Dr Luella Forbes
Dr Luella Forbes is a consultant specialising in Organisational Change and founder of The Career Library and it's podcast, Career Stories.
Appears in 33 Episodes
Engineering Your Own Work Fame - Leanne Hughes
"The world doesn't reward intent - it rewards action." Everyone tells you their big break was luck. It wasn't. It was a habit of showing up with your head up instea...
From Law Firm to the United Nations - Sally Richardson
"Sitting behind the nameplate and thinking of an extraordinary privilege to represent Australia on that world stage." Today's News: Luella has recently launched new...
From Art Gallery Director to Behavioural Scientist: One Winding Path - Angela Bliss
"I was telling them their baby was ugly. That's the last thing they wanted to hear." Today's News: This episode marks the launch of Luella's new change leadership s...
Read Your Own Leadership Habits Before Your Team Does at Work
"On their worst day, the shadow kind of looms over everybody and stops them being able to do what they need to." Today's News: This episode marks the launch of Luel...
A C-Suite View on Adaptability Over Resilience with Janette O'Neill
"I think what I'm most proud of is the relationships that I've built along the way." - Janette O'Neill She built a global sustainability function from the ground up,...
Redefining Career Success on Your Terms - Asha Bhat
"Resilience is not that we don't have setbacks. Resilience is about coming back and showing up every day in spite of all the challenges that we have." She arrived in...
Inside McDonald's Crisis Comms Playbook - Ron Christianson
"Trust is very hard to build up, and it takes a long time - but it can be destroyed overnight." - Ron Christianson Most of us think of a crisis as something that hap...
Your Job Isn't Disappearing (Yet)
"The bits that will never go away are the human interactions that go with it." - Dr Luella Forbes Everyone wants a straight answer on whether AI is coming for their...
AI Job Fears & Future Skills - Matt Dunn
"I don't think anyone's job is going away." - Matt Dunn Everyone wants a straight answer on whether AI is coming for their job. Matt Dunn doesn't give one - because ...
Critical Thinking in the age of AI - Bethan Winn
"AI is like the smartest grad who's never left the library. They've got no life experience... you need to check what they're doing, particularly if you're going to pu...
Implementing AI is harder than you think - Matt Dunn
"Your gut is normally right, but you should back it up with some research as well." - Matt Dunn New AI tool, same old anxiety: am I using this properly, or badly, or...
Leading AI at One of Australia's Biggest Super Funds - Mythili Baker
"Ultimately, humans are always going to be accountable - you can't put that on AI." - Mythili Baker Every few weeks, the AI conversation resets again - a new model, ...
Career Advice: Career Types, Portfolio Careers, and What Keeps People Engaged at Work
What does the FIFA World Cup tell us about leadership communication? And what kind of career do you actually have? In this June advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and As...
Simon Johnson: Customer Success, Leading Global Teams, Falling Into Tech
This week's guest is Simon Johnson, Senior Director of Customer Success for Asia Pacific and Japan at DocuSign. Simon leads a team of around 35 people across the regio...
Claudine Besserer: Global Brand Leadership, Creating Your Own Path, Encouraging Challenge
This week's guest is Claudine Besserer, a global brand strategy leader who spent 32 years at Mars. She rose from a 21-year-old sensory analysis technician, training fa...
Anita Owen: Chief Delivery Officer, Putting Your Hand Up, Valuing Curiosity
This week's guest is Anita Owen, Chief Delivery Officer at Novigi, a 550-person tech and data firm serving Australia's superannuation industry. Anita leads a team of 3...
Career Advice: Identity Work, Grieving the Career You Thought You'd Have, Why Sensemaking Takes Time
In this month's Career Advice episode, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on May's guest conversations with Fadzi Whande, Charity Becker ...
Annette Brodie: Closing the Digital Divide, Social Enterprise and Backing Yourself
This week's guest is Annette Brodie, founder and CEO of The Reconnect Project, a Sydney-based social enterprise and charity on a mission to close Australia's digital d...
Charity Becker: Organisational Coaching, Ethics at work, Work that makes your heart sing
This week's guest is Charity Becker, an organisational coach based in Melbourne with 20 years of experience spanning coaching, coaching supervision, and coach training.
Fadzi Whande: Diversity and Inclusion, International Leadership, Redefining Success
This week's guest is Fadzi Whande, Chief of Section for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, where she leads DEI across an organisation ope...