
Foundstone Conversations
Real-world strategy conversations with organisation & industry leaders about their latest challenges, learnings & insights.
Episodes
16 episodes
What is Strategy? Planning is not Strategy. (Roger Martin, World's #1 Management Thinker)
“Strategy is a set of integrated choices.”“A plan is not a strategy.” This is our conversation with the world’s #1 management thinker Roger Martin.The former Dean of the Rotman School of Management & author of...
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57:16

What do strategy, community and culture have in common? (Brad Krauskopf, Co-Chair & Co-Founder, The Hub)
In this episode, we chat with Brad Krauskopf, Founder and CEO of The Hub. The Hub is Australia’s largest privately-owned co-working provider.We kick off our conversation with how Brad works through making tough strategy choices....
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:00

L'Oréal's intuition-driven strategy (Jordan Colreavy, Head of Category Strategy, L'Oréal)
In this episode, we chat with Jordan Colreavy, who’s the Head of Category Strategy at one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies L'OréalJordan gives some rare insights of how L’Oreal use a unique mix of both Intuition &am...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:49

How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business (David Shein, Founding Partner, OIF Ventures)
Want to hear first hand, how to build a billion-dollar business?We had a recent conversation with David Shein, founder of Australia's first $ billion-technology company, to find out how.Now, as co-founder and partner of Our Inno...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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58:56

What is a Social Enterprise? (Wendy Bezzina, Executive Director, Social Traders)
It was great to have Wendy back for another conversation and this time, in her new role as the Executive Director Social Procurement and Impact with Social Traders. In this latest conversation, we dive deeper into the world of Soci...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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40:30

What is Open Strategy? (Julia Hautz, Co-author of 'Open Strategy' & Prof. of Strategic Mgt)
In this episode, we chat with Julia Hautz - the Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.Julia is the co-author of 'Open Strategy, a book that is taking the global strategy community by storm.O...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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51:26

Innovation starts by listening to your customers (Ron Lesh, Managing Director of BGL Corporate)
In this episode, we talk to Ron Lesh, Managing Director of BGL Corporate Solutions, about why listening to our customers is important for any business.Having decades of experience under his belt, Ron also shares about common mistakes ma...
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37:40

Understanding millennials beyond the stereotypes (Amy Smith, Founder of Aligned Tribe)
Did you know that millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025?It also may come as a surprise that the average tenure of millennials is over 3.5 years.Amy Smith, Founder of Aligned Tribe has plenty of experience ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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40:37

Leaders don't have to know all the answers (Dr. Graham Kenny Strategy Expert & regular HBR author)
Rather than pretending to know all the answers, leaders should be able to say "we don't know".That's the first step to 'discovering' strategy.The difference between 'discovery' and 'developing' strategy may seem subtle at first,...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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59:37

"Look for the human problem behind the business problem" (Mark Pollard Strategy CEO at Mighty Jungle)
Empathy; mental health; people-/human-centric; feelings; me, myself & I — these aren't the words you typically hear in the same sentence as 'strategy' — let alone 'business strategy'. Mark Pollard addresses how strategy i...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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43:01

How an authentic culture builds a clearer strategy (Liesel Wett Chair & CEO of Aged Care and Australian Pathology)
"Would I be happy if mum or dad, or grandma got this service (based on this decision)?"Liesel Wett shares with us how culture plays a huge part in shaping an organisation's strategy and the decisions made based on it. She explains how a...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:07

How listening is a core principle for strategy (Andrew Thorp Head of Strategy & Planning at Beyond Blue)
We chat with Andrew Thorp, Head of Strategy & Planning at Beyond Blue. Andrew shares with us some of his biggest insights and learnings of how to really listen and understand the lived experiences of the people we serve. And how...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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40:30

How customer conversations are at the heart of business (Patrick Coghlan CEO at CreditorWatch)
We speak to Patrick Coghlan, CEO and founding employee of CreditorWatch about how transparent customer relationships and engagement are key assets to any business. By keeping their ears to the ground and having conversations with the people clo...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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46:16

How Business Strategy, Marketing & Tech are no longer completely separate disciplines (Konrad Spilva Founder of Shadowboxer)
Konrad Spilva – Founder & Managing Partner of Shadowboxer on how Business Strategy, Marketing & Tech can no longer be looked at as completely separate disciplines.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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41:01

How to shape strategy that connects directly with customers (Angus McDonald CEO of Barbeques Galore)
Barbeques Galore is an iconic Australian brand with a turnover of approx. $180M and 88 stores across the country. Hear from CEO Angus McDonald on his learnings, insights, and tips for re-inventing a business that has now had 40% year-on-y...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:38

How on earth does dark matter relate to business strategy? (Prof. Alan Duffy Director of Space at Swinburne)
It turns out there are many overlaps. In this episode, we chat with Prof. Alan Duffy to learn more about how the vast and unknown nature of science can inform the way business leaders approach strategy. Alan is the Director of Space Technology ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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51:32
