Change Happens

Sometimes, professional experience in one field leads to using those skills to make a difference. This has been the case for Robert Pradolin, who has taken his more than 40 years of experience in the property industry and is using it to galvanise corporate Australia to get involved in solving the growing homelessness crisis.

On today’s episode we explore what happens when change doesn’t happen. Professor Dr Megan Davis is a professor of constitutional law known for her work in creating the Uluru Statement from the Heart and advocating for the 2023 Voice referendum. As an international human rights lawyer, Scientia Professor, and academic, Megan discusses the lessons she learned about engaging with the heart, and not just the head. · How she finds the motivation to keep going after such a huge set-back · The complexity of poverty and how vulnerability never leaves you · Why she finds it difficult to call herself a leader · And the importance of being the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to a UN body

"What's the legacy we want to leave our kids? I don't want my kids to grow up in a world where women are abused and racism is just part of the DNA, absolutely not required, shouldn't be here, so how do we change it?" When it comes to the achievement of gender equality and the fight for human rights, the path to success requires big changes to happen. With International Women’s Day this month, CEO of UN Women Australia, Simone Clarke, shares the lessons she’s learned on becoming comfortable with discomfort, creating the space to make big changes, and looking for moments of hope in even the darkest of times. Host: Jenelle McMaster Deputy CEO Oceania and Markets Leader at EY. Guest: Simone Clarke CEO of UN Women Australia. Listen now: Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your favourite podcasts.

"24 hours of madness ensued, and at the end of that I found myself standing in the premier’s office and saying “my goodness, how did this happen” Mike Baird AO, former Premier of NSW and now CEO of HammondCare and Chair of Cricket Australia shares insights into his personal journey and key moments of change with host Jenelle McMaster. This is an open, honest account of life as the Premier of NSW and dealing with an unimaginable moment - the Lindt Cafe siege in Sydney.

Dr Jemma Green has helped create one of the biggest innovation transformations to the energy market in years... “And lots of people would say, well, you can't do the Uberfication of electricity because it's different. And for me, it was like, well, it's not like you can't, but it takes something more. And maybe we're really naive in anticipating actually what it would take, but it actually can happen.” Dr Jemma Green, Co-Founder and Chairman of Powerledger, joins our Change Happens podcast host Jenelle McMaster, to discuss her entrepreneurial story about how she disrupted the electricity market by starting a technology company that uses blockchain for energy and environmental commodity trading. Host: Jenelle McMaster is Deputy CEO Oceania and Markets Leader at EY. Guest: Dr Jemma Green is Co-Founder & Executive Chairman Powerledger, EY Fintech Entrepreneur of the Year

“Can I do it? There was a massive amount of self-doubt when I took the job about a month later. The coach, Rafa Benitez, left … and took 18 staff with him. The whole department was gutted. There was me and an assistant coach to take the superstars through a training session … I was pitch side for Australia versus Serbia on Wednesday, arrived on Friday and started interviewing people on Saturday and Sunday to start on Monday. It was an incredible whirlwind.” Darren Burgess, Adelaide Football Club High Performance Director, previously Director of High Performance at Arsenal Football Club, joins our Change Happens podcast host Jenelle McMaster to discuss the lessons learnt from his time as Head of Fitness and Conditioning for Liverpool Football Club. Host: Jenelle McMaster is Deputy CEO Oceania and Markets Leader at EY. Guest: Darren Burgess is Adelaide Football Club High Performance Director and Senior Consultant at EPP Listen now: Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you get your favourite podcasts.

POWERFUL LESSONS IN CHANGE – BITE-SIZED. “The woman making that statement had lost two kids at the fires, and I figured to myself she's lost her kids. You know she's lost other family and friends and what I've lost is a reputation, so I need to get over it. And I need to be able to be here supporting those people in the recovery of their communities.” In this Power Bite Edition of the Change Happens podcast, host @Jenelle McMaster talks with former Victorian Police Commissioner, Crisis Management and Leadership Consultant, Christine Nixon AO QPM. Christine shares her experience as the first woman to lead a state police force, the challenges she has faced leading through moments of crisis and the learnt along the way. Host: Jenelle McMaster - Deputy CEO and Markets Leader at EY Oceania Guest: Christine Nixon AO QPM - former Victorian Police Commissioner, Crisis Management and Leadership Consultant