Performance podcast.

Doing work that matters always has a hard part. A point when our aspirations for achievement get challenged, and we either find a way or lose our way. The Messy Middle is a podcast designed for leaders who need to deliver results in a demanding context. Subscribe below and receive insights and ideas about how to amplify your impact within your life, organisation and community.

Episode #58

Richard Young – Simplify to Perform

What makes elite athletes perform? Not just become Olympians, which is a feat in itself, but become a medal winning Olympian. What do the athletes, their coaches, technical staff, and systems they are training in, do differently to those athletes who work hard – but don’t peak at the right…

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Episode #57

David Knoff – 537 Days of Winter

Leadership can be difficult at the best of times, but for David Knoff, this took on a whole new meaning, when as Station Leader at Davis Research Station in Antarctica, he was told due to the Covid pandemic, that his ride home was being cancelled – indefinitely. David and his…

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Episode #56

Nick Maxwell - Leadership

Nick Maxwell knows a thing or two about leadership. A highly respected player who played 208 games at the Collingwood Football Club, he was appointed Captain in 2008 and led the club to their 15th Premiership in 2010.

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Episode #55

Marc Champagne – Mental fitness strategist

On a score of 1 to 10, 1 being frazzled and 10 being fired up, where are you sitting right now? Do you feel alive and inspired, full of energy? Or are you dragging yourself through the day, racing from one demand to the next, your mind full of mental…

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