Leadership Amplified by Dr Karen Morley

As Janice Hoogeveen, Head of Marketing at Terrywhite Chemmart reflects on her career in the latest episode of Leadership Amplified, one key piece of advice that she passes on is to always look for the learning opportunity. She was and remains keen to receive feedback, as she knows just how important it has been to her. She says, ‘If I learned the hard way, I found out what I could do better next t...

The key focus for our discussion was on how leaders can successfully navigate the increasingly digital world we inhabit. Alena started her career studying English, then moved to Economics and finally settled on Geography in her quest to understand why things are the way they are. Geography provides her with an interesting perspective, revealing how much our lives are informed and touched by where...

This statement encapsulates much of my conversation with special guest Glen Sharman who is General Manager for MaxiTRANS NSW. He’s always been in the transport industry and has had the happy opportunity to have a diverse career across different working cultures, with global and local brands, working for large and small companies. Glen reflects that from a young age he had a diverse mix of people a...

It can be challenging knowing what it’s like to work in a particular role, industry or organisation. Not knowing is one of the real impediments particularly for women moving into male dominated work. This is something that Donna Stace mastered very early in her career. Donna is an Operational Specialist in a Functional Safety Team at Rio Tinto. Growing up in The Pilbara as she did, she was exposed...

This is such an important piece of advice that Hanli Pretorius offers in this Leadership Amplified episode. Hanli is General Manager, People and Culture – Defence and Social Infrastructure at Ventia. As she says, while she got into HR by chance rather than design - she took on a job, and found herself a career - she’s had great leadership support and the freedom to play and experiment to implement...

It was an interesting way to end the latest conversation on Leadership Amplified: getting great performance from others starts with you, the leader, taking accountability for your own performance and self-improvement. Rohan Horsley made this conclusion after we’d discussed the often-times tricky challenge of team performance and its successful measurement. I enjoyed Rohan’s take on performance and...

The complexity of our world just continues to grow. We have multiple challenges of very different kinds to make sense of and prioritise attention to. One thing that helps is being able to see a way through contradiction, so I was very pleased in this new episode of Leadership Amplified to speak with Ilka Fuerstenberger, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Australia about one contradiction that...

In this latest episode of Leadership Amplified, listen in to Tim Drinkall’s wisdom about careers, their weird but wonderful trajectories, and the value of career support. Tim should know, he’s Head of Learning and Organisational Development at Metro Trains! While Tim has spent 25 years in various learning and organisation development roles, his career started on a surprisingly different trajectory...

As someone who’s seen a lot of change in her life Sudha Sharma has some terrific advice for approaching it successfully. In Episode 38 of Leadership Amplified we have a powerful conversation about influencing others for change, and Sudha shares her very human-centered and pragmatic approach. She says that ‘in the corporate world where results matter, you can’t achieve them if you don’t take care o...

In this episode I speak with Lauren Jones  about how she helps technical experts transform into great people leaders. Lauren started her working life as an electrical engineer in petrochemical manufacturing and quickly moved into operations management. During that period, she developed important leadership skills heading an operations team, and the importance of quality assurance, health and safet...

Much of my conversation with Chris Pearce centered around being flexible in your style and leading authentically. Chris started his career in the Army, then spent a number of years in leadership roles in transport organisations such as FedEx, Linfox and MaxiTrans, and is now with ecoDynamics as Group Fleet and Asset Manager. The connection between flexibility and authenticity is always an interest...

In this episode I speak with Kate about how leaders can create more focus and be more influential through the way they engage with complexity, and in particular, how they use questions. Kate is the creator of the CURLY APPROACH™ which uses question-based frameworks to create clarity out of complexity. She is the author of two books: ‘The Thrive Cycle: How to build a customer-driven, unstoppable or...

This is part of the wisdom from my conversation with Louise Weine, CEO of National Association for Women in Operations and is fitting commentary for this International Women’s Day’s focus on embracing equity. Early in her career, Louise learned she needed to check her own leadership style and biases.  She worked hard to expand her own circle to have a much more diverse group of mentors, colleagues...

This was one of the many pearls of wisdom from Sara Garcia in the latest episode of Leadership Amplified, together with: 📌 Take charge of yourself and your decision making 📌 Be empowered to step outside of your comfort zone These are key challenges for women as they step into senior leadership roles. And Sara approaches them with passion and compassion. We had a great discussion about Sara’s lov...

I’ve had a few recent conversations with amazing leaders. You know the ones – you may well be one - who routinely go above and beyond, who trade-off weekend time to get the job done, who are just darn good people with a strong work ethic who don’t want to let the side down. But who are on (if not over) the precipice of burnout. They’re having to self-manage their emotions without adequate support...

Dr Michelle Evans is the Director of Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership at The University of Melbourne. Dilin Duwa runs programs, research projects and partnerships that strengthen indigenous focused business and leadership, and has just celebrated its 10th anniversary 🙌. Dilin Duwa means everlasting flow in the Woi Wurrung language. “Guided by the ancient flows of Country and t...

Nick is Executive General Manager at Terrywhite Chemmart, and he reflected on his leadership journey and philosophy in our discussion for Leadership Amplified. Nick's sense of balance has been one of the hallmarks of his career, inspired by teachers, family and other business leaders. While at school he’d held leadership roles, for example as sports captain, but it was only as he was leaving schoo...

This is how Marie-Claire Ross summarised our lively discussion about leadership and trust: 📌 Leaders should create safe workspaces, and they need to take the time to reflect on what they are achieving, to slow down and review their actions and results, so that they can be more intentional about this. Successful leaders who have grown companies with some remarkable revenue generation reflect on th...

This is such a strong and clear philosophy that shines through the latest podcast conversation with Amanda McInery who is Head of Marketing at @Homely.com. ‘I actively sought out ways to better myself at every opportunity’, says Amanda. Amanda created a roadmap of roles she’d like and identified the skills and knowledge that she needed to learn, and has actively pursued learning in every role she...

That’s one of the take-outs from my conversation with Simon Duke,  Infrastructure & Capital Projects Manager, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress. One of the first leadership lessons Simon had to learn was to listen very acutely, and with sincerity, to the community he was in. He had to listen really well to be able to understand small nuances that made the difference between success and failur...

Annie Lacombe is Engineering Manager at Boeing. She says that one of the leadership lessons she has learned is this: there is enough for everyone. Her mindset of abundance is an important part of her philosophy of leading: it means her focus is not on herself, but on how she can help others. Her philosophy is based on generosity and ego-awareness, yes, but also on self-fullness and personal integr...

In our conversation Peter maps out his leadership journey from ‘always knowing he wanted to be something more than just a finance person’ which is how he started his career, to being CEO of a listed company, thriving in our turbulent times. Peter had the opportunity to take an overseas posting early, and that elevated his career. During that time he had a lot of access to senior managers and was a...

My guest Mark Butler is an accredited clinical psychotherapist with 14 years’ experience in the field. He focuses on mindset and mental wellbeing at work, mentoring people through adverse issues around workplace burnout, stress, anxiety and related unhealthy coping strategies. Mark understands burnout and executive exhaustion so well because he’s been there and those experiences inform his work wi...

In the first of 2022’s episodes of Leadership Amplified, I speak with Paul Axup, CFO at Programmed, about his leadership story and in particular why diversity of thought and the importance of enabling expression of different views sits at the heart of his leadership. Paul is a Senior Finance Executive with 25 years’ international experience in complex listed and private environments. He has strong...

These were the final words in my recent conversation with Supriya Iyer, Supply Director, Global Networking Supply Chain & Commercial Operations at Google in California. We had a very wide-ranging discussion, from Supriya’s first experience of leadership – being thrown in at the deep end as a brand new graduate to lead a team – to her latest - handling the current complexities of global supply chai...