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 #60

Cate Bakos – Business and life lessons

The author and management consultant, Warren Bennis, once said the key to leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. To turn the things we desire into the things we deliver. And someone I know who has made an art form out of this, is Cate Bakos.

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Episode #59

Tori Olds – Surfacing our stories

We all have patterns of behaviour that often don’t serve us well. The angry outburst when we’re frustrated, inability to say no despite an already busy schedule, or desire to control the family holiday plans. If you are tired of these parts of yourself holding you back, you’re going to…

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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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