The Company Road Podcast

Send us Fan Mail “Innovation really lives on the edge of ridiculous, and in order for us to come up with innovative solutions to solve the world's biggest problems, we've got to take risks. Play is an incredible way to help us do that.” Dara Simkin In this episode you’ll hear about: The importance of mixing play and work: Why bringing play into the workplace can be a powerful tool for cr...

Send us Fan Mail "You really want it to get into people's heads what the change is. You want it to be their new reality or the new normal. Storytelling is effective because stories are shared from generation to generation, remembered for a reason… because they stick in your brain." Agnes So In this episode you’ll hear about: Improving support levels & customer satisfaction : How...

Send us Fan Mail "I think what events should be doing is playing that role of fostering community, fostering connection and really thinking about what they're looking to do, what's their mission." Grant Show In this episode you’ll hear about: Crafting compelling presentations: Exploring the art of crafting presentations that captivate your audience and how to use storytelling t...

Send us Fan Mail “ You’ve got to be quite deliberate. You have to overrule some of your automatic thinking to say, I need to deliberately step back here. I need to refresh this area.” Karl Deitz In this episode you’ll hear about: Parallels between cooking, music & business: How lessons in one domain of your life or interests can often be applied to another, fostering cross-disciplinary insight...

Send us Fan Mail "The more immovable that your solutions are, the greater the need to invest in that kind of thinking." Andrew Kendall In this episode you’ll hear about: Designing for impact: Strategies to more accurately understand customers needs and motivations in order to design products and services that go beyond immediate user needs to create tangible, transformative impact on peo...

Send us Fan Mail “When it comes to AI, we talk about augmenting not replacing. We want this to be about how do I augment the individual and give them superpowers so they can do amazing things and liberate their time? How do we make 5 people worth 10 people?” Gareth Rydon In this episode, you’ll hear about: AI adoption in 2024: Exploring the scale and speed at which AI is being adopted, the differe...

Send us Fan Mail “I’m 46 and I'm going to continue to do new stuff constantly my entire life. It's going to challenge me. I'm going to be uncomfortable with it. And the neurons in my mind will keep developing the ability to be adaptable if I keep challenging myself.” Nick Berman In this episode, you’ll hear about: Balancing personal & professional life: How to regularly assess e...

Send us Fan Mail “In fact, there’s nothing normal. Everything is what we make of it to a certain extent.” Dr. Marco Motta In this episode, you’ll hear about: Data storytelling: How to present data in a means to create shared understanding across an organisation and use narrative techniques to make it personable, digestible and immersive Mitigating data literacy: Establishing an evidence-driven cul...

Send us Fan Mail “The level of power that consumer facing Gen AI offers with such intuitive accessibility for such essentially a low cost for that high powered tool… is unprecedented.” Sarah Kaur In this episode, you’ll hear about: AI as an enabler: How AI can be used to enable and empower unique work processes and scenarios, including key examples of how it it can enable design thinking and trans...

Send us Fan Mail “One thing led to another and some things came up and actually it just broke really quickly and was quite a shock. It was quite disruptive and it was one of these situations where you think, okay, what has just happened?” Sarah Wilkin Transforming personal adversity to professional opportunity: Sarah shares her journey overcoming a major and very sudden struggle in her personal li...

Send us Fan Mail " I'm a big believer that innovation is not the result of some sort of inspired genius, right? It's not an innate talent but a process and a handful of repeatable activities that can be learned.” Jacob Dutton In this episode, you’ll hear about: The democratisation of innovation: How individuals can practically learn innovation as a skill & readjust limiting mind...

Send us Fan Mail “The company doesn't create the culture. If you hire great people, the culture will be created.” Christian Stein In this episode, you’ll hear about: Brand strategy misconceptions: What is brand strategy, what is it not and how should it be approached to be valuable and effective? The paradigm of fear in professional life: Why so many professionals are held back from pursuing...

Send us Fan Mail "Mistakes are as valuable as the finely crafted ideas. There's something tangible in them that could often be elevated and be the main idea." Alex Normanton In this episode, you’ll hear about: Establishing strategic foundations for creativity: Grounding creative ideas in strategy to ensure a solid basis for the creative process and alignment to objectives, prior ins...

Send us Fan Mail "So I just thought, no. I don't accept the narrative around sobriety. I don't accept that drinkers are boring. I don't accept that people can't have fun without alcohol. I just don't accept any of these things." Faye Lawrence In this episode, you’ll hear about: Faye’s journey to sobriety: Faye details her personal story from heavy-drinker to alco...

Send us Fan Mail “It's easier to develop a business plan to literally sell shit than it is to develop a framework to implement new ideas, like a scientist.” Dr. Agustin Chevez In this episode, you’ll hear about: Rethinking workplace design: Top strategies and recommendations for shifting workplaces to increase productivity, employee engagement and loyalty & how the perception of workplace...

Send us Fan Mail “At the end of the day, it's about what is the goal or purpose both these people in the room are in for? If that is not aligned, everything else won’t make sense.” Ishani Nigam In this episode, you’ll hear about: Taking your first step in change and careers: Avoiding overwhelm & knowing how to take action to make change in your life, work and build the future you desire B...

Send us Fan Mail “Being technology agnostic is crucial. Don't assume that your playbook from one business will magically work at a different one. There's no one-size-fits-all approach.” Charlie Carpinteri In this episode, you’ll hear about: Technology agnosticism: How to remain agnostic and flexible in making tech decisions based on specific circumstances and contexts Challenges in tech...

Send us Fan Mail “When you're looking at innovation and especially experimentation, the goal is to effectively fail. You really want to be able to push for failure for your ideas because it's the ones that don't fail that are the ones that you want to be able to push through.” Tash Reidy In this episode, you’ll hear about: Establishing a culture of experimentation: Strategies to fos...

Send us Fan Mail “It's about awareness; it breaks my brain and it breaks my mind, how often people just blindly move into stuff without that self-awareness of what it is that they're trying to achieve.” Ben Prinsloo In this episode you’ll hear about: Prioritising organisational challenges: Identifying issues in the workplace and knowing what to solve first and what’s possible to solve fi...

Send us Fan Mail “I think we're at our least efficient when someone else is driving everything that we're doing. And that's a situation you can wind up in when you don't have the confidence to say, yes, I can actually do this.” Brendan Donoghue In this episode you’ll hear about: Building influence as a design leader: The four things you must have in your tool kit to establish i...

Send us Fan Mail “Creativity is also definitely a superpower in one way or another, and sometimes you can control it, sometimes you can't.” Sarah Mote In this episode, you’ll hear about: The role of design in the workplace: Why designers are essential to a functional and thriving team Protecting creativity while ageing: How to maintain child-like creativity as you age and your career develops...

Send us Fan Mail “I think there are times to go in hard, be really forceful, drive change. If you can see a problem, you really need to state that and work towards driving that change.” Carly Neubauer In this episode, you’ll hear about: Identifying and aligning your personal ‘why’: Gaining clarity on your personal purpose and motivational values, and ensuring alignment with an organisation's...

Send us Fan Mail “I always thought that part of my job was to get fired, but for doing something I would be proud of. My job was to push the boundaries with a stick, and if I wasn't getting in trouble, I wasn't sure I'd be fulfilling that.” Max Kalis In this episode, you’ll hear about: Balancing provocation and irritation: Knowing how and when to challenge the status quo and use pro...

Send us Fan Mail "Recovery is a program of action. It's about action. It's not about thinking your way out of a problem or wishing yourself better. It's about doing stuff.” Olly Lynch In this episode, you’ll hear about: Olly’s personal journey with addiction: How he found himself at a career high yet in deep alcohol and drug addiction & the personal and professional impacts...

Send us Fan Mail "Your success is only limited by your own ambition... It's very much about autonomy, mastery, and purpose beyond the backlog." Andrew Broughton In this episode, you’ll hear about: Balancing business metrics and social impact: The challenge of but need for aligning social impact measures with business metrics to demonstrate the value of socially focussed projects. Fi...