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Your Hiring Process Isnโt Outdated. Itโs Broken
For years, Iโve said the same thing: Talent acquisition needs to be reimagined. Not tweaked Not โoptimised.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:๐น Impact of the Iranian conflict on Australia๐น Workplace scenarios playing out overseas to reduce demand on fuel๐น ...
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 youโre out. Awkward timing. Because PwCโs own research, published just weeks earlier, found that 56% ...
Your prompts called – they want you back in 2022.
Recently Iโve 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 youโre reading about Atlassianโs 1,600 layoffs thinking, โThat couldnโt happen to me,โ Iโd 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: ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ. 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
๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐! 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 ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐. Thatโs the paradox at the centre of the biggest workforce ...
AI and the Future of Work: How to Stay Adaptable, Relevant, and In Demand
๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐ท๐ผ๐ฏ๐. ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ. Yesterday on Nineโs 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 โhim.โ Thatโs 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 โNotebookLM 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 Australiaโs 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 Doesnโt Reduce Work. It Intensifies It.”
Itโs 8:00 on a Monday night, and Iโm sitting at my computer. My partnerโs away on a work trip. My dogโs been walked and fed. ...
From Bad Bunny to the Boardroom: The Psychology of โI Donโt Belong Here Anymoreโ and What it Means for Your AI Strategy
Thereโs a pattern I canโt unsee: When people lose their sense of identity โ when they feel like they no longer matter, belong, or have ...
๐ช๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐น๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ!!!
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, itโs as handy as it sounds. If youโve 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 ...


































