Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Cameron Schwab grew up around footie. It’s all he ever wanted to do - run a football club. At the age of 24 he became the CEO of Richmond Football Club, and his real education began. 25 years as CEO, including at other clubs Melbourne and Fremantle, with the ups and downs in public life (like getting sacked), Cameron knows a lot about failure and rising again. He has struggled with mental health, parenting a transgender kid, and more recently, getting through cancer. His is a life of leadership deeply layered, rich and textured. Enjoy!

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. James Bergl is the VP of Sales for APAC at Datto, an IT service provider. I was curious about how a sales professional goes about becoming a team leader who builds an awesome culture - what are the shifts and insights required? What are the key mindsets of a sales professional and how can that be leveraged into leadership? James shares some awesome practical insights from his experience building a team from zero to 80 in just a few short years.

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What KPIs should CEOs have? Should they have KPIs at all? Performance measurement specialist and business consultant Mark Hocknell says they shouldn’t. At least not in the way we currently understand KPIs - ones developed by gut feel instead of a thorough and rigorous process. We also talk about the perils of performance bonuses and why legal and accounting firms should stop measuring staff performance based on billings alone. How giving people targets to meet is a surefire way for people to manipulate numbers or jimmy the system How a CEO increased a company’s bottom line by multiple BILLIONS by focusing on safety, not revenue The best way to develop comprehensive measurement plan that generates teamwork instead of divides it. #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: About Mark Hocknell: Mark had a 14 year career with Suncorp, starting in sales and then into management. He completed an MBA while at Suncorp and was then asked by QUT to develop two courses for the MBA program, Sales Management and, C

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. How are you starting 2019? Have you got a theme word? What boundaries, rituals, habits are you using to shape an extraordinary year? Have you got goals? Or are you using intentions? In this episode, I share the nitty gritty strategies, habits, rituals, and resources I am using to RESET my energy and focus. The theme this quarter on the podcast is ‘Personal Excellence’ and this is the perfect start to that. Why a theme word is useful for shaping your year Six nitty gritty tactics to build personal excellence for the year A special give away as this is episode 100! #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: EDGE OF LEADERSHIP UNCONFERENCE, 21-22 March 2019:  Details here. Six Focus areas for an extraordinary year of personal excellence: 1. Boundaries: put time containers around your addictions (like work, or  exercise, or social media) 2. Routines or Rituals: start of day and end of day rituals are the most important. My mornin

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Former CEO of Seafood and Maritime Training, Rory Byrne, has simple leadership approaches: be kind, listen more, and don’t be too hard on yourself. In an industry that can be volatile and complex, these simple approaches have proven to be the best way to handle complex people stuff. In this interview we unpack the nuance of these approaches and see how difficult it is to ‘do simple’.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. How do you lead culture when you have 16 campuses across five different states, 2500 full time staff and 16,000 more students? It’s a tough gig! In this highly energising interview, Vice Chancellor of CQ University, Nick Klomp, shares his insights on what you need for great leadership, how to measure and monitor culture, what he does daily to connect, and what he finds the toughest in leadership.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Remember the Live Export expose on Four Corners in 2011? Imagine being the CEO of the Cattle Council and handling the fallout. That was David Inall, today’s guest. In our conversation he shares his insights from leadership in agripolitics and agvocacy across the meat, milk, and eggs industry. 

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Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Are you happy with your culture at work? Do things need changing? How do you get started? Do you focus on big picture? Or is the smaller things that count? It turns out you start with the change you want, and hearts and minds come afterwards. Why you should start with actions and not beliefs when it comes to changing culture The three actions that set AMPLIFIERS apart from ACHIEVERS (and why you want to do these) What kind of movement you may want to drive in your culture #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: References and other mentions: Seth Godin’s podcast episode Habits Journal The Life Changing Habit of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo Oura Ring Article about malls closing in the USA Wikipedia article on Minority Report *** Related Episodes: E100 - RESET your rituals, boundaries, and habits for a brilliant new year E99 - What KPIs should CEOs have? E98 - Manager to leader - a shortcut with these great questions *** About your podc

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Do you use your intuition in leadership? Would you like to develop your inner knowing to a greater level? How about a 30-second hack to change your brain waves into a meditative state? Speaker, author, and advisor Scott Stein shares his insights and practical tips on these, delegation, strategic planning, and the core of what we leaders need to do in current times of tension. Native American ancient wisdom: using the Fox Walk to change brain waves for movement meditation Compression planning and how it saves tons of time and avoids ‘talk fest’ in strategic planning The four levels of delegating and mistakes to avoid #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: About Scott: Speaker Scott has worked with thousands of leaders around the world helping them to become better leaders by fast-tracking their thinking and their approach with people. Scott is a highly sought after international speaker and mentor who has worked with

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Some experiences are pretty awful. We can’t wish them away. We can’t pivot from them. We can’t reframe them. We can, however, learn something from them, make use of them, and grow stronger as a result. Strategic planning, and the core of what we leaders need to do in current times of tension. Positive thinking can be good. It’s just not everything. Useful beliefs can help. Using the experience as fodder for growth, after doing a thorough assessment, is key. #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: Norman Vincent Peale wrote the classic, The Power of Positive Thinking. Chris Helder wrote Useful Belief challenged the idea of positive thinking saying it did not fully acknowledge that bad things do happen. He says that you can use belief - which is merely a made up story - to help you take action to get out of the crappy situation. Watch his explanation here. *** Related Episodes: E101 - The curious, non-intuitive way to change culture

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. How much experience do you need in order to drop the impostor syndrome? CEO of Menslink Martin Fisk shares his three decades of leadership and answers the question this way, “do the best you can with what you’ve got’. I loved this interview! Martin has a unique perspective born of humility and deep conviction in his work. Enjoy the fabulous insights from culture to success to mental health.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Every business has a particular context that requires a different approach to leadership. But there are principles that are true for all. Barnie Van Wyck has led businesses in South Africa, the UK, and Australia and has an enormous treasure trove of experiences from which to draw useful insights. Through it all he is sustained by his commitment to others and community. In this uplifting interview discover his secrets to doing leadership well, in the toughest of circumstances.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Working in government and the social services sector, CEO of Woden Community Service Jenny Kitchin has seen a lot when it comes to people stuff. Then, just when she thought she had seen it all, something horrendous happened. How does a leader deal with surprising behaviour? How do we deal with generational gaps? How do we stay calm and composed when our staff want to see us raw and vulnerable? Jenny shares wonderful insights on how to tread in these interesting lines.

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. One of the toughest things to deal with is people who are resistant and do not trust you or your role. CEO of Regional Development Australia for the Murray region, Edwina Hayes, shares her astute people stuff skills to showcase how you can win people over. 

Subscribe to the podcast here. Listen on iTunes here. Listen on Spotify here. Have you got people on your team who just don’t seem to get along? They’re at each other’s throats? They rub each other up the wrong way? It’s easy to think it’s a personality conflict. The problem with THAT is that it makes us feel helpless: “Oh well, that’s just the way they are.” The truth is more complex. The good news is that we can get beyond these challenges to build a better team, even with different personalities. 

Divorced with 5 kids, and launching a startup, Karen Porter thinks that there are a lot easier things to do than run a business. Nine years later her business is worth 7 million plus, and she has a boatload of experience about what works and what doesn’t. She has very practical tips on what it takes to work through the tough bits of business.

Tired, wired, and frustrated? Having trouble sleeping? Health expert Alessandra Edwards reveals latest research on what we can do to improve sleep and achieve ULTRA-WELLNESS. We talk sleep strategies, how genetics affect the usefulness of sleep hygiene habits, rules for meal timing, infrared saunas and cryotherapy. Sleep architecture and how other factors like genetics may impede your results Optimum timing of meals to ensure the best night sleep Fasting for beginners and how it can turn us into fat burners - yeah! #boundlessleadership *** SHOWNOTES: About Alessandra: Alessandra Edwards is a peak performance expert with over a decade’s experience working at the cutting edge of tailored health and ultra-wellness programs for corporate and government leaders, elite athletes and high flyers locally and internationally. Combining a background in Health Science with a Postgraduate Professional Certificate in Genetics and Genomics from Stanford University, as well as a decade of clinical nutritional

80% of people leave their jobs because of a poor manager. So says recruitment specialist, Sarah Rajic, co-founder of Capital Recruit and Staff Check, who has spoken to thousands of employers and candidates. She has seen when it goes right, and when it goes wrong. How do we make it better and unwind that terrible statistic?