The Common Creative

Let's talk about brain training!  Professor Selena Bartlett is a Group Leader in Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity at the Translational Research Institute and a Research Capacity Building Professor at QUT. Join us for a fantastic conversation about brain training, flow states and the importance of working in teams for creativity.  Links/References Selena Bartlett: https://www.linkedin.com...

Where do science and creativity intersect? Michelle Loch is an expert in the conceptual neuroscience of human motivation, self-leadership and powerful conversation. She and her team at Leading Humans help organisations, and the people in them, to rewire the way they think, behave and lead. This is a fascinating episode about working WITH the human brain rather than against it, and how to best acce...

Season 3 we're back! Kicking off the season with a creative bang as we're joined by Sophie Saville, the creative director and co-founder of The Story Mill, a production company that specialises in producing engaging video content for local brands and businesses. Join us for a fascinating conversation with a professional creative all about founding a business, passion projects and collaboration.&nb...

Marnie Flanagan describes her life as one of "choose your own adventure" and that explanation could not be more fitting for her fascinating and varied life as well as career! Having had over 20 years experience in blue chip companies, Marnie founded the company Naturally Wild - an Australian meat processor and distributor specialising in products sourced from Outback Australia. Tune in for an insi...

Simon Cleary is a novelist and lawyer - two pursuits he connects strongly with storytelling.  Join us this week for a fantastic conversation about the power of storytelling and pursuing more than one passion.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"So who's Elvis around here?" This is the question that Bono used to ask when he turned up to big organisations to find out who to work with, who made things happen, and who was a little bit daring. It is also the question that inspired the name behind Upping Your Elvis, a creative leadership business which helps companies to understand and harness their creativity. Chris Baréz-Brown and Ji...

How do you strike the right balance between creativity and profitability?  Joining us this week is the Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Stephen Basil-Jones, who shares some of the more surprising and challenging aspects behind creativity and how to target markets effectively. Tune in now for an episode full of creative insights and to learn why creativity might best be...

How do you combine the use of stimulus and deprivation to develop new ideas? Remo Giuffré is a fascinating creative strategist who is both an entrepreneur and a brand-builder. He is founder of both the Remo General Store and the General Thinking Network and is also the Licensee and Director of TEDxSydney! Tune in for a wonderful episode all about developing new ideas and designing your own...

How do you come up with new ideas when you feel like you've exhausted all avenues? Meet Dr. Amy Climer - a speaker, trainer, and coach who teaches teams how to innovate on demand. Amy has a Ph. D. in Leadership and Change and developed the Deliberate Creative™ Team Scale to help teams understand how to increase their creativity. She hosts The Deliberate Creative ™ podcast and she is th...

Ever thought about changing your career? After 18 years in the banking industry, Jonathan Brunello decided it was time for a complete career shift and came up with the idea to design and manufacture height adjustable desks with the primary purpose of allowing children the same flexible learning opportunities as adults. And thus amperstand was born... Tune in to this episode for a fantastic convers...

How does absorption in a task contribute to the art itself? As an artist and sculptor, Stephen Hart has always been someone who has "made things" and he has some wonderful insights to share about devoting yourself to a task, developing a craft and the power of divine providence in creativity.  (Part 2 of 2) Links/References Stephen Hart: https://stephenhart.com.au/ The Common Creative Podcast...

How does absorption in a task contribute to the art itself? As an artist and sculptor, Stephen Hart has always been someone who has "made things" and he has some wonderful insights to share about devoting yourself to a task, developing a craft and the power of divine providence in creativity.  (Part 1 of 2) Links/References Stephen Hart: https://stephenhart.com.au/ The Common Creative Podcast...

As CEO of Opera Australia and former Managing Director of Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Rory Jeffes has an intricately wound background in both creativity and business. Tune in for some fantastic insights on mediating competing priorities, how to communicate more effectively and the importance of asking the right questions. Links/References Rory Jeffes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-jeffes The Com...

Cameron Schwab became the youngest CEO in AFL history when he was appointed the role for Richmond Football Club at age 24. Having spent the next 25 years as CEO of Richmond, Melbourne and Fremantle, Cameron has an extremely strong background in leadership, team-building, unifying groups and mentoring. He now works as a CEO, leadership coach and strategist in his business designCEO and is also an a...

Shane Hatton is an author, speaker, trainer and coach who works with organisations to develop remarkable leaders. Working to close the leadership gap between mid and senior level leaders, Shane has a multitude of creative insights on ideation, storytelling and "creativity within consistency" that he utilises to bring clarity to his clients and improve the way they communicate and connect. &nb...

Photographer Paul Harris has met the Queen and worked with A-list celebrities… and yet it’s the real people and their stories that stick with him the most. Having worked at The Age where you’re only as good as your last Page 1, Paul has had to deal with all manner of people, situations and surprising circumstances - and as a result has some fantastic creative insights about curi...

Over 8,000 people across Australia sleep rough every night and as a result of being vulnerable and unprotected, hundreds lose their lives each year due to attacks, suicide, overdoses and pneumonia. The average life expectancy of someone who is sleeping rough long-term is just 47 years old.  Having been personally impacted by homelessness, for Norman McGillivray this was unacceptable. He creat...

Join us for a fantastic episode this week as Chris and Paul talk with Mark McGuinness - poet, creative coach and fellow podcaster!  Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on creativity that is jam-packed with insights including the power of building assets in the creative world, taking the time for ideas and just what creative symbiosis involves. Check it out now!  Links/References Mark McG...

Tune in to the second part of a discussion about "The New Normal" as Hosts Chris & Paul dive into the topic of working from home as part of an interspersed miniseries all about the insights and changes that have come about in the midst of a pandemic. This episode features a conversation about shifting power dynamics between employers and employees, a rise in leaders who are facilitators rather...

Hosts Chris & Paul talk THE NEW NORMAL in the first part of an interspersed miniseries all about the insights and changes that have come about in the midst of a pandemic. This episode features a conversation about consumer consciousness and the growing awareness we have towards buying local and prioritising quality. We also dive into a discussion about community and recognising the influence t...

An experienced podcaster and UX Lead for the Banker Experience at ANZ, Greg is at the forefront of connecting ANZ Bank to its customers in a way that feels seamless and intuitive. Greg sees himself as a creative thinker rather than a creative, and admits to blending play, research and story telling to help him collaborate with his community of designers.  Challenged to describe design within...

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Common Creative! We are thrilled to be back and oh do we have a fantastic opening episode for you....  Alicia Olson-Keating has been working in the media industry for over 30 years, 28 of which were spent in Canada. Alicia has strong industry experience in disciplines that span strategy, B2B marketing, qualitative and quantitative research, data, analytics and...

Putting Design in the Bank  As Chief Design Officer at ANZ Bank, Opher Yom-Tov is arguably one of Australia’s most experienced and influential designers – on a mission to help ANZ Bank use design as a strategic capability. With a background in a different bank as well as innovative agencies and startups, Opher is uniquely qualified to understand creativity and design from a variet...

Have you ever had a conversation that changed your life? Meet Glen Boyle, the co-founder of KokoNiu who got the idea for the business after a conversation at a 5th birthday party. KokoNiu is a business that is transforming Global Coconut Replanting to help combat declining productivity rates of existing trees at a time when the demand for coconuts is soaring.  This story is one about curiosit...

This week on The Common Creative we have a very special guest… Paul’s mum! Once told by a boarding school superior that she “had no business playing the piano”, Enid Fairweather has lived a life filled with creativity and at 89 is still creating things daily. (She also left boarding school and continued to play the piano!) From music to crochet, cake icing to porcelain dol...