Mykel Dixon, award winning speaker, author, musician helps business leaders and teams seek truth, rediscover creativity and make work more meaningful. This week, Ryan has the pleasure of 'zooming' in with Mykel Dixon, award winning speaker, author, musician and advisor on how he is using creativity, artistry and vulnerability to boost businesses, improving performance metrics and also making work more meaningful for employees and leaders.

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EP 50 - Mykel Dixon on Rediscovering Your Creativity to Make Work More Meaningful

Cam Calkoen has gone from doubting his ability to run, to representing New Zealand in athletics all around the world. In this weeks podcast, Ryan chats with Cam Calkoen, a renowned New Zealand athlete, inspirational speaker and all round awesome guy.

EP 49 - Building a Kingdom of Inspiration with Cam Calkoen

EP 48 - 4 Ways Lying Has Become the Norm In Your Business with Ron Carucci

Many of us are trying to figure out whether we continue to work from home, return to the office or something in between. In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss the gains, losses and challenges of different working models, and tips for how to be more deliberate and aware in trialling options for your organisation and your people because there isn’t one size fits all!

EP 47 - The future of working from home now that lockdown’s over

David Galbraith shares frank insights and funny personal stories on how to live your best life with courage and care. He draws on a wide range of experiences as a clinical psychologist, high performance mental coach of athletes from Super Rugby (Chiefs) to Olympic sports, youth worker, author, husband and dad. He encourages all of us to let go of fears and doubts, break free from others’ expectations, commit to values and embrace the unknown. WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE.

EP 46 - David Galbraith, Unleashing Greatness author, on living your best life with courage and care

Being a business leader during this time comes with a lot of tension. After an emotional roller coaster that was working from home, we now need to think about how we can get back to the ‘old normal’ while acknowledging that things have changed and we must shape a ‘new normal’. Mike and Ryan talk about the kinds of questions you should ask yourself, your team and your customers.

EP 45 - Managing the tension between stablising and adapting

Think about the learning workshops you've done over your career. Did you go away, have an inspiring day or two, only to go back to your workplace and keep doing what you've always done? You may have been introduced to some great new ideas and skills, but there was no path to bring that into your work within the organisation.

EP 44 - Real transformation happens when you change who as well as how

Violently agreeing on all topics covered, the Ryan and David share relatable stories and insights around the importance of growing middle management, how workplace culture can make or break an organisation, the much needed move to a 4 day working week and why everyone should be a feminist.

EP 43 - David Pich, CEO of IML ANZ, on Impactful Leadership, Workplace Culture and The 4 Day Week.

In this podcast episode, Ryan has the pleasure of talking with Heather Polglase, who was a key driver in Spark's transition to Agile. She goes into detail about the challenges during that transformation along with her views on collaboration, the importance of teams and resilience.

EP 42 - Heather Polglase, HR Director at Spark, on being agile, collaboration and the importance of people

In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan discuss how to successfully work from home during these challenging times of COVID-19. They share the mechanics of working remotely and give tips on finding ways to get into a productive routine. They also talk about ways to maintain both physical and emotional health, stressing the importance of physical routines, communication, and accepting to be emotionally affected. They remind people of the Stockdale paradox which says that you have to confront the reality of the situation, while never giving up hope that things will get better.

EP 41 - How To Make Working From Home Work For You

In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan address the question that most business leaders have when they are about to invest in leadership training – How do you measure the results of leadership development programmes? Since it is difficult to attribute a hard value to soft skills, or translate it directly into measures like profit, this can be a challenging question to answer. Mike and Ryan briefly discuss several studies that indicate that traditional leadership development programmes generally don’t work and waste a lot of money. They then go on to answer the question on measuring ROI of leadership training, by referencing the Kirkpatrick Framework. This is a four dimensional training evaluation model that has evolved over multiple decades through application by learning and development professionals around the world.

EP 40 - How to Measure the Results of Leadership Training

In this podcast episode, Ryan has the pleasure of talking with Gihan Perera, who is an author, conference speaker and consultant. As a futurist, Gihan researches trends that will impact the future of work and brings these insights to audiences in a relevant way. Gihan talks about one of the biggest trends at the moment, artificial intelligence, and explains how it is already everywhere in our lives, how it helps us do our jobs better, and how it will continue to evolve. He also discusses digital disruption and the challenges around it, skills leaders of today need to have, and innovation. He shares his insights on creating a high performance culture characterised by diversity and inclusion, as well as the importance of learning from the younger generations like Gen Z. Lastly, he talks about his book “The Future of Leadership” and some of the insights that can be learned from it.

EP 39 - Gihan Perera on Futurism, Artificial Intelligence, and Diversity

In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan get philosophical and talk about the top 5 regrets of the dying, from the book by Bronnie Ware. Bronnie Ware has had a long career in palliative care, during which she would talk with the people she took care of, and wrote down their insights in her book. The Breakthrough Company has applied the lessons learned from this book for a long time, finding that business success is unsustainable and meaningless if your personal and family life is neglected. In this episode, Mike and Ryan go over the 5 main regrets of the dying, what can be learned from them, and how to apply these to improve both your business and personal life.

EP 38 - The Regrets of the Dying

In this podcast episode, Mike and Ryan talk about how to transform a business. They use the “leadership diamond” framework as developed by McKinsey in their book “Leadership at Scale”, and discuss and relate it to their own insights and experience with transforming organisations.

EP 37 - Transforming a Business from the Inside Out

In this podcast episode, Ryan interviews Joanne Fair, co-founder of FutureWorks Studio. FutureWorks provides an alternative solution to the traditional 9-5, by pioneering an integrated platform that allows talent to work on projects in different departments of the organisation they work in, as well as allowing the organisation to bring in external talent from other organisations on a freelancer basis. Joanne talks about how and why FutureWorks was founded, how it works, and its benefits. She also discusses why New Zealand needs to adapt a more flexible way of working and why the current state of technology creates opportunity for this.

EP 36 - Joanne Fair on Flipping the Traditional Freelancer Model with FutureWork Studios.

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs where we help unlock the potential in you, your teams and your business. Hosted by Ryan Castle, along with Dr Mike Ashby, we share insights, experiences and stories on achieving breakthrough successes in business and life. In addition to a podcast, The Breakthrough is also a coaching and advisory business that provides programmes for business leaders, owners and managers to develop your skills and capabilities to boost your business and enjoy a better life.

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