Game Changers

Game Changers

By Dr Phil CumminsEducation
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Game Changers episodes

  • What's Really Important - Benson Saulo In Conversation With Phil Cummins Part 2: Managing Complexity
    What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Benson Saulo is Australia's first Indigenous consul-general appointed to the United States. Amongst a long list of deeply impressive achievements, Benson has served as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and has received numerous awards, including the National NAIDOC Youth of the Year Award and the Ricci Marks Award, and has been featured in Cleo magazine's '30 under 30' list. In this episode, he and Phil discuss managing complexity, stepping into vulnerable spaces, and the difference between inclusion and diversity.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    27 min
  • Series 4 Episode 7: Know The Game - Zeina Chalich
    The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the seventh episode of the fourth series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Zeina Chalich, Leader of Learning Technologies at Santa Sabina College. Zeina is an award-winning digital technology educator and teacher mentor. She has taught in several Catholic Schools as well as at her alma mater, the Australian Catholic University. She presents at international conferences and co-founded #aussieED – Australia’s largest educational professional learning network on Twitter. In this episode, she speaks about the role of Twitter in education, her work with girls and STEM, and how you have to know the rules of the game and then break them!
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    41 min
  • What's Really Important - Benson Saulo In Conversation With Phil Cummins Part 1: Generous Spirit
    What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Benson Saulo is Australia's first Indigenous consul-general appointed to the United States. Amongst a long list of deeply impressive achievements, Benson has served as the Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations, and has received numerous awards, including the National NAIDOC Youth of the Year Award and the Ricci Marks Award, and has been featured in Cleo magazine's '30 under 30' list. In this episode, he speaks on the unique power of story in showing the bits between the highlights and steps through the moment when, with his father's help, he took ownership of what good character and leadership meant to him.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    31 min
  • Series 4 Episode 6: Creating Value - Michael Lim
    The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the sixth episode of the fourth series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Michael Lim, Senior Manager at YLab Global. Michael is passionate about empowering young people through education, mentoring and community volunteering. Since 2017, Michael has been the CEO of a small non-for-profit called Community Health Advancement and Student Engagement (CHASE), which works to improve health literacy in disadvantaged high school students across Melbourne's western suburbs. In this episode, he speaks on his work in Melbourne's West, helping schools put students' interests first, and why he finds it hard to 'switch off'.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    44 min
  • What's Really Important - Dr Hayley Watson In Conversation With Phil Cummins Part 3: Reflections
    What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Dr Hayley Watson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, lecturer, and program developer who is passionate about helping people find and cultivate their inner potential and inherent value. Her most recent project is a cutting-edge video-based mental health curriculum for middle and high schools being rolled out across Australia, Canada, and the US: Open Parachute Schools. In this, the third and final conversation, she speaks about why some children bully and our schools can help those being bullied, the need to teach our students how to use social media, and how to know if we're really thriving and attending to wellness.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    30 min
  • Series 4 Episode 5: No Tosh - Ewan McIntosh
    The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the fifth episode of the fourth series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Ewan McIntosh, the founder and CEO of NoTosh. Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, and a pioneer of design thinking for learning in the classroom, Ewan is a passionate and energising tour de force. He’s a highly-regarded keynote speaker and host at events around the world, marrying intense prep work and a natural capacity to listen and shine a light on the best stories participants have to share. In this episode, he speaks about keeping mission statements simple, iterative progress, and what it means to be a solution architect (and problem finder).
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    57 min
  • What's Really Important - Dr Hayley Watson In Conversation With Phil Cummins Part 2: Stepping Back
    What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Dr Hayley Watson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, lecturer, and program developer who is passionate about helping people find and cultivate their inner potential and inherent value. Her most recent project is a cutting-edge video-based mental health curriculum for middle and high schools being rolled out across Australia, Canada, and the US: Open Parachute Schools. In this, the second conversation of three, she speaks about how we feel being foundational to everything we do in education, why we should zoom out to see the bigger picture, and the role of teachers in supporting students' wellness.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    31 min
  • Series 4 Episode 4: Continuous Growth - Josh Farr
    The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the fourth episode of the fourth series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Josh Farr, the founder of Campus Consultancy. Formerly an engineer, Josh founded Campus Consultancy to empower young leaders with leadership, emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. Josh works with over 30 universities and over 17000 student leaders, helping build the leaders of tomorrow. In this episode, Josh talks about what it takes to build a growth mindset, the necessity of failure to learning, and why reading books is so important to him.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    GameChangers
    49 min
  • What's Really Important - Dr Hayley Watson In Conversation With Phil Cummins Part 1: Through Pain
    What does it mean to be your best self? How can help our students to place their lives in context of a whole education for a whole person? In this fourth special series of The Game Changers Podcast, Phil Cummins joins in conversation with Dr Hayley Watson and Benson Saulo to explore character, competency, and wellness through the story of a life. Dr Hayley Watson is a clinical psychologist, researcher, lecturer, and program developer who is passionate about helping people find and cultivate their inner potential and inherent value. Her most recent project is a cutting-edge video-based mental health curriculum for middle and high schools being rolled out across Australia, Canada, and the US: Open Parachute Schools. In this, the first conversation of three, she speaks about how she got to where she is today, her work with Open Parachute Schools, and touches on intergenerational trauma.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    33 min
  • Series 4 Episode 3: Purposeful Coaching - Christine Khor
    The Game Changers podcast celebrates those true pioneers in education who are building schools for tomorrow. In the third episode of the fourth series of the Game Changers podcast, we talk with Christine Khor, CEO & Co-founder of Peeplcoach. Christine started her first business, Market Partners (now Chorus Executive), in 2000, after seeing an opportunity for sales and marketing professionals to recruit for sales and marketing. She wanted to make an even bigger impact, so in 2018 she launched Peeplcoach, an on-demand career health and wellbeing platform. She is also on the national board for The Hunger Project Australia and is passionate about the work they do. In this episode, she tells her story of how she came to where she is today, explains her motivation for her work with The Hunger Project, and speaks on her role in empowering diverse groups of people to succeed.
    The Game Changers podcast is produced by Oliver Cummins for Orbital Productions, supported by a School for tomorrow (aSchoolfortomorrow.com), and powered by CIRCLE by CIRCLE – The Centre for Innovation, Research, Creativity and Leadership in Education (www.circle.education). The podcast is hosted on SoundCloud and distributed through Spotify, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts. Please subscribe and tell your friends you like what you are hearing. You can contact us at [email protected], on Twitter and Instagram via @GameChangersPC, and you can also connect with Philip SA Cummins and Adriano Di Prato via LinkedIn. Adriano loves his insta and tweets a lot; Phil posts videos to YouTube.
    GameChangers
    43 min

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Welcome to the Game Changers podcast. I'm your host, Professor Phil Cummins.