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Crisis Talks
by Grant Chisnall
Crisis Talks is a podcast dedicated to crisis leaders. The people who have responded to crises and their stories of leadership and resilience in the face of of adversity.
Episodes
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What CIO’s go through in a Cyber Attack
Ellis Brover is the former CIO of Toyota Australia and an Independent Board and Executive IT Advisor. He has a proven track record over three decades of building and leading world-class IT organisations and his experience spans a range of roles and industries, from startups to multi-nationals. In...
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Board Cyber Crisis Preparedness
“Data should be treated as a liability - not an asset” - Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus With recent high profile cyber attacks targeting Medibank and Optus, Australian boards are scrambling to understand the risks a cyber attack may present to them and what they can do to prevent, prepare and...
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Series 4 Ep. 1 Thomas Knudsen - Managing Director Toll. Cyber Attacks and Supply Chain Resilience
“Don't look at these events as black swans… I don't think any business should plan around what if, every business should plan on when.” Thomas Knudsen Thomas Knudsen is the Managing Director of global supply chain business Toll. Having previously lived through the global cyber attack at Maersk…
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S3 Ep4 - Brian Walsh - COVID + Sport = Issues Rich Environment
From a career as a journalist working as a police reporter covering some of the worst crimes in Victoria’s history to the Executive General Manager Corporate Affairs, Government and Communications at the Australian Football League, Brian Walsh has had an amazing career in issues and crisis...
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S3 Ep3 - Adapting to Antarctica - Managing risk in the world's most hostile environment.
Charlton Clark embodies the saying, "Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." Imagine having to plan and prepare for an operation that is 2 years away? How would you select the right people and the equipment needed for the task two years before that task is required and ensure that...
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Crisis Talks S3 Ep 2. Deepwater Horizon
11 Years on from the Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Crisis, we pick up from the moment the Crisis team observes the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig sinking in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent environmental disaster that ensued. In this episode, we talk through the shift in the response...
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Crisis Talks S3 Ep 1. Deepwater Horizon
On the 20th April 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, injured 17 more and resulted in the largest marine OilSpill in history. Clint Honeycutt was one of the BP Health and Safety Advisors at the time and was activated as a part of the…
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Crisis Talks S2 Ep. 9 - Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons - The Importance of Empathy in Leadership
From a 15 year old volunteer firefighter in Duffy’s Forest Fire Brigade in 1985 to leading 70,000 firefighters during the response to the 2019-2020 fires, Shane Fitzsimmons rise to being the most trusted face in the bushfire crisis has been a story of resilience, hardship and humility. From…
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Crisis Talks S2 Ep. 8 - COVID Rescue - Government Fail
With thousands of Australians still stranded overseas due to the pandemic, I thought it was important to share the story of one man’s success despite another stunning failure of Australian Bureaucracy. Shocked by a sudden and harsh lockdown in India in the early days of the pandemic, thousands of...
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Crisis Talks S2 Ep7. Leading With Your Heart - Regina Phelps
“The leaders who can lead from a place of compassion and empathy and really understand that we are all suffering, then I think they’ll achieve great things.” Interested in an expert’s perspective on the US’ response to the pandemic? Regina Phelps is an internationally recognised expert in the…
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Crisis Talks Series 2 Ep. 6 - Tarkyn Lockyer Getting the Game Back On Your Terms
"You can have the greatest resources in the world, but the weights aren't going to lift themselves". Tarkyn Lockyer is a 227 game champion of the Collingwood Football Club who now heads up the Australian Football League's National Talent Development Program. In this episode of Crisis Talks, we...
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Crisis Talks Series 2 Ep. 5 - Adaptive Planning and Leadership - Lessons From Ambulance Victoria's Director of Emergency Management
Justin Dunlop leads Ambulance Victoria’s response to public crises as the Director of the Emergency Management Unit. In this Episode, we talk about the simple strategic objectives his team has applied to ensure the safety of staff and the continuity of service for Ambulance Victoria during the...
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Crisis Talks S2 Ep4 - Learning the lessons of the past, Tony Pearce, Inspector General Emergency Management Victoria
Tony was appointed Victoria’s first Inspector-General for Emergency Management in July 2014, an independent Governor in Council Statutory Appointment, working closely with emergency management sector partners and the community to strengthen Victoria's emergency management arrangements and enhance...
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Series 2 - Ep. 3 Why sack someone when you can share them? BenchOn CEO - Tim Walmsley
Tim Walmsley is a veteran and the founder and CEO of BenchOn, the world’s first Talent Sharing Platform. Heeding the call for business owners and entrepreneurs to share their ideas to help get us through this Crisis, Tim joins me to discuss how organisations can keep their workforce and share…
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Series 2 - Ep. 2 - Boomer Flu - Staring Down Our Mortality - Bill Bestic
From the frontlines of the NZ SAS to the frontline of a global pandemic, Anaesthetist Bill Bestic has seen the best and worst of humanity and understands leadership during uncertainty. In this episode of Crisis Talks, Bill gives us a unique insight into the preparations that are underway in our...
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Series 2 - Ep 1. COVID-19 - The Death of the 3 Second Rule - Jason Jarrett
After working on crisis management and continuity with corporates and government departments preparing responses to Ebola, Foot and mouth, H1N1 and now COVID-19 Jason Jarrett asks the question “Is the three-second rule dead?” Jason Jarrett is an adjunct professor in risk management, a consultant…
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Crisis Talks Ep. 21 DANGER FIRE! - Craig Lapsley
With fires ravaging Australia and questions about the affect of climate change, I sat down with Craig Lapsley, the former Emergency Management Commissioner of Victoria to discuss the lessons learnt from fires in Australia over the past 40 years. Craig’s work here and overseas, enables a unique...
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Crisis Talks Ep. 20 Darren Hodge - Author - A Life on the Line
If there’s nothing more Australian than strangers coming together to help others in their time of crisis, then there is no one more Australian than Darren Hodge. Darren has spent over thirty years in the Victoria Ambulance Service, now serving as one of the elite few MICA Flight Paramedics. In…
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Crisis Talks Ep. 19 Clare Gleghorn - Managing Social Media Outrage
“Our currency is empathy”. When social media erupted after the Gold’s bus crash in 2016, we turned to Clare Gleghorn, the CEO of Bastion Reputation Management for support. Clare shares her insights into the impact of social media outrage and how her team measures influence to ensure a balanced...
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Crisis Talks Ep. 18 Cyber Hacker Bastien Treptel
@Cyberhacker Podcaster and CEO of CTRLGroup, Bastien Treptel joins us this week to talk about Cyber Security. He describes some of the industrious ways that hackers and nefarious threats are targeting and accessing our data and what we can do to prevent, prepare and respond if a cyber crisis...
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Crisis Talks Ep 17. Josh Hawes - Psychological Resilience
Josh Hawes is the Principal Psychologist and Technical Director of Critical Components. He formerly served as a Clinical Psychologist in the Army with the Australian SAS and specialises in critical incident response and recovery. I have used Josh and his team in support of a number of workplace...
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Crisis Talks Ep. 16 Major General Chris Field
I had the honour of serving under Major General Field 20 years ago when we deployed to East Timor. At that time, he was the Operations Officer of our Battalion. Now, he is the Forces Commander of the Australian Army, in charge of thousands of men and women. We talk about his experiences in...
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Crisis Talks Ep 15. Steve Bell - Crisis Lawyer
Steve Bell is the Crisis Management and Workplace Health and Safety Partner for Herbert Smith Freehills in Melbourne. Steve’s insights on crisis response challenge the legal archetypes and break down some of the common misperceptions about the primacy of legal response during a crisis. His points...
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Crisis Talks Ep. 14 Cameron Schwab
Cameron Schwab, the youngest ever CEO of an AFL Club shares his leadership insights. He talks candidly about leadership, creativity, crisis and fatherhood. This interview is raw, authentic, insightful and inspiring.
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Crisis Talks Ep 13. Designing your way out of a Crisis
If necessity is the mother of invention, then a crisis is the perfect time to look at innovative ways to solve complex problems. Human Centred Design Thinking (HCD) is an approach to problem solving that places stakeholders in the centre of the process, and helps organisations shape novel or…
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Crisis Talks Ep. 12 - Fireside Debrief
Bill Bestic and Dan Cooney each espoused the importance of debriefing during or immediately after a crisis to ensure we capture the lessons learnt for our own improvement. In this Video, I take the opportunity to debrief the first series and reflect on some of the key lessons and themes drawn…
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Sandpaper Gate - Restoring Trust After a Crisis of Confidence
Its March 2018 in South Africa and the Australian Cricket Team are caught in a ball tampering scandal which causes all Australians to question their love of the game. In this Episode of Crisis Talks, I interview Earl Eddings, the Chairman of Cricket Australia. We talk about Cricket Australia’s...
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Crisis Talks Ep 10. Jim Molan - Attache/General/Senator
Jim Molan AO DSC has led a distinguished life of service, firstly as a highly decorated General in the Australian Army, and more recently as a Liberal Party Senator. Jim gives a frank assessment on the state of leadership in Australia from the lens of a person who has worked as an Attache in...
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Crisis Talks Ep. 9 "Get the Gringo" Chilean Mine Rescue Part 2
In Part 2 of Get the Gringo, with the rescue mission well under way, we explore how Kelvin picked himself and his team up from the initial despair of their first unsuccessful hole and how he and his team drew inspiration from the families of the trapped miners to go on and find them all alive....
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Crisis Talks Ep 8. - Chilean Mine Rescue - "Get the Gringo"
Eps 8 & 9 - "Get the Gringo". We go back to August 5, 2010 to Copiapo in Chile, where an underground collapse trapped 33 Miners sparking an international rescue. I speak to Kelvin Brown, the Aussie Drilling Expert, flown in on the direct request of the Chilean President, who told the pilot…
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TIO Bombing Crisis, Feb 2010
In Episode 7, I talk with the CEO of Tower Insurance, Richard Harding. In February, 2010, as the CEO of TIO Insurance in Darwin, Richard led the crisis response after a disgruntled claimant firebombed a crowded insurance branch in broad daylight. He talks candidly about the challenges managing…
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Crisis Talks Ep. 6. Matt Gill, Beaconsfield Mine Crisis
In Episode 6, we pick up where we left off with the rescue. Once they’d found them alive, the world's media converged on the mine, creating a media tsunami never seen before. We explore the role of Bill Shorten, the Foo fighters and how the team handled the media circus. Matt’s insights into the...
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Ep. 5 - Matt Gill - Beaconsfield Mine Crisis Part 1.
On ANZAC Day 2006, a Mine Collapse occurred at Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania, killing Larry Knight and trapping Todd Russell and Brandt Webb underground. In this 1st episode of a 2 part series, I interview Matthew Gill, the former Mine Manager who led the team of over 200 people who rescued...
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Ep. 4 From SAS to Anaesthetist - Talking Failure with Bill Bestic
Bill Bestic is an Anaesthetist - who was a Kidnap and Ransom Negotiator - who was a NZ SAS Officer before that! We talk about how the different industries that he has worked in approach failure; the importance of debriefing to capture improvement opportunities; and how culture and humility are...
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Ep. 3 - Dan Cooney - Pilot/Author/Entrepreneur
Dan Cooney is a former Naval Aviator who authored the book, "Decision Making - Military Tactics To Master Situational Awareness and Leadership". We talk about Dan's transition from Pilot to entrepreneur and how he is applying the leadership lessons of the military aviation industry in business.…
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Crisis Talks Ep 2. Part 2 Peter Canterbury - Sundance Aircrash
In Ep.2 we pick up where we left off and talk through finding the aircrash; the family and welfare support; repatriating them home; and the governance and regulatory challenges reconstituting a company without a surviving board. We then close off with the recovery process, some of the lessons...
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Crisis Talks Ep 1. Part 1. Peter Canterbury - Sundance Aircrash
In Episode 1, Peter Canterbury, the former CFO of Sundance Resources revisits Sundance pre 19 June 2010, the amazing team they had assembled and the fateful flight. We re-trace the frantic days of the international search and rescue effort, the impact on the families, and the pressure from the...
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Crisis Talks Trailer
Welcome to my new Trailer for Crisis Talks. Crisis Talks is dedicated to those people who have responded to crises and their stories of leadership and resilience in the face of adversity. Episode 1, launches on 19th June, the 9 year anniversary from the fateful aircrash which claimed the lives of...
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Crisis Talks is a podcast dedicated to crisis leaders. The people who have responded to crises and their stories of leadership and resilience in the face of of adversity.
HOSTED BY
Grant Chisnall
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