Team Guru Podcast

Resilience in leadership is the hot topic and in this episode of the Team Guru Podcast I ask why. Why is resilience more relevant now than ever before? What is it? Can it be learned? How? And what can it mean for our lives? Today’s guest answers all of those questions and more. Stacey Copas is a key-note speaker, coach, author, and resilience consultant. And through her business, Resiliency for Re...

JV Crum is the man behind the Conscious Millionaire empire. At 5 years of age he decided he wanted to be a millionaire and he told anyone who’d listen. By 25 he’d made his first million… …and then realised it hadn’t made him happy. Thus began the quest for authentic professional and personal fulfilment. In this episode of the Team Guru Podcast, JV Crum shares his thoughts about wealth creation, cr...

Bob Katter has spent more than 40 years in state and federal parliament. He was a long serving minister in Queensland’s notorious Bjelke-Peterson government. He was one of the three independent MPs who held the fate of the Australian government in his hands during the 2010 hung parliament. Bob Katter has styled himself as one of the most colourful, opinionated, passionate and controversial members...

Michael Blucher talks about life inside the bubble of professional sport and the lessons about performance and personal growth we can all learn from the trails and tribulations of the stars of the athletic world. Michael is an author, blogger, keynote speaker and professional advisor to high profile sports men and women and business leaders. His latest book - Bubble Boys – takes readers into the s...

Who is leading our democratic process? Is it the media, the voting public, or the politicians we elect? Here in Australia we’ve just found ourselves with a brand new prime minister – our 5th in five years. It’s been a fascinating few years– powerful personalities and a revolving door of leadership. It’s been nasty, divisive and hyper-partisan. Whatever the changes have meant to you, we all have on...

Prue Mackenzie is quite simply one of the most impressive people I have ever met. Beneath her easy going manner and quick wit lies formidable intelligence, a wickedly competitive streak and lofty ambition. Prue graduated from her commerce degree with honours and at the very top of the class. At 29 she became a vice president at the global financial giant Credit Suisse. She’s a Harvard Business Sch...

Johannes Fritzsch is a rockstar of the orchestral world. Last year he finshed his tenure as the chief conductor of the Queensland Sympanthy Orchestra – where he oversaw the most challenging time in their long history – a merger with the Queensland philharmonic orchestra. In his role as chief conductor he very much sees himself as a leader of people. Johannes was born in Meissen East Germany. He gr...

Jason Maloni is a crisis communication expert. Environmental disaster. Transportation accident. Celebrity mishap. Corporate take over. Have you ever wondered about the type of thinking behind the response of a company, celebrity or nation when they find themselves in a sticky situation? Chances are Jason Maloni is in the war room working it out. Crisis communication is a specialised art and our gu...

Boo Holmes is a modern day Lionel Logue – Geoffrey Rush’s character in The King’s Speech. Except he’s a polite Englishman A trained actor – who has of course appeared in The Bill – Boo now spends his time helping people master the art of communication with his company Speak the Speech His clients include delegates from the United Nations, Formula 1 drivers, international cricketers, rugby league a...

Are there any teams that work under greater pressure, for higher stakes, than an emergency department at a hospital? Have you ever been part of a team that thinks the work it does is too important to ‘waste’ time thinking about the way its members interact – a team that thinks its technical skills and knowledge gives it immunity from having to think about human interaction? Then this episode is fo...

Pat Howard has had a pretty incredible career. He played 20 tests for the Wallabies during a decade-long professional rugby career. He has been a first grade coach, a rugby administrator, a high performance director for Australian Rugby, a Chief Operating Officer for a property funds management group – and right now he’s the General Manager of Team Performance with Cricket Australia. …and he’s lea...

Have you ever wondered how a professional rugby league team operates? How do they develop a healthy team culture? What are the leadership habits of the game's top coaches? In this episode Team Guru speaks to Steve Hooper. Steve has been on the strength and conditioning staff at the North Queensland Cowboys, Catalan Dragons, Queensland State of Origin Team and his current role at the Brisbane Bronc...