Episodios

  • Georgie Holt on why you need leadership anti-values
    Nov 26 2025

    How often have you thought about your leadership values? Well, what you flipped that and started thinking in terms of anti-values?

    Georgie Holt is the CEO of media start-up Flight Story - the powerhouse behind the Diary of a CEO podcast. She's also spoken a lot recently about AI and her efforts to see if she, as CEO, can remove large parts of her role.

    In this episode, she speaks about building a culture based on "founder mentality", AI and the idea that a business shouldn’t just have values - it should also have anti values.

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    46 m
  • Paul Roos on what elite sports can teach corporate leaders
    Nov 19 2025

    What can the corporate world learn about leadership from elite sports teams?

    All AFL fans will recognise the name Paul Roos. He was a legendary coach and player who is perhaps best known for ending the Sydney Swan's 72 year premiership drought. But his leadership insights extend well beyond the pinnacles of elite sport.

    Today Paul heads a company called Performance by Design, dedicated to improving leadership in the corporate sector. In this episode, he shares his secrets on how to systemise a winning culture and build a team.

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    34 m
  • Back to basics: Wendy McCarthy on the politeness trap
    Nov 12 2025

    This week, we're revisiting one of our favourite FW Leadership Series episodes.

    Do you ever feel shackled by the expectation to be 'polite'? Wendy McCarthy is one of Australia’s leading feminists, businesswomen, activists, and a best-selling author. In this discussion with Helen McCabe, Wendy shares the many lessons she's learned about life, love and leadership.

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    45 m
  • Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks on how to stop people pleasing
    Nov 5 2025

    Does there come a point where you stop worrying about being likeable?

    Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks is the founder of media start-up Missing Perspectives. She is also the author of a new book called The Right Hand. In it, she speaks to chiefs of staff to some of the world’s most consequential leaders, from Jacinda Ardern to Nelson Mandela.

    In this episode, Phoebe shares what she's learned about leadership from these remarkable figures and discusses her own leadership trajectory as an entrepreneur and self-described "reformed people pleaser".

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    31 m
  • Justine Cain on what being widowed at 29 taught her about leadership
    Oct 29 2025

    Is there a trick to pushing through tough times? Justine Cain is the Group CEO of Diabetes Australia. In this episode, she speaks about resilience and how a great loss shaped her leadership philosophy. She also discusses her day-to-day approach to leading - from one-on-ones to org charts and skip meetings.

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    28 m
  • Van Tang on how to be a hardworking but lazy leader
    Oct 22 2025

    Van Tang is engineering giant GHD’s CEO for the Asia Pacific region. She leads a team of over 5600 people, spanning numerous countries and time zones. And yet, despite being incredibly hardworking, she holds onto a “lazy” leadership philosophy. In this episode, Van unpacks what she means by this and also shares why she can’t stand managing up and calls herself a 'bridging leader'.

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    29 m
  • Mark Rigotti's guide to becoming a board member
    Oct 15 2025

    What sort of career moves should you be making if you want to join a board?


    Mark Rigotti was the Global CEO at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, and today, he is the CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). In this episode, he talks Helen McCabe about complex power dynamics in the workplace and the sort of skills you need to be good at right now to end up on a board.

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    30 m
  • Erica Nelson's top tips for designing an effective org chart
    Oct 8 2025

    What should leaders think about when designing org charts? And what are the secrets to creating ones that fuel, rather than hinder, collaboration?

    Erica Nelson is the Chief Leadership Development Officer at the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation. She’s got a background in psychology and - among many things - works one-on-one with executives to help them sort through leadership pain points. In this episode she talks all things org charts and shares her experience of being made redundant not once - but three times - in her career.

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    30 m