Episode Seven of the Spiique Up Podcast, and the final episode of Series One, features Christine Holman – a professional non-executive director who has extensive executive leadership experience across finance, commercial, strategy, business development and mergers and acquisitions. Christine grew up in Mumbai and at the age of 17 decided she wanted to spend a year in Australia. Her initial trip to her now adopted home included a pay phone conversation with her mother which changed her mindset about attaching meaning to every job you do, and her life.  In this conversation Christine shares her early struggles in Australia, explains the value in diversity of experience by working across businesses and seeking new opportunities to stretch yourself, how connecting people to purpose will help keep individuals and teams aligned and that leading through uncertainty is one of the challenges leaders of today must embrace.

Episode Six of the Spiique Up Podcast features Jason Disborough holding dual leadership roles of Chief Commercial Officer – Enterprise and Chief Executive Officer – Multinational Accounts (International) at AON. Leveraging his skills as a mathematician Jason started a risk consultancy business that was purchased by AON in late 2001. Jason stayed on at AON and has spent the past 20 years in various leadership roles with the business, including four years in London. In this conversation Jason outlines the importance of personal curiosity and reflection, how leadership stability at the top of a large multinational business is critical and how the continuous reinforcement of simple messages can help individuals within businesses stay aligned. Ultimately, being a leader can be tough but at the same time enormously satisfying.

Episode Five of the Spiique Up Podcast features Stew Winspear – Co-Founder of Spiique. Stew started his career at PWC in Hobart in the early 1990’s before embarking on a 25 plus year career in restructuring, turnarounds and transformations across the Asia Pacific and the UK. Stew and his two partners, Julia van Graas and David Hewish, founded Spiique in 2018 to help support CEO’s optimise outcomes through leveraging there experience in some of the most time critical corporate situations of the past twenty years. In this conversation Stew shares his perspectives on the challenges leaders face with the ever changing operating environment, how organisational planning horizons are getting shorter and shorter, how alignment is something that must be checked constantly in order to drive high performance across businesses and that whilst business can be tough it’s important to have fun and enjoy the journey.