The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast
Want to constantly grow as a leader and shape a great culture in your workplace? This is the podcast for you.
Of course, if you’re a yoghurt fan who typed in ‘culture’ and ended up here …(sorry, nerdy workplace culture joke). If you’re a serious person who believes serious topics must be covered in a serious way, we may not be the petri dish for you either.
But, if you want lived executive experience and decades working with corporate clients, government agencies & NFPs, all topped off by the hilarious hosts (at least we think so!), welcome - we're glad you could join us!
We nerd out on leadership and workplace culture – which is why we’re good at them. We tackle the topics you need to develop as a leader and to transform the workplace culture you have into the workplace culture you want. And we have fun doing it.
Hard hitting topics. Easy listening.
The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Podcast
Engagement through Change and Rapid Growth with Peter Whalley, MD of Plus Software
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After our series of episodes with tech leaders from the Silicon Valley, this week we hear from Peter Whalley - entrepreneur, visionary and leader from the thriving IT sector right here in our own backyard.
The Good, the Bad, or the ‘What-the!’
Simon shares two experiences of receiving feedback and mentoring around something he feels vulnerable about – and how one experience paralysed future performance while the other validated, challenged and empowered him.
Worth the Time
An oldie but a goodie. We discuss one of the first business books that Simon ever read – Maverick by Riccardo Semmler, who inherited a struggling manufacturing business in Brazil.
Words of Authenticity:
This week we have pulled an extract from an e-book we wrote (and will publish soon) on Leading Change.
During change, people tend to overestimate what they are leaving behind and underestimate what they are gaining
Simon and Kirralea discuss why change efforts tend to struggle (and often fail) and provide a few tips on how to approach change better.
Our Guest
Our guest is Peter Whalley, Managing Director of Plus Software and VisionAI Head of APAC of Computer Vision.
Peter has a great story to tell and he shares it in an engaging and captivating way. We discuss the roller coaster journey he embarked on, starting as a young and uncertain adult in South Africa. That journey brought him to Australia, initially on behalf of head office, to bring a struggling IT business into line.
After beginning a transformational change process with two of the senior leaders in Australia, they bought the organisation from the South African owners and took it to new levels of success.
Peter discusses:
- The personal changes he needed to make when he discovered his default leadership styles didn’t always land as intended in an Australian context
- His approach to engaging people, inside and outside the company, in a change to the fundamental way the business operated – a change that was essential to the ongoing survival of the organisation but that was also a radical departure from the traditional model
- The imposter syndrome he struggled with as young leader in his first board room environment
You can connect to Peter via LinkedIn here (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbwhalley/)
Unpacking the interview
Simon and Kirralea discuss the key messages that emerged from the discussion with Peter and share some of their experiences working with those dynamics in organisations. They focus on helping listeners apply Peter’s wisdom to their own work lives.
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