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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
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.
Listen NowEpisode 79: The Performance vs. Wellbeing Myth
Karen is joined by Graham Winter the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence: the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about Achieving both high performance and wellbeing.
Listen NowEpisode 78: Taming the Black Dog
Karen is joined by Adam Blum, the author of "Easy Target: Taming the Blackdog," a keynote speaker, First Responder Firefighter, and host of the TrueBlueConversations Podcast, to discuss the steps you can take to overcome depression.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 72: Building Emotional Resilience
Karen is joined by Dr. Jane Foster, the Founder of Emotional Resilience and author of How to Build Greater Emotional Resilience At Work to talk about strategies for growing our capacity to regulate emotion and live a healthier life.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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!
Listen NowEpisode 67: Recovering from Burnout
On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Recovering from Burnout.
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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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 64: The Psychology of Collaboration
On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about The Psychology of Collaboration: Dive into the psychological aspects of collaboration, including how group dynamics and individual personalities affect teamwork.
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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 62: Psychological Safety at Work
On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Psychological Safety at Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Brett Pomroy. Brett is the Principal Lawyer at Salt Legal.
Listen NowEpisode 61: Trauma and Its Influence on How People Show Up at Work
This week on Work Savvy Karen is joined by Bonnie Souter to talk about What leaders need to understand about the influence of trauma on how people show up at work.
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Episode 60: Leadership coaching
Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching.
Listen NowEpisode 58: Building and Running High-Performing Teams
CIO Matthew Perry joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about building and running high-performing teams.
Listen NowEpisode 57: Difficult Times
Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff.
Listen NowEpisode 56: Self-Improvement
This week on Work Savvy Cristina Casanovi joins Karen and Maddie to unpack self-improvement and confidence.
Listen NowEpisode 55: The Powerful Combination of Mindset and Strategy
Zenia Wood is on Work Savvy this week to chat all about mindset.
Listen NowEpisode 54: Burnout
Mindfulness expert Melo Calarco joined the show to chat all about burnout.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 49: Optimising Impact
Tiffanee Cook joins Work Savvy to chat all about optimising impact.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 45: Performance Management
HR expert Sonya Law is back on the podcast to chat all about performance management systems.
Listen NowEpisode 44: High Performing Executive Teams
Gwen Pinnington joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about Exec teams.
Listen NowEpisode 42: Driving Out Bullying from the Workplace
Cam is back on the podcast to chat all about bullying.
Listen NowEpisode 39: Finding Inner Peace
Fiona Redding joins the show again, this time to chat all about how to find inner peace.
Listen NowEpisode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 36: Building Self-Awareness
The Happiness Hunter herself, Fiona Redding, joins the show to chat all about self-awareness.
Listen NowEpisode 35: Creating a Learning Culture
Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.
Listen NowEpisode 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.
Listen NowEpisode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance
Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.
Listen NowEpisode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times
Sian Stephens joins the show to chat all about having the energy to struggle through tough times.
Listen NowEpisode 31: Managing Versus Coaching
Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching.
Listen NowEpisode 30: High Performing Teams
Pete Clark is back on the show with Karen and Maddie to chat all about peformance.
Listen NowEpisode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner
Marcus Bird joins the show give Karen and Maddie tips on thriving as a business owner.
Listen NowEpisode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader
Alexis Gladstone joins Work Savvy to chat all about Executive leaders.
Listen NowEpisode 26: Building Courage
Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage.
Listen NowEpisode 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change
Karen and Maddie are joined by Angela Boyd to chat all about change.
Listen NowEpisode 24: Performance Reviews
Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.
Listen NowEpisode 23: Resilience
Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.
Listen NowEpisode 22: Mental Health
Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them.
Listen NowEpisode 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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