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Send us Fan Mail Francis Yim has spent over 23 years in video production - from creating trailers for Disney Channel Asia to producing organisational culture content for multinationals across Singapore and Australia - before founding Fantestimonial, a business built around one core belief: the testimonial video should be your first marketing video, not your last. In this episode, Matt and Francis...

Send us Fan Mail Mark Palmer has had a career most people only dream about - working on aircraft across the globe, before landing at Shield AI as VP of Vision Systems, one of the most exciting defence tech companies operating today. In this episode, Matt and Mark explore what happens when two businesses with a genuine meeting of minds come together - and why the Shield acquisition of Sentient felt...

Send us Fan Mail This week on scalr sagecast, I sat down with Sam Young, founder of SIID Labs. Sam is a counsellor and psychotherapist with frontline experience in mental health and addiction - and he’s using both professional and lived experience to build something different. SIID is a personalised, AI-powered micro-guidance companion designed to support people in the moments that matter most - t...

Send us Fan Mail Joining this week's scalr sagecast is Vanessa Raath - global sourcing expert, AI commentator and one of the most engaging speakers in the talent industry. V’s career journey spans South Africa, London and Thailand, with a decade in tech consulting before building her current business and becoming a recognised voice on sourcing, AI and innovation. In this episode, Matt and V e...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Harman has spent years leading within agency recruitment - and along the way, he noticed a persistent, expensive problem: organisations underutilising the strongest networks they already have. In this episode, Craig shares why he built mployd , a platform focused on helping businesses create structured, effective referral programs that actually work. We explore: Why referral...

Send us Fan Mail Gemma Toogood’s career started in a place you’d never expect - as a broker for paparazzi photos - before a series of twists led her into entrepreneurship, then into tech, and now into building Neoma, a platform helping people and organisations navigate alternative pathways into the industry. In this episode, we unpack: Why Australia is on track to be 600,000 tech workers short by...

Send us Fan Mail New episode of scalr sagecast with career coach, Aditya Rajagopalan. Aditya’s career started the way many of ours did: fairly traditional, ticking the expected boxes, following the well-lit corporate path. But somewhere along the way, he realised that doing what you’re good at and doing what you’re built for aren’t always the same thing. So he tried things on. Different roles. Dif...

Send us Fan Mail This episode with Terry Condon gets to the heart of financial wellness: helping people feel good about money again - not in a prescribed way, but in a way that matches who they are, where they’re at, and what they value. We explore: What wealth, “rich” and success mean at different stages of life How to optimise your money for your next chapter, not a lifetime Why freedom comes fr...

Send us Fan Mail “This is the next big industrial revolution, and leaders will have never experienced this before…” Annie Johnson has seen the evolution of People & Culture from every angle - in-house, consulting, product, leadership - and she’s now building humaneer, a next-gen AI platform reshaping how HR teams work. In this episode, we dive into: Why 73% of HR’s time is still spent on admin...

Send us Fan Mail This week I’m joined by Jo Vohland , the brains and heart behind ATC Events & Media  - the team that’s been curating conversations, conferences and communities for TA pros long before it was trendy. We get into: How the role and toolkit of TA leaders is shifting. What AI might mean for the function - both now and over the next few years. Why in-person events still matter (and...

Send us Fan Mail From pioneering one of the world’s first crowdfunding platforms to supporting the next wave of Aussie startups, Alan Crabbe has always had one foot in community and the other in innovation. In this episode, we explore Alan’s journey – from building Pozible and Birchal into household names in the startup scene, to his latest venture, Frontcover , which aims to redefine how we suppo...

Send us Fan Mail After starting his career as a neonatal intensive care nurse, Ben Lai made a bold move - swapping the ward for the world of sales. It wasn’t a straight line. He spent years honing his skills in corporate environments and client-facing roles before finally discovering his calling: helping introverted business owners sell with confidence. Now, as the founder of Sales Ethos , Ben com...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to scalr sagecast. This week, I’m joined by Martyn Hill - award-winning recruiter, startup founder and community leader with deep roots in WA’s mining and blue-collar space. Martyn’s had a huge year. He’s won multiple industry awards (including RCSA Recruitment Professional of the Year 2024), launched Refereez - a smart, human-led reference checking platform - and som...

Send us Fan Mail Joining me on scalr sagecast this week is Peter Treloar , founder of TALY Australia , a platform rethinking how we use personality profiling in the workplace. Peter’s career started in market research and insights, including building and successfully exiting Telmy. Along the way, he realised a problem that’s plagued HR for years: organisations invest in personality assessments, bu...

Send us Fan Mail After a short break, I'm delighted that scalr sagecast is back - and we’re starting off strong. This week, I’m joined by Scott Allan , founder of TalentTech , who has spent a significant part of the last decade helping companies derive value from their HR and TA tech stacks. From agency roots to global projects with SmartRecruiters , Avature and Gloat , Scott’s career blends...

Send us Fan Mail This week on scalr sagecast , I’m joined by the brilliant and always energetic Mark Puncher, CEO of Employer Branding Australia and one of the most passionate advocates for building workplaces where people actually want to be. In this episode, we dig into all things EVP - what it is, what it isn’t, and why so many companies still get it wrong. We unpack the tension between aspirat...

Send us Fan Mail Bit of a milestone for scalr sagecast this week - 50 episodes in, and what an amazing experience it's been so far and I couldn’t think of a better guest to mark this point than Marrin-Boyd Andrews (MBA)!  I still think back to our last encounter at ATC 2024 in Melbourne. He presented on prompt engineering, and the packed room was on tenterhooks for the whole session. You coul...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m joined by Simon Kearney , co-founder of Readiness and former elite sports performance coach. Simon spent over two decades in high-performance roles across AFL, NRL and professional tennis.  Over the last 7 years, he's brought that experience into the workplace - helping organisations proactively support mental health and wellbeing through data-driven tools and...

Send us Fan Mail This week on scalr sagecast , I'm joined by Megan Luttrell, Founder of Kairos Recruitment and the driving force behind the Aussie Founders Club (AFC). Megan has carved out a niche in the startup ecosystem, helping founders make sense of the often chaotic world of recruitment, with clarity, focus and a real understanding of the pressures they face. With over a decade in IT rec...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I had a fantastic catch-up with my good friend and talent trailblazer, Lauren Sharp. She's the co-founder of TaPod and, along with the equally legendary Craig Watson, the driving force behind the Internal Talent Awards. We talked about all things talent, community and building something that matters. We cover a lot in this one, from Lauren’s early career in the air...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I’m joined by Brendan Lee. He's the Founder of BE Digital Group, a consultancy established to support businesses by implementing clear, scalable digital marketing strategies.  With over 20 years' experience across marketing, sales and digital, Brendan has worked with countless businesses - from early-stage to established - across a variety of industries. His s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a very special episode of scalr sagecast! This week, we’re pausing the usual guest format to celebrate something close to my heart - the Melbourne Talent Meetup. Over the past nine years, this community has grown into something pretty special. With 30+ in-person events, countless conversations, and an incredible group of people behind it, we thought it was the perfect t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of scalr sagecast, I had the pleasure of chatting with Rita Anagnostopoulous, CEO at Transform and Grow, to dive deep into what it really takes to build high-performing teams and great cultures - especially in growing businesses. Her career has taken her around the world and spanned sales, leadership development, and organisational transformation. Rita brings a wea...

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode of scalr sagecast, I chatted with David Yip, an "optimistic technologist" and early-stage tech adopter, to explore how businesses need to rethink their approach to AI. David has overseen large, complex transformational projects at some of the world’s biggest multinationals, including IBM. Now, through Impactive Systems, he helps organisations embra...

Send us Fan Mail The latest episode of scalr sagecast features a truly insightful conversation with Megumi Miki - an accomplished leader who carved her own niche by challenging traditional leadership norms. Through her professional, and personal, experiences, Megumi recognised that leadership isn’t about being the loudest voice in the room - it’s about authenticity, influence, and harnessing quiet...