Jane Anderson Show Podcast

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, join us for thought-provoking discussions that illuminate the path to effective leadership, career advancement, and creating thriving workplaces. Dr Michelle Pizer, an accomplished organisational and counselling psychologist, is dedicated to empowering ambitious individuals to unlock their full potential in today's dynamic business landscape.   With over three decades of experience working with renowned organisations such as Google, KPMG, BHP, Goldman Sachs, and ABC, Michelle brings a wealth of wisdom and insight to the forefront. Her expertise has been featured prominently in media outlets like Business Insider, Channel 9, Radio National, The Age, and news.com.au.   From climbing the corporate ladder herself to founding her own successful business, Michelle seamlessly blends her corporate acumen with her passion for executive coaching, leadership programs, and speaking engagements. Her approach is grounded in academic rigour, backed by her extensive research on rela

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, join me for insightful conversations with the delightful Samantha Rush, who unravels the tangled web of decision-making in today's complex world. Samantha is a seasoned speaker, facilitator, consultant, and coach on a mission to empower individuals, teams, and organisations to navigate the intricacies of decision-making with confidence and clarity.   In a world where even simple decisions are no longer straightforward, Samantha's expertise shines as she guides us through the maze of considerations, consequences, and expectations. From her extensive background in intelligence and corporate executive roles, as well as as a company director, business advisor, and strategic consultant across various sectors, Samantha brings a unique perspective.   With a passion for exploring the magic that arises from the fusion of diverse ideas, Samantha fosters an environment where innovation thrives. Her unwavering commitment to challenging conventional thinking while prioritising ps

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am thrilled to have the chance to interview one of the most incredible ladies I know personally, Alessandra Edwards. Alessandra is a leading expert in the DNA of performance and well-being, dedicated to empowering high-performing leaders to harness their genetics and biology for optimal health and vitality.   With over 16 years in the field, she has guided high-level leaders across Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the US, helping them tap into their genetic blueprint to unlock boundless energy and resilience.   Working closely with leading CEOs, executives, founders and business owners, she offers a distinct approach by combining her expertise as a clinical nutritionist and epigenetic coach with her background as a UK corporate executive while integrating the latest scientific advancements.   When not working with clients, Alessandra pushes personal boundaries, training for triathlons and always seeking the next step in health and longevity optimisation. This de

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am ecstatic to have the opportunity to interview one of the most amazing women I know personally, Rita Cincotta. Rita is a seasoned professional in leadership development, serving as a facilitator, speaker, coach, author, and non-executive Board Director.   With over two decades of experience in her career, Rita has led HR teams and held executive positions in Human Resources across various industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, aged care, not for profit, advertising, media, FMCG, e-commerce, and higher education.   In 2018, Rita established her leadership development practice, where she now operates as the Principal Consultant. This endeavour was born out of her extensive background in HR leadership roles spanning a diverse spectrum of industries. Rita's primary focus is on empowering individuals, teams, and organizations to attain peak performance, deeper fulfillment, and a profound connection to their purpose.   As an accomplished faci

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am excited to have the opportunity to interview Melanie Marshal, one of the remarkable women I know personally. Melanie is a leadership and organisational culture expert with a mission to create adaptive workplaces and develop leaders at every level.   As a Royal Australian Air Force veteran and previous public servant with experience in hospitals, councils, IT, and multiple state and federal government departments, Melanie understands complex service organisations where demand always exceeds capacity.   Multi-disciplined by nature, Melanie offers over 20 years of expertise in management and leadership, employee experience, service delivery, organisational performance, and people development.   A published author, and Stevie Award Winner for Thought Leadership, Melanie has been featured on multiple podcasts, including The Oxford Review UK, as a specialist in trust, organisational culture, service improvement, and digital transformation.   Melanie provides independe

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I'm thrilled to interview one of the exceptional women I personally know, Susanne Le Boutillier. Susanne Le Boutillier is a seasoned executive who, like a savvy chef, knows how to mix a pinch of ambiguity, a dash of complexity, and a dollop of effective leadership to cook up success.   With over thirty years of experience working in complex and challenging contexts, she's become an expert in leadership, stakeholder engagement and change. Susanne's warm and insightful approach clarifies complex situations, turning mountains into manageable molehills. She’s committed to helping leaders and organisations navigate the tough stuff and come out the other side, surviving and thriving.   She has come through tough situations before and knows that sometimes it’s best to keep it simple, and other times, it’s all about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.   Her areas of consulting expertise span strategy and policy development, leading complex and transformational chan

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I'm honored to interview one of the exceptional women I personally know, Monique Richardson. Monique Richardson is an expert and leading authority in Service Leadership and Customer Service and works with clients across the globe delivering high energy and engaging keynotes and training programs. Monique is a conference speaker and trainer who brings experience, passion, excitement and humour to the stage and to all training workshops.  With over 22 years’ experience, Monique have had the great privilege of delivering presentations to over 50,000 people. Monique is the author of ‘They Serve Like We Lead’ and ‘Managing Difficult Customer Behaviour’ and her thoughts have been featured on Sky News, Sunrise, CEO World, and The CEO Institute.  Monique’s ability to create deep connection and empathy with your audience stems from the extraordinary lengths she takes to understand your organisation and people and ensures she has walked in the shoes of your customer and team.

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I'm so thrilled to interview one of the exceptional women I know, Ronnie Benbow. Ronnie has always had a burning passion for providing a safe, nurturing, healing centre to rejuvenate and educate unpaid family carers experiencing extreme stress and exhaustion.  Ronnie is particularly passionate about young children who care since they usually have no choice and receive very little support. Most people do not even realise there are children, often as young as eight years old, in caring roles. Having a background in health and experiencing her own family caring circumstances, Ronnie knows professionally and personally the relentless demands and debilitating stress that family carers endure daily. Prior to establishing the charity, Ronnie, with the support of her husband Michael, was personally funding carer wellbeing programs for 15 years.                                  In 2015, following the passing of her beloved father, Ronnie established The Carers Foundation Aust

In this episode of the Jane Anderson Show, I'm so thrilled to interview an amazing lady, Mel Kettle. Mel Kettle is an internationally recognised expert in fully connected leadership and communication.   Mel is a trusted mentor to executives and leaders and a highly sought-after speaker and trainer. Her clients include leaders, teams and organisations that want to achieve real connection and sustained engagement.   At the heart of everything Mel does is a commitment to self-leadership. She has an over-arching belief that we need to lead ourselves first before we can lead others. This view came after she survived the debilitating effects of work-related loneliness, stress and burnout in her late 20s, and was reinforced when she had a life-threatening melanoma in her early-40s.    Mel also brings the unique educational combination of a Master of Business (Marketing) and a Master of Public Health, making her a valuable asset to clients including IRESS, Toll, Queensland Country Bank, ANZ, Westpac, the Local Govern

In this episode of the Jane Anderson Show, I'm so amazed to get to interview an exceptional lady, Melissa Lithgow.  Where some are left or right-brained thinkers, Melissa Lithgow is a hybrid. As a strategic marketer, she loves structure and strategy, yet she's big on aesthetics and creativity. While she prides herself on impeccable organisation, it's her vivacious energy and genuine care to support others in achieving success that underpins her service. For her clients, this means results-based strategies, which outlast fads and create authentic brand followers. Too often, she sees small business owners trapped in inaction because of fear and overwhelm. The little action they do take is task driven instead of strategy driven, getting them nowhere slowly.That's where she comes in.Based in Perth, Australia, Mel is focused on delivering a premium consulting service to medium-sized businesses and C-suite decision-makers to achieve long-term growth and improve the bottom dollar.When working with her, she takes her

In today's episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am excited to get to interview an amazing woman, named Cait Wotherspoon. Cait is one of Sydney’s leading grief consultants and guides. With a lifetime of various lived and learned experiences behind her, she has helped thousands of clients move through their grief and rediscover the joy in their lives. Cait’s aim is to ensure that her clients view their grief as a natural part of life’s cycle, to be unashamed of the grieving process and to have a healthy guilt-free outlook on grief. Cait has a lifetime of experience in many different careers. She began as a Registered Nurse, specialising in Mental Health, Oncology and Palliative Care. She then attained a Bachelor of Education and taught Primary school and went on to TAFE teaching literacy and numeracy to adult newly arrived refugees. Cait has also studied psychotherapy and psychology. Cait is a caring, compassionate individual who specialises in grief, loss and bereavement. She is passionate about helping people

In this episode on The Jane Anderson Show, I've had the chance to interview an incredible woman, named Sue Anderson. Sue Anderson works as a coach, trainer, mediator, speaker and author specialising in resilience and empowerment.  Sue is the author of “Unshakeable at Work”, a book that shows you how to stop taking things personally and start building resilience. A Thought Leader in the areas of resilience building and individual empowerment at work, Sue helps people move from a place of anger and frustration to strength, control, authority and confidence.  Sue’s programs empower employees and her specialty is helping people develop mental toughness so they can excel in the pressures of the workplace.  Sue believes that developing an Unshakeable workplace culture is critical to improving everyone’s well-being and quality of life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this Jane Anderson Show episode, I'm glad to interview Jacinta Cubis. Jacinta Cubis is a facilitation expert who lights up the room and the screen with her energy. She loves being a guide for groups on their journey to make decisions, generate ideas and solve problems. She facilitates for you and builds your facilitation capability to:

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am so excited to have Desley Lodwick,  a professional coach and leadership development expert, known for her innovative coaching methodology and ability to inspire, inform, and facilitate action. With over 20 years of experience, she supports executives, leaders, and managers to gain satisfaction from their work and make progress in challenging situations. Desley's expertise in leadership and adult development was honed through her diverse career experience, including computer programming, educational leadership, and business development. She was the managing director of a global IT company before co-founding Aberrant Learning, where she currently serves as CEO. In 2016, Desley completed a PhD in 'Contextualist Coaching for Complex Times', where she developed a unique coaching methodology that supports individual and collective performance and culture in organisations. Her Cohort Coaching™ process has facilitated desired shifts in many organisations around the worl

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, I am so thrilled to have Mandy Napier, a High-Performance Mindset and Executive Coach for over 15 years. Mandy has helped thousands of people break through, clear their limiting programs, and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. She has worked with entrepreneurs, leaders, high-achieving business professionals, and athletes to help them gain clarity, and confidence, and build consistency in all they do. Mandy is known for getting to the core of their problems, having a ‘no-fluff’ approach, and being obsessed with results. Her experiences in life include: She represents Australia in ultra-distance triathlons and competes at the gruelling Hawaiian Ironman World Championships. She has six years of travelling the globe, with many solo adventures. Her former career was managing and leading the sales team to exceed and excel.  Mandy's clients often refer to her as the ‘Mindset Alchemist,’ and she is known for her persistence and determined nature!  See omnystudi

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, we are so excited to have Maya Nova, a mindfulness coach, mentor and speaker with over a decade of experience working with smart, busy people, helping them to regain clarity and balance and integrate mindfulness into their everyday life and work. She specialises in Mindful Leadership. Maya's focus is on developing mental fitness and emotional agility, supporting and enabling my clients to thrive, even under challenging circumstances. She has been learning and practising mindfulness and meditation for 20 years, including being ordained as a Buddhist nun for 2 years. Her passion is integrating mindfulness into life and work, creating energy, inspiration and presence to live life awake to each moment, as if each moment truly mattered. She offers presentations, workshops, courses and insight coaching. She brings mindfulness training to work, and as a trained facilitator, she collaborates with HR managers and executives to help them meet their goals. She also delivers Min

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, we are honored today to have one of the 30 top-voted Communication Gurus globally. Our speaker, Dr. Louise Mahler is Australia’s 2021 Keynote Speaker of the Year and a media and internet sensation. You may wonder how expertise in presence and influence began with an economics degree majoring in statistics! It could be an interim decade singing opera in Europe and a soloist’s contract at the Vienna State Opera, but it was a master's in organizational psychology and a ‘Ph.D. in Business’ that brought her highly practical theories on Interpersonal Leadership Communication together. Louise is ‘on-call’ for top global CEOs and a guest presenter for leaders and leadership teams worldwide, coaching federal politicians, heads of international business, and rising corporate talent when the need to give a voice and be influential arises. A winner of an International Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement for helping Women in Business, Louise makes regular TV appearances, giving

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, my special guest is Dr Monique Beedles. She is an internationally recognised thought leader and bestselling author of books on Strategy, Leadership and Asset Management, including Asset Management for Directors and Leadership Assets.  From her research and her decades of experience as an advisor to boards and senior leaders, Monique has learned that strategic growth through innovation depends on creating an environment where creativity can flourish.  Monique is passionate about working with leaders to identify and embrace the true worth of their people, their assets and their enterprise to nurture sustainable growth. Her True Worth programs help leaders to embrace their own true worth, so that they can work to their full capacity and make a real difference.  With a PhD in Strategy, a Masters of Finance, and more twenty years of board experience, Monique has the technical skill and business savvy to guide you, your team and your organisation on a transformative journe

In this episode of The Jane Anderson Show, my special guest is Kim Seeling Smith. She is a Future of Work expert, who helps organizations build and retain a future fit workforce to reach their commercial goals, create thriving cultures, and overcome challenges and seize opportunities presented by the post-pandemic world. She engages audiences as a master storyteller, passionate educator and trend translator.  Kim has literally had a seat at the table with Sir Richard Branson for the innovative work she does around the Future of Work, was named a Top 101 Global Influencer on Employee Engagement, wrote THE how to guide on 1:1 employee check-ins, Mind Reading for Managers, and co-wrote a Career Development Guide with mega author Brian Tracy.  You will frequently see Kim on Sunrise, The Today Show, in Forbes, Fast Company, SmartCompany, CEO Magazine, CNBC Online, the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other print and radio media outlets. Take the time to listen to Kim today. You can f

In this episode of the Jane Anderson show, my special guest is Yvette Bethel. She is a cultural transformation expert, author, speaker, and advanced emotional intelligence practitioner, Yvette Bethel was recognized in 2020 and 2021 as one of the top 88 global thought leaders in trust by Trust Across America, Trust Around the World.  She understands the complexities of organizational ecosystems and how to effectively bring the corporate vision to life. From 2020 to 2022, she was recognized by Thinkers360 as the number one global thought leader in ecosystems and a top five thought leader in culture. She uses her deep insight into organizational ecosystems and transparent communication style to support her clients using the proprietary Interconnectivity, Flow, and Balance® methodology. According to Thinkers360 she is one of the Top 150 Women Thought Leaders to Watch in 2022. Yvette shares how she helps leaders understand their organizations as ecosystems equipping them with fresh strategic approaches to traditio