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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 59: Financial Finesse for Business Owners

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 58: Building and Running High-Performing Teams

Episode 58: Building and Running High-Performing Teams

CIO Matthew Perry joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about building and running high-performing teams.

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Episode 51: Avoiding Turnover

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 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

Episode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

Ros Cardinal is on the show today to unpack leaders.

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Episode 41: Addressing Poor Performance

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

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 30: High Performing Teams

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 24: Performance Reviews

Episode 24: Performance Reviews

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

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 15: Building Careers

Episode 15: Building Careers

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

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 10: The Link Between Culture and High Staff Turnover

Episode 10: The Link Between Culture and High Staff Turnover

Karen and Maddie are joined by Sonya Law to chat about workplace culture.

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Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Karen and Maddie are joined by fellow HR expert, Cam Shepherd. 

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Episode 8: What to Do When New Team Members Aren't Performing

Episode 8: What to Do When New Team Members Aren't Performing

Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie Paterson to chat about recognising performance issues.

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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 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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