Performance Intelligence

Karl Treacher is a culture and leadership expert, author, and founder of the Culture Institute. He explores who truly owns workplace culture, why engagement surveys can miss toxic undercurrents, and how boards can measure cultural health and misconduct risk. They also discuss founder influence, return-to-office evidence, burnout, and replacing outdated workplace systems with deliberate design.

Lindy Hadges, an ADHD and autism clinician, explores the hidden forces behind high-performing ADHD brains. She unpacks her layered ADHD Cake model, the influence of neurobiology, trauma and family patterns, and the painful ripple effects across careers, relationships, finances and addiction. A candid look at why achievement and personal struggle can coexist.

Byron Cannon, CEO of LDK Seniors’ Living and former lawyer, explores the leadership capacity needed to sustain performance through rapid growth. He shares his journey from fatigue and reactivity to greater energy, presence, and resilience. Topics include compassionate care, preventing burnout, preparing for triple growth, values-led AI, and the ripple effect of personal change across an entire organisation.

Lisa Alexander, Australian netball coach and leadership mentor, led the Diamonds for a decade with an 81% win rate. She explores why brilliant players often struggle to teach, why winning coaches are rarely elite athletes, and the rare exceptions who master both roles. Alexander also shares how Rick Charlesworth, Steve Kerr and ideas from beyond netball shaped her approach.

Nam Baldwin is a mental skills and performance coach who has guided world champions and elite performers for over 20 years. He discusses coaching Mick Fanning through a shark attack, divorce and bereavement, the role of grief before recovery, and a no-regrets philosophy. They explore bespoke questions, building confidence, gradual exposure, and turning fear into manageable steps.

Michael Klim, Australian Olympic swimmer, six-time Olympic medallist and former world-record holder, reflects on the drive behind his extraordinary career. He discusses moving across five countries, finding belonging through swimming, and learning that relentless competitiveness does not translate neatly to business. The conversation explores ambition, identity, relationships, mental health and the physical cost of never switching off.

Dr Tom Buckley, a human performance researcher focused on exercise, health and cognition, challenges creatine’s muscle-only reputation. He explores findings linking it to memory, attention and processing speed, especially during demanding mental work. Learn how this supplement may support the brain’s energy needs and help desk-bound minds perform under pressure.

What if a great year only contains 25 to 30 genuinely strong weeks? Andrew May and Angela Poon explore a productivity framework that makes room for survival stretches, recharge periods and the inevitable weeks when everything hits at once. They discuss the power of naming those periods openly, resetting expectations and building sustainable performance instead of chasing nonstop intensity.

Stuart Clark, former Australian Test fast bowler, and Steve Rixon, former Test wicketkeeper turned coach, explore how cricket’s self-reliance can become isolation after retirement. They discuss loneliness, reaching out during difficult times, the friendships that outlast sport, gratitude, and the simple conversations and humour that keep connection alive.

Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and founder of Box of Crayons, talks candidly about stepping down as CEO. He explores playfulness, curiosity and humor as ways to challenge convention and authority, rethink workplace power structures, and uncover deeper purpose. Most importantly, he shares the difficult art of relinquishing control without holding on.