Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast by Neu21: Recent Episodes
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Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and their lives.
Each month Katya Noble and Sian Jones talk to inspiring people about their experiences of igniting change and transforming cultures within organisations. Our guests share fascinating insights on topics such as leadership, innovation, culture and how we can all work better to shape a new world.
Leadership is often seen as a position bestowed on you or a rung on the career ladder, but true leadership isn’t something that you earn, it’s something that you embody. With this in mind, leadership opportunities come in many shapes and forms, and often in unexpected places… even at wedding. In this podcast we interview Emma Keleher Project Director- Strategy and Planning for Public Health at the Department of Health in Victoria, Australia about the relationship between a wedding flash mob, the pandemic, fearless leadership and building high performing teams.
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Does your organisation have an innovation narrative? Do you even need one?
In this episode we discuss what it means to have an innovation narrative and the components that make them successful. Sian is joined by her colleague Claire Quigley and Dr Julian Waters-Lynch for what is an in-depth discussion about the value stories offer in creating valuable change.
To learn more visit www.neu21.com
To read the original article for which this pod is based visit: https://www.neu21.com/blog-archive/the-power-of-narratives-in-driving-innovation
Following on from the popular article Dr Julian Waters-Lynch shared on the Neu21 website, he is joining Sian and Katya for a casual chat about meaningful work.
What really makes work meaningful? We might also ask what makes for a meaningful life? These can seem like two quite different questions at first, but research suggests they overlap in important ways. Once you've found it, how do you keep it? Can your workplace kill all meaning for you, or do you have a role to play in keeping the meaning alive?
We discuss all these questions and more in this deep exploration into fulfilment at work.
If you'd like to read the accompanying article you can do so at https://www.neu21.com/blog-archive/meaningful-work-7-ways-people-find-work-meaningful-and-7-ways-organisations-destroy-it
To learn more about Julian, Sian or Katya visit https://www.neu21.com/our-people
It's been a while since we've had a podcast, but we are back with a bang today because we are talking about, well, the ultimate story of triumph against the odds of overcoming.
Your limiting stories and beliefs and finding your inner self-belief. And the person that we interview today is none other than co-host Katya Noble because she has just returned from swimming the English channel. Not only has it been many years and multiple training sessions in the making, it's also been a journey of overcoming both physical and mental barriers.
And today we're gonna explore the journey to the English channel and during the swim of the English channel and how some of her learnings can be translated to work as well.
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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On the podcast today, we have the incredible Kate Pollard. One-half of the co-founders of Circle In and employee benefits platform, designed and created in Australia. Our podcast co-hosts Sian and Martine (filling in for Katya) discuss with Kate the journey of starting up the business and how they build clarity and kindness into their culture to deliver great customer experiences.
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Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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Is it organisations that get disrupted or is it people who get disrupted?
Who’s responsibility is it to lead the way to impactful change?
Why do leaders need to see themselves as designers?
How do you let go of legacy thinking in order to reach new heights?
These are all questions that were discussed during a special online event called Redesigning the Organisations of Tomorrow that Neu21 recently hosted featuring bestselling author Barry O’Reilly as our special guest. Barry is the author of two well-known business books – The Lean Enterprise and ‘Unlearn – Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary results’ and his take on organizational design is very focused on changing the way individuals think and act- as Afterall, organisations don’t create change, people do. His stories about unlearning, relearning, and breaking through in organisations like Capital One, NASA, Wells Fargo, and the International Airlines Group had us all transfixed to our screens. We’re thrilled to bring it to you in podcast form.
Joining Barry on the virtual couch was podcast co-host Sian Jones and Eduardo Nofuentes who you will have heard talk about organizational design in a previous podcast.
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Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a rating so that we can reach more people to ignite change and transform cultures
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This episode’s guest is Cassandra Goodman. Cassandra has held many different senior leadership roles, including the global director of employee experience at a healthcare company where she activated the organization's purpose of longer, healthier, happier lives for their 86,000 employees across the world.
She's passionate about agile ways of working and combining that with human-centered design. She’s also an author of the book called Self Fidelity - How being true to yourself, uplifts your working life.
We hope you enjoy this episode
Shownotes
Cassandra will provide free postage for anyone who uses the code FRIEND to purchase her latest book. The web address is www.self-fidelity.com/book
The book she references is Richard C Schwartz, Greater than the Sum of our Parts.
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a rating so that we can reach more people to ignite change and transform cultures
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In this episode, Katya and Sian talk to Eduardo Nofuentes, Co-founder and Director at Neu21 about the elements of organisational design that create the adaptive, human-centred organisation.
Eduardo is the larger-than-life co-founder of Neu21.
After spending ten minutes with Eduardo you will know two things – he has a contagious passion for new, radical business thinking and a seriously impressive sneaker collection.
Born and educated in Barcelona, Spain, Eduardo began his career in what he calls “boring corporate roles” for large companies, building his knowledge in strategy, operations, and customer experience. Despite this early success, Eduardo was frustrated with the bureaucratic, inflexible nature of many corporate workplaces.
In 2012 he joined REA Group, where he became a pioneer in taking agile ways of working beyond the software development world. After seeing the positive impact of these new work approaches on their people and customers, Eduardo was inspired and founded The Agile Eleven in 2015, revolutionising the management consulting industry in Melbourne.
The Agile Eleven made a name for itself transforming global organisations through its unique, customer-obsessed approach to consulting – a direct reflection of Eduardo’s vibrant personality.
In 2020, The Agile Eleven merged with award-winning innovation and Design Thinking firm G2 Innovation to form Neu21. This union provides a unique alternative to big consultancies in the market when it comes to innovation, agility, and ways of working.
Outside of work, Eduardo’s passion basketball, surfing, and spending time with his partner and children.
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Today’s guest is Luke Marshall, the co-founder of Emu Search which is a leading executive search and recruitment firm. Based in Melbourne, Luke believes that businesses require new thinking to stay ahead of the technology revolution. Luke also unpacks the future of CEO recruitment and the type of leaders that will thrive in the C-Suite.
We hope you enjoy this episode
Please leave us a rating so that we can continue to reach more people to help them ignite change and transform cultures.
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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Today's guest on the Neu21 Igniting Change & Transforming Cultures Podcast is Bia Affonso, the consulting hub lead at Neu21.
Recently, she was featured on AusBiz in an article about why organisations are failing at wellbeing and how they can do better.
Bia is a trained Journalist, Futurist, Executive, and Health Coach. A true neo-generalist, Bia reinvented herself multiple times throughout her career, living between the specialist and generalist realms, always seeking new ideas and new ways of working. Her passion for health and well-being has led her to constantly question what gets in the way of people’s ability to thrive – not only in a health sense but also in the way people think and approach work.
Shownotes: https://www.neu21.com/podcast-archive/5-why-organisations-are-failing-at-wellbeing-bia-affonso
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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Welcome to a short segment, where we explore, how might we solve a particular problem as it relates to transforming cultures and igniting change. And today we wanted to explore how might we define human-centered, strategic, and authentic leadership.
Our guest on the show is Sarah McCann Bartlett CEO of the Australian HR Institute, commonly referred to as AHRI, and Sarah took on the role of CEO, right in the middle of a pandemic.
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate, and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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In our latest episode of Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Co-hosts Sian Jones & Katya Noble interview the remarkable Sarah McCann-Bartlett. Sarah is the CEO of Australian HR Institute, commonly referred to as AHRI and Sarah took on the role of CEO, right in the middle of a pandemic.
In this episode we explore how COVID-19 has redefined the world of HR and also have a look at what a remote workforce means for the culture of any organisation. How do you design one when people aren't present in an office?
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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Technology is changing the world around us every day. And in fact, AI can now help people with a variety of legal matters, including drafting for litigation cases. There's a lot of potential for law firms to be massively disrupted.
In today's How Might We episode, we ask Demetrio Zema, founder and director of Law Squared how might law firms embrace the countless technology opportunities in today's day and age.
About Neu21:
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and the work around them.
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In today's episode, we speak to Demetrio Zema from Law Squared about disrupting one of the world's most traditional professional services- law. Demetrio talks to us about his journey from a disgruntled employee to the founder of a new kind of law firm, that bills on the outcome, removed employee titles and is taking a completely human-centred approach, both in their relationships with their clients and within their employee experience.
This is a unique story of creativity, humility, and experimentation, three words that are not typically associated with the legal profession, but some up Law Squared and Demetrio perfectly.
The accolades Law Squared and Demetrio have received are numerous. To mention a few, Law Squared has been named Australia's most innovative law firm and was listed on the Lexus Nexus Legal innovation index. In 2018 Demetrio was the winner of the lawyers weekly 30, under 30 in commercial law and the Law Institute of Victoria's rising star.
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Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and work around them.
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Today’s episode is a recording from our Neu21 Launch Event, where the founders of Neu21 Eduardo Nofuentes and Andrew Jones sat down with Chief in Charge of Customer Experience and People at Catch.com.au Simone Carroll to discuss all things igniting change and transforming cultures.
Simone Carroll has had a 25-year love of customer experiences and culture. From a trainee in the Snowy Mountains to Private Equity in Europe and Australian HR Director of the Year. She is also a Harvard Business School Ambassador and proud member of Australia's Chief Executive Women (CEW).
Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
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In order to develop ausbiz Kylie Merritt has had to influence a lot of people, from her business partner, investors and the talented people who joined her team. The power of influence and communication is key to change and transformation.
In this episode, we unpack how might we influence others to believe in a cause, a change or a radical idea?
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In today's episode we will cover Kylie Merritt's journey from concept to execution; how she made it happen with her co-founder David Koch- well known Australian TV personality and serial entrepreneur
We also talk about how she had to adapt her strategy due to COVID; and how she is building a high performing team with the right skillsets and mindsets to innovate and scale. Kylie's story is one of genuine customer-centricity.
Kylie Merritt is the MD and founder of ausbiz, a free business and startup news streaming service that covers breaking news throughout the ASX trading session, alongside in-depth interviews and commentary.
Going live 30th of March this year, launching in the middle of a global pandemic, ausbiz now has 20,000 investor subscribers.
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In this month’s How Might We.. episode, we spoke to Richard Harmer, developmental psychologist Richard Harmer about how to ignite change in a Merger of two companies.
This is a short segment where we explore ‘How might we ….’ solve a particular problem as it relates to transforming cultures and igniting change so you can gain insight into how you might approach a similar problem
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Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and the work around them.
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In this episode Katya and Sian talk about their own experiences of merging two businesses into one to create Neu21, the ups and downs of the change journey they went through and the lessons they learned along the way. They also speak with developmental psychologist Richard Harmer who supported Neu21 through the experience, about what was and wasn’t to be expected during this transition and to shed light on the powerful approaches he uses to help people adapt, thrive and build incredible organisations.
About Neu21:
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and the work around them.
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Welcome to the Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast.
Our mission is to revolutionise the way organisations and their people think, innovate and experience work. We want to empower organisations and teams to work in ways that transform their culture and the work around them.
Each month Katya and Sian will be talking about how people can ignite change within their organisations and transform their culture. We’ll be inviting guests from companies we work with and beyond to discuss a range of topics such as leadership, innovation, culture and how we can all work better. We will shed light on the strategies which have worked and the mindsets needed to be effective in today's new world
The Igniting Change and Transforming Cultures Podcast is a podcast brought to you by Neu21, an Un-consultancy with a pragmatic, down to earth and authentic approach who has helped leading brands and their people across a variety of industries. Our whole purpose is to make work better for a new world.
We want to challenge your thinking and inspire you to do things differently.
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