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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.
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Episode 87: Complexities of Managing Noisy and Challenging Employees
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.
Listen NowEpisode 84: Transformative Blueprint for Leaders to Thrive with Vision, Empathy, and Resilience in the 21st Century
Karen joins forces with organizational change and service management expert Karen Ferris. Author of "The Leadership Mindset," Ferris provides a transformative framework for 21st-century leaders. Together, they delve into the "REMARKABLE" acronym, unpacking essential leadership qualities.
Listen NowEpisode 83: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay
Michelle Gibbings, an expert in workplace culture, global keynote speaker, and accomplished author, joins Karen for an insightful discussion on the heavy price of poor leadership and the reasons ineffective bosses can no longer stick around.
Listen NowEpisode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth
Karen sits down with renowned sports psychologist Graham Winter, author of "Think One Team," to discuss how to achieve peak performance and well-being.
Listen NowEpisode 76: Why Leadership is Broken
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.
Listen NowEpisode 73: The Role Humans Have in the Future of Service
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.
Listen NowEpisode 72: Building Emotional Resilience
Want to increase your resilience and live a more fulfilling life? Join Karen and Dr. Jane Foster as they explore the science of emotional intelligence.
Listen NowEpisode 71: Rewiring Your Brain
Karen and Kim Hazendonk, a Neuropsychologist, come together to discuss the influence of the unconscious mind and strategies for rewiring the brain.
Listen NowEpisode 57: Difficult Times
Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff.
Listen NowEpisode 52: Managing Performance Remotely
This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work.
Listen NowEpisode 50: Why Thank You Is More Important Than Money
Happy 50th episode! Today we have Wendy Hanrahan joining us to talk all about why thank you matters more than money.
Listen NowEpisode 45: Performance Management
HR expert Sonya Law is back on the podcast to chat all about performance management systems.
Listen NowEpisode 42: Driving Out Bullying from the Workplace
Cam is back on the podcast to chat all about bullying.
Listen NowEpisode 41: Addressing Poor Performance
Catie is back on the show to chat about performance.
Listen NowEpisode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership.
Listen NowEpisode 37: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
We are back for 2023! Karen is back in the hot seat, with Maddie interviewing her all about unconscious bias.
Listen NowEpisode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times
Sian Stephens joins the show to chat all about having the energy to struggle through tough times.
Listen NowEpisode 24: Performance Reviews
Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.
Listen NowEpisode 23: Resilience
Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.
Listen NowEpisode 19: Emotional intelligence
Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!
Listen NowEpisode 6: Working and leading remotely
On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by their favourite ‘Potentialist’, Richard Day.
Listen NowEpisode 5: Smashing the Glass Ceiling
On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are lucky enough to be joined by Gemma Lloyd fromWork180.
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