The Inner Chief

"HR is normally an advocate of the employer, normally to the detriment of the employee and I was not that way."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this edition of the Mini Chief we feature a snippet fro...

"The brain doesn't actually have a sense of time; it has a sense of trial and error cycles." In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Dr Lia DiBello Ph. D on debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/318  👂 REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmak...

I love the Churchill quote, "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. What matters is the courage to go on."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this edition of the Mini Chief, we feature Rory Hunter,...

"People just want to hear the truth and just want to be talked to as humans by brands."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the CEO of Havas Red Australia, Shane Russell, on how to avoid PR disasters through campaigns that build your company brand and customer engagement, and the ever-changing media landscape. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/317  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING R...

"I asked this executive team whether any of them had ever regretted removing a toxic high performer and what was quite amazing was that they not only emphatically said no, they couldn't believe they took so long to do so."   In today's minisode, I'm going to cover toxic high performers. These individuals can cause a lot of problems in your business, especially amongst other projects and colleagues...

"A manager once told me to stop trying to be so perfect; instead, get it 80% right, and we'll work out the rest, because otherwise you'll never do anything."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the Managing Director of SAP Concur ANZ, Fabian Calle, on being agile in a large corporate, leading as an introvert, and the career skills obtained from martial arts. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.c...

"I'm an advocate of not getting splinters in my bum or sitting on a fence. Make hard choices, make them now, rip the BandAid off."   In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature the Chief Growth Officer of ACS (Australian Computer Society), Siobhan O'Sullivan, on customer experience, looking at yourself in the mirror and accelerating your career. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/314  ...

I love the Churchill quote, "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. What matters is the courage to go on."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to world-renowned hotel developer, Rory Hunter, on spearheading the build-to-rent movement towards sustainability, seeking solitude and healing on the ocean, and the adventure of a lifetime after buying an island in his twenties.   🎧...

"In the second half of life, you shift from focusing on serving the self to focusing on serving family and community. That's what it means to be a true Chief, to be beyond self."   In today's minisode, I give to you my top 15 lessons and learnings from this year. And what a year it's been! This year we passed 300 episodes, and we passed six years as a business with Chief Maker.  And what I like to...

"People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Ou...

"People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the World's #1 Celebrity Voice Coach, Roger Love, the man who taught Bradley Cooper, Reece Witherspoon, The Beach Boys and more to use their voice to change the world.   🎧👉 ...

"It's not about starting up, it's about staying up."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with the Co-Founder of The Real Estate Stylist, Sara Chamberlain. Her f...

"It's not about starting up, it's about staying up." In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Co-Founder of The Real Estate Stylist, Sara Chamberlain, on being a rebel, becoming unemployable, and knowing your business inside-out.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/310  👂 REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE:  chiefmaker.com/minimba   I interviewed Sara for this podcast...

"I am grateful for everything I have. But for me, feeling lucky is a lot more animated and holds a lot more curiosity and open-mindedness to opportunity and possibility."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode....

"The big online course providers have got about a 5 to 9% completion rate. Attention spans are really low. No-one's got 20 minutes for a course anymore, but they've probably got 20 seconds."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on partnering with the world's top performers and business people, what a leader's natural state is, and feeling lu...

"I used to believe that fitness wasn't part of my work day; nowadays, if I do a workout five times a week and it costs me five hours, that's work hours."   In today's minisode, I'm going to cover executive health, executive fitness and why you should treat it as part of your daily working life, as opposed to something additional. If anything, Chief, you should fit your working life around your hea...

"I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Rochelle Courtenay, th...

"Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin....

"I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around."   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the wonderful Rochelle Courtenay, the Founder & Managing Director of Share The Dignity, on leading volunteer armies, witnessing female trauma inside prison, and eradicating period poverty. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/307...

"Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow."   In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin, on playing the long game and living a life by design not default. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/306  👂   REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmaker.com/minimba   I interviewed Bushy for this podcast i...

"All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot...

"All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me." In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Geoff Bell, the CEO of MicroBioGen, on how a stockbroker became a biotech success story, using patience as a competitive advantage, and why exercise i...

"The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where...

"You nail your mission, vision, values, strategy and tactics, and you will get unity, spirit, meaning, inspiration, direction, alignment and results. And that is a high performance team!" In today's minisode, I'm going to cover some key business terminology and how they not only link together, but why it is so important to have these clearly articulated and operationalised into your business. If y...

"The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences." In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Kath Blackham, CEO of The VERSA Group, on extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, mental health in th...