RelyOn podcast

Nathan Luker

Host, Nathan Luker, talks to experts and leaders about how they build better cultures, with a particular focus on how to manage conduct and culture issues. RelyOn delivers practical and actionable insights on how to be a better leader.

  1. S3E2: Inside the Minds of Workplaces:: Keith Govias :: Principal at EML

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    S3E2: Inside the Minds of Workplaces:: Keith Govias :: Principal at EML

    Keith Govias is a Vincent Fairfax Ethics Fellow and the Workplace Safety and Risk Principal at EML, one of Australia's leading workers' compensation and personal injury claims managers.  With over two decades working at the intersection of mental health, workplace design, and risk, Keith is one of the few practitioners in Australia who brings genuine depth to the evidence, ethics, and organisational dimensions of psychological safety. He recently partnered with Monash University's Healthy Working Lives Research Group to produce Inside the Minds of Australia's Workplaces, one of the most comprehensive examinations of worker mental health ever conducted in this country. What We Cover In this episode, we examine what the data is actually telling us about the state of mental health in Australian workplaces, and what leaders, managers and organisations need to do about it. Keith brings the evidence, the lived experience of burnout, and the nuance that this topic demands. We discuss: Why 4.1 million workers are living with mental ill health but only 13,000 are claiming, and what that gap means for every employer in Australia The most vulnerable cohort ever to enter the workforce, and what organisations need to do differently to retain them Why job design is the most underused lever in workplace mental health, and how to start using it What the data reveals about the serious decline in wellbeing  The three to five year horizon for meaningful culture change, and the simple metrics leaders can start tracking today -- This episode is powered by Rely, the all-in-one employee relations platform helping Australia's best known organisations turn hazards and people risk into organisational strength. -- Research & Reports Referenced in This Episode: Inside the Minds of Australia's Workplaces (EML x Monash University) HILDA Survey, University of Melbourne Australia's Mental Health Check Up (KPMG x Council of Australian Life Insurers) The Gender Wellbeing Gap 2025 (GLWS) Women Speaking Up (Human Rights Law Centre) Where to find Keith (guest): LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-govias-93195639/ Where to find Nathan (host): LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanluker/ Where to find Rely: Website: https://relyplatform.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/relyplatform/

    40 min
  2. FEB 22

    Managing People Risk :: Anne-Marie Paterson (Acting CRO, Medibank)

    Episode Overview Anne-Marie Paterson is the Chief Risk Officer (acting) at Medibank and one of Australia's leading risk transformation executives, having led enterprise risk programs across AMP, Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. A lawyer by training who built her career at the intersection of employment law, whistleblowing and people risk, Anne-Marie has spent over two decades helping ASX-listed organisations translate complex regulatory expectations into cultures where people actually feel safe to speak up. What We Cover In this episode, we explore an underestimated challenge facing organisations: non-financial and people risk. From psychosocial hazards to compliance culture, Anne-Marie brings sharp, practical insight to help HR leaders, operations teams, and executives think and act like genuine risk owners. In today's episode, we discuss: Why the Banking Royal Commission changed everything about how we should think about risk The "liability chill" and why leaders avoid words like "burnout" and why that silence is itself a risk How psychosocial hazards hide inside fast-growth cultures, often worn as badges of honour Why a mature risk culture is a driver of high performance, not a constraint on it What HR professionals need to do right now to start owning their role as risk practitioners -- This episode is powered by Rely, the all-in-one employee relations platform helping Australia's best known organisations turn hazards and people risk into organisational strength. -- Where to find Anne Marie: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-mariepaterson/ Where to find Nathan: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanluker/  Where to find Rely Website: https://relyplatform.com/  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/relyplatform/

    33 min

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Host, Nathan Luker, talks to experts and leaders about how they build better cultures, with a particular focus on how to manage conduct and culture issues. RelyOn delivers practical and actionable insights on how to be a better leader.

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