This episode’s guest is Tim Rossanis, the Managing Director of Turo Australia, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. He oversaw Turo’s launch into the Australian market, which is the company’s second international expansion in 2022 and the first in the APAC region. In this role, he leads Turo’s operations in Australia which span across Operations, Marketing, Claims/Protection, Sales, Customer Support, Strategy & Analytics.

Tim previously served as the Head of Growth for Uber’s Retail business in Australia & New Zealand.

He is actively involved in the Australian tech and startup ecosystem as an angel investor, Startmate mentor, Director at Nullarbor Ventures & Fellow at AfterWork Ventures.

 

In this episode Tim shares:

• Why volunteering in a jewish youth group was when he first recognised himself as a leader
• Why he believes collaborative leadership doesn’t always work.
• His advice for hiring people who have subject matter knowledge that you don’t have
• How not following recruitment policy resulted in a terrible hiring decision
• The importance of people vulnerable with your employees and colleagues

Key Quotes

“You can't always lead via consensus, you have to be decisive.”

“The only way I could get the best out of the team was to realise I don’t have all the answers here.”

“I think one of the things that saved the teams spirit was I showed vulnerability.”

 

More About Tim Rossanis

You can follow Tim on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timrossanis/?originalSubdomain=au

 

If you want to find out more about what Wayne does, check out his business via the website:

http://engage4performance.com/

Or you can follow him on socials:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-reuben-engage4performance/

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