The Deliberate Leader Podcast with Rita Cincotta
By Rita Cincotta
The Deliberate Leader Podcast with Rita CincottaAug 16, 2022
Why your DNA does not define your health
This week we welcome Alessandra Edwards to The Deliberate Leader Podcast. Alessandra Edwards 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, Alessandra offers a distinct approach by combining her expertise as a clinical health scientist, nutritionist and epigenetic expert with her background as a UK corporate executive, all the 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.
Alessandra Edwards is the go-to professional for leaders serious about elevating their health, performance and longevity.
Show Notes
- https://alessandraedwards.com/
Deliberate Leadership: Navigating Purpose, Feedback, and Accountability
In this conversation, we explore deliberate leaders and deliberate strategy, particularly around purpose, feedback, accountability, self-awareness and perspective.
David Fish is a globally recognised strategist, business leader, best-selling author and record-breaking pilot.
His 30-year career in marketing and advertising saw him rise to become Chief Strategy Officer, and he has worked with and advised some of the world's largest brands as well as global agency networks, tech start-ups and media companies, giving him a deep understanding of what it takes to connect, engage and convince.
But David Fish is more than just a corporate powerhouse. He's a world record holder, a British and Australian aviation champion, and a commercial pilot. Fishy, as he's affectionately known, brings a fresh perspective that not only excites the mind but challenges our perceptions of the boundless possibilities that await us.
To explore Fishy’s work please visit: https://www.davidfish.com.au
When Grit Is Not Enough with Dr Kirsten Peterson
In this week’s episode author and psychologist, Dr Kirsten Peterson talks to us about grit and performance and draws parallels from the sporting world.
Kirsten’s book, “When Grit Is Not Enough” serves as a great tool for leaders who have been taught that gritting your teeth and getting through despite fears and challenges will serve you well.
Kirsten provides insights about how deliberate leaders can improve their relationship with vulnerability, fear and effort.
Show Notes
The Deliberate Leader Podcast with Megan Buntine
In this week’s episode, Rita chats with Megan Buntine, Board and Executive Team Advisor and Executive Coach. Megan draws on her extensive experience across a range of sectors to share insights on what she sees exceptional deliberate leaders do. She shares her views on the importance of self-leadership first and also puts out the “50 coffees challenge” to anyone who is keen to strategically expand their network.
The Importance of Intuition in Leadership
In this episode we speak to Siobhan Mulcahy, Partner at Gaden’s law firm, specialising in Employment Advisory. Siobhan discusses how she leverages her intuition to be a more deliberate leader. Siobhan also shares insights from a profound learning experience over the last two years and how this has helped to shape how she leads her team.
Deliberate Leadership in Healthcare
In this week’s episode of The Deliberate Leader podcast I am joined by Rhea Mercado. Rhea leads The Intelligent Rebellion, revolutionising organisational structures, and fostering open forums to empower professionals to shape a brighter future. As an exercise physiologist, injury management specialist, and business owner, Rhea grasps the delicate balance between the mission of healthcare and the margin of business. Having experienced occupational burnout herself and witnessing it in her colleagues, Rhea shifted her focus from patients to professionals. Authoring "Compo: A Rehabilitation Consultant's Journey” inspired her to establish The Intelligent Rebellion and Threesticks Training and Development, safe spaces that champion creativity and imagination, igniting impactful conversations and solutions, and for professionals to unleash their superpowers. As a speaker, Rhea infuses dynamism, credibility, relatability, sass, and charisma, challenging audiences to ask better questions, and to understand they are capable of creating change. Show Notes:
@rheamercs on Linkedin and Instagram #intelligenrebellion
Rhea Mercado HQ
The Intelligent Rebellion
Threesticks Training & Development
Defining moments that matter in Leadership
This week I am joined by AFL sports star and now CEO, Nick Maxwell.
Nick Maxwell is the epitome of hard work, persistence & ‘team’. After years of knockbacks, he became one of the Australian Football League’s greatest success stories, going from the rookie list to an AFL Premiership Captain, leading the Collingwood Football Club to a drought-breaking flag in 2010.
Maxwell is recognised for his excellent leadership capabilities, becoming a successful Leadership coach with the Melbourne Storm, GWS Giants & an advisor to Leaders in business, presenting to and working with companies like Telstra, Barry Plant Real Estate, PWC, BHP, Holden and the Melbourne Stars. He also completed his MBA, focusing on Sports Administration.
In November 2017, Maxwell returned to Collingwood where he is GM of Football Operations, also responsible for Leadership and Culture across the AFL, AFLW, Netball and administration. After that, he left football to become CEO of Eclat, a hospitality infused workspace in Melbourne, Australia.
In this conversation, Nick shares many insights from how he went from being Captain to one of the most successful AFL teams to now being a corporate CEO in a completely different industry. He talks about defining moments that matter in leadership, and how focusing on these makes a significant difference to your team and organisation. Nick shares many stories that helped shape his leadership, from the football field to the board table.
How Leaders can achieve better productivity through hybrid working and the 4-day working week
This week's episode is all about hybrid working three years post-pandemic. We have learned a lot about how to navigate this different way of working, and in this conversation, I had the pleasure of speaking to an expert in this area, Associate Professor John Hopkins.
John Hopkins is an Associate Professor of Management from Swinburne University of Technology, and the Founder of WorkFLEX, a Melbourne-based company offering a range of online courses, coaching and training, to help workers and organisations successfully transition to new ways of working.
John has been one of Australia’s leading experts in flexible and remote work practices for the past decade and has led a range of projects for both public sector and private sector clients, including: the Australian Fair Work Commission, The National Workplace Institute, Regional Development Victoria, NSW Public Service Commission, Deloitte, Transport for NSW, and the Australian Productivity Commission.
In our discussion, John provides the latest research on hybrid working, productivity, a four-day working week and what people are looking for when they do come into the physical office space. John also discusses what this means for leaders and teams.
John offers an online workshop on ‘Mastering the 4DW’. As a special offer for our listeners, John is offering a 30% discount for the workshop. To take advantage of this, use the code RITA30.
The Leadership Lane Podcast featuring Barb Hyman Founder and CEO sapia.ai
In this episode, I had the great pleasure of welcoming Barb Hyman to the show. Barb is the Founder and CEO of sapia.ai
We had a great discussion about vulnerabilities and challenges in leadership and how these occurrences helped Barb to shape her own leadership style. Barb shares stories of important mentors and leaders who have helped her move through her own leadership lanes. We also discussed what the Leader of 2028 look like given the pace of change with AI ( 5 years post recording).
Show Notes
- Steve Vamos Ted Talk: Digital Disruption is a human thing
- Sapia.ai: Try smart chat, and experience what 3 million people across 47 countries have – empowering, motivating – we call it Smart Interviewer™
How to Maintain Your Wellbeing as a Leader
I am joined this week by Ange Fragiacomo. Ange is the Founder of the Conscious Living Hub, and co-author of the Amazon Best Seller, “Goodbye Busy, Hello Happy”. In this episode we delve into wellbeing, what a leader can do if they feel they are close to burnout and really useful tips on maintaining your wellbeing, especially with the demands of being a leader.
"You pay employees to do their job, but they volunteer to do their best” - Bill Nikolouzakis
In this episode we speak to entrepreneur, Bill Nikolouzakis. Bill has led organisations and developed many teams throughout his career. We discuss performance, leadership capabilities, how to better manage up, Bill’s four core leadership principles and how he incorporates radical honesty and ultimate responsibility as part of his team’s culture.
The importance of implementing a coaching culture in organisations
What a pleasure it was to have Ainsley Johnstone on The Leadership Lane Podcast recently. Ainsley is doing incredible work with her team Think Talent and she shares some gold-star tips on building a great culture, adapting leadership styles, the importance of coaching in leadership, and being aware of your strengths as a leader.
Feedback Reactions
Part II of our feedback theme, and this week we focus on Feedback Reactions. I discuss what you can you do to minimise or avoid a reaction that does not increase your ability to build trust and connection with the other person.
What's your feedback intention?
When communicating feedback, do you think about your intention in delivering the feedback?
If not, this episode provides you with insights into six different feedback intentions that you may be conveying unknowingly to the person you are
providing feedback to.
Maximise your chance for your feedback to be understood by considering your feedback intention.
How Leaders can use Data Analytics and Insights to Elevate the Performance of their Team
Welcome to this week’s episode of the Leadership Lane.
I am joined this week by Alex King. Alex King is the co-founder of LedgeHR, a rapidly growing data-driven HR technology company all about helping organisations understand their people and build high performing teams. In this podcast, Alex and I chat about how leaders can use data analytics and insights to elevate the performance of their team, along with how understanding how personality archetypes can help us develop a greater awareness of ourselves and others. We also look at trends on the horizon for leaders to be aware of, and what leaders can do to become more comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Maintaining and Creating more Energy in your Leadership Role with Naomi Gulinello
We kick off the 2023 year by welcoming our guest, Naomi Gulinello. Naomi is a Wholistic Wellness Coach and in this week’s episode we have an insightful conversation about maintaining and creating more energy in your leadership role. Who wouldn’t want some more of that?! Enjoy
High Impact Communications for Leaders
How do you rate your ability to be able to deliver high impact communications? In this episode, we look at factors that can get in the way and a simple model you can use to increase your ability to deliver high impact communications.
How to be more Adaptable and Aware as a Leader
In this episode I am joined by Danette Fenton-Menzies. Danette is a thought leader in adaptable leadership and the Director of Learning at Magical Learning. In this discussion we explore bouncing back from difficult leadership challenges through a curiosity mindset. What questions can we ask that will enable us to see this situation from a different perspective? Enjoy!
Leadership Lane with Caelan Huntress
Joining me in this episode of The Leadership Lane podcast, is author and thought leader, Caelan Huntress.
Caelan is an expert in marketing, productivity and communications. In this discussion, we cover the similarities between leading a team, and influencing a community in marketing. We look at bringing play into productivity and performance for a team, and what leaders can do to engage their teams both in a face to face and virtual capacity.
You can grab a copy of Caelan’s book here: https://marketingyourselfbook.com/?utm_source=caelanhuntress&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=hero
Managing Stress in Leadership
In this episode I chat with Rebecca Max, Founder and General Manager of Infinite Presence. Rebecca works with teams and leaders to help them better manage stress and develop mindful leadership practices. She does this by teaching them how to understand their own stress response and provides them with stress management tools such as meditation and mindfulness. In addition to this, Rebecca is an accredited Mental health First Aid Instructor.
Rebecca shares many tips in our conversation on how leaders can ensure they are prioritising their mental health and wellbeing and why this is vital to being a successful leader.
The Leadership Lane with Richenda Vermeulen
On this week’s podcast, Rita interviewed the wonderful Richenda Vermuelen, CEO of ntegrity.
Richenda shares her insights on how her leadership style has evolved, the power in focusing on team development, her meticulous focus on goal setting and why increasing self-awareness is the absolute game changer in elevating your leadership.
The 9C's of Leadership
In this week's podcast I share with you the 9C's of Leadership. What they look like and what they don't, how you can tune into them for yourself, and also the impact they have on those around you... colleagues, team members, managers, even your family and friends!
Moving into the Executive level
This week's episode covers the common fears that might get in the way of moving up to the executive level, and how a focus on confidence, trust and value can support you in moving across into the Executive lane.
Happier leaders with Dr Tarryn McCarthy
In this week's episode, Dr Tarryn McCarthy shares how we can become happier leaders by focusing on redefining success. In this discussion, we challenge strongly held mindsets about success in leadership, and we consider what it would take for us to turn the path to success completely on its head.
The Leadership Lane with Jade Lee
Jade Lee is a Workplace Engagement expert who is passionate about employee wellbeing and sustained mental health at work. Jade's new book, "What my Sherpa taught me about teams - A guide to engagement at work" is all about Jade's experience climbing Mt Everest, and what she learned in observing how the Sherpa (now her husband) consistently engaged and motivated the group of travelers as they made their way up the mountain.
In the Leadership Lane with Pina Khalaf and Michelle McCubbin-Gannon
This week we have two special guests on the podcast, Pina Khalaf and Michelle McCubbin-Gannon. Pina and Michelle are successful award-winning entrepreneurs with a long business history. In my interview with them, we discussed their leadership journies and they shared some great insights about how they have developed their own leadership toolkit and how they help their team to achieve this also.
Leadership Lane with special guest - The Construction Coach - Elinor Moshe
Special Guest, Elinor Moshe joins me this week for a conversation about leadership on the Leadership Lane.
Elinor Moshe is an ambitious and driven thought leader and dedicated mentor in the construction industry. Her passion to guide, inspire and direct future leaders and industry professionals to construct their career lead to her founding the successful platform, The Construction Coach.
Elinor is also the host of the successful podcast, Constructing You. As a #1 Best Selling Author, Elinor's book Constructing Your Career is one of its kind, for people who want inspirational, practical action and unconventional career intelligence to construct their career. Her upcoming release is a world first, titled Leadership in Construction.
Elinor has been featured in Yahoo! Finance, Australian National Construction Review, Property Council of Australia's Top 500 Women in Property programme 2019, Top 100 Women in Construction, and is frequently a speaker, guest lecturer and panellist.
Is it all urgent and important?
In this episode, we look at whether everything is really urgent and important. We can quite easily make this our default setting. How do we avoid it and how can we best utilise one of our most important currencies... time.
What does Coaching look like in Leadership?
Coaching in leadership provides an effective way to build high team performance, trust, connection and authenticity in a team. In this week's episode, I talk about what the coaching mode in leadership looks like and how easily it can be implemented.
Energy is the most important resource to manage as a leader
Welcome back and a happy 2022 to you! In this first episode for 2022 we talk about energy. What energy are you bringing to your leadership role, what energy do you need to bring, how can you manage your energy and what energy do you need to manage across your leadership lanes?
Goal setting and "Six of the best"
In a farewell to 2021, I share with you some goal setting tips to avoid creating guilt lists, and l also share a practice that I was told about this week called "Six of the best" with full attribution to P.A (who I may just ask to be a guest on one of next year's podcasts!)
Happy festive season to you all. Thanks so much for your support for this podcast this year, and I look forward to bringing you more next year!
Rita x
Recommitting to your leadership opportunity
In this episode, I discuss the importance of recommitting to your leadership opportunity. Does your opportunity still serve your plan? What is your plan? Hoiw do you know when you have achieved what you want? How does failure play a part in this? Lots of questions, and lots of food for thought in this week's podcast. Enjoy.
Collaboration in a hybrid working environment
Building a team and encouraging collaboration needs consistent focus and practice. It happens when we intentionally work on it. This week's podcast is all about how we can continue to build collaboration in our teams in our (here to stay) hybrid working environment.
Developing Confidence and Performance
In this podcast, I explore the relationship between building confidence and performance effort. This can be applied to you as a leader or to members of your team.
How to increase your level of empathy in leadership
Empathy. We all know we need to demonstrate it. We call it out as being important. Some organisations have it in their values, behaviours and capability frameworks. But what does it look like in leadership?
Organisations that focus on empathy have stronger collaboration, deeper trust, more quality relationships and increased psychological safety. When empathy is abundant there is a deeper desire to seek to understand. We care more deeply about people, their needs, their challenges, and how we can support them.
Here is the empathy map that is referenced in this week's podcast.
Be an Evolution Champion - The real way to manage change in leadership
In this episode, I talk about change. We all need to implement it at some point as leaders, but how can we do it in an easier way?
Leadership and your Personal Performance
When you're in the leadership lane, your personal performance - that is your performance based on how you take care of your body, mind, heart and soul is fundamental to achieving an elevated level of performance. In this week's podcast, I discuss why this is important and what you can start doing right now.
The relationship between Trust and Confidence
In this episode, I talk about the relationship between trust and confidence. The two are inextricably linked. They are co-dependent. As one grows the other grows. We often seek external validation for trust and internal validation for confidence. the reality is that we need both to be seen in almost if not equal measure from our own view and the view of others.
A deeper conversation between introverts and extroverts
In this episode, I share a deeper conversation that I had the pleasure of facilitating between a group of introverts and a group of extroverts. It was authentic, insightful, and revealed so much! This group was able to create a deeper connection, they increased their self-awareness and they knocked over lots of myths and stories they had told themselves about the 'other" side. Enjoy!
What leadership identity are you wearing?
In this episode, I talk about leadership identities. In particular which ones do we wear and how many do we wear? Do we know if we are wearing the right one and when is it a good time to decide if we need to change?
Welcome to Leadership Lane
Welcome to the very first episode of Leadership Lane. Now more than ever it is tough to lead. Leadership is an esteemed path, but for many, the gloss wears off too quickly. So hang out with me every week or so where I aim to make your Leadership Lane, easier and more fulfilling.