EPISODE · Aug 6, 2025 · 43 MIN
Creating Cultural and Systemic Change - Rural Women Lead Collab Series, pt. 3
from Ducks on the Pond · host Kirsten Diprose and Jackie Elliott
How do you create systemic change, especially when it involves changing the culture and attitudes of not just a workplace, but an entire society? There is no specific playbook for systemic change. But there are a number of tools you can try. In this final episode of our three part series with Rural Women Lead, we explore this adaptive process by looking at space of women’s health and wellbeing - including reproductive health, family violence and menopause - which are all areas that have been overlooked, misunderstood and mischaracterised throughout history.Hear from:Jodie Hill - CEO at Women’s Health and Wellbeing Barwon Southwest, from Crossley, VIC.In her role, Jodie is tackling multiple systemic problems. To do this, she says you need to have conversations with people with very different attitudes and ideas to you. This inevitably comes with discomfort - but if you want to create change, you need to have the courage to be able to sit with that discomfort and do it anyway. Jodie tells the story of having to speak to a room full of tradies about gender equity, when it was clear they hadn’t really chosen to be in the room. She adjusted her talk to better fit the audience..but summoned the courage to speak!This series has been made in collaboration with Rural Women Lead, lead by Leadership Great South Coast. Other members includes: O2 Advisory, are-able, GenHealth, Wannon Water and Rural Podcasting Co.This is a Rural Podcasting Co. production.Send us Fan MailThis is a Rural Podcasting Co. production. Interested in making your own podcast? Let us help you tell your own story!
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How do you create systemic change, especially when it involves changing the culture and attitudes of not just a workplace, but an entire society? There is no specific playbook for systemic change. But there are a number of tools you can try. In this final episode of our three part series with Rural Women Lead, we explore this adaptive process by looking at space of women’s health and wellbeing - including reproductive health, family violence and menopause - which are all areas that have...
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