In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Stephanie Christopher, CEO of TEC, who provides insights into influencing others, leadership and the "Seven key skills of successful business leaders".

We begin the discussion learning that Stephanie actually started her career in a clinical profession, as a speech pathologist, working in hospitals and private practice before moving into a corporate career. The basis of clincial interviewing skills, dianosing problems and working in multi-diciplined teams applied to business, and thinking of an outcome, have a plan and influencing others translated to sales.

Gravitating to professional services marketing and sales, various roles led Stephanie to being placed as CEO of TEC over 10 years ago. It is through the various leadership roles that Stephanie learnt that is not always your title that leads change, it is your ability to influence those around you. Influencing enables you to guidie people toward the business outcomes, learning that not everyone is going to be on the same page but leading with insights and showing the value, demonstrating that you are someone who understands.

TEC has been in Australia for over 40 years , creating the space for like minded business leaders to access the power of non-competitive peer mentors, enabling business leaders to share their current issues and receive rich, diverse perspectives to assist their approach to move forward - the process enables those vunerable moments within a completely trusted, confidential and caring space with peers who want you to succeed.

Stephanie has learnt alot from the TEC community and as a result they have summarised the seven skills for successful leaders. In the discussion Stephanie outlines the skills as follows:

• Know your numbers - what are the numbers that are make or break for your business
• Inspire a shared vision - clear on where you are heading, everyone aligned on strategy and clear on their role within it
• Get the right people on the bus - know who you need, what talent is going to enable the business to succeed
• Be the Chief engagement officer - leading the culture and inspiring others to be part of it
• Create a customer-centric culture - making sure it is easy for your customer to do business with you
• Lead and let others manage - clarity of expectations, trusting the system, people doing things differently is often better
• Take care of yourself - understanding yourself and invest in those activities that you know enables you to be at your best 

It is a great listen, as Stephanie effortlessly provides valuable and very practical tips for our business community from a wealth of experience, you will appreciate the insights provided and the power of sharing.

In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Nick Urry, MD of Dexterous Group a global bookkeeping and advisory firm, to share his focus on the technological changes that are disrupting the traditional financial models.

Nobody at school decides to be a Accoutant, and that was no different to Nick who started his journey in a variety of industries and roles before discovering his passion for finance and numbers.

Through networking Nick was listening to the issues many business people were having with their internal finance teams and discovered the need for alternative finance models, the push he needed to start his own business.

At Dexterous Group, Nick is leading the education and culture to be comfortable around new technologies, ensuring a human approach to AI, managing the opportunities and risks to offer clients innovative solutions and challenge a different way of working.

Nick provides us with key learnings from the branding changes that he has taken his business through to the key point insights on the current systems that are designed to be seemless and remove friction from your key finance processes allowing your team to focus on value add and more engaging activities.

If you dream of finding time and peace of mind around your finance team to focus on the value add then you will benefit from Nick comments on embracing alternate models.

In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Justin Horo from the Levels Network, NRL player for the Parramatta Eels and the Manly Sea Eagles previously. 

Justin shares with us his journey into rugby league, developing his golf and how he founded "Levels Network" a podcast he hosts with his good friend Willie Mason.

Throughout his school career he wasn't necessarily the most successful player as a junior but with some patience and commitement he was able to climb up to his debut in the NRL in the same team his dad initially also debuted for, the Parramatta Eels.

When Justin finished playing in the super league, he has successfully transitioned to creating the  podcast which involved guests on all sports, creating a digestable and fun way of keeping up with sports. 

Justin also shares the exciting details of the not to be missed upcoming Rugby League golf day on the 2nd of October at Concord Golf Club with many legends of the game such as Daly Cherry-Evans, Cameron Munster, Nathan Cleary and many others.

A great story teller, Justin's journey provides a lot of learning that we can all take away. He highlights through his experiences that one can achieve any heights with being clear and committed to one's goals.

In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Sam Squires, award-winning sports journalist, TV presenter, Author and founder of Sportette.

We learn from Sam, the power of story telling that enables inclusion. A country girl, Sam quickly developed a love for sport including golf, found her passion in becoming a sports journalist providing the perfect platform to be part of and promoting women in sport. 

In 2014, Sam founded Sportette to provide an avenue to tell the incredible stories of our female athletes and it grew to be a leading think tank on Women's Sports.

In 2020 Sam released her debut children's novel "Princesses Wear Sneakers". A heartwarming tale of a princess's passionate pursuit of her sporting dreams.  So excited to hear Sam's has a new children's novel "Running with Wings" which is due out in May 2024.

While juggling her media commitments and keynote speaking engagements, Sam is also a Women's Professional Golfers Association (WPGA) Board Director.

It was very impactful to hear Sam share the power of being yourself, being inclusive, being kind and finding your passion to shout from the roof tops and stay true to what drives. 

In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Will Freitas, Managing Director at Confio Insurance Services. 

In this episode, Will delves into the diverse range of risks that businesses can safeguard themselves against, particularly in the realms of cybersecurity and cyber insurance.

Will’s insurance career began as an Insurance Underwriter at a globally recognised financial services company in Australia. Working in Financial Lines, he specialised in Directors & Officers Liability, Professional Indemnity and Cyber Liability for a diverse range of Financial Institutions and Corporate clients. Leveraging his Underwriting knowledge and Insurer relationships, Will then transitioned into giving clients market leading insurance advice across a variety of industries.

Will is now the Managing Director of Confio Insurance Services and continues to change the landscape of insurance advisory within Australia.

This is an interesting episode with lots of insights on how to mitigate business risk! Hope you enjoy.

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In this episode of the Emajin Podcast: Beyond the 19th, we catch up with Calvin Chilchik, Head of CUB, Sydney.

Calvin has build a strong career initially at Toymate, the #1 toy retailer in Australia. 

Growing from the ground up into senior management roles in Operations and Sales,  Calvin plays an integral role at CUB, Club of United Business, and works with an amazing team of individuals to build and grow the CUB business both in Sydney and across Australia.

The Club of United Business is a leadership community and networking service enabling Australia's entrepreneurs the ability to build real relationships with fellow leaders, thus ensuring that no one is on the entrepreneurial journey alone!

In this episode Calvin shares with us his networking ethos, as well as, some excellent insights on builing and growing your business from a sales perspective.

This is an episode that packs so much value! Hope you enjoy.

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In this episode, we talk to Sam Norton, MD of Fluid Intelligence.  Sam has a dynamic career, starting out as an elite athlete in Slalom Canoeing, has been a business coach for over 15 years, coaching Olympian Jessica Fox, Professional V8 Super Car Drivers, Professional  Boxers and many sporting personalities.  Sam's coaching also extends to many business leaders looking to improve their performance game!

Sam talks to us about many mental strategies that you can adopt to really create a performance mindset and enhance your performance both in sport as well as in business - a must listen for anyone in our community trying to improve their performance mindset in golf or in business.

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In this week's episode we talk to Craig Forman, one of our founding members, and Managing Director of Cane Financial.

Craig shares some hilarious golfing gaffes and some amazing relationships he has built on and off the golf course through networking with Emajin.  But more importantly, Craig shares his financial insights on the property market, interest rates, property prices and investor sentiment in the current environment.

This is a great episode providing some valubale insights on where the market is at the moment and where it is going. Hope you enjoy.

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New Year, New You? Is taking up golf or improving your golf skills on the New Year’s Resolution list for this year?

Then this is the podcast episode for you…

This week, it is our absolute pleasure to have Emajin Head Teaching Professional and golfing celebrity, our very own Ben Doney as a guest in this episode. 

Ben is a presenter in the Fox Sports Golf Show, ‘How Good is Golf’ and has an extensive career spanning two decades as a golf touring professional in the European tour as well as Rules Official. He has officiated at The Open Championship and given a ruling to many a celebrity Pro golfers including Greg Norman.

Ben has taught more than 5,000 golfers and has shared golf tips and tricks on TV, in person and at numerous golf clinics and lessons.

In this episode Ben shares his insights for both beginner golfers as well as seasoned golfers on how to improve your golf game. A must hear episode.

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"Solve this riddle…. you can’t see or touch me, but I am the most valuable business asset of modern companies…. that’s right, I am Intellectual Property."

In 1975, 83% of assets comprising the value of the S&P 500 Index were tangible.  As at 2020, that number was down to 10%.  And 90% of the value was now intangible assets such as Intellectual Property.

In this episode of the Emajin Podcast Beyond the 19th, we are delighted to welcome Emajin member, keynote speaker and legal mastermind, Timothy Borham.

Tim is Director of Sunshine Coast and Sydney based law firm Sajen Legal.

Tim is also our keynote presenter at Emajin Golf's first event of the 2024 schedule, where we play at The Kurrai championship golf course at Nudgee Golf Club in Brisbane.

In this episode Tim shares with us his insights on the rapid rise of intellectual property and how you can best protect and exploit it within your own business.

Tim has been specialising in Corporate Advisory and Intellectual Property Law for the past 16 years.  His passion lies in advising and safe-guarding clients throughout the various stages of their business life cycle.  Often, that begins with establishing the foundation for the protection and exploitation of their valuable intellectual property.

This is one of those episodes that you listen all the way to the end! 

And to hear more from Tim you are welcome to check out his keynote at Nudgee GC, via the link below.

https://emajin.golf/event/nudgee/