31 episodios
Conversations with Thought Leaders David Webley
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Conversations with thought leaders is an interview series, tapping into the greatest minds, to share their stories and insights. Providing a platform for our community to share knowledge. Our aim is to shine a spotlight on leaders and useful ideas to help people to grow.
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Episode 8 - Turning Strategy Into Reality
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Turning Strategy into Reality
DATE: Wednesday 18 October 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rob Loader – Strategy & Transformation Executive
Roberto Calati – Co-Founder & CEO Granite Data
Guy Brunsdon – Product & Technology Executive
In this keynote event, Roberto Calati, Rob Loader and Guy Brunsdon covered current trends in transformation, workforce insights, a Silicon Valley perspective, and a practical discussion on how to bridge the expensive gap between strategy and execution. -
Episode 7 - Competitive Advantage Through Neurodiversity
CHAPTERS
00:00 Ch.01 Event Welcome and Introductions
07:21 Ch.02 Brian's Dyslexia Journey
11:25 Ch.03 What is Dyslexia?
13:26 Ch.04 Not Tied to Low IQ
14:25 Ch.05 Spikes in the Profile
15:09 Ch.06 Dyslexia in the Workplace
19:11 Ch.07 Fourth Industrial Revolution
19:55 Ch.08 Skills Forecast
20:50 Ch.09 The Value of Dyslexia
29:22 Ch.10 Attracting and Retaining Dyslexic Workers
35:06 Ch.11 Thanks and Close
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Building Competitive Advantage Through Neurodiversity
DATE: Wednesday 16 August 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Brian Heatherich – Technology Leader & Advocate for Neurodiversity
In this event, Brian talked about what dyslexia is and what it isn’t, what are the “superpowers” of a person with dyslexia that organisations should tap into, the current representation of people with dyslexia within in the corporate environment, the power of tapping into neurodiversity for organisations of the future and recommendations on how to commence or continue your corporate neurodiversity journey. -
Episode 6 - How to Unleash a World Class BA Practice
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: How to Unleash a World Class BA Practice
DATE: Wednesday 14 June 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Mark Carter - Director Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Maria Montgomery – Leader, Author, Trainer, and Speaker
In this session Maria Montgomery shares insights from her recently released book ‘A Guide to Getting Business Analysis Done the Right Way’. Maria talks about why getting business analysis right is crucial for organisational success, where to focus your efforts to build Business Analyst capabilities and establish a 'Centre of Excellence'.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Ch.01 Event Welcome and Introductions
05:44 Ch.02 Evolution of Business Analysis
09:49 Ch.03 Current Challenges and Problems
15:39 Ch.04 Impacts of Poor Business Analysis
17:03 Ch.05 The Model for Getting Business Analysis Right
18:17 Ch.06 So What Does it Take to Do Well
20:05 Ch.07 Best Practice
22:39 Ch.08 The Business Analysis Checklist
23:08 Ch.09 Thanks and Close -
Episode 5 - What's Driving and Derailing Connection in Your Organisation
DATE: Wednesday 24th May 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Gemma Suanders – Chief Workplace Editor and Proud Queer Executive
Alana Bennett – Human Experience Fanatic and Coach
In this edition of Conversations with Thought Leaders we talk to two exciting guests, Alana Bennett – Human Experience Fanatic & Coach and Gemma Saunders 🌈 GAICD – Founder & Lead Consultant, Workplace Edit. With our very own David Webley - Managing Director & Co-Founder hosting, Alana and Gemma talk about what is driving and derailing connection within an organisation and why connection matters. -
Episode 4 - Winning With Data
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: Winning With Data
DATE: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Roberta Calati - General Manager, Granite Data Solutions
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Bharath Venkataraman - Senior Data Leader
ABOUT ROBERTO:
Roberto is an accomplished technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving digital and technology transformation in multiple industries and has held executive technology roles at Myer, Toll Group and Tabcorp. Throughout his career, Roberto has had a passion for data from the very beginning, where he worked in research labs collecting and transforming data, right up to leading BI and data teams as a divisional CIO.
Under Roberto's leadership, his teams have delivered numerous successful data-driven initiatives that have had a significant impact on the businesses they support. This has included millions of dollars of cost out through BI initiatives and developing cross-functional insights that led to the creation of new product categories.
Seeing the massive, sustained increase in the demand for data platforms, people and capability drove Roberto to co-found a data company and help businesses build world-class data capabilities.
ABOUT BHARATH
Bharath Venkataraman is a senior Data leader with extensive experience in creating and delivering organisation wide BI and Analytics vision and strategy, across various domains such as FMCG, Telecommunications, Supply Chain, Logistics and Retail to support strategic business goals and enable best-in class information delivery. Bharath has over 15 years’ experience in recruiting, developing, and managing high performing teams to deliver complex Analytics solutions and well considered, multi-level insights to a variety of stakeholders to enable customer teams to make better, more informed strategic decisions. -
Episode 3 - What's the Fuss About Flutter?
CONVERSATIONS WITH THOUGHT LEADERS
KEYNOTE EVENT: What's the Fuss About Flutter?
DATE: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
HOSTS:
David Webley - Founder & Managing Director, Granite Consulting
Sam Jenkins - Lead Consultant Software Development, Granite Consulting
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Christian Findlay - Independent Flutter Developer
ABOUT CHRISTIAN:
Christian is a highly experienced and respected Technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Christian has partnered with large organisations such as MYOB, Toll Group, Loan Market Group and Telstra Health.
Christian has been running his own business, christianfindlay.com, for just over 3 years where he has specialised in content creation and development with Flutter. Having previously worked with Xamarin, Christian strongly believes that Flutter is the future for cross platform application development, not just from the point of view from the Developer, but due to the hugely reduced costs and times for companies. Christian has a history of releasing apps on the Google Play, Microsoft and Apple stores. He currently has Flutter apps in the two stores and is overhauling two existing apps for release soon.