Leadership & masculinity: from Special Operations to The Sound of Music, with Shane Horsburgh
Australian Investors Podcast
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In this Australian Investors Podcast episode, your host Owen Rask sits down with Shane Horsburgh — ex-police tactical leader, author of Fighting Blind, and leadership coach — to explore:
- what it means to be guided by your soul, not your ego
- redefining masculinity through stillness, patience and presence
- lessons from Iraq, police tactical operations and culture change programs
- how leaders collapse under complexity when they cling to control
From Sound of Music tours in Austria to Special Operations on Sydney rooftops, Shane shares deeply human, practical and philosophical lessons for modern leaders.
If you’re curious about how to lead in a world that’s moving faster and becoming harder to control, this conversation will reframe how you see yourself, your decisions and your team.
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Topics covered in this Australian Investors Podcast episode
- Being guided by your soul, not your ego
- Stillness in chaos & emotional regulation
- Masculinity, identity and leadership assumptions
- Complexity, hierarchy and adaptive leadership
- Quantum thinking & decision-making
- AI as a leadership challenge, not a tech one
- The myths that hold leaders back
Resources for this Investors podcast episode
Learn more about Shane Horsburgh:
TEDx Talk – Redefining Masculinity (2014)
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