In The Raw with Mark LeBusque

Paul Roos has had a 35-year career in leadership development and elite sports, and is best known for coaching the AFL Sydney Swans to its 72-year drought-breaking premiership in 2005.

In this episode Paul shares his thoughts on why it's important to turn values into agreed behaviours, see the world through the eyes of those you lead, avoid making snap "in the heat of the battle" decisions and focus on only what you can control.

Bestselling Author Margie Warrell had had her fair share of fears surface when her husband Andrew was diagnosed recently with COVID-19. As an expert in helping others face their fears, Margie shares how she has become both the teacher and the learner in recent times. Margie tells it as she sees it and her generosity of spirit shines through in this episode.

In this episode I'm joined by my 26 year old son Sam, who from the age of 5 has pursued his passion as a gamer from initially on console to now online. Accustomed to working and playing in social isolation, Sam says he has been training for this very moment for 20 years and shares 3 really simple and practical tips for those humans who are struggling to cope with the WFH world we are living in right now. Oh.....he also went pretty easy on me as his dad and shares some tips for parents that may be struggling with their kids who have a passion for gaming.

A chance meeting with Author, Podcaster and Culture Expert Carolyn Swora in Nashville Tennessee last year led to a dinner and an interesting conversation where I challenged Carolyn that she was "good enough". In the past year Carolyn has done some amazing work on herself and shares her simple and practical tips to play a bigger game, forget about perfection and that simple is hard to do so we chase ease of complexity.

In this episode, I'm joined by an expert in building deep human connection - Alana Bennett. It all started for Alana as an identical twin who learned at a genetic level the power of deep connection. Alana takes these learnings into the workplace and shares her simple and practical ways to stay connected in times where remote connecting is the "new way". The passion and enthusiasm Alana has for this topic is evident in the way she generously shares her tools and tips to make the world a better-connected place.

Author of Cracking the Leadership Code - 3 Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, Alain Hunkins has been captivated by human behaviour from a very early age and In this podcast shares his knowledge on how to build strong leadership in organizations. His three simple and practical tips revolve around the three (3) C's - Connection, Communication and Collaboration. He also shares his insights into why humans are chasing complexity as a way of impressing their "elders" in the workplace.

Jeb Hurley, author and the CEO and co-Founder of Xmetryx shares his go-to tools and tips for creating extraordinary remote teams. This is a must-listen episode for the times we find ourselves in with COVID-19 forcing we humans into a new way of working. Learn from Jeb how values, purpose, inspiration, motivation and coaching team relationships will help you thrive in these challenging times.

Mark C. Crowley is a human who has talked the talk and walked the walked when it comes to truly Human Leadership. In this episode, Mark shares his backstory and how it helped him to make an unconscious pivot into leading from the Heart over a 20 year period. The real and raw stories he shares, combined with some science and research into why humans "fire" from the heart first and that it's not some weird voodoo stuff make this episode so compelling a listen. Mark's simple and practical tools and tips given are a must-listen for all humans who have the privilege to manage other humans.

Siobhan McHale has walked the walk and talked the talked of culture and is the architect of many incredible business turnarounds based upon cultural change. In this episode, Siobhan shares some incredible examples of cultural change and her simple and practical tips to make it sustainable. These include diagnosing the patterns, seeing the dance and not just the dancers, reframing roles and including all levels in the change in order to get organisational wide buy-in. This is a must-listen for anyone who is struggling to get cut through on organisational culture change.

Claire McCarthy is an expert in helping managers and organisations step into the challenging task of providing support for employees who are facing into personal grief in a very human way.

In this episode, Claire shares her own very raw and real story of grief (the loss of her 6-week old daughter) and how that has inspired her to do work that we humans tend to step away from. Her three simple and practical tools and tips to step into the conversations as a manager (or just as a human being) focus on acknowledgment, giving space and not going with a "one size fits all" approach.

It's as raw and real as it gets.