The Salience Podcast

In this episode, we discuss Culture Studies as a topic. We speak with researcher and visual artist, Nurul Huda Rashid who is currently pursuing her PhD in Cultural Studies in Asia at the National University of Singapore. Nurul’s research explores the role of algorithms in the study of Muslim women images. Her current project, Women in War, is a survey of images of women in war, critiqued through l...

On This episode of the  Salience Podcast, we explore the relationships between culture and change and the importance of curiosity. We speak with our good friend Nina Bressler, Global Head of Societal Learning at Novartis. Nina leads an aspirational program to help Novartis achieve their vision of Reimagining Medicine. Nina’s focus is to deliver sustainable learning outside the company, by supporti...

In this episode of The Salience Podcast we explore the impact of culture on domestic and family violence, and what men can do to change culture.  In Australia, around 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men have experienced physical and/or sexual violence, and a woman is murdered by her partner or former partner roughly every week. These sobering statistics are not unique to Australia. Gender-based violence...

On this episode, we speak to David Lee, a global change and business transformation executive and advisor with over 25 years of experience in leading change in organisations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 to the public sector. He is currently a managing consultant and lead trainer at Prosci Singapore, a leading provider of expertise and capacity building in change management. David has enga...

Today on the Salience Podcast, We discuss the issues with industrialised healthcare’s culture of control, and how we can move from a more pathogenic culture of seeking to “control” chronic diseases, to one that recognises the variability of patient lives, and encourages salutogenesis - or, the sense of coherence that patients can seek by cultivating their ability to understand their own condition,...

Today on The Salience Podcast we tackle the subject of culture and domestic violence, especially the challenge of managing exit risk.  Our guest is Stella Avramopoulos. Stella is the CEO of Good Shepherd, a not-for-profit focused on tackling the significant issues impacting women, girls and families. And one of the biggest issues is domestic and family violence.  Tune in to hear Stella talk about...

In this episode of The Salience Podcast, we explore the culture of learning, being overly busy, and what to do about it. Our guest on The Salience Podcast today is Diana Renner. Diana is a writer and leadership consultant based in Melbourne. Her first book Not Knowing: the art of turning uncertainty into opportunity was published in 2014 and won the U.K. Management Book of the Year award in 2015.H...

Today on The Salience Podcast we explore organizational culture with our guest Jessie Xia. Jessie is the Global Chief Information Officer of Thoughtworks, a global technology company with over 50 offices in 18 countries. Thoughtworks has been internationally recognised as one of the “Great places to work”, and we discuss how the organization has managed its culture as it has scaled. We discuss the...

Today on The Salience Podcast we do a deep dive into culture and child sexual abuse in institutions.  Today’s topic could be raw or triggering for some listeners. I encourage you to continue listening, though as always, there’s a fine line between having an appropriate emotional response, perhaps one that signals to you to act, and the sort of signal that lets you know that you should probably tap...

Today on The Salience Podcast we explore the impact of culture on safety.  Our guest is Jeff Mongomery. Jeff has a distinguished career as a US Navy pilot, with 30 years of leadership, team building, and management experience in aviation. He completed 5 active deployments involving combat in the middle east and is just transitioning from being a test pilot to flying for a medical life flight organ...

The first season of The Salience Podcast explored various aspects of resilience, from managing risk, to hosting effective online meetings, and even learning about how to manage chronic pain from folks that enjoy spanky time.  For the next season, we explore culture, especially how culture influences relationships, for good and bad. To explore these topics, we are heading into conversations with pe...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Daniel Moore. Dan is a holistic osteopath and coach who is currently exploring what we can learn about reframing chronic pain from folks that like spanky time! Dan is one of the people we featured in Resilience by Design for a super simple and effective technique he developed for reducing states like stress and anxiety. The solar panel is one of the most...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Anthea Fisher.  Anthea’s resume reads like an adventure novel. Her experiences range from Mountain Rescue in New Zealand to planning and logistics coordination for humanitarian services in Africa and remote islands in the Pacific.  Anthea survived an avalanche at Everest Base camp, and led one of the most difficult, complex and ultimately tragic rescue mi...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Judy Rees. Judy was named a ‘Top 100 influencer in Remote Working’ in 2020 by Onalytica. With Steve McCann, she is the co-founder of ReesMcCann, a boutique training company specialising in making online gatherings better than in-the-room. Judy has written several books on the use of metaphors for change at work and throughout life. Listen in to Judy on Th...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Steve McCrone. Steve is co-founder of AGLX, a boutique management consultancy with a focus on adaptive strategy.  Just about every management consultancy does strategic planning of some sort, the reason I wanted to interview Steve today is his approach is grounded in some fascinating life experiences, in this case, in a previous life, Steve was a bomb dis...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Kristy Hitchens. Kristy is the Founder and Chair of The Pink Belt Project, an Australian registered charity that aims to empower women in need by connecting them with the martial arts.  Pink Belt is a peak body for women involved in martial arts and an authority on martial arts for violence prevention and recovery. Domestic violence affects both men and w...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Dr Caitlin Walker. Caitlin is the author of From Contempt to Curiosity: Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate Using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling Caitlin also recently graduated with her PhD in CLEAN LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING, CURRICULUM DESIGN IS LIKE WHAT?   With application to HIGHER EDUCATION.  Caitlin is also the founding director of...

Our guest in this episode of The Salience Podcast is Brian Rivera. He’s a former top gun pilot, co-author of The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity and Co-founder and CEO AGLX North America.  Brian’s work with the Flow Consortium offers an important contribution for leaders and organisations looking to innovate and step up into the high-performance realm....

Usually, in The Salience Podcast, we interview authors or amazing people that inspired us while we were writing Resilience by Design. The podcast was conceived as a way to explore people and their ideas in more depth than we could cover in the book. This episode is something of an exception… and somewhat to our embarrassment, we have to admit that we missed Staffan’s important contribution to resi...

This week's guest is Dr Jeffrey Funk. Jeffrey is a consultant and academic whose career is focused on the emergence and uptake of technology. Jeffrey is a best-selling author on technology and has taught at several prestigious universities including 9 years at the National University of Singapore.  Jeffrey’s teaching, publishing, consulting and blogging aim to help individuals and companies n...

This week's guest on the Salience Podcast is Nick Littlehales, author of the best-selling book “Sleep”.     The danger of talking too much about sleep is we may end up feeling, well, sleepy! Despite the cunning title of Nick’s book, his book is very engaging and provides a number of super practical tips. Nick is much more than an academic author; he is the sleep coach to many sports teams and...

Episode 2 of The Salience Podcast features Greg Layton. Greg is the bestselling author of Chief Maker and is the CEO of a company of the same name.  Greg has a really tight niche in the talent development market focussing on helping people in organisations who are perhaps under the most pressure - the Senior Managers or General Managers who I describe as the meat in the sandwich. They have to deal...

Our guest today on The Salience Podcast is Michele Wucker. Michele is the internationally bestselling author of Gray Rhino. A “ grey rhino ” is a metaphor for a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat. Whereas the elephant in the room is the big obvious problem that everyone avoids talking about, and the black swan is an improbable and unforeseeable extreme event; Ignore a charging rhino...

The Salience podcast is a weekly dive into the frontiers of advanced human performance. Host Dr Ian Snape interviews expert guests and game-changers from the world of science, art, sports, business and defence, to discover how we can all become better at surviving and thriving in complex and uncertain times. For more information about The Salience Podcast and Frontline Mind  please visit our websi...