Slideshow with Dave Hayward

Ed Ortega, co-founder and head of technology at Machine & Folk, on what AI transformation looks like when it works. For leaders who bought the licences and want to see the payoff. You'll come away with his three-layer model for AI adoption, why the gains now come from connecting AI to your tools instead of smarter models, and the rule his team made to stop AI slop. Subscribe to Bright Objects,...

A solo episode for founders, marketers and leaders on AI-written work: it costs the reader more than it saves the writer, so whoever sends it has to own it. You'll come away with three muscles for writing in the AI age: sign your name to it, trust your discernment and taste, and protect your cognitive load. Subscribe to Bright Objects, our newsletter: Ideas and insights on how to navigate busi...

How to build a community for your business, from Chanel Clark, who grew The Marketing Club from a monthly coffee for 30 marketers to 19,000 across Australia and New Zealand. You'll come away with the three things to settle before you start, why showing up consistently matters more than the launch, and what happens when organic growth outruns the plan. Chanel announced The Marketing Club from a...

Kim Voon, managing director of Insight Online, on why lead generation numbers can look great and still not show up in the business. For founders and marketing leaders who pay an agency for leads. You'll leave with a simple test for your agency's numbers, a smaller way to prove a campaign before you scale it, and a question to ask ChatGPT about the businesses it recommends. A Slideshow mini...

Alex M.H. Smith, Basic Arts: Why your moat is crumbling Alex Smith wrote a bestselling book telling businesses their strategy is bullshit. His follow-up is worse: the passive moats protecting most businesses are gone, and the people coming for your market share aren't going to be polite about it. Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz).In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward s...

Dante St James owns six cafes, three menswear stores, three barber shops, and three training businesses. He bought his first cafe during a pandemic for $18,000: the cost of three plane tickets for a family trying to get home to Brazil. Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz).In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with Dante St James, serial entrepreneur and digital skills...

Somewhere out there is a $10 skill pack that thousands of people have cheerfully downloaded without reading. A couple of hidden lines in one of those, and it could be raising invoices through your connected Xero before anyone notices. Nyssa Waters would like a word before you hit download. Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz). In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward sits down w...

Dave Hayward has changed industry and discipline more times than most people change jobs. This is what all that jumping taught him, and what it cost. In his first solo episode of Slideshow, recorded from a talk at Revved 's Write-Offs event, Dave works through four lessons from a career spent jumping off the deep end: sinking before you swim, treating optimism as a tactic rather than a default...

A funnel is just the journey a customer takes from not knowing you exist to paying you money. That's it. Today’s Slideshow with Dave Hayward, we’re going to explain it clearly. Most small business owners want a viral reel. Stu Lees wants to know if they've mapped what their customers are actually afraid of. One of those will grow a business. The other is just noise. Produced by Europa Crea...

Your community wants impact, not your slides Laz Csite has spent decades in high-end consulting. He chose to walk away from that and spend the next 10 years on something that actually matters to him: helping charities, social enterprises, and B corps use digital tools to deliver the change they exist for. Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz). In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hay...

A framework that is both actionable AND delicious In this episode of Slideshow, Dave Hayward speaks with Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript, the AI-native video editing platform, about her practical framework for surviving the AI hype cycle without losing your ability to think clearly. The conversation covers the sandwich bet technique for defusing doom-spiral conversations by forcing specifics (wh...

Lisa Oakley has a private investigator's licence and a habit of walking into rooms where things have gone badly wrong. What she's found: the conflict usually wasn't the problem. The avoidance was. Produced by Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz). In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with Lisa Oakley, Director and Lead Consultant at People Associates, about why workplace conflict...

Ed Ortega has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley at the intersection of technology, strategy, and how people actually work. He's a partner at Machine & Folk, and he's one of the clearest, most grounded thinkers on AI we've ever had on Slideshow. He's also, as we say in New Zealand, a bloody good bloke. This episode went somewhere neither of us expected. It starts in 1950, on a fa...

No "AI is coming for your job" panic here. Ed Ortega, partner at Machine and Folk, joins Dave to talk about what AI transformation actually looks like from the inside — and then builds a working CRM prototype live on screen. Ed has spent the last few years watching companies navigate this shift in real time. In this conversation, he explains why the fear of job displacement misses the po...

No "seven-figure consulting entrepreneurs" here! How do you show up online in a way that is consistent with you and your values? This episode is a lot of fun - hilarious, creative, and strategic. Check it out. Produced by ⁠Europa Creative Partners (europa.nz).⁠In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with Kerry Milne, founder and MD of Gap Strategy, about the often-misunder...

Produced by Europa Creative Partners In this episode, Dave Hayward and Tim Warren explore the complexities of leadership through personal experiences and insights. Tim discusses the importance of resilience, trust, and emotional intelligence in navigating crises, both personal and professional. He introduces the concept of 'leading with grit and grace' and draws parallels with the Japanese...

Produced by Europa Creative Partners. In this episode of Slideshow, host Dave Hayward speaks with Avi Shenkin, founder of End User, about her journey from a full-stack developer to an entrepreneur focused on creating purposeful technology. The show's theme is the concept of unreasonable hospitality, which emphasises the importance of going beyond basic service to create memorable customer expe...

What happens when you throw Slideshow with Dave Hayward with the AI Corner podcast, with a bunch of AI tools and a blank marketing brief? Spoiler: chaos, creativity, and a joyful new product marketing plan. In this crossover episode of Slideshow , I team up with the excellent Mike Bayly from Allexive and AI Corner to test-drive a heap of AI tools in real-time. We go from idea to prototype to pitch...

“AI for the Stuff You’re Bad At” with Nadia Ellis Nadia Ellis is back. Our very first guest returns for round two, and this time we’re getting into something both highly practical and deeply human: how to use AI to help with the stuff you’re just not great at. This episode is about those everyday moments where friction creeps in — staring at the blank page, trying to untangle your own thoughts, or...

We sat down with Ed Ortega for a 3-part masterclass exploring the AI continuum from non-trivial use of ChatGPT all the way through to custom AI builds. Slideshow with Dave Hayward is a production of Europa Creative Partners.

Summary Dave Hayward interviews Sam Browne, a successful entrepreneur and personal branding expert, who shares his journey from music to building a personal brand on LinkedIn. Sam has built a framework for success on the professional network called "The Mind Share Method". Unlike the tech LinkedIn bros promising a quick fix or instant results, Sam's system is about consistently turni...

In this episode of Slideshow with Dave Hayward, Dave and Mark Laurence from Ten Past Tomorrow discuss the evolution and impact of AI. A key focus: AI literacy, the challenges of AI adoption, and the unique nature of AI transformation compared to previous digital transformations. We explore the importance of building a culture of AI literacy within organisations, the risks associated with AI, and t...

Dave Hayward speaks with Jamie Morton, a seasoned science and environment journalist, about the profound impact of Brian Wilson on music, the challenges of science journalism, and the importance of genetic modification and conservation efforts in New Zealand. We explore Jamie's journey into journalism, the significance of the Kiwi in conservation, and the advancements in cancer research. The d...

HIGHLY VISUAL EPISODE - watching is probably a superior experience, but a rich and engaging conversation for listeners all the same. In this episode, Tim Sharp joins host Dave Hayward in discussing the transformative impact of AI on marketing, exploring both the exciting opportunities and the existential challenges it presents. We examine the necessity for marketers to adapt to new technologies wh...

This is the third in a three-part mini-series about the "AI continuum", where Ed Ortega and Dave Hayward demo and discuss a different type of AI that fills the gap between consumer apps (like ChatGPT) and full custom AI builds. In this episode, we're looking at "vibe coding" which is not just a cool name....... it's the way software engineering, even serious software en...