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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 85: The Chocolate Bar Life: Redefining Success and Finding Fulfillment on Your Own Terms
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
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 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.
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Episode 70: Building A Career That You Love
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 68: Leadership Lessons from the Gym
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
Tune in to this episode to learn how to overcome burnout and build a more sustainable work-life balance.
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Episode 66: Mindset Matters
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
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
We're diving into the psychology of collaboration. Learn how group dynamics and individual personalities impact teamwork.
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Episode 63: Being A Successful Entrepreneur
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
Ever felt hesitant to share your ideas at work, even if they're brilliant? Join Karen and Brett Pomroy as they explore the power of psychological safety and how it can unlock your team's full potential.
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Episode 60: Leadership coaching
Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching.
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Episode 59: Financial Finesse for Business Owners
Join Karen, Maddie, and money expert Jacqui Clark as they discuss budgeting, saving, and investing.
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Episode 57: Difficult Times
Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff.
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Episode 56: Self-Improvement
This week on Work Savvy Cristina Casanovi joins Karen and Maddie to unpack self-improvement and confidence.
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Episode 54: Burnout
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
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 52: Managing Performance Remotely
This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work.
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Episode 51: Avoiding Turnover
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
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
Tiffanee Cook joins Work Savvy to chat all about optimising impact.
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Episode 48: Letting People Go Well
This week on the show Maddie is interviewing Karen all about how to fire people... correctly!
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Episode 46: Martial Arts in the Workplace
Nadine Champion joins Karen and Maddie on Work Savvy to chat all about martial arts!
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Episode 45: Performance Management
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
Gwen Pinnington joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about Exec teams.
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Episode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders
Ros Cardinal is on the show today to unpack leaders.
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Episode 42: Driving Out Bullying from the Workplace
Cam is back on the podcast to chat all about bullying.
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Episode 41: Addressing Poor Performance
Catie is back on the show to chat about performance.
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Episode 40: Getting the Hiring Decisions Right
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 39: Finding Inner Peace
Fiona Redding joins the show again, this time to chat all about how to find inner peace.
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Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership.
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Episode 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.
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Episode 36: Building Self-Awareness
The Happiness Hunter herself, Fiona Redding, joins the show to chat all about self-awareness.
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Episode 35: Creating a Learning Culture
Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.
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Episode 34: Finding Passion and Purpose
Peter Cook joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about finding your passion and purpose at work and in life.
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Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance
Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.
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Episode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times
Sian Stephens joins the show to chat all about having the energy to struggle through tough times.
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Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching
Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching.
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Episode 30: High Performing Teams
Pete Clark is back on the show with Karen and Maddie to chat all about peformance.
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Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner
Marcus Bird joins the show give Karen and Maddie tips on thriving as a business owner.
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Episode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader
Alexis Gladstone joins Work Savvy to chat all about Executive leaders.
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Episode 26: Building Courage
Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage.
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Episode 24: Performance Reviews
Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.
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Episode 23: Resilience
Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.
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Episode 22: Mental Health
Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them.
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Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture
Karen and Maddie are joined by Ros Batson to discuss the link between EQ and team culture.
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Episode 20: How to Optimize the Impact of HR
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 19: Emotional intelligence
Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!
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Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance
Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance.
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Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture
Karen and Maddie are joined by customer experience expert Darrell from Saguity.
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