Unearth A New Perspective On Risk Podcast

This week’s guest is Chris Wilson, a stress scientist. Chris comes from a background in consulting and mentoring elite groups such as the military, elite sports, performing arts and corporate athletes. He combines systems and data to make informed decisions that catapult a team’s engagement, productivity and outcomes.

Spending the early part of his career working with and developing future leaders, he identified that a necessary part of the success plan is to improve the individual’s performance capacity. This is achieved by adapting capacity in three key areas: physical, mental and emotional capacity, to enable them to perform their role. Chris helps to develop these three key components to reduce the risk of burnout.

Our interview covers a range of insightful themes, particularly relevant to the current working-from-home environment, including:

• How working from home is changing our stress responses to work
• The role of ego and the increased need to justify our worth and value
• Identifying the physical, mental and emotional early warning signs that people aren’t coping well
• Identifying the possible patterns that are contributing to self sabotage
• The impact of constant striving for perfection across a range of roles, especially relevant to women
• Future intent. Tapping into the emotional side of where people want to go and who they want to be
• Looking at the whole person, not just the worker

Connect with Chris

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisw-stress-scientist/

Website    stress-scientist.com  

 

My guest on Episode 5 of our podcast is Paul Gordon, CEO of Catalyze APAC – a niche consulting firm that transforms decision making in private and public sector organisations. 

Paul is a trusted adviser to executives and senior leaders across multiple industries. For more than fifteen years he has helped some of the largest and most influential organisations in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom make hard decisions that involve budgets in the billions and impact millions of stakeholders.

Working closely with leaders in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Catalyze help them do more with less, make impossible trade-offs, optimise their budget, select the best alternative overall and develop organisational strategy.

They achieve this by applying Decision Thinking, a way of looking at the world through the lens of what decisions need to be made, in order to cause action and engineer the future. When you adopt Decision Thinking, you don’t see problems – you see decisions that need to be made, and a clear way to make them.

 

In this episode, we explore decision-making through the lens of risk. Some of the themes we get into include

• The intersection between systems and people and how we can make better decisions for those that are impacted by the system
• Consciousness in the world of decision making
•  Active stakeholder participation
•  An empowering approach to decision making

 

Connect with Paul

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/decisions/

Linkedin Company Page https://www.linkedin.com/company/catalyze-apac/

In Episode 4 of our podcast series we get into the topical area of Organisational Purpose. My guest in this episode is an author, a speaker and “Chief Purpose Activist” at Purpose Consultancy, The Cause Effect. Carolyn Butler-Madden believes in a world where business is a force for good and brands drive profit through purpose.

She helps business leaders define their Purpose and embed it into their business and brand to deliver meaningful social impact AND competitive advantage. Her mission is to make meaningful social purpose a vital part of business in Australia and beyond.

Carolyn brings 30 years’ international experience creating successful and internationally awarded marketing campaigns for some of the world’s best brands. Over 18 years she owned and ran two agencies in Sydney, until quitting the agency world for consulting, to pursue her passion for social purpose. 

Today she helps business leaders understand the power of purpose and develop strategies that drive profitable outcomes by creating positive social impact.

 

Here are some of the themes we cover in this interview:

• How the purpose of business is changing
• The power in finding your ‘people like us’
• Doing what you love versus loving what you do 
• The 6-pillar framework Carolyn uses to get her clients on a Path to Purpose

 

Connect with Carolyn

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynbm/

Linkedin company page https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cause-effect-consultancy

Twitter @carolynbm

In our third episode I’m really excited to interview Mark Crosweller AFSM, on what is a vital subject for leaders today: How ethical leadership improves our organisations and their capacity to deal with risk, reduce harm and create a better world. 

 

Mark has 36 years of experience in crisis, national security, and emergency management, leading major strategic reform in governance, strategy, policy, operations, and capability.  

 

Between 2012-2019 Mark was responsible for briefing the Prime Minister and Cabinet on disaster management and providing strategic policy advice on climate and disaster risk reduction and resilience.  Mark is now the Founder and Director of Ethical Intelligence, a Senior Advisor to a Global Consulting Organisation advising on climate and disaster risk and leadership ethics and working with Unearth on Ethical Leadership. Mark is currently finalising his PhD research on the ethical premise of leading people through the adversity and loss of disasters. 

 

Some of the topics we get into in our discussion:

• The power of virtue and the power of virtue in leadership
• Mark’s experience with leaders in defining the virtues that are most important to them
• How learning to apply their key virtues, enables leaders to create their “moral compass”
• The power of ethical leadership through adversity
• Trusting your own intuition in an environment where rational thought and logic are traditionally valued
• How being clear on our virtues and ethics can improve all of our lives personally, professionally, relationally

 

It is a fascinating topic and never more important than today, given the issues the world is facing.

 

Connect with Mark

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-crosweller-afsm/

Website: https://ethicalintelligence.com.au

 

 

In our first guest interview, I speak to 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.

Before founding Next5, Bryan was the first US Presidential-appointed Director of Cybersecurity at CISA, which is the 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.

 

Prior to working at CISA. 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.

 

Bryan has a remarkable background, which you can learn more about during our podcast. And when it comes to understanding risk, he is one of the best. This will be our first podcast together, but it won't be our last.

 

Here are some of the themes we covered to give you an idea of what to expect:

 

• His career journey from engineering science degree graduate to Director of Cybersecurity at CISA
• The Next5 technology matrix of the twelve critical and emerging technologies that will drive economic growth and government policies
• Bryan’s view on the importance of people alongside technology in managing risk
• Navigating the lows and highs of probabilities and consequences in risk events

 

 

Connect with Bryan

 

Linkedin – Bryan Ware           https://www.linkedin.com/in/wareb/

Linkedin – Next5                     https://www.linkedin.com/company/nxt5/

Website – Next5                     https://www.next5.co/

Twitter – Bryan Ware             @bsware

 

This is the pilot episode of the new podcast series, Unearth A New Perspective On Risk, which aims to lift the lid on risk and rip it apart to help give you a new perspective.

 

In this short introduction, your host Lisa Sisson, founder of Risk Consultancy, Unearth, shares the “why” behind launching this podcast and what you can expect to learn from the series. Some of the topics she covers include:

 

• Finding the hidden treasures and opportunities within risk for those that dare to seek them
• Recognising that many people get caught up in the smoke and mirrors of risk and often fear the consequences, which can become a barrier to finding the opportunities
• Through guest interviews, showcasing stories and insights of different aspects of risk
• Understanding what people and businesses are ultimately trying to achieve – to protect and care for what is most important to us – our people, places and things that we value the most; or that we have a responsibility to protect
• Introducing Unearth’s unique approach to risk; their S4R risk system and their PROTECT framework

 

Connect with us

 

Website:                     https://unearth.com.au/

Linkedin – Lisa Sisson https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisasisson/

Linkedin – Unearth     https://www.linkedin.com/company/unearth-technologies-pty-ltd/

Facebook – Unearth   https://www.facebook.com/UnearthTechnologies

Twitter – Lisa Sisson   https://twitter.com/lisamsisson

Twitter – Unearth       https://twitter.com/UnearthTech

Email – Lisa                 lisa.sisson@unearth.com.au