Trust Based Leadership with Professor Gary Martin

In this episode, Ian chats with the chief executive and executive director of the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia, Professor Gary Martin. Professor Gary’s focus on key issues and challenges trending in our workplaces led to his commitments that incorporate building leadership, management, and workplace capability both in Australia and internationally.

Don’t miss:

• Professor Gary talks about the importance of needing to build trust with individuals, groups of people, and whole faculties
• How Professor Gary gets the best people in the organization to make sure that they can achieve what they set out to do
• Learning to think about things by weighing up the pros, the cons, and consequences of different actions is important
• Understanding that overthinking things immediately after you have done things damages you
• The moment in Professor Gary’s life where everything changed and he looks at life from a completely different perspective

About the Guest:

Professor Gary Martin

Emeritus Professor Gary Martin commenced in the role of chief executive and executive director of the Australian Institute of Management Western Australia in 2012. He has overall responsibility for leading all aspects of the Institute's business, which is focused on building leadership, management, and workplace capability both in Australia and internationally, and across the corporate, government, not-for-profit, and community sectors.

Prior to joining AIM WA, Gary held numerous executive appointments at Murdoch University, including the position of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor.   He started his career teacher working in Western Australian government schools as a teacher. 

Gary is a workplace specialist who focuses on key issues and challenges trending in our workplaces. He is a regular columnist in a variety of publications across Australia and internationally,  and is the Education writer for WA’s Business News.

He was board chair of Telethon Speech and Hearing in Perth from 2016 to 2020, and a chair of Study Perth from 2008 to 2011. He now also sits on the boards of the Council for the Ageing, Western Australia (COTA WA) and Volunteering Western Australia.

A Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, Gary is an Emeritus Professor of Murdoch University’s Business School and the Zhejiang University of Technology in China, and an Honorary Professor at Guangdong University of Business Studies, China.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professorgarymartin

Website: https://aimwa.com

About the Host:

Ian Hawkins is the Founder and Host of The Grief Code. Dealing with grief firsthand with the passing of his father back in 2005 planted the seed in Ian to discover what personal freedom and legacy truly are. This experience was the start of his journey to healing the unresolved and unknown grief that was negatively impacting every area of his life. Leaning into his own intuition led him to leave corporate and follow his purpose of creating connections for himself and others. 

The Grief Code is a divinely guided process that enables every living person to uncover their unresolved and unknown grief and dramatically change their lives and the lives of those they love. Thousands of people have now moved from loss to light following this exact process. 

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