Trailblazing with CorbettPrice is back in a new weekly format!
Join us from Tuesday, November 5, for our new podcast series “Thriving in Uncertainty,” where we get comfortable in ambiguity, talking with leaders as they share their personal experiences in overcoming challenges and navigating change effectively to propel their workforces forward into the future.
Together, we’ll discuss topics including growth and adaptability, next-generation leaders, and taking the path less travelled with our impressive new line-up of trailblazers from across the Australian public sector. 25-minute episodes will drop weekly and be available to listen to from our website or across Apple podcasts and Spotify, helping you gain fresh and unique perspectives at a time that’s most convenient for you.
Our new series also takes on a more personal lens, exploring what it takes to be resilient and persevere through significant reforms, which our trailblazers have been inspired by in their own career and professional journey, and how their influencers have helped shape them into the leaders they are today.
Our Trailblazers
Janet Schorer
Chief Delivery Officer
TAFE NSW
With 20 years of senior public sector experience, Janet has led educational and community transformation programs, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme, workforce strategy, and the Families NSW strategy for the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet. Janet has a passion for children and young people, with a background in nursing and child and adolescent psychology, previously serving as the NSW Children’s Guardian and receiving a Public Service Medal for outstanding service, particularly through the protection of children. She is a National Fellow of IPAA and the Vice President of IPAA NSW.
Tuesday 5 November
In our first episode, we are joined by Janet Schorer, a senior public sector leader and Chief Delivery Officer at TAFE NSW, to discuss growth and adaptability. In this open and inspiring chat, Janet shares experiences from her early career of how other leaders helped her grow and develop and how she leans on these experiences to grow and develop others today. She also explains how important it is for leaders to put themselves in someone else’s shoes, acknowledging that the world is now different from what it was, that workplaces themselves are different too, and that it’s through a connection with purpose that you can keep yourself, and your team, motivated through times of continuous change and uncertainty.
Dr Margot McNeill
Chief Product and Quality Officer
TAFE NSW
With over 30 years of experience across the education sector, from universities to vocational education in Australia and New Zealand, you won’t find many leaders who have experienced significant industry changes like Margot. In her current role at TAFE NSW, Margot oversees the development of innovative, quality, and digitally-enabled products and aligns courses to the changing needs of the industry.
Tuesday 12 November
Listen in as Margot shares first-hand observations during her extensive career in the education sector of how learning has changed and how important she feels distributed leadership, having great people around you, is a must for remaining relevant and effective. Margot also talks about how she finds horizon planning helpful in balancing long-term strategic goals with short-term demands, the importance of communication in change with the shadow of leadership being long in the public sector, and how she leans on the dance floor balcony metaphor to instil adaptability and build resilience in her workforce.
Dr Rachel Bacon
Deputy Commissioner
Integrity,
Reform
and Enabling Services
Australian Public Service Commission
Rachel has an impressive and extensive public sector background, having previously worked at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as Deputy Secretary of Public Sector Reform, where she helped to shape and deliver a suite of reform initiatives. She has also held numerous roles in Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments, line departments and led a number of taskforces, with many of them in PMC, to deliver the whole of government's priorities, with a PhD focused on administrative law and organisation change.
Tuesday 19 November, Tuesday 26 November
This two-part episode with Rachel on a growth mindset approach is full of unique insights explained from evidence, consultancy, and personal perspectives. In part one, we explore what makes up a growth mindset and integrity within the APS with Rachel. In part two, we dive deeper into our discussion and detail the design approach for the APS Reform Agenda, including determining the six guiding implementation principles to deliver it and an introspective look at how to remain resilient and persevere on long-term change projects.
More episodes will be announced soon…