In our sixth Summer Series interview Juliet is talking with Darren Taylor, Managing Director at Taylor & Grace, one of Melbourne’s leading brand strategy firms which is on a mission to help all Australian businesses, regardless of size, stage, structure or sector to amplify their impact by leveraging their brand.

Darren is an award-winning brand strategist, keynote speaker, author of the book, Rebranding Branding, and an accomplished pianist and pipe organist. From social enterprises to global giants, Darren has helped hundreds of organisations to uncover what makes them remarkable and how to leverage their brand to amplify their impact.

With an education spanning engineering, marketing and musical theatre, Darren has a wide perspective and has held Director roles with Georges Mora Foundation, Chamber Music Australia and currently, Musica Viva Australia. In this interview he talks about a range of issues we need to think about with our branding including the importance of our values in developing our brand. We discuss the interconnectedness of values, brand and the ways we lead.

We would love to hear from you about how you have developed your brand and the elements you considered. You can share your experiences and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

You can contact Darren for more information about branding at https://taylorandgrace.com.au/

You can also download a free copy of Darren’s book Rebranding Branding at https://taylorandgrace.com.au/free-ebook-the-promised-brand/

And if you would like to connect with us, including accessing free resources on this and other leadership challenges, you can do this at:

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Today in the next of our Summer Series interviews, Kristy-Lee is talking with Nicole Turnbull from Neon Shed about Psychosocial Safety at work.

Nicole is the Founder and Chief Courage Officer at Neon Shed, which brings light to the dark sides of work.

She works with businesses to eliminate psychosocial hazards at work and ignite courage in leaders and teams by giving them the tools and options to know HOW to have a safe workplace.

Nicole has over 20 years experience in communications and 15 in the work health and safety industry. She has worked for both NSW safety regulators, the workers compensation insurer and the workers compensation independent review office.

Nicole has seen the damage poor communication and psychosocial hazards can do to individuals, teams and organisations.

Nicole is also the Winner of the 2023 Influential Businesswomen Awards for Most Empowering Founder (Australia) and the host of the Under the Rug at Work podcast.

If you’d like to connect with Nicole you can visit her website here: https://neonshed.com.au/

Or connect with her on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolesturnbull/

Throughout our discussion Nicole also mentioned a number of resources and websites you can visit to get more information on this important topic, access to all of these is here:

• Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work from Safe Work Australia (most states have their own as well)
• Positive duty information on the Australian Human Rights website
• Respect at Work website
• Psychosocial Safety Summit in Queensland this year

We would love to hear from you about how you ensure psychosocial safety within your team. You can share your experiences and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence

And if you would like to connect with us, including accessing free resources on this and other leadership challenges, you can do this at:

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In this, the fourth in our Summer Series, Juliet is talking with Ed Ross, one of the Founders of Trade Mutt and This Is A Conversation Starter (TIACS).

In case you haven’t heard of them, Trade Mutt designs outlandish work shirts and other useful and colourful things for tradies and people on the land. Their products are designed to get people talking about mental health and to normalise these conversations. A proportion of every sale goes to funding psychologists at TIACS who are available to talk when these people are struggling.

The Trade Mutt business has gone from strength to strength and not long after our interview they signed off on a deal with Bunnings, which will raise their profile further.

In this interview Ed talks about the origins of the business and how it has evolved as demand for TIACS has grown. In building two very different enterprises alongside one another they struggled with a range of issues and Ed is very open in talking about how they have tackled these and grown both teams.

We would love to hear from you about how you have tackled rapid business growth and if you have a favourite Trade Mutt shirt or story. You can share your experiences and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

And if you would like to connect with us, including accessing free resources on this and other leadership challenges, you can do this at:

Juliet Robinson Big Goals

Kristy-Lee Billet People Powered Business