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The Leadership Lessons
by Agenda Media
What do we need for the decade ahead? More female leaders! This podcast series features conversations with female leaders on how to lead for the critical decade ahead. Conversations that will enable us to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time. The Leadership Lessons is created by the team at Women's Agenda and Agenda Media, and supported by Salesforce. Check out our other podcast, The Women's Agenda Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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What 12 women taught us about leadership
We've featured 12 incredible women this season, from a wide variety of backgrounds. In this special ep, Shirley Chowdhary shares some of the key lessons learned about leadership thanks to the advice from our guests from the past 10 episodes, These lessons highlight how to succeed in a new…
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The power of authentic strategies and skills
Twenty-five years ago, Mel Thomas walked into a martial arts class and it changed the course of her life. Mel was born into family violence and throughout much of her youth. As such, she had a front-row seat to unhealthy and abusive relationships. As the final guest for Season Five of The...
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Tap into something bigger: creativity, team work and music
Satu Vänskä speaks four languages, has lived all over the world and is the Principal Violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. And as she explains, cancelling a concert had never been an option. Like most musicians, she’s always lived with an ethos of “the show must go on”. She's the latest…
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CEO at 24: What you learn about leadership
What do you learn about leadership, when you take on a CEO role at a young age? Shelley Cable says she never planned to be a Chief Executive Officer at the age of 24, but that’s exactly what happened when she was appointed CEO of Generation One at the Minderoo Foundation two years ago. In this...
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Get comfortable with being difficult
Lisa Annese is "always up against it". That's what it takes, fighting for change across Australian workplaces. As Chief Executive Officer of the Diversity Council Australia, which supports Australia's biggest employers in doing better on diversity and inclusion, she's learnt to be comfortable in...
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Surprise yourself with your ambitions
Helen Haines never imagined becoming a member of parliament. In fact, it’s one of the last things she thought she’d end up doing. But she's now an independent MP, and the only member of Federal Parliament with a background in midwifery. And she still feels excitement every time her name is...
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Your 'mental load' experience matters: Lucy & Daisy Turnbull
Lucy Turnbull is amazed that so many women underrate their life experiences when applying for different jobs. As such, she urges women to highlight and appreciate the experience they have, particularly after returning from a career break. She shares these insights alongside her daughter Daisy...
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Use your platform to elevate others
Four-time Paralympian Madison de Rozario who won gold in the marathon in Tokyo, joins The Leadership Lessons to discuss sport, identity and inclusion -- as well as what it was like crossing the finish line for that epic win. Speaking with host Shirley Chowdhary, Madison also shares why she's…
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Relationships matter and kindness always wins
How did Leigh Sales & Annabel Crabb create one of the kindest places on the internet? Together they spill what they've learnt about kindness, community and friendship with host Shirley Chowdhary. Both Sales and Crabb are two of Australia’s most high-profile political journalists, but away from...
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There is no 'regular' path when you kick the doors down
Professor Lisa Jackson-Pulver is one of Australia’s most recognised experts in public health. An epidemiologist, she’s had an illustrious career in public health research, and is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney. But it's been no...
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Build strong relationships to drive authenticity
It's exhausting pretending to be someone else at work. And it's exhausting pretending to be the expert in something when you're clearly not. That's why authenticity matters, alongside building strong relationships and the best team you can get to fill your own knowledge gaps. With all of that…
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What leadership should look like in the decade ahead
Season 4 of The Leadership Lessons is officially coming to a close, and we’re bringing you one final episode recapping some of our favourite moments, and lessons from women who were featured on the podcast. This week, our host Shirley Chowdhary speaks about two overarching themes that have come...
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What we've learnt from women this season
We've interviewed 40 women through The Leadership Lessons podcast, including ten over this past season. In every episode, we hear incredible and inspiring advice that everyone can learn something from. This week, host Shirley Chowdhary shares some highlights from season four, featuring words of...
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Redefine entire industries
Sharon Chuter, is the founder and CEO of UOMA Beauty, a cosmetics company that is rewriting the industry on inclusivity and diversity. And business is absolutely booming, with demand for her products lifting and seeing the brand accelerate fast into the long-held spaces of the beauty brand…
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Mentoring, success & the generational push for women's rights
The mother/daughter team of Wendy and Sophie McCarthy have been collectively pushing for women's rights for decades. Wendy, one of Australia's most recognised and successful activists, has campaigned on everything from abortion rights (becoming one of the first to publicly state she had one in…
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Lead with empathy. And normalise what women experience
Modibodi founder Kristy Chong is on a mission to normalise what 800 million women and girls experience internationally: periods, bladder leakage, incontinence. The idea for period-proof undies came to her when she was on maternity leave after having her second child. She was training for a...
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4 day work weeks & making work meaningful
What happens when you get your staff to work four day weeks, while still paying them the same amount as when they worked five days a week? And how do you make work more meaningful? These are some of the questions and more Shirley Chowdhary discusses with Nina Mapson Bone this week, the Managing...
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Take your own path and stick to your guns
Professor Raina MacIntyre is one of Australia’s leading infectious diseases experts who has become a household name in Australia over the past 18 months. She’s given her time for television and radio, and been quoted in countless articles about COVID-19. But her knowledge and the truth she shares...
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Explore, take risks and say yes to opportunities
Jonty Low is believed to be the first female chair of an independent news wire anywhere in the world, and definitely at the Australian Associated Press. It's at AAP where she's making a new mark, using her passion and eclectic career-to-date (she was once a singer songwriter) to support and build...
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Pursue the big idea regardless of your previous experience
Mikaela Jade is a former park ranger turned tech entrepreneur and CEO. She leads Indigital, ideas that came to her in the shower ten years ago and that she pursued with no previous tech experience. She joins Shirley Chowdhary for this week's ep of The Leadership Lessons, highlighting how her own...
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Be the fix the community needs
Mariam Mohammed has a zest for life that's infectious, as well as a desire for leading on change that leaves those around her wanting to also get stuck in. Having survived an abusive relationship at a young age while living in Pakistan, the country she grew up in, Mariam arrived in Australia with...
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What leadership looks like for young Indigenous women today
Shirley Chowdhary brings three young Indigenous women around the table to hear about their life experiences, resilience, aspirations and hopes for the future of leadership. Madison Howarth, Charlotte Ryan, and Bronte Charles met a number of years ago as scholars at the GO Foundation, an…
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Happiness as a leadership trait
There is so much to learn from Turia Pitt: resilience, strength, courage and confidence. But also how she's approached happiness and continues to choose and constantly pursue it, and why happiness can be a powerful leadership trait. Welcome to Season 4 of The Leadership Lessons! And a huge...
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Mentors & role models can change everything
Leila Smith is CEO of the Aurora Foundation, who has seen the absolute power of mentoring and role modelling first hand. She describes some key examples in this episode, noting how it can change entire lives and career trajectories. And she's experienced such change first hand, having taken part…
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You can't get everything right, all the time: Career & parenting with Justine Cullen
Justine Cullen is the former editor-in-chief of Elle Australia, and landing that job was the culmination of everything she’d ever dreamed of. But as she shares more on in this episode, after years of glamour, fashion, publishing and traveling the world, the sparkle of the job started to dwindle.…
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More women in STEM will make the difference
When Dr Jessica Allen was an undergraduate in an engineering degree at university, she never imagined she’d have a career in academia. As she tells Kate Mills in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, she never had a female lecturer, so it was hard to see herself in that kind of role. “I...
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Want a career change? Here's how it's done
Dr Jana Pittman is one of Australia’s most recognisable faces, thanks to her 15 years at the height of international sport. Throughout the 2000s and the 2010s, she represented Australia at three Olympic Games and became a two-time World Champion and four-time Commonwealth Champion. She is also…
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Put your hand up and avoid the stereotypes
Gail Pemberton is a leader who learnt to ignore the advice of others early, way back in high school. She shares on The Leadership Lessons how she made her way to the top in the male-dominated worlds of tech and finance. She talks about putting your hand up, about the importance of diversity in…
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Pay forward the support you've received
Suzanne Steele's the MD of Adobe in Australia and shares what she knows about leadership in this episode. At age 16, Suzanne left school due to some extenuating family circumstances, and never had the opportunity to be educated at university. She made do in some secretarial and admin work, before...
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The end of sexual harassment
Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News host, says it took all the courage she had to make a sexual harassment complaint against Roger Ailes, the then powerful CEO and chairman of Fox News in 2016. She took on the giants, receiving a multi-million dollar payout, but most importantly, a public…
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Trust & relationships is key: Meg Lanning
As captain of Australia's national cricket side, Meg Lanning has learnt a lot about the need to build strong relationships and trust. It's key to balancing each person's strengths and weaknesses on a sporting team -- but it's also something that can apply elsewhere in life. Indeed, it's key to...
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4 great leadership lessons from women
Julia Gillard, Yasmin Poole, Sonja Stewart and Dr Kirstin Ferguson have all shared their journeys and their best lessons on this podcast. So in this episode, to celebrate the launch of Season Three, we've pulled out some of their best leadership lessons, packaging them together to offer a taste…
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This is how to think about success
Is anyone ever successful? Not necessarily. Even the most successful individuals you perceive you could hollow on the inside. Success, rather, is about appreciating the journey. Moving forward. Making courageous decisions and career movements. And Gretel Killeen is certainly someone who has done...
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Combine your passions & disrupt the status quo
As a Super Netball and AFLW star, Ash Brazill carries a massive load. Day in, day out, she trains intensively for both sports while working part time in the media department at her club Collingwood. She’s also a new mother to her one-year-old son, Louis. She's combining multiple passions and…
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We are not invincible
Sharni Layton is one of Australia's most successful athletes. She wants you to know she's not invincible. None of us are invincible, no matter what our achievements and acolades. No matter how well we maintain our physical selves, we also need to reserve time and space for our mental health, and...
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We can end the climate wars
Independent MP Zali Steggall knows a thing or two about making career leaps. She’s done it successfully multiple times, moving from the heights of professional sport, as Australia’s most successful alpine skier, to the law and then head first into federal politics. Along the way, she managed to...
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Leadership needs clarity, empathy, collaboration, inclusion & resilience
The best leaders during the pandemic? It's not coincidence that it's been those who have rejected toxic masculinity. They're the leaders who embraced something else, particularly diversity and inclusion. Mathuri Santhi-Morgan shares why this is such a game-changer, speaking with host Kate Mills…
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Get to the table
When you get to the table, you get to bring up key agenda items. Important issues that you're passionate about, and that you know need addressing right now. Senator Jenny McAllister has seen this first hand: especially serving as a Labor Senator for NSW since 2015. She discusses the impact of...
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We need to radically democratise leadership
Where do we start on getting the leadership we need? With a radically democratized approach. One that no longer relies on luck or privilege. Dr Stephanie Dowrick shares this vision with host Kate Mills, on The Leadership Lessons podcast. She's a businessperson, bestselling author, social justice...
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Long-term strategic thinking essential
Hayley McQuire is the National Coordinator and Co-Founder of the National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, a collective of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, all committed to advocating for Indigenous rights to education. In this episode, she shares with host Kate Mills how...
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Channel the anger, frustration & hope into advocacy
Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman who is using her legal skills to fight back against the systematic oppression of First Nations people in Australia. She became a lawyer, after first working as a teacher, because she felt a pressing sense of obligation to her people. In 2010, Reid...
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Fight for inclusion
Lisa Cox is a disability advocate, writer, motivational speaker, and the author of two books, who fights every day to remedy the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of people living with disabilities in popular culture. Her story is one of untold resilience, and it’s one she admits she...
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Voice your career ambitions
Pip Marlow is the CEO of Salesforce Australia and New Zealand and ASEAN. Her leadership career didn't happen overnight, and it certainly didn't happen with luck. She spent more than two decades at Microsoft, initially starting in a junior position before finishing up as the tech giant's Australia...
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How to (literally) change the game for women
Welcome to season two! Mary Konstantopoulos is the founder of the ‘Ladies Who’ sports media empire, and has lived and breathed sport for as long as she can remember. She grew up playing a variety of different sports, and found a deep passion for rugby league. Watching the NRL was one of the ways...
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An opportunity to reset. Will we take it?
Shirley Chowdhary shares so much wisdom in this episode, particularly on what's she's learnt being outside of the "majority" and on finding leadership roles that feed your soul. Shirley's currently the CEO of the GO Foundation, an organisation founded by former AFL stars Adam Goodes and Michael...
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Challenge assumption & push to set the record straight
At the helm of the legal profession in NSW, Sonja Stewart knows a lot about the need for truth telling. And she says it's essential that we push to set the record straight. A Yuin woman, Sonja is the newly appointed CEO of the Law Society of NSW and the Chair of the GO Foundation. In this…
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Feeling daunted by your next move is ok
If that next move looks a bit scary, it's probably going to help your career and leadership grow. Jo Masters has been there, starting in a new role and figuring things out as she goes. It's aided her career and seen her build a significant media profile commenting on some of the most important...
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Seize the moment, it could change your life
In the early stages of Kirsty Webeck’s comedic career, she was thrown into the deep end by someone who kindly offered her a spot on the line up of a big comedy gala. There was an audience of 700 people, and looking back, Kirsty admits that she probably wasn’t quite ready for such a big gig, and...
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Extreme transparency in leadership essential
Dr Kirstin Ferguson is deputy chair of the ABC and a leading board director with a wide ranging career across the military and law. She has a LOT of experience in leadership, and a lot to say on the need for diversity that goes beyond gender, as well as for kindness, empathy and honesty in...
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Passion & purpose make it happen
What can you do with purpose, passion and problem solving skills? Have a wide ranging career that gets significant work done. Electrical engineer Dr Raji Ambikairajah, who has held a number of CEO positions across tech startups, finance and the not-for-profit sector, shares how purpose and…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What do we need for the decade ahead? More female leaders!
This podcast series features conversations with female leaders on how to lead for the critical decade ahead.
Conversations that will enable us to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time.
The Leadership Lessons is created by the team at Women's Agenda and Agenda Media, and supported by Salesforce.
Check out our other podcast, The Women's Agenda Podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Agenda Media
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