The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

Kate Cornick (Rare Public Interview): Grandma's influence, studying engineering accidentally to building a career across Academia, Business & Govt

Jun 6, 2022

58:56

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Welcome to episode #86 w Kate Cornick! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. Grandma’s influence to believe, and outdoorsy childhood with mad passionate for animals

2. Accidentally falling into engineering after moving to Australia in her teens from the UK

3. How shyness evolved and building public speaking skills (great tips for anyone looking to develop!)

4. Building a life of work across academia, business and government, including deputy Chief of Staff

5. Being headhunted to be CEO @ LaunchVic role after moving on from scaling her startup through to IPO

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

03:07 - Fun facts about Kate

03:39 - Re-imagining a high flyer

04:14 - Influence of family growing up in London

06:00 - Learning responsibility and power of work through horses

07:40 - Grandma being a big influence to dream big

10:24 - Accidentally falling into engineering

11:56 - How Kate got past being shy and nervous

17:00 - Nerves are selfish

18:00 - Success post PhD

22:04 - Learning how to build trust from politics

29:09 - Exterior vs Interior leadership

33:18 - Insecurity becoming arrogance

38:30 - Understanding the business and academic worlds

43:38 - Being headhunted to lead LaunchVic as CEO

48:28 - LaunchVic funding startmate and other champions

50:45 - The unique unlock of government funding for a startup

54:50 - Final sprint

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