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Tune in to Work Savvy for a burst of inspiration and insights on Leadership and Self Mastery.

Sensei Karen engages with leading experts and accomplished business leaders, diving deep into what it means to be an outstanding leader of people while thriving at work and in life.

Get ready to be inspired as Karen and her guests share their journeys through captivating stories, offering hard-won wisdom and practical advice that you can use right now.

We're excited for you to listen and discover how to be Work Savvy!

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Episode 87: Complexities of Managing Noisy and Challenging Employees

Last Monday 1:32pm

Award-winning entrepreneur and business coach, Shivani Gupta, joins Karen to share her insights on managing difficult employees. Together, they'll discuss practical solutions to transform workplace challenges into opportunities.

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Episode 86: Navigating Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges on the Path to Success

3 weeks ago

Krystal shares her journey from nurse to entrepreneur, discussing the challenges of scaling her business and the impact of ADHD. We explore her vision for inclusive spaces for neurodiverse individuals and the future of her companies, Indigo Support and GameSpec.

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Episode 85: The Chocolate Bar Life: Redefining Success and Finding Fulfillment on Your Own Terms

21-Oct-24 12:49pm

Karen is joined by Danielle Colley, author of "The Chocolate Bar Life," who is an integrative life coach, speaker, event facilitator, and writer, to talk about redefining Success and Finding Fulfillment on Your Own Terms.

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Episode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth

12-Aug-24 4:50pm

Karen is joined by Graham Winter the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence: the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about Achieving both high performance and wellbeing.

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Episode 78: Taming the Black Dog

29-Jul-24 4:49am

Karen is joined by Adam Blum, the author of "Easy Target: Taming the Blackdog," a keynote speaker, First Responder Firefighter, and host of the TrueBlueConversations Podcast, to discuss the steps you can take to overcome depression.

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Episode 77: Why Soft Skills Are the New Hard Skills That Every Leader Needs

15-Jul-24 10:07am

Karen welcomes Leah Mether, an expert in communication and human skills, a seasoned speaker, trainer, facilitator, and two-time published author, to explore why soft skills have become the essential hard skills every leader needs.

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Episode 76: Why Leadership is Broken

1-Jul-24 10:57am

Dr. Paige Williams, a renowned keynote speaker, organizational psychologist, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, joins Karen to discuss why leadership is broken and what we need to do about it.

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Episode 75: Building Peak Performance Sales Teams

17-Jun-24 11:20am

On today's episode, Karen welcomes Anna Glynn, a dynamic speaker, coach, and author of Strong: How the Best Sales Leaders Engage, Achieve, and Thrive. Together, they'll dive into the strategies for building peak-performance sales teams.

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Episode 73: The Role Humans Have in the Future of Service

20-May-24 10:27am

Karen is joined by Jaquie Scammell, Australia’s leading Customer Service expert and Founder of ServiceQ, to discuss the role humans have in the future of service.

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Episode 72: Building Emotional Resilience

6-May-24 12:45pm

Karen is joined by Dr. Jane Foster, the Founder of Emotional Resilience and author of How to Build Greater Emotional Resilience At Work to talk about strategies for growing our capacity to regulate emotion and live a healthier life.

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Episode 71: Rewiring Your Brain

30-Apr-24 12:53pm

Karen and Kim Hazendonk, a Neuropsychologist, come together to discuss the influence of the unconscious mind and strategies for rewiring the brain.

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Episode 70: Building A Career That You Love

22-Apr-24 9:54am

Karen is joined by Charlotte Blair, one of Australia’s most experienced Gallup Accredited Strengths Coaches, and author of Career Unstuck: How to play to your strengths to find freedom and purpose in your work again, to talk about how to build a career that you love.

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Episode 69: Leadership in Education

8-Apr-24 10:09am

Karen is honored to be joined by Tony Mackay, a highly respected leader in the education sector, to delve into the topic of leadership in Education.

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Episode 68: Leadership Lessons from the Gym

25-Mar-24 11:47am

Join us as we dive into the intersection of strength and strategy with Wioletta Hislop, the powerhouse mentor bridging bodybuilding and business on Work Savvy!

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Episode 67: Recovering from Burnout

12-Mar-24 1:00pm

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Recovering from Burnout.

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Episode 66: Mindset Matters

26-Feb-24 11:38am

Karen is joined by Kew Jaliens, a former footballer and Olympian, and now Business Coach to talk about the link between mindset and success.

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Episode 65: AI and the Changing Nature of Work

12-Feb-24 12:27pm

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about AI and the Changing Nature of Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Belinda Fyffe. Belinda is the CEO of The Proven Group, a People and Culture Consultancy.

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Episode 64: The Psychology of Collaboration

29-Jan-24 12:04pm

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about The Psychology of Collaboration: Dive into the psychological aspects of collaboration, including how group dynamics and individual personalities affect teamwork.

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Episode 63: Being A Successful Entrepreneur

17-Jan-24 11:08am

On the show today we’re going to kick off by talking all about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.

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Episode 62: Psychological Safety at Work

15-Jan-24 1:22pm

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Psychological Safety at Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Brett Pomroy. Brett is the Principal Lawyer at Salt Legal.

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Episode 61: Trauma and Its Influence on How People Show Up at Work

18-Dec-23 2:13pm

This week on Work Savvy Karen is joined by Bonnie Souter to talk about What leaders need to understand about the influence of trauma on how people show up at work.

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Episode 60: Leadership coaching

4-Dec-23 6:00am

Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching.

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Episode 58: Building and Running High-Performing Teams

6-Nov-23 6:00am

CIO Matthew Perry joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about building and running high-performing teams.

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Episode 56: Self-Improvement

9-Oct-23 6:00am

This week on Work Savvy Cristina Casanovi joins Karen and Maddie to unpack self-improvement and confidence.

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Episode 55: The Powerful Combination of Mindset and Strategy

25-Sep-23 6:00am

Zenia Wood is on Work Savvy this week to chat all about mindset.

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Episode 54: Burnout

11-Sep-23 6:00am

Mindfulness expert Melo Calarco joined the show to chat all about burnout.

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Episode 53: Lessons Learned in Building a Successful Business and Team

28-Aug-23 6:00am

Business owner Olivia Mangold joins the show to chat all about the keys to building a successful business and team.

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Episode 51: Avoiding Turnover

31-Jul-23 6:00am

This week on the show Karen and Maddie have Jane Betts from Aussie Broadband on to chat all about avoiding turnover in the early stages of employment.

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Episode 50: Why Thank You Is More Important Than Money

17-Jul-23 6:00am

Happy 50th episode! Today we have Wendy Hanrahan joining us to talk all about why thank you matters more than money.

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Episode 49: Optimising Impact

3-Jul-23 6:00am

Tiffanee Cook joins Work Savvy to chat all about optimising impact.

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Episode 48: Letting People Go Well

19-Jun-23 6:00am

This week on the show Maddie is interviewing Karen all about how to fire people... correctly!

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Episode 47: Communicating with Impact

5-Jun-23 6:00am

Communication and presentation skills pro Justin O'Brien joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about how to communicate with impact.

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Episode 46: Martial Arts in the Workplace

22-May-23 6:00am

Nadine Champion joins Karen and Maddie on Work Savvy to chat all about martial arts!

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Episode 45: Performance Management

8-May-23 6:00am

HR expert Sonya Law is back on the podcast to chat all about performance management systems.

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Episode 44: High Performing Executive Teams

24-Apr-23 6:00am

Gwen Pinnington joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about Exec teams.

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Episode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

10-Apr-23 6:00am

Ros Cardinal is on the show today to unpack leaders.

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Episode 42: Driving Out Bullying from the Workplace

27-Mar-23 6:00am

Cam is back on the podcast to chat all about bullying.

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Episode 41: Addressing Poor Performance

13-Mar-23 6:00am

Catie is back on the show to chat about performance.

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Episode 40: Getting the Hiring Decisions Right

27-Feb-23 6:00am

Angela Horkings is on the podcast this week to chat about getting hiring decisions right and how to avoid hiring the wrong people for your team or business.

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