Announcing our new podcast series!
Each week, we will feature interviews with SMEs and influencers from across disciplines and industries to present you with new and fresh perspectives that challenge how you approach change to solve some of the biggest challenges faced by business and government leaders today.
In our first series, we have an amazing line-up of trailblazers who will help us explore organisational health and wellness. Across seven weekly episodes, we will dive into the individual dimensions that make up the overall health of an organisation, discuss how these dimensions relate to each other, and provide ways to improve their health to boost the overall wellness of your organisation.
Episode one available to listen to from Tuesday, 23 May, 2023 on www.corbettprice.com.au/podcast
Read a synopsis for each of our episodes:
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Leaders may know the what, and the why for their organisation in terms of customers and the value proposition offered, but do they have a clear picture of the ‘how’? We will explore this in episode one and provide an explanation of an Operating Model approach.
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The uncertainty of the past few years has strongly influenced how organisations respond and plan for the future. Likewise, it has also changed the perceptions of employees and the value they place on 'work.' In this episode, we will explore Agile Enterprise principles and how these can be used for future readiness.
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An organisation's financial and performance health directly affects the ability to make informed decisions and plan for the future. This episode will explore how leaders can adopt a more open mindset to long-term planning, challenging how they perceive and plan for the future.
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Gallup defines employee experience as a journey across a lifecycle with three critical stages: engagement, performance, and development. With research reporting that employee burnout is increasing yoy, there is a direct correlation between burnout and an inadequate work-life balance translating into lower productivity. In this episode, we explore how we can apply design thinking principles to this problem.
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Research conducted by Gallup shows that when employees have a strong connection to their company's culture, they are 3.7X as likely to be engaged at work, 5.2X as likely to recommend their organisation as a great workplace, and 68% less likely to feel burned out by work. In this episode, we explore how organisations can create more of a people-centric culture.
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Leadership directly influences an organisation's culture, and how leaders lead can directly impact an organisation's ability to innovate and retain staff. Leaders must adapt their style and practice key power skills, including empathy. But it starts with having a clear purpose shared by all in an organisation. In this episode, we explore how leaders can do this.
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The role of the learning and development team has changed. As the lines between work and home life continue to blur, the scales for maintaining a healthy work-life balance have tipped with employees looking for growth opportunities beyond just training and professional development programs. In this episode, we explore how leaders can approach this across the employment lifecycle.
Introducing our Trailblazers for series one:
Find out more about our Trailblazers:
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Andy is well versed in navigating complex organizational transformation with over two decades of experience in business (Deloitte and SBS) and the public sector running multimillion-dollar programs.
Andy founded CorbettPrice in 2016 to help government and business leaders solve strategic problems and improve service delivery. Andy's driven to deliver the maximum value and outcomes for his clients by going above and beyond with personalised solutions that get the maximum return on investment, averaging 10-14 times.
CorbettPrice's clients face pressure to transform and future-proof their organisations quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Andy and his team collaborate closely with their clients to deeply understand their needs, recommend solutions, implement recommendations, and manage the change impacts for teams. Together they help organisations to increase revenue, reduce costs and improve the employee and customer experience.
Andy has been an advisor to the Public Sector Network (Certified B Group) since 2022 and recently facilitated roundtables on employee attrition at the 2023 HR Innovation Roadshow across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
Andy has also authored whitepapers: How public sector organisations can reduce employee attrition and become preferred employers and Operating Models – Reimagine your future.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/corbettandrew
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Scott Johnston is a highly experienced senior leader with a career spanning the Australian and United Kingdom public sectors.
An internationally recognised statistician specialising in economic analysis, his work at the UK Office of National Statistics guided key decision making for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and European Union.
Scott joined the Public Service Commission in June 2014 where he held the roles of Director Workforce Information Branch and Assistant Commissioner, Performance and Analytics Division.
He then moved on to the NSW Public Service Commission as Acting Public Service Commissioner, leading the NSW Government’s agenda - driving diversity, work of the future and reform across the sector.
In April 2020, Scott was appointed to his current role of Deputy Secretary, Revenue NSW, Chief Commissioner of State Revenue and Commissioner of Fines Administration.
Since joining Revenue NSW, Scott has focused on providing flexibility and an improved customer experience for Revenue’s 3.5 million annual customers, with a focus on digital transformation and supporting the State’s most vulnerable customers.
Over the past two years Revenue NSW has become sought after for its automation achievements, collaboration skills, innovation, and customer centred design.
Scott is passionate about shaping future workforce strategy through evidence-based decision making, innovation, diversity, and inclusion, and building digital capability.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scott-johnston222/
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Dave Wild is a Creative Futurist living on the edge of the world with significant experience working as a strategist and innovator for design, marketing, and innovation consultancies. He has led workshops around the world in the US, New Zealand, and Australia.
As a Futurist for Smith & Wild, an independent strategy and innovation consultancy, Dave works with business leaders and their teams to achieve more through greater imagination and accelerated action. Dave and his team believe that getting people fully engaged and inspired about business and the challenges ahead is critical to driving action and results.
Unique to Smith & Wild’s approach is a focus on the new, identifying megatrends across markets while applying new insights from global innovation leaders, and their clients include Air New Zealand, BNZ, MediaWorks, The Warehouse, and Toyota.
Dave also runs Futurist Hour, a complimentary webinar targeted at future-focused leaders, providing an energising and inspiring look at the future and giving participants access to tools and events. Dave provides expert coaching through his Futurework leadership development programme, teaching Future of Work skills.
His book: Futurework: A Guidebook for The Future of Work is available on Amazon and is divided into three parts, starting with the exploration of revolutions that have reshaped society, followed by an explanation of how neuroscience discoveries can enable us to unlock the greater potential within and concluded with a strategy map for how to collaboratively, and adaptively develop modern strategies to build a future-ready organisation.
Web: www.dave-wild.com/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dave-wild/
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Rodger is an innovator for public good and has worked as a public servant, a strategic human centred design consultant, a bartender, a pizza kitchen-hand and deliverer, an emu farmhand, and the leader of a multi-award-winning academic research centre. He is Founding Course Director of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at the UTS TD School and co-author of Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and Designing for the common good.
Rodger has an academic and practice background in Psychology, Criminology, and with his colleagues at the Designing Out Crime Research Centre pioneered the Designing for the Common Good approach to multi-stakeholder collaboration (2010-2018). This body of work received many industry awards (including multiple Good Design Australia awards) and academic awards (UTS Vice Chancellor’s award for excellence in research collaboration). The work was assessed by the Australian Research Council as highly impactful.
In recent years Rodger has contributed to government strategy and policy across topics ranging from domestic and family violence, mental health, built environment, counter terrorism, night-time economy, waste & circular economy, environmental protection, cybercrime, transport innovation, and digital transformation. Rodger’s UTS work is underpinned by a methodology developed under industry conditions, community engagement, and academic rigour since 2010. This body of work includes product, service and policy innovations that are experienced by millions of people each day in communities across the world.
Web: www.uts.edu.au/study/transdisciplinary-innovation/creative-intelligence-and-innovation
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/rodger-watson/
Bispublishers: Creative Reboot; catalysing creative intelligence and
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Cherie’s passion lies in inspiring people to achieve their potential by developing their 'human skills'.
Cherie is a passionate optimist, an avid traveller and the Founder and Director of Luminate Leadership.
With almost two decades of leading and developing leaders at Luminate and previously at Flight Centre Travel Group, Cherie has proven results and her authentic communication style and workshop content continue to leave a long-lasting impact on leaders and their businesses.
Cherie founded Luminate Leadership in 2020 with one purpose in mind; to grow and inspire leaders of today to create a better tomorrow. Her intention is to embrace human based Leadership traits such as connection, collaboration, courage, empathy, compassion and kindness.
It’s her mission, and the mission of Luminate to share these skills with as many Leaders as possible, inspiring them to be the best humans they can be and bring as much joy and fulfilment to their work and lives. Cherie will also host Luminate Leadership’s annual IGNITE conference this August, celebrating Women in Leadership through coming together to connect, learn, inspire and be inspired.
Web: www.luminateleadership.com.au
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cheriecanning/
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Pia Andrews is an open government, digital transformation and data geek who has been trying to make the world a better place for 20 years. She usually works within the (public sector) machine to transform public services, policies and culture through greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design, open data, emerging technologies and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round. She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Pia was recognised in 2018 and 2019 as one of the global top 20 most Influential in Digital Government and was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014. Pia has also studied martial arts since 1990, and brings the philosophies and practices of Gung Fu and Chan Buddhism into her work every day.
Pia is currently taking something of a public sector sabbatical, working as a Strategic Advisor to the Public Sector in AWS. She is in a newly formed team made up of experienced public servants who provide futures oriented policy and outcomes focused advice, support, exploration and experimentation, to agencies and departments across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.
In 2023, Pia joined Apolitical’s Advisory Council on 21st Century Government, where some of the world’s most distinguished government leaders, innovators, and thinkers have come together to help accelerate Apolitical’s mission to help build 21st century governments that work for people and the planet.
Web: pipka.org
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pia-andrews/
The Mandarin articles: www.themandarin.com.au/author/pia-waughgmail-com/
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David’s passion lies in empowering people to achieve the success they seek in life. David is the founder of The Golden Thread’s online toolkit, Life Journey Skills and recipient of The Visioneers’ 2022 global award in recognition of his work to benefit humanity.
Born in the UK, David gained a first-class honours degree in chemical engineering at Edinburgh University and worked in the resources and IT industries for 24 years, leading many teams to success.
Realizing that his passion lay in empowering people, he became a business skills trainer, facilitator, and mentor. Over almost three decades, David has helped individuals and teams in hundreds of organizations, across 30 countries and five continents to improve their lives and business performance.
After finishing university, David spent a year driving a Land Rover overland from the UK to Australia and became fascinated with the different religions and cultures that he encountered. These travels were the genesis for his lifelong research into history, religion, gnostic wisdom and psychology - to discover how to best empower people. The result is his unique ability to synthesise the latest scientific thinking and the ancient wisdom to address, and inspire the whole person - body, mind, emotions and the deeper inner being.
This is the lifetime of experience and learning that David has condensed into his online Life Journey Skills program. He teaches the essential life skills - that people don’t learn at school - so that they can thrive at life. David’s book, Life Journey Skills, is also available for free on kindle or to purchase in hardcover from amazon.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-89539276/
Amazon: Life Journey Skills Book
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