Change Happens

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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

We hadn't practised specifically, what would happen, you know, if the boss got blown up one morning, but we’d practiced enough so they knew the drills."

In the first episode for Season 2 of the Change Happens podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by author and Managing Director of Trebuchet Pivot, Garth Callender, who shares his remarkable experience of his time as an Australian officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and how he has applied the lessons and training learned along the way to life in business.

"The concept of impossible was one that should be pretty much rejected. I don't like the word. So I always tell people, if I was the Prime Minister of Australia, I would ban the use of the word impossible. My little take on it is that if you want to use the word, you must include a time clause in the same sentence."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens #podcast, host @Jenelle McMaster is joined by Founder and CEO at @Tobacco Free Portfolios, @Dr Bronwyn King AO, who shares her story on her mission against tobacco and the significant role that the finance sector needs to play in global tobacco control.

"We made it very public by saying no apologies. So, if something happened, you weren't actually allowed to apologise for it. You just have to say, kick on with it, let the noise go on in the background and we will deal with it."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens #podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by Managing Director at Laing O'Rourke Australia Hub, Cathal O'Rourke, who discusses leadership in times of exceptional change and shares his insights on how the property and construction industry has been hit by the impacts of COVID-19.

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

Guest:Managing Director at Laing O'Rourke Australia Hub, Cathal O'Rourke,

"I looked in the mirror and thought, stuff this, I’ve got to try and get my life back. And I found that people didn’t actually hate me because of my disability… they were just actually awkward and didn’t understand it."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens #podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by wheelchair tennis champion and Paralympian Dylan Alcott OAM who shares his story of overcoming barriers and creating positive change for people with disabilities.

"Outside of Australia, particularly within this region of the world, we are actually seen as a trusted and sometimes – in the world of technology – honest broker, in being able to navigate the complexity of what we find ourselves in."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens #podcast, host Jenelle McMaster is joined by CEO of AustCyber, Michelle Price, who shares her experiences within the cyber securities ecosystem and how she has played a significant role in creating new growth avenues for Australia's economy both domestically and abroad.

"You have to believe you’re a part of seven billion ecosystems, and you are going to do you little part, and know that the next person will do theirs."

In this week's episode of the Change Happens podcast, Jenelle McMaster is joined by Australia's longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007-2015), globally acknowledged leader, social innovator and advocate Elizabeth Broderick AO, who shares her insights on gender equality, how she goes about creating change and the lessons learned along the way in her fight to advance the rights of women and girls worldwide.