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 39 Episodes
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...
Dinda Timperon: Burnout, the REST Framework and How to Recognise the Signs
In this bonus episode of Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes is joined by Dinda Timperon - Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at a major Australian wealth management orga...
Dr Annelen Schär: Luxury Cars, Marketing Architecture and Choosing Positivity
This week's guest is Dr Annelen Schär, Head of Omnichannel Portfolio Management at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart - a digital leader working at the intersection of e-comme...
Elizabeth Shaw: Diversity and Inclusion, Knowing Your Worth, The Power of Sponsorship
This week's guest is Elizabeth Shaw, Partner responsible for diversity, equity and inclusion consulting at PwC Australia. Elizabeth has spent her career at the interse...
Jo Lindsay: Building a career at one organisation; Leading through change; The Opportunity Mindset
This week's guest is Jo Lindsay, Managing Director at Reed Talent Solutions, a part of Reed, the world's largest family-run recruitment business. Jo joined Reed on a g...
Career Advice: Career Planning, Seizing Opportunities and Ambition
This month on Career Stories, Dr Luella Forbes and Associate Professor Michelle Gander reflect on the career stories of Steve Price, Dr Mia Carbon, and Dinda Timperon ...
Dinda Timperon: Cybersecurity, Proudly Ambitious, Community Building
This week's guest is Dinda Timperon, Head of Cybersecurity Engineering at one of Australia's largest wealth management organisations, and founder of Perth Women's Cir...
Dr Mia Carbon: Biosecurity, Career Transition, Adaptability
This week's guest is Dr Mia Carbon, Deputy Director General of Biosecurity and Emergency Management for Western Australia - or, as she describes it, part of the team r...
Steve Price: Payments, Principles, Innovation
This week's guest is Steve Price, General Manager of Financial Services at David Jones - the world's oldest department store. Having spent his career across banking, S...
Career Advice: Purpose & motivation, Imposter Syndrome & confidence
This week's episode is our first monthly career advice conversation, where Dr Luella Forbes and co-host Michelle Gander - Associate Professor and specialist in Career ...
Kelly Shay: Advocacy, Women's wealth, Doing work that matters
This week's guest is Kelly Shay, Retirement and Retention Leader at Mercer Australia - someone who has spent her career working to improve outcomes for people who can'...
Mehdi Langroudi: Smart Freeways, Curious Leadership, Creating Impact
This week's guest is Mehdi Langroudi, Executive Director of Network Operations for Main Roads Western Australia - or, in his son's words, "the guy who fixes traffic"! ...
Introducing Career Stories
Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours. All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesda...
Career Stories - Trailer
Introducing Career Stories, the podcast that shares other people's career stories to help you with yours. All opinions are the guest's own. New episodes on a Wednesda...
