Jamie Getgood is the Founder & CEO of Getgood Consulting and an Ambassador of The People Shift. Jamie specialises in Senior HR Leadership, employee redundancy and workforce transition, organisation restructure and rebuilding company culture. He bagged the Australian Leader of the Year award in 2017, as well as multiple accolades & nominations from lead leadership bodies, after contributing to the workforce transition in GM Holden.

Following Holden’s closure, Jamie became an international key speaker specialising in Industrial Relations, Leadership and Employee Engagement and currently manages his own business called Getgood Consulting.

In this episode, Jamie shares his career journey in GM Holden. He also shares key messages, such as the value of building relationships with employees, how people-focused leadership can radically change the organisation's culture, how important is to "Treat people with dignity and respect" even in the hardest of times and lastly and how "We drastically impact our employees' lives", so is the time to be more human, more compassionate and more empathetic.

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Books mentioned on this episode:

Drive - Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - By Daniel H. Pink
The Advantage - Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business - By Patrick M Lencioni, Geoff Ables
Multipliers, Revised And Updated - How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter -
By Liz Wiseman

#35 – Jamie Getgood, CEO of Getgood Consulting, on the Closure of Holden Australia and People-focused Leadership