The Worker Learner

As Dr Mark McKergow and Paul Z Jackson celebrate the publication of the 3rd edition of their landmark coaching book, The Solutions Focus, they join Associate Professor Samuel Wilson and Dr Andrew Rixon on The Worker Learner podcast to explore how a solutions-focused approach can be applied in the high stakes environment of an emergency department. This is an invaluable conversation for not only health professionals but anyone faced with complex problems.

In this episode of The Worker Learner, Andrew Rixon and Samuel Wilson are in conversation with Dan Dworkis M.D., emergency physician and founder of The Emergency Mind. This is essential listening for anyone who has ever wondered about leadership and decision making in moments of crisis.

In this episode of The Worker Learner, Associate Professor Brian McIntosh and Adjunct Associate Professor Wouter Lincklaen Arriens explore collaboration, leadership and how skills in both directly impact the water sector (and every sector) and our collective efforts to address climate change.

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).