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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.

Episode 22: Mental Health

6-Jun-22 6:00am

Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them.

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Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture

23-May-22 6:00am

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

9-May-22 6:00am

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

25-Apr-22 6:00am

Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!

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Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

11-Apr-22 6:00am

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

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Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

28-Mar-22 6:00am

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

14-Mar-22 6:00am

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

28-Feb-22 6:00am

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

14-Feb-22 6:00am

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

31-Jan-22 6:00am

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

17-Jan-22 6:00am

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

13-Dec-21 6:00am

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

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Episode 10: The Link Between Culture and High Staff Turnover

29-Nov-21 6:00am

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

15-Nov-21 6:00am

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

25-Oct-21 6:00am

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

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Episode 7: Finding Great Candidates

11-Oct-21 6:00am

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

27-Sep-21 6:00am

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by their favourite ‘Potentialist’, Richard Day.

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Episode 5: Smashing the Glass Ceiling

13-Sep-21 6:00am

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are lucky enough to be joined by Gemma Lloyd fromWork180.

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Episode 4: How to Become the Best Version of Yourself

30-Aug-21 6:00am

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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