The Worker Learner

In this episode of The Worker Learner Associate Professor Johanna Nalau talks social impact and amplifying the voice of young people in business with The People's Kian Bakhtiari. With a background in politics and marketing, Kian saw an opportunity to go beyond 'selling stuff' and founded The People, an agency driven by imagination and a desire to build a more inclusive and sustainable future.

In this episode Johanna Nalau chats with entrepreneur and author, Thomas Weaver. Thomas' work cuts across business and creative practice and deals with the big issues facing the world of today and tomorrow. As we stare down a future of climate crisis and emergent A.I., it might be that asking the creative 'what if' question will help us steer towards a more sustainable, and human-friendly future.

Anyone who watches the ABC's Gardening Australia will be familiar with Hannah Moloney. From her hillside pink house in Hobart her enthusiasm for permaculture knows no bounds. In this episode, Dr Saffron Benner discovers that underneath Hannah's bubbly persona is a driven activist. This engaging conversation suggests that whether we find ourselves in the garden or at work, community, joy and love is our greatest superpower.

Dr Saffron Benner in conversation with leading contemporary artist and thinker, Dr David Pledger. Whether you label yourself an artist or not, this is a timely conversation about considering the creative impulse that informs what we're all doing, how we're doing it, and why we're doing it, and what that means as we contend with an uncertain future.

With nearly 200 years of experience, commercial property insurer FM Global approaches the idea of risk differently. With an immersive training centre in Singapore where participants use virtual reality and gameplay to explore risk, they are at the cutting edge of climate adaptation. In this episode, Dr Johanna Nalau talks risk and resilience with FM Global's James Thompson (Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, FM Global).

In this episode Dr Kimberly Camrass, Director - Climate Positive Brisbane 2032, talks with Dr Saffron Banner, Manager of Griffith University's Sustainability Office, about the preparations underway leading up to the Olympic Games, and why the Olympics means so much for QLD beyond sports. The games are an opportunity to build a better region, now and for the future.

In this candid conversation between much loved Australian media personality, Johanna Griggs, and Professor Donna Pendergast, Johanna shares her transition from athlete to media presenter, and charts the highs and lows of her 30 year career and how throughout all of this she always kept one eye on her wellbeing.

David Finnigan is a theatre maker at the intersection of art, science and the corporate world. In this conversation with Dr Saffron Benner from Griffith University's Sustainability Office, David explores the role of the artist as the world grapples with climate change, and details how artistic practice can open up creative spaces for useful conversations.