The Culture Conversation

In this episode, we dive into the world of renewable energy with Tim Scholefield, Non-Executive Director of ReNu Energy Limited. Tim shares his extensive experience in the energy industry, spanning over 30 years, and discusses his journey from a geologist to his current roles in leadership and consultancy. We explore his work with ReNu Energy, which focuses on investing in sustainable and clean energy technologies, particularly green hydrogen projects. Tim also shares insights from his leadership development consultancy, Turquoise Leadership Consulting, and his passion for empowering others through leadership and personal development.

Tim Scholefield is a seasoned professional with over three decades of experience in the energy industry. Tim also leads Pacific Energy Partners, a consultancy that works on various renewable energy projects across Australia and Southeast Asia, and Turquoise Leadership Consulting, which specializes in leadership development. With a background that includes 20 years at Origin Energy, Tim brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for fostering leadership and innovation in the renewable energy sector.

In this episode we chat with Kevin West from Dassault about process improvement, and adaption resulting from COVID-19 and continued automation in the mining industry.

Kevin is the Client Executive from Dassault Systemes Australia. Over the past 30 years of his career, he has been lucky enough to be exposed to many various industries.

In the past 14 years, he has been predominantly situated in asset intensive industries, using technology to enable better business practices. The main industry in this instance has been with mining and all areas including exploration through to production. He enjoys mining in that he sees it as an industry that has so much potential and how technology can help to achieve this. He believes that his formative skill set has helped him to understand business processes and try to make them better.

In this episode, Kim Yabsley sits down with Darren Lockyer. Darren shares his journey from a sports legend to a key figure in the mining industry, emphasizing the importance of teamwork, culture, and proactive incident prevention. Discover how MWG manages labour and builds quality-driven business relationships, while navigating the challenges of talent acquisition and industry transitions.

Darren Lockyer is a Board Member at Managed Workforce Group, where he collaborates closely with executive management and clients to forge strong partnerships and deliver high-quality outcomes. Leveraging his background in sports, Darren brings a unique perspective to workforce management, emphasizing the importance of teamwork and culture in achieving operational excellence.

Wagners’ visionary approach and commitment to outcomes have led to development of an earth friendly cement that reuses mining waste while reducing carbon emissions. In this episode, we talked to Hugh Stone about leadership, managing expectations and a ‘can-do’ attitude, which are the foundations of real solutions that offer the potential for measurable, lasting change.

Hugh Stone has a leadership experience in high risk operations across multiple industries including mining and quarrying, construction materials, energy and natural resource management. As Wagners’ Head of Safety, Environment and Quality, Hugh enjoys engaging and collaborating with people and believes authenticity and compassion are key aspects to being a successful leader.

On this episode, we talked to Luke Gordon whose experience in leadership across his community, within his sporting background and in the field has translated into a big mission to provide pathways for indigenous employment.

With 17 years experience in the field as an operator and supervisor, Luke Gordon strives to achieve a positive and accountable culture through effective leadership, adapting skillsets and leadership concepts. Luke is now on the other side, providing equipment back to the resources sector through Copperhead Industrial, balancing his operational experience with his interest in providing pathways for indigenous Australians.

What is collaboration, really? In this episode with Quintin Nienaber, we look at the role of relationship development in the context of innovation and value creation, exploring data analytics and how digitisation of the mining industry has led us to the intersection of people and process, where we can maximise safety and productivity concurrently by ensuring that our insights are operationally actionable.

Quintin Nienaber is the GM of Product Management. Throughout the last 14 years, he has built a strong understanding of what it takes to launch successful products in the Mining Sector. He has worked on projects and products that are focused on safety, process improvement and overall impact to the value chain.

This episode explores themes around a changing industry and mentoring as a model for diversity and inclusion with the Chamber of Minerals and Energy Champion, Rebecca Prain.

Rebecca Prain has over 31 years’ experience in the mining industry in Western Australia. She is passionate about the mining industry and has taken an active role in mentoring the next generation of females in mining to achieve the positions they desire, through her role in the Women in Mining WA community.

Join us to talk about innovative models for mental health in mining with social enterprise entrepreneur Edward Ross who is hard at work simplifying complexity, creating pathways for suicide prevention and splashing colour around some of the dimly lit corners of the industry.

Edward Ross is the co-founder of TradeMutt workwear. TradeMutt is a social impact workwear company that is helping start conversations about mental health and make an invisible issue impossible to ignore. He is also the co-founder of TIACS.org, a free text and call service direct to mental health professionals.

Dr. Jason Konrath and Jacob Cole have been innovating around safety outcomes through the use of motion capture technology for the mining (amongst other) sectors. Their unique product, ‘Alter Ergo’ is now at commercialisation stage and gaining traction for its potential to impact safety and rehabilitation outcomes for the mining sector. Join us to hear about their unique collaboration and its application for industry.

Dr. Jason Konrath, founder of Principia Technology, has an extensive background in both research and coaching elite sports from all over the world, and holds a PhD in Biomechanics. Jacob Cole is a WHS authority, serial entrepreneur, and prolific problem solver. He is also the mind behind rapidly scaling Epigroup, who have garnered international respect in the WHS industry setting.

Drugs and alcohol have long been a part of the culture of Australia and the culture of the mining and resources sector.

In this insightful interview, Dr. Nicole Lee helps us unpack the difference between a focus on usage and a focus on harms and behaviours as they relate to operational efficiency in the mining industry.

Dr. Nicole Lee is the Founder and CEO of 360Edge, a consultancy specialising in alcohol and other drug solutions. She is internationally known for her work in alcohol and other drug policy and responses, and has worked in the area for more than 30 years.