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The Importance of Keeping the Human in the Loop

A Powerful Leadership Realisation Every CEO Should Hear

Does Culture Really Eat Strategy for Breakfast?

Make ChatGPT Work for You

Does Culture Still Eat Strategy for Lunch?

The Innovation Gap in Australia: How Businesses Can Catch Up

2026 Global CEO Survey

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Your Hiring Process Isnโ€™t Outdated. Itโ€™s Broken

For years, Iโ€™ve said the same thing: Talent acquisition needs to be reimagined. Not tweaked Not โ€œoptimised.โ€ Reimagined. And now, with AI accelerating change, organisations ...

The AI Blind Spots Holding Back Mortgage Brokers (and Most Businesses)

In March, I completed a 5-city roadshow with mortgage brokers through Connective, and three things became very clear. Most mortgage brokers are still experimenting with ...

NotebookLM Data Tables

I saved the worst for last! lol Seriously, my engineering and accounting friends may absolutely love this feature. You can tell in the video that ...

The Organisations Winning Talent in 2026 Are Designing Work Differently

I spent the long Easter weekend diving into the 2026 The Australian Financial Review BOSS Best Places to Work Awards. What stood out to me ...

The Ice Is Melting Whether You’re Ready or Not

Standing on the shore of Green Bay on Easter Monday, watching ice break apart on the water. I’d left Australia two weeks ago โ€” heading ...

Easter Sunday Today Show: Global Conflict, Fuel Demand, Workplaces and What It Means for Australia

The Easter Sunday Today spot where we discussed:๐Ÿ”น Impact of the Iranian conflict on Australia๐Ÿ”น Workplace scenarios playing out overseas to reduce demand on fuel๐Ÿ”น ...

NotebookLM’s Infographic Feature

Need something to play with over the Easter Weekend? Try NotebookLM’s Infographic feature. I warn you – it’s addictive! In fact, all of NotebookLM is ...

Adopt AI or you’re out!

PwC s CEO just told their partners, adopt AI or youโ€™re out. Awkward timing. Because PwCโ€™s own research, published just weeks earlier, found that 56% ...

Your prompts called – they want you back in 2022.

Recently Iโ€™ve been experimenting with leveling up my prompt engineering – and I have to say the difference in the thoroughness, competeness and quality has ...

Atlassian, AI and the End of Career Complacency

If youโ€™re reading about Atlassianโ€™s 1,600 layoffs thinking, โ€œThat couldnโ€™t happen to me,โ€ Iโ€™d gently push back. This was one of the most admired employer ...

The Smart Way to Use AI as a Professional Speaker (And Win More Opportunities)

Professional speakers: ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜†โ€™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ. Right now, most speakers are ...

Claude Cowork – a Truly Useful Agentic AI!

This video demonstrates Claude Cowork, a new capability by Claude and a truly useful agentic AI. One of the many reasons I switched from ChatGPT ...

AI Strategies Every Professional Speaker Needs to Know in 2026

๐—–๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€! According to the experts, we all have about 1 year to get our heads around how to use AI in our ...

AI Layoffs or Real Transformation? What Atlassian Reveals About the Future of Work

๐—” ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—”๐—œ. Thatโ€™s the paradox at the centre of the biggest workforce ...

AI and the Future of Work: How to Stay Adaptable, Relevant, and In Demand

๐—”๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐˜€. ๐—œ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ. Yesterday on Nineโ€™s Today Extra, I shared my take on how to ...

The Atlassian Case Study: AI, Trust and the Future of Work & Leadership

What started as a high-profile layoff story has quickly become something much bigger: a real-time lesson in AI disruption, leadership under pressure, workforce trust, and ...

The Atlassian Layoffs: AI Disruption, Broken Values, and the CEO Survival Crisis

Why the Atlassian restructure is the defining case study of how companies are getting the AI transition wrong โ€” and what the alternative looks like. ...

When Brands Lose Trust Consumers Vote With Their Feet โ€” More on the ChatGPT Exodus

I caught myself referring to my AI as โ€œhim.โ€ Thatโ€™s when I realised this technology has stopped feeling like software and started feeling personal. Which ...

Where will your leadership pipeline come from in the Age of AI?

My first day as a new grad at KPMG in 1988, I was handed a 300-page inventory register and told to add it up. With ...

Are you ready to #QuitGPT? Here’s how.

Millions of people are leaving ChatGPT. Here’s why – and how to make the move without losing anything. Two things happened recently that crossed a ...

Audio Overviews from NotebookLM

Most people hear โ€œNotebookLM audio overviewโ€ and think, useful โ€” I can turn a document into something like a podcast. That is the least interesting ...

NotebookLM Video Explainers

Most people are using AI to write more. But one of the best ways to use it is to explain better. I recorded a quick ...

Why Australiaโ€™s Over-65 Workforce Will Keep Growing

760,000 people aged 65+ are now in the workforce in Australia. It’s the highest that it’s ever been, and it’s grown by 20% in the ...

NotebookLM – One of my top 3 fav AI tools!

My friend and colleague, Ally Nitschke, CSP, texted me the other day and said, “Notebook LM gives me life.” I couldn’t agree more. This is ...

In a surprise to no one, HBR finds that, “AI Doesnโ€™t Reduce Work. It Intensifies It.”

Itโ€™s 8:00 on a Monday night, and Iโ€™m sitting at my computer. My partnerโ€™s away on a work trip. My dogโ€™s been walked and fed. ...

From Bad Bunny to the Boardroom: The Psychology of โ€œI Donโ€™t Belong Here Anymoreโ€ and What it Means for Your AI Strategy

Thereโ€™s a pattern I canโ€™t unsee: When people lose their sense of identity โ€” when they feel like they no longer matter, belong, or have ...

๐—ช๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐˜ ๐—”๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฎ ๐—”๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ!!!

Oh, wait, you thought I was going to reveal the winners of specific categories? No, those will be announced at the gala dinner on 5 ...

Napkin.AI – Turn messy thinking into clean visuals – fast

I just recorded a fresh demo on Napkin AI – and yep, itโ€™s as handy as it sounds. If youโ€™ve ever stared at a blank ...

The Importance of Keeping the Human in the Loop

In today’s Everyday AI video, I’m going to demonstrate an experiment I ran using ChatGPT. Every year, I’m asked to be a judge for Consult ...

A Powerful Leadership Realisation Every CEO Should Hear

Have you ever heard something that should have been SO OBVIOUS to you, but until the moment you heard it you hadn’t even considered it? ...

Does Culture Really Eat Strategy for Breakfast?

Last week I posed this question in preparation for a panel discussion I participated in with the The CEO Institute and boy did I get ...

Make ChatGPT Work for You

Have you ever wished ChatGPT was funnier or conversely not as funny? Have you wanted it to interact with you more professionally or more casually? ...

Does Culture Still Eat Strategy for Lunch?

Does culture still eat strategy for lunch? Did it ever? I’m here in Sydney to speak on a panel for the The CEO Institute‘s annual ...

The Innovation Gap in Australia: How Businesses Can Catch Up

I’ve lived in Australia for almost 25 years and during that time I’ve constantly heard and read that two of the main problems with the ...

2026 Global CEO Survey

It’s here, it’s here! If you’ve been following me for a while, you know this is one of the reports I look forward to every ...

A multi-step workflow with multiple tools (and a big fail!)

In today’s Everyday AI video, I demonstrate a complex workflow – complex in terms of multiple steps and using multiple tools. Because in 2026, it’s ...
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