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The Inner Chief | Executive Coaching for a successful career and life with Chief Maker, Greg Layton If you believe as I do that learning from the masters, coupled with consistent personal growth, is instrumental to a successful career an life then this is your podcast. Every Thursday I’ll bring you a deep diving interview with a CEO or GURU with their best wisdom and advice and every Monday I post a short, sharp minisode with the best tips I can muster to help you in your career. Interviews ...
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“Know that if you are a leader, you have an impact on the health and wellbeing of the people around you. That's why leadership is either a life-depleting or life-feeding line of work.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky, on how to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy. 🎧👉 …
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“There's been too much focus on profit outcomes in business rather than maybe building the process along the way through empowering people, through effective delegation.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Cliff Gale, former Managing Director of Lite n’ Easy for over 20 years, on leading with passion, respect for …
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“The truth is, these 5 traits are disappointingly quite uncommon amongst leadership teams, but if you follow them, you will be closer to outsmarting the competition.” Chief, in today’s minisode, I’m going to discuss five leadership lessons from a powerhouse executive team with whom I have worked for around five years. Having played just a small par…
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“There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute …
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“One of the great pitfalls is that we just throw them in the deep end and assume they're going to swim. And when they fail, we say, oh well, they just weren’t up to it.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to dive into some reasons for why so many people struggle with the shift from a technical, hands-on role into a leadership r…
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“If you can simulate a problem by removing all of the normal, easy, well-travelled roads, then you're forcing yourself to be truly creative in getting to the end result." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a …
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“There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond on taking learning by experience to new frontiers, putting guardrails on innovation, and …
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“My mother has this wonderful saying: Tell the time, don't build the clock. Many of us are clock builders when we communicate, but if we can structure our messages to be concise and clear, we can be much better communicators in any situation.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These a…
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“I believe that everything that you want to accomplish can be accomplished with mentoring, modelling and masterminding.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media, on pulling off creative business deals with no money down, and modelling your mentors. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/333 👂 DOWNL…
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“I just want to make sure the right people get the right things in the right way. And I also want to make sure that people like you and me could have a direct impact on a disaster event that's happening overseas." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights fro…
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“My mother has this wonderful saying: Tell the time, don't build the clock. Many of us are clock builders when we communicate, but if we can structure our messages to be concise and clear, we can be much better communicators in any situation.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Matt Abrahams, author of ‘Think Faster, Talk Smarte…
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“If you say honesty is a core value, are you kidding me? Do you want people working in your organisation that are dishonest? That doesn't make sense!” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snaps…
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“What do I do with a group of leaders who have risen up through functional roles and are now really struggling to work on the business and to be strategic? It's causing a fair amount of chaos and tension across the group.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to cover the exact strategies you need to use in order to get your lead…
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“You are best defined by what you say no to.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Juliette Wright OAM, Founder and Director of GIVIT and Recovere, on revolutionising misguided charitable giving, having a million conversations, and leaning into anxiety. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/330 👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEADERS ON H…
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“My mantra is first you build it, then you buy it. Finding product-market fit with a startup is by far the hardest thing in the world, but when you buy a company, you probably skip that.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests,…
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“Often the people you speak to are in the same industry and that creates an echo chamber. If you don’t have communication with people outside your industry, you're going to be someone else's lunch or dinner in this crazy world of disruption.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Group CEO of Nuix, Jonathan Rubinszte…
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“I feel that if you understand finance and economics, you understand how most of the world works.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Joel Holland, CEO of Harvest Hosts on why unhappiness is a requirement for entrepreneurialism, switching seats from CEO to Chair, and buying versus building a business. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/328 👂 GET…
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“We're trying to ease the financial pain for the next generation in the green and gold.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief episode features …
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“Sometimes you've got to save them from themselves and have some really honest, heart-to-heart conversations about their role.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to cover a little problem that has come up repeatedly over the last few years and that is right person, wrong role. This is when you have a great employee in your sta…
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“Our job as a coach is to find out why the swing has changed, because the only way you can fix it is by identifying the real bottleneck, the real constraint. But without being reactive.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, …
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“Amateurs do it until they get it right; professionals do it until they can't get it wrong.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Natalie Cook OAM OLY on how to out-think the competition, and why it takes an ecosystem to win a gold medal. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/326 👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEADERS ON HOW TO HAVE DIFF…
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“Decision friction is when you deliberately interrupt your thoughts before forming a judgement. You adopt a series of prompts or questions that are like a speed bump for your mind if you’re in a hot state.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our f…
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“We see Tiger Woods get angry and throw clubs, but when he does something he’s done a million times, like hole a 6-foot putt, he gets super excited and dances across the green pumping his fist. Why? He's emotionally anchoring that success.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Golf master Coach, Steve Bann, on worki…
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“Yeah, it was brutal, a very, very difficult period of my life. I’d hired a lot of people who didn't have technology experience. What I actually did was I set them and the business up for failure.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous C…
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“Are you or someone else owning the developmental pathway for your career?” Chief, in today’s minisode I’m going to cover how to choose the right course that will significantly boost your career. In today’s busy world, there are just so many options, so it’s incredibly hard to know how to sift out the bad options from the good ones. And then, to co…
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“We live in this highly overstimulated world, people are rushing to judgement more than ever, people are feeling unheard, and the reality is, they are unheard, because we can't hear them, because we're too busy, too distracted.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Nuala Walsh, Founder & CEO of MindEquity and author of “Tune In”, …
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“It includes self-reflection as that's not often talked about. Each person should think about their worldview and how it’s been shaped, and how it affects the way they act and behave.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, wh…
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“Yeah, it was brutal, a very, very difficult period of my life. I’d hired a lot of people who didn't have technology experience. What I actually did was I set them and the business up for failure.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Jeremy Hastings, Founder & Managing Director of both Hutly and Bondable, on being fired from his …
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“I knew I was going to be sued by Nike, but I did my research and I knew that they couldn't just come and sue me, they had to issue you a cease and desist.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute…
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“When you start paying attention in a handshake, it actually tells you something about the general openness and willingness to trust, even momentarily.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Isabelle Nüssli, author of the book, “Cockfighting” on the CEO-Chairperson relationship and overcoming the drivers of conflict.…
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“The reason you want to build a model is because people have all these assumptions that aren't actually true.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this edi…
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“By removing 20% of meetings that suck 80% of your energy and attention, you get 20% of your time back immediately, but you also remove 80% of the stuff that's draining you.” In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover my top 3 tips for beating overwhelm and burnout. Life is fast and it will flash by if you don’t take control of your calendar, whether …
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“People just want to hear the truth and just want to be talked to as humans by brands.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief episode features t…
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“I knew I was going to be sued by Nike, but I did my research and I knew that they couldn't just come and sue me, they had to issue a cease and desist.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Jaimie Fuller, Founder and former CEO of SKINS and now Chair of eo, on unlocking the secrets of the world’s greatest athletes and teams, copin…
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“How do I make them significant in a business that we only contribute 3 or 4 percent of the revenue? Well, we have the ability to try new things, because if it doesn't work, I'm not going to pull down the whole company.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlig…
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“HR is normally an advocate of the employer, normally to the detriment of the employee and I was not that way.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this ed…
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“The brain doesn't actually have a sense of time; it has a sense of trial and error cycles.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D on debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/318 👂 REGISTER INTER…
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I love the Churchill quote, “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. What matters is the courage to go on.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this ed…
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“People just want to hear the truth and just want to be talked to as humans by brands.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the CEO of Havas Red Australia, Shane Russell, on how to avoid PR disasters through campaigns that build your company brand and customer engagement, and the ever-changing media landscape. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/3…
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“I asked this executive team whether any of them had ever regretted removing a toxic high performer and what was quite amazing was that they not only emphatically said no, they couldn't believe they took so long to do so.” In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover toxic high performers. These individuals can cause a lot of problems in your business, …
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“A manager once told me to stop trying to be so perfect; instead, get it 80% right, and we'll work out the rest, because otherwise you'll never do anything.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the Managing Director of SAP Concur ANZ, Fabian Calle, on being agile in a large corporate, leading as an introvert, and the career skill…
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“I'm an advocate of not getting splinters in my bum or sitting on a fence. Make hard choices, make them now, rip the BandAid off.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature the Chief Growth Officer of ACS (Australian Computer Society), Siobhan O’Sullivan, on customer experience, looking at yourself in the mirror and acce…
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I love the Churchill quote, “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. What matters is the courage to go on.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to world-renowned hotel developer, Rory Hunter, on spearheading the build-to-rent movement towards sustainability, seeking solitude and healing on the ocean, and the adventure of a lifet…
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“In the second half of life, you shift from focusing on serving the self to focusing on serving family and community. That's what it means to be a true Chief, to be beyond self.” In today’s minisode, I give to you my top 15 lessons and learnings from this year. And what a year it’s been! This year we passed 300 episodes, and we passed six years as …
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“People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 t…
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“People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the World’s #1 Celebrity Voice Coach, Roger Love, the man who taught Bradley Cooper, Reece Witherspoon, The Beach Boys and more…
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“It's not about starting up, it's about staying up.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with the Co-Founder of …
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“It's not about starting up, it's about staying up.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Co-Founder of The Real Estate Stylist, Sara Chamberlain, on being a rebel, becoming unemployable, and knowing your business inside-out. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/310 👂 REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmaker.com/mini…
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“I am grateful for everything I have. But for me, feeling lucky is a lot more animated and holds a lot more curiosity and open-mindedness to opportunity and possibility.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a …
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“The big online course providers have got about a 5 to 9% completion rate. Attention spans are really low. No-one's got 20 minutes for a course anymore, but they've probably got 20 seconds.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on partnering with the world’s top performers and business people, …
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