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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 89: The Formula of Life

2 weeks ago

Karen sat down for an inspiring conversation with Rena Harvey, a talented Reiki master, intuitive psychic and spiritual mentor. They dove into the journey of self-discovery, sharing powerful insights on how to embrace your true self and step into a more empowered life.

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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 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 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 66: Mindset Matters

26-Feb-24 11:38am

What separates high performers from the rest? Join Karen and Kew Jaliens as they explore the role of mindset in achieving your goals.

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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 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 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 57: Difficult Times

23-Oct-23 6:00am

Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff.

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Episode 52: Managing Performance Remotely

14-Aug-23 6:00am

This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work.

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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 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 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 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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Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

30-Jan-23 6:00am

Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership.

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Episode 35: Creating a Learning Culture

5-Dec-22 6:00am

Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.

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Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

7-Nov-22 6:00am

Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.

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Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

10-Oct-22 6:00am

Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching.

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Episode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader

15-Aug-22 6:00am

Alexis Gladstone joins Work Savvy to chat all about Executive leaders.

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Episode 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change

18-Jul-22 6:00am

Karen and Maddie are joined by Angela Boyd to chat all about change.

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Episode 24: Performance Reviews

4-Jul-22 6:00am

Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.

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Episode 20: How to Optimize the Impact of HR

9-May-22 6:00am

Karen and Maddie chat to Angela Horkings (Director of Tandem Partners) and attempt to answer everyone's favourite question, "How do I optimise the impact of my HR team?"

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Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

11-Apr-22 6:00am

Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance.

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Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

28-Mar-22 6:00am

Karen and Maddie are joined by customer experience expert Darrell from Saguity.

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Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

14-Mar-22 6:00am

This week on Work Savvy, Pete Clark joins Karen and Maddie to chat about getting more from your people.

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Episode 15: Building Careers

28-Feb-22 6:00am

Karen and Maddie are joined by Nikki Smith, career coach, to chat all about building careers and finding the right career path.

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Episode 14: Assessing Candidates Accurately

14-Feb-22 6:00am

Maddie is back interviewing Karen, but this time they are talking about candidates. So, how do you assess candidates correctly? In the wake of the Great Resignation, lots of HR leaders will be hiring new people so it's a perfect time to share some tips on how to do this right.

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