Future Fit Leadership

Why do good people sometimes become leaders they never intended to be?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with Preetie Boler, founder of Empowered by Design and creator of the Shiftcode™ methodology, to explore what really happens to our behaviour when pressure rises.

Preetie’s work focuses on the gap between intention and impact - the space between the leader we believe we are and ...

What does Olympic-level performance teach us about leading people through pressure?

Drew Ginn OAM is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, a member of Australia’s legendary Oarsome Foursome and now General Manager of Marshall White Bayside. In this conversation, Drew takes us behind the medals to explore the trust, honesty and discipline required to build a team capable of performing when the stakes are high.

Drew reflects on ...

When people struggle at work, organisations often respond by trying to make them more resilient. But what if the problem is not the person? What if it is the way the work has been designed?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, Sadhana Smiles is joined by organisational psychologist Dr Kat Page, author of Good Work: Transform Your Work from the Inside Out.

Drawing on almost two decades of research, Kat challenges leaders to loo...

What if positive thinking isn’t always the answer?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, Sadhana Smiles sits down with speaker and author Chris Helder for a wide-ranging conversation about the beliefs we carry, the stories we tell ourselves and how both shape the way we live and...

What if the biggest leadership problem isn’t your people, but the system they’re working within?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, Sadhana Smiles speaks with engineer, entrepreneur, author and founder of five businesses Felicity Furey about what it means to design leadership for impact.

Felicity shares how being one of the few women in engineering shaped her early career, why she once hesitated to put her hand u...

Domestic violence is not a fringe issue. It is not a private matter. And it is not someone else’s problem.

In this episode, I sit down with family lawyer Cassandra Kalpaxis for a direct and deeply confronting conversation about domestic and family violence in Australia. Cassandra shares that in her practice, around 95 percent of her cases now involve domest...

Leadership is often measured by what we build: the business, the team, the results and the growth.

But Kenny Lange believes there is a more important question leaders need to ask: Who are you becoming while you build it?

Kenny is a leadership and scaling coach, entrepreneur and host of How Leaders Think. His path to coaching came through experience rather than theory. After being let go twice in four months, he started a digital ag...

What happens when highly capable people can solve complex problems but struggle with tasks the workplace considers simple?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I speak with executive coach Frankie Berkoben about neurodiversity, executive functioning and what leaders misunderstand about people who think differently.

Frankie’s own career has crossed geology, engineering, product and program management, endurance cycling an...

What does it take to build a career that spans some of the world's biggest technology companies before launching your own AI start-up?

For Anya Cheng, it wasn't a perfectly mapped career plan. It was curiosity, resilience and an unwillingness to accept the first "no."

Born and raised in Taiwan, Anya arrived in the United States with little more than a marketing degree, limited English, and no professional network. Finding work afte...

Technology is changing faster than leadership.

As AI reshapes the way we work, many organisations are focused on becoming more efficient. But what if they're asking the wrong question?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with executive coach and former Google Ventures leader Maximos Lih for a thoughtful conversation about what leadership looks like when AI does more of the thinking, and why the future belongs to le...

For years, the debate around working from home has centred on one question: where should people work? But perhaps we've been asking the wrong question all along.

As Victoria moves to legislate new work-from-home rights, the conversation has shifted beyond organisational policy and into public policy. Supporters say the changes protect flexibility and improve work-life balance. Critics argue they risk removing the very flexibility t...

Leadership today isn't just about managing people. It's about understanding people.

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I am joined by global leadership and intercultural expert Monika Guzek, who has worked with leaders across more than 60 countries helping organisations navigate the complexity of diverse teams, cultural intelligence and human behaviour.

Growing up in Poland during a period of extraordinary social and economi...

Are we measuring success in a way that's actually holding innovation back?

For decades, organisations have relied on goals, KPIs and OKRs to drive performance. But what if those very frameworks are encouraging short-term thinking at the expense of long-term innovation?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with MIT-trained engineer, entrepreneur and Radical Product Thinking author Radhika Dutt, whose work is challeng...

Is AI making us more productive... or quietly making us worse leaders?

As artificial intelligence transforms the way we work, most of the conversation has focused on efficiency. But what if we're asking the wrong question?

In this episode of Future Fit L...

We've all experienced times in our careers when we've felt stuck. From the outside everything appears to be going well. The results are there, the goals are being achieved, but internally something has changed. The energy has faded, the excitement has disappeared, and you begin to wonder if you've lost the spark that once drove you.

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I'm joined by executive coach, keynote speaker and author ...

What does resilience really look like in a world that never seems to slow down?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with resilience coach, speaker and facilitator Russell Harvey to explore one of the most important leadership capabilities of the decade.

As workplaces face rapid t...

At 21 years of age, Hugo Toovey discovered a small lump. Like many young men, he ignored it.

What followed was a life-changing cancer diagnosis, months of chemotherapy, major surgery, and a lesson that would ultimately shape the rest of his life: never ignore the signs when something doesn't feel right.

In this powerful Men's Health Week conversation, Hugo shares his journey through not one but two cancer diagnoses before the age o...

What happens when the workplace that is meant to support you becomes the very thing that breaks you?

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with Jane Phipps, author of The Heart-Centered Leader, to explore a topic that affects more people than we often realise: toxic workplace cu...

Leaders as Creators, Not Controllers

In this episode of Future Fit Leadership, I sit down with Matt Hart, founder of Better Ideas Faster, innovation strategist, and creative thinker who has worked with some of the world's most recognised brands across media, technology, education, and entertainment.

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