Better World Leaders

As long as I’ve been in Australia I’ve been aware of Stephen Moir, someone with whom I share many professional alignments, yet his journey always seemed ahead of my own. More recently I’ve found the alignment even greater, especially since being invited by one of my clients to join Steve’s community ‘Professionals Advocating for Climate Action’. Steve’s background as a recruiter and founder of the...

Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly aware of and inspired by a being known as Michelle Maloney. Over and over, some of the most interesting areas that were drawing my attention and curiosity, I found Michelle immersed in the heart of them in Australia and beyond. Regenerative initiatives, centring Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being, new pathways to economic progress, ways of...

In this conversation, I welcome back a dear friend and guide in the great work, who on her first visit here hosted me and beautifully held the space for exploration of one of my formative narratives. Here, we return to our usual flow, as I host an abundant and deep conversation with Alice Howard-Vyse. Alice is a practitioner of many approaches to living systems practice. She is Lead Convenor for R...

It is always a great honour to co-create and share with you each and every conversation on Better World Leaders. It's an even deeper pleasure to co-create a conversation with someone who I have been knowing for some time, and deepen my knowing of their being as we create a shared dialogue, which we then share with you. The conversation with Dimity Podger is a beautiful combination of these strands...

Welcome to this review of our Fifth Season so far, discussing the convergent themes and poignant prompts which have emerged from the six fantastic guest co-created conversations we've been honoured to host in the season so far. These conversations have been co-created with David Drake, Wayne Visser, Lauren Tucker, Hugh Mackay, Ben Newsome and Laureline Simon. In this season focused on nurturing co...

This conversation is deep. Existential. Radical. Why? Because Laureline Simon speaks to the root cause of the harm that's impacting on each of us, every community and ecosystem across the breadth of our shared planet. This conversation hits home, in a nurturing, generative way, as Laureline speaks from lived experience striving in global systems and shows meaningful examples of how this harm can b...

Of the many new connections I made through the lockdowns of 2020, very few matched the energy and capacity for both vastly expansive and hyper detailed dialogue than today's guest. Ben Newsome is an educator, a Founder and ambassador for progressive educational practice and I'm delighted to welcome him today. Ben Newsome founded Fizzics Education to deliver science education across Australia, havi...

In the midst of a CoVid lockdown, I discovered a book that it felt like was speaking directly to me, and in doing so, touching my soul. The author and I shared a desire to see a significant shift in the country we both love, and in the wider world. That shift speaks of rediscovery. Of a way of being that all humans know, and many appear to have forgotten. What is called for, the author proposed is...

Have you ever been in a session when someone shows up who you sense you recognise the essence of? You can't place them, you know you've not met them before, yet something connects you that seems somehow familiar. That was my experience the first time I met Lauren Tucker. Part way through a Regenerative Business Summit in which Lauren was Resource for our team, I joined the dots, that I knew of Lau...

Rarely do I get the opportunity to welcome a guest with such a wonderful range of frames that have been used to describe their work - especially in combination! Our guest today is Wayne Visser, a professor, a poet, a possibilist and a pracademic. Throughout this season of Better World Leaders, we'll examine the conditions needed to co-create our better world. This conversation with Wayne provides...

Welcome to the fifth season of Better World Leaders. Throughout this season we'll be focusing on the theme of conditions, and considering what conditions do we need to nurture for leaders to co-create a better world. I'm delighted and honoured to bring you the first conversation of the season with a man who has devoted his life to creating conditions for people to discover themselves, transition l...

Welcome to Season 5 of Better World Leaders! This season we shift our focus to nurturing conditions, following on our past two seasons of catalysing and sustaining change. Let's go a little deeper, into the foundational elements we need to cultivate in ourselves, our communities, societies and institutions in order to bring to life the better world we are striving to create. I've been deeply honou...

In this brief review episode, I provide a fly-through of the conversations co-created as part of this season. The broad theme for the season has been sustaining change, how do we do this, what's important to pay attention to, and how do we sustain ourselves as we strive to co-create our better world. We've had an incredible range of conversations in this season, spanning November 2021 to March 202...

In the final episode of our fourth season, I was delighted to co-create a conversation filled with pragmatism, hope and energy for tackling the major problems that exist in our world today. I was introduced to James McGregor by our very first BWL guest, Paul Dunn, on the basis of our shared passion and believe in systemic transformation. James has been involved in the commercialisation of sustaina...

This conversation is a moving and meaningful one focused on how life lessons from adversity can provide opportunities for transformation and shifts into realisation of our purpose and fullest potential. Rebecca has endured what would be testing circumstances at the best of times, however her greatest challenge came not in isolation but in combination with other significant challenges which would t...

This conversation is one of fellowship between myself and Tracy Eames, a leadership practitioner from the East Coast of the USA with whom I have discovered a great affinity and shared devotion to a foundational column of work for both of us - meaningful work. In Tracy's words, we all spend so much of our time at work with our teams, and all too often people do not find it rewarding. As we all talk...

This conversation is perhaps not what you might expect in a conversation with the Founder of a Venture Capital Fund. You won't find any mention here of debt-to-equity ratios, asset valuations or how to scale rapidly for a successful sale. What you will find is what Hernan Haro and I must say myself as well, believe is the essence of the kind of ventures that will transform our world. That brillian...

Every once in a while you connect deeply, completely and with absolute alignment with someone whose lived experience has been what you aspire to be. To find someone with whom I align so cohesively with living only a few kilometres across the mountains from my home and to have the opportunity to spend time with them and begin to get to know them is both an honour and a revelation. Welcome to the co...

In this episode I'm coming to you solo as both reviewer and announcer. I'll reflect on what has been most salient to me from the 5 discussions so far in this season, and share with you what awaits in the 5 conversations that lie ahead... Reflecting on conversations with; •Claire Marshall on the role of storytelling in creating our futures •Rebecca Huntley on where we are with the fight for a healt...

It's always a pleasure to converse with someone I know well - especially when that person is someone I greatly admire and am honoured to work alongside, learn from and advocate for. I've known Jess for a little over 3 years at this point of broadcast, and yet I'm constantly learning more and more about what drives her, makes her tick and motivates her to go on and create even greater impact in the...

It's a very great pleasure to share with you the conversation I co-created with Betsy Reed. Betsy has spent the past 18+ years working as a sustainability expert, running big advocacy campaigns, working for corporates, running her own sustainability consultancy, lecturing, and being invited to write and publish her first book, 'Communicating Social & Environmental Issues Effectively.' Above all, B...

Pedro Aguirre personifies an action-based leader, stepping away from the conventional career trajectory his initial studies set for him, and venturing into social enterprise entrepreneurship and social impact stewardship. Having lived and worked across 4 different continents, he has experienced first hand the universality of intentions to create a better world, and learnt how to nurture diversity...

Working as a social researcher for decades, you spend endless hours interviewing people and facilitating workshops to understand a broad-spectrum of perspectives of what people want, what they don't want - and most especially what they hope for the future. This has been Rebecca Huntley's journey into addressing one of greatest challenges for better world leaders - Climate Change. As one of Austral...

Stories are change. Stories are us. We change stories and they change us. Claire Marshall's story is one of being, receiving and informing change - and it is one I'm thrilled to be sharing with you in the first episode of our fourth season. Key out-takes from this episode; The role of story - A story is incredibly powerful, a story frames how we see the world, it frames what we expect, it frames h...

Welcome to Season 4 of the Better World Leader's podcast! Following right on the heals of the conclusion of Season 3, Doing Better Things - Stories of Transformative Change, we bring you a series of co-created conversations all focused on experiences, approaches and frameworks for sustaining change. We are at a vital moment as a species, one where radical transformation seems the bare minimum requ...