The Worker Learner: Recent Episodes
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Featuring stories and insights for our working lives, The Worker Learner podcast is brought to you by the Professional Learning Hub, Griffith University’s platform for executive and professional education.
In this episode of The Worker Learner, Andrew Rixon and Samuel Wilson are in conversation with Dan Dworkis M.D., emergency physician and founder of The Emergency Mind. This is essential listening for anyone who has ever wondered about leadership and decision making in moments of crisis.
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In this episode of The Worker Learner, Associate Professor Brian McIntosh and Adjunct Associate Professor Wouter Lincklaen Arriens explore collaboration, leadership and how skills in both directly impact the water sector (and every sector) and our collective efforts to address climate change.
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In this episode of The Worker Learner Associate Professor Johanna Nalau talks social impact and amplifying the voice of young people in business with The People's Kian Bakhtiari. With a background in politics and marketing, Kian saw an opportunity to go beyond 'selling stuff' and founded The People, an agency driven by imagination and a desire to build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
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In this episode Johanna Nalau chats with entrepreneur and author, Thomas Weaver. Thomas' work cuts across business and creative practice and deals with the big issues facing the world of today and tomorrow. As we stare down a future of climate crisis and emergent A.I., it might be that asking the creative 'what if' question will help us steer towards a more sustainable, and human-friendly future.
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Anyone who watches the ABC's Gardening Australia will be familiar with Hannah Moloney. From her hillside pink house in Hobart her enthusiasm for permaculture knows no bounds. In this episode, Dr Saffron Benner discovers that underneath Hannah's bubbly persona is a driven activist. This engaging conversation suggests that whether we find ourselves in the garden or at work, community, joy and love is our greatest superpower.
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Dr Saffron Benner in conversation with leading contemporary artist and thinker, Dr David Pledger. Whether you label yourself an artist or not, this is a timely conversation about considering the creative impulse that informs what we're all doing, how we're doing it, and why we're doing it, and what that means as we contend with an uncertain future.
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With nearly 200 years of experience, commercial property insurer FM Global approaches the idea of risk differently. With an immersive training centre in Singapore where participants use virtual reality and gameplay to explore risk, they are at the cutting edge of climate adaptation. In this episode, Dr Johanna Nalau talks risk and resilience with FM Global's James Thompson (Senior Vice President, Pacific Division, FM Global).
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In this episode Dr Kimberly Camrass, Director - Climate Positive Brisbane 2032, talks with Dr Saffron Banner, Manager of Griffith University's Sustainability Office, about the preparations underway leading up to the Olympic Games, and why the Olympics means so much for QLD beyond sports. The games are an opportunity to build a better region, now and for the future.
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In this candid conversation between much loved Australian media personality, Johanna Griggs, and Professor Donna Pendergast, Johanna shares her transition from athlete to media presenter, and charts the highs and lows of her 30 year career and how throughout all of this she always kept one eye on her wellbeing.
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David Finnigan is a theatre maker at the intersection of art, science and the corporate world. In this conversation with Dr Saffron Benner from Griffith University's Sustainability Office, David explores the role of the artist as the world grapples with climate change, and details how artistic practice can open up creative spaces for useful conversations.
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Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM and Steve Mitchell (CEO of the Gold Coast Titans) explore the idea that a football club's success relies on more than just winning on the field. Connection to community and community pride is really what makes or breaks a team.
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From insider threats to malicious attachments to the emotional turmoil of romance scams, there are endless ways to fall victim to cybercrime. In this podcast, Professor Ernest Foo interviews Graeme Edwards from the Queensland Police's Financial and Cyber Crime Group about the increasing complexity and prevalence of cybecrime.
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In this conversation Dr Johanna Nalau discusses the recovery of South East Queensland's much-loved Binna Burra with Steve Noakes (Chair, Board of Directors). When many of the historic buildings of Binna Burra were destroyed in the 2019 by bushfires, it was Steve who became the public face of the remarkable and tenacious rebuilding process. This is vital listening for anyone interested in business resilience in a time of climate change.
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Associate Professor Brian McIntosh in conversation with Civic Ledger's CEO Katrina Donaghy and Fraser MacLeod. This is a conversation that draws together two seemingly unrelated things, blockchain and water, and explores the innovative ways that the technology of blockchain can be used to manage the Earth's most precious resource - water.
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Dr Johanna Nalau discusses living and working in Bali with entrepreneur, restauranteur, author and festival director, Janet De Neefe. After moving to Bali for love over 30 years ago, Janet has carved out a successful life in her adopted homeland. In response to the Bali bombings of 2002 Janet created the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. This conversation explores Janet's unique sense of entrepreneurialism, which is fuelled by creativity, ingenuity and resilience.
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Pracademic Dr Jean Renouf shares with Dr. Johanna Nalau his journey from working in war zones to becoming a (prac)academic to the formation of the community organisation Resilient Byron. Jean unpacks the patterns of a disaster, and explores the mindset and skills needed by individuals, businesses and communities as they face times of great upheaval.
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Let's talk about beer! In this episode Associate Professor Brian McIntosh discusses how water is used and managed in the brewing process with CUB Abbotsford Head Brewer, Sarah Laing. A conversation for anyone interested in beer (we know there are a lot of you out there) and the brewing process, and how breweries manage their water consumption up and down the supply chain, and how they position themselves within the community.
In this intimate and moving conversation Dr Dinesh Palipana interviews his boss, Dr Shahina Braganza. Both work in the high pressure environment of the emergency department of the Gold Coast Hospital. They discuss the pressure and the burn out that can be the result of working in the ED, and how they overcome it by teamwork and embracing vulnerability. This is a deeply personal conversation that not only sheds light on a high stakes profession, but delicately examines the emotional landscape of all our working lives.
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Lucy Barnard is attempting to become the first woman to walk the length of the Earth from the southernmost tip of South America to the highest point of Alaska. In case you're wondering, that's 30,000 kilometres. At the end of an enforced COVID pause, Lucy is about to recommence her trek. In this episode, Dr Johanna Nalau discusses Lucy's grand adventure, and explores what motivates her, how she sets goals and how she keeps putting one foot in front of the other.
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In this episode Associate Professor Brian McIntosh interviews Dr Margaret Cook, author of A River with a City Problem. Margaret is an environmental historian with a deep knowledge of Southeast Queensland's flood history. In the wide-ranging discussion Margaret outlines the ramifications of flooding on business and businesses along the river. This is essential listening for anyone interested in the flooding of the past and the flooding of tomorrow and what that means for where we live, work and play.
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