The Caring CEO. For leaders who want to grow teams who are more caring, fun filled and productive. For leaders who care.

Suzanne (Suz) Steele, was the VP and MD for Adobe's ANZ operations before moving back to the UK to take up the same role for the UK and Ireland operations, which is one of Adobe's largest markets globally. She has risen to this position from humble working class beginnings in Northern Ireland, in which attending university was not an option in her family. In fact, she left school at 16. This worke...

Olivia Jenkins is an absolute dynamo. She has three children under six years of age, her husband is both a farmer and a builder, and she runs her own business empowering female entrepreneurs in the health, beauty, fashion and lifestyle industries to become household names. In just 3 years, she’s served over 100+ clients, and boasts $33 million in revenue generated between them. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Joel Ramirez has always been an entrepreneur. As a very young boy, he found himself needing to contribute financially to the family after they immigrated to Australia from the Philippines and couldn't find work. At the age of 21 he stated his first IT business, then went on to co-found Wiise, a tech company which he sold to KPMG in 2018. He was also awarded the Young Entrepreneur of Year Award for...

Women's Community Shelters, works with local communities to establish crisis accommodation shelters for women and children who are homeless or leaving domestic and family violence. As the CEO of this organisation, Annabelle Daniel OAM, faces tough challenges daily. For every vacancy they have at a shelter, there are three women in urgent need of care, and Annabelle and her team have to make a very...

Didier Elzinga is the Founder and CEO of Culture Amp, the world's leading workplace culture analytics platform. Culture Amp's mission is to create a better world of work, and they believe that putting culture first is crucial to that mission. Founded in 2009, they were recently valued at $2b and were named last year as one of the world's most innovative companies. They are currently monitoring 600...

Jo Skipper is the Managing Director of The Next Step, one of Australia's leading HR recruitment companies. Her career in recruitment spans over 20 years across the UK, Singapore and Australia. We discuss many things in this episode, including the benefit of identifying your team members' strengths, leading in this modern work environment and tips on the best way to reject someone. Hosted on A...

David Shein has the amazing achievement of starting and building what is known as Australia's first tech unicorn. David started Com Tech when he first arrived in Australia from South Africa in 1987. Over the next 14 years he grew the company with offices Australia wide and 1400 employees before selling to Dimension Data. Not only was Com Tech profitable since its inception, but it w...

Nikki Beaumont is is the Founder and CEO of Beaumont People, which has been operating for 21 years. Beaumont People is a recruitment company which has the tagline 'Placing People First'. It is Nikki's belief in this philosophy that has led to her success. In early 2000, Nikki took on the role of General Manager of recruitment for the Sydney Olympic Games. She arrived in Sydney from the UK in Febru...

Derick Borean, co-founded Altius Group 21 years ago, providing rehabilitation services to injured workers. They are a leading integrated HR, and workplace rehabilitation and health organisation with a clear purpose of elevating the physical and psychological well-being of individuals and organisations. Graeme and Derick have collaborated on a number of times since they first me...

As the Founder and Managing Director of Employee Matters, Natasha Hawker knows all about the issues that keep the CEOs of SMEs up at night. Having worked in HR roles in corporations, and now running her own business, she offers an interesting perspective in this week's episode of The Caring CEO.  Natasha runs Employee Matters with her husband, which is something that many of us could nev...

We've changed things up a little on the podcast this week, with two guests, Co-Founders of Bellroy, Lina Calabria and Andy Fallshaw. Bellroy design and manufacture innovative Wallets, Bags, and phone cases for today’s workers and tourists. They are an accredited B Corp, were awarded #1 in the small business category in 2021’s Australia’s 50 Best Workplaces 2021, and are committed to...

Rich Hirst, CEO & Founder of Tenfold spends his days talking with local CEOs and Leadership teams of global companies including Nestle, DHL and Amazon Web Services. Tenfold provide a trusted environment for these leaders to share their biggest challenges. This puts Rich in a good position to know what works and what doesn't when it comes to leadership. In this week's episode, Rich shares...

Great Place to Work certify companies by surveying their employees and is the global authority on workplace culture. So, as GM for Australia and New Zealand, Samantha Huddle, know's a thing or two about building psychologically safe and caring cultures. Samantha has worked with Great Place to Work in multiple countries and provides valuable insights on organisations of all sizes. Hosted on Ac...

Shayne Elliott had only been in the role of CEO of ANZ for a year when the Royal Commission into banking was announced, and he was called to respond to complaints from many years before. Looking back now, he can recognise that although it was a very stressful time, he decided to turn it into a brilliant learning opportunity. Not only was Shayne able to learn from what had gone wrong in the pa...

Never one to be a passive observer, Jane Caro is known for speaking what's on her mind, and is bound to shake up the Federal Government should she be successful next month. Jane has a low threshold for boredom. This trait has seen her embrace careers including novelist, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator, speaker, broadcaster, and award-winning advertis...

Bob Chapman is the CEO of Barry Wehmiller, which, under his leadership, has grown from a turnover of $20 million to $3 billion. His shareholders have had a return of 15% p.a. for 25 years, and the company now employs 12000 employees. Bob believes that leadership is about caring for those you have the privilege of working with. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Vicki became the CEO in 2018, she faced hard decisions in making sure her Executive Team was made up of the right people. This led to a period of transition, and Vicki was adamant that all those affected were treated with respect and care. Employee numbers have now doubled since her appointment with the organisation. Rest Super, has one of the largest membership bases in Australia. Vicki is p...

As the Co-Founder and GM of MATE Telecommunications, Mark Fazio sits side by side with his identical twin brother David who is also a co-founder and CEO. They have taken a refreshing approach to business which has really paid off for them. In 2021 MATES won Canstar’s “Most Satisfied NBN Customers” award, and “Customer Service Team of the Year”. They have an average service rating 4.5 out of 5...

Leslie Chong is the MD & CEO of Imugene, an ASX listed immune-oncology company. Since she joined the company in 2015 its valuation has increased from $12 million to $1.8 billion. This is quite an achievement for a company that has less than 10 full time employees. Leslie and her team work in a very stressful environment, so she is aware of the importance of looking after their mental heal...

Stephane Grenier, Founder and Lead Innovator at Mental Health Innovations (MHI) Canada is one of the world’s leading authorities on mental health peer support programs. He is also our first international guest on The Caring CEO Podcast. MHI are our North American partners for WeCARE365 - simple scalable programs to prevent mental health issues. Stephane started his career in the Canadian Defence F...

Emma Welsh is the CEO and Co-founder of Emma & Toms. She is also the Country Director - Australia for THINK EQUAL; a NFP global educational program designed to explicitly teach social and emotional intelligence to young children starting in kindergarten. Emma talks about the massive impact that COVID has had on their business, and also the silver linings that came from the pandemic. Emma and b...

Dr Anthony Howard literally wrote the book on Human-Centred Leadership, after traveling the world to interview leaders to determine what is needed to become an influential and empathetic leader. At 17 Anthony joined the merchant navy, and it was here that he unwittingly found himself acting as a confidant to other men on the ship. Men who found that they could talk with him that they couldn't talk...

Susannah Le Bron, CEO of The Y NSW is living proof that our HSC results do not define us. Susannah started her career with Qantas, working in customer experience and process transformation roles, and she still carried the strong belief that customers should be at the heart of everything we do in the workplace. In her role as Deputy Secretary of Customer Service Division of Sydney trains her t...

Erica Westbury is the Managing Director of Norwest Recruitment, a multi-award-winning business, which has also ranked 47th in the BRW Fast 100. Erica herself has previously won CEO of the Year with The Executive Connection. The recruitment industry was hit very hard in the early stages of the Covid pandemic, so this was a critical time for Erica, who really went to great lengths to protect the men...

Steven Worral is Managing Director of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, a corporation which was rated as a great place to work by 93% of its employees (via an independent agency). We discuss Steve’s insights into why this is the case. He also talks about why he took on a leading role in setting up Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...