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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 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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On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Recovering from Burnout.
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Episode 62: Psychological Safety at Work
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.
Listen NowEpisode 60: Leadership coaching
Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching.
Listen NowEpisode 57: Difficult Times
Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff.
Listen NowEpisode 54: Burnout
Mindfulness expert Melo Calarco joined the show to chat all about burnout.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 52: Managing Performance Remotely
This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work.
Listen NowEpisode 49: Optimising Impact
Tiffanee Cook joins Work Savvy to chat all about optimising impact.
Listen NowEpisode 48: Letting People Go Well
This week on the show Maddie is interviewing Karen all about how to fire people... correctly!
Listen NowEpisode 46: Martial Arts in the Workplace
Nadine Champion joins Karen and Maddie on Work Savvy to chat all about martial arts!
Listen NowEpisode 44: High Performing Executive Teams
Gwen Pinnington joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about Exec teams.
Listen NowEpisode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders
Ros Cardinal is on the show today to unpack leaders.
Listen NowEpisode 41: Addressing Poor Performance
Catie is back on the show to chat about performance.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 39: Finding Inner Peace
Fiona Redding joins the show again, this time to chat all about how to find inner peace.
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 36: Building Self-Awareness
The Happiness Hunter herself, Fiona Redding, joins the show to chat all about self-awareness.
Listen NowEpisode 35: Creating a Learning Culture
Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.
Listen NowEpisode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance
Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.
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 31: Managing Versus Coaching
Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching.
Listen NowEpisode 30: High Performing Teams
Pete Clark is back on the show with Karen and Maddie to chat all about peformance.
Listen NowEpisode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner
Marcus Bird joins the show give Karen and Maddie tips on thriving as a business owner.
Listen NowEpisode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader
Alexis Gladstone joins Work Savvy to chat all about Executive leaders.
Listen NowEpisode 26: Building Courage
Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage.
Listen NowEpisode 23: Resilience
Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.
Listen NowEpisode 22: Mental Health
Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them.
Listen NowEpisode 21: EQ and Team Culture
Karen and Maddie are joined by Ros Batson to discuss the link between EQ and team culture.
Listen NowEpisode 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?"
Listen NowEpisode 19: Emotional intelligence
Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!
Listen NowEpisode 18: Culture Driven Governance
Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance.
Listen NowEpisode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture
Karen and Maddie are joined by customer experience expert Darrell from Saguity.
Listen NowEpisode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team
This week on Work Savvy, Pete Clark joins Karen and Maddie to chat about getting more from your people.
Listen NowEpisode 14: Assessing Candidates Accurately
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.
Listen NowEpisode 13: Difficult Conversations
This week Maddie interviews Karen to talk about conversations. Not just any conversations, but conversations leaders find most challenging.
Listen NowEpisode 12: Mental Health and Connection
Karen and Maddie were joined by the creators of Mind You, Liv Downing and Caroline Weinstein to chat all things mental health.
Listen NowEpisode 11: Common Reasons Change Efforts Fail
Why do change efforts often fail? Karen and Maddie chat to Karen Ferris to find out why!
Listen NowEpisode 10: The Link Between Culture and High Staff Turnover
Karen and Maddie are joined by Sonya Law to chat about workplace culture.
Listen NowEpisode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business
Karen and Maddie are joined by fellow HR expert, Cam Shepherd.
Listen NowEpisode 7: Finding Great Candidates
Karen and Maddie are joined by Karen O'Brien to chat about recruitment and how you can go about finding great candidates for your team or business.
Listen NowEpisode 3: The Art of Powerful Conversations
Karen and Maddie are joined by Gretchen Gagel from Greatness Consulting. Difficult and powerful conversations are dissected on this week's podcast.
Listen NowEpisode 2: Through the Eyes of a HR Director
Karen and Maddie are joined by Judy Utley from TCV. Together, they discuss the key mistakes leaders make.
Listen NowEpisode 1: How to Build a Mindful Organisation
Karen and Maddie are joined by Liv Downing from LivMindfully. So, what is a mindful organisation.
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