In The Arena

Dec 10 2024 15 ep. 84 mins 2
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Leadership is the Difference Maker

On this podcast, former CEO of three AFL clubs and founder of designCEO, Cameron Schwab, unlocks leadership and the lessons earned and learned by the very leaders who dare to fail greatly.

This audio encyclopaedia of leadership knowledge borrows and shares the wisdom that can only be learnt In the Arena, allowing the listener to apply uniquely to their own role in work, business and life.

Challenge your own leadership conventions and be taken on a journey that meets you where you are but doesn’t leave you where it finds you.

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Ben Williamson- 'Heart and horsepower'

Dec 10 2024 106 mins  
Ben Williamson arrived at my office seeking a coach, though he had no intention of engaging one. What followed was a three-hour session mapping his 'so far' story on a piece of A3 paper.Through this process, Ben developed what he calls his "anti-goals" – not just what he wanted in his life but what he definitively didn't want. This clarity has guided his decisions ever since, par

Matti Clements - 'Beyond gold'

Nov 25 2024 88 mins  
My guest today has forged a new path in leadership. A path that wasn't supposed to exist - from psychologist to Director of the Australian Institute of Sport.For decades, the pathway to senior leadership in sport has been narrow and predictable. Commercial expertise and playing experience were considered non-negotiable. For a female psychologist, these traditional expectations crea

Shane McCurry - 'The space between'

Nov 11 2024 100 mins  
“The Space Between”A wonderful kind of wisdom comes from those who understand that performance emerges not from exerting control, but from creating the conditions for performance to flourish.As I speak with our next guest on ‘In the Arena’, Shane McCurry, this thought comes to mind.His understanding of performance and well-being reflects this wisdom: "It's not one or the o

Brian Cook - 'Doing well, doing good, doing right.'

Oct 29 2024 97 mins  
As a leader, people do not experience our intentions; they experience our behaviours.How you make them feel, to elevate and inspire, by not only supporting and encouraging them through the demands of their work, but also when trying to stretch and grow them when you glimpse potential and possibilities they are yet to see in themselves.I call this the Leadership Promise.Our next gue

Scott Barrow - 'Begin again'

Oct 15 2024 64 mins  
“What change do you seek to make?”I came to coaching, having been coached, and the coach was Scott Barrow, my guest on Episode 10 of ‘In the Arena’.This is a different conversation. We explore together. It is an open and sometimes challenging discussion, one that I am glad we had, as I always do, and I hope you enjoy it.Scott Barrow helped me see that leadership (and life)

Nick Maxwell - ' When leadership finds you '

Sep 24 2024 94 mins  
“Were you ready?” they ask.You’d think I’d have a ready answer to a question asked so often. One I’d prepared earlier.Maybe it is less question and more response when people learn I was appointed CEO of the Richmond Football Club at age 24.This thought comes to mind when I am interviewing Collingwood Premiership Captain Nick Maxwell, the perfect guest “In the Arena” i

Todd Viney - ' The Character to Compete'

Sep 10 2024 115 mins  
‘The Character to Compete’“You will behave yourself in, or you will behave yourself out. The choice is yours.”The role of leaders is to create the conditions that get the best from a group with all of its idiosyncrasies. No team is the same and will always require something different from its leaders.Does your team understand (and believe in) what they are collectively tryi

Dame Alison Rose DBE - 'Right team. Right culture. Common mission.'

Aug 27 2024 62 mins  
As leaders, we are defined by our capacity to create the conditions that enable the group to perform at its best, and there is no better measure than building a culture and a common good so compelling that individuals know, accept and play their roles in a team and all of its expectations.I sometimes wonder about the application of this high-performance mindset beyond the sporting

Neil Craig - ' Lead, or be led '

Aug 19 2024 99 mins  
‘Lead, or be led’, is how Neil Craig, this week’s guest ‘In the Arena’, describes it. Choose to lead, or allow the challenge of your circumstance to lead you.In the podcast, he speaks about the two egos leaders need to succeed in high-stakes environments, and I love this insight.Neil Craig is a man with more experience in the broadest range of elite sport, and has made gr

Brendan Schwab - ' Then we decided to challenge the system '

Aug 12 2024 90 mins  
“Leadership is an external challenge of communication.”A future vision requires imagination and someone to spark the flame.Performance Coach Owen Eastwood describes this as the creation of ‘forward memories’.To ignite, motivate and bond individuals into teams through a shared future and journey they will undertake together.Imagination, in terms of leadership, clearly requir