Naked Ambition Podcast

Claudette Leeming is the Head of Workspaces at Australia Post. She has spent her career in the property industry, with specialisation in Workplace Strategy, where she brings together technology and people & culture to positively influence workplace experience and effectiveness.

Claudette is constantly challenging how we operate to evolve the workplace to best enable the business - which has never been more relevant than right now.

In this episode we dive into:

- The big decisions leaders are making about their future workplaces and Claudette's thoughts on why you may not rush this

- Why you may not go to the office to 'work' in the future

- How to find the right working rhythms for you

We hope you enjoy this as much as we did !

In the latest episode of the Naked Ambition podcast, we speak with award winning speaker, author and musician Mykel Dixon.

In our chat, Mykel shared his views and expert insights on:

Why he believes creativity is the #1 driver for personal fulfilment and professional success.

- The messy relationship between creativity, business and us.

- What it means to be an everyday creative (right now in the world) how he has navigated this

- And his practical advice for you how you can too.

In this episode of the podcast we speak with Daniel Stillman the author of Good Talk and host of The Conversation Factory.

Daniel shared his views and expert insights on:

- Why you need to get good at having conversations with yourself before others

- The patterns present in every conversation

- A simple model for leaders to have better conversations

- and how good conversations became his calling

We hope you enjoy !

Tune for the next episode of the Naked Ambition Podcast with Lee Duncan. Lee Duncan is an Enterprise Design Sprint Leader at IBM.

How he has challenged normal models of the way we work throughout his career, how he made design sprints mainstream at IBM and how they are using them to solve for AI and Blockchain challenges. He also shares his best productivity hacks to stay on track and do the work that matters most.

Over his 20 year career he's helped support an experimental Model Office that reimagined default ways of working, such as scaling virtual design sprints. Lee has also designed solutions in Security, Acquisitions, Analytics and Blockchain—providing an enduring impact to company success.

This October he was recognized with an International Stevie Award in Vienna, Austria for his work with Miracle (non-profit), Chainyard, and IT People Corporation that created new Blockchain Technology for Disaster Relief.

Lee's most recent work has helped launch an Enterprise Design Sprint practice within Design to Deliver (D2D), an IBM internal design agency focused on transformatio

In this episode we speak with Kai Haley Head of Design Relations at Google, which supports design excellence for designers and developers building on Google's platforms. Kai was also one of the founders and leads of the Google Sprint Master Academy, where she has trained over 800 Sprint Masters to drive innovation across Google’s diverse product areas.

We cover:

- How Google use design sprints to explore 'Moonshot' ideas

- Cultivating an experimentation mindset and what she looks for in new hires

- Collaborating with designers and developers across Google platforms

- How Kai and her team have trained over 800 people in the design sprint methodology

- Plus the trends we should be watching

Join us as we speak to Trish McCluskey, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Victoria University and award winning educator and leader. Trish was instrumental in the design and development of the VU Block Model, a radical reconceptualization of the traditional university curriculum.

Join Fiona from Naked Ambition in uncovering tools, techniques and all that there is to know about Virtual Design Sprints from the Design Sprint master himself, Robert Skrobe.

Robert is the owner of Dallas Design Sprints, and the authority on the virtual design sprint process and the organizer of the Global Virtual Design Sprint and the Referral Network for facilitators, designers, developers and researchers.

Humphrey Laubscher is a Product Innovation Coach at Apply Lean and has previously worked in innovation roles within Aus Post and Nab Labs. In this episode Humphrey shares his perspective on working in some of the Australia's most high profile innovation teams + what works and what doesn't when it comes to enterprise innovation. He also gets specific about what tools and techniques you can employ to build capability in your own team.

As the Founder of Apply Lean Humphrey helps corporates and startups apply Lean Startup, Design Thinking and Agile methodologies to build innovative products. Most recently Humphrey was helping to drive Australia Posts new digital innovation strategy by leading a cross functional team in identifying, validating and experimenting new digital businesses that target their enterprise and government customers within his role as Lead Emerging Products Manager.

Prior to joining AusPost, Humphrey was the FinTech Innovation Manager at National Australia Banks’ Innovation Lab, NAB Labs, Humphrey was responsible for sourcing, selecting and leading commercial partnerships with startups locally and globally. He developed and drove the adoption of Nab’s innovation pipeline methodology including the strategic objectives, methodologies and alignment back into the broader business. He also co-developed Nab’s $50m Corporate Venture Capital Funds investment strategy which was endorsed by Nab’s Board of Executives leading to the launch of NAB Ventures in 2016.

Humphrey received his masters of management in information technology from Charles Sturt University. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.

Olga is currently the Head of Customer Experience and Design at Medibank, a position she has held since April 2017. Prior to this role she was Human Centred Design practice manager at Nab Labs.

In this episode Olga gives a deep and unique insight into how she has built her team and cemented their key role in the business (after the design team was disbanded a few years ago), how Medibank use multiple sources of 'live' data to drive better customer experience and deliver value for members, and her advice for driving grass-roots innovation.

Olga passionate about the people side of innovation and on top of her in-house experience she brings an impressive list of qualifications includes an MBA from the London Business School, a Degree from London School of Economics and Political Science, she’s an NLP Practioner, an Agile scrum master, and has studied Design Thinking for Innovation at University of Virginia.

Kate O'Keeffe the Senior Director and one of the founders of Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Labs – also known as CHILL. CHILL condenses up to two years of normal innovation into just two days by bringing together a handful of Cisco’s customers—along with entrepreneurs, hackers, and end users—in a 48-hour lab focused on a particular industry challenge. They collaborate, build prototypes, test them with users, then iterate up to 12 times before making a pitch for on-the-spot investment.

CHILL is the culmination of Kate’s vision that today’s hyperinnovation era requires both specific muscles and the capability to involve customers and startups in new and exciting ways. Since CHILL’s inception, a full 75% of projects have progressed to further stages, including to CHILL-X, a process that creates startups from scratch.

In this episode Kate talks us through how CHILL works, some of the success they have had and some of the lessons they've learned along the way. She also explains how she go the stakeholders on board with the concept early on and shares her lessons in how you can be a driver of innovation at your own company.

 

Kate’s also a Melbourne native and proved her entrepreneurial chops as a fashion designer by founding, building and exiting a successful shoe business, Cinderella Bella. She is the recipient of numerous industry awards and recognitions including, most recently, the M-Prize Innovating Innovation Challenge, sponsored by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey, and a place on Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business 2016” list.

We hope you enjoy!