Leadership Odysseys
Leadership Odysseys is a space for people in the middle.The middle of careers.The middle of decisions.The middle of becoming.This podcast shares real leadership journeys.Not straight lines.Not highlight reels.Each conversation explores what happens behind the scenes.The fear.
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Si Elliott: Happy Accidents, Behavioural Science and Keeping Business Human (opens the original)
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Si Elliott has spent more than two decades in marketing leadership, and his conclusion is not what most of the industry wants to hear: businesses have become very good at reaching people, and increasingly poor at understanding them. As co-owner of Nottingham creative agency Diversity and founder of behavioural science consultancy Fabricx, Si has built his career at the intersection of human psychology and brand experience, watching the industry he loves chase metrics at the expense of the people
Ash Ghahramani: How to Build a Business That Outlasts You (opens the original)
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Nine months to learn a new language. Eighteen months of knocking on doors before anyone called back. Twenty years building a business with the same business partner, without ever needing to be seen doing it. Ash Ghahramani didn’t learn discipline from a book. Ash Ghahramani is the co-founder and managing director of Naturally Gluten Free, one of Australia’s first purpose-built, HACCP-approved gluten-free manufacturing facilities. He arrived in Australia at eleven, having spent his early years in
The Accidental Banker: Meg Bonighton on Saying Yes, Leading at Scale, and Starting Again (opens the original)
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A career without a plan can still take you somewhere remarkable. Meg Bonighton walked into an ANZ call centre at twenty-something looking for nine-to-two work so she could finish her university degree. Sixteen years later she was still there, having led the relaunch of internet banking, built a direct banking brand through a global financial crisis, and closed that same brand with every customer and every team member placed safely on the other side. Then she left. Then she proved herself again a
Megan Dalla-Camina on Why You Build Purpose, You Don't Find It (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show up on a performance review. It is the exhaustion of being excellent at your job while quietly disappearing inside your own life. Megan Dalla-Camina knows that exhaustion intimately. She built an 18-year career at the highest levels of corporate leadership while doing everything else too -- and it took a phone call to her mother, sitting in a car park outside her office, for her to finally say the thing out loud. The Guest Megan Dalla-Ca
Mike Erlin on Human Capability, AI, and the Decision That Changed Everything (opens the original)
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There is a version of every life that almost happened. The path we were on before we turned, suddenly, toward something we couldn't yet see. Most of us never talk about that fork in the road, or what it cost to walk away from the safe thing. This conversation is about exactly that moment, and what unfolds when you trust it completely. Mike Erlin is the co-founder and CEO of AbilityMap, a company built to answer a question that followed him across three countries and twenty years: why do organisa
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