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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 93: Bridging the HR Credibility Gap
Karen and Ilona Charles chat about the struggles HR professionals face in gaining trust and credibility at work. Ilona shares her insights as CEO of Shilo People and author of HR for Impact.
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Episode 92: The Negotiation Playbook
In a recent episode, Karen had a conversation with Glin Bayley, an experienced negotiation specialist and author of The Negotiation Playbook. They explored the fundamentals of successful negotiations, emphasizing the power of mindset, strategies for overcoming fear and essential techniques for achieving favorable outcomes.
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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 90: Collective Decision-Making: A Key to Organizational Success
In this episode, we sat down with Bryan Whitefield, a leading expert in team dynamics and decision-making.
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Episode 88: Leadership Lessons from an Airline Pilot
A recently retired airline captain, Chris Smith joins us to unpack decades of valuable lessons gained both in the air and on the ground.
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Episode 87: Complexities of Managing Noisy and Challenging Employees
Award-winning entrepreneur and business coach, Shivani Gupta, joins Karen to share her insights on managing difficult employees. Together, they'll discuss practical solutions to transform workplace challenges into opportunities.
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Episode 86: Navigating Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges on the Path to Success
Krystal shares her journey from nurse to entrepreneur, discussing the challenges of scaling her business and the impact of ADHD. We explore her vision for inclusive spaces for neurodiverse individuals and the future of her companies, Indigo Support and GameSpec.
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Episode 84: Transformative Blueprint for Leaders to Thrive with Vision, Empathy, and Resilience in the 21st Century
Karen joins forces with organizational change and service management expert Karen Ferris. Author of "The Leadership Mindset," Ferris provides a transformative framework for 21st-century leaders. Together, they delve into the "REMARKABLE" acronym, unpacking essential leadership qualities.
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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 80: Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture
Learn from the best. In this episode, we sit down with Fran Pratt, Founder and Director of Metisan, to discuss the secrets to building a successful sales team.
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Episode 77: Why Soft Skills Are the New Hard Skills That Every Leader Needs
Karen welcomes Leah Mether, an expert in communication and human skills, a seasoned speaker, trainer, facilitator and two-time published author, to explore why soft skills have become the essential hard skills every leader needs.
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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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Episode 75: Building Peak Performance Sales Teams
On today's episode, Karen welcomes Anna Glynn, a dynamic speaker, coach, and author of Strong: How the Best Sales Leaders Engage, Achieve, and Thrive. Together, they'll dive into the strategies for building peak-performance sales teams.
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Episode 74: Leading Your Team to Peak Performance
Karen and Graham Winter, a renowned sports psychologist, challenge the myth of the "hustle culture." They discuss the importance of well-being and finding a sustainable work rhythm for peak performance.
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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 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 69: Leadership in Education
Karen is honored to be joined by Tony Mackay, a highly respected leader in the education sector, to delve into the topic of leadership in Education.
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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 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 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 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 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 55: The Powerful Combination of Mindset and Strategy
Zenia Wood is on Work Savvy this week to chat all about mindset.
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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 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 47: Communicating with Impact
Communication and presentation skills pro Justin O'Brien joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about how to communicate with impact.
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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 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 35: Creating a Learning Culture
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
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
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 28: Communicating Through Tough Times
Karen and Maddie are joined by Jon Yeo to chat all about communication.
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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 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change
Karen and Maddie are joined by Angela Boyd to chat all about change.
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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 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 18: Culture Driven Governance
Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance.
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Episode 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.
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