"To create change, the only way we can do it is if we can actually come from that human level, human to human, not from a text book, not from just reading PowerPoints and statistics, but we need to bring and draw from our own experiences....”

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, host @Jenelle McMaster is joined by @Mundanara Bayles, Managing Director  and Co-Founder of @Black Card, a 100% Aboriginal owned, who provide cultural awareness training and business consultancy to corporate Australia. Mundanara opens her heart and shares a real and raw look at life growing up Aboriginal, in Australia. 

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Mundanara Bayles, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Black Card

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"I’m feeling pressure that I have to be okay ’cause I’m the “resilience guy” so if I’m not okay does that mean, you know, that I’m just a fraud?"

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Founding Director and Facilitator of the Resilience Project, Hugh van Cuylenburg, who shares his insights on managing and leading during the digital age, with a particular focus on how lockdowns, cognitive overload and loneliness pose prevalent threats to the mental health of children, youth and employees.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Hugh van Cuylenburg - Founding Director and Facilitator of the Resilience Project

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In this episode of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by EY alumni and CEO and Founder of XVenture Mike Conway, who shares his expertise around emotional intelligence, resilience and leadership, and offers an insight into his ten-year tenure at The Wiggles.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Mike Conway - CEO/ Founder XVenture, Tech Director UOW/Tottenham Hotspur Global Football Program  and, Emotional Agility & Mental Coach - Socceroos

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"Somewhere within our public discussions within Australia, a repositioning and revaluing of technical skills, which you are not going to learn off YouTube, which you do need to be at a TAFE, how do we elevate that?"

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, Jenelle McMaster is joined by Chair of Australian Sports Commission and Principal at Buildcorp Josephine Sukkar, who shares insights from her extraordinarily diverse career and her experience around the true value of partnership and teamwork.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Josephine Sukkar - Chair of Australian Sports Commission and Principal at Buildcorp

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"Anyone who has been through a crisis like a natural disaster like a bushfire or flood or whatever really, really need to tell their stories."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, Jenelle McMaster is joined by Lisa Paul AO PSM, who shares her passion for education and mental health as well as her experiences managing crises and facing unexpected situations including the Bali Bombings and the most recent Australian bushfires, and the change they created.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Lisa Paul AO PSM - leader in education, mental health and crisis management. Chair at The Australian Government, Chair Headspace, Company Director of a number of listed and private companies, an Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne, and a Councillor of Bond University.

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"Where I see purposes become a little bit trite or superficial is that they’re trying to meet a convenient or a strategic goal. Where I see them to be authentic and powerful is where they start with the core belief system of the people at the centre of the company."

In the latest episode of the Change Happens podcast, Jenelle McMaster is joined by Adam Jacobs, Co-Founder of Hatch and THE ICONIC, who shares his incredible business journey and his philosophy on the power of purpose-led teams.

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Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Adam Jacobs, Co-Founder of Hatch and THE ICONIC

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"I always say to myself at the end of the year, okay, how many failures did I have this year? Because if I haven't made failures, it means I've been too comfortable."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by world renowned food creator and publisher Donna Hay who shares her change journey as a ground-breaker in the world of food publishing and beyond.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Donna Hay, Founder and Director at Donna Hay P/L is a world renowned food creator and publisher.  

Website: donnahay.com.au

Twitter:  @donnahay

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"In many ways it’s a bit like the kids in the playground standing up to the bullies, so nine nuclear weapon states have had the other countries turn on them and say, these weapons are not okay."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Dr Margaret Beavis, Director of Quit Nukes: Nuclear Weapon Free Finance, who shares her insights on exactly how real and relevant the threat of nuclear war is today, and how her work drives collective action towards collective human security.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Dr Margaret Beavis, Director of Quit Nukes: Nuclear Weapon Free Finance and the Secretary at the Medical Association for Prevention of War - MAPW

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"We need every little girl in this world to wake up and have the same opportunity as every little boy. We need every child in this world to wake up and have the same opportunity no matter where they’re born."

Celebrating International Women’s Day, this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast shines a light on equality and the celebration of diversity. Listen as host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Founder and Chair of Adara Group, Audette Exel AO, who shares her insights from her lifelong fight for human rights and how her work drives change to bridge the gap between for profit and for purpose business models.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Audette Exel AO Founder and Chair of Adara Group.

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"There’s lots of quotes that say 70% of change fails. Now, whether it’s 70% or 80% or 50%, we know a lot of our change efforts fail because we’re trying to communicate and trying to lead change through logic, and again, logic just informs us, it doesn’t actually change our behaviour or influence us to do something different or feel something different."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by speaker, author and founder of Jargon Free Fridays Gabrielle Dolan to discuss the power of communication through storytelling, both in life and in business.

Host: Jenelle McMaster  is Managing Partner, Oceania Markets at EY. 

Guest: Gabrielle Dolan speaker, author and founder of Jargon Free Fridays, discover more here: https://gabrielledolan.com/

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Gabrielles latest book "Magnetic Stories" available from 1st March.