Welcome to the Future Directors podcast hosted by award-winning author and Board Futurist, Paul Smith. Every episode brings you diverse perspectives and new ideas from the boardroom. His guests include thought leaders and board directors who are pushing the boundaries of governance around the world.
After the latest episode with impact specialist Rosemary Addis, she and Paul sat down in the green room to keep the conversation going...
(We recommend checking out that episode first).
They continue…
This week on the podcast we have Rosemary Addis AM, a globally recognised social innovation and impact investment specialist.
With an international portfolio of both advisory and board roles, Rosema…
Welcome back to the second part of Beverly Cole’s podcast. We think it was well-worth the wait, with Beverly and Paul continuing to discuss big questions like:
Every now and then, someone comes along whom we could listen to for hours. Our latest guest, Beverly Cole, has rich lived experiences, a relaxed wisdom, and a softly spoken influence about her. With …
Our guest this week is Sara Faivre, a board director, business owner and coach who mentors executives and entrepreneurs in developing critical business and personal skills to create sustainable busin…
In a follow up to Episode 48, Paul continues his conversation with Nurain Janah.
Also known as ‘the podcast after the podcast; the Green Room is the chance for guests to debrief. We find out if ther…
This week’s dose of audio inspiration comes from our latest guest, Nurain Janah.
Nurain is an amazing young person with a dedicated passion for change. She has already achieved so much in a short pe…
This episode of the Future Directors podcast is fascinating. Voyt Krzychylkiewicz comes on to share his seemingly endless insights on a number of governance topics.
Voyt is an investment executive, g…
This week’s episode of the Future Directors podcast features professional non-executive director and chair, Yasmin Allen.
With an extensive international career, Yasmin has a wealth of experience ac…
Recently we’ve been ruminating on the topic of board appointments – namely, Bridget Louden’s appointment to the Telstra board at the age of 32. Given that the average age of board directors around th…
This week on the Future Directors podcast, Paul interviews Matt Boyd, co-founder and CEO of the fast-growing remote volunteering platform, Vollie. Since its creation just a few years ago, Vollie has …
This episode is a Green Room follow up to Episode 42 with Anoushka Gungadin.
Anoushka and Paul had such a rich conversation about Cultural Intelligence (CQ), afterwards they headed into the Green Ro…
This episode of the Future Directors podcast features guest Anoushka Gungadin. We’ve been wanting to get Anoushka on the show for a while now because we knew it’d be an amazing discussion, and Anoush…
This week we’ve taken a bit of a breather. No guest. Just for this week. However, we do have a quick announcement instead. Simply, we are changing the name of the podcast.
It’s not that exciting, but…
Welcome to episode 40 of the podcast! As promised last week, this episode is focused on the second roundtable discussion from our Decision84 virtual summit held in June 2020. The discussion centres a…
For this episode of our podcast, we’re treating you to something a bit different. Instead of one spectacular guest, we have six. That’s because this episode is one of the roundtable discussions held …
In the Green Room after Episode 37, Peter and Paul discuss their podcast discussion, most notably that it was Peter’s first ever experience being interviewed on a podcast.
Peter and Paul found their…
This week on Boardroom Hustle, people and culture extraordinaire, and young board director Peter O’Sullivan joined us for a chat. Peter is an inspiring figure, specialising in employee engagement, or…
In the follow up to Episode 35, Dottie and Paul head to the Green Room to debrief about their conversation.
As a fellow podcaster, Dottie opens up about some of the more surprising podcast guests th…
This week on Boardroom Hustle we had Dottie Schindlinger on the show, whom you might remember as a speaker from our recent virtual governance event, Decision84.
Dottie is the executive director of Di…