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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 86: Navigating Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges on the Path to Success

Episode 86: Navigating Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Challenges on the Path to Success

Karen sits down with Krystal Xylander, CEO of Indigo Support and Founder & Director of GameSpec Pty Ltd. Krystal shares her journey of transitioning from a career in nursing to building a successful business in the NDIS sector. They explore how her nursing background has influenced her business approach, the challenges she encountered while scaling her company, and the transformative role a business coach played in helping her regain control and balance.

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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 70: Building A Career That You Love

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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Work Savvy Podcast with Wioletta Hislop

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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Work Savvy Podcast with Kew Jaliens

Episode 66: Mindset Matters

Karen is joined by Kew Jaliens, a former footballer and Olympian, and now Business Coach to talk about the link between mindset and success.    

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Episode 60: Leadership coaching

Episode 60: Leadership coaching

Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching. 

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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 57: Difficult Times

Episode 57: Difficult Times

Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff. 

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Episode 55: The Powerful Combination of Mindset and Strategy

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 52: Managing Performance Remotely

Episode 52: Managing Performance Remotely

This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work. 

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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 47: Communicating with Impact

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 46: Martial Arts in the Workplace

Episode 46: Martial Arts in the Workplace

Nadine Champion joins Karen and Maddie on Work Savvy to chat all about martial arts!

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Episode 45: Performance Management

Episode 45: Performance Management

HR expert Sonya Law is back on the podcast to chat all about performance management systems.

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Episode 44: High Performing Executive Teams

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

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

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

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 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 35: Creating a Learning Culture

Episode 35: Creating a Learning Culture

Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.

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Episode 34: Finding Passion and Purpose

Episode 34: Finding Passion and Purpose

Peter Cook joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about finding your passion and purpose at work and in life.

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Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

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

Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching. 

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Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner

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 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader

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 26: Building Courage

Episode 26: Building Courage

Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage.

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Episode 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change

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

Episode 24: Performance Reviews

Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.

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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 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 19: Emotional intelligence

Episode 19: Emotional intelligence

Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!

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Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance. 

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Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

Karen and Maddie are joined by customer experience expert Darrell from Saguity.

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Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

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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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 13: Difficult Conversations

Episode 13: Difficult Conversations

This week Maddie interviews Karen to talk about conversations. Not just any conversations, but conversations leaders find most challenging. 

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Episode 12: Mental Health and Connection

Episode 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.

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Episode 11: Common Reasons Change Efforts Fail

Episode 11: Common Reasons Change Efforts Fail

Why do change efforts often fail? Karen and Maddie chat to Karen Ferris to find out why!

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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 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 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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