Culture of Leadership

    In today’s episode, Brendan and his guest Amy Lynn Durham explore the factors that allow business leaders and CEOs – to create a magical, happy work environment for themselves and their employees.  Amy calls herself a “Corporate Mystic” and she is the author of the book “Create Magic at Work”. In it, she shares some profound ideas around how spiritual intelligence (SQ) and emotional intelligen...

    Often, the impression of a company’s Human Resources department and the people who work there is on the negative side. However, Erica Johnson is trying to change that through her work as Head of Diversity, Equity and Belonging at Chime. After personally experiencing moments in her career that made her feel alienated, Erica understands how important it is to stop that from happening with others...

    In today’s episode, Brendan has an inspirational chat with his very own Toastmasters club president Kate Purcell. She shares her story of, from a young age, always finding herself getting tripped up by her debilitating fear of public speaking (or, in fact, even the slightest possibility of public embarrassment). So much so, that she often avoided doing things she enjoyed, for fear of being put...

    Randy McNeely lives and breathes kindness and he has dedicated his life to sharing ways to be kind and getting a culture of kindness engrained into organisations. Randy has written a book on the topic of kindness called “The Kindness Givers Formula” and in it, he shares how acts of kindness have the powerful ability to change people’s day (and even change lives in some instances).  In this epi...

    In today’s episode, Brendan dives into an inspiring discussion with RJ Singh – founder of Ultra Habits, an ultra-endurance athlete, self-mastery mentor and a proud husband and father of two. He is the director of Cora Group – an integrated business to business freight and logistics management company. He is a natural leader – through leading by example. He has taken it upon himself to focus on...

    Dr Pat Boulogne has helped thousands of people over the last 35-plus years stop adapting their lifestyle to pain and chronic problems by focusing on the whole person. She has a passion for getting people to live healthier lives by focusing on the food they put into their bodies. She believes that you shouldn’t treat symptoms in isolation, but instead, figure out the cause and deal with that. A...

    Marcus Nicholls & Ariel Endean are Business Coaches & Consultants, Speakers, Authors, and occasional relationship rescuers. They have been in Business & a relationship for a quarter of a century. During that time they have bought, built, managed & sold a seven-figure business without it costing them their relationship. Business Couples Success was born from those years where at...

    Robert & Taylem were the 2020 School Captains at Central Coast Grammar School . I have had the privilege of working with both Robert & Taylem over this past year. We have talked about so many things related to their leadership journey and their experiences as School Captains of one of the most prestigious schools on the Central Coast . We wanted to bring this journey to life in a podca...

    Nick Bendel is the owner of Hunter & Scribe, a copywriting and content marketing agency that writes blogs, social media posts, emails, ebooks and media releases for small businesses. Nick publishes a daily marketing newsletter called Nick’s Marketing Tips. When he’s not working, Nick is kept busy with his #500lunches project, which involves having lunch with 500 strangers in five years. Ni...

  Nathan Grey was born in Gosford and educated on the Gold Coast , He was a committed, hard nosed and straight running inside centre who gave his all for club, state and country. Nathan played three years of 1st XV rugby for The Southport School alongside former Wallaby captains Nathan Sharpe and James Slipper and represented Australia at U19 and U21 levels. In 1997 he debuted for Queensland again...

  Julie Watson is the General Manager & Founder of ‘ Stronger Than My Excuses ’. She is a successful Central Coast businesswoman for over 30 years and author of two e-Books. Julie now helps people to find their own inspiration through the ‘Stronger Than My Excuses’ presentations and Web TV panel discussions. After overcoming her own health and financial adversities and being able to work from...

  Transforming your office culture is not easy! There are many courageous leaders who take up the challenge. There are few who stick with it – Alex is one of the few! Alex Carver is a physiotherapist by trade, and has worked his way up to now be the Managing Director of Medi Australia . Medi is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical aids, with around 3,000 employees worldwide and 25 i...

  Ian Lynch is the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Link Housing . Pacific Link Housing is a Community Housing Provider and Registered Charity providing housing solutions for those in our community who have the greatest need, as well as operating a successful and unique profit for purpose real estate agency key2 Realty . Ian has worked locally on the Central Coast and overseas in a number of com...

  Luke Sullivan and Shaun Sullivan are brothers and together, run Teams Challenge Australia , along with Luke’s wife Emily. Teams Challenge Australia (TCA) is a team building, leadership and wellbeing company based on the Central Coast. Luke and Shaun are both Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Teachers delivering the Outdoor Recreation and Well-being Programs at Girrakool Educati...

  Monte Pedersen is the Principal of The CDA Group which is a leadership training firm that specialises in strategy execution management. A completely operations-based system and process that helps leaders achieve their strategic initiatives and get better at it every year. Monte believes that most businesses excel at creating the plan for what they want to achieve, and that nobody understands or...

  If you didn’t already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month . With this in mind, there is nobody better to have on today’s episode than one of the leading breast cancer surgeons in Australia, Dr Lucia Saliba . Luci, as she prefers to be called, is trained and accredited in Australia as a General Surgeon with a broad expertise in breast and general surgery including breast reconstruction...

  Peter Strohkorb is the Owner and Director of Peter Strohkorb Advisory . After 20+ years in the corporate sector working for companies like Sony , 3M , Canon , Computer Sciences Corporation and Dell , Peter wanted a change. He had experienced a number of mistakes that small, medium and large businesses make when trying to accelerate their sales results. So, he set himself the task to develop and...

  Creating a Culture to be Proud Of – that’s what Bill Clifton has worked hard to achieve at Banlaw . Bill is the Group Managing Director of Banlaw based in the Hunter Valley , about an hour north of our beautiful Central Coast . The Hunter Valley location is Banlaw’s main manufacturing and research and development facility. Banlaw is leading the way in the innovation of unified fuel management so...

  What is the key to unlocking potential? Mark Bragg is a Performance and Leadership Coach who has been coaching in one form or another for 40 years. In his early career, Mark played and coached basketball professionally, in Australia’s National Basketball League . Over the past two decades, Mark has worked as an Executive Coach in multiple business disciplines and industries in 23 countries. In r...

  Pip Scott-Allen is originally from Canada and now lives in the beautiful Hunter region of NSW . He is the Director and Lead Facilitator of Premier Team Building . Pip’s business is focused on corporate team building where he designs and facilitates custom team building events. He works with businesses of all sizes across NSW. Pip refers to his role as a facilitator of awesome with one goal – to...

  Sala Takiveikata was born in Fiji and moved to Australia in 2010. Since coming to Australia, Sala has graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Macquarie University and is currently working to achieve the Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) qualification. She is also completing her Masters of Commerce at the University of Sydney Business School . Sala and I met through LinkedIn. When I spent...

  Quang Nguyen is a man who values the time he spends with his family. He believes all business owners should be able to spend time with their families or for doing whatever it is that they love. Being a first-generation refugee, he has grown up doing his best to combine the opportunities and social norms that come with living in a western society while maintaining and preserving the Vietnamese cu...

  Are you born with resilience? Andrew Paton-Smith is the Founder and CEO of Jazoodle based in Wyong on our beautiful Central Coast . He is also a Non-Executive Director at Wyong Race Club where he has been part of the Directorship Team which has turned it into one of the top regional horse training and racing facilities in Australia. Jazoodle is a tech startup which Andrew founded in 2015. Jazood...

  Alex Dawson is a Senior Consultant for the Asia-Pacific region with RAIN Group , which is a global sales training and performance improvement company. His primary focus is working with companies to deliver profitable growth through impactful sales transformation programs. Alex also founded Positive Scenario in 2016, driven by his belief happiness is the key to personal and organisational success...

  Elizabeth Houghton is a seasoned HR professional with broad industry experience across FMCG, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Information Technology, Engineering, Motorsport and financial services. Her expertise in the HR Leadership space stretches across coaching, leadership development, learning solutions, recruitment and selection, performance management, talent management, change manage...