Tony Holmwood is the author of Best Behaviour – Empowering managers and HR leaders to coach and align employee behaviours to supercharge growth. Tony is the founder of Outperf4m Consulting who offer a unique approach to improving business profitability by partnering with HR or management teams. Tony is passionate about human behaviour and people development. He is a commercially focused chartered accountant with substantial business performance experience in large local and global organisations. He is also a qualified motivational, behavioural and emotional practitioner. He has gained a solid appreciation that people drive business and in the absence of people, there is no profit. He has worked with organisations such as Bega, Fonterra, American Express and KPMG.

In many cases, organisations what higher levels of performance from their leaders, but they do not have the systems in place that support better performance. This is what makes leadership enablement so important. Episode highlights include: • What is leadership enablement? • Why leadership enablement so important and how it is practiced • Who owns leadership enablement? • A framework for exploring leadership enablement through both a people and process lens

Troy McKinna is the author of Brand Hustle – 4 Critical Foundations to Accelerate Brand Growth. Troy believes in the power of building brands because brands connect products and services with consumers. Brands strengthen P&Ls and drive growth. Brands attract the best talent and provide a beacon in the sea of choice. At his business, Agents of Spring, Troy builds brands by creating disruptive, consumer led products and services, by leveraging the creative problem solving framework. Troy helps organisations curiously seek out and creatively solve their customers most valuable problems. Problems, that once solved, create value for both consumers and organisations. The problems that motivate consumers to pay brands to solve.

Shane Hatton is the author of Lead The Room – Communicate a Message that Counts in Moments that Matter. Shane has spent more than a decade of his consulting and working in in-house marketing and communications gaining a deep appreciation of effective messaging that enables you to not only be heard but remembered. He spent seven years leading, speaking, coaching and mobilising volunteers in the not for profit sector where he was responsible for building and nurturing the health, growth and culture of a rapidly expanding membership. It’s this experience at the intersection of people, communication and leadership, along with his studies in business and psychology, that formed the foundation for his work today as a trainer, author and speaker to leaders and teams.

Julia Steel is the author of Buy-In – How to Lead Change, Build Commitment and Inspire People. Over the last two decades Julia has worked with leaders around the world to plan and execute strategy in their business. She knows that frameworks and PowerPoint are not enough to deliver results on their own. That success depends on the buy-in of people, their ability to deliver, and lead change. When organisations and people struggle to execute, it affects confidence at every level. Values like trust, passion, and integrity, are replaced with tension and frustration that ultimately deliver a lack of results.

Extend your view of what risk is. Managing risk from a safety perspective is important, however, we need to look beyond safety and explore areas such as customer risk, people risk and competitor risk. Episode highlights include: • How we view risk • A 4 Step framework for managing risk • The risk of relying on one customer – a case study from Synergen Group • How we can control risks and why we must always be thinking about risk

Gihan Perera is the author of Disruption by Design – Leading Change in a Fast Changing World. Gihan is a futurist, conference speaker, author and consultant who gives business leaders a glimpse into what’s ahead – and how they can become fit for the future. Since 1997, he has worked with leading thought leaders, change agents, business leaders and entrepreneurs, helping them with their strategy for thriving in a fast-changing world. Forbes magazine rated him the #5 Social Media Influencer in the world (and #1 in Australia) in his area of expertise. Gihan has always taken the lead in embracing emerging technologies and trends, from his university thesis in robotics and artificial intelligence, to leading a software development team building the infrastructure for the early Internet, founding one of Australia’s first Web development companies in 1996.

David Sharrock is the Managing Principal of Sharrock Pitman Legal, a thriving boutique Melbourne based commercial law practice where the credo is: ‘on your side’. David has over 40 years extensive business experience and provides business consulting to the owners and managers of small to medium enterprises. He also works with the executive and board members of not for profit organisations, advising on practical matters relevant to running their enterprises. A nationally accredited and experienced mediator and dispute resolution expert, David’s aim is to work with his clients on practical solutions to avoid the need for costly court proceedings.

Greg Smith is the author of Career Conversations – How to Get the Best from Your Talent Pool Early in his career Greg realised our motivations and behaviours determine the way in which we work with others, the way we lead, and whether we reach our career potential. In 2006 he completed his Masters in Career Development and later assisted Edith Cowan University in delivery of that program. Over a long and varied leadership career he has benefited from several major transitions. This included leading large international, merchanting and trading businesses at chief executive level, followed by leading various consulting businesses and finally, co-founding and leading the HR consulting firm, deliberate practice, as Managing Partner and CEO.

Join Julian in this Synergen Group Content Ecosystem episode, where he introduces you to the framework called the Johari Window. The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. The Johari Window model can also be used to assess and improve a group’s relationship with other groups. Synergen Group uses the Johari Window concept in some of our leadership programs, and the feedback from the participants has been very powerful. Participants have seen it as a very practical way to start building the relationships between those in the team.

Pamela Jabbour is the founder and CEO of Total Image Group, a uniform designer and manufacturer for some of Australia’s leading brands including Dan Murphy’s, Ford Australia and Fantastic Furniture. Pamela started Total Image group in 2005 straight after finishing university. To get the business started, Pamela jumped on the phone and made 100 phone calls a day for 12 months before she won her first customer. Her business really took off when she was invited to quote for one of the largest retailers in Australia who at the time had 30,000 employees. Pamela won the job and immediately Total Image Group began to grow as other brands started to enquire about the products and services they offered.

David Pich is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Managers and Leaders and the author/curator of Leading Well – 7 Attributes of Very Successful Leaders. David has a strong and proven track record in the core skills of leadership that include setting strategy, defining culture and leading people. He has also worked with both the State and Federal Government on a series of significant funding projects. David feels truly at home in complex leadership roles, and in 2017 he authored the now bestselling book, Leadership Matters – 7 Skills of Very Successful Leaders. The book draws on his own personal leadership philosophy as well as on the experience of great local and international leaders to tell a compelling and interesting leadership story.