Tech savvy CEO Tigran Nazaryan turned a side-hustle into a start-up and scaled it at speed. Confident in his AI expertise, it was the people stuff that proved a more challenging transition. Tigran combined his creative thinking with continuous learning to build a corporate culture of transparency, empowerment and innovation where small teams do focused work and meetings are actually useful!
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Podcasts
219 A leadership mindset for navigating adversity with John Davis
John Davis provides a leadership framework for turning obstacles and adversity into catalysts for change.
Read More216 Leadership frameworks for complex systems with Louka Parry
Leading change in complex systems needs a practical leadership framework. Futurist Louka Parry shows us the way.
215 Leadership frameworks and tools for complex challenges
Can leading in complexity be simple? No, but it can be easier. In this solosode Zoë Routh shares three leadership principles and some practical tools to lead in complex situations.
Read More211 Leadership frameworks for business value with Joel Strom
A CEO’s leadership responsibility is to foster long term value in a company. Experienced leader and author Joel Strom showcases his four pillars for creating value.
Read More210 Leadership frameworks for developing others - key insights from this season
Leaders need useful leadership frameworks to focus their attention. When it comes to developing others, a set of critical principles goes a long way in being the leader others would want to follow.
Read More204 Leadership skills across countries and cultures with Melanie Brock
What leadership frameworks can help us when we lead across different countries and cultures? Seasoned leader Melanie Brock shares her leadership insights from businesses in Japan and Australia.
Read More203 Leadership frameworks for culture and strategy
If we had to boil leadership responsibilities down to its essence, we’d settle on culture and strategy. Sadly many get it wrong. Get it right with these solid leadership frameworks.
Read More199 Leadership skills and energy with author Ginny Whitelaw
What leadership skills do you get when you cross a NASA scientist with a Zen Master? Amazing, novel strategies for better leadership effectiveness. Ginny Whitelaw is a remarkable human being with fabulous insights from her latest book, Resonate: Zen and the Way of Making a Difference. Enjoy!
Read More165 Surprising leadership lessons with Adrian Armitage
What can you learn from a 6 foot 7 ex-KGB agent? Adrian Armitage shares his experience with said ex-KGB dude turned educator. It turns out that Russian culture has its norms, just like Australian culture, and they are not all that dissimilar. With leadership roles around the world, and now as Executive Officer of the Australian Medical Students’ Association with some 250 staff and 17,000 members, Adrian, has a wealth of insight he shares generously in this interview.
Read More163 The best leadership principles work anywhere with Barnie Van Wyk
Every business has a particular context that requires a different approach to leadership. But there are principles that are true for all. Barnie Van Wyck has led businesses in South Africa, the UK, and Australia and has an enormous treasure trove of experiences from which to draw useful insights. Through it all he is sustained by his commitment to others and community. In this uplifting interview discover his secrets to doing leadership well, in the toughest of circumstances.
Read More159 Top leadership principles learnt from recruitment with Sarah Rajic
80% of people leave their jobs because of a poor manager. So says recruitment specialist, Sarah Rajic, co-founder of Capital Recruit and Staff Check, who has spoken to thousands of employers and candidates. She has seen when it goes right, and when it goes wrong. How do we make it better and unwind that terrible statistic?
Why you should listen:
How to set up team members for accountability and ownership of their own targets
Why communication and expectation management is the secret ingredient to sorting out issues before they escalate
How to keep developing as a business leader through expanding perspective
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Read More158 How to work on your leadership mindset with Ian Taylor
Do you struggle with nagging self doubts as a leader? Do you ask, ‘am I on the right track’? Ian Taylor, ED of Cotton Research and Development Corporation, asks these same questions, and has found a way to check his assumptions, and validate the strategy, even in the most uncertain times. A humble and genuine person, Ian shares rich insights about culture and innovation that are useful for all leaders.
Why you should listen:
Discover what kinds of questions help check assumptions about strategy in uncertainty
How to hold each other to account when it comes to upholding your values
How to seek points of view in an innovation hub
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Read MoreCanberra leadership expert Zoe Routh on leadership mindset through COVID
Are you over it yet? This crisis seems to go on and on, unrelenting. Yet, as leaders there is no timeout or time off. We’ve got to keep on keeping on. I thought I’d give us a bit of a PAUSE button to reflect on what we can take from this experience. I also go over some key highlights of this past season on the podcast so you can get a concentrated dose of leadership insights that are useful for now.
Why you should listen:
Now’s the time to get really clear on what you want: here are some things to think about
Clarify what matters most: I share my list to inspire yours
Season round up: with insights on innovation from experts and authors that are essential tools for leading next through the pandemic
Sneak preview of interviews coming up over the coming months: Leadership on the ground with CEOs from not for profits, global IT companies, agribusiness, and a Vice Chancellor! So much goodness and rich insights coming up
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Read More155 The Leadership skills needed for change with Joe Jackman
Change, transformation, pivot, unprecedented... we’ve all heard the words. Do you feel excited or scared? Joe Jackman is a brand expert, strategist, and CEO of the world’s first Reinventionist company and he is excited about what opportunities are emerging. We talk about the changing nature of change itself, what is staying in the same and what will definitely not stay the same, and importantly what we can learn from organisations that ignored the risk of not changing.
Why you should listen:
Key cultural shifts that you need to know in order to reinvent your business
How the relationship between companies and brands is changing fundamentally - and why you need to be across this now
How strategy needs to not only be understood, but FELT if an organisation is to reinvent itself
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Read More146 Transformational leadership expert Barry Pogorel talks about the new normal
The coronavirus experience is unprecedented in our time for leaders. How do we make our way through the uncertainty and fear? Transformational leadership expert Barry Pogorel and I talk about there is no ‘going back to normal’. We need instead to create a new normal. This offers huge opportunities! In our energising and uplifting conversation, we get down to brass tacks on what leaders need to do to start crafting their own new normal.
Why you should listen:
If you need to know where to start in dealing with uncertainty and acknowledge what is here right now
To understand why taking a stand is the most powerful thing you can do to catalyse a new possible future
To recognise the power of questions to drive new possibilities
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Read MoreCanberra based leadership expert Zoe Routh on leadership through COVID
Uncertainty, fear, and unprecedented circumstances. What can we do? There are things we can do right now to lead ourselves and help others. We can also start to navigate the ship through uncharted waters - we can craft a better future, now. We look at how to frame our challenge, how to look after ourselves, how to deal with amygdala hijack responses, confront the brutal truth of the pandemic, and then start to shape what’s next.
Why you should listen:
Tips to look after yourself: increase (or introduce) meditation, get fresh air and sunshine, stop doing stuff that affects your immune system, create connection and build interactions.
Be mindful of the uncertainty effect: survival mode and panic buying, distraction, short term memory suppression, irritability, adrenaline and getting hyped up.
How to look after your people: online collaboration tools, instigate virtual social interactions like online scrabble or virtual happy hour, support those who live alone the most - think plants and pets, share stories of generosity and appreciation, set up regular daily and weekly routines for remote teams
Confront the brutal truth: the future progress of the pandemic effect
Start creating a new normal: we aren’t going back to the way things were
Make a stand and a declaration: what kind of future do you want to create?
Lead with questions: Share interesting questions (not answers) to spark possibilities!
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Read More142 Corporate culture as a key leadership responsibility with Chris Dyer
Culture is a fluid thing, one simple act can send it in a new direction - for better, or worse. Author and entrepreneur Chris Dyer shares his research on what can turn a good culture bad (and it’s a simple fix), along with some simple distinctions that can make a big difference in your culture strategy.
Why you should listen:
Avoid making the mistake that Disney made that could send your culture into a spin
How to reward self-motivated sales people in a way that does not turn them into dog-eat-dog lone wolves
3 key tips for effective listening
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Read More141 Could you be a Changemaker? With leadership expert Digby Scott
Is there something that really gets your goat? Something that you can’t stop thinking about? Something you are longing to see different in the world? Then you might be a Changemaker. Find out what you can do to satisfy that itch.
Why you should listen:
Learn what a Changemaker actually is and if you’ve got the goods to be one (I hope so! We need you)
How to find your Big Question as a Changemaker, and how to wrestle it to the ground
How to design your world for inspiration - for those Big Ideas
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Read More140 The four archetypes of disruptive leadership with author Charlene Li
Want to be the next Uber and shake up your industry? Chances are you are doing it all wrong. Thinking a disruptive idea will create exponential change is missing the boat. Author, researcher and speaker Charlene Li says focus obsessively on your future customer and burn the boats to serve them best. This kind of commitment creates growth that is disruptive. Join us for some awesome and inspiring insights from her latest book, The Disruption Mindset - why some organisations transform while others fail.
Why you should listen:
Why you need to redefine growth as impact for more sustained and meaningful change
The most disruptive organisations are the ones that are the most structured - and what you can do to emulate their success
How to identify your future customer - and why you need to obsess about that
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