In this episode, we sit down with Sascha Kurz, Queensland's Engineer of the Year 2024. Her journey shares the road from an engineer to successful consultancy owner. Sascha she built her company IPS Consulting on the values of balancing technical expertise with strong leadership and soft skills, a shift she recommends the whole industry should think about. She shares how true innovation and success in companies comes from fostering a supportive and inclusive company culture. She gives tools on how to achieve not just gender, but cultural diversity, which has played a key role in shaping her business, with over 40% of her team being women and people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

She also dives into her experience as a woman, mother and entrepreneur navigating the engineering industry and what it truly takes to build a business from the ground up. With other great topics such as what leadership styles work, this episode is packed with valuable insights for anyone looking to grow their career or start their own business.

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Laura and Sohan sit down with Annalie Howling, a renowned coach and trauma specialist who has helped celebrities and high performing athletes overcome barriers like shame.

Annalie opens up about her journey through trauma, navigating a high pressure corporate world, and ultimately making the bold decision to leave such a toxic environment. She shares how she returned to herself - healing her mind and body and eventually leading her to pivot into the transformative work she does today as a performance coach.

In this episode, Annalie unpacks the concept of trauma, introduces the five unspoken trauma responses - two of which you might not have heard before - and discusses her new book, Unapologetic: Unshackle Your Shame, Reclaim Your Power.

This episode is a powerful invitation to break free from your own shackles with Annalie's insights as your guide. We hope you enjoy this coaching session as much as we did recording it!

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We’re excited to return with an enlightening episode featuring David, an executive engineer with over 25 years of experience in leadership roles, primarily in the natural resource sector. David has seen it all, from the shop floor to the C-suite, and he’s dedicated to transforming technically skilled individuals into effective leaders. It is well discussed that employees need to be exceptional to progress, but the understated elephant in the room is that mediocre leadership can burnout even the best team-members.

In this episode we discuss how we have created more diverse teams in the workforce, but have not equipped our leaders to understand the influence of culture and background on team behaviours, and the opportunities and challenges relating to diversity. David also gives great insights on how to empower leaders to drive meaningful change in their organisations. David is an expert in the field, helping countless professional becoming exceptional leaders through 1:1 coaching, group sessions and workshops about design, facilitation, strategy, focus and many other topics! He believes that exceptional leadership is crucial for overcoming the rising challenges within the workforce and is passionate about fostering an inclusive and innovative workplace.

If you're passionate about becoming an exceptional leader, or think that we can do innovation and diversity in a more effective way, then you need to give this one a listen! We’d love to hear your thoughts on the conversation.

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