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Career Advice: Career Types, Portfolio Careers, and What Keeps People Engaged at Work
Jun 23, 2026
55m 04s
Simon Johnson: Customer Success, Leading Global Teams, Falling Into Tech
Jun 16, 2026
48m 44s
Claudine Besserer: Global Brand Leadership, Creating Your Own Path, Encouraging Challenge
Jun 9, 2026
1h 01m 43s
Anita Owen: Chief Delivery Officer, Putting Your Hand Up, Valuing Curiosity
Jun 2, 2026
50m 00s
Career Advice: Identity Work, Grieving the Career You Thought You'd Have, Why Sensemaking Takes Time
May 26, 2026
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Career Advice: Career Types, Portfolio Careers, and What Keeps People Engaged at Work | What does the FIFA World Cup tell us about leadership communication? And what kind of career do you actually have?In this June advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander explore how organisations communicate difficult news, how careers have changed, and why real employee engagement is much rarer than most organisations realise.In this episode:What two different World Cup squad announcement approaches reveal about leadership values and communicationWhy the sequence of delivering difficult news matters as much as the message itselfThe traditional career is not dead — what the research on university students actually showsPortfolio, contemporary and hybrid careers: the differences, the trade-offs, and the financial realitiesGallup's 2026 finding: only 1 in 5 employees globally are genuinely engaged at workWhat the best leaders do differently — without being prompted by systems or processesBook recommendation: Hidden Potential by Adam GrantPreview of July's AI-themed guest episodesResources mentioned:Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2026: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspxHidden Potential by Adam Grant: https://adamgrant.net/book/hidden-potential/Read the full blog post and show notes: www.the-career-library.com/career-stories-episodes/june-advice-2026New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion episode at the end of the month.We would love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 55m 04s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Simon Johnson: Customer Success, Leading Global Teams, Falling Into Tech | This week's guest is Simon Johnson, Senior Director of Customer Success for Asia Pacific and Japan at DocuSign. Simon leads a team of around 35 people across the region, but his career did not start with a clear plan. He missed the marks for the degree he wanted, fell into tech almost by accident, and built his way up through Macquarie Bank, JP Morgan, MYOB, EMC, Google and Okta.In this episode:Simon explains what customer success actually means in a software business, and why making sure people get value from what they bought is its own discipline.He describes leading a customer success team across Asia Pacific and Japan for a US-headquartered company, and the realities of managing across time zones.He talks about what he looks for when hiring and developing managers: commercial experience, genuine curiosity, and the confidence to hold a room of senior people.He shares his non-linear route into tech, from wanting to be a physiotherapist to starting out in a junior role at Macquarie Bank.He reflects on the leadership lessons he learned the hard way, leading an inside sales team at MYOB as a first-time manager.He looks back on the culture at Google, where noble failures were celebrated and moonshot thinking was the norm.He explains why he thinks about work life blend rather than work life balance, and how he weaves family time into a demanding role.Simon's career advice:"Doing what you said you would do is important. But being consistent with that means that you build some real credibility and trust with the people that you've got around you."Read the full episode notes at the-career-library.com/career-stories-episodes/simon-johnson.All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member at the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 48m 44s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Claudine Besserer: Global Brand Leadership, Creating Your Own Path, Encouraging Challenge | This week's guest is Claudine Besserer, a global brand strategy leader who spent 32 years at Mars. She rose from a 21-year-old sensory analysis technician, training factory workers to taste-test chocolate and ice cream, to leading global brand strategy for Royal Canin, a brand she helped grow to 6.5 billion euros. Claudine built her career by repeatedly creating roles that did not exist and moving into fields where, by her own account, she was nowhere. She now consults on brand and long-term value creation and lectures at French business schools.In this episode:Why a brand has to start from the real DNA and values of a company, or it becomes what Claudine calls blah blah marketing that consumers can feel is not true.How she built three different careers inside one company, moving from biology and research and development to market research to strategic marketing, each role created from nothing.What fourteen years in research and development taught her about failure, and why carrying the learning from each failed project into the next is what eventually succeeds.Why moving between disciplines gives you different cards to play, and how that helps you challenge silos and see the bottlenecks other people miss.Why leaders who cannot take being challenged will struggle in a volatile world, and how the need to be loved and right becomes the biggest threat to a business.How she rebuilt a marketing culture across 8,000 people at Royal Canin by proving the gap between internal and external brand perception with evidence, not stories.Why she believes you should be loyal to one person on earth, which is yourself, and what it means to define success as having fun rather than chasing ambition.How a working-class childhood as a miner's daughter shaped her resilience and her belief that everything is possible if you are honest about what you want.Claudine's advice on building a career on your own terms:"You have to be loyal to one person on earth, which is you."Resources mentioned:Lumina (personality and team profiling tool referenced as part of Mars's leadership development) - link TBC, to be added before publishingInfluencing Without Authority (leadership development approach referenced from Mars) - link TBC, to be added before publishingRead the full episode notes at www.the-career-library.com/career-stories-episodes/claudine-bessererAll opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member at the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 1h 01m 43s | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Anita Owen: Chief Delivery Officer, Putting Your Hand Up, Valuing Curiosity | This week's guest is Anita Owen, Chief Delivery Officer at Novigi, a 550-person tech and data firm serving Australia's superannuation industry. Anita leads a team of 350, but her path to the C-suite started in data entry at a life insurance company after she dropped out of university and travelled the world. Her career has been built on curiosity, putting her hand up, and asking questions when other people rolled their eyes.In this episode:Why Anita hires for soft skills before tech skills, and how she can tell within 10 minutes of an interview whether someone is right for her team.How asking questions at a superannuation legislation briefing led to her first proper job in product and marketing.Why doing an MBA after years of work experience is what made it valuable, because she could bring real context to every concept.Why working three days a week made Anita more productive, not less, and how constraint forced her to focus.Being a hard marker on yourself, and the cost and discipline of an internal critic that thinks about failures more than successes.Why "you can do it all" is a myth, and how Anita balances family-first priorities with leading a big team.Working through public speaking nerves with the discipline of MBA presentations, and the year she has decided to put herself out there.Anita's career philosophy:"I'm probably towards the end of my career, but I feel like I'm still at the start."All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member at the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 50m 00s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Career Advice: Identity Work, Grieving the Career You Thought You'd Have, Why Sensemaking Takes Time | In this month's Career Advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on May's guest conversations with Fadzi Whande, Charity Becker and Annette Brodie, and find a common thread: each of them took a long, non-linear path to land in the work she does now. Luella also opens up about her own delayed reaction, post-doctorate and post-redundancy. The doctorate is done, the corporate job is gone, and the question of who she wants to be for the next 20 years has just walked in. In this episode: The identity work running through all three May conversations, and why every big career transition is also a psychological one. Why finding your place rarely happens in a straight line, and why people often need more than one career to find it. Self-identity versus how others see you, including what it feels like the first time someone calls you "Doctor". Grieving the version of yourself you didn't become, and why naming what's ending matters more than people realise. A working lifetime now holds four or five careers, and the rate of change is only quickening. How to do identity work practically: trusted advisors, an external coach or mentor, journalling, talking and writing your way to clarity. Why sensemaking takes time, and what change leaders get wrong when they skip the middle managers. Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence as the book recommendation of the month. "I was in mourning a bit, because I was kind of grieving the life that I thought I was going to have." — Luella Forbes Resources mentioned: Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (25th anniversary edition) The Reconnect Project (Annette Brodie's charity, tackling Australia's digital divide) Career Stories May 2026 episodes with Fadzi Whande, Charity Becker and Annette Brodie All opinions are the hosts' own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month. We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member at the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. Read the full notes and practical guide at the-career-library.com/career-stories-episodes/career-advice-identity-work-may-2026. | 54m 40s | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | ![]() Annette Brodie: Closing the Digital Divide, Social Enterprise and Backing Yourself | This week's guest is Annette Brodie, founder and CEO of The Reconnect Project, a Sydney-based social enterprise and charity on a mission to close Australia's digital divide. Annette spent more than two decades in the not-for-profit sector across Australia and the UK, with a career that moved from retail communications and waste avoidance to running her own organisation from the ground up.In this episode:What the digital divide is and who it affects, including why 1 in 5 Australians currently cannot get online.How The Reconnect Project works: collecting donated phones, tablets and laptops, refurbishing them securely, and distributing them through over 130 social service agencies including women's shelters, homelessness services and refugee support organisations.How the repair and refurbishment process creates employment pathways for neurodivergent young adults, giving them skills and a real foothold in the tech industry.Why Annette designed The Reconnect Project as a social enterprise with income-generating business units, rather than relying on grant funding alone, and what that model means in practice.Annette's career journey from a failed first-year university course and years of experimentation to finding her calling in communications and waste avoidance, and how those threads eventually converged in The Reconnect Project.The moment she used the equity in her home mortgage to secure a shopfront for the charity, and what that decision required of her.Her experience of perinatal depression across two pregnancies, psychiatric hospitalisation and ECT treatment, and how those years shaped the resilience and empathy at the heart of her work.The career philosophy she developed in her 20s: the moment she felt comfortable in a job was the moment it was time to move on.Annette's career philosophy:"If any point in time I got scared of leaving, it's time to go. You've got to keep challenging yourself."Resources mentioned:The Reconnect Project - thereconnectproject.com.auAustralian Digital Inclusion Index - digitalinclusionindex.org.auPay What It Takes campaign - paywhatittakes.com.auSupport The Reconnect Project:Donate financially at givenow.com.au/thereconnectproject. Donations over $2 are tax-deductible. Average cost to restore a device is $200.Donate a device by mail to: The Reconnect Project, 8 The Strand, Penshurst NSW 2222. All makes and models of phones and tablets accepted (any age or condition); laptops up to 8 years old. Perform a factory reset before sending to remove your personal data.Drop-off locations across Sydney (full list at thereconnectproject.com.au/donate): Bondi Junction (The Boot Factory, 27-33 Spring St), Hurstville Library (12-20 Dora St), Kogarah Library (Belgrave St), Lane Cove Council Civic Centre (48 Longueville Rd), Manly (Office of James Griffin MP, Shop 2, 2 Wentworth St), Maroubra (Lionel Bowen Library, 669-673 Anzac Parade), Marrickville (Among The Trees, 27 Sydney St, Saturdays 10am-4pm; or Reverse Garbage, 30 Carrington Rd), Matraville (Malabar Community Library, 1203 Anzac Parade), Northbridge (Office of Tim James MP, Shop 26/145-151 Sailors Bay Rd), Randwick (Margaret Martin Library, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre; or Sustainability Centre, 27 Munda St), Sutherland (Sutherland Shire Council Customer Service, 4-20 Eton St), Thornleigh (Community Recycling Centre, 29 Sefton Rd, Tue-Fri 8:30am-4pm, Sat 8:30am-12pm). Note: the Epping location is currently unavailable.Corporate or bulk donations (10 or more devices) - visit thereconnectproject.com.au/donate for the dedicated form.All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member at the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 49m 25s | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Charity Becker: Organisational Coaching, Ethics at work, Work that makes your heart sing | This week's guest is Charity Becker, an organisational coach based in Melbourne with 20 years of experience spanning coaching, coaching supervision, and coach training. | 1h 00m 02s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | ![]() Fadzi Whande: Diversity and Inclusion, International Leadership, Redefining Success | This week's guest is Fadzi Whande, Chief of Section for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, where she leads DEI across an organisation operating in 130 countries. She has spent 15 years building a career in the field, moving through employment consulting and corporate DEI roles at organisations including Mission Australia and Western Power before being headhunted by the United Nations during Covid. In this episode: Fadzi explains what UNHCR does and what leading a global DEI function at the world's refugee agency looks like in practice, including her conviction that how an organisation treats people externally must be mirrored internally. She traces a career path that moved from trainee insurance broker in Botswana to public relations, hotel customer relations and travel roles, before landing in employment consulting in Australia and eventually finding its way into DEI, almost by accident. She talks about her work as an employment consultant at Mission Australia with long-term unemployed clients, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and how that experience sharpened her thinking about disparity and opportunity. She shares how she got into DEI: a friend found a role, they Googled 'what is a diversity consultant?', she got the job, and that was nearly 15 years ago. She describes being headhunted by the United Nations during Covid while working at Western Power in Perth, needing three attempts at a travel exemption to leave Australia, and arriving in Geneva in 2021 to start a role at one of the world's most high-profile organisations. She reflects on going to university for the first time at 40, completing an MBA in Australia and then a Master's in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. She talks about the "teachable spirit", her core career philosophy of always being in a position of learning, whatever the situation. She describes how her definition of success has shifted from material markers and achievement to what she has overcome and the fact that she kept going. Fadzi's career advice: "If somebody gives you a microphone, don't ask, why did you give me a microphone? Use it and say what you want to say." And on work-life balance: "This is what I do, but this is not who I am." All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month. We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer at stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member at https://www.the-career-library.com/join and get access to bonus episodes containing work-related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 39m 29s | ||||||
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Dinda Timperon: Burnout, the REST Framework and How to Recognise the Signs | Creators & Guests Dr Luella Forbes - Host Dinda Timperon - Guest In this bonus episode of Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes is joined by Dinda Timperon — Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at a major Australian wealth management organisation, RAAF veteran, and founder of Perth Women's Circle, a community of over 10,000 women focused on professional growth and development.Having experienced burnout herself and watched it quietly erode teams across defence and cybersecurity, Dinda developed the REST framework to help leaders recognise and prevent burnout before it reaches breaking point.In this episode:What burnout actually is — the three symptoms that must all be present: emotional exhaustion, cynicism and depersonalisation, and reduced personal efficacy.Why people doing purpose-driven work are 50% less likely to experience burnout.The "silent breach": why organisations invest in systems but overlook the people operating them.Three early warning signs to watch for in yourself and your team: cognitive drift, emotional changes, and shifts in behaviour.The REST framework — Recognise, Equip, Sustain, Thrive — as a practical tool for leaders building sustainable, high-performing teams.How to track physical, mental and social energy across the day, and use that knowledge to organise work more effectively.What to do if you think you're heading toward burnout: the question "what feels heavy right now?" and the seven types of rest.Why the promise that things will ease up after the project ends is never quite true — and what to do instead.The case for using the word "burnout" mindfully, and how to tell the difference between genuine burnout and exhaustion."organizations spend often depending on the size of the organization like millions of dollars on systems but they often forget about one aspect which is the most important aspect which is the people that have to operate the systems. I call it the silent breach." — Dinda TimperonResources mentioned:Dinda's REST framework — discussed in the episode.Seven types of rest — Saundra Dalton-Smith: TED TalkAll opinions are the guest's own.More detailed show notes with links to information discussed by guests can be found here.Bonus episodes cover focused topics in career, leadership and management. From June 2026, they are available to Career Stories podcast members.Join at the-career-library.com/join — use the code FOUNDING before 1 July for a founding member rate, locked for life.New guest and advice episodes every Wednesday. Bonus episodes on Fridays from May 2026.We'd love to hear from you — share your thoughts or questions at stories@the-career-library.com.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 22m 57s | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Career Advice: Growth Mindset, Learning and Finding Joy in Your Career | How do you keep growing in your career when you feel like you've hit a ceiling? In this episode of Career Stories, Michelle Gander and Luella Forbes explore the habits, mindset shifts, and everyday practices that help professionals stay curious, motivated, and engaged, no matter where they are in their career. In this episode, we cover: What a growth mindset actually looks like in practice (it's not just positive thinking) How to spot the difference between a fixed and growth mindset response to setbacks The powerful idea that "your job description is the floor, not the ceiling" — Associate Professor Michelle Gander Why finding flow, that state of total engagement and joy, matters for sustainable careers Practical strategies for learning and growing without burning out How to stay motivated when progress feels slow You can find more detailed show notes and things to try in practice here.Resources mentioned:Above and Below the Line thinking: [Accountability and Mindset]Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi If you liked this episode:New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Follow Career Stories on Linkedin and InstagramHelp other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 49m 46s | ||||||
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() Dr Annelen Schär: Luxury Cars, Marketing Architecture and Choosing Positivity | This week's guest is Dr Annelen Schär, Head of Omnichannel Portfolio Management at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart — a digital leader working at the intersection of e-commerce, customer experience and business architecture in one of the world's most iconic car brands. Annelen has spent almost 15 years at Mercedes-Benz, completing a Doctorate of Business Administration along the way, all while raising two young children. She embodies resilience and a very deliberate choice to stay positive.In this episode:• What omnichannel portfolio management actually means, and how Annelen's team connects Mercedes-Benz's digital channels, e-commerce and business architecture from customer awareness all the way through to retention.• How a childhood cello player who wanted to be a vet ended up in the luxury automotive industry, via a multicultural degree, a year abroad in the US at 15, time in France, and a Porsche internship that sparked her love of the product.• The moment the financial crisis derailed a signed job offer and how Annelen navigated her way back, through a smaller company, a promotion, a tyre company detour, and eventually the Mercedes-Benz trainee program.• What Annelen loves about working for Mercedes-Benz after almost 15 years, including the brand pride, the pioneering digital agenda, and the thrill of the annual product forum where new models are unveiled under strict secrecy.• Why Annelen completed a doctorate alongside two babies and a leadership career, what she found hardest about the process, and what it actually added to the way she thinks and works.• How returning from parental leave to find her whole division dissolved led, unexpectedly, to the best job she has had at the company.• The strengths Annelen credits for her success: perseverance, resilience, having a plan without being rigidly attached to it, and a deliberate choice to believe that whatever comes is the right thing.• How Annelen manages her mental health across an intense professional life, including presence with her children, playing cello, and building a positive mindset deliberately.• What success means to Annelen: family, team celebration, reaching a management level she is proud of, and learning to be happy where you are rather than always looking ahead. Annelen's career philosophy:"I believe that whatever comes is the right thing. So if something doesn't work out, I'm not getting really down. I believe, okay, then it's the right thing that I didn't get, for example, this job."Resources mentioned:• Research on positive mindset and gratitude journalling• Thinking on the alternatives to introverts and extravertsIf you liked this episode:New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Follow Career Stories on Linkedin and InstagramHelp other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 43m 31s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Elizabeth Shaw: Diversity and Inclusion, Knowing Your Worth, The Power of Sponsorship | This week's guest is Elizabeth Shaw, Partner responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion consulting at PwC Australia. Elizabeth has spent her career at the intersection of gender equality, workplace culture and social impact, from chairing UN Women Australia in her early thirties to advising the Prime Minister and representing Australia at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She is one of Australia's most respected DEI practitioners, and her career story is anything but conventional.In this episode:What a partner at a big four consulting firm actually does, and why the role is as much about people and collaboration as it is about expertise.The work Elizabeth does in workplace culture reviews, including why she is drawn to the high-stakes moments when something has gone wrong.How Elizabeth's unconventional early career, from an arts degree and a nomadic NGO role to representing Australia at the UN, shaped the skills she draws on today.Why Elizabeth has consistently failed to see opportunities for herself, and why having people who could see further for her has been career-defining.The difference between a mentor and a sponsor, why women are over-mentored and under-sponsored, and what sponsorship actually looks like in practice.What Elizabeth has learned about wellbeing, outsourcing the domestic load, and building a life you do not want to escape from.Why Elizabeth leans into what she is good at rather than trying to fix everything she is not, and what it feels like when you finally do that.Elizabeth Shaw's insight on sponsorship: “I had people who can see further for me than I’ve seen for myself, and they’ve tapped me on the shoulder and encouraged me. And I think about who in my life can I be that person for.”All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 52m 52s | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Jo Lindsay: Building a career at one organisation; Leading through change; The Opportunity Mindset | This week's guest is Jo Lindsay, Managing Director at Reed Talent Solutions, a part of Reed, the world's largest family-run recruitment business. Jo joined Reed on a graduate scheme in 1997 and has built her entire career there, moving through project management, sales, consultancy and leadership without ever needing to look elsewhere. Hers is a career story about what happens when an organisation keeps giving you new things to do, and you keep saying yes. In this episode:Why Jo applied for Reed's graduate scheme instead of a traditional HR role, and how a six-month rotation programme changed the direction of her career.What she loved about project management, and why the variety of working across clients like Vodafone, Royal Mail and the Greater London Authority kept her engaged for nearly three decades at one organisation.How sponsorship worked for her early in her career, and how the nature of sponsorship changes as you become more senior.Why she has only ever been frustrated in one role at Reed, and what made that particular job so difficult despite having a high-performing team around her.How AI is reshaping recruitment, why the EU has already flagged hiring as a high-risk area for AI regulation, and the question of whether candidates and employers are now just screening each other with bots.What parenthood did to her approach to work, including working a four-day week, procrastinating less and being clearer about her priorities.What work-life balance actually means to her: being there when her kids get up in the morning and being there when they go to bed. Jo Lindsay's best piece of career advice:"Never turn down an opportunity before you've explored it." Resources mentioned: Good to Great — Jim CollinsNew episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 50m 27s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Career Advice: Career Planning, Seizing Opportunities and Ambition | This month on Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on the career stories of Steve Price, Dr Mia Carbon, and Dinda Timperon — three very different people with some surprisingly connected threads running through their careers.In this episode:Why the people who say they don't have a career strategy often turn out to be the most strategic of all — and what Steve Price and Mia Carbon's decisions reveal about planning versus being open to what comes up.The difference between push and pull factors in career decisions, and how Maslow's hierarchy of needs maps onto the moments when we choose to move on or stay put.What ambition actually means for women at work — including research showing there's no ambition gap between men and women when career support is equal, and why that gap appears when it isn't.Why Dinda Timperon's story, from deciding at 17 to join the RAF to building a community around cybersecurity and personal development, is a case study in knowing your own mind.Seizing opportunities versus planning for them — and what happens when the universe decides to make the decision for you (Luella shares the story of how she ended up in Australia).The role of networks, mentors and sponsors in career development, and why the most powerful career conversations are often the ones you're not having.Michelle's take on ambition: "I applaud all the young women nowadays that embrace wanting to be ambitious and wearing that as a badge of honour — because there is nothing to be ashamed of about that."Resources mentioned:• Drive — Daniel PinkMore detailed show notes with links to information discussed by guests can be found here.New epiosodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 51m 52s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Dinda Timperon: Cybersecurity, Proudly Ambitious, Community Building | This week's guest is Dinda Timperon, Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at one of Australia's largest wealth management organisations, and founder of Perth Women's Circle, a community of over 10,000 women focused on growth and development.Dinda's career spans the Royal Australian Air Force, aerospace engineering, flight test, a stint writing stage plays, and now leading national teams in financial services cybersecurity. She built Perth Women's Circle from a sunrise beach gathering of five women in 2023 to a movement with over a thousand women at live events, all alongside a demanding full-time role and raising two boys.In this episode:How Dinda went from joining the Royal Australian Air Force at 17, with no clear career plan, to becoming an aerospace engineer and leading aircraft maintenance and flight test programs.What it was like to step into leadership at 21 as an aircraft maintenance officer, managing a team of experienced technicians twice her age, and how that shaped her approach to leadership.Why she left the Air Force after a solid career and spent a few years writing stage plays, and what that transition taught her about identity and following your instincts.How she made the move into cybersecurity and financial services, and what it takes to transfer skills across very different industriesHow Perth Women's Circle was born from a simple personal need for connection, and what it took to grow it from five women at a beach to a community of over 10,000.How Dinda thinks about juggling a national leadership role, community building, coaching, and parenting, and why she frames it less as balance and more as presence.What success means to Dinda now compared to her early career, and why she believes ambition should not be a word women feel they have to apologise for.How growing up between eight schools, and watching her Indonesian mother lead on building sites, gave Dinda an early and quiet confidence that she could do whatever she wanted.Dinda's insight on success: “True success expands your life. If something feels restrictive, it's not actually true success. It needs to be something that adds to your life.”All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 44m 34s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Dr Mia Carbon: Biosecurity, Career Transition, Adaptability | This week's guest is Dr Mia Carbon, Deputy Director General of Biosecurity and Emergency Management for Western Australia — or, as she describes it, part of the team responsible for protecting one of the world's most unique environments. From training as a vet and working in rural Victoria and the UK, to a pivotal move into public policy, to leading one of WA's most complex government roles, Mia's career has been shaped by curiosity, values, and a willingness to make hard calls at every stage.In this episode:What biosecurity really means for Western Australia — and why the state's scale makes it unlike anywhere else in the worldThe ethical turning point that led her away from clinical veterinary workStepping into a senior executive role on the day three government departments were being merged into oneWhy she withdrew from a senior role at finalist stage — and what she learned from itHow attending nine schools growing up shaped her adaptability and resilienceHow being a parent has influenced the decisions she's made throughout her careerHer approach to leadership and navigating complexity in the public sectorMia's insight on leadership: "In any leadership role, as you go up, you can do less. You absolutely cannot get it all done yourself. The skill as a leader is being able to bring all of those different threads together and knowing how to get them to work together to achieve what you need to achieve."The proverb Mia lives by: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 52m 51s | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Steve Price: Payments, Principles, Innovation | This week's guest is Steve Price, General Manager of Financial Services at David Jones — the world's oldest department store. Having spent his career across banking, SaaS and retail in both the UK and Australia, Steve has specialised in building innovative products and customer experiences, from launching one of the UK's first internet banking services in the late 90s, to bringing Apple Pay to Australia, to embedding financial services inside accounting software for small businesses.In this episode:What a General Manager of Financial Services actually does — in a retail contextHow David Jones thinks about loyalty, rewards and making customers feel specialWhy Steve took voluntary redundancy after 15 years with one organisation — and why he's glad he didWhat the move from a big bank to a small one really teaches you — and why he made that choice deliberatelyHow to navigate your career using principles rather than a planThe value of deliberately moving across industries before it's done to youSteve and Luella's different take on moving countries — and why it isn't always sunshine and rosesWhy he puts family ahead of career — and what work-life prioritisation really means to himThe career exercise that helped him identify his strengthsResources mentioned:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen CoveyGood to Great — Jim CollinsMore detailed show notes with links to information discussed by guests can be found here.New epiosodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 49m 49s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Career Advice: Purpose & motivation, Imposter Syndrome & confidence | This week's episode is our first monthly career advice conversation, where Dr Luella Forbes and co-host Michelle Gander — Associate Professor and specialist in Career Development — reflect on the themes and insights from this month's guest interviews with Mehdi Langroudi and Kelly Shay.In this episode:What purpose actually means at work — and why the research uses different language than the business world doesThe difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation — and why it matters more than a corner officeThe data behind purpose-driven work: why high intrinsic motivation is linked to lower burnout, higher engagement and greater resilience to changeWhy younger generations are demanding meaningful work — and why mid-career professionals are asking the same questionsHow leaders can connect their team members to purpose, even in highly structured or resource-constrained environmentsThis month's listener question: imposter syndrome — how to back yourself when everyone else already believes in youThe difference between imposter syndrome and a lack of confidence (they're not the same thing)Book recommendation: Feelgood Productivity by Ali Abdaal — how to do more of what matters to youA note on how to evaluate career advice: what to look for when deciding whose voice to trustFor access to the sources discussed in this episode please refer to the blog here.This week's book recommendation:Feel-Good Productivity — Ali Abdaal All opinions are the hosts' own. New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 44m 07s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Kelly Shay: Advocacy, Women's wealth, Doing work that matters | This week's guest is Kelly Shay, Retirement and Retention Leader at Mercer Australia — someone who has spent her career working to improve outcomes for people who can't always speak for themselves. From student politics at Murdoch University, to organising aged care and disability workers in Australia and the US, to superannuation — Kelly's career has been anything but conventional, and entirely on purpose.In this episode:What a retirement and retention leader actually does — and why it matters for the million Mercer members she servesThe gender superannuation gap: why women retire with less, and what the industry is doing about itWhat the union movement taught her about doing more with less — and why those skills translated so well to financial servicesHow she organised disability care workers from $4 an hour to a living wage — and why she's still proud of itThe pivot from union organising to superannuation, and how a board role at Hesta opened the doorHow to know when it's time to move on: Kelly's test for when she's reached her impact ceilingWhat "commercial with a heart" means in practice — and why she holds both objectives equallyHer work as a board member of FREE, a family and domestic violence service in MelbourneKelly's career advice: Clear is kind (Brené Brown), does this spark joy?, and the power of "both and"Resources mentioned:Brené Brown’s work, including Dare to Lead“Man in the Arena” — Theodore Roosevelt (referenced by Brené Brown)All opinions are the guest’s own. New episodes every Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts each week, plus a monthly discussion on what we’ve learned.We’d love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes, or send questions you'd like Luella and Michelle to answer, at stories@the-career-library.com.Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes with work‑related advice from Luella, Michelle and our expert guests, plus a monthly newsletter with tools and guidance from the advice episode.Help others discover the show by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review. Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 41m 10s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Mehdi Langroudi: Smart Freeways, Curious Leadership, Creating Impact | This week's guest is Mehdi Langroudi, Executive Director of Network Operations for Main Roads Western Australia — or, in his son's words, "the guy who fixes traffic"! With a global career spanning Scotland, London, Dubai, Qatar and now Perth, Mehdi shares how he accidentally fell into traffic engineering, what he's learned about leading diverse technical teams, and why career choices don't need to be over-engineered.In this episode:What a traffic operations leader actually does (and why his team includes people from the gaming industry)How predictive data modelling is helping his team get ahead of congestion before it happensThe differences between working in the UK, the Middle East and AustraliaHow to know when it's time to move countries — or jobsWhat he looks for when hiring, and why attitude beats technical skill every timeHow Mehdi thinks about leadership for leaders managing large, diverse technical teams His thoughts on work-life balance, wellbeing and what career fulfilment actually looks likeMehdi's leadership advice: "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."Resources mentioned:Feel Better, Live More — the wellbeing podcast hosted by Dr Rangan Chatterjee All opinions are the guest's own.New episodes on a Wednesday, with interviews with leaders or experts every week and a monthly discussion on what we've heard in the last week of the month.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance from this week's advice episode. Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 40m 33s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() Introducing Career Stories | Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours.New episodes on a Wednesday, where Dr Luella Forbes interviews leaders, entrepreneurs or experts about their career story, and in the last week of the month, a discussion with Associate Professor Michelle Gander on what we've learned from those conversations.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance to help you with your career and leadership.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 36m 29s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | ![]() Career Stories - Trailer | Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours.New episodes on a Wednesday, where Dr Luella Forbes interviews leaders, entrepreneurs or experts on their career story, and in the last week of the month, a discussion with Associate Professor Michelle Gander on what we've learned from those conversations.We'd love to hear from you. Share your thoughts on recent episodes or questions you would like Luella and Michelle to answer to stories@the-career-library.com. Support this podcast by becoming a member and get access to bonus episodes containing work related advice from Luella, Michelle and expert guests as well as a monthly newsletter with access to tools and guidance to help you with your career and leadership.Help other people find this podcast by subscribing in your podcast app and leaving a review.Career Stories is brought to you by The Career Library. | 0m 25s | ||||||
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