Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast

I often hear people talk about the power of partnerships and collaboration, but the reality is that many organisations struggle to do this well. That is the reason I asked international speaker, best-selling author and marketing strategist, Katrina McCarter, to join us in special episode of Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast.

Katrina shares her unique perspective on partnerships, and she also shares her own amazing story. Even from a young age, Katrina learnt the importance of hard work and having big dreams. She learned to not listen to the ‘nah sayers’ and to back herself to see what she was made of. From Katrina’s marketing background to becoming an entrepreneur of multiple businesses, Katrina’s track record speaks for itself, as she has shared a stage in Paris with Audible, Facebook and Google, and in New York won the prestigious ‘You Take the Cake’ best speaker award at the influential M2Moms conference. For five consecutive years from 2017 Katrina has been a finalist in B&T’s Women in Media Awards, thanks to the insights, relatable strategies, and humour she brings to business and which she shares with audiences around the world.

One of Katrina’s core beliefs is you are one marketing partnership away from the business success you want.

So, join us as we discuss the artform and power of collaboration and partnerships, including:

• Potential missing opportunities.
• Being creative, including ‘outside the box’ thinking as one global brand turned a problem into a collaboration and partnership success.
• Partnerships, they come in all shapes, and sizes.
• The importance of people and relationships. It seems obvious, but we still get it wrong.
• Understanding your value.
• Teams competing when they should be collaborating. The risk of disengagement.

My guest on Episode 17 of the Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast  is a second-time guest;  Peter Coroneos, International Vice President of the global Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN).

 

Continuing our conversation about using humanity to inform technology, our conversation moves towards the converging and related risk to organisations of mental health and cyber security, including the implications of fatigue and stress on organisational risk.

 

Peter is an internationally recognised authority on cyber policy, he was invited twice to the White House to brief Obama Administration cybersecurity leadership. Peter is an Internet industry leader, an activist, and policy innovator. Through CyAN he champions innovation in critical cyber skills, capacity building and behavioural change while supporting the business, professional and personal development of the organisation’s members.

 

His perspective on this subject reveals some vitally important themes that leaders need to be aware of, including:

• Why we should be paying attention to human behaviour rather than security textbooks
• How human fatigue acts as a risk factor and the impact of stress and fatigue on our decision making
• How heuristic thinking impacts on our choice
• The convergence between mental health and cyber security
• How C-suite executives need to start seeing mental health as more than a health issue
• Executing your risk management strategy through your people

CONNECT WITH PETER

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coroneoscyberintelligence/

 

https://www.serenityworks.com.au

 

https://iconcyber.com

At a time when we need fresh thinking from our graduates as they enter the work world filled with passion and possibilities, are we truly giving them the support and voice they need when entering the workforce?

 

My guest on this episode of the podcast brings a perspective from a younger generation. Siena Nisavic graduated from UTS in early 2021 and is currently pursuing a career in marketing and content creation. Siena has a passion for creative and strategic content that’s geared towards creating impact. Her current work allows her to feel safe to share her voice, as Siena works as the Content Manager at The Cause Effect, plus she runs her own videography and editing business, SNV, in her spare time.

 

As my conversation with Siena progressed, it became clear that Siena falls in a minority in finding work that welcomes her perspective. Many of her friends don't feel quite so fortunate. Many graduates enter the workforce feeling they need to hide their voice and do their time until they are "moulded". But here's the thing... don't we need fresh thinking and thoughts? New ways forward, not new versions of the old.

 

In Siena’s situation, she is passionate about the potential for businesses to create social impact. She believes in business as a force for good and assists with getting brands on a path to purpose which she feels she can contribute to through her work with The Cause Effect.  She also loves to help clients communicate their impact through her own video business.

 

Siena feels lucky for her opportunity, but she also sees the challenges of transitioning from University to work. Listen in to hear more about Siena's work and experience, plus a candid discussion on what it feels like to be a University graduate wanting to make a start in the workforce.

 

Here are some of the topics we discuss:

• Whether university students are being set up for success after graduating.
• The support gap between graduating and full time work.
• How our work systems and processes are silencing the voices of younger workers.
• Using the return from lockdown as an opportunity to build for better.

 

CONNECT WITH SIENA

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/siena-nisavic-934305169/

https://www.sienanisavicvideography.com

In this episode of Unearth a New Perspective on Risk, we talk to a few very special guests that I’ve had the pleasure of working with.

 

Anyone who knows me knows how passionate I am about creating a safe zone for people to allow themselves to stretch to set themselves up for success. This passion has led me to become a mentor in 2019 for the Techgirls Movement Foundation. This organisation runs an annual Techgirls Superhero competition that provides a program to give skills and a new perspective on STEM. The program combines problem solving through a social business and technical lens. The girls, who range in age from seven to seventeen, are tasked with producing high quality business plans, pitch videos and prototypes. The program provides a pathway to role models by connecting each team to a female mentor to build a safe environment to help build their confidence as part of a team.

 

The program invites the girls to look at real-life challenges and I can tell you their problem-solving abilities are truly remarkable. 

 

The reason I invest my time as a mentor in this program is because I want the girls to know that they can achieve anything they put their mind to. I want them to be able to appreciate people’s differences and to be able to make decisions as a group. I want to encourage respect, but also importantly, I want the girls to be able to appreciate the  types of environments where they are set up for success.

 

2019 was my first Techgirls competition. My team designed an app for students to help them find their first job. The app was called Breakthrough and it  won the Gamechanger award that year.

 

In 2020, my second year, I mentored a team of Year 5 girls, who developed the Bio Be Aware App. This won the NSW category for Primary Schools, which was such an exciting project to be a part of.

 

In this episode, I interview my team of Year 5 girls and I can’t wait for you to hear from them. Here are some of the things we talk about.

• Why they chose to create an app around biodiversity
• Their favourite part of the process
• Advice from the girls to others who are thinking of participating in similar competitions
• Their wishes for the world
• What they want to be when they grow up
• What they would like to tell their 30 year old selves
• Their one wish for their mums
• We hear from the mums of the Bio Be Aware team, and their experience of the project
• We also talk to Andrew from NSW National Parks and Wildlife about his thoughts on what the girls achieved through their app

ABOUT TECHGIRLS MOVEMENT FOUNDATION

 

We exist to give girls access to hands-on technology and programs to build their skills and confidence.

 

The Tech Girls Movement Foundation campaigns for a future where women will lead and innovate across STEM fields, thus empowering themselves, and bringing broader social and economic benefits.

 

At Techgirls, we take a timely, holistic and evidence-based approach to targeting normative gender stereotypes through complementary programs. These programs provide girls aged 7-17 with STEM skills, mentoring and positive role-modelling, whilst including the community through industry partnerships, school and parent collaboration. Efficacy of the Techgirls programs is optimised by engaging girls in STEM in the formative stages of their education, before negative societal perceptions are entrenched. STEM skills such as coding and robotics are taught, thereby building girls’ skills and confidence in these fields. Key interpersonal skills are also addressed as the flagship program, the Techgirls Competition, is team-based, workshops provide entrepreneurial skills, and girls build rapport with their mentors who are female industry experts.   

 

Learn more here 

 

My guest on Episode 13 of the Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast is a published author, purpose-driven IP lawyer, lecturer and keynote presenter.  Gareth Benson has 20 years experience in Intellectual Property, advising SME and start ups as well as some of Australian peak innovation organisation including CSIRO, Australian Centre of the Moving Image and  SBS Commissioned Content and Online. 

Gareth has also been a lecturer and trainer in entrepreneurship, digital media and law for RMIT university (Melbourne). He is inspired by Ideas that are an outward expression of his clients identity.

 

In this episode, Gareth shares his belief that purpose-driven businesses often do not value their most important assets: their ideas.  We learn about the fundamentals of Intellectual Property (Trademarks, Copyright, and Licensing)  as well as how to support your organisations most valuable resource: your people and their purpose driven ideas! 

 

Other themes we discuss include:

• How you can protect all of your marketing effort and most valuable assets
• How IP empowers others by bringing better ideas into the world
• How identity helps to build powerful intellectual property
• When you should consider protecting your most visible asset- your brand
• Using a map to navigate Intellectual property
• Learning more about the protection and valuation of your IP

 

Connect with Gareth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garethbenson/

 

Connect with IP Assist

https://ipassist.com.au

My guest on this episode of our podcast has had a remarkable career, including 20 years as a Senior Manager for the US Secret Service.  Dr Margaret H. Coggins is a subject matter expert in workplace violence prevention programs; school and campus safety; insider threat and fraud prevention models; and, protective intelligence investigations.  

She is a trusted advisor and an experienced security consultant, bringing over 30 years of  specialised work in the prevention of targeted violence, threat assessment, behavioural analysis,  and change management. As a psychologist, Dr. Coggins’s approach emphasises proactive prevention and intervention strategies to mitigate risk. From her law enforcement background, Dr. Coggins implements operationally relevant, tactically sound, and practically valid solutions. She routinely consults on best practices for program design and implementation, policy development, communications  strategies, and training to achieve safety and security objectives. Much of her current work is  focused on consulting with businesses, corporate clients, schools, and institutions of higher  education to implement threat assessment programs.  

Dr. Coggins is a former Federal executive, having served nearly 20 years as a Senior Manager for  the United States Secret Service Office of Protective Research, and the Chief of its Behavioral  Research Program. Her areas of responsibility included: providing risk assessment research,  consultation, and training in support of the Secret Service protective mission, and the study of  threatening and high-risk behaviors directed toward the President of the United States. Dr.  Coggins’s research efforts provided the foundation for the Secret Service school safety initiative,  leading to current best practices in the prevention of targeted violence in schools. 

Following 9/11, she was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Director of the Federal Air Marshal  Service, to support its transformation to a Federal law enforcement mission, retiring from Federal  service in 2012. 

Dr. Coggins earned Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees in psychology from the  Catholic University of America. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Dickinson  College. Her work has been published in several scientific journals and she served as an adjunct  Full professor for the George Washington University. 

 

Here are some of the themes we cover in this conversation

• The difference between”making a threat” and “posing a threat”. Understanding the differences - in behaviour, motivation, capability, consequences - as factors that influence how concerned one needs to be about potential threats  
• How intervention support can be useful in mitigating risk and the importance of creating a mechanism to provide support.
• Early identification indicators of risk and the pathway to risk
• Changing the thinking around culture issues and reporting behavior
• The importance of top leadership commitment in an initiatives success

 

Connect with Margaret

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-coggins-ph-d-61b30a35/

Twitter:                MHCoggins_LLC             

Website:    mhcoggins.com  

Peter Coroneos, International Vice President of the global Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) is my guest on this podcast.

As an internationally recognised authority on cyber policy, Peter was invited twice to the White House to brief the Obama Administration cybersecurity leadership. He is an Internet industry leader, an activist, and policy innovator. Through CyAN he champions innovation in critical cyber skills, capacity building and behavioural change while supporting the business, professional and personal development of the organisation’s members.

 

Peter has a remarkable back story which he shares with us in this episode. That alone is fascinating, but the insights he has developed as a result of his life’s journey are incredibly valuable.

There is so much gold in this episode, but some of the big topics that come up in this interview include:

• The perpetual problem of human behavioural risk in society
• Why we should approach influence with caution 
• The capacity for technology to change the world and impact our relationships
• The importance of remembering the human problem that is being solved throughout the multiple waves of innovation
• Understanding the unintended consequences of technologies 
• Using humanity to inform policy

 

Connect with Peter

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coroneoscyberintelligence/

https://www.serenityworks.com.au

https://iconcyber.com

Sally Arnold is my guest on Episode 10 of the Unearth A New Perspective On Risk podcast.

Sally is an award winning author, speaker and business coach who specialises in moving individuals and organisations out of stuckness. She is able to turn around challenges towards resolution and success through her innovative business “Creating Encores”.

Sally began her professional life as a flautist in New Zealand and worked globally. She settled back in Melbourne and launched her own successful gourmet cookware shop, and was then headhunted by a Melbourne store to reinvigorate their homewares department.

Combining this business experience with her passion for the performing arts, she sought and won the coveted role of Head of Business Development at The Australian Ballet.

Fascinated by the successful mindset techniques of high-performing artists, she became aware of how well they could be translated into the business world to bring creative solutions to business challenges.  She has also trained as a psychotherapist. 

Today, Sally’s innovative and robust methodology underpins her coaching programs and her book, “Creating Encores”. She integrates her passion for performance excellence with her skills as a facilitator to unlock greater productivity and fast track success. 

In this interview, Sally shares her thoughts with us on how diversification makes us resilient,  including the  journey of her own career. Some of the areas we get into in this discussion...

• The multiple and disparate paths that we can take in our careers
• How diversifying can make us resilient
• The power of music in meditation
• How support systems can guide us through stepping out of our comfort zones
• How new life and ways forward can emerge from shocking times

 

Linked in  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-arnold-2753414/ 

twitter sallyaarnold  

Insta creatingencores 

FB https://www.facebook.com/sally.arnold3

In our first guest interview of the Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast, I interviewed Bryan Ware, CEO of Next5, a new company that was formed to identify the critical emerging technologies of the next five years; and to ensure that companies and governments are anticipating and planning for risks.

Here on Episode 9 of the podcast, we once again chat about risk through the lens of changing global dynamics.

Before founding Next5, Bryan was the first US Presidential-appointed Director of Cybersecurity at CISA, which is the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. This role saw Bryan lead a 1000-person team and a $1.25 billion organisation through a period of intense volatility and aggressive interference from nation state adversaries.

Before that, Bryan was the Assistant Secretary at the US DHS (Department of Homeland Security), serving as the security advisor on cybersecurity and emerging technology matters and was leading strategic initiatives across the US government and allies to counter Chinese espionage and unfair business practices.

In this episode, Bryan shares with us his insights on anticipating new ways of working, including discussions around

• The  growing competitive dynamic between the USA and China 
• Understanding how global exposure will change in the future
• Reflecting on what worked well for us at the beginning of the pandemic and how we can use that as an asset
• Anticipating new ways of working and acknowledging that we can do better in reimagining our future
• The Next5 technology matrix- the 12 technologies that will be most important within the next 5 years

 

Connect with Bryan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wareb/

https://twitter.com/bsware

 

Connect with Next5

https://www.linkedin.com/company/nxt5/

https://www.next5.co/

My guest on this episode of Unearth A New Perspective On Risk is Meqa Smith, founder of The Unforgettable Agency.

 

Meqa spent the first decade of her career rising quickly through the People and Performance pathway within Hospitality and Professional Services across Australia and New Zealand.  

 

Whilst working with Saatchi & Saatchi she recognized the synchronicity that existed between Marketing, People and Corporate Performance — and that it is in the collision of those elements that ultimate engagement and influence is realized. 

 

After this she spent over a decade focused on marketing, customer experience and how to help businesses get ahead.

 

Meqa launched The Unforgettable Agency to deliver on her mission of unlocking profitability through differentiation. 

 

Her work then led to a boomerang back around to the people side of the business because the inescapable truth is that no matter how good your product or marketing — your business can only deliver on its promises with the right people on the team. 

 

Leveraging her deep understanding of the inherent flaws in the standard approach to employment and their impact on business, she turned her attention to the root cause of these issues. 

 

Currently The Unforgettable Agency is focused on delivering creative solutions for recruitment and engagement that help businesses attract unicorn employees who are perfectly aligned with their values and mission.

 

Meqa is direct, with a refreshingly honest presentation style and relatable analogies, keeping an audience engaged and entertained while they trip over the truth — and she promises your audience will leave knowing exactly how they should be looking at the world of work differently.

 

Some of the topics we cover in this interview include:

• Reframing from acquisition to retention
• Applying marketing and customer experience principles to the recruitment process
• The number one reason employees leave their jobs
• Human iOS
• The alchemy of adding another employee to the mix in a business
• How acknowledging our shared humanity positively impacts our workplace interactions

 

I hope you enjoy this episode. If you do, let me know and please feel free to share this podcast with others who you think will enjoy it.