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On Work and Revolution is a podcast that leads the way to creating amazing workplaces where people and ideas flourish. Or at least to work-life that doesn’t suck! We speak to the trend-setters, the futurists, the academics and the leaders who are shaking things up and finding new ways to work-life in our time. This show is for the leaders and pioneers who want to build thriving workplaces; who want to be on the cutting edge of people trends; and who need to navigate the world of work right now.
Join host Debbie Goodman, Group CEO of Jack Hammer Global, global executive search and board advisor, high-impact leadership coach, speaker, and author who has dedicated more than two decades to helping boards and CEOs with their most strategic people, leadership, and talent decisions.
Rui Morais, CEO of Dis-Chem Pharmacies and prior to that, the youngest CFO of a listed company in South Africa, sits down with Debbie Goodman to discuss the real story behind Dis-Chem's much-misreported restructure, and why it's actually a signal of bold ambition, not downsizing. With 200 new roles being created alongside the reorganisation, Rui explains how Dis-Chem is evolving from a retail pharmacy into South Africa's healthcare authority, backed by an innovation hub, strategic partnerships, and a board deeply aligned on purpose.
The conversation goes behind the scenes of one of the most publicly scrutinized CEO successions in South African corporate history, exploring the unexpected tension, identity shifts, and emotional complexity that no governance framework fully prepares you for. Throughout, Rui emerges as a leader who is deeply purposeful, refreshingly candid, and unafraid to swing for the fences.
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On Work and Revolution podcast exposes the real forces reshaping leadership, talent, and the future of work. Hosted by Debbie Goodman - CEO of Jack Hammer Global, a top executive search firm, author, advisor, and speaker - this podcast dives into bold ideas and honest conversations with CEO's reshaping today’s workplaces and redefining what great leadership looks like.
If you’re a CEO, founder, or changemaker hungry for real insight into workplace trends, hiring strategy, and organizational transformation, this is your space to listen, learn, and lead differently.
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Far from a polished highlight reel, Lee Naik, CEO of TransUnion Africa, unpacks the unglamorous realities of turnaround leadership - the loneliness, the self-doubt, the early mornings, and the moments where the buck unquestionably stops with you.
Key takeaways that will resonate with anyone navigating high-stakes leadership:
The turnaround reality: Every major CEO role today carries transformation work; the skill is learning to listen first, resist acting on assumptions, and distinguish symptoms from root issues.
Purposeful leadership over P&L thinking: Lee argues that connecting your personal "why" to the organisation's mission is not airy-fairy - it's the fuel that sustains leaders through the hardest stretches.
The loneliness at the top: True leadership loneliness isn't about being friendless; it's about the specific weight of decisions too sensitive or complex to process with your own team.
Resilience and rejection: From childhood rejections to corporate setbacks, Lee frames disappointment not as failure but as the essential pathway between where you are and your North Star.
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On Work and Revolution podcast exposes the real forces reshaping leadership, talent, and the future of work. Hosted by Debbie Goodman - CEO of Jack Hammer Global, a top executive search firm, author, advisor, and speaker - this podcast dives into bold ideas and honest conversations with CEO's reshaping today’s workplaces and redefining what great leadership looks like.
If you’re a CEO, founder, or changemaker hungry for real insight into workplace trends, hiring strategy, and organizational transformation, this is your space to listen, learn, and lead differently.
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In this rich and candid conversation, Debbie chats with Nonku Pitje, CEO of Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits - the first woman and first Black person to hold that role - whose 22-year journey through eight roles at Discovery is itself a masterclass in growth through staying. Nonku reframes the women-in-the-workplace conversation away from confidence and imposter syndrome, instead exposing the structural and financial forces that leave women retiring with 30% less than men. She shares the work behind Discovery Women Move, a platform by and for women that achieved its gender representation goal 18 months ahead of schedule, and draws a powerful line between financial insecurity and emotional wellbeing. Throughout, Nonku weaves in deeply personal stories, from her mother's "20 Rands from starvation" to the solemn weight of her own appointment as CEO, leaving listeners with one clear word: possibility.
Nonku and Debbie discuss:
The structural gender wealth gap
Women retire with 30% less than men not because they save less, but because of systemic forces: lower pay, slower promotion curves, career interruptions, and over-conservative investment strategies in later working years.
The myth of the so-called "ambition gap"
What women actually lack is active sponsorship - people in power deploying talent intentionally, not waiting for it to be discovered.
Role modeling as the most powerful intervention
Representation at the top isn't symbolic; it is the engine of change. When women can see it, they can imagine it, and eventually become it.
The financial-emotional wellbeing link
Financial instability doesn't stay at work; it bleeds directly into family mental health. One in three employees struggles financially, and 67% of their families show signs of mental health strain.
Possibility as a leadership legacy
Nonku's appointment wasn't a personal milestone but a public signal - proof that the path exists - and she sees her most important role as making possibility visible for every woman who comes after her.
On Work and Revolution podcast exposes the real forces reshaping leadership, talent, and the future of work. Hosted by Debbie Goodman - CEO of Jack Hammer Global, a top executive search firm, author, advisor, and speaker - this podcast dives into bold ideas and honest conversations with CEO's reshaping today’s workplaces and redefining what great leadership looks like.
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Jurie Strydom is the newly appointed Group CEO of Old Mutual, one of South Africa's most iconic financial institutions, who took an unconventional path to the top — stepping out of a portfolio NED life and back into the fire.
He unpacks the surprisingly low-stakes experience of interviewing for the CEO role with a board he already sat on, the whiplash of going from a considered portfolio life to a full-throttle executive role within days, and his near-obsessive focus on accelerating decision-making as the primary unlock for organisational speed.
With characteristic directness, Jurie is candid about what he hasn't gotten right - including work-life balance in the first six months - and reflects on the deeper philosophy that job satisfaction must come from impact, not the size of the title.
Jurie and Debbie discuss:
- Decision velocity as a cultural weapon. Jurie's central conviction is that slow decision-making is the organisational cement that freezes momentum — and that leaders can reclaim speed by distinguishing reversible "two-way doors" from irreversible ones, and by giving people genuine license to act without always asking permission.
- Leading from the inside out. Whether addressing culture change, cost discipline, or strategy, Jurie returns repeatedly to the principle of cascading ownership downward, letting people solve problems themselves, rather than imposing corporate formulas from the top.
- Redefining leadership ambition. In his early forties, Jurie reached a turning point - realising that chasing successively bigger organisations is a trap, because the satisfaction must come from impact in the here and now, not from the size of the org chart.
On Work and Revolution podcast exposes the real forces reshaping leadership, talent, and the future of work. Hosted by Debbie Goodman - CEO of Jack Hammer Global, a top executive search firm, author, advisor, and speaker - this podcast dives into bold ideas and honest conversations with CEO's reshaping today’s workplaces and redefining what great leadership looks like.
If you’re a CEO, founder, or changemaker hungry for real insight into workplace trends, hiring strategy, and organizational transformation, this is your space to listen, learn, and lead differently.
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In this first episode of the CEO Series, Debbie sits down with Jeanette Marais, who made history in August 2023 as the first female CEO of a large listed financial services group in South Africa when she took the helm at Momentum Group. Jeanette shares her journey from being a "girl from the Free State" to leading a 16,000-person organization, revealing the unexpected challenges of the role - from navigating 13 board members to making the bold decision to lead with purpose over profit metrics. She opens up about the gruelling seven-month selection process, her unconventional remote leadership approach (commuting weekly between provinces), and why receiving harsh feedback became her greatest gift. This conversation cuts through the typical CEO talking points to expose the real experience of stepping into the top seat, complete with 3 AM wake-ups and the courage to be "fundamentally unreasonable."
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In the EdTech startup world, success, by definition, is the exception. In this episode of the On Work and Revolution podcast, we dive into the world of entrepreneurship and funding with Ash Kaluarachchi. Ash is the CEO of StartEd and the producer of EDTECH WEEK, one of the industry's best conferences. He's an expert in EdTech acceleration and shares insights from his extensive experience advising and launching numerous brands that we all know and respect. With valuable advice this conversation is set to inspire founders and provide out-of-the-box strategies to try on right now.
Debbie & Ash dig into:
✓ the landscape of EdTech acceleration, including the role of accelerators, incubators, and mentorship programs in supporting founders.
✓ various funding strategies available to EdTech founders beyond traditional venture capital.
✓ the "four P's" of startup success.
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“Talent acquisition is feeling a little bit of quietness. The quietness is coming from not having to fight the marketplace for talent. Look for the talent internally, give them chances to be who they are and expand.” Debbie talks with Allison Nugent, Chief People Officer at Noodle, about quiet hiring, internal mobility, and how to make a GenZ workplace experience that keeps talent invested.
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“Retail employees have the biggest impact on your financial result as an organization.” Debbie talks with Carol Leaman, CEO at Axonify, about how to re-think communication with your front-line workers and how massive of an impact their customer interactions make.
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“From when you find them, when you recruit them, when they pass your first interview, when they pass your second interview, keeping interested in the process – the whole pipeline, where is it leaking?” Debbie talks with Andrea Guendelman, CEO of Speak_, about how we can solve the problem of lack of diversity in big tech and why it matters so much.
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“It’s like a lightbulb went off for me and I’m like, Wait a second, as a former memory researcher, music is one of the most powerful memory mediums that we as human beings have at our disposal.” Debbie talks with Dr. Lana Israel, Founder of Muzology, about the intersection of music and math and how using music to aid learning of all kinds is powerful for ed tech organizations.
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“If you look at spend per employee, it’s a high percentage that goes toward benefits. If you survey the typical employee, they have no idea what’s available or how to make the most of it.” Debbie talks with Dani Pascarella, Founder of OneEleven Financial Wellness, about the trending employee perk of 2023 and how to create financial wellness within your business that matters to your employees.
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“The cohort based blended learning journeys at scale.” Debbie talks with Shreyhasi Singh, CEO of Harappa, about her experience of coming to America from India and ambitiously scaling a new ed tech company.
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“When you jailbreak a degree, what we actually are saying is, all skills and experiences you have throughout your career should be recognized irrespective of the method you learn from.” Debbie talks with Deeps Ramanathan, CMO at Degreed, about how to interview the best talent for your company and the big misses most organizations don’t realize they are making.
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“I do think that you need to be well planned, because I think if you are not well planned, not only for what you need to handover but for what can potentially happen when you’re not around, it might turn out as well as it did.” Debbie talks with San-Marie Barnard, Executive Search Creative, about how she planned for and took an extensive sabbatical last year and why it was so important for her professional and personal development.
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“AI is the worst it'll ever get right now.” Debbie talks with Denis Nikolaev about ed tech investments in the aftermath of the pandemic and what roles AI can responsibly play in your organization.
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“I think that the two main challenges to teaching is that students have more needs than they’ve ever had before and on average the student has to go it alone.” Debbie talks with Jake Bryant about the massive shifts experienced by both teachers and students through the pandemic and how teachers are learning new ways to lead in the classroom. This episode gives insight and ideas into how we can make education better for all and adjust to a new way of working and learning in schools.
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“Invest in the one on one.” Debbie talks with Alisa Cohn about advice for executives who may be feeling the squeeze of a pending recession. This episode shares wisdom from decades of experience around the globe of what works in leadership regardless of what’s happening economically.
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“How to access intuition [becomes] the skill required for the future.” Debbie talks with John Sanei about the mindset tools required for leaders who are building the future of work. This episode shares how to be okay with uncertainty about the future and how to thrive anyway.
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“What does it mean for people if their jobs are threatened by a sense of automation sort of encroaching on the tasks that make up their job?” Debbie talks with Kate O’Neill about the automation of work and how to adapt. This episode shares insightful ways to think about where automation is useful and where it isn’t.
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"Instead of bouncing back - that's a myth - we're going to talk about bouncing forward."Debbie talks with Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal about how to build effective, long-lasting resilience at work and in your life. This episode teaches the key strategies that will get you through the hardest challenges post-pandemic .
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"Use stories around what does it look like rather than just, 'Oh we need a policy around something' -- that's not really going to change something." Debbie talks with Jeff Melnyk about the new world of building strong, effective work cultures remotely. This episode provides insight into how to make good ideas actually work in the workplace and what not to do.
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“If you do it well, you can actually be more inclusive and more enabled at a team level because everybody’s skill sets are being leveraged.” Debbie talks with Stephen Bailey about the essential skill of adapting quickly as the workforce changes rapidly. This episode shares how to adapt, what to adapt, and how to keep ahead of the curves.
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“Once you start raising awareness about unconscious bias it will no longer be unconscious.” Debbie talks with Advaita Naidoo about how to make workplaces supportive of working moms and parents. This episode shares personal stories from Debbie and Advaita about how they have created the best possible options as working moms themselves.
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"We've relaxed in lots of ways and the whole thing is like it's in the spin cycle and we're waiting to see how it comes out." Debbie talks with Dorothy Dalton about the changing social norms at work and how to properly address them, respect your teammates, and evolve with where things are heading. This episode shares perspective on what is changing, what isn't, and how to make the best decisions in your organization around work norms.
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“It isn’t bragging if you’ve done it." Debbie talks with Henna Pryor about the essential skills for negotiating better compensation at work. This episode teaches you how to effectively collaborate with your boss to get the compensation you deserve and set you up for long term career success.
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"Make sure that your experience is as good for someone who is in the room as for someone who is outside of the room." Debbie talks with Lorna Hagen about the best ways to manage your team in a post-pandemic hybrid work world. This episode shares real-life, practical tips and tools for making sure your team is connected and valued no matter where they are.
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"It's not that talent and hard work aren't necessary -- of course they are. But they're not enough." Debbie talks with Niven Postma about why office politics actually do matter. This episode reveals you how to take your career to the next level of success by mastering the art of work politics.
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On Work and Revolution is a podcast that leads the way to creating amazing workplaces where people and ideas flourish. Or at least to work-life that doesn’t suck! We speak to the trend-setters, the futurists, the academics and the leaders who are shaking things up and finding new ways to work-life in our time. This show is for the leaders and pioneers who want to build thriving workplaces; who want to be on the cutting edge of people trends; and who need to navigate the world of work right now.
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