Conversations with Thought Leaders

By David Webley

Conversations with thought leaders is an interview series, tapping into the greatest minds, to share their stories and insights. Providing a platform for our community to share knowledge. Our aim is t... more

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The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

Conversations with Thought Leaders episodes:

December 11, 2023 Episode 8 - Turning Strategy Into Reality
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Turning Strategy into Reality
DATE: Wednesday 18 October 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rob Loader – Strategy & Transformation Executive
Roberto Calati – Co-Founder & CEO Granite Data
Guy Brunsdon – Product & Technology Executive
In this keynote event, Roberto Calati, Rob Loader and Guy Brunsdon covered current trends in transformation, workforce insights, a Silicon Valley perspective, and a practical discussion on how to bridge the expensive gap between strategy and execution.
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31min
October 16, 2023 Episode 7 - Competitive Advantage Through Neurodiversity
CHAPTERS
00:00 Ch.01 Event Welcome and Introductions
07:21 Ch.02 Brian's Dyslexia Journey
11:25 Ch.03 What is Dyslexia?
13:26 Ch.04 Not Tied to Low IQ
14:25 Ch.05 Spikes in the Profile
15:09 Ch.06 Dyslexia in the Workplace
19:11 Ch.07 Fourth Industrial Revolution
19:55 Ch.08 Skills Forecast
20:50 Ch.09 The Value of Dyslexia
29:22 Ch.10 Attracting and Retaining Dyslexic Workers
35:06 Ch.11 Thanks and Close
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Building Competitive Advantage Through Neurodiversity
DATE: Wednesday 16 August 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Brian Heatherich – Technology Leader & Advocate for Neurodiversity
In this event, Brian talked about what dyslexia is and what it isn’t, what are the “superpowers” of a person with dyslexia that organisations should tap into, the current representation of people with dyslexia within in the corporate environment, the power of tapping into neurodiversity for organisations of the future and recommendations on how to commence or continue your corporate neurodiversity journey.
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36min
July 02, 2023 Episode 6 - How to Unleash a World Class BA Practice
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: How to Unleash a World Class BA Practice
DATE: Wednesday 14 June 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Mark Carter - Director Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Maria Montgomery – Leader, Author, Trainer, and Speaker
In this session Maria Montgomery shares insights from her recently released book ‘A Guide to Getting Business Analysis Done the Right Way’. Maria talks about why getting business analysis right is crucial for organisational success, where to focus your efforts to build Business Analyst capabilities and establish a 'Centre of Excellence'.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Ch.01 Event Welcome and Introductions
05:44 Ch.02 Evolution of Business Analysis
09:49 Ch.03 Current Challenges and Problems
15:39 Ch.04 Impacts of Poor Business Analysis
17:03 Ch.05 The Model for Getting Business Analysis Right
18:17 Ch.06 So What Does it Take to Do Well
20:05 Ch.07 Best Practice
22:39 Ch.08 The Business Analysis Checklist
23:08 Ch.09 Thanks and Close
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24min
June 10, 2023 Episode 5 - What's Driving and Derailing Connection in Your Organisation

DATE: Wednesday 24th May 2023

HOSTS:

David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Gemma Suanders – Chief Workplace Editor and Proud Queer Executive

Alana Bennett – Human Experience Fanatic and Coach

In this edition of Conversations with Thought Leaders we talk to two exciting guests, Alana Bennett – Human Experience Fanatic & Coach and Gemma Saunders 🌈 GAICD – Founder & Lead Consultant, Workplace Edit. With our very own David Webley - Managing Director & Co-Founder hosting, Alana and Gemma talk about what is driving and derailing connection within an organisation and why connection matters.

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34min
April 10, 2023 Episode 4 - Winning With Data
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Winning With Data
DATE: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Roberta Calati - General Manager, Granite Data Solutions
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Bharath Venkataraman - Senior Data Leader
ABOUT ROBERTO:
Roberto is an accomplished technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving digital and technology transformation in multiple industries and has held executive technology roles at Myer, Toll Group and Tabcorp. Throughout his career, Roberto has had a passion for data from the very beginning, where he worked in research labs collecting and transforming data, right up to leading BI and data teams as a divisional CIO.

Under Roberto's leadership, his teams have delivered numerous successful data-driven initiatives that have had a significant impact on the businesses they support. This has included millions of dollars of cost out through BI initiatives and developing cross-functional insights that led to the creation of new product categories.

Seeing the massive, sustained increase in the demand for data platforms, people and capability drove Roberto to co-found a data company and help businesses build world-class data capabilities.

ABOUT BHARATH
Bharath Venkataraman is a senior Data leader with extensive experience in creating and delivering organisation wide BI and Analytics vision and strategy, across various domains such as FMCG, Telecommunications, Supply Chain, Logistics and Retail to support strategic business goals and enable best-in class information delivery. Bharath has over 15 years’ experience in recruiting, developing, and managing high performing teams to deliver complex Analytics solutions and well considered, multi-level insights to a variety of stakeholders to enable customer teams to make better, more informed strategic decisions.
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31min
February 27, 2023 Episode 3 - What's the Fuss About Flutter?
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS

KEYNOTE EVENT: What's the Fuss About Flutter?

DATE: Wednesday 22nd February 2023

HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Sam Jenkins - Lead Consultant Software Development, Granite Consulting

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Christian Findlay - Independent Flutter Developer

ABOUT CHRISTIAN:
Christian is a highly experienced and respected Technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Christian has partnered with large organisations such as MYOB, Toll Group, Loan Market Group and Telstra Health.
Christian has been running his own business, christianfindlay.com, for just over 3 years where he has specialised in content creation and development with Flutter. Having previously worked with Xamarin, Christian strongly believes that Flutter is the future for cross platform application development, not just from the point of view from the Developer, but due to the hugely reduced costs and times for companies. Christian has a history of releasing apps on the Google Play, Microsoft and Apple stores. He currently has Flutter apps in the two stores and is overhauling two existing apps for release soon.
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50min
June 01, 2022 Episode 2 - How to Grow Beyond Diversity
HOW TO GROW BEYOND DIVERSITY

DATE: 1 June 2022
HOST: David Webley, Founder & MD of Granite Consulting
GUEST: Gemma Saunders – Founder and Lead Consultant, Workplace Edit

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This episode explores diversity and inclusiveness in the workplace, and the ways that organisations are best able to not only nurture a diverse workforce but leverage it for strategic advantage. Although many organisations pay it lip service, those that truly embrace diversity are emerging as employers of choice, growing their talent pool, and yielding the benefits that this stands to offer. With Gemma’s first-hand experience working with numerous companies in this space, the webinar is sure to provide many insights and tips that attendees are able to apply in their own teams and organisations.

ABOUT GEMMA
Gemma is the founder of ‘Workplace Edit’, a consultancy that partners with organisations to adapt and leverage the huge amount of value of having a diverse workforce. Gemma is a proud queer woman and parent of two. She has many accolades including being a finalist at the Australian LGBTI Awards (alongside the cast of Netflix show ‘Orange is the New Black’) and has been on the board of ‘Wear It Purple’ and ‘Minus18’ (organisations that do pivotal work in LGBTIQ+ inclusion). Gemma was a senior executive at Medibank until 2020 where she helped build a diverse and inclusive workplace and has since worked for Afterpay, Linktree, Koala, Sportsbet and approximately 30 other global & local brands over the past two years.
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57min
April 27, 2022 Episode 1 - Five Conversations to Build Your Culture, with Shane Hatton
FIVE CONVERSATIONS TO BUILD YOUR CULTURE
DATE: 27 April 2022
HOST: David Webley, Founder & MD of Granite Consulting
GUEST: Shane Hatton – Leadership Author, Trainer, Coach & Speaker, Author of 'Let's Talk Culture'

ABOUT:
Shane is an author and speaker on culture, coaching, leadership and communication.

Whether you want to rebuild your culture in this new post-COVID world or improve your ability to inspire your team towards success, this podcast will dare you to walk new paths as a leader and unlock what seems impossible.

What is covered in this podcast:

- What do we mean when we talk about ‘culture’?
- Can culture be influenced, or does it just happen?
- How do you create a world-class team culture by design?
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1h
September 08, 2021 Episode 7 - Leadership As A Lifestyle, with Colleen Callander
LEADERSHIP AS A LIFESTYLE

DATE: 8 September 2021

HOST: David Webley, Founder & MD of Granite Consulting
GUEST: Colleen Callander – Keynote Speaker, Director, Author of 'Leader By Design'

In this episode David speak to Colleen Callander (former Sportsgirl CEO, Founder of Mentor Me Women and Author of ‘Leader By Design’) and covers topics such as the foundations of leadership, how kindness can be used by leaders, how to recognise and avoid burnout, and building the confidence to be a better leader.

INSIGHT 1 Confidence is a skill and not a trait. It's therefore something that can grow and be nurtured and developed.

INSIGHT 2 A degree of chaos and disruption is healthy and helps to lift resilience and innovation. However there is a significant difference between disruptive and destructive leadership and an organisation will only grow from the former and not the latter.

INSIGHT 3 Although kindness is often perceived as weakness, the opposite is true. It requires courage to make strong and tough decisions with kindness.
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57min
August 18, 2021 Episode 6 - Resilience Matters, More Than Ever, with Maggie Roberts
RESILIENCE MATTERS, MORE THAN EVER

DATE: 18 August 2021

HOST: David Webley, Founder & MD of Granite Consulting

GUEST: Maggie Roberts – CEO Creative Factory, Director Diving Australia, GAICD

This conversation explores resilience and how it has featured in Maggie's journey from elite athlete to corporate executive. It provides listeners with a range of concepts and techniques to develop and nurture resilience, which during these unprecedented times is more important than ever.

INSIGHT 1
Visualisation is a powerful tool that can be used in all walks of life. Deep visualisation will help you believe it is possible. What you believe, you can achieve.

INSIGHT 2
Values are fundamental to resilience and what bring it to life. Living by values such as courage, strength, excellence, perseverance, and belief, will help you grow from setbacks and be more resilient.

INSIGHT 3
Reflect, not regret is a mindset that reframes setbacks as opportunities to learn. This not only provides a genesis for growth, but is key to maintaining a positive outlook and improved mental wellbeing.

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58min

FAQs about Conversations with Thought Leaders:

How many episodes does Conversations with Thought Leaders have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.