VitalBytes Podcast

I had recently Stephanie Bowman and Reta Clyde as guests on one of the most impactful [and timely!] podcasts in the series to date!

HCA Healthcare [www.hcahealtcare.com] was founded in the USA in 1968. They have 280,000 staff with hospital facilities in 20 states. The organisation is committed to the care and improvement of human life.

Stephanie Bowman is the Director of Organisational Development, and Reta Clyde is the National Gr...

Kate Selway is the People and Capability Director for Jade Software, based in Christchurch in South Island of New Zealand.

Kate has a passion and obvious empathy for people that has been shaped by background in psychology. She has had a successful career in HR (a term she greatly detests), enjoyed various People & Culture (much better than HR) roles, and is relishing her time at Jade Software.

Kate has been delivering Crucial Conve...

Dr Shaun Ridley is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Institute of Management WA

Shaun has been an integral part of AIM WA for 35 years. As a result, he is one of experienced leaders in WA in organisational professional development as well as adult learning.  

Vitalsmarts ANZ partner with AIM WA as part of our training delivery platform across Australia and New Zealand. Working with Shaun and his team for us is a...

It is always a pleasure to connect with Justin Hale

Justin is a Master Trainer and Training Designer with VitalSmarts LLC based in Utah

He is a very dynamic and upbeat speaker and host of One Productive Minute at VitalSmarts. Justin’s work in promoting the power of productivity on Linkedin is nothing short of highly engaging and very professional.

This podcast is all about the power of productivity to achieve one thing – to look ba...

I connected with Kingsley Weber from Imdex Limited.

IMDEX develop cloud-connected devices and drilling optimisation products to improve the process of identifying and extracting mineral resources for drilling contractors and resource companies globally. All our current mining clients across the world use Imdex services

Kingsley is the global HR Director for Imdex. He is always very upbeat and passionate about driving culture. He is...

I had a high energy and very engaging chat with Scott Robley from VitalSmarts USA.

Scott is a speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Client Solutions Engineer at VitalSmarts. We met with Scott at the recent VitalSmarts global conference where he presented the 40/20/40 model for high impact learning, based upon model developed by Robert O. Brinkerhoff

This podcast is all about how to maximise your training ROI and ROE by preparing well, high ...

I had a very engaging conversation with Anna Ranaldo. Anna is a Brene Brown Thought leader as well is a certified ‘Dare to Lead’ facilitator. She is currently working extensively with corporations, organisations, education etc across Australia and New Zealand.  Anna has an extensive organisational development/HR background across global organisations like Santos, PWC and Shell. Her specialty is helping organisations to navigate cha...

I connected with my good friend Caroline White today in a really enjoyable and engaging podcast. Caroline spoke passionately about her extensive 20+ year experience across a range of industries, and explained about the systematic process that she used to equip leaders in creating a high-performance culture and environment:

• Getting the environment to create and support leaders
• Creating leadership Capability
• The Essential leader...

I had great discussion with Terry Terranova who is the Head of Leadership and Capability at Newcrest Mining Company. Newcrest is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, with mining sites in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and also Africa.   

Since 2015, Newcrest have been building upon their ‘cultural’ safety program with one primary objective i...

A great chat today with author, speaker and Vitalsmarts leader David Maxfield. David has been conducting social science research for more than 30 years, focusing on human behaviour and what shapes the written and unwritten rules around what employees do every day   

We talked about the research document “Why You Can’t Kill a Bad Habit With a Magic Bullet”, and b...

This podcast is all about how to take two days of learning and transform it into 12 months of ‘speak up’ skills being utilised by your leaders, managers and their teams every day within your organisation

Carolyn Hawe is the learning and Development Adviser from Wellington City Council. Carolyn and her team have recently incorporated a comprehensive skill embedding process into their current LMS.

The skills are based on more than 30...

The power of stories – the ones you tell yourself – and how these get in the way of what you really want!

Justin and I share the types of stories that have gotten in our way – from our own personal experience.

As humans we are really good at building stories in our minds about people and situations with very little data. More often than not your stories are wrong.  

Inside this episode you’ll learn

1. Why stories get in the way
2. T...

This podcast is all about Silence in healthcare – and the adverse impact upon hospitals’ no.1 primary outcome being the quality of patient care and safety.

With highly skilled and well-intentioned healthcare staff, the statistics in Australia are still 1 in 10 of every 10 people admitted into hospitals in Australia, 1 comes out somewhere from slightly to extremely worse off. All in a high care environment.   

Inside this episode yo...