Better World Leaders

As we wrap up the third season of Better World Leaders, as has become our habit, we pause to reflect briefly on the 10 fascinating, inspiring and transformational conversations we've co-created. In review, 5 emergent themes have become prominent. Purpose & values - in particular how you link your personal purpose & values to creating a better world, and then progress to link your personal purpose...

This is a conversation that in some ways I was not expecting, but in other ways I sense I have long been waiting for. I was spell-bound throughout the dialogue with Anika Molesworth, as she shows through her experience, knowledge and actions how we can all influence change, be courageous and do things differently to address climate change and preserve our food systems now and for the future. Anika...

In this episode we have created a slight shift in the experience, reversing the role Tim plays as host and putting behind the guest microphone, whilst the conversational space is held by Alice Howard-Vyse. The story shared and examined in this dialogue is that of one of the transformative experiences, or rather a combination of experiences, that have drawn Tim into being and doing different things...

Our guest for this co-created Better World Leaders conversation is Karren Jensen. Karren is a female CEO of a tech company who's over 50 and raised 4 children! We reflect on her journey to get here, and hope that sharing Karren's story will inspire a whole range of entrepreneurs, leaders, women, girls and older generations to continue to strive to bring their greatest ideas to life. For Karren, le...

Always endeavouring to curate a diverse range of leaders to seek learning and insights from, we co-create conversations with leaders who have been striving to make the world better for decades, and leaders who have figuring out exactly what their first striving step will be. Paul Gleeson is firmly in the former camp, an experienced leader who made a critical turn in his career many years ago drive...

In this conversation we explore the journey to uncover the many ways you can make a contribution to creating a better world, from ecology and conversation to design and construction. We link conservation and the built environment. We explore how to live theory and practice progressive, sustainable leadership practices. We celebrate operating on the fringe when these ideas enter mainstream thinking...

We explore Sandra's journey of discovering and leaning into purpose, her own transformation from Accountant to Tech Founder CEO, via Digital Marketing, and the many ways she is both actively nurturing and inspiring positive change in the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity space via her Diversity marketplace platform, Ellect. We're really looking forward to hearing your thoughts and sharing the Better...

Welcome to the halfway review of the third season of Better World Leaders. Our season focus in 'Doing Better Things - stories of transformation towards leading to create our better world'. In the 5 fantastic, inspiring and insightful conversations we've co-created in this season so far, we've received many gifts of wisdom born from experience, research and practice. In considering each of these co...

This conversation is about many things. It's about life, loss, leading and above all else, learning to lead from purpose. Melina is, I'm honoured to say, a colleague, a friend, a constant collaborator and a real inspiration to me. This conversation builds on many discussions that she and I have had over the years, and yet in this most public of forums, she shares things for the first time and I ha...

This conversation is as fascinating as it is free flowing - a diverse dialogue with Technologist turned Plant Intelligence Practitioner, Tigrilla Gardenia. Tigrilla's journey flows from the conventional definition of success through shifting patterns of turning into spirituality and rising to purpose by aligning her passions, strengths and connective capability to understand how human growth and e...

Chris Andrew is a storyteller who grew up in the most Western of environments as a chemical engineer and investment banker, and who transitioned into playing a role in one of the oldest - working with Aboriginal elders whose storytelling lineage refers back at least 60,000 years. This early part of this discussion track Chris's journey and development and he transitioned through these stages, brin...

This is a deep, informative and inspiring conversation flowing through the peaks and troughs of life and career experience of Tech Entrepreneur Ronan Mac Domhnaill. The key essence of this conversation flows around the notion of success, what a 'moth to the flame' like draw the common projection of success can be, the impact that can have on our individual mental health, our relationships and our...

We are delighted to be bringing you our third season of Better World Leaders, commencing with this fun-filled, provocative, introspective and meaningful conversation with a deeply considerate entrepreneur. Brendan Lo is full of life experience, visionary drive and entrepreneurial boldness - as well as a bit of a prankster attitude! His chosen side-hustle, sustainable underwear brand 'SmartAss Undi...

In this episode, Better World Leaders host Tim Collings shares what you can expect from the show in 2021, revealing the themes we will be exploring in the two seasons we will produce in 2021. Season 3 will focus on Doing Better Things - how leaders are taking bold changes to do what needs to be done to make the world better. Season 4 Sustaining Better Things - how leaders are persisting with chang...

Welcome to the first episode for 2021 of Better World Leaders, another very special edition with 3 conversations with three guests returning to look ahead at the year we've just begun, anticipating what awaits us and provide advice and insights as to how best to prepare for lies ahead. We're continuing the format elected to conclude this year with a reflective series of conversations with 3 leader...

Welcome to the final episode for 2020 of Better World Leaders. We've elected to conclude this year with a reflective series of conversations with 3 leaders who have influenced our thinking and informed our perspectives this year. We posed each of them the same questions - What has 2020 meant for you? And what have you learnt? Genna Onuchukwu - Charity Founder and Registered nurse, sharing insights...

Welcome to another special edition of Better World Leaders, a better world conversation with Dr Dave Eng. Dave is the host of the Experience Points podcast, a faculty member at New York University and founder of UniversityXP, a consultancy focused on gaming and game-based learning. Dave describes himself as an intellectual and creative educator, designer, and researcher focusing on games, theory,...

Welcome to the first of our scheduled Special Editions, this Better World Conversation focused on interpreting the insights for leadership from the US election. In this discussion we welcome back 3 previous guests - all leadership experts with specific interest and expertise to apply to this contemporary topic of late 2020; •Victoria Foster, Brooklyn-based CEO of FutureWomenX, Victoria draws on he...

In this conclusive episode at the end of our scheduled second season, I've set out to achieve 4 things. If any of these segments are of greater interest to you than another, you can skip forward to these points in the broadcast (as follows) or simple sit back and let this culmination of Better World Leaders so far roll out in front of you. Reviewing the stand-out moments to me in Season 2 - from 2...

In this conversation we welcome the leader of 4i's business in the USA, Dr. Tom Alan-Livernois. I am honoured to be able to call Tom a dear friend, as well as a colleague and business partner. His wisdom, experience and qualifications are vast, deep and contemporarily relevant in so many ways. I'm delighted to be sharing this conversation with you. Dr. Tom's career has spanned extensive experience...

This conversation is as much a journey, as it is a movement towards a destination. The destination is an entrepreneurial endeavour that provides proof that no matter what the business model, how simple or complex, unique or commoditised, that engraining purpose firmly at the core of our organisation will bring greater outcomes. And since this one is a for profit business - the proof is that profit...

Every once in a while you come across a corporate leader who really makes you sit up and pay attention. Kirstin Hunter was one such example for me. And not because of a prestigious appointment, or a meteoric rise to prominence or a stellar investor presentation. I paid attention because of bravery, action in alignment with purpose and living ones' values. I became aware of the organisation she is...

We've have been fortunately to have several deeply moving conversations with Brandon about the role of leaders over the years, and I'm very glad to have been able to create another one here to share with you all. Brandon was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa, and we begin our conversation recounting salient moments of his upbringing which framed his views of the world, viscerally confronti...

This is one of the fastest moving, punchiest and broadest conversations we've had on Better World Leaders thus far, one in which we cover a lot of ground and an array of topics, including acting to align passion with purpose, the role of inquiry in leadership - that leaders ask and listen first and then act, without fear of failure. The later point they do because they accept that failure is a ste...

Of the conversations we've had so far on Better World Leaders, this is the one that most fills me with hope. Hope that there is another way for us to exist, grow, succeed and live virtuously in a way that leads to prosperity, vitality and opportunity for far more of the world. And vitally, that we do all of this in a way that benefits our world, rather than compromises it. This is the conversation...