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Sam Green is the CEO at the City of Playford in South Australia, and a former participant of our leadership programs. In this interview he discusses the challenges of managing one of the fastest growing Local Government Areas in Australia.

Hi Folks, welcome to the tenth and final instalment of our podcast course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This session focuses on our Complete Practice, and discusses the Future of your practices of Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection. It also explores the Future of your Leadership in the light of the ten week course. We discuss the nature of commitment - having been drawn to the water you may wish to choose if you want to quench your thirst, and you may wish to consider how you can reinforce your choices with regular practice. It has been a delight for me to design and conduct this Podcast Course and I hope that you have obtained value for yourself and others from your participation. I also hope that you will accept my invitation to go change your part of the world for the better! Stay in touch, Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 10 PODCAST HERE

Hi Folks, welcome to the Week 9 Instalment of our Podcast Course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This Session has a focus on developing greater kindness towards ourselves and others, and developing our leadership to be a force for good. We explore some of the societal and organizational challenges facing leaders as we slowly emerge from the pandemic, and the need for wise leadership. I am attaching one of my Articles which is relevant to this topic, namely, "Leadership for Goodness Sake". I also should have said that Seneca is a Roman Philosopher influenced by the Greeks. Stay well. Stay effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 9 PODCAST HERE "Leadership for Goodness Sake"

Hi Folks, welcome to the Week 8 Instalment of our Podcast Course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This session explores some of the exciting ways that mindfulness can promote creativity and innovation in our leadership, and help us to tap into the power of the mind. We engage in a special meditative exercise to assist us to be more generative, that is to be the source of making things happen, which includes being creative, solving problems and performing at our peak. I quote Matthieu Ricard in the podcast, and two of his books are The Art of Happiness, and Altruism which I will refer to more in next week's podcast. Stay Well. Stay Effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 8 PODCAST HERE

Hi Folks, welcome to the Week 6 Instalment of our Podcast Course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This week we are examining some of the applications of mindfulness to leadership. These include how stilleness can help us to discover or invent our Purpose in leadership and life generally. It can help us to deal with the entanglement, allure and limitations of our Identity and Ego, which interfere with our leadership effectiveness. Mindfulness and the ability to let go, also can help leaders to be more productive in relationships and teamwork. And we engage in our Stillness Practice, to remind ourselves that one of the greatest rewards of Stillness is the Stillness itself. Stay well. Stay effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 6 PODCAST HERE

Hi Folks, please find attached the Week 5 Instalment of our ten week Podcast Course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This week we engage in a series of powerful experiments to explore stillness and our own nature. Don't miss this one! Stay well. Stay effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 5 PODCAST HERE

Hi Folks, welcome to the Week 4 instalment of our ten week Podcast Course on Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers. This week we continue our exploration and experience of Awareness, and we examine Listening and Dialogue in Leadership. This involves what I am calling the Holy Trinity of Listening, including Mindful Listening, and what this makes available for leaders. I am also attaching two of my Articles which are relevant to this week's podcast. If you are puzzled by my reference to Citylink in the audio, that is because I meant to say Centrelink. Stay Well. Stay Effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK FOUR PODCAST HERE "COURAGE AND FEAR IN LEADERSHIP" "COULD IT BE AS SIMPLE AS LISTENING?"

Hi Folks, welcome to our Week 3 Podcast where we are exploring the nature and differences of Thinking and Awareness, and what each of these makes available to us. Welcome also to the new leaders who are joining the course this week. I am attaching also a copy of a Review which I wrote for Leading Mindfully, the terrific book by my colleague Amanda Sinclair from Melbourne Business School. Stay Well. Stay Effective. Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 3 PODCAST HERE REVIEW OF LEADING MINDFULLY

Hi Folks, here is the Week 2 Podcast for our "Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers Course". Welcome to all the leaders who have joined the program during the past week. In this podcast the focus is on using the body and the breath to relax and calm ourselves, including when we are experiencing strong unpleasant emotions or when stress is disturbing our effectiveness and sleep. There is nothing like a Pandemic to increase the chances of these occurring for us! I am also attaching a guide for Optional Further Reading. Good luck, Richard LISTEN TO WEEK 2 PODCAST HERE HANDOUT ON OPTIONAL FURTHER READING

Hi Folks, attached is the first week Podcast of our ten week course titled "Mindfulness, Meditation and Reflection for Leaders and Managers". You can find Background Information and a Course Outline at our Blog under the title "Leading and Managing in a Time of Pandemic". In the past, folks have encouraged me to make a mindfulness podcast for leaders, and I have resisted given the ravages of asthma on my vocal performance, but a pandemic changes a lot of things. There has been great interest in this course, so if you are listening now it is worth remembering that you are part of a community of participants. Send me an email if you have questions about the practices or content. There will be a new Podcast loaded each Wednesday. Stay well Richard. LISTEN TO THE WEEK ONE PODCAST HERE

Craig is one of three former construction managers from the larger Probuild who are Directors of the Maben Group. Maben was named by BRW Magazine as one of the top 100 fastest growing small businesses in Australia last year. Craig talks about how their commitment to teamwork and developing their own very young leaders has paid off for them. Listen to Craig here

Nedine Thatcher Swann has recently been appointed as CEO of Gisborne District Council in New Zealand. Nedine talks about Maori history and presence in the Gisborne region and about the opportunities and challenges facing the city of the First Light. She discusses a traditional idea of Piritahi or connectedness as a guiding value for her own leadership work within this local government organisation. Listen to Nedine here

Heath Wilson, the recently appointed CEO of the merged Peninsula Kingswood Golf Club, which has 2,500 members and a wait list. The redevelopment of Peninsula is one of the largest golf projects currently underway in Australia. Heath talks about the process and the hurdles which have included legal opposition by some members to the merger taken all the way to the High Court. Heath shares his lessons about leadership, sports administration and about the adaptive challenges facing golf as a recreational past time.

An interview with Debby Blakey, CEO of HESTA, which is an industry superannuation fund with 800,000 members, 80% of whom are female, and $34 Billion in funds under management. Debby talks about her views on leadership and about ways to boost savings for women which still lag at only 50% of male rates at retirement.