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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice
by Andy Corbett
The Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast features interviews with influencers from across disciplines and industries to present new and fresh perspectives that challenge how to approach change to solve some of the biggest challenges faced today.
Episodes
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Episode 38: Learning, trust, and organisational adaptability with Kate Fitzgerald
In this heartfelt chat, Kate Fitzgerald, CEO of the NSW Reconstruction Authority, joins us to talk about learning, trust, and organisational adaptability in this latest episode.
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Episode 37: Inflection with Natalia Cowley
This episode offers a fresh perspective that challenges the difficult question of “where to now,” when organisational changes made haven't been enough to move an organisation to where it needs to be. Before you jump to more restructures, leadership changes, or system optimisations, listen to this...
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Episode 36: A growth mindset approach to boosting productivity with Danielle Wood
This episode highlights the critical need to boost productivity in Australia and provides several approaches on how to turn it around. It also leaves you with the encouragement to pursue change, embrace new technology, prepare your workforce for the future, and approach and navigate regulation…
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Episode 35: Leading through change with Emma Connell
As a people and culture leader, Emma Connell has seen and experienced both sides of organisational change, including when it’s managed well and when it’s not. Emma is the Executive Director of People and Culture at the Aged Care Quality Safety Commission. She joins us in our latest episode to…
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Episode 34: A future-oriented approach to change with Rachel Balmanno
A lot has changed over the past ten years, and the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is no exception! From the 2016 capability review, the COVID pandemic, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, and the second capability review in late 2022, DoHAC stands at a critical...
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Episode 33: Navigating change with Mark Williamson
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) certainly has a large and growing remit of work. As they administer Australia’s climate change mitigation laws, CER not only serves as a regulator but also as a carbon markets agency, acting like a bank due to the carbon units and certificates it issues. Speaking...
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Episode 32: Adapting to organisational growth with Brad Archer
Imagine being a micro agency of nine people with a great ambition to make a real difference in addressing climate change for Australians. Then you get the green light to rapidly grow six times your size, budget, and remit. Exciting? Perhaps. Uncertain? Definitely. Brad Archer, Chief Executive...
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Episode 31: Fostering adaptability in teams with Saxon Rice
Saxon Rice, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), joins us in our latest episode to discuss fostering adaptability in teams. This episode is an excellent reminder that while, for many leaders that are comfortable with change and may already be working in the...
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Episode 30: An Aboriginal leader in the public sector’s perspective to a growth mindset approach to change with Carlyn Waters
In our milestone thirtieth episode, we are joined by Carlyn Waters, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Operating Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, as she brings a rare perspective of what it is like to be an Aboriginal person in 2025 and...
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Episode 29: Taking the path less travelled with Sandy Pitcher
The benefit of hindsight is that you can see how things from your past have carefully placed the pieces together to create the path that you’re on. Our next trailblazer, Sandy Pitcher, Chief Executive at the Department of Human Services for the South Australian Government, joins us in our latest...
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Episode 28: How failure can lead to your biggest success with Tania Rishniw
Tania Rishniw, Deputy Secretary of Employment and Workforce at the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) joins us in our latest episode to talk about how failure can lead to your biggest success. This episode showcases an engaging and authentic leader whose experience in crises...
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Episode 27: Fostering adaptability in teams with Damian Green
Having worked on several significant transformation projects across Queensland Health, eHealth Queensland, and Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Damian Green knows a thing (or ten) about what factors are critical in leading successful transformations and delivering them in uncertain times....
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Episode 26: Fostering adaptability in teams with Deb Jenkins
Deb Jenkins, Deputy Secretary of Corporate Enabling Services and Chief Operating Officer for the Department of Employment and Workplace and Relations, joins us in our latest episode to talk about fostering adaptability in teams. This episode affirms that to create great teams, you have to work…
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Episode 25: Leading Through Shifts and Shocks with Steve Vamos
Our next Trailblazer has over forty years of experience in information technology and digital media in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Asia, leading companies such as IBM, Apple, Microsoft, ninemsn, and Xero, and as a result, has been on the frontline of every significant technological shift...
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Episode 24: Thriving in Uncertainty with Amanda Cattermole
Amanda Cattermole, CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, is a leader who is passionate about creating an organisational culture that’s focussed on stewardship, built on deep collaboration, and comprised of leaders at every level who add to the culture by enabling stewardship and innovation...
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Tim Beresford
When you've had a thirty-five-year-long career that spans industries and sectors as our next Trailblazer has, you have the benefit of seeing how organisational learning has changed and if it's changed for the better or worse. Tim Beresford, Chief Executive at the Australian Financial Security...
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Josh Thomas
What does learning look like in an organisation when a high proportion of your workforce is already doctorate-level educated, formally trained marine scientists and former teachers? Josh Thomas, Chief Executive Officer at the Reef Authority, talks about this and much more as he joins us to…
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Marie Boland
Our next Trailblazer’s interest in history and learning from it, particularly the history of labour movements and work, has been a common theme that has led her throughout her fascinating career. Marie Boland, Chief Executive Officer at Safe Work Australia, discusses this further in our latest...
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Marina Bowshall
For many leaders in the public sector, there are very few times in your career when you have the opportunity to develop a new agency for a state government entity. Our next Trailblazer, Marina Bowshall, had the chance to do just that as she took on the Chief Executive of Preventive Health SA role...
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Sue McCarrey
As an experienced leader who has worked across multiple industries and now is the Chief Executive Officer at the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Authority, our next guest Sue McCarrey, has certainly seen her share of times when things haven’t gone according to plan or…
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Liz Tydd
Liz Tydd, the Australian Information Commissioner, joins us in this special broadcast of our podcast series on Thriving in Uncertainty to provide a regulator’s perspective in building capacity in agencies and industry. In this enlightening episode, you’ll learn the OAIC’s latest thinking on the...
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Thriving in Uncertainty with David MacLennan
Our next trailblazer, David MacLennan, has had an interesting career. He started out working in the Commonwealth Government, mainly in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and then overseas, before joining the Western Australian State Government in the Department of Planning…
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Samantha Palmer
We know that there are many modes of learning. One that has been spoken about in recent episodes as critically important is on-the-job learning and how, knowledge sharing between peers, even from different areas of an organisation, can help fuel new ideas and ways of working. Another important...
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Innovating in Uncertainty with David Thodey
We are thrilled to present our exclusive broadcast with David Thodey, who joins our podcast to discuss Innovating in Uncertainty. David is a business leader with a career active in business, healthcare, public policy, innovation, tertiary education, the environment, and corporate governance. In…
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Tim Bullard
Tim Bullard, Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), joins us in our latest episode to discuss adaptability. Tim knows too well how adaptability can directly influence your engagement at work, having managed the Department of Education and…
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Thriving in Uncertainty with Dr Ivan Williams
Dr Ivan Williams, the Chief Medical Radiation Scientist at the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), joins us in our latest episode to discuss the topic of becoming a learning organisation. Critical to performing ARPANSA's work is being across enormous amounts of...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Twelve with David Coltman
We often speak about the importance of everyone continuing to learn. After all, learning, in its essence, is about being alive. While some may approach learning with curiosity and be open to the possibilities it may provide for us, others may find it overwhelming to be able to decide in the...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Eleven with Tess Bishop
You can’t help but feel the passion and energy that Tess Bishop, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Secretary of Enterprise, Strategy, and Engagement, at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry brings to her team as she shares her experiences leading a very large transformation...
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Thriving in Uncertainty - Episode ten with Judith Formston
In a post-pandemic world, have we lost the art of conversation at work? After all, being able to talk and relate to one another helps us to form connections that are crucial to improving our mental health. But this can be challenging for many of us with flexible working arrangements where the…
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Nine with Gina Dolan
Gina is the General Manager of People and Culture at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and she joins us in this episode to share her experiences of grit and the ability to persist and lead others through uncertainty. Together, we break down the stigma attached to making...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Eight with Martin Hehir
As an experienced public servant, Martin Hehir, Deputy Secretary for the Governance and Corporate Group within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has led teams in the Commonwealth and ACT governments. In this episode, he takes us back to the start of his senior leadership career by...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Seven with Maree Bridger
Maree Bridger, Chief Operating Officer at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, and the Arts details the three key things that underpin planning work and help her department with anticipation, proactivity, and responsiveness to priorities that serve...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Six with Erma Ranieri
Erma Ranieri, Commissioner for Public Sector Employment for South Australia, joins us this episode to talk about how important it is for every generation to be clear on their own sense of purpose and how, even with the best technological skills, future leaders must also be self-aware, vulnerable,...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Five
Kate Driver, CEO of IPAA ACT and co-founder and board member of the CoRE Learning Foundation joins us to discuss 22nd-century leaders. While she may not have a crystal ball to predict the skills a 5-year-old will need to thrive in a 22nd-century workforce, she does offer fascinating perspectives...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Four, Part Two
In part two, we continue our conversation with Rachel, discussing the APS Reform, which she has been heavily involved with, and how she keeps herself and others motivated on long-term projects that are hugely significant, have many initiatives attached to them, and require enormous patience and...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Four, Part One
In part one, we delve into the components of a growth mindset and integrity within the APS with Dr Rachel Bacon, Deputy Commissioner of Integrity, Reform, and Enabling Services at the Australian Public Service Commission. Rachel explains how the literature on high-potential leaders has evolved…
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Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Three
In this 30-minute conversation, you will hear Mandy Young, Chief Executive at State Insurance Regulatory Authority, on 'Taking the path less travelled.'. Mandy provides specific examples from her time at the Department of Communities and Justice and the NSW Department of Customer Service when she...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – episode two
Over just 30-mins, you'll hear Jody Grima share her experience in gauging the success of change programs working for Service NSW in the early days when they were establishing the three channels for service delivery in the state, how mindset and EQ play pivotal roles in preparing the workforce for...
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Thriving in Uncertainty – episode one
In this uplifting chat, Janet shares her experiences from her early career, how other leaders helped her grow and develop, and how she leans on these experiences to help others grow and develop today. She also explains how important it is for leaders to put themselves in someone else’s shoes,...
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Series three – Solving the Capability Gap – episode five
In the series' opening episode, we spoke to Subho Banerjee about continuous learning and how organisations must adopt it to develop a high-performing workforce ready for the future. Equally crucial to adopting a continuous learning culture is maintaining one. This involves ensuring that employees...
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Series three – Solving the Capability Gap – episode four
According to LinkedIn's Workplace Learning Report for 2024, 4 in 5 people want to learn how to use AI in their profession. But in the public sector specifically, there has been much trepidation about where to use it, how to use it, and, importantly, ensuring that it is used safely with the proper...
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Series three – Solving the Capability Gap – episode three
Sandra Lerch, Executive Director of Strategic Workforce Futures at the Public Sector Commission for the Queensland Government, joins Andy in this latest episode to explain how organisations can create workforce agility. She shares her experiences and learned lessons from her direct involvement in...
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Series three – Solving the Capability Gap – episode two
In today’s episode, we dive deep into the current skills landscape, outlining the skills that are becoming increasingly important and discussing proven strategies that can help organisations become more skills-based in how they attract, develop, nurture, and retain their workforce.
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Series three – Solving the Capability Gap – episode one
Our exciting new series explores critical dimensions of capability building across five insightful and thought-provoking episodes. This series is designed to help leaders instil continuous learning into their organisation’s DNA and develop high-performing workforces that are equipped and ready to...
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Brand new series starting 13 August
Andy Corbett introduces the third podcast series of Trailblazing with CorbettPrice, "Solving the Capability Gap," and provides a brief overview of what's to come.
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Embracing organisational change - episode 5
According to a recent McKinsey report, more than half of global survey respondents on AI said that they had adopted AI in at least one of their business units, and nearly two-thirds expected that their company’s investments in AI would increase over the next few years. Yet according to Boston...
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Embracing organisational change - episode four
With more than a third of Australian Public Service employees reported as wanting to leave within the next two years, according to the June 2022 APS Census, one correlation you can draw is that leaders need to look for ways to bridge the gap between employee expectations and employer needs. In…
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Embracing organisational change – episode three
What does it take for organisations to create an inclusive workplace where staff feels valued, safe to contribute, and to be their authentic selves? Has progress been made in the public sector, and how can all leaders acknowledge and act accordingly to close the gaps with their employees,...
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Embracing organisational change – episode two
Dan Bowes, Executive Director of Taxes and Grants Products at Revenue NSW, joins Andy to explain how his team ensures they deliver for their customers. Listen in to hear from Dan how his team overcame challenges during COVID through successful collaboration, the entire team's role in improving...
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Series two - Embracing organisational change – episode one
Steve Brady, Managing Director of TAFE NSW, joins Andy in this episode to discuss the important change of shifting mindsets and leading to empower employees. Listen in as Steve shares his invaluable insights and perspectives on how TAFE NSW continues to embrace change and adapt to their…
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The Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast features interviews with influencers from across disciplines and industries to present new and fresh perspectives that challenge how to approach change to solve some of the biggest challenges faced today.
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