Creating Synergy Podcast

Sharyn Broer is a highly experienced and strategic executive leader in the national not-for-profit food and health sector. In her current joint roles as CEO of Meals on Wheels South Australia and Meals on Wheels Australia President, Sharyn has a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of communities through the delivery of high-quality community services and programs.  

Sharyn leads South Australia's largest community-based volunteer organisation and is responsible for 80 branches, 7000 volunteers and 60 staff delivering 4000 daily meals and supporting 11,000 people annually. In her national role, Sharyn was instrumental in the development of Australian meal guidelines promoting improved nutrition, balance and healthy choice and in influencing aged care reform to ensure communities can benefit from services like Meals on Wheels well into the future.  

Sharyn was a former Telstra Businesswoman of the Year Finalist and is leading the transformation of  Meals on Wheels South Australia to expand its social impact through new service models and markets.  

In this episode, Sharyn Broer shares her professional journey, values and characteristics that made her succeed in her career and become a CEO. Sharyn also shares her thought process on culture, leadership, life and Meals on Wheels' purpose and challenges. 

Where to find Sharyn Broer:

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Meals on Wheels South Australia

Recommended books in this episode:

• The power of one by Bryce Courtenay
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• The motive by Patrick Lencioni
• Design a Better Business by  Patrick Van Der Pijl, Justin Lokitz and Lisa Kay Solomon
• Driven by Purpose by Anne Robinson, Felicity Errington, and Stephen Judd

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Shayne Harris is the Asia Pacific Device as a Service Leader at Lenovo and has worked with customers throughout Asia and Australia while being in senior roles in HPE and Australian Cloud providers before continuing his career at Lenovo. Currently, he focuses on enabling customers to continuously evolve and transform by providing strategic direction and insight on how they manage the lifecycle of their technology. He is responsible for the Device as a Service business for the Asia Pacific and works closely with customers to help them transform into a modern workplace.

In this episode, Shayne Harris shares how Lenovo is helping businesses in today’s current environment to modernise the workforce through a new concept that many industries are adopting to become more productive and is a positive influence to employees.

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Dan Levy is the principal of More Space for Light. More Space for Light is an Innovation and Strategy Consultancy. Their design-led approach to solving business problems helps leaders and teams overcome constraints related to strategy, product, service, or process. Dan is also active in tertiary industry education lecturing and also speaking nationally on the subjects of Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking and Strategy.

In this episode, Dan shares the story of More Space for Light and the power of Design Thinking and Design Sprint as well as how to use Design Thinking to solve complex business programs and how this links into the process of strategy and execution. 

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Where to find Dan Levy:

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More Space for Light Website
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Michelle Holland is an international best-selling author, speaker, consultant, and the Founder and Creative Director of SynergyIQ. She has over 20 years of experience helping businesses to create better outcomes through processes, people and customer engagement. 

In this episode, Michelle talks about the importance of culture and shares some of the steps from her book 'Culture Inc: Create a business that delivers results and people love’ to transform your culture.

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Matthew Michalewicz is a speaker, author and entrepreneur who has more than 20 years of experience in starting and running high-growth tech companies, especially in the areas of machine learning, predictive analytics, and decision optimisation. He is currently the CEO of Complexica, a provider of Artificial Intelligence software for optimising sales & marketing activities, and a director of several ASX-listed companies. He is also the author of several books, including Life in Half a Second, Winning Credibility, Puzzle-Based Learning, and Adaptive Business Intelligence.
In this episode, Matthew shares his journey as an entrepreneur, his motivations behind his book Life in Half a Second and the five doors you must walk through if you’re serious about achieving success in your career, business, or personal life.

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Where to find Matthew Michalewicz:

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Website: https://www.michalewicz.com.au/
Book Life in Half a Second: https://www.lifeinhalfasecond.com/

Kylie Morton has developed a deep appreciation for the value of work and the potential of people in her career as an enabler of improvement and change. As the enterprise leader for Change Management at BAE Systems Australia, she is building a team, a capability and an experience that she hopes will leave a lasting legacy and improve work for thousands of people. She's a lean six sigma black belt who's terrible at math, a failed graphic designer, a terrible hip hop dancer and a wannabe neuroscientist.
In this episode, Kylie will talk about the science behind change management, how she is building a team from scratch, how to build resilience, and how to normalise the human response to change.

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Email: [email protected]

While most people instinctively avoid confrontation, leadership coach, facilitator and speaker Ally Nitschke knows confrontation and Courageous Conversations are central to getting results.

In this episode, Ally brings her expertise through tough conversations to the forefront and creating a culture of feedback which significantly reduces performance issues. Ally shares her mission to change the way we perceive 'tough conversations in the workplace' and to inspire, empower and motivate leaders to lead with Empathy and throw out the rule book!

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Where to find Ally Nitschke:

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Email: [email protected]
Website: madeformore.com.au

Amanda Sheedy is a leadership and development coach that helps people, teams and organisations increase their self-awareness, harness their strengths and discover new approaches. She has 25 years of experience working in senior roles across diverse industries and is specialised in operations management and strategic and transformational change projects. 

In this episode, Amanda talks about leadership and development coaching and how it helps people move past the mental brick wall, the benefits of Team Coaching versus 1:1 coaching and self-awareness. As a neuroscience nerd, she also talks about the science behind the change and brings her knowledge around our triggers, how we think and behave.

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Where to find Amanda Sheedy:

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Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.amandasheedy.com/

Today our chat is with Roy Papalia, who is an exercise physiologist and a workplace rehab specialist. He has over 15 years of industry experience, and he runs his own business called Allied Health Consulting, a company specialised in injury prevention, injury management and focused on the movement of the human body. In this episode, Roy shared with some great tips for us to think about and how to be proactive instead of reactive when thinking about your body and health when working from home. He also shared some tips for leaders in businesses on how to think about their people who are working from home and things to look out for when transitioning back into the workplace.

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Where to find Roy Papalia:

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Mobile: 0403 625 626
Email: [email protected]

Pete Holliday is an organisational futurist and business agility expert specialising in helping leaders and organisations be fit for the future and understand new ways of working. Pete’s specialities include creating agile teams & high performing cultures. He works with leaders of multi-national organisations, helping them to rethink leadership development, assisting organisations in redefining high performance in the 21st century.
In this episode, listen as Pete and Daniel talk about the future of work, modern leadership development, creating agile team and organisations and everything else that goes along with it in these times of change.

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