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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. 

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

You can listen to the latest episode below or browse our library to catch up on any episodes you might have missed.

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Episode 91: Winning The War for Talent

Episode 91: Winning The War for Talent

Join Karen and Richard Triggs in this engaging conversation as they delve into the latest trends in talent acquisition, uncover the power of employer branding and reveal key strategies for building high-performance teams.

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Episode 83: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay

Episode 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.

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Episode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth

Episode 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.

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Episode 76: Why Leadership is Broken

Episode 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.

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Work Savvy Podcast with Jaquie Scammell

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 72: Building Emotional Resilience

Episode 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.

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Episode 71: Rewiring Your Brain

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 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

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

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 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times

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 23: Resilience

Episode 23: Resilience

Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.

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Episode 19: Emotional intelligence

Episode 19: Emotional intelligence

Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!

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Episode 14: Assessing Candidates Accurately

Episode 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. 

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Episode 7: Finding Great Candidates

Episode 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.  

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Episode 6: Working and leading remotely

Episode 6: Working and leading remotely

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by their favourite ‘Potentialist’, Richard Day. 

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Episode 5: Smashing the Glass Ceiling

Episode 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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Episode 4: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself

Episode 4: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by Shannah Kennedy, the perfect guest to chat about how to become the best possible version of yourself.

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Episode 3: The Art of Powerful Conversations

Episode 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.

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Episode 2: Through the Eyes of a HR Director

Episode 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.

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Episode 1: How to Build a Mindful Organisation

Episode 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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