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Better World Leaders
by Tim Collings
Better World Leaders shares experiences, journeys and insights with leaders who are co-creating our better worlds and futures.Each episode we explore their stories, what they have learnt through their lives and careers and what they are doing to contribute to making our worlds better. From these conversations we can all learn from their example and experience to improve ourselves and enhance how we as leaders can co-create better worlds for all.
Episodes
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Tim Collings makes a promise beyond ableness in offering a Sourcing framework
Hello and welcome to the final co-created conversation of our sixth season. In this episode, Tim is hosted by former BWL guest Dimity Podger, in a conversation focused on a framework which has been generated through Tim. The Sourcing framework is designed to provide awareness of the sources of…
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Simon Kavanagh is exploring transformational learning and approaches to systemic change
It was great to understand more deeply the story of the emergence of KaosPilots, the core frameworks of their approach to transformational learning and how these can be applied in this free flowing dialogue with Simon Kavanagh. It's always particularly exciting and enlivening for me to co-create...
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Christopher Marquis reveals the underlying change framework within his latest work...
Very rarely do we host guests who get in touch requesting an interview on Better World Leaders, however the nature of Christopher Marquis' note stood out and I'm delighted that we have somehow entangled to create this conversation. Christopher is Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the Judge...
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Bill Sharpe shares futures practices for transformations over 3 Horizons...
This conversation is as serious as it is playful, as practical in exploration of practice as it is theoretical in examination of a framework, and as generative a journey for me as a practictioner as it is fascinating as a podcaster! Welcome to the wonderful, rich and informative dialogue with…
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Ben Haggard guides how to create frameworks for living systems approaches to life, work and transformation
On the very short list of organisations, entities and gatherings of folk that I've been wholly nurtured, enabled and impacted is Regenesis Institute. One of the key creators of developmental programs at Regenesis is Ben Haggard, and I've been fortunate to participate in several programs Ben has…
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Loes Damhof is building capability in the present with Futures Literacy
I was first introduced to Loes, and Futures Literacy, by another BWL guest, Laureline Simon. When Laureline shared in her network that she was co-hosting a course on Futures Literacy for transformative climate action, I was drawn in and joined the cohort to experience this wonderful, exhilarating...
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Mel Geltch is hosting and harvesting conversations which matter
I first encountered Mel Geltch after receiving an invitation to join a federally funded leadership program for bushfire impacted communities, following the Australian 'Black Summer' of 2019/20. From the prose in that invitation, I sensed I was encountering a fellow in the work, and as I responded...
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Samantha Slade unfolds practices for life-affirming organisations.
This conversation was recorded face to face, in fact almost toe to toe, with Samantha Slade whilst she was in Australia in early 2023. In the days and weeks before we spoke for the Better World Leaders microphone, we had hosted an Art of Hosting training together along with fellows from Campfire...
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Daniel Hires introduces us to the Inner Development Goals
I've had the good fortune to encounter today's guest, Daniel Hires, via LinkedIn during the pandemic, as we seemed to frequent a similar social media ecosystem, commenting on many of the same posts and engaging with the same discourses on social, ecological and economic transformation. Daniel and…
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Karen O'Brien declares that you matter more than you think, as she provides a means to engage with quantum social change
When I first came across Karen O'Brien's 2021 book early last year, I was immediately drawn to it. Both title and subtitle - You Matter More Than You Think, Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World - called to me, having been exploring the sourcing from quantum theory in Carol Sanford's...
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Carol Sanford returns to explore self-determining pathways to evolving our role in life, work and planetary systems
Carol Sanford returns for her second episode in this season, introducing the core disciplines within the framework she introduces in her latest work - No More Gold Stars (a full transcript of this conversation is available here on Medium) In this conversation Carol shares the 6 disciplines which...
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Dan Palmer sources ways of organising in work and life through living design process - Episode 2 of 2 with Dan Palmer
This is the second part of the very special whole conversation with Dan Palmer. Dan and I designed these two conversations to flow together as one greater dialogue, which is way for the first time I'm sharing two episodes together on Better World Leaders. If you'd landed here before listening to...
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Dan Palmer invites us to make holistic decisions - Episode 1 of 2 with Dan Palmer
This the first of two very special conversations with my dear friend Dan Palmer. I am greatly privileged to have been in fellowship with Dan within Carol Sanford's developmental community - Change Agent Development - where Dan was my guide and became a dear friend. I first encountered Dan at the...
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Curtis Ogden generates and explores four frameworks of network and energy systems for social change
If you've been enjoying this season on frameworks so far, you're in for a real treat! Our guest today has been of great source of inspiration to me over the past few years since we connected on LinkedIn after co-habiting several spaces in feeds of mutual connections. Every time I see a post from...
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Zoë Routh visions how we can develop into our shared futures
Zoë Routh returns for her second BWL conversation, focusing a story of climate change impacted human exploration. Zoë is the author of many books, her latest 'The Olympus Project' being her first work of fiction. In this work, the stage is set by unravelling ecologies on Earth, driven by...
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Tim Hollo charts pathways towards living democracy
Once you start to engage with systems change, it's becomes increasingly necessary to examine every system. How each operates, functions, inter-relates to every other system, and is co-dependant for sustained change on the rate of change of many points of convergence. And so, on a podcast…
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Paul Hawken provides frameworks to reconnect to life to address the climate crisis as a symptom of degeneration, and invites us to become regenerators
Paul Hawken has been striving to bring attention to new ways of organising, working and living for longer than I have been alive. Of his many books, I have been most inspired by 'The Ecology of Commerce' which I discovered at university in the late 90s, and 'Blessed Unrest' in the mid-2000s. I…
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Four Arrows awakens us that our fundamental worldview is driving the problems at the heart of, and preventing the solutions to, our greatest crises.
Our conversation with Four Arrows focuses on how fundamental worldviews are to inform our interpretations of the world around us, informing and guiding our decisions, interactions with our fellow humans and the more than human world, and influencing our actions and how we perceive the…
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Giles Hutchins shares how to create life affirming value propositions, regenerative cultures and future-fit organisations
From the first moment I was in dialogue with today's guest, I felt a warmth, a sincerity of curiosity and a genuineness of intention. Being with Giles Hutchins in deep dialogue building up to this conversation, during and beyond it as we've begun to walk a shared path, I've come to appreciate a...
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Carol Sanford invites us to disrupt the attachment we have to our current methods, and instead learn to work Indirectly
Today's guest is the most deeply provocative, developmental and loving regenerative guide I have been honoured to connect with and be developing within her communities. Carol Sanford is acknowledged by many as a matriarch within the resurgent global regeneration movement, having been in deep...
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Welcome to Season 6 - Frameworks for co-creating better worlds
Introducing the sixth season of Better World Leaders, focused on frameworks for you, and all you lead striving to co-create better worlds. Frameworks have become essential and integral to my way of being, learning and developing and I'm delighted to be co-creating conversations with the sources…
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Season 5 Review - How have we nurtured conditions for better world leaders to emerge and thrive?
As we wrap up our fifth season, and our journey through 2022, we offer a brief reflection on the themes which have emerged through 13 fabulous conversations. We've been delighted to host and co-create conversations with these incredible guests, David Drake, Wayne Visser, Lauren Tucker, Hugh…
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Catherine Ashton asks ‘And Then What?’ as we discuss collaborating for long-term approaches to challenges no nation can solve alone
This is a conversation I was not anticipating, and I enjoyed greatly, with someone whom I was deeply honoured to co-create a conversation with. Catherine Ashton is unique in many ways, as the first EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, the former Leader of the House of Lords...
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Sue Glendenning, Jeanine Bailey and I are co-creating spaces for those who are hopeful for changing what must be changed
This is a conversation between three fellows in the work. 3 friends and colleagues who have been deeply exploring how to co-create conditions for systemic change to be activated and sustained. I invite you into the conversation with Sue Glendenning, Jeanine Bailey, and myself. As we reach the...
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Charlotte Connell is striving to enable a mass body of beings energised about the opportunity to create climate positive ventures
I first came across Charlotte in my LinkedIn feed around a year ago, when she shared a beautifully poignant and vulnerable post about talking to her kids about the bushfires. Without needing to check her profile, I knew this was an aligned being, and invited her to connect. A few months later, we...
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Stephen Moir is building communities of professionals seeking to pursue purpose into action on climate change
As long as I’ve been in Australia I’ve been aware of Stephen Moir, someone with whom I share many professional alignments, yet his journey always seemed ahead of my own. More recently I’ve found the alignment even greater, especially since being invited by one of my clients to join Steve’s...
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Michelle Maloney asks how do we nurture the conditions for humans to care about the more than human world?
Over the past few years I’ve become increasingly aware of and inspired by a being known as Michelle Maloney. Over and over, some of the most interesting areas that were drawing my attention and curiosity, I found Michelle immersed in the heart of them in Australia and beyond. Regenerative...
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Alice Howard-Vyse guides us how we can listen more deeply, to nurture ourselves and the whole we are all a part of.
In this conversation, I welcome back a dear friend and guide in the great work, who on her first visit here hosted me and beautifully held the space for exploration of one of my formative narratives. Here, we return to our usual flow, as I host an abundant and deep conversation with Alice...
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Dr Dimity Podger invites us to explore how we regenerate humanity's role on the planet
It is always a great honour to co-create and share with you each and every conversation on Better World Leaders. It's an even deeper pleasure to co-create a conversation with someone who I have been knowing for some time, and deepen my knowing of their being as we create a shared dialogue, which…
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Season 5 halfway review, look ahead and invitation to our first live event...
Welcome to this review of our Fifth Season so far, discussing the convergent themes and poignant prompts which have emerged from the six fantastic guest co-created conversations we've been honoured to host in the season so far. These conversations have been co-created with David Drake, Wayne...
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Laureline Simon urges us to treat the root cause of the ecological crisis, our damaged relationships with ourselves, others, and nature.
This conversation is deep. Existential. Radical. Why? Because Laureline Simon speaks to the root cause of the harm that's impacting on each of us, every community and ecosystem across the breadth of our shared planet. This conversation hits home, in a nurturing, generative way, as Laureline…
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Ben Newsome believes we need to nurture conditions of empathy, dialogue, fearlessness and resilience
Of the many new connections I made through the lockdowns of 2020, very few matched the energy and capacity for both vastly expansive and hyper detailed dialogue than today's guest. Ben Newsome is an educator, a Founder and ambassador for progressive educational practice and I'm delighted to…
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Hugh Mackay would like us all to start a revolution by making kindness our way of being in the world
In the midst of a CoVid lockdown, I discovered a book that it felt like was speaking directly to me, and in doing so, touching my soul. The author and I shared a desire to see a significant shift in the country we both love, and in the wider world. That shift speaks of rediscovery. Of a way of...
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Lauren Tucker asks how do we shift the role of our business to create the conditions for regeneration?
Have you ever been in a session when someone shows up who you sense you recognise the essence of? You can't place them, you know you've not met them before, yet something connects you that seems somehow familiar. That was my experience the first time I met Lauren Tucker. Part way through a...
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Wayne Visser invites us to thrive by moving from breakdown to breakthrough and from laggards to leaders
Rarely do I get the opportunity to welcome a guest with such a wonderful range of frames that have been used to describe their work - especially in combination! Our guest today is Wayne Visser, a professor, a poet, a possibilist and a pracademic. Throughout this season of Better World Leaders,...
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David Drake shares practices to return to our sense of common good and common humanity
Welcome to the fifth season of Better World Leaders. Throughout this season we'll be focusing on the theme of conditions, and considering what conditions do we need to nurture for leaders to co-create a better world. I'm delighted and honoured to bring you the first conversation of the season…
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Introducing Season 5 - Nurturing Conditions to co-create our better world...
Welcome to Season 5 of Better World Leaders! This season we shift our focus to nurturing conditions, following on our past two seasons of catalysing and sustaining change. Let's go a little deeper, into the foundational elements we need to cultivate in ourselves, our communities, societies and...
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Season 4 - wrap up & review
In this brief review episode, I provide a fly-through of the conversations co-created as part of this season. The broad theme for the season has been sustaining change, how do we do this, what's important to pay attention to, and how do we sustain ourselves as we strive to co-create our better...
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James McGregor believes scalable commercial sustainability solutions are the key to our collective environmental and societal challenges
In the final episode of our fourth season, I was delighted to co-create a conversation filled with pragmatism, hope and energy for tackling the major problems that exist in our world today. I was introduced to James McGregor by our very first BWL guest, Paul Dunn, on the basis of our shared…
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Rebecca Christianson offers a path from surviving to thriving
This conversation is a moving and meaningful one focused on how life lessons from adversity can provide opportunities for transformation and shifts into realisation of our purpose and fullest potential. Rebecca has endured what would be testing circumstances at the best of times, however her...
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Tracy Eames on why we need to focus on meaningful work, and how to bring more meaning through your team
This conversation is one of fellowship between myself and Tracy Eames, a leadership practitioner from the East Coast of the USA with whom I have discovered a great affinity and shared devotion to a foundational column of work for both of us - meaningful work. In Tracy's words, we all spend so…
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Hernan Haro is investing in Founders who are in love with the world's biggest problems, who lead by learning and embracing diversity.
This conversation is perhaps not what you might expect in a conversation with the Founder of a Venture Capital Fund. You won't find any mention here of debt-to-equity ratios, asset valuations or how to scale rapidly for a successful sale. What you will find is what Hernan Haro and I must say…
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Mickey Kovari leads in fellowship and community-ship with the custodians of our most regenerative ways of knowing, doing and being.
Every once in a while you connect deeply, completely and with absolute alignment with someone whose lived experience has been what you aspire to be. To find someone with whom I align so cohesively with living only a few kilometres across the mountains from my home and to have the opportunity to...
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Reviewing and looking ahead at the halfway mark of Season 4, Sustaining Change...
In this episode I'm coming to you solo as both reviewer and announcer. I'll reflect on what has been most salient to me from the 5 discussions so far in this season, and share with you what awaits in the 5 conversations that lie ahead... Reflecting on conversations with; •Claire Marshall on the...
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Jess Weiss shares her approach to strengths for those who want to make the world better
It's always a pleasure to converse with someone I know well - especially when that person is someone I greatly admire and am honoured to work alongside, learn from and advocate for. I've known Jess for a little over 3 years at this point of broadcast, and yet I'm constantly learning more and more...
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Betsy Reed shows us that embracing discomfort gives birth to the greatest transformations
It's a very great pleasure to share with you the conversation I co-created with Betsy Reed. Betsy has spent the past 18+ years working as a sustainability expert, running big advocacy campaigns, working for corporates, running her own sustainability consultancy, lecturing, and being invited to...
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Pedro Aguirre shares how to plant seeds and grow the next generation of change makers
Pedro Aguirre personifies an action-based leader, stepping away from the conventional career trajectory his initial studies set for him, and venturing into social enterprise entrepreneurship and social impact stewardship. Having lived and worked across 4 different continents, he has experienced...
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Rebecca Huntley believes we have a fighting chance to create a liveable world for everyone
Working as a social researcher for decades, you spend endless hours interviewing people and facilitating workshops to understand a broad-spectrum of perspectives of what people want, what they don't want - and most especially what they hope for the future. This has been Rebecca Huntley's journey...
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Claire Marshall believes the future is a story, and it's one of the most important that we tell
Stories are change. Stories are us. We change stories and they change us. Claire Marshall's story is one of being, receiving and informing change - and it is one I'm thrilled to be sharing with you in the first episode of our fourth season. Key out-takes from this episode; The role of story - A...
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Introducing Season 4 - Sustaining Better Things - sustaining change to create our better world
Welcome to Season 4 of the Better World Leader's podcast! Following right on the heals of the conclusion of Season 3, Doing Better Things - Stories of Transformative Change, we bring you a series of co-created conversations all focused on experiences, approaches and frameworks for sustaining...
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Better World Leaders shares experiences, journeys and insights with leaders who are co-creating our better worlds and futures.Each episode we explore their stories, what they have learnt through their lives and careers and what they are doing to contribute to making our worlds better. From these conversations we can all learn from their example and experience to improve ourselves and enhance how we as leaders can co-create better worlds for all.
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Tim Collings
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