Unleashing Brilliance

What would it look like is you were more deliberate and intentional about the legacy you are leaving?

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Leah Kitoloh ran away from home with a backpack and knew that she couldn’t afford to fail. As a speaker, brand activator, coach and the founder of A Women’s Worth Chapters Leah is passionate about positively contributing towards building a legacy for future generations.

Leah is recognised for her future based mindset, her enthusiasm, agility and focus. Her growth mindset and vast experience across Africa allow for innovative approaches towards human performance improvement initiatives within any organisation. Leah has designed and developed a bespoke tool, the 4Cs – Celebrate | Connect | Collaborate | Create, for individual and organisational transformation.

Leah’s primary purpose is the contribution towards building future proofing skills for ourselves and those who follow in our footsteps, by collaborating and creating initiatives with recognised thought leaders.

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In this episode, Janine Garner talks about a recent event that highlighted the need to remain connected in these times of isolation and volatility.

Leadership is a practice and leadership is hard. It requires courage, it always demands more than you think and it requires an intentionality to continuously get better.

After cutting his teeth as a recruiter at the Melbourne Football Club when the Demons made the finals for the first time in 23 years, Cameron Schwab was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club at age 24, the youngest in the history of the game.

For most of the next 25 years, he was CEO of Richmond, Melbourne and Fremantle, when those clubs were at their lowest ebb, both on and off the field. He is the second longest serving CEO in the modern game.

Having taken on some of the sport’s most difficult and daunting challenges, Cameron established a track record of building teams and organisations, unifying groups while navigating periods of genuine adversity and complexity.

Raw, authentic and honest this conversation is jammed with insight, wisdom and learning for anyone looking to improve their leadership skills.

If you’ve watched it, Maz probably made it, and won an award for it.

Without wishing to brag, (who are we kidding?) Maz has made the biggest shows in the world, with the biggest teams, the biggest budgets, the biggest ratings and more often than not, the biggest egos – generally her own.

Five series of Big Brother, (the highly contentious ones) the madness that is The Celebrity Apprentice, the delight that is The Farmer Wants A Wife, the fabulousness that is Dancing With The Stars and she also created the long running and often controversial Q&A for the ABC.

Her social media hits are sitting around a billion.

She is a regular Media Expert on TV, conferences panels, podcasts and in periodicals.

Maz has spent twenty years getting people camera ready and has trained everyone from celebrities to cyber security experts, pop stars to politicians, scientists to sporting legends, academics to Hollywood A-listers and everyone in between – the President of the United States and the future King Of England have been on her shows.

Maz now uses those TV tips and techniques to help CEOs and leaders engage their audiences, grab attention and create impact.

As Director of Television Content at Fremantle Media Australia, Executive

Editor of Format Entertainment at BBC UK and Creative Strategist for BBC World-Wide, Maz has been pitched more than 10,000 times and interviewed more than 12,000 hopeful contestants. Her greatest joy is helping you walk into your boardroom or onto any stage and absolutely bloody own it.

See more about Maz at www.Mazspeaks.com

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A bestselling author, Margie Warrell emboldens people with the courage and resilience to make braver decisions, take bolder actions & create a bigger mark.

Margie draws on her background in business, psychology and coaching to develop better and braver leaders in organizations globally, from the UN Foundation to Salesforce. The titles of her bestselling books - Find Your Courage, Stop Playing Safe, Make Your Mark and Train the Brave – and her Live Brave Podcast, reflect her belief in the potential of every person to overcome the fears and false beliefs that keep them from achieving the extraordinary. Margie walks her talk when it comes to living bravely, having ventured out of her comfort zone countless times since growing up as one of seven children on a small dairy farm in rural Australia. After attempting kitesurfing with Richard Branson, she raised her sights yet again and recently climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with her husband and four teenage children.

More inspiration at margiewarrell.com

It’s not about how smart you are but it is about the impact you can have on others – these were the wise words that Kate Mason’s adoptive mother shared with her as she was growing up and are words that Kate continues to live by.

Kate joined Coca-Cola Amatil in 2014 and is currently the Group Director, People & Culture as well as responsibility for Business Continuity and Security. Prior to this, Kate was the Australian Human Resources Director and the Chief Transformation Officer.

Kate began her career as a business graduate with Arthur Andersen in Sydney and from there, moved offshore for many years holding global leadership roles in Singapore, London, New York and Zurich in companies such as Austrade, TST Learning, Credit Suisse and most recently, Amcor.

Kate is also a Founding Director and now President of International Women’s Forum in Australia, a Board Member of the Coca-Cola Australia Foundation and an Advisory Board Member of WithYouWithMe. She is also the past Chairman of the NSW Advisory Board for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. She is an accomplished, inclusive and passionate leader with a significant track record of coaching and mentoring women at all stages of their careers across industries and geographies and is a sought after public speaker encouraging women to identify their passion and purpose to amplify their strengths to leave a positive leadership legacy.

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What do you think you would learn from living in a jungle refugee camp at the edge of a war zone?

Fearless leadership, a clear purpose and the courage to do things that are important to you are some of the powerful insights that, my latest guest, Corrinne Armour shared during our conversation.

Corrinne is a dynamic speaker and influencer. Her latest book ‘Leaders who Ask: Building Fearless Cultures by telling less and asking more’ was released in late 2018. She is also co-author of ‘Developing Direct Reports: Taking the Guesswork Out of Leading Leaders’ and two specialist texts in human behaviour used by consultants worldwide. She is currently working on her next book, Guerrilla Leadership: Key Lessons Teams Can Learn from Leading on the Frontline, co-written with her husband who is an ex-freedom fighter.

She empowers leaders to realise the potential in their careers, teams and organisations. Drawing her experiences in the jungle and 15 years in the corporate world heading large projects, she knows firsthand the practicalities of juggling multiple priorities and perspectives

Married to an ex-freedom fighter and mother of two daughters, she appreciates the importance of embracing diversity.

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Linda has spent her career working all sides; marketing, advertising, strategy and business development. With 30 years’+ experience; client and agency sides in the UK, Asia & Australia, then, in 2003, founding leading insight consultancy, All About Eve, she has wide expertise of leading teams & businesses in a variety of set-ups, markets & categories.

In senior management positions in global corporates, then with her own consultancy, Linda has been responsible for leadership, business development and staff development. Meaning she understands the need for vision and planning, but coupled with successful implementation throughout the organisation.

Her twin passions in life – her work delivering ‘aha’ insights about people, and her long-time hobby around horses, inspired her teamwork & leadership training offshoot, Four Legged Sages. Here she blends social and neuro science insight, with her own leadership & team-building experiences and unique wisdom from horse-herd dynamics & “horse whispering”.

Creating experiences that challenge us all to reflect on what great leadership might look like and how to get there. – and how’s successful integrated teams are built.

Half of all employees will experience workplace bullying during their careers

The cost to a business by having just a single bully in their midst can be astronomical. In Australia alone, these costs are to be up to $36 billion annually in Australia.

My latest guest, Jessica Hickman is a woman on a mission to eradicate toxic workplaces to build thriving workplaces.

Jessica herself was the victim of 3 years of mental bullying which saw 32 reports to upper management. Extensive harassment, mental and physical intimidation finally led to hospitalisation. Jessica has now turned a negative situation into positive learning and dedicates her work to preventing bullying in workplaces and schools.

If we are to unleash the brilliance in ourselves, each other, our team and our organisations we need to create the right environment for people to thrive.

Listen in as Jessica shares her learnings and insights and why anti-bullying training and effective workplace culture strategies aren’t just ‘nice to have’ – these days, they’re a financial survival necessity for every business.

Curtis McGrath OAM has served in the Australian Army as a combat engineer for 6 years where he served with honour in East Timor, Indonesia and Afghanistan.

On the 23rd August 2012 Curtis was on a patrol where he stepped right on an improvised explosive device (IED) which detonated and took both his legs.

Only 20min after the explosion, Curtis famously said that “you will see me in the Paralympics”.

18 months after this fateful day Curtis was crowned World Champion at the World Sprint Canoe Championships in Moscow, Russia.

In 2016, just over 4 years after losing his legs, Curtis true to his word, not only made it to the Paralympics but made history in becoming the first Australian to win a Paralympic Gold medal in the Paracanoe event at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Listen in as Curtis shares his story, the events of August and everything in between. As he says, Unleashing Brilliance is looking at what you do have vs what you don’t and learning how to leverage this.