Wendy Born is the author of The Languages of Leadership – How to use your words, actions and behaviours to influence your team, peers and boss. Wendy works with leaders and leadership teams to become more effective and productive by showing you how to remove all the ‘stuff’ that gets in your way. She can help you get cut through by effectively managing everyone you work with. She shows leaders how to become better by driving performance, increasing accountability, having higher quality conversations, building trusting relationships and working towards a clear common goal. Leaders who work with Wendy are able to engage in constructive conflict, be more collaborative within and outside of their business, and make better higher quality decisions.

One of the biggest challenges all leaders face, is not having the frameworks and understanding to deal with conflict in the workplace. Some leaders are naturally comfortable with this and some are not. Episode highlights include: • The differences between constructive conflict and destructive conflict. • Why many leaders do not resolve conflict and what the consequences of that are. • Bell & Harts Eight Causes of Conflict – diagnosing the root cause of conflict. • The process to resolving conflict and principles around mediating conflict resolution.

Evette Cordy is the author of Cultivating Curiosity – How to unearth your most valuable problem to inspire growth. Evette is a human-centred designer who innovates and creates using a unique blend of curiosity and creativity anchored in the framework of Creative Problem Solving. As the Chief Investigator at Agents of Spring, she helps organisations curiously seek out and creatively solve their customers’ most valuable problems.

Gabrielle Dolan is the author of Real Communication – How to be you and lead true. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, educator and author, Gabrielle has worked with thousands of high-profile leaders from around the world and helped countless of Australia’s top 50 ASX companies and multinationals to humanise their communications. She holds a master’s degree in management and leadership, an associate diploma in education and training and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education in both the Art and Practice of Leadership Development and Women and Power: Leadership in a New World.

Yu Dan Shi is the author of Come Alive – live a life with more meaning and joy. Yu Dan is known for helping professionals, executives and entrepreneurs find clarity in their life, career and business, so they can focus on what really matters and succeed with joy and meaning. In 2008, she was a senior executive with a young family and seemingly had it all. However, she felt stagnated and unhappy and she wanted to quit. She didn’t quit, instead, she began a search for answers.

Managing all the stakeholders in leadership and business is a significant challenge that many leaders face. In this episode Julian introduces content that we use in our face to face leadership programs around stakeholder management. This is our seventh content episode for Season 2, and it is also the seventh content episode of our Synergen Curriculum Eco-system. Episode highlights include: • What exactly is stakeholder management? • The principles of stakeholder management, and how you can apply them in a practical sense • The 5 Step process for engagement with practical exercises to help implement it • Barriers to effective engagement, and strategies for success

Shelley Flett is the author of The Dynamic Leader – Become the leader others are inspired to follow Shelley is a business and leadership trainer & coach who works with leaders to maximise efficiency and build high performance team cultures in organisations of any size. She has been doing this since 2015 after leaving a corporate career in customer service, operations and banking. During the conversation Julian explores Shelley’s book, The Dynamic Leader, in detail. Episode highlights include: • Why Shelley decided to write The Dynamic Leader • The spoken and unspoken problems leaders face • The Leadership Ladder – a tool Shelley has developed to allow you to reach the level of a dynamic leader • The importance of holding yourself accountable and the need to celebrate success

Anna Feringa is a Workplace Mental Health Consultant, speaker, trainer and Mental Health Program Strategist. Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion every year according to Beyond Blue. Recent research by Safe Work Australia found more time at work is lost to mental disorders than any other type of injury or illness. As a Workplace Mental Health specialist, Anna supports employers by helping them see that embracing Mental Health in the workplace can help prevent injury and drive a great culture. She helps Australian businesses to go from fearful and confused, to confident and responsive when faced with Mental Health challenges in the workplace.

Lynne Cazaly is the author of ish – The Problem with our Pursuit for Perfection and the Life-Changing Practice of Good Enough. Lynne is obsessed with helping leaders lead their teams through transformation and change. This is about business agility, about helping people apply their ideas and adapting to what happens when those ideas are put to practice. Leaders become more capable, boost engagement with their staff and make decisions quicker. Lynne has delivered keynotes, workshops and sessions for leaders globally including Europe, USA, Asia & NZ and is also the author of another 6 books in addition to ish.

Networking is an essential component of successful leadership which many leaders struggle with. Join Julian as he introduces the concept of Genius Networking. Episode highlights include: • What exactly is Genius Networking? • The definitions of networking, including seven networking considerations • The 3 Step process for genius networking and how it can be implemented • How to follow through and network with purpose

Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory are the joint founders of the Impossible Institute and the authors of Forever Skills – The 12 Skills to Futureproof Yourself, Your Team and Your Kids. The Impossible Institute is a strategic think-tank that is designed to help leaders, teams and organisations be people smart and make change positive. Together, Kieran and Dan are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history and have applied their considerable experience to social change programs for the United Nations in Singapore, to category re-inventions and innovation initiatives for the likes of Coca-Cola, Unilever, Bayer and News Corp.

Sandra Hills is the CEO of Benetas, a leading not-for-profit organisation with a mission to provide older Victorians, their families and carers with a full range of quality community-based services and residential homes and apartments. Sandra joined Benetas in 2009 with career experience in health, business management and public policy. Under Sandra’s leadership, Benetas has diversified its services to meet new and future demand with a specific focus on innovation, research, workforce development and sustainable fiscal growth.