Zac: It's very exciting for me to continue my chat with Jolie Hodson, CEO of Spark (see the first part HERE ). She’s the CEO of one of the biggest companies in New Zealand, so we're very lucky to have her with us today. We are going to chat through
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Spark CEO Jolie Hodson on innovation, succeeding in business and her biggest career lessons
Zac: It's very exciting for me to have a chat to Jolie Hodson, CEO of Spark. Jolie and I used to work together many moons ago in our first job back at Deloitte’s, back in 1992. She left Deloitte’s at the end of 2000 and she’s now the CEO of Spark,
PwC New Zealand CEO Mark Averill on culture, strategy, performance and ‘just 2 things’
PwC New Zealand's CEO and senior partner Mark Averill joined Business Changing's high-performance group of business owners in July for a bit of a Q&A session. Below are some of the main takeaways from his talk, that you might be able to consider
Ex Zespri CEO on leadership…
Today, more than ever, business owners and senior managers need to be focused on strong leadership. On days when you feel like you're all out of opinions and you don't know which way is up, your team is relying on you to make a decision and lead
The best lessons from Zac’s chats with world-class business leaders
During lockdown and beyond, we have been hosting Zoom calls for our Business Changing clients with many great business leaders. We've treated these much like a podcast, with a chat between myself and the guest speaker, and then room for our clients
Insights from Sir John Key
I was honoured to have Sir John Key join us by Zoom, sharing his incredible advice with a number of our Business Changing clients. As someone who led NZ during a GFC and the Christchurch earthquakes, and who now serves as an advisor and board member
Fail to plan, plan to fail
We're heading into a new financial year — what have you learnt from the last one? What went right, what went wrong, what was ho-hum? Looking back, which areas of the business do you wish you'd spent more of your focus on, because you can see they
A framework for challenging conversations
If you find challenging conversations, erm, challenging, this framework might help you - it's one a client of mine uses to keep him on track. For a more in-depth look at how to tackle a challenging conversation read this blog I wrote