From tragedy comes inspiration. Nick Lee is the Founders and Chair at the Jodi Lee Foundation, raising awareness about bowel cancer.  The Jodi Lee Foundation was created in honour of Nick’s wife who passed away from bowel cancer in 2010.  In this podcast you will discover the power of passion, the importance of collaboration, inspiration to use your voice and a strategic view of a successful NFP organisation.  Not to mention you will receive important insights around health and well being in the workplace, and for you personally.

Binh is the friendly face of Market Ease Digital.  In this podcast episode, Binh shares how collaboration is an integral part of his business.  Binh tells the wonderful story of his childhood and how it shaped who he is today as a business leader. This has also shaped the culture of his business and how he supports his team, with a focus on growth. 

AgriWebb is a livestock management software company that was started by the three founders including John in a garage in Melbourne in 2014.  The business now has 70 staff, a head office in Sydney, a UK office, a US office and has recently entered Brazil with a key partner. They have customers across 16 countries offering software as a service to farmers. In this interview John shares the growth story of the business, including their recent partnership with Cargill to support Brazilian cattle ranchers. John also shares how they plan and measure success using OKR’s, and engage their team through ‘Crucial Conversations’.  There are many nuggets of knowledge in this jam packed half hour podcast.

Robert Statham of the Bespoke Manufacturing Group is the guest of Natasha's 'Power of Collaboration' podcast this month.  Robert has seen significant growth recently, and he attributes strong relationships as a key principle that has underpinned his growth, along with a philosophy of incremental progress.

Cate McGuire is not a technical expert in refrigeration, yet runs a significant industrial refrigeration business based in South Australia. She has embedded a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Listen to the podcast to learn about Oomiak Day, just one of the ways that she builds trust and connections in the business.  Cate is all about ‘performance through understanding’.

Richard Turner is the Founder of Zen Energy and Author of his new book ‘The Essential Entrepreneur’. Richard has founded four significant companies, including Zen Energy that was involved in a merger in 2017 and demerger in 2020 with the GFG Group. He shares his 40 years of learning and some key insights from his new book.

Tim Stollznow is the Managing Director of MyVenue. MyVenue is a Point of Sale solution purposely built for venues selling food and beverage.  Tim shares insights into ‘how to do a start up’ leveraging collaboration, creating the right culture and getting the fundamentals of a business in place early.

Michael Masterson is the Managing Director of Everedge.  Everedge is a global advisory and transaction firm specialising in intangible assets.  An intangible asset is 'any asset that you can't kick with your shoe'.  What does this mean for you?  What levers can you pull to maximise value and reduce risk in your business (both inversely correlated)? Where is there true value in your business? What are your intangible assets?  Tune in to this amazing thought-provoking podcast to find out more.

Mike Scott is the Head of Product Partnerships and Web3 at Yoco. Mike is an entrepreneur, and part of a team that built Nona Digital to become a globally respected software design and development agency with a focus on the finsec and blockchain scale ups. Nona was acquired by Yoco in 2022. Mike shares a number of rich insights around collaboration, partnerships, leadership, environment and so so much more.  "These things are not complicated but they are difficult". All business leaders will get some practical nuggets from this podcast.

Stan Kontos bought his first pharmacy in 1991 with his business partner, Peter. Star Pharmacy Group now has 59 pharmacies within the group across Australia. Stan had a seven-year itch that triggered new learnings about systemising a business, that lead to significant growth.  “You alone can do it, but you can not do it alone” says Stan. Collaboration underpins his business model.

Anjani Amriit and Natasha Malani share a number of insights around what builds trust and makes collaboration successful. 

Sharon Ferrier of Persuasive Presentations shares a number of practical tips and insights in regard to communication, networking, building rapport and trust which all underpins successful collaboration.  How do you best sell your organisation and yourself?

Christine Molitor, Director of Be Sustained and SA Leaders Advisory Board Member has a plethora of experience. Her experience ranges from executive recruitment, coaching and leadership from within corporate roles ,and running her own business. This episode includes some insightful case studies on companies that she has worked with developing strategic plans, and of course collaboration.

Dean Cook, Director and Principal Engineer of RJE Global shares insights into the organic growth of the business from 6 people to 300 people; the culture of the organisation; and some of the complexities faced relating to Collaboration which in essence the business model relies upon. RJE Global delivers multi-discipline engineering and construction services to complex projects across a diverse range of industry sectors across the globe.  The growth of the business has evolved based upon early end user engagement, being at the forefront of innovation, developing new services and modular products, efficiency and value add. This is a true South Australian success story.  

Managing Director of Exiis, Nic Tolley along with his wife Isabel grew Exiis from 6 people to 170 people over the past 10 years.  Nick is an instinctive leader, and in this podcast he shares his insights into strategy, leadership and culture.  Nick shares unique case studies about how collaboration with clients and staff have led to significant growth. Nick acknowledges the industrial services industry is unique, and the fact that they clean things that no on else wants to, has provided opportunities and challenges. Nick acquired the business in 2012.

CEO of Zoos SA, Elaine Bensted has her dream job with the best office.  She has been the CEO since 2012 where she developed the Zoos SA first strategic plan, 20-year master plan, increased membership and more to rebuild a sustainable organisation.  Zoos SA has a solid purpose focused on the conservation of species. It is diverse, complex and has been significantly impacted by Covid19. Collaboration has underpinned many successful initiatives. Elaine approaches challenges with a mindset of learning and collaboration. She is an inspirational leader.

Founder and Managing Director of Edible Blooms, Kelly Jamieson built an e-commerce business with perishable products that turned over $1m plus in its first year being 16 years ago.  Partnerships, culture and collaboration have been key to the growth of the business, in addition to the right business model, marketing (customer acquisition) and customer engagement, and being at the forefront utilising technology.  Kelly shares her strategies to success including the 90% rule.  This is an amazing story, proudly a South Australian success.

Chief Executive of The City of Adelaide, Clare Mockler shares insights to managing a diverse business within local government that includes for profit entities, and a range of community services. Clare shares some nuggets of knowledge in relation to leadership and strategic thinking within a large organisation that can be applied to all businesses.  Collaboration is a ‘value’ of the organisation, and as a senior leader she models and instils this behaviour throughout the organisation.

Managing Director of Mott McDonald, David Johnson grew Mott McDonald in Asia Pacific from 2 people to over 1000 people over the past ten years.  David shares his insights into strategy, leadership and culture.  David shares case studies about how collaboration, innovation, and culture, paired with technical excellence, transformed a global engineering company to do so much more to impact the world we live in including the way we digitise and use data, achieve carbon neutrality and create social change and impact.

Owner and Managing Director of Redarc, Anthony Kittel shares stories of collaboration and key insights into the expansion, commercialisation and strategy that has shaped Redarc into the global electronics business it is today employing more than 250 people, and recognised as a poster child for manufacturing in Australia.

Group Director of Palmer Hospitality, Martin Palmer shares stories of collaboration from within the all-important South Australian hospitality sector. Martin has recently partnered with Duxton Asset Management chairman Ed Peter, and Brett Matthews to create the Duxton Pub Group who operates a long list of pubs, bars and restaurants across Adelaide and in regional areas.

Mark Gallagher of Performance Insights shares case studies of collaboration and innovation from his 30 years in Formula 1. An episode not to be missed. 

Interview with Louise Roe, Co-Founder of Energy Exemplar, the market leaders in energy simulation software.  Louise exited to venture capital in 2017, and now invests and supports technology start-ups in South Australia.

Andrew Downs, Founder of The Sage Group. Sage Automation specialises in industrial automation and control solutions. The Sage Group is a global group with a team of 450 people across three continents, 13 offices and 5 companies. This all started from Andrew’s backyard shed 27 years ago.