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As a reformed rat racer, start-up survivor and private company workaholic, Joris Cuesta is referred to as the Plateau Hacker. With more than 15 years’ experience working within marketing, branding and management teams, Joris knows how to get leaders unstuck in their careers, redefine their edge and re-ignite the fire behind their performance.
Joris is obsessed with helping leaders in organisations overcome disconnection, isolation, and stagnation, so they can reconnect with the career they love and thrive.
Do you feel like you have hit a plateau in your career? As though there is no clear way forward? Joris delves deeply into what matters to you, enabling you to drive your unique style of leadership, bring greater innovation to your organisation, and genuinely connect with your people and customers.
Joris’s work creates immense clarity that energises executive teams, empowers managers and excites teams. He has collaborated with companies across various industries, including Fitstop Fitness, DHL Express, MyBudget, Teacher Mutual Bank, UniBank, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Quicksilver, Grey Goose, Chivas and more.
Joris is a passionate and sought-after trainer, mentor and keynote speaker. His clients refer to his infectious energy as a true gift that pushes them the extra mile so they can take their careers to the next level. He works with senior leaders, companies, agencies and individuals looking to make a difference in their lives and, as a result, the lives of their teams and clients.
Tommaso D'Orsogna is an Australian swimmer and Olympic medallist from Perth, WA. He spent 8 years on the Australian swim team, competing at four World Championships, four World Short Course Championships, two Pan Pacific Championships, two Commonwealth Games and an Olympic Games in 2012. He spent nearly five years at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra moulding himself physically and mentally for peak performance. Whilst aspiring and achieving his dreams in the pool, outside of it, Tommaso has also pursued his dream of being a doctor. Now a final year medical student at Notre Dame University, Tommaso is still actively involved in swimming, not just as an athlete. He is also a Director on the Board of Swimming WA and a part of their High-Performance committee. He is passionate about developing and encouraging future champions both in and out of the pool.
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Nick is the founder of The Push-Up Challenge and is known for his decisive and personable leadership style and his track record of motivating teams, workplaces and communities to deliver results.
Building The Push-Up Challenge from its humble origins, Nick has led the event to attract around 50,000 participants and raise $2.5M for mental health in 2019. He has significant experience in organisational strategy, project delivery and public speaking across a number of industries.
Nick is involved in various community groups including his local surf life saving club where he has received multiple service awards including club person of the year.
Nick is driven by his motto of ‘bring people together for better’ and achieves this using a community heart and an analytical head.
This year's Push Up Challenge could push over 100,000 members, its not too late to join here:
https://www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/
https://www.facebook.com/pushforbetter
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Josh Fergus (BSc Anthropology/Psych, Post Grad Education) is a teacher, musician, surfer, and meditator. With interests stemming from breath work to psychology, Steiner education, permaculture and alternative approaches to living, Josh lives from the heart and has been steering his many life skills and experiences in more recent times towards rites of passage work. He hails from Western Australia, spent years living and playing music in Sydney, and now resides in Port Macquarie, NSW working as a mentor to Indigenous boys in high school. Ferg’s favourite quote is; “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” (Anaïs Nin)
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Troy co-founded Nexba with friend Drew Bilbe in 2011. For Nexba's CEO-Global, his favourite thing is turning creative ideas into sustainable businesses. Troy’s experience as a marketing executive and paralegal inspired his interest in strategic brand management. He oversees everything connected with the strategic global expansion of Nexba.
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Jamie Clough is an inspirational entrepreneur. Onto his second business, in honey! He houses 60 million bees in Western Australia and he has a great vision for his business.
https://www.honeyforlife.com.au/
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Dr. Arne Rubinstein (mbbs, fracgp)
Founder & CEO, The Rites of Passage Institute.
Dr. Arne Rubinstein is an internationally recognised expert on Childhood Development and Rites of Passage. His programs have been attended by over 200,000 people in more than 20 countries around the world and are now a part of over 50 schools around Australia.
Dr Arne is a medical doctor and specialised first in Family Medicine and then spent 15 years in Emergency Medicine until he moved full time creating programs for parents and their children.
He is the author of the best-seller The Making of Men and has won multiple awards for his work including being nominated in 2008 for Australian of the Year for his groundbreaking work with youth, providing much-needed answers and tools to support a generation of young men and women be happy and motivated about life.
Dr Arne is the proud father of two wonderful young men and a mentor to many others.
https://ritesofpassageinstitute.org/
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Michael Booth; known as the Aussie SUP Powerhouse continuing to dominate in the sport internationally, is fast becoming the most highly regarded and respected SUP contender world-wide.
The last four years has seen the best of Booth as he has become APP World Tour Distance series champion, 3 x World Distance Race Champion, 3 x Australian Champion, 3 x European Tour Champion. Needless to say, Michael continues to impress his sponsors and loyal followers.
Michael prides himself on the quality and consistency of his performance and believes that success can only be achieved through hard work, self-belief and dedication – words which he continues to live by during both the off season and the racing season.
There is no doubt that Michael is both physically and mentally strong, pursuing in setting himself some huge personal goals to be the best in the sport as well as encouraging others to reach their goals. Booth launched his own coaching business, which he offers all over the world as well as tailored and personalised online programs, sharing his knowledge and skills in SUP racing. Additionally, Michael has released a paddle range called MB Paddles with the Thor! When asked, “what’s the secret?”
I really don’t have a secret. I like training hard, I like seeing progress and I love setting myself goals to work towards, there really isn’t any better feeling than when you can and do finally achieve them.
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Mike Dyson is a Rites of Passage facilitator with a passion for reframing mental health and masculinity in a positive light. As founder of Good Blokes Co, Mike provides places for men and boys to connect better and to explore a better way to be a bloke amongst the shifting modern landscape of manhood and masculinity. Good Blokes Co facilitate father son camps, mother son camps, mates camps, rites of passage camps and men’s gatherings that help men to become the best they can be for the benefit of themselves and everyone around them.
Mike is also a senior facilitator with the Rites of Passage Institute on their Making of Men camps in Northern NSW, delivering profound experiences of connection and growth to teenage boys and their fathers. He also works with schools around Australia on rite of passage programs such as the groundbreaking On Queenslea Drive program at Christ Church Grammar School.
Mike believes that men around Australia are keen to explore what a brighter future for blokes might look like and how mateship can be a force for positive change. What they desperately need is more spaces to have those open, honest and real conversations.
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Lockie chats to Olympian, sports advisor and thought leader Dan Collins about vulnerability and resilience.
From humble beginnings growing up in Blacktown, to competing on the world stage across four Olympic Games, Dan Collins’ ongoing pursuit for excellence is nothing short of convincing.
Since retiring from his Olympic quest for Gold in the sport of Kayaking, taking home both Silver and Bronze medals along with numerous World Championships, Dan has focused his energy on managing transformational, organisational change, driving accountability and performance in the corporate world.
Dan began his thought leadership unbeknownst to him when he tested his performance concepts in the cut and thrust of elite sport within the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Football League, National Rugby League and International Rugby.
Recognising every culture is the result of the sum of the individuals involved, irrespective of title, position or hierarchy, Dan works with organisations in creating a culture of accountability and winners at all levels.
https://dancollins.com.au/
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Scott is a Gooniyandi and Gadgerong man from Broome, Western Australia. He graduated from UWA in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Anthropology and Indigenous history and heritage studies. Scott is currently managing his time engaging with various youth organisations in Sydney and Melbourne, including Year 13, Aurora Education Foundation and an Australian Youth Advocate for Mental Health (AYAHM) with Headspace. With a passion for storytelling and creative arts he created Ice Cream Productions, and works on various projects as illustrator and writer in comic/cartoon series and film. He spends his spare time illustrating, watching films, hanging with friends and exploring with hopes of stumbling across something rare. Scott has a profound belief in the power of imagination – “imagination is everything, it is a preview of life’s coming attraction. It is the evidence of things not seen, a glimpse of what can be your reality if you choose, everything I have imagined has been manifested through belief and persistence."
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Jordan Fogarty is market leading business growth strategist. With various roles from founder and CEO of Be Media, President of Entrepreneur’s organization under 35 group and much more.
He had been awarded as a top 40 under 40 businessperson and top 30 under 30 in Australia.
His role at Be Media sees him leading one of Australia’s fastest growing digital growth agencies that has been listed as the Top 100 Most Innovative Companies in Australia, listed in the top 100 fastest growing companies, top 100 Cool Companies and as a Google Premier partner.
Be Media has a fierce commitment to driving strong and measurable return on investment for clients. He has a reputation for creating rapid success in whatever he gets his teeth into and has built a team of 35+ class-leading digital professionals, with a growth rate of over 400% in the recent financial year and offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
Be Media is now considered one of the go to digital marketing agencies in Australia and beyond, representing many leading brands. With a strong core team and culture that is unrivaled, they have become renowned in their ability to reinvent company's marketing efforts.
Jordan is always looking at ways to accelerate the growth of businesses and takes a broader look at the companies he works with and the key drivers of success.
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Will Kaye is a good mate and entrepreneurial professional with a demonstrated history of starting and running startup software and communications businesses.
Will Kaye is currently the Managing Director and co-founder of a digital asset management platform ‘HIVO’ and digital consulting agency ‘OKMG’.
With an education in law and commerce Will has an ability to understand, work and negotiate across a variety of industries which has led to the signing some impressive clients and achieving a national client base for his businesses.
Will attributes any ’success’ of the businesses to a strong connection and trust between business partners and a great support network of family and friends.
https://okmg.com/
https://www.hivo.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamkaye9/
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Lockie chats to Liv Gamble, who at 25 was Head of the Sports Department at a school with 1200 students.
Liv has worked at Santa Maria College for six years where she is house coordinator and Head of Sport. Liv teaches Health, PE, Outdoor Ed and PE Studies. She has also been coordinator of Punmu Immersion Tour to remote communities.
Liv originally studied at University of Western Australia (UWA), where she completed a Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Health), followed by a Diploma of Education. Liv worked as an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at UWA, lecturing Master of Teaching students in Physical Education.
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Lockie chats to our youngest yarner yet, Christian Zurakowski, all about growing up, leaving school and how to work things out as a Millennial.
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Dr Fong is a registered medical practitioner with over 35 years’ experience in a wide range of leadership roles in the private and public hospital systems.
He is currently Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Bethesda Health Care, Chair of the Western Australian Country Health Service Board, Professor of Healthcare Leadership at Curtin University, and a director of a number of health companies. He is the managing director of his own consulting company, Australis Health Advisory with a strong track record of engagements with state and commonwealth governments, and private and not for profit health companies. He is also involved in a number of digital health start-ups based in WA, Singapore and China.
Dr Fong shares with Lockie what it's like to be in leadership and the public eye, his strategies for dealing with public pressure, and his ideals as a father.
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Kosta works as an independent researcher and civil society professional in preventing and countering violent extremism. After working for the Commonwealth Government in countering violent extremism policy, Kosta became the Chief Program Director of People against Violent Extremism (PaVE), Australia's first bespoke countering violent extremism non-government organisation founded by the Hon. Dr Anne Aly MP in 2013. Then in late 2016, Kosta launched his own consultancy, SynqUp. Lockie and Kosta also yarn about Kosta's incredible weight loss journey. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kosta-lucas/
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Jesse Phillips is an Australian sprint canoeist. He is a five-time national champion (2010-2014) in the men's kayak doubles (200 m), and a member of the Bayswater Paddle Sports Club, under his personal coach Ramon Andersson. Phillips has also studied towards a bachelor's degree in media at Murdoch University but deferred due to Olympic qualification and selection commitments.
Phillips qualified for the men's K-2 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing in the 2012 ICF Oceania Qualification Tournament in Penrith, New South Wales. Phillips and his partner Stephen Bird finished sixth in the final by four hundredths of a second (0.04).
In early 2013, after his first Olympic Games, Jesse alongside doubles partner Stephen Bird commenced as sponsored ambassadors with Perth-based contractor.
Jesse recently competed for Australia in the world Marathon Championships and is in training for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.
http://jessephillips.com.au/
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Len is a Noongar elder, professor and Australian Research Council chief investigator at the School of Indigenous Studies University of Western Australia.
Len is a Whadjuk/Balardong Noongar, the traditional owners of the Perth region of Western Australia. He has a background in literature and communications. His research includes Noongar interpretive histories and Noongar theoretical and practical research models.
In 2011 Len commenced a three-year study of Noongar place names and intends to create a public website of 25,000 Noongar words for different places around the South West of Western Australia. In 2014 he announced his project to create the world's first online Aboriginal encyclopaedia, Noongarpedia, to preserve the endangered Noongar language
Len has been part of the Indigenous Communities Education and Awareness Foundation (ICEA) as an ICEA Classic patron, since its establishment in 2011.
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With her husband Brett, Annie Fogarty AM founded the Fogarty Foundation in 2000 to help advance education and to build stronger communities.
We talk about the upcoming Australian of the year awards and the recent $15 million impact fund along with the future of education.
https://fogartyfoundation.org.au/
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