Rebecca Rolls on self-awareness and lifelong learning

Her early career as an elite athlete has shaped Rebecca Rolls’s approach to leadership ever since. Rolls, the inaugural CEO of the Sport Integrity Commission - Te Kahu Raunui, reflects on the importance of knowing your own limitations, surrounding yourself with people who know more than you, and remaining committed to learning new things. This episode offers the highly personal story of a leader whose diverse career has shaped a very grounded and authentic approach to leadership. This episode is part of ‘Voices of Aotearoa New Zealand’, a collection that features the stories of six acclaimed New Zealand change-makers and their personal journey of ethical leadership. Together, these stories offer a great breadth of voices that reflects Aotearoa New Zealand’s diversity: leaders from various cultural backgrounds and upbringings, who are anchored in different communities, and who are making a positive difference to Aotearoa’s future by shifting the dial in various sectors of the economy. By sharing these real-life stories in a way that is humble, authentic and meaningful, we aim to demystify ethics, and make ethical leadership a concept we all become more fluent in, and a skill we all become more nimble with. What ELS? is a podcast by the Brian Picot Chair in Ethical Leadership | Aritahi,  at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. It is curated and produced by advisory firm Pocketknife.