Alpha Geek Podcast: How Leaders Level Up

Dr Tim Patston is the head of Innovation at Geelong Grammar School, and Peter Evans-Greenwood is a fellow at Deloitte Centre for the Edge. They have been working together on research around the future of work and the digital skills gap, and have uncovered some unexpected results.

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Show notes

• Digital agency and the skills gap report

Dr Tim Patston’s links

• Dr Patston on LinkedIn
• @GeelongGrammar on Twitter

Peter Evans-Greenwood’s links

• @pevansgreenwood on Twitter
• Centre For The Edge on Twitter
• Deloitte on Twitter
• Centre For The Edge website

Jamie Leach is the CEO and Founder of Open Data Australia. Jamie has had a long and varied leadership history across a range of industries including finance and tech and AI startups. Jamie has distilled her approach to leadership so that it can work across boundaries and industries.

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Show notes

• Jamie’s links
• @opendataaus on Twitter
• Open Data Australia

Peter Evans-Greenwood has deep experience as a CTO and tech strategist and is now a Fellow at Deloitte’s Centre for the Edge, helping organisations understand the digital revolution and how they can embrace the future. We get deep into artificial intelligence and the future of work. Will we still have jobs in the future? Peter is confident he has the answer.

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Show notes

• Peter’s links
• @pevansgreenwood on Twitter
• Peter’s fellow Fellow… Pete Williams on Twitter
• To code or not to code?
• Deloitte Centre for the Edge

ANU’s 3A: Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Innovation Institute

• Genevieve Bell’s Boyer lecture

Michael Reid is a fully qualified Aerospace Engineer, and then made a shift into sales in IT. He has worked his way into leadership roles, and is now the State Manager for Cisco in Queensland. Hear about the twists and turns in his leadership journey and how to disrupt yourself before others disrupt you.

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Jeff Haden is a world-renowned writer and ghostwriter. Much of what he has written about is in the leadership, influence and personal development space. We talk about some of the key leadership lessons Jeff has picked up from interviewing hundreds of the best in the world.

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Show notes

Jeff’s links

• Jeff’s new book: The Motivation Myth
• Jeff’s articles on Inc.com
• Jeff’s new website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Shawn Achor’s book: The Happiness Advantage

Purposive Drift

Kristy Simpkin is the Co-President of the ICT arm of Women In Technology who promote women in the industry and what we can all do as leaders to help address the biases and imbalances that are still present in the industry.

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Show notes

Kristy’s links

• Kristy on LinkedIn
• @kristyasimpkin
• Women in Technology
• The WIT Awards

Test yourself for unconscious biases—For gender test, select your country and ‘Go’. Then click through on the ‘Gender’ button.

PwC and Diversity

• PwC’s commitment
• PwC’s journey
• Creating value through diversity

“65% of employee performance problems are the result of strained relationships rather than a lack of skill or motivation”

Tuckman’s model for team performance (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning)

The Empowering Internet Safety Guide for Women

Andrew Ramsden is the CEO and Founder of Alpha Transform and host of the Alpha Geek podcast. He has a particular passion for leadership development for technical professionals. In this episode Andrew talks about his most important leadership lesson and how you can apply it.

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• Episode based on this article from earlier in the month
• “I don’t want to be wrong for a moment longer than I have to be”—Sam Harris
• High EQ leads to 500% increased performance in CEOs
• EQ can address this: “65% of employee performance problems are the result of strained relationships rather than a lack of skill or motivation”

Karin Geraghty is the Chief ICT and Digital Strategist for Department of Premier and Cabinet in South Australia. She has led many successful large-scale transformations in South Australia and shares a lot of wonderful insights about how to be a leader in that environment.

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Show notes

• Karin on LinkedIn
• Blinkist—For Micro-readers like Karin and Andrew
• The Reflective Practitioner—Book about ‘reflection in action’ and ‘reflection on action’
• Switch: How to change things when change is hard
• Don’t think of an elephant—Book on how language can frame and lead people
• Best Practice Podcast—With Richard Aedy around working relationships

Leigh Berrell was a geek from an early age, interested in science and electronics. He has had an impressive career working his way from hands-on technical roles up to CIO roles over the past 10 years. Listen to hear how Leigh made the transition and his top leadership lessons.

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Show notes

• Leigh on LinkedIn
• Leigh on Twitter
• More about Leigh in Sydney Morning Herald
• Drive by Dan Pink—Motivating people through autonomy, mastery and purpose

Dr. Mark Glazebrook is an inventor, academic, and founder of Girls Invent who supports girls in schools to become innovators and entrepreneurs. Listen to hear how this movement is helping to shift the imbalances in the industry and how you can be involved.

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• Girls Invent
• Use the contact form on the site if you are a:
• school looking to get involved
• parent to know more about how to get your daughter’s school involved?
• business looking to ‘adopt a school’
• business interested in the commercialisation opportunities
• One of Mark’s inventions, the DOY