses a high performance environment, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Anyone in a position of leadership whether it is a coach, a teacher, an educator, politician or anyone in a position of influence, the more that they can say, I have had my struggles to and it was really hard.” Mark Turner talks about a real sense of power for being vulnerable, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Mark Turner LinkedIn
Mark Turner Twitter
Mark Turner Instagram
Mark Turner Facebook
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Mark Turner – Triathlon Secrets For The Age Grouper (E-Book, Coming Soon)

active CEO Podcast Andrew Barnes 4 Day Week

active CEO Podcast #58 Andrew Barnes 4 Day Week

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Andrew Barnes – Founder 4 Day Week

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Andrew Barnes about Perpetual Guardian’s 4 Day Week, changing the way people work, improving the wellbeing and productivity of businesses, and the fourth industrial revolution. We also speak about global financial crisis, customer service, empowered workforces and the more important benefits of the 4 Day Week.

Andrew Barnes – 4 Day Week

Andrew Barnes is an incredible leader who is an innovator, entrepreneur, philanthropist and absolute human resource disrupter. He is the catalyst behind the 4 day week, saved the historic 1904 built classic racing yacht Ariki, and proud host of the 3 day weekend.

Andrew completed a MA in Law and archaeology at the University of Cambridge, attended the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK).

His financial services career commenced in the UK before holding senior executive roles at Macquarie Bank, Citi, Tower, County NatWest and was Chairman at Australasian Wealth Investments.

Our special guest then became a director of Bestinvest, acquired and purchased Perpetual Trust, founded Complectus and made the game-changing move of creating Perpetual Guardian. He is currently the Chairman of Regional; Facilities Auckland, Paysauce and Perpetual Trust.

Andrew talks about:

  • Thinking carefully about what our industry is going to look like in years to come.
  • A simultaneous arrest of eleven ships spread across the globe,
  • Why an arts background allowed him to look at it from a different shape and pattern.
  • The cultural adjustment to Australia after the 1987 stock market crash.
  • Two core lessons in finance that create repeated financial crisis.
  • Why the military is still one of the best leadership schools.
  • How his time at Citi was the point where his leadership evolved.
  • People are only productive two and a half hours a day.
  • Productivity and profitability improving after the eight week trial of the 4 Day Week.
  • Lots of scepticism not only at the Board level but also at the leadership level of the company.
  • The 100-80-100 rule.
  • How the Perpetual Guardian staff were empowered to design the 4 Day Week
  • Ensuring that customer service standards did not drop.
  • New Zealand society’s response to the 4 Day Week.
  • People want to work for an innovative business that’s trying different things.
  • The stress and mental health epidemic sweeping the workforce across the world.
  • We are setting up a couple of foundations whose purpose is to fund research.
  • Creating a network of consultants around the world to deliver the 4 Day Week.
  • Why the hell the work practices are the right way, had asked the question why?
  • My peak point of creativity is usually after a point of high stress

Active CEO Performance Tip

Leaders Develop Leaders – Leaders don’t just lead people, they develop leaders. Learning how to recognize and most importantly develop potential and emerging leaders is important for the growth and succession of a company, organization group or team. Being able to identify behaviors, attitudes and habits are more important than job-related skills when it comes to leadership. Facilitating growth, supporting leadership behaviours and providing challenges to enhance your people’s skills should be your number one priority and people buy people not products.

Tweets

“I didn’t think the 4 day week was high risk, but if you are sitting where somebody else is it necessary doesn’t come across the same way.” Andrew Barnes talks about analysing the risk of the 4 Day Week, on the active CEO Podcast.

“I didn’t inform the board. I merely announced the 4 day week on national television.” Andrew Barnes launching the 4 Day Week at Perpetual Guardian, on the active CEO Podcast.

“What we got was a more enthusiastic workforce, workforce that was refreshed, a workforce that was more empowered.” Employee outcomes of the 4 Day Week with Andrew Barnes on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Andrew Barnes Wikipedia
Andrew Barnes TEDx Auckland
4 Day Week www.4dayweek.com
4 Day Week LinkedIn
4 Day Week Facebook
4 Day Week Twitter
Perpetual Guardian www.perpetualguardian.co.nz
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

active CEO Podcast #57 Lisa Hasker Life Education Through Sport

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On this episode of the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Lisa Hasker about life education through sport, building sport capability and capacity, improving diversity and inclusion on Boards, and getting people to be more active, more often. We also delver into employee and coach wellbeing and performance, her collaborative and coaching leadership style, and how we can improve active transport to and from work.

Lisa Hasker – Life Education Through Sport

Lisa Hasker is an impressive leader who has a wealth of industry knowledge and experience in the world of sport management. Known as a leader who is passionate about supporting the future of women on Boards through Change Our Game, and improving inclusion and diversity as the CEO of VICSPORT.

She has studied a Bachelor of Education in Physical Education and Science from the University of South Australia, Graduate Diplomas in Sport Science and Sport Management from Deakin University, a Masters of Marketing from Monash University and has completed a Company Directors Course in Governance from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Her career involves roles such as Head of Physical Education at Wesley College; Event and Sponsorship Manager Australian Running Magazine, Marketing Manager at Golf Victoria, Chief Executive Officer at Little Athletics Victoria, Public Affairs and Sponsorship Manager at Victorian Institute of Sport, Manager of La Trobe University Sport and General Manager of Community and Stakeholder Relations at Basketball Australia.

A love of sport goes beyond management as a 16-year coach at Sandringham Athletics Club and has governance experience as Director at AFL Sports Ready Foundation and Shooting Australia, as well as Vice President of Athletics Victoria.

Lisa talks about:

  • Being a hurdler and involved in sport for more than 50 years.
  • Having great physical education teachers who were role models.
  • Compulsory Physical Education at primary school at a must.
  • What will the next generation of adults look like?
  • Difficulty managing athletes on social media and potential PR disasters.
  • Her role as CEO of VICSPORT
  • Working with Bridie O’Donnell VIC Health and VIC Sport to deliver Change Our Game
  • Concentrating on diversity and inclusion on Boards.
  • Global Wellness Tracking.
  • Increase physical literacy and wellness in the general population.
  • Having a collaborative and coaching leadership style.
  • Employee’s personal development has as much importance as professional development.
  • More focus on wellness of staff and high performance staff.
  • Being curious about your sport and other sports
  • Going for a walk when a bit stressed at work.
  • Why have you never been involved in sport?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Business Is The Aggregate of Humans – Humans are the great asset in your company, so you need to look after them. Every single day you need to be helping them overcome their limiting beliefs and continually build on their strengths. Make sure they feel worthy in the organisation.

Tweets

“Admit to your mistakes, learn from it and move on. ” Lisa Hasker shares her advice on leadership, on the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast.

“We tell athletes recovery is more important that the training, but I am not sure we all live that when we are in our corporate life. It is really important for people to be able rejuvenate and go again, and keep the effort up with some very lofty goals in high level coaching.” Lisa Hasker talks about employee wellbeing, on the Sportspeople Recruitment active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

VICSPORT www.vicsport.com.au
Lisa Hasker Twitter
Lisa Hasker LinkedIn
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
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Deep Listening Performance Oscar Trimboli

active CEO Podcast #55 Oscar Trimboli Deep Listening Performance

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Deep Listening Performance Oscar Trimboli
Oscar Trimboli – Deep Listening

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Oscar Trimboli about how Deep Listening benefits performance, being a student of people, going beyond the first context, leadership identity, and managing people at Microsoft and Vodafone. We also discuss the five levels of listening, the art and science of listening, the barriers to listening, and teaching a hundred million people how to listen.

Oscar Trimboli – Deep Listening Performance

Oscar is a leader who loves experiential learning, connecting people to their passions and creating impact beyond words. We go deep into the world of listening as “every human wants to be listened to, yet what they crave is to be heard”.

He has an MBA Marketing from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, a Graduate Diploma International Company Directors from the Australian Institute of Company Director, an Organisational Coaching Cert 3 – Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership, and is a Gallup Strengths Coach.

His career has involved sales, business development and marketing roles at Peoplesoft, Professional Advantage, Vodafone, Microsoft and Polycon. At present he is a speaker, author and mentor with Oscar Trimboli Pty Limited and head of coaching faculty for The Marketing Academy Australia.

Oscar talks about:

  • How going to school with 23 nationalities taught him to be open to different ideas.
  • Using “Tell me more” to explore what you are hearing a little bit deeper.
  • Managing Dyscalculia’s and always being a student of people.
  • Developing Microsoft protégé for graduates at Microsoft.
  • Teaching a hundred million people how to listen.
  • How do leaders take a long-term perspective while delivering on short-term results.
  • How do leaders have the presence of mind not to react always?
  • What’s the legacy you really want to leave when you are no longer on this planet?
  • On a quest to create one hundred million deep listeners in the world.
  • ”If you can’t achieve your goal in your life time then it is ambitious enough to chase.”
  • Getting listening into school teacher curriculum.
  • All the great disasters are beautiful examples of the lack of listening.
  • The biggest myth about listening is to be focused on the speaker.
  • I speak at a 125 words at a minute, you listen at 400 times a minute.
  • We listen in black and white and listening in colour is what deep listening is all about.
  • We cant listen to anybody else unless we a clear and available.
  • Silver is putting away all the distractions, gold is to learn to listen what is not said at the Listening Olympics.
  • Crucial element of communication, we never ask for a second opinion.
  • Why is listening implied in education rather than being taught?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Own Your Own Space – If you have one skill and you are really strong at it, it can be easily copied allowing a competitor to get a step ahead in your space. If you stack your skills you can own your own space, get a step ahead of your competitors, be the authority and be the expert in your field.

Tweets

“When people leave a company, they say we didn’t leave the company we left our manager.” Listening in the workplace with Oscar Trimboli, on the active CEO Podcast.

“The difference between hearing and listening is taking action.” Oscar Trimboli talks about deep listening, on the active CEO Podcast.

“Use metaphors, analogies and stories because it connects with the most innate emotions in humans. Yet most leaders will talk about KPIs, performance benchmarks, dashboards and everybody will fall asleep.” The power of stories as a leader with Oscar Trimboli, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Oscar Trimboli www.oscartrimboli.com
Listening Myths www.listeningmyths.com
Oscar Trimboli Blog
Oscar Trimboli LinkedIn
Oscar Trimboli Twitter
Oscar Trimboli Podcast
Oscar Trimboli Facebook
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Deep Listening Oscar Trimboli
Breakthroughs Oscar Trimboli
125-400 Rule: The Art & Science of Listening Oscar Trimboli

active CEO Podcast #54 Yamini Naidu Business Story Mastery

Posted on by Craig Johns in Leadership, Podcasts, Wellness

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Yamini Naidu Business Story Mastery
Yamini Naidu – Author Story Mastery

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Yamini Naidu about business story mastery, why you need both data and stories, the importance of message clarity, and her new book Story Mastery. We also delve into her how to be an effective speaker, starting a successful business, Aristotle’s model of influence and having your off-stage stuff together.

Yamini Naidu – Business Story Mastery

Yamini Naidu is a charismatic, energetic and a superstar in the storytelling business. From being on some of the worlds largest stages to intimate settings with the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, she has the charm, charisma, clarity and conviction to keep the attention of even the hardest old-school leaders.

She has a BA in Economics and Sociology from the St Xavier’s College, MA Economics from the University of Mumbai and a Masters Science in IR and Personnel Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

Her early years were focused as an Economist before and epiphany changed her course and she found her true passion and pathway as Director of One Thousand and One, and Director of and Chief Storyteller at Yamini Naidu Consulting.

She goes above and beyond as a volunteer guide at the National Gallery of Victoria, and has provided Pro Bono for Pollinate Energy and High Reserves Global Citizenship and Leadership Program.

I am pleased to introduce to you a leading expert in business storytelling, the world’s only economist turned storyteller and consistently voted among the top business storytellers worldwide, put your hands together and bring a huge round of applause for Yamini Naidu

Yamini talks about:

  • Imagining riding a tiger to school.
  • Becoming the worlds first Economist turned storyteller.
  • Being frustrated about why data doesn’t persuade people.
  • People are the single biggest determinant of any success.
  • How “A leaders Guide to Business Storytelling” by Stephen Denning, changed her life.
  • Co-founding Australia’s first storytelling company in 2005
  • Being prepared to educate the market before you get your first customer.
  • Putting it out there, test it and get better every time.
  • Being clear on the single message you want to communicate.
  • Personal story where you can tie it to a business message is very powerful
  • Stories are like Velcro for the brain and for the heart.
  • We are sitting in the midst of a storytelling revolution.
  • Stories today are as critical as data, because everybody has got data, but data doesn’t differentiate.
  • Logic informs people, but doesn’t shift behaviour.
  • A story doesn’t have to be epic to be effective.
  • Story Mastery can really quantum leap your audience.
  • To be a successful speaker, you have actually have to get your off stage stuff together.
  • How we can have more equity in the world?

Active CEO Performance Tip

Chief Role Model – As a leader your real title should be Chief Role Model. The culture of a team or organization begins from the person at the top. You have a lot of power as a leader and with power comes great responsibility. As they say, the fish always starts to rot from the head. Your actions, behaviours, approach and leadership style determines the foundation of the culture. Be the role model for the desired values, behaviours and identity of the team or organization you lead.

Tweets

“Business storytelling is like life after Google, you wonder how you lived without it.” Yamini Naidu explains story mastery, on the active CEO Podcast.

“People are the single biggest determinant of any success.” Yamini Naidu connecting success, on the active CEO Podcast.

“A business story should be under two minutes and that’s when you are going to have the biggest impact. After two minutes you start to have diminishing returns.” How long should a business story be with Yamini Naidu, on the active CEO Podcast.

Resources Mentioned in this show:

Yamini Naidu www.yamininaidu.com.au
Yamini Naidu LinkedIn
Yamini Naidu Twitter
Yamini Naidu YouTube
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

Recommended Reading:

Story Mastery Yamini Naidu
Triple Your Presentation Success Yamini Naidu
Hooked Yamini Naidu
Power Play Book Yamini Naidu