“It's really important to keep a sense of humour, especially if you're in a stressful environment. Show people that you're human.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Linda Carroll, Chief People Officer, G8 Education.

Her full episode is titled Driving business success through the development of your people.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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As an experienced People and Culture Leader, Linda Carroll joined G8 Education in June 2024.

With more than a decade of executive experience in the early childhood education and care sector, Linda has honed her skills in building and managing high-performing teams across diverse networks.

Her expertise lies in people and culture transformation, talent acquisition, capability development, and employee and industrial relations.

Linda’s accolades include the HR Director of the Year award at the Australian HR Awards in 2019 and she has also obtained an MBA in Human Resource Management from Griffith University.

In the full Masterclass, we talk about:

✅ The significance of developing people within an organisation through continuous learning.

✅ Hiring for attitude and creating a loyal culture through recognition and embracing humour

✅ Overcoming the crisis of confidence upon returning to work post-maternity leave, and

✅ The evolving role of HR and its strategic importance in driving business success via the power of human capital.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can connect with Linda via LinkedIn.

Books and resources

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - by Stephen R. Covey

• Emotional Intelligence - by Daniel Goldman

• Zaklina Craig, Chief People Officer of Business NSW, on Optimising role design for peak performance, managing differences in confidence between men and women, and navigating the decision to fire someone

• Angela Tsoukatos, CEO and 20 years executive team member, on Pivotal career moments, how to focus on core business, and the most effective ways the Board and C-Suite can work together

• Fiona Crawford, CHRO of Creditor Watch, on Doing extra, celebrating success, and enabling the business

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“HR is such a diverse role. At any given time we see people at their worst, and people at their best. We’re expected to be lawyers and are constantly making commercial decisions.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Kate Newey, HR Chief of Adaptalift Group, on The secret life of HR professionals, having it all and AI in the workplace.

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Kate is a highly experienced HR leader and has held various roles at Adaptalift Group since 2012, currently overseeing 650 staff in her role as HR Chief.

She is a champion of flexible executive roles, balancing part-time leadership and parenting, something that became almost non-negotiable during the COVID pandemic.

In this Masterclass, we talk about:

✅ The secret life of HR professionals…the real, messy and rewarding reality in the current business environment.

✅ How leading from the middle builds influence, trust and a seat at the strategic table.

✅ Navigating burnout, boundaries and part-time leadership through parenting and a modern lifestyle, and

✅ HR's growing leadership in AI strategy and how this links to company strategy and and what “buy, borrow, build, bot” means for HR.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can connect with Kate via LinkedIn.

Books and resources

• Mindful High Performer - by Chelsea Pottenger

• Linda Carroll, Chief People Officer of G8 Education on Driving business success through the development of your people

• Zaklina Craig, Chief People Officer of Business NSW, on Optimising role design for peak performance, managing differences in confidence between men and women, and navigating the decision to fire someone

• Angela Tsoukatos, CEO and 20 years executive team member, on Pivotal career moments, how to focus on core business, and the most effective ways the Board and C-Suite can work together

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“By the time that person's come to work, it's cost them 50 bucks for transport, lunch, coffee. So what is the experience they’re going to get going into work for a day, because they could easily just stay at home.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Brad Krauskopf, Founder & CEO of Hub Australia.

His full episode is titled Designing inspiring flexible workspaces for the future, and Building workplace engagement and experience.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Brad is an industry pioneer and has been at the forefront of the coworking and hybrid work revolution for more than a decade, having co-founded and Co-Chaired Flexible Workspace Australia, the peak-industry body for flexible and coworking space in Australia.

dership, Hub Australia has expanded nationally, delivering human-centred, sustainable workspaces that help businesses attract the best talent and to thrive.

Hub Australia is widely considered the market-leading workspace hospitality operator in Australia, and has been ranked 6 years running by the Great Places To Work program.

Brad is a passionate advocate for the future of workplace experience, bringing deep expertise in workplace strategy and property innovation.

In the full CEO masterclass, we talk about:

✅ Why businesses must now earn their employees’ commute by creating community and purpose.

✅ How to champion flexible modern workplaces that drive connection and performance.

✅ Strategies for scaling culture and impact in a hybrid and distributed workforce, and

✅ The evolving role of leaders in designing work experiences that empower the humans behind your brand.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can connect with Brad via LinkedIn.

• Hub Australia - Love Where You Work Report 2024

• Stephen Shedletzky, author and TEDx speaker coach, on How to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy
• Tristan Sternson, CEO of ARQ Group, on Being answerable to investors, systemising values and culture, and building equality through technology
• Nick Bell, Founder of Superist, on The threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150

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“The big online course providers have got about a 5 to 9% completion rate. Attention spans are really low. No-one's got 20 minutes for a course anymore, but they've probably got 20 seconds.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on partnering with the world’s top performers and business people, what a leader’s natural state is, and feeling lucky every day.

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Mark is the CEO of frntlne, an edutech business he founded in 2021 that makes it easy to train frontline staff across a variety of industries, with engaging and memorable TikTok-style content. 

frntlne boasts a number of high-profile global and multinational retail and consumer clients including Coles, L’Oreal, P&G, Swisse and Mumm Champagne.

In May 2023, Mark was successful in securing a consortium of strategic investors, closing a AU$4.6million seed funding round. He has also established an impressive advisory board, including professor Dr Mathew Knowles PhD, who is the architect behind the careers of his daughters Beyoncé and Solange, as well as supergroup Destiny's Child.

Mark, who was born in Singapore, has had careers in entertainment, retail and video technology and now calls country Victoria home.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  How he has delivered value to global music superstars 

✅  How he has built partnerships that create sustained value for all involved

✅  His fascinating career path and early life and how he came to be at the helm of an edtech company 

✅  What he means by a leader being in their natural state, and

✅  Unlocking your inner creative and why he feels lucky every day.

You can connect with Mark via LinkedIn.

• Elon Musk - by Walter Isaacson

• My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future - by Indra Nooyi

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“I used to believe that fitness wasn't part of my work day; nowadays, if I do a workout five times a week and it costs me five hours, that's work hours.”

In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover executive health, executive fitness and why you should treat it as part of your daily working life, as opposed to something additional. If anything, Chief, you should fit your working life around your health, and not the other way around.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  What my protocols for success are and how to develop your own

✅  The importance of rest, recovery and mindfulness

✅  Why you should consider a coach or mentor for your health

Stay epic,

Greg

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“I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Rochelle Courtenay, the Founder & Managing Director of Share The Dignity.

Her full episode is titled Leading volunteer armies, witnessing female trauma inside prison, and eradicating period poverty and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Rochelle is the Founder and Managing Director of Share the Dignity, a national charity founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure that everyone is afforded the dignity in life that so many of us take for granted.

The statistics on women who experience or are at risk of homelessness, domestic violence or poverty are quite astounding and Rochelle is passionate about advocating for change and creating long-term solutions.

The charity is powered by over 6,000 volunteers and Rochelle’s contagious spirit, and has collected and distributed over 4 million period products through multiple initiatives across Australia.

She has received accolades for her work including being a Finalist for Australian of the Year, Cosmopolitan Humanitarian of the Year and Pride of Australia.

Also, please get involved with Share The Dignity’s Christmas appeal campaign, #ItsInTheBag and help make this Christmas brighter for vulnerable women and girls.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅  Why her short time in prison allowed her to be the person she is today

✅  The heartbreaking stories of women whose dignity had been compromised, and what spurred her to be the changemaker

✅  How Share the Dignity was born, why it pivoted and how it is carefully structured as a volunteer-led army, and

✅  Why she believes her health is her wealth and how she consciously invests her time.

You can connect with Rochelle via LinkedIn and via her charity’s website.

• What Happened to You - by Oprah Winfrey

• Share The Dignity - It’s In The Bag Christmas Appeal

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“Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin.

His full episode is titled Playing the long game and living a life by design not default and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Bushy for this podcast in September 2018.

An architect by trade, Bushy is the founder of KnowHow Property. His team helps time-poor professionals that don't know who to trust or where to start to replace their income through property.

 He is also the author of The Freedom Formula, a killer book I’ve read cover to cover. His other book, Get Invested, was named Best Personal Finance and Investment Book Award at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2019.

Bushy was named a Top 10 Australian Property Investment Specialist by The Property Investor Magazine in 2017 and he’s also the host of the Property Hub Podcast.

He also has an MBA in Business, Finance & Strategic Planning along with a land agent’s licence.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  His journey from being completely broke and wrestling crocodiles in Papua New Guinea, to being independently wealthy within 15 years

✅  How he came to see a better way than his father, who had slogged away for 40 years and had resultant health battles

✅  What it takes to start and build a successful business, and

✅  How he and his wife Sonya have helped more than 1,700 time-poor professionals secure over $600 million in property investments.

You can reach Bushy on LinkedIn and via his website.

• The Freedom Formula - by Bushy Martin

• Get Invested - by Bushy Martin (GET A FREE PDF VERSION)

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“I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the wonderful Rochelle Courtenay, the Founder & Managing Director of Share The Dignity, on leading volunteer armies, witnessing female trauma inside prison, and eradicating period poverty.

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Rochelle is the Founder and Managing Director of Share the Dignity, a national charity founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure that everyone is afforded the dignity in life that so many of us take for granted.

The statistics on women who experience or are at risk of homelessness, domestic violence or poverty are quite astounding and Rochelle is passionate about advocating for change and creating long-term solutions.

The charity is powered by over 6,000 volunteers and Rochelle’s contagious spirit, and has collected and distributed over 4 million period products through multiple initiatives across Australia.

She has received accolades for her work including Finalist Australian of the Year, Cosmopolitan Humanitarian of the Year and Pride of Australia.

Also, please get involved with Share The Dignity’s Christmas appeal campaign, #ItsInTheBag - and help make this Christmas brighter for vulnerable women and girls.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Why her short time in prison allowed her to be the person she is today

✅  The heartbreaking stories of women whose dignity had been compromised, and what spurred her to be the one to be the changemaker

✅  How Share the Dignity was born, has pivoted and how it is carefully structured as a volunteer-led army, and

✅  Why she believes her health is her wealth and how she consciously invests her time.

You can connect with Rochelle via LinkedIn and via her charity’s website.

• What Happened to You - by Oprah Winfrey

• Share The Dignity - It’s In The Bag Christmas Appeal

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“Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow.”

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin, on playing the long game and living a life by design not default.

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I interviewed Bushy for this podcast in September 2018.

An architect by trade, Bushy is the founder of KnowHow Property. His team helps time-poor professionals that don't know who to trust or where to start to replace their income through property.

He is also the author of The Freedom Formula, a killer book I’ve read cover to cover. His other Book, Get Invested, was named Best Personal Finance and Investment Book Award at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2019.

Bushy was named a Top 10 Australian Property Investment Specialist by The Property Investor Magazine in 2017 and he’s also the host of the Property Hub Podcast.

He also has an MBA in Business, Finance & Strategic Planning along with a land agent’s licence.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  His journey from being completely broke and wrestling crocodiles in Papua New Guinea, to being financially free within 15 years

✅  How he came to see a better way than his father, who had slogged away for 40 years and had resultant health battles

✅  What it takes to start and build a successful business, and

✅  How he and his wife Sonya have helped more than 1,700 time-poor professionals secure over $600 million in property investments.

You can reach Bushy on LinkedIn and via his website.

• The Freedom Formula - by Bushy Martin

• Get Invested - by Bushy Martin (GET A FREE PDF VERSION)

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“All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Geoff Bell, CEO of MicroBioGen.

His full episode is titled How a stockbroker became a biotech success story, using patience as a competitive advantage, and why exercise is his best thinking time and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Geoff is a former stockbroker turned CEO of leading Australian biotechnology company, MicroBioGen, which has delivered yeast innovation technology solutions to industry leaders globally for more than 20 years.

Upon finishing high school and while studying, Geoff founded a family-run business hosting ski trips around Europe for 10 years, before selling it.

His career in investment banking spanned 15 years, holding senior roles at leading European bank BNP Paribas and winning numerous industry awards.

After reaching a career crossroads and trying to balance family life and his professional exploits, Geoff came to the helm of MicroBioGen in 2006, and has overseen $8 million in government funding, and profitability since 2018, with revenue growing at 65% per year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Building his career track record by assessing his skills gaps to get ahead of the competition

✅  The ups and downs of running a biotech firm and how they almost became part of the 99% that fail

✅  Why their key competitive advantage is patience, and

✅  What’s next for the industry as the world transitions to more sustainable biotechnology and fuels.

Thanks to FTI Consulting for introducing us to Geoff.

You can connect with Geoff via LinkedIn.

• Ringworld - by Larry Niven

• MicroBioGen Projects

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“All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Geoff Bell, the CEO of MicroBioGen, on how a stockbroker became a biotech success story, using patience as a competitive advantage, and why exercise is his best thinking time.

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Geoff is a former stockbroker turned CEO of leading Australian biotechnology company, MicroBioGen, which has delivered yeast innovation technology solutions to industry leaders globally for more than 20 years.

Upon finishing high school and while studying, Geoff founded a family-run business hosting ski trips around Europe for 10 years, before selling it.

His career in investment banking spanned 15 years, holding senior roles at leading European bank BNP Paribas and winning numerous industry awards.

After reaching a career crossroads and trying to balance family life and his professional exploits, Geoff came to the helm of MicroBioGen in 2006, and has overseen $8 million in government funding, and profitability since 2018, with revenue growing at 65% per year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Building his career track record by assessing his skills gaps to get ahead of the competition

✅  The ups and downs of running a biotech firm and how they almost became part of the 99% that fail

✅  Why their key competitive advantage is patience, and

✅  What’s next for the industry as the world transitions to more sustainable biotechnology and fuels.

Thanks to FTI Consulting for introducing us to Geoff.

You can connect with Geoff via LinkedIn.

• Ringworld - by Larry Niven

• MicroBioGen Projects

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“The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is the CEO of The VERSA Group, Kath Blackham.

Her full episode is titled Extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, mental health in the workplace and using tech for good and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Kath is the Founder and CEO of VERSA Connects and VERSA Agency. VERSA helps Operations, Marketing, Customer Service, and Digital Transformation to integrate conversational, voice, and AI technologies, leading to greater customer satisfaction.

She is a global leader in Conversational AI and is also  an in-demand speaker on the topics of AI, Voice Technologies, The Future of Work, and Mental Health in the Workplace. 

Kath is also a mentor for a number of women across different industries and a strong advocate for mental health in the workplace and is a pioneer of the four-day week in Australia.

Her career journey so far has included senior roles at both SEEK and The REA Group.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Leading the workforce to become more productive, balanced, and recovered

✅  Allowing employees to personalise their experience of the workplace

✅  Leveraging diversity to find everyone’s superpower, and

✅  Being transparent about topics such as menopause

You can connect with Kath via LinkedIn.

• fourdayweek.io

• Culture Map - by Erin Meyer

• The One Thing - by Gary Keller

• Start with Why - by Simon Sinek

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“You nail your mission, vision, values, strategy and tactics, and you will get unity, spirit, meaning, inspiration, direction, alignment and results. And that is a high performance team!”

In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover some key business terminology and how they not only link together, but why it is so important to have these clearly articulated and operationalised into your business. If you do them wrong, it can be really detrimental to your organisation, your team, and even your own personal performance.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  The difference between vision, mission and purpose

✅  How values, strategy and operating rhythm all fit together to serve your vision and mission

Stay epic,

Greg

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“I think the internet will be gone. AIs will have all the information and entertainment for us whenever we want.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Professor Joel Pearson, Director of the Future Minds Lab, on Leading in uncertainty, Future-proofing for the AI revolution, and De-risking innovation.

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Joel is a psychologist, neuroscientist, author and Director of the Future Minds Lab, and an ARC Future Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

He initially studied art and filmmaking at the College of Fine Arts before turning to the scientific mysteries of human consciousness and the complexities of the brain. He is now a prolific public speaker, writer, and world expert in Intuition, the psychology of AI, mental imagery, and Aphantasia, which is the inability to picture things visually.

His debut book, The Intuition Toolkit: The New Science of Knowing What, Without Knowing Why, came out in 2024 and he is now helping companies like Pixar, Google, KPMG, Macquarie Group, Lexus and Toyota prepare for the disruptive change of the AI revolution.

Joel hosted the popular ABC Sydney radio show "The Brain Box," blowing people's minds about their minds.

In this AI Masterclass, we talk about:

✅ How he is at the forefront of accelerating innovation through agile science, rapid experimentation and minimum viable experiments

✅ Some practical tools and mental models to build resilience in an uncertain and rapidly changing AI-driven world

✅ Preparing humans and not just systems for exponential change from Artificial Intelligence, and

✅ Mind-wandering and cognitive recovery as competitive advantages for modern executives.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can connect with Joel via LinkedIn and his website.

• The Intuition Toolkit - by Professor Joel Pearson

• Future Minds Newsletters on Substack

• Brad Krauskopf, Founder & CEO of Hub Australia, on Designing inspiring flexible workspaces for the future

• Angus Stevens, Co-Founder & CEO of Start Beyond, on Putting guardrails on innovation and creating useful technology for tangible real-world problems

• Kath Blackham, CEO of The VERSA Group, on Extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, the 4-day work week, and using tech for good

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“The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Kath Blackham, CEO of The VERSA Group, on extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, mental health in the workplace and using tech for good.

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Kath is the Founder and CEO of VERSA Connects and VERSA Agency. VERSA helps Operations, Marketing, Customer Service, and Digital Transformation to integrate conversational, voice, and AI technologies, leading to greater customer satisfaction.

She is a global leader in Conversational AI and is also  an in-demand speaker on the topics of AI, Voice Technologies, The Future of Work, and Mental Health in the Workplace. 

Kath is also a mentor for a number of women across different industries and a strong advocate for mental health in the workplace and is a pioneer of the four-day week in Australia.

Her career journey so far has included senior roles at both SEEK and The REA Group.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Leading the workforce to become more productive, balanced, and recovered

✅  Allowing employees to personalise their experience of the workplace

✅  Leveraging diversity to find everyone’s superpower, and

✅  Being transparent about topics such as menopause

You can connect with Kath via LinkedIn.

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“Don't try to teach your salespeople to sell the way that you do; no-one is ever going to sell the way that you do, because they don't have your DNA, they don't have the drive that caused you to push through whatever you had to push through.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Co-Founder and CEO of Better Sales Coach, Dean Mannix.

His full episode is titled Overcoming your limitations to design and live a bigger life and selling like the best in the world and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Dean for this podcast in September 2018.

Dean is the author of Australia’s largest library of video sales and service training and has delivered sales performance projects in over 25 countries.

He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading sales performance coaches with 30 years of legal, finance, sales and management experience, advising coaches and training senior executives from many of the world’s leading corporations.

Dean has also been the CEO of a leading property development and childcare management company which he built to a team of 140 employees. He then developed and led a highly successful sales team in the technology space and simultaneously grew his consulting business.

Dean has got an Executive MBA from AGSM and is also a qualified yoga teacher.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  How as a 15-year old he coped with the murder of his father and the framing of his brother who ended up in jail as a result

✅  How he built a multi-million dollar childcare business and then lost it all by 26

✅  How he has become the trusted sales coach of the world's biggest companies and the most important steps to sell like the best in the world, and

✅  Resilience and living a bigger, better life by design.

You can reach Dean on LinkedIn and via his website.

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“Don't try to teach your salespeople to sell the way that you do; no-one is ever going to sell the way that you do, because they don't have your DNA, they don't have the drive that caused you to push through whatever you had to push through.”

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Co-Founder and CEO of Better Sales Coach, Dean Mannix, on overcoming your limitations to design and live a bigger life and selling like the best in the world.

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I interviewed Dean for this podcast in September 2018.

Dean is the author of Australia’s largest library of video sales and service training and has delivered sales performance projects in over 25 countries.

He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading sales performance coaches with 30 years of legal, finance, sales and management experience, advising coaches and training senior executives from many of the world’s leading corporations.

Dean has also been the CEO of a leading property development and childcare management company which he built to a team of 140 employees. He then developed and led a highly successful sales team in the technology space and simultaneously grew his consulting business.

Dean has got an Executive MBA from AGSM and is also a qualified yoga teacher.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  How as a 15-year old he coped with the murder of his father and the framing of his brother who ended up in jail as a result

✅  How he built a multi-million dollar childcare business and then lost it all by 26

✅  How he has become the trusted sales coach of the world's biggest companies and the most important steps to sell like the best in the world, and

✅  Resilience and living a bigger, better life by design.

You can reach Dean on LinkedIn and via his website.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - by Steven R. Covey

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“Through acquisition, you can acquire competitors that you can integrate into your business and eliminate duplicative areas, which can give you far greater profit."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Billionaire business guru, Jay Abraham.

His full episode is titled How to achieve business wealth without risk through acquisition and the most powerful marketing strategies in the world and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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As Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group, Jay has spent his entire career solving complex problems and fixing underperforming businesses.

He has significantly increased the bottom lines of over 10,000 clients in more than 1,000 industries, and over 7,200 sub-industries worldwide, improving their performance by billions of dollars.

Jay is recognised as one of the world’s most successful and impactful marketing strategists, business innovators, entrepreneurial advisors and mentors; he is the coach and advisor to Anthony Robbins, Daymond John, Grant Cardone and many others.

He has written multiple best-selling books, with his latest being released in September 2023, titled Business Wealth Without Risk: How to Create a Lifetime of Income & Wealth Every 3 to 5 years.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The various mental models he uses to achieve massive business growth

✅  The best coaching questions you can ask as a leader

✅  Why his strategy of acquisition over starting up is a far less risky and higher impact approach when done the right way, and

✅  Being the strategist and big thinker, not the operator.

Thanks to James Whittaker of Win The Day for introducing us to Jay.

You can connect with Jay via his website.

• Business Wealth Without Risk - by Jay Abraham

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“Through acquisition, you can acquire competitors that you can integrate into your business and eliminate duplicative areas, which can give you far greater profit."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to business guru, Jay Abraham, on how to achieve business wealth without risk through acquisition and the most powerful marketing strategies in the world.

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As Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group, Jay has spent his entire career solving complex problems and fixing underperforming businesses.

He has significantly increased the bottom lines of over 10,000 clients in more than 1,000 industries, and over 7,200 sub industries, worldwide improving their performance by billions of dollars.

Jay is recognized as one of the world’s most successful/impactful marketing strategists, business innovators, entrepreneurial advisors/mentors, he is the coach and advisor to Anthony Robbins, Daymond John, Grant Cardone and many others.

He has written multiple best-selling books, with his latest being released in September 2023, titled Business Wealth Without Risk: How to Create a Lifetime of Income & Wealth Every 3 to 5 years.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The various mental models he uses to achieve massive business growth

✅  The best coaching questions you can ask as a leader

✅  Why his strategy of acquisition over starting up is a far less risky and higher impact approach when done the right way, and

✅  Being the strategist and big thinker, not the operator.

Thanks to James Whittaker and his team at Win The Day for introducing us to Jay.

You can connect with Jay via his website.

• Business Wealth Without Risk - by Jay Abraham

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“One trait amongst elite Chiefs is they just get back on the horse every day. No matter what's happened the day before, they just keep turning up and delivering.”

In today’s minisode I am going to share with you something that perhaps we haven't spoken about as much on the show previously, and these are the 5 Mindsets of elite CEOs and Chiefs.

What’s important to know is that these 5 Mindsets are not necessarily demonstrated all of the time by our great leaders; we're not pretending as though they're flawless.

One of the other great things we have learned about CEOs and Chiefs over the years is that they come in all colours of the rainbow and they are really such a diverse group of people.

Remember, our definition of a true chief is not necessarily that you are in a CEO role, it's actually that you have found your level, a role that is right for you and that is aligned to your values, and one that allows you to demonstrate your skill and achieve a level of mastery.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  Working on the business by getting strategic items done

✅  Owning your time and your calendar and pushing through hard times

✅  Compartmentalising problems and using curiosity to drive your track record

Stay epic,

Greg

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“I used to say to my team all the time, come to me with solutions, don't come to me with problems. And someone actually asked me to stop saying that because they won't always have the whole solution, but they don't want to be shut down."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Taryn Williams.

Her full episode is titled How to scale a start-up in different ways, the insane value of intrepreneurship, and curing workaholism and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Taryn is a multi-award winning Founder and CEO, who, over the course of the last 2 decades, has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s most prolific entrepreneurs at the intersection of talent, media, and technology.

Her latest project is #Gifted, a Shopify plug-in enabling brands to manage their influencer contra gifting at scale, and is already being used by some of the biggest brands around the world.

A former model, at just 21 Taryn founded WINK Models, which grew to become one of Australia's most successful modelling agencies. In 2016 she launched a marketplace platform called The Right Fit, which has over 17,000 talent and 11,000 clients making thousands of bookings a month across APAC. Taryn sold it just a few months ago.

She is also a board member, influencer and media commentator and has won numerous business awards, including being named in B&T’s Women in Media Power List for the third consecutive year.

In her full episode we talk about:

✅  Being fully prepared for investor conversations when raising capital

✅  How to be an intrepreneur by leading with innovation

✅  Finding balance as a recovering workaholic, and

✅  Controlling your personal brand.

Thanks to Sam Dybac and her team at The PR Hub for introducing us to Taryn.

You can connect with Taryn via LinkedIn.

• The hard thing about hard things - by Ben Horowitz

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“I used to say to my team all the time, come to me with solutions, don't come to me with problems. And someone actually asked me to stop saying that because they won't always have the whole solution, but they don't want to be shut down."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Taryn Williams on how to scale a start-up in different ways, the insane value of intrepreneurship, and curing workaholism.

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Taryn is a multi-award winning Founder and CEO, who, over the course of the last 2 decades, has earned a reputation as one of Australia’s most prolific entrepreneurs at the intersection of talent, media, and technology.

Her latest project is #Gifted, a Shopify plug-in enabling brands to manage their influencer contra gifting at scale, and is already being used by some of the biggest brands around the world.  

A former model, at just 21 Taryn founded WINK Models, which grew to become one of Australia's most successful modelling agencies. In 2016 she launched a marketplace platform called The Right Fit, which has over 17,000 talent and 11,000 clients making thousands of bookings a month across APAC. Taryn sold it just a few months ago.

She is also a board member, influencer and media commentator and has won numerous business awards, including being named in B&T’s Women in Media Power List for the third consecutive year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Being fully prepared for investor conversations when raising capital

✅  How to be an intrepreneur by leading with innovation

✅  Finding balance as a recovering workaholic, and

✅  Controlling your personal brand.

Thanks to Sam Dybac and her team at The PR Hub for introducing us to Taryn.

You can connect with Taryn via LinkedIn.

• The hard thing about hard things - by Ben Horowitz

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“As a leader, you have to create an environment where you can happily give feedback to people; good, bad or indifferent.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Former Wallabies’ captain, Stirling Mortlock AM.

His full episode is titled Going from amateur to professional and connecting success and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Stirling for this podcast in October 2019.

Stirling is a former Wallabies, Brumbies and Rebels Captain, as well as a Keynote Speaker, Leadership and Coaching Consultant. He is a Founding Partner of XV Capital Advisory, a sports advisory and investment firm that invests in global sports innovation.

Stirling played in 80 Test matches for the Wallabies, captaining them on 29 occasions and scoring 489 points. He scored the decisive try in the 2003 World Cup Semi-Final in Melbourne and nailed a sideline penalty in 2000 to help the Wallabies claim their maiden Tri-Nations Trophy.

He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and also worked for NAB as a Wealth Director in the Institutional Banking sector.

In 2012, Stirling was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to rugby.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The transition from amateur to professional rugby in the mid-1990s

✅  Giving and receiving feedback in elite high performance environments

✅  Being curious, setting goals and connecting success, and

✅  Who he feared the most on the rugby field and how he looked to dominate the competition.

• You can reach Stirling on LinkedIn and via his website.

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“You can change somebody's sleep and you will change every single area of their life."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is The Sleep Doctor, Dr Michael Breus.

His full episode is titled How to fix your sleep, achieving maximum performance outcomes, and the four chronotypes and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Dr Michael is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist. 

He is the author of four books and an expert resource for most major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year (Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.).

He has been in private practice for more than 2 decades and recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he was named the Top Sleep Doctor in the city by Readers Digest.

In this episode we talk about: 

✅  How to fix your sleep through understanding your chronotype

✅  Why executives need to sleep optimally, but how all their staff can too

✅  The do’s and don'ts of sleep readiness and waking up in the middle of the night, and

✅  The science behind dreams, sleep therapy and power naps.

You can connect with Michael via LinkedIn and his website.

• FREE Chronotypes Test

• Energize! Go from dragging Ass to kicking it in 30 days - by Dr Michael Breus

• The Power of When - by Dr Michael Breus

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“The 80/20 curve also applies to time: 1% of your time produces 50% of all your productivity.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Perry Marshall, Author and Sales & Marketing Guru.

His full episode is titled Redefining the 80/20 Rule, buying time for superhuman productivity, and solving tough problems.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Perry is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine, and is one of the most expensive business consultants in the world. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review; in fact, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs at the California Institute of Technology uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool.

He founded the $5 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, with judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT, where the object is to solve the biggest mystery in biology.

His Google AdWords book laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry and his other book, Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, is the world’s best-selling book on internet advertising. He’s consulted in over 300 industries and served as an expert witness for marketing and Google AdWords litigation.

In the full Best of Series Masterclass we talk about:

✅ What the 80/20 rule actually is and how he redefined it

✅ How to buy back time by saying no and what to remove from your life

✅ His secrets to running more efficient meetings

✅ The 80/20 productivity curve and its application in business efficiency, and

✅ Solving tough problems and appearing superhuman.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can reach Perry on on X and via his website.

• 80/20 Sales and Marketing - by Perry Marshall

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• Kath Blackham, CEO of The VERSA Group, on Extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, mental health in the workplace and using tech for good

• Joe DeMaria, Founder of Teach To Scale, on The art of learning, career excellence and value creators

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“As a leader, you have to create an environment where you can happily give feedback to people; good, bad or indifferent.”

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature former Wallabies’ captain, Stirling Mortlock AM, on going from amateur to professional and connecting success.

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I interviewed Stirling for this podcast in October 2019.

Stirling is a former Wallabies, Brumbies and Rebels Captain, as well as a Keynote Speaker, Leadership and Coaching Consultant. He is a Founding Partner of XV Capital Advisory, a sports advisory and investment firm that invests in global sports innovation.

Stirling played in 80 Test matches for the Wallabies, captaining them on 29 occasions and scoring 489 points. He scored the decisive try in the 2003 World Cup Semi-Final in Melbourne and nailed a sideline penalty in 2000 to help the Wallabies claim their maiden Tri-Nations Trophy.

He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and also worked for NAB as a Wealth Director in the Institutional Banking sector.

In 2012, Stirling was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to rugby.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The transition from amateur to professional rugby in the mid-1990s

✅  Giving and receiving feedback in elite high performance environments

✅  Being curious, setting goals and connecting success, and

✅  Who he feared the most on the rugby field and how he looked to dominate the competition.

You can reach Stirling on LinkedIn and via his website.

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“You can change somebody's sleep and you will change every single area of their life."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Dr Michael Breus, and we’re going to talk about how to fix your sleep, achieving maximum performance outcomes, and the four chronotypes.

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Dr Michael is a double board-certified Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Sleep Specialist. 

He is the author of four books and an expert resource for most major publications, doing more than 400 interviews per year (Oprah, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.).

He has been in private practice for more than 2 decades and recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he was named the Top Sleep Doctor in the city by Readers Digest.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  How to fix your sleep through understanding your chronotype

✅  Why executives need to sleep optimally, but how all their staff can too

✅  The do’s and don’t of sleep readiness and waking up in the middle of the night, and

✅  The science behind dreams, sleep therapy and power naps.

You can connect with Michael via LinkedIn and his website.

• FREE Chronotypes Test

• Energize! Go from dragging Ass to kicking it in 30 days - by Dr Michael Breus

• The Power of When - by Dr Michael Breus

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“If you expect to learn life lessons from perfect people, you're not going to learn anything from anybody. It's our own judgement that prevents us from having amazing experiences."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods’ and Lance Armstrong’s success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - this is the third one on recovery and the second half of your life.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Jeff has spent the last four decades helping athletes win over 40 Olympic gold medals, as well as coaching Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods, and helping our own Natalie Cook OAM OLY to represent Australia at 5 Olympic Games.

When he was 11 years old, Jeff wrote a contract with himself that a decade later he would make the 1972 USA Olympic Games team, a goal he achieved by competing in two separate cycling events.

He has also authored three books, been awarded International Sports Chiropractor of the Year, and is the creator of The Champion’s Blueprint methodology.

He is also an award-winning Glass Blower with his art appearing in some of the world's top galleries.

These days, Jeff is a mentor to athletes, businesses and other high profile clients, including the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the band U2, Nike, Hitachi, and the health brand Bulletproof.

In this episode we talk about: 

✅  Why winning is a skillset underpinned by you starting in a place of receivership

✅  Taking charge of our automatic fear-based survival reactions

✅  The difference that makes the difference with clients like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Natalie Cook OAM OLY

✅  Internal personal congruence towards a champion’s mindset on the day.

You can connect with Jeff via LinkedIn and his website.

• Turn It Up! - by Dr Jeff Spencer

• Six Pillars of Self Esteem - by Nathaniel Branden

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

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“If you expect to learn life lessons from perfect people, you're not going to learn anything from anybody. It's our own judgement that prevents us from having amazing experiences."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods’ and Lance Armstrong’s success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - this is the second one on the champion mind(set) and the 4 key questions.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Jeff has spent the last four decades helping athletes win over 40 Olympic gold medals, as well as coaching Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods, and helping our own Natalie Cook OAM OLY to represent Australia at 5 Olympic Games.

When he was 11 years old, Jeff wrote a contract with himself that a decade later he would make the 1972 USA Olympic Games team, a goal he achieved by competing in two separate cycling events.

He has also authored three books, been awarded International Sports Chiropractor of the Year, and is the creator of The Champion’s Blueprint methodology.

He is also an award-winning Glass Blower with his art appearing in some of the world's top galleries.

These days, Jeff is a mentor to athletes, businesses and other high profile clients, including the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the band U2, Nike, Hitachi, and the health brand Bulletproof.

In this episode we talk about: 

✅  Why winning is a skillset underpinned by you starting in a place of receivership

✅  Taking charge of our automatic fear-based survival reactions

✅  The difference that makes the difference with clients like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Natalie Cook OAM OLY

✅  Internal personal congruence towards a champion’s mindset on the day.

You can connect with Jeff via LinkedIn and his website.

• Turn It Up! - by Dr Jeff Spencer

• Six Pillars of Self Esteem - by Nathaniel Branden

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

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“All great Chiefs have learned how to have difficult conversations and give feedback properly and they do this regularly.”

In today’s minisode, I want to give you the tools to help you make difficult performance conversations easy, or at the very least, easier than they have been for you in the past.

As an experienced coach, I've had a number of opportunities to work with people on shifting the dials for them personally and in their careers to help them achieve success. Sometimes, that means giving hard feedback. Chief, it really is a privileged position for me.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  The top 5 mistakes I’ve seen leaders make repeatedly when giving feedback and running performance reviews

✅  How to frame the message correctly, such that the person you’re talking to, helps themselves to find appropriate solutions, and

✅  A download of the ultimate toolkit that prepares and guides you through these hard conversations in the future that will help you reduce stress and increase success.

Stay epic,

Greg

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“If you expect to learn life lessons from perfect people, you're not going to learn anything from anybody. It's our own judgement that prevents us from having amazing experiences."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Dr Jeff Spencer, the man behind 40+ Olympic gold medals, and Tiger Woods’ and Lance Armstrong’s success.

Chiefs, this was so good, that we have prepared 3 Mini Chiefs for you - the first one is around survival and seeker instincts and how to operate in seemingly contradictory states.

His full episode is titled Building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Jeff has spent the last four decades helping athletes win over 40 Olympic gold medals, as well as coaching Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods, and helping our own Natalie Cook OAM OLY to represent Australia at 5 Olympic Games.

When he was 11 years old, Jeff wrote a contract with himself that a decade later he would make the 1972 USA Olympic Games team, a goal he achieved by competing in two separate cycling events.

He has also authored three books, been awarded International Sports Chiropractor of the Year, and is the creator of The Champion’s Blueprint methodology.

He is also an award-winning Glass Blower with his art appearing in some of the world's top galleries.

These days, Jeff is a mentor to athletes, businesses and other high profile clients, including the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the band U2, Nike, Hitachi, and the health brand Bulletproof.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Why winning is a skillset underpinned by you starting in a place of receivership

✅  Taking charge of our automatic fear-based survival reactions

✅  The difference that makes the difference with clients like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Natalie Cook OAM OLY

✅  Internal personal congruence towards a champion’s mindset on the day.

You can connect with Jeff via LinkedIn and his website.

• Turn It Up! - by Dr Jeff Spencer

• Six Pillars of Self Esteem - by Nathaniel Branden

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

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“If you expect to learn life lessons from perfect people, you're not going to learn anything from anybody. It's our own judgement that prevents us from having amazing experiences."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Dr Jeff Spencer on building your champion mindset and your pathway to your potential.

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Jeff has spent the last four decades helping athletes win over 40 Olympic gold medals, as well as coaching Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods, and helping our own Natalie Cook OAM to represent Australia at 5 Olympic Games.

When he was 11 years old, Jeff wrote a contract with himself that a decade later he would make the 1972 USA Olympic Games team, a goal he achieved by competing in two separate cycling events.

He has also authored three books, been awarded International Sports Chiropractor of the Year, and is the creator of The Champion’s Blueprint methodology.

He is also an award-winning Glass Blower with his art appearing in some of the world's top galleries.

These days, Jeff is a mentor to athletes, businesses and other high profile clients, including the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the band U2, Nike, Hitachi, and the health brand Bulletproof.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Why winning is a skillset underpinned by you starting in a place of receivership

✅  Taking charge of our automatic fear-based survival reactions

✅  The difference that makes the difference with clients like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Natalie Cook OAM

✅  Internal personal congruence towards a champion’s mindset on the day.

You can connect with Jeff via LinkedIn and his website.

• Turn It Up! - by Dr Jeff Spencer

• Six Pillars of Self Esteem - by Nathaniel Branden

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

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“Organisations that we see that are doing really well have a strong mix of leading and lag indicators, with those things that inform you about what you're doing proactively to improve safety.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Liz Nicol, Co-Founder & Former CEO of SafetyWorks.

Her full episode is titled Leading safety change, 20 years of business ownership and how to get on a Board and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Liz for this podcast in September 2019.

Liz is Co-Founder and Former CEO of SafetyWorks Group, one of Australia’s foremost providers of safety culture change solutions for performance improvement.

She is also the Deputy Chair of Uniting, and the Chair of the Hunter Region Committee of the AICD.

Liz is an experienced executive and non-executive director, who is determined to improve the lives of others, particularly in the area of safety and wellbeing, and those who are vulnerable in our community.

She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, previous Chair of Leapfrog Ability, and Board member of St Philips Christian Education Foundation.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The experience she gained in 20 years of business ownership

✅  Leading safety change, developing a chronic sense of unease and where leaders get it wrong

✅  Why metrics are not useful if they don’t drive the behaviours that align to your business strategy and vision, and 

✅  How to get on a Board and how to make the most of non-executive positions.

You can reach Liz on LinkedIn and via email.

• Safe By Accident - by Aubrey Daniels and Judy Agnew

• Radical Candour - by Kim Scott

• Setting the Tone from the Top - by Melinda Muth and Bob Selden (AICD)

• Deepwater Horizon (movie)

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“Organisations that we see that are doing really well have a strong mix of leading and lag indicators, with those things that inform you about what you're doing proactively to improve safety.”

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Liz Nicol, Co-Founder & Former CEO of SafetyWorks, on Leading safety change, 20 years of business ownership and how to get on a Board.

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I interviewed Liz for this podcast in September 2019.

Liz is Co-Founder and Former CEO of SafetyWorks Group, one of Australia’s foremost providers of safety culture change solutions for performance improvement.

She is also the Deputy Chair of Uniting, and the Chair of the Hunter Region Committee of the AICD.

Liz is an experienced executive and non-executive director, who is determined to improve the lives of others, particularly in the area of safety and wellbeing, and those who are vulnerable in our community.

She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, previous Chair of Leapfrog Ability, and Board member of St Philips Christian Education Foundation.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The experience she gained in 20 years of business ownership

✅  Leading safety change, developing a chronic sense of unease and where leaders get it wrong

✅  Why metrics are not useful if they don’t drive the behaviours that align to your business strategy and vision, and 

✅  How to get on a Board and how to make the most of non-executive positions.

You can reach Liz on LinkedIn.

• Safe By Accident - by Aubrey Daniels and Judy Agnew

• Radical Candour - by Kim Scott

• Setting the Tone from the Top - by Melinda Muth and Bob Selden (AICD)

• Deepwater Horizon (movie)

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“There's always time. It's what you make a priority in life."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Celebrity Apprentice Mentor, Nick Bell, the Founder of Superist.

His full episode is titled The threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150 and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Superist is a digital agency group with 18 agencies and over 2,000 employees worldwide. 

The agency hand-selects businesses in the $1-5 million annual recurring revenue range, advises and mentors the founders while a team of scaling specialists look to improve existing systems and processes. The group has remarkably acquired one digital services agency per month since its inception.

Nick left university after six weeks, and after persevering through two failed business ventures, he used the last $350 to his name to launch an SEO digital marketing agency from his bedroom, a business he’d go on to sell for $39 million nine years later.

Nick was also one of two Australian Celebrity Apprentice advisors to Lord Alan Sugar and is also a former AFR young rich-lister.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The post-COVID productivity challenge and the threat and benefits of AI

✅  Looking after the A-players in his teams

✅  What he looks for in the Founder when purchasing a business, and

✅  How his health and wellness regime is going to help him live to 150!

You can connect with Nick via LinkedIn.

• Out of the Crisis - by William Edwards Deming

• Dr. David Sinclair

• Losing My Virginity - by Sir Richard Branson

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“When I think about the workplace of the future, it's about the experiences you provide when bringing people together. It’s an extension of your brand.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Brad Krauskopf, Founder & CEO of Hub Australia, on Designing inspiring flexible workspaces for the future, and Building workplace engagement and experience.

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Brad is an industry pioneer and has been at the forefront of the coworking and hybrid work revolution for more than a decade, having co-founded and Co-Chaired Flexible Workspace Australia, the peak-industry body for flexible and coworking space in Australia.

Under his leadership, Hub Australia has expanded nationally, delivering human-centred, sustainable workspaces that help businesses attract the best talent and to thrive.

Hub Australia is widely considered the market-leading workspace hospitality operator in Australia, and has been ranked 6 years running by the Great Places To Work program.

Brad is a passionate advocate for the future of workplace experience, bringing deep expertise in workplace strategy and property innovation.

In this CEO masterclass, we talk about:

✅ Why businesses must now earn their employees’ commute by creating community and purpose.

✅ How to champion flexible modern workplaces that drive connection and performance.

✅ Strategies for scaling culture and impact in a hybrid and distributed workforce, and

✅ The evolving role of leaders in designing work experiences that empower the humans behind your brand.

Stay epic,

Greg

You can connect with Brad via LinkedIn.

• Hub Australia - Love Where You Work Report 2024

• Stephen Shedletzky, author and TEDx speaker coach, on How to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy
• Tristan Sternson, CEO of ARQ Group, on Being answerable to investors, systemising values and culture, and building equality through technology
• Nick Bell, Founder of Superist, on The threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150

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“There's always time. It's what you make a priority in life."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Nick Bell, Founder of Superist, on the threat of AI on addressing productivity gaps, looking after his A-players and living to 150.

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Nick is the Founder of Superist, a digital agency group with 18 agencies and over 2,000 employees worldwide. 

The agency hand-selects businesses in the $1-5 million annual recurring revenue range, advises and mentors the founders while a team of scaling specialists look to improve existing systems and processes. The group has remarkably acquired one digital services agency per month, since its inception.

Nick left university after six weeks, and after persevering through two failed business ventures, he used the last $350 to his name to launch an SEO digital marketing agency from his bedroom, a business he’d go on to sell for $39 million nine years later.

Nick was also one of two Australian Celebrity Apprentice advisors to Lord Alan Sugar and is also a former AFR young rich-lister.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The post-COVID productivity challenge and the threat and benefits of AI

✅  Looking after the A-players in his teams

✅  What he looks for in the Founder when purchasing a business, and

✅  How his health and wellness regime is going to help him live to 150!

You can connect with Nick via LinkedIn.

• Out of the Crisis - by William Edwards Deming

• Dr. David Sinclair

• Losing My Virginity - by Sir Richard Branson

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“According to InsideHR, only half of recruitment decisions end up being good for either the employer or the employee, and that is just staggering.”

In today’s minisode, I go back through the archives. Over the course of the last 6 years of this podcast, I have asked dozens of CEOs what their number one question is that they ask candidates in interviews and how they get to hire high performers.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  Why hiring is so crucial, and how it really can make or break a business

✅  The top 7 interview questions from our guests, and

✅  Encouraging you to adapt some of these questions for your own business.

Stay epic,

Greg

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“I know that even in stressful periods, if you stop for a second to breathe, you’ll realise that it's never as bad or as urgent as you think it is at the time."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Ben Cohn, Co-Founder and CEO of TAXIBOX.

His full episode is titled Infusing fun and creativity into your brand, lessons on building a high performance culture, and coping with anxiety and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Ben co-founded TAXIBOX, Australia’s leading mobile storage company, in 2010.

He is also the co-founder of Calcumate, a proprietary online storage calculator initially developed for TAXIBOX that has since become the most in-demand storage calculator available to self-storage and moving providers worldwide.

In the last three years alone, TAXIBOX has successfully doubled the business and significantly grown its leadership team.

Ben was born in South Africa and moved to Israel with his family in the 1990s, before settling in Australia, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Commercial Law and Finance from the University of Sydney.

In this episode we talk about: 

✅  How TAXIBOX has purposefully built a brand personality around fun and creativity

✅  Weaving this brand into the culture of the organisation

✅  But also where some of those cultural efforts have gone too far, and

✅  His personal struggles with anxiety and how he manages it on a daily basis

You can connect with Ben via LinkedIn.

Inner Chief Podcast Episode 209 - Jennifer Holland (“today’s no is tomorrow’s yes”)

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“I know that even in stressful periods, if you stop for a second to breathe, you’ll realise that it's never as bad or as urgent as you think it is at the time."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Ben Cohn, Co-Founder and CEO of TAXIBOX, on infusing fun and creativity into your brand, lessons on building a high performance culture, and coping with anxiety.

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Ben co-founded TAXIBOX, Australia’s leading mobile storage company, in 2010.

He is also the co-founder of Calcumate, a proprietary online storage calculator initially developed for TAXIBOX that has since become the most in-demand storage calculator available to self-storage and moving providers worldwide.

In the last three years alone, TAXIBOX has successfully doubled the business and significantly grown its leadership team.

Ben was born in South Africa and moved to Israel with his family in the 1990s, before settling in Australia, where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Commercial Law and Finance from the University of Sydney.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  How TAXIBOX has purposefully built a brand personality around fun and creativity

✅  Weaving this brand into the culture of the organisation

✅  But also where some of those cultural efforts have gone too far, and

✅  His personal struggles with anxiety and how he manages it on a daily basis

You can connect with Ben via LinkedIn.

• Inner Chief Podcast Episode 209 - Jennifer Holland (“today’s no is tomorrow’s yes”)

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“I’m in a position that, if I don't show resilience, I can't expect everyone else to show resilience.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest episode is from our Best of Series, with Melbourne Rebels CEO, Baden Stephenson.

His full episode is titled Leading high performers and giving clarity to your organisation and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I interviewed Baden for this podcast back in August 2018.

Baden's path to become CEO of professional rugby club, The Melbourne Rebels, has been different to most. He transitioned from the Coaching and Operations departments and finally got his first CEO role with them in 2017.

He was heavily involved as the GM of Rugby, when, in 2017, the Melbourne Rebels luckily managed to save their Super Rugby licence, under controversial circumstances.

Ultimately, when that process concluded, he was selected to lead the club into the future and is still at the helm.

Baden’s prior experience was as the Director of Operations and EGM at Sydney University Football Club, after a number of years involved as a coach both in Australia and in Japan.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Having empathy for your people and showing they are valued

✅  Dealing with huge uncertainty and keeping staff motivated

✅  The contagion of your emotions within an organisation, and

✅  Leading high performers in a professional environment

You can connect with Baden via LinkedIn.

• Mindset - by Carol Dweck

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“I’m in a position that, if I don't show resilience, I can't expect everyone else to show resilience.”

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Melbourne Rebels CEO, Baden Stephenson, on leading high performers and giving clarity to your organisation.

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I interviewed Baden for this podcast back in August 2018.

Baden's path to become CEO of professional rugby club, The Melbourne Rebels, has been different to most. He transitioned from the Coaching and Operations departments and finally got his first CEO role with them in 2017.

He was heavily involved as the GM of Rugby, when, in 2017, the Melbourne Rebels luckily managed to save their Super Rugby licence, under controversial circumstances.

Ultimately, when that process concluded, he was selected to lead the club into the future and is still at the helm.

Baden’s prior experience was as the Director of Operations and EGM at Sydney University Football Club, after a number of years involved as a coach both in Australia and in Japan.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Having empathy for your people and showing they are valued

✅  Dealing with huge uncertainty and keeping staff motivated

✅  The contagion of your emotions within an organisation, and

✅  Leading high performers in a professional environment

You can connect with Baden via LinkedIn.

• Mindset - by Carol Dweck

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“What does working at your company say about me? And do you embody the badge value that I want to say about myself when I tell someone where I work?"

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Simon Mainwaring, CEO of We First.

His full episode is titled Bringing Purpose to Life, Growing a Brand Movement and Nailing a Pitch and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Simon is a brand futurist, global keynote speaker, and bestselling author. He is the Founder and CEO of We First, a strategic brand consultancy based in Los Angeles, California, that has helped companies like Sony, The Coffee Bean, Timberland, and Toms, to accelerate their growth and impact.

His first book, We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World, was an Amazon, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and was named the Best Business Marketing Book of the Year. His latest book, Lead With We: The Business Revolution that Will Save Our Future, was voted the McKinsey Top Business Bestseller on Workplace & Culture.

Simon started his career as a writer and Creative Director at agencies including DDB (Sydney), Saatchi & Saatchi (London), Wieden & Kennedy (Portland) and Ogilvy (Los Angeles) winning awards at all major advertising festivals on clients such as Nike, Toyota and Motorola.

Simon has been named one of the top keynote speakers in the world, is a regular columnist for Forbes, and in 2015 was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The 3 things you need to nail a pitch and convert the naysayers

✅  Leading with We, and shifting away from Me First

✅  How the role and responsibility of business has changed, and

✅  The evolution and power of a brand movement

You can connect with Simon via LinkedIn and his personal website.

• Lead With We - by Simon Mainwaring

• We First - by Simon Mainwaring

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“What does working at your company say about me? And do you embody the badge value that I want to say about myself when I tell someone where I work?"

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Simon Mainwaring, CEO of We First, on Bringing Purpose to Life, Growing a Brand Movement and Nailing a Pitch.

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Simon is a brand futurist, global keynote speaker, and bestselling author. He is the Founder and CEO of We First, a strategic brand consultancy based in Los Angeles, California, that has helped companies like Sony, The Coffee Bean, Timberland, and Toms, to accelerate their growth and impact.

His first book, We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World, was an Amazon, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and was named the Best Business Marketing Book of the Year. His latest book, Lead With We: The Business Revolution that Will Save Our Future, was voted the McKinsey Top Business Bestseller on Workplace & Culture.

Simon started his career as a writer and Creative Director at agencies including DDB (Sydney), Saatchi & Saatchi (London), Wieden & Kennedy (Portland) and Ogilvy (Los Angeles) winning awards at all major advertising festivals on clients such as Nike, Toyota and Motorola.

Simon has been named one of the top keynote speakers in the world, is a regular columnist for Forbes, and in 2015 was a finalist for Global Australian of the Year.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  The 3 things you need to nail a pitch and convert the naysayers

✅  Leading with We, and shifting away from Me First

✅  How the role and responsibility of business has changed, and

✅  The evolution and power of a brand movement

You can connect with Simon via LinkedIn and his personal website.

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“When you go into a room and run a meeting with full preparation and excellence, you will automatically get buy-in from the people around you.”

In today’s minisode, I am going to go through how to be a master of conducting meetings.

I’m actually going to demonstrate how to BREAC a leg! Yes, you heard that right. Our team has come up with this wonderful model, the B-R-E-A-C a Leg set of benefits for becoming a master of meetings. And by using this model, you will start to see how you automatically get buy-in from those around you.

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We’re going to talk about:

✅  Lifting a meeting room’s energy

✅  How to get action and traction as a result of a meeting

✅  3 key tips on navigating difficult meetings.

Stay epic,

Greg

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“There's this idea that wanting to promote yourself is a dirty thing; it absolutely isn't. It should be celebrated!”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Public Relations Guru to Executives, Sam Dybac, CEO & Founder of The PR Hub.

Her full episode is titled Brand-building beyond the boardroom and rebuilding confidence and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Sam is the CEO & Founder of The PR Hub, which she set up after working in government relations for former politician, Kerry Chikarovski, and had built up an impressive list of clients.

During her career, Sam worked closely with entrepreneurs in the personal care and health supplement industry, helping to build their personal brand.

She’s also worked in marketing and sponsorship in television, co-launched an organic skincare business and been the director of a personal training business.

Today, The PR Hub is a seven-figure business that helps award-winning entrepreneurs, CEO’s and disrupters to build their brand story as a foundation for developing trust, credibility and awareness for the businesses they’re in.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  From humble beginnings in the PR game to working with the likes of Deborra-Lee Furness and her husband Hugh Jackman

✅  Operationalising her business and becoming a better leader

✅  Some top tips on building your executive profile, and

✅  Rebuilding confidence

You can connect with Sam via LinkedIn and her PR Hub website.

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“80-90% of my job is to engage the business. It's a KPI.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Ben Marsonet, CEO of Altus Group.

His full episode is titled The 6 stages of executive evolution, leading with visibility, and how powerful stories shape culture.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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With over 15 years of experience in the traffic management industry, Ben has held various operational, commercial and senior management roles at Altus Group, the largest and leading provider of traffic management services across Australia and New Zealand.

Starting on the frontline as a traffic controller, Ben worked his way up into executive roles before being appointed to the role of Group CEO in July 2021.

Since his appointment, he has led the business through a successful private equity investment, as well as doubling revenue and earnings of the business through a mix of organic growth and acquisition activity.

Ben has an immense passion for the safety and growth of people, and about leading a business that has a genuine impact on its employees and the communities it operates in.

In the full CEO masterclass, we talk about:

✅ How curiosity and saying ‘yes’ to challenges will accelerate your career growth

✅ Integrating new teams during M&A while protecting a cohesive company culture and momentum

✅ Why spending time on the frontline strengthens employee connection authentically, and

✅ How vulnerability and sharing real stories builds trust, unity and a thriving workplace

Stay epic,

Greg

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• Shane Russell, CEO of Havas Red Australia, on How to avoid PR disasters and build your company brand and customer engagement.

• Dean Hawkins, CFO Adidas, Chairman SKINS and CEO of EO Lab, on The power of a brand, creatively telling the story of the business, and turning alchemy into the extraordinary.

• Daniel Hunter, CEO of Business NSW, on The new breed of CEO, purposeful storytelling and building teams. 

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“For years my parents had watched me go up and down in business, but I got to bring them along to the Sydney event I ran for Hugh Jackman and his wife. So for them to see what I do was really nice.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we speak to Sam Dybac, CEO & Founder of The PR Hub, on Executive and profile brand-building beyond the boardroom and rebuilding confidence.

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Sam is the CEO & Founder of The PR Hub, which she set up after working in government relations for former politician, Kerry Chikarovski, and had built up an impressive list of clients.

During her career, Sam worked closely with entrepreneurs in the personal care and health supplement industry, helping to build their personal brand. 

She’s also worked in marketing and sponsorship in television, co-launched an organic skincare business and been the director of a personal training business.

Today, The PR Hub is a seven-figure business that helps award-winning entrepreneurs, CEO’s and disrupters to build their brand story as a foundation for developing trust, credibility and awareness for the businesses they’re in.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  From humble beginnings in the PR game to working with the likes of Deborra-Lee Furness and her husband Hugh Jackman

✅  Operationalising her business and becoming a better leader

✅  Some top tips on building your executive profile, and

✅  Rebuilding confidence

You can connect with Sam via LinkedIn and her PR Hub website.

• Atomic Habits - by James Clear

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“I think I have faith in journalism. I think that there are some outstanding individuals and goodness gracious. I don't go down to my Brisbane office very regularly, but when I walk in there, the talent around that room is staggering. It really is.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

Our latest guest is Senior Sports Writer, the late great Wayne Smith.

His full episode is titled Professional mastery, journalistic integrity and the future of Australian Rugby and you can find the full audio and show notes here:

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This episode is particularly close to my heart, given Wayne’s recent passing at the age of 69.

Wayne was an esteemed Australian sports journalist with a career spanning over 40 years. He was known for his unwavering integrity and profound knowledge of sport, particularly rugby union.

He started his journalistic career as a cadet at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane back in 1972, and three years later he ventured to Sydney to write for The Australian, where he provided comprehensive coverage of rugby union, cricket, and the Olympics and swimming. Wayne’s pieces also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph.

Wayne’s legacy goes far beyond just his journalism as he played a pivotal role in advocating for Brisbane's successful bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In 2021, Wayne semi-retired to the Sunshine Coast and I was privileged enough to interview him not long afterwards.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Choosing the path of professional mastery over senior leadership positions

✅  Making decisions on whether to publish a story or not, or taking an angle that is at odds with your employer

✅  How a stroke a few years ago impacted his life and focusing on what’s important in life

✅  We go into some rugby chat, including what the future of Australian rugby holds and his thoughts on some of the potential star players at the next Rugby World Cup, which is being played in France in September and October this year.

Sydney Morning Herald

• 1984 - by George Orwell

• Vale Wayne Smith

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“I think I have faith in journalism. I think that there are some outstanding individuals and goodness gracious. I don't go down to my Brisbane office very regularly, but when I walk in there, the talent around that room is staggering. It really is.”

In this Best of Series episode, we feature Senior Sports Writer, the late great Wayne Smith, on professional mastery, journalistic integrity and the future of Australian Rugby.

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This episode is particularly close to my heart, given Wayne’s recent passing at the age of 69.

Wayne was an esteemed Australian sports journalist with a career spanning over 40 years. He was known for his unwavering integrity and profound knowledge of sport, particularly rugby union.

He started his journalistic career as a cadet at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane back in 1972, and three years later he ventured to Sydney to write for The Australian, where he provided comprehensive coverage of rugby union, cricket, and the Olympics and swimming. Wayne’s pieces also appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph.

Wayne’s legacy goes far beyond just his journalism as he played a pivotal role in advocating for Brisbane's successful bid for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In 2021, Wayne semi-retired to the Sunshine Coast and I was privileged enough to interview him not long afterwards.

In this episode we talk about:

✅  Choosing the path of professional mastery over senior leadership positions

✅  Making decisions on whether to publish a story or not, or taking an angle that is at odds with your employer

✅  How a stroke a few years ago impacted his life and focusing on what’s important in life

✅  We go into some rugby chat, including what the future of Australian rugby holds and his thoughts on some of the potential star players at the next Rugby World Cup, which is being played in France in September and October this year.

Sydney Morning Herald

• 1984 - by George Orwell

• Vale Wayne Smith

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