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Business Leader Breakthroughs helps you unlock the potential in yourself, teams and businesses.
Hosted by Ryan Castle, along with Dr Mike Ashby, we share insights, experiences and stories on achieving breakthrough successes in business and life.
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- Apr 12, 2023 S3 E3: Chris Morsley, CEO of CMC Global, on charismatic leadership
- Feb 15, 2023 S3 E2: Nadine Tereora, the CEO of AA New Zealand, on how you become a leader worth following
- Feb 2, 2023 S3 E1 : Mark McConnell, Learning & Development Manager at Argenta, on 6 C's of leadership
- Nov 30, 2022 S2 E7: How to Attract and Retain your Stars
- Nov 16, 2022 S2 E6: How to Have Difficult Conversations
- Oct 26, 2022 S2 E5: Alicia Purtell, CPO of Lion Co, on Unlocking a Greater World Through Flexible Thinking
- Oct 11, 2022 S2 E4: Sources of Stress at Work and How to Combat Them
- Sep 20, 2022 S2 EP3: David Mair, CEO of Skellerup, on How to Grow Your NZ Business Using Japanese Business Practices
- Sep 6, 2022 S2 E2: The Myth of the Great Resignation
- Aug 23, 2022 S2 E1: Jen Scoular, CEO of NZ Avocado, on Breaking the Barriers for Women in Leadership
- Dec 7, 2021 [MINISODE EP 37] - Why the Loss of a Big Prospect Isn’t Really a Loss
- Nov 23, 2021 [MINISODE EP 35] - Get Good at Measuring Your Engagement
- Oct 12, 2021 [EP 79] Rebecca Houghton on How to Level up as a B-Suite Leader
- Sep 21, 2021 [MINISODE EP 32] - How to Work From Home Post Lockdown
- Sep 16, 2021 [MINISODE EP 31] - Managing the Tension Between Stabilising and Adapting after the COVID-19 Lockdowns
- Sep 8, 2021 [EP 78] Jack Keeys of KPMG on How to Create Dynamic and Inspiring Leadership
- Aug 24, 2021 [MINISODE EP 30] - Your Organisation Has to Change if You Want Your People to Change
- Aug 17, 2021 [EP 77] How to Navigate Hybrid Working with Ali Hill
- Aug 10, 2021 [MINISODE EP 29] - How To Make Working From Home Work For You
- Aug 3, 2021 [EP 76] Rob Pyne on Transforming Your Leadership Team Through Emotional Intelligence
- Jul 27, 2021 [MINISODE EP 28] - What's Productivity Worth to Your Business?
- Jul 20, 2021 [EP75] Make Clear Communication Your Superpower
- Jul 13, 2021 [MINISODE EP 27] The Regrets of the Dying
- Jul 6, 2021 [EP74] The Power of Daily Scrums
- Jun 29, 2021 [MINISODE EP 26] Changing the Organisation From the Middle, Out
- Jun 15, 2021 [MINISODE EP 25] 4 Types of People Who Take Meetings off Track
- Jun 1, 2021 [MINISODE EP 24] How to Fix Your Boring Meetings
- May 25, 2021 [EP73] Critical Trends for Ops Leaders and What You Can Do About Them
- May 19, 2021 [MINISODE EP 23] You Can't Fake Work Culture
- May 11, 2021 [EP72] How to Develop Your Team
- May 4, 2021 [MINISODE EP 22] Mindfulness is Valuable for EVERY Business
- Apr 28, 2021 [EP71] 3 Things All Staff Want of Their Leaders
- Apr 20, 2021 [MINISODE EP 21] How Outsourcing and Freelancing Jobs Could Change Your Business
- Apr 14, 2021 [EP70] How to Delegate Effectively
- Apr 6, 2021 [MINISODE EP 20] The 3 Questions Every Business Owner Should Ask Themselves
- Mar 23, 2021 [EP69] How To Manage Your Priorities to Create More Value and Less Busy-ness
- Mar 16, 2021 [MINISODE EP 19] Is Your Marketing Should be as Good as Your Product?
- Mar 9, 2021 [EP 68] Rocket Lab's Head of People and Culture, Estelle Curd, on Being an Authentic Leader
- Mar 2, 2021 [MINISODE EP 18] Learning Ladder - Unlocking you and your team's potential.
- Feb 23, 2021 [EP67] Creating a High Performance Team
- Feb 16, 2021 [MINISODE EP 17] The no bulls**t approach to fitness, health and wellness
- Feb 10, 2021 [EP 66] Angela Cameron, CEO of Consult Recruitment, on the Importance of People
- Dec 15, 2020 [MINISODE EP 16] Get F'd!
- Dec 10, 2020 [EP65] Time to Get Uncomfortable
- Dec 1, 2020 [MINISODE EP 15] Learning From The All Blacks
- Nov 26, 2020 [EP 64] Jason Paris, CEO of Vodafone NZ, on Strategy and How to Be a People Leader
- Nov 20, 2020 [MINISODE EP 14] Are You The Best In Product, Price or Customer Experience?
- Nov 18, 2020 [EP63] Coaching - What Is It and How to Do It Right
- Nov 13, 2020 [MINISODE EP 13] 5 Things To Remember When Hiring and Growing Employees
- Nov 10, 2020 [EP62] Time Management. How to Increase Your Contribution While Working Less.
- Nov 6, 2020 [MINISODE EP 12] Grow Your Business Further Than Just Revenue
- Nov 3, 2020 [EP61] How to Build Your "Unicorn" Factory
- Oct 30, 2020 [MINISODE EP 11] Everyone Needs a Board
- Oct 28, 2020 [EP 60] Miriam Chancellor on How to Become a Powerful Public Speaker
- Oct 23, 2020 [MINISODE EP 10] Your Wealth Path from Employment to Business Owner
- Oct 20, 2020 [EP59] What it Takes to Build Great Culture in your Business (Panel)
- Oct 16, 2020 [MINISODE EP 9] Traditional Training is a Waste of Time and Money
- Oct 13, 2020 [EP 58] Derek Handley on Shifting your Perspective to Create a More Sustainable Future
- Oct 9, 2020 [MINISODE EP 8] If You're Doing Your Managers' Job, You're Doing a Poor Job Managing Them
- Oct 7, 2020 [EP 57] Returning to the Office Post Lockdown and Impact of Working From Home (Survey Results)
- Oct 2, 2020 [MINISODE EP 7] Using "The 7 P's" to Overcome Frustration in Your Business
- Sep 29, 2020 [EP 56] Janine Garner on Leading a Life of Influence and Unlocking your Brilliance
- Sep 25, 2020 [MINISODE EP 6] How to work ON your business, not in your business
- Sep 22, 2020 [EP 55] How to Accurately Measure and Direct Engagement
- Sep 18, 2020 [MINISODE EP 5] Overcoming the overwhelming state of busyness in your business and personal life
- Sep 16, 2020 [EP 54] Mark McCrindle on a data driven approach to wellness in the workplace
- Sep 11, 2020 [MINISODE EP 4] Four surprising success principles to boost your business and improve your life
- Sep 8, 2020 [EP 53] - Turning failure into long term success
- Sep 4, 2020 [MINISODE EP 3] How to have a boringly predictably profitable business
- Sep 2, 2020 [EP 52] Dermot Crowley on Productivity and How to Reduce Senseless Urgency
- Aug 28, 2020 [MINISODE EP 2] How to Get Your Head, Heart and Hands Working Together
- Aug 26, 2020 [EP 51] Why contribution, not productivity or engagement, should be at forefront of your mind
- Aug 21, 2020 [MINISODE EP 1] Are you going ALL IN in your business and life?
- Aug 4, 2020 [EP 50] Mykel Dixon on rediscovering your creativity to make work more meaningful
- Jul 15, 2020 [EP 49] Building a Kingdom of Inspiration with Cam Calkoen
- Jun 18, 2020 [EP 48] 4 Ways Lying Has Become the Norm In Your Business with Ron Carucci
- Jun 10, 2020 [EP 47] The future of working from home now that lockdown’s over
- Jun 3, 2020 [EP 46] David Galbraith, Unleashing Greatness author, on living your best life with courage and care
- May 26, 2020 [EP 45] Managing the tension between stablising and adapting
- May 12, 2020 [EP 44] Real transformation happens when you change who as well as how
- May 5, 2020 [EP 43] David Pich, CEO of IML ANZ, on Impactful Leadership, Workplace Culture and The 4 Day Week.
- Apr 23, 2020 [EP 42] Heather Polglase, HR Director at Spark, on being agile, collaboration and the importance of people
- Apr 23, 2020 [EP 41] How To Make Working From Home Work For You
- Apr 1, 2020 [EP 40] How to Measure the Results of Leadership Training
- Mar 24, 2020 [EP 39] Gihan Perera on Futurism, Artificial Intelligence, and Diversity
- Mar 17, 2020 [EP 38] The Regrets of the Dying
- Mar 10, 2020 [EP 37] Transforming a Business from the Inside Out
- Mar 3, 2020 [EP 36] Joanne Fair on Flipping the Traditional Freelancer Model with FutureWork Studios.
- Feb 25, 2020 [EP 35] How to Stop THAT Person From Taking Your Meetings off Track
- Feb 18, 2020 [EP 34] Do Your Team Meetings Suck? Here’s How to Fix Them
- Feb 11, 2020 [EP 33] Michelle Gibbings on The Power of Teams to Create a High Performance Culture
- Feb 4, 2020 [EP 32] Take your Company Culture off the Walls and into the Halls
- Jan 28, 2020 [EP 31] Mindfulness at Work: It's Not Yoga
- Jan 21, 2020 [EP 30] How to Outsource Work you Can’t or Won’t do
- Jan 14, 2020 [EP 29] The 3 big questions every business owner should ask themselves
- Dec 17, 2019 [EP 28] Kate Daly on the future of banking and building a high-performance culture
- Dec 10, 2019 [EP 27] How to be as Good at Marketing as you are at Product
- Dec 3, 2019 [EP 26] A Look Inside Xero's Flexible Working with Ryan Ghisi
- Nov 26, 2019 [EP 25] The Learning Ladder – Unlocking you and your team’s potential
- Nov 19, 2019 [EP 24] Franceska Banga on Being a Woman in Business, Pushing Boundaries, and Personal Courage