Business In Colour

Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December.  This episode is with the magnetic Jahin Tanvir, CEO of the Australian School of Entrepreneurship,  3-time TEDx Speaker, a Keynote Speaker & MC, UNICEF Young Ambassador, Young Australian of the Year, Finalist 40 under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians 2022. He reminds us that our identity is our superpower and demonstrates through his story, how we should value it. As we move into 2023 and strive for better in diversity and inclusion efforts, we can't forget to value ourselves, and our identity - no one should have the power to disempower us. Please enjoy the leadership voice of Jahin, Tanvir. 

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Sadhana and I are reflecting on 2022 and have chosen 5 top picks from the year to re-air across December.  This episode is a standout and feels a little, like our contribution to recording history. We interviewed Zoe Daniel a Teal Independent candidate in March 2022 this year ahead of the May 2022 election and it is so wonderful to see her use your voice in our Parliament in her seat. In this episode she reminds us how to find our voice and use it to make change from where we stand. She said, poignantly, ‘If not us, who? If not now, when?’, which became her campaign slogan. Catch her in this episode and also on her Find Your Voice Podcast.  Thank you Zoe, it is wonderful to reflect with you on where you were then and where you are now. 

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Sadhana and I have picked 5 episodes as our topic picks for 2022 that will re-air through December. They capture our core messages to the business community and people everywhere about valuing and including difference. This episode with Kemi Nekvapil talks about Power - how we give it up, how we lose it, how it is taken from us, how we reclaim it. Kemi is a highly respected executive and personal coach, she has created a five-step process to guide other women to build their power and transform their lives through the principles of Presence, Ownership, Wisdom, Equality and Responsibility. (POWER). Soak this episode up and follow Kemi' work.

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Soak up the amazing Paula Kruger, she is warm, funny, smart and vivacious. She is currently the Talent Manager at the ABC. We learn about her Fijian, German, Australian background and how she has embraced all parts of her being and belonging. Throughout this conversation, we hear Paula’s self-leadership, how she feels the fear and runs towards it anyway, creating new pathways for herself and others. We talk about code-switching, earning your opportunity when there is an absence of opportunity, cultural humility, how culture is being, and there is a joke about the relatedness of parsley stuck in your teeth and committing a microaggression. She asks us all to think of diversity as not a problem, but diversity as something to spice up the soul. We agree wholeheartedly, please enjoy the magnetic Paula Kruger.

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Dianne McGrath is one of Australia’s leading sustainability experts, holds three degrees in sustainability including a PhD, and is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.

She has lived her life challenging what others thought impossible, whether that was to live a year with no single-use plastics, prepare for a fully-sustainable one-way mission to Mars, choosing to circumnavigate our planet to help protect our oceans – our future, cycle extreme distances, sail gale storms in a tall ship in the Southern Ocean or biohack her body and mind to become Dianne 2.0. Dianne is nothing if not resilient! Dianne takes us behind the scenes in the preparation for the mission to Mars, how they designed for diversity and included all voices. Enjoy!

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Ashara Wills is a multicultural professional who has worked through the ups and downs, curves and corners of being queer from a young age. She has established a strong foundation of support through her family, friends and networks whilst also surrounding herself in the community services sector.

Ashara has always been an advocate of the LGBTIQA+ community by engaging in meaningful conversations passing on knowledge, consulting with the community and continually embracing differences.

Ashara Wills is passionate about developing outside the box engaging educational training programs, working in environments that create holistic, healthy and substantial changes. Please enjoy Ashara Wills. 

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In this episode we interview Michelle Loader, Managing Director of Fisher Leadership who cares as much as about the individual's diversity as she cares about the organisation as a whole, including the Board. We ask her the tough questions about why leaders are so slow in making progress on gender, culture and other diversities; and what she is doing about it. We talk about her views on capability, merit, and more. She introduces us to her thinking on why partnership is the new leadership and what that truly means. Catch Michelle Loader on all things talent, leadership and more. Enjoy. 

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Imagine starting an AFL team with no funding, no coach and no experience. It takes a strong woman who’s not afraid to break all the rules to tackle a task this insurmountable. It takes Amna Karra-Hassan.  The Founder and President of the Auburn Giants Australian Football Club, Amna Karra-Hassan has pioneered programs for women of minority communities in Western Sydney. As a woman and a Muslim, her road to greatness wasn’t an easy one. But Amna derives her strength from adversity and uses her influence to change the conversation on intersectionality, inclusion and gender parity.
 
An active leader in the community, she’s also worked for the Australian Federal Police and previously served on numerous government boards. Amna Karra-Hassan also delivers Cultural and Religious Education (C.A.R.E) Workshops for engaging with Muslim communities. Enjoy this episode, and learn how to mobilise allies practically - Amna shows us how in her story-telling. 

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Professor Manjula O’Connor is a psychiatrist with special interest in migrant women’s mental health, complex trauma and family violence. She is Hon Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne. She was conferred Adjunct Professor University of New South Wales Department of Social Sciences in 2021. Manjula Chairs Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Family Violence Psychiatry Network. 

In the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled Manjula to investigate the causes of patriarchal abuse in South Asian families.

As a practitioner with many decades experience in the field, Manjula questioned whether a better understanding of history and culture could help these communities implement measures to prevent family violence.

But the most powerful lessons came from those she met through her practice - survivors of transnational abuse and of sexual and dowry exploitation.

This is an important conversation to have with Manjula.  

In Australia one woman a week is killed, sadly despite all the work that has been done in this space the impact is not being seen.

As the number of migrants from India increase in Australia we will start to see an increase in issues such as dowry abuse.

An important conversation and Manjula has committed so much of her life to fighting the battle of behalf of many women. 

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In this episode we interview Ariel Weindling who is an employment lawyer and Founder of NotMe Solutions – a practical and empowering tech solution to prevent and address negative behaviours at work, bringing transformational change to the old way of reporting and complaints handling. With the rate of whistleblowing in the Australian media of misconduct, sexism and racism, with women marching for safer spaces and to have a voice;  and with Kate Jenkins - Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner’s 55 recommendations to Parliament – business leaders, boards and shareholders should be thinking, what can we innovate in this process of reporting, how can we know early before harm happens? Well we talk about these complex issues and more with Ariel. We talk about the Me Too movement’s impact in the US, we compare and contrast the progress overseas versus Australia on these issues and the adoption of innovation, and we talk about corporate courage. Ariel’s call out to leaders, is less words, more action and we couldn’t agree more. Please enjoy the brave and bold leadership of Ariel Weindling.

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