Bloke Coaching

In this episode, we chat with Dominque Powrie, Managing Director of DDI, about gender equality and leadership.

We chat about what makes for great leaders, and how we should be identifying talent, whilst exploring why the best leaders may not necessarily be the ones who end up in leadership roles.

We discuss why we still have a way to go to ensure equality in representation of all genders at senior leadership, an...

In this episode we chat with Dr Stephen Weller, Chief Operating Officer at Australian Catholic University, to discuss gender inequality within the tertiary education sector.

We explore the importance of diverse representation in decision making, governance and policy making, and how change is taking longer than it should be.

We examine some of the underlying issues associated with casualisation, flexibility and ...

*TRIGGER WARNING - Topics discussed include mental health and suicide*

In this episode we chat with the founder of Accidental Counsellor, Cutty Felton, about mental health, suicide prevention and how to give support to those around us. 

We discuss how certain pressures associated with gender can impact our mental health, how trendy 'resilience' training may not actually be the best approach, as well as s...

Welcome to Bloke Coaching. 
Join me on the journey to understand male privilege across industries and society within processes, policies, rituals and mindsets and how this is holding us back from achieving true gender equality.

Welcome to the Bloke Coaching podcast. My name is Ian Schmidt and I'm embarking upon a journey to understand male privilege, patriarchy and prejudice. I'm a workshop facilitator and a profession...

In this episode we chat with Golnar Adl, Performance and Reward Manager, about key gender equality measures, and pay and performance outcomes.

Golnar helps us to understand the gender pay gap and the historical reasons for this inequality. We discuss the flaws within performance and remuneration reviews that contribute to greater gender inequality, and what leaders and organisations could be doing to firstly not make the ...

In this episode we chat with Principal Recruitment Consultant, Kayla Hoye, about gender equality within recruitment and selection practices.

We look at the unconscious discounting that frequently occurs and disadvantages female candidates. We discuss the effectiveness of blind resumes, the gender language of advertisements, the composition of selection panels, and approaches to reference checking in order to provide pract...