Creating Synergy Podcast

 Our latest episode features special guest Louka Parry, CEO + Founder of The Learning Future, as we delve into the importance of humanizing the educational system. From speaking multiple languages to spending time with indigenous communities, Louka shares insights on: 🔸 the value of great communication 🔸 how we can learn so much from indigenous cultures, and 🔸 the significance of being a global...

 Today's episode is going to be a smash hit. We have an incredible guest with us today—Flavia Tata Nardini, the CEO and founder of Fleet Space Technologies. Flavia's a self-proclaimed "space geek" and engineer. She has an inspiring journey from her childhood in Italy to her current role leading a cutting-edge space technology company in South Australia.  We're talking abou...

Creating Synergy is back with a brand new episode with Grant Stevens, Commissioner of the South Australian Police on leading SA through a once-in-a-century pandemic!  This episode is jam-packed with real-world leadership insights from the man himself.  Grant leads one of the largest police services in Australia with over 5,000 staff and He has been a calm, steady presence over the past few years a...

In this episode, Kylie Morton, Head of Change at Synergy IQ explains why she doesn't believe that people are generally averse or 'resistant' to change—and why that's a problem.  Why is it that we’re all apparently ‘fatigued by change’, but we rarely do anything to change the way we navigate change? Kylie wants us to rethink the way we approach change. She wants less: focus on p...

New episode in #CreatingSynergyPodcast with Anton Andreacchio who owns five companies and is on six prominent Adelaide boards. But here’s what you probably don’t know about him:  He founded his first company, the Convergen Group, at the age of 22, which has become one of Australia’s leading companies in infrastructure visualisation.  His second company Jumpgate was ridiculed, until it became the “...

Today on the show, we have Simon Hackett, an Australian technology entrepreneur, who co-founded Internode in 1991 , and after growing it to 450 staff, with 190,000 customers and an annual turnover of $180million, he sold it to iiNet for $105million in December 2011.  Simon Hackett is a man of many (unbelievable) firsts.  He was part of the team that first figured out how to bring the internet to A...

David Fogarty’s portfolio company, the Davie Group, has done over $400 million in revenue in four years.  How did he do it? Our new episode has something special for you: a story of an entrepreneur who built a multi-million dollar eCommerce business at the age of 27!  This episode is like a mini-MBA in growth hacking a group of companies from nothing to over $400 million, from one of the best in t...

 Today's special guest in #CreatingSynergyPodcast was recently named by Cyberscoop, Australia’s only Top 50 Global cyber security thought leader. As DTEX Systems Co-founder and CTO together with his 20+ years of cyber experience, he has a specific passion for the intersection between security and privacy and for helping organizations to define a balanced approach.   Today's episode is pr...

On today’s show, we have Adrian Tembel, CEO of Thomson Geer and chair of the South Australian Productivity Commission. He's back for round two, and again, he makes no bones about the SA economy and what we need to do to turn things around. Adrian is challenging the economic policy consensus in South Australia and we wanted to give him the opportunity to set out his thinking, why he thinks we...

A great thinker, strategist and business leader, Paul talks to us about his journey and learning experiences as CEO and how he led SYC to become one of the largest and most innovative purpose Organizations in Australia. As a not-for-profit veteran, with over 18 years of experience as a CEO of some of our most game-changing organisations including Vinomofo, Paul Edgington knows one thing:    There’...

In today’s episode,  Following a jam-packed, sold-out Lunch and Learn session in Adelaide, Synergy IQ Executive Director Michelle Holland is back on the podcast to lay down some cold hard facts about some current trends in change and the uncomfortable truth of the  Great Resignation, or how she describes it as the Great Reality Check.  We explore: Why people are quietly quitting or walking off the...

Hello there Synergisers, and welcome back to another episode of the Creating Synergy Podcast with Daniel Franco.  Today on the show we had the amazing Eloise Hall, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Social Enterprise Business Taboo Period Products.  When Eloise Hall was just 17 years old, she was sitting at a leadership conference with her bestie and a light bulb moment hit.   Could they start...

Andrew Nunn is Co-Founder, Chairman and Executive Director of JBS&G Australia—one of Australia’s largest privately-owned environmental consulting companies. Andrew also acts as Director for several companies focused on property development, private equity investments, and entertainment opportunities. In partnership with his wife Alexandra Dimos, he founded the Nunn Dimos Foundation, a philanth...

Shaun's career in the AFL speaks for itself, playing 407 games of professional football, the 5th most ever in the history of the AFL and the 1st indigenous player to have ever played over 400 games. He is a x4 premierships player, winning 3 with Hawthorn Football Club and 1 with Port Adelaide Football Club. Since retiring at the end of 2021, he has transitioned into media where he now finds h...

Niki is the Co-founder of Blackbird, a venture fund that exists to supercharge the most ambitious founders. Blackbird Ventures is one of the leading Venture Capital funds in Australia and NZ, counting companies such as Canva, Culture Amp, and Safety Culture as part of its portfolio.  Niki Co-founded Blackbird in 2012 with an initial $29M. That initial fund proved to be hugely successful, with the...

A serial entrepreneur, Aaron started his first business as a 15-year-old while still in high school. He has since established, sold, and grown ventures within the technology sector. Passionate about collaboration, innovation, and returning manufacturing to Australia, he is demonstrating that it can be achieved through the adoption of advanced technology to achieve cost-comparative products while e...

Jim has 30 years of experience in both the private and public sectors. Before joining Nova Systems, he was South Australia’s top public servant in the role of Chief Executive for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.   Prior to that, he was the CEO of BAE Systems Australia for 10 plus years, where he oversaw the purchase of Tenix Defence. Under his leadership, the company expanded to become A...

Gatik Chaujer is the co-founder of the global, award-winning Leadership Development firm, TransforMe. He is a passionate facilitator, coach & keynote speaker, with 20 years of training and coaching experience, his journey is a story worth listening to!   Driven by his mission to transform a million lives, Gatik’s uniqueness lies in his innate ability to connect, spontaneously share, be mindful...

Georgie is the CEO of Beyond Blue and is known for her decisive and personable leadership style and her track record of delivering complex reforms. She has significant experience in policy development, service delivery and change management across the community, public and private sectors.    Appointed CEO of Beyond Blue in May 2014, Georgie has diversified the organisation’s activities and led si...

Aga Bajer is an expert in corporate culture and is currently the Founder and CEO of CultureBrained® Which is a one-of-its-kind, virtual community of leaders looking for new ways of cultivating remarkable cultures at scale in this brave new world of work.   On top of this, Aga runs her own consultancy firm, is an author, a keynote speaker, and a fellow podcast cast host, where she runs the world-re...

Dan made over 150 appearances for Richmond Footy Cub throughout his career, otherwise known as the Tigers, #yellowandblack picking up various accolades along the way. In 2013, he won the Jack Dyer Medal, making him the oldest player to win the Tigers' Best and Fairest for the first time since Great Matthew Richardson in 2007. He also won the club's Jack Titus medal for runner-up Best and...

Grant Kelley joined Vicinity Centres in January 2018 and has over 30 years’ of global experience in real estate investment, corporate strategy, funds management and private equity. Grant was formerly CEO at City Developments Limited, a Singapore-based global real estate company with operations in over 20 countries. Prior to this, Grant was the Co-Head of Asia Pacific for Apollo Global Management,...

Bek is a fitness industry professional, a former physiotherapist, a professional public speaker, psychology educator, wellbeing advisor and coach.  Bek Smith enables transformation by teaching a layered psychological skillset we need to perform at our best. She is a former researcher, physiotherapist and sponsored athlete, who now uses applied neuroscience and psychology to build high-functioning...

Carmen Garcia is the CEO and Founder of national award-winning diversity and inclusion certified social enterprise, Community Corporate. Operating in the niche space of corporate social responsibility, they specialise in recruitment with a social conscience and corporate volunteering.  In 2021, Community Corporate won National Social Enterprise of the Year at the Australian Small Business Champion...

🎙The Synergy IQ female team took over the Creating Synergy Podcast from Daniel Franco to talk about the International Women's Day 2022 campaign theme:  #BreakTheBias Hosted by Michelle Holland, listen to each one of the women on the Synergy IQ team discuss what this theme represents and the stories they have to share that impacted them when trying to break the bias. We are working together to...