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Find Grow Keep
Bite-sized people & business advice for forward-thinking Founders, CEOs, and Senior Business Leaders in Australia & beyond.
As a leader, you’re responsible for growth, navigating market changes, all while trying to find time for to recruit, develop, retain and motivate your team. It’s a lot. Managing the 'people stuff' effectively is not just an HR function – It’s a core aspect of running a successful business.
If you're looking to unlock growth and drive performance, these short and practical podcast episodes will give you the tools and insights to get your business to the next stage by leveraging great people and culture.
Brought to you by Karen Kirton, Founder of Amplify HR, Karen has over 20 years' experience in People Management, degrees in Business and Psychology, and is the Amazon best-selling author of “Great People, Great Business: Your HR handbook for creating a business that’s ready to scale and grow”.
Karen is passionate about creating workplaces that engage and inspire—especially for small to medium sized This podcast is designed to give you practical, down-to-earth solutions and real life case studies that will genuinely make a difference.
Learn more at: https://www.amplifyhr.com.au
Get our free eBook packed with practical strategies to attract, engage, and retain top talent. Perfect for business owners and leaders focused on building a thriving team. Download it at amplifyhr.com.au/downloadable/find-grow-keep
Episodes
159 episodes
2.158 Psychological Safety vs Psychosocial Safety at Work with Peter Brace
Karen is joined by Peter Brace for a thoughtful and practical conversation about the difference between psychological safety and psychosocial safety, and why both matter in creating healthier, more effective workplaces. These are te...
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2.157 The 3-Step Method to Resolve Employee Conflict Without Drama
Workplace conflict can feel uncomfortable to address, especially when you are already stretched and trying to keep the team moving forward. But avoiding it rarely makes it better. In this episode, Karen Kirton shares a practical 3 ...
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2.156 How Purpose and Values Help Small Businesses Grow with Jason Le
In this episode of the Find Grow Keep podcast, Karen sits down with Jason Le from JRNY Digital to talk about why purpose, values, vision and mission are not just nice words for your website. They help shape how small businesses grow, how they m...
2.155 7 Management Tasks You Can Automate Today (Without Losing Control)
In this episode, Karen discusses how founders and business leaders can use automation to save time, reduce admin, and create more consistency across their people processes without removing the human side of leadership. Because for m...
2.154 What Small Business Leaders Get Wrong About Performance Management
In this episode, Karen explores why so many small business leaders only think about performance management once something has already gone wrong. Instead of seeing it as just paperwork, warnings and formal conversations, she looks ...
2.153 How to Build a Business That Does Not Depend on You with Don Hett
In this episode, Karen is joined by Don Hett, founder of CleanKings, EarthyTabs and Crittiks. Thirteen years ago, Don started CleanKings. Over time, the business grew successfully, but like many Founders, he found himself deeply emb...
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2.152 HR Support Services: How the Right HR Partner Strengthens Your Business
In this episode, we explore what HR support services actually include, why they matter so much for growing businesses, and how the right support can help leaders feel more confident, reduce risk, and create a stronger workplace. If ...
2.151 How to Run a Simple Recruitment Process for Small Business with Daniel Moussa
In this episode, Karen is joined by Dan Moussa from Third Way Advisory, and we unpack what really makes recruitment work in a small business. We talk about why so many hiring processes go off track before you even post the job ad, how to ...
2.150 Profit Over Vanity Metrics with Jonathon Hunt-Mason
In this episode, Karen Kirton sits down with accountant and business advisor Jonathon Hunt-Mason to unpack the real numbers that keep small and midsize businesses healthy. If revenue looks fine but something feels off, this conversation will he...
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2.149 On Demand HR Services, Support Your Business When You Need It!
If you have ever thought, I need HR support but I do not need a full time HR person’’, this episode is for you. Karen unpacks what on demand HR services really look like, who they suit best, and how to get the support you need with...
2.148 Leader Wellbeing: How To Turn Stress Into Performance with Jess Jasch
If you are hearing “I am so stressed”, you are not alone. Today I am joined by Jess Jasch, a Wellbeing Consultant and Embodied Leadership Coach who helps leaders and teams build real stress resilience with practical mindfulness. No hours...
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2.147 Leadership Development Workshops: Build Stronger Leaders and Teams
This episode is a special one as it also marks five years of the Find Grow Keep podcast! In this conversation, we explore why leadership development workshops are one of the most practical ways to lift performance, strengthen cultu...
2.146 HR for Small Business — From To Do List to People Strategy
If your HR tasks are living on sticky notes or inside your head, this episode is for you. Many small business owners do not lack effort when it comes to their people. What they often lack is a clear people strategy. Instead of build...
2.145 Winning Hidden Stakeholders with Michael Field
In this conversation, Karen Kirton sits down with marketer Michael Field to unpack the hidden force behind so many B2B wins and losses. We explore the invisible buying committee, the stakeholders you rarely meet yet who quietly shape every majo...
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2.144 HR Outsourcing: Save Time, Cut Risk and Fuel Growth
If HR keeps landing on your desk, this episode is your reset. Karen breaks down what HR outsourcing actually covers for Australian SMEs, the real-world signals it’s time to get help, and a simple 90-day plan to cut risk and free up...
2.143 Building High-Performing Teams Across Cities- With Mark Swinnerton
What if your team was spread across three cities and still worked as one team? In this conversation, Karen Kirton sits down with Mark Swinnerton, CEO of Green Gravity, to unpack the practical leadership habits that keep people alig...
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2.142 Train Your New Managers in Under 30 Days
Promoting a brilliant team member into their first leadership role is exciting. It is also where many small businesses stumble. In this episode Karen shares a simple 30 day plan that builds clarity, confidence and momentum for new managers, wit...
2.141 Scaling Without Chaos: Hire Early, Own Outcomes and Align on Purpose (with Andrew McVeigh)
Rapid growth can make everything noisier. In this conversation, Karen Kirton and guest Andrew McVeigh, Managing Partner of Remara, unpack practical ways to scale without chaos — from hiring earlier than feels comfortable, to moving from “all ha...
2.140 Your First Performance Management System in 30 Days
Are you managing or just hoping? If your team has grown from five to twenty people and performance is running on memory and gut feel, this episode gives you a simple system you can roll out in thirty days. No complex software. Just ...
2.139 Five People Drivers to Grow Your Small Business
There is a moment in every growing business when you realise it is time to level up how you lead people. In this episode Karen shares five practical people drivers that help small businesses hire better, lift performance and build ...
2.138 Culture Isn’t an HR Problem — It’s a Growth Strategy
Culture is not a side project for HR. It is a core growth lever that shapes performance, customer experience and profit. In this episode Karen shares a practical way to treat culture like any other business strategy so you can unlock growth thr...
2.137 How to Build a Culture of Wellbeing (Without Losing Productivity)
In this episode, Karen Kirton shares practical and evidence-based ways to build a culture of wellbeing that actually drives performance, not one that slows it down. Across Australia, work-related mental health claims are risin...
2.136 How Whole Brain Thinking Can Transform Your Team
Have you ever been in a meeting where one person dives straight into the data, another wants a plan, someone else checks how everyone feels, and another is already brainstorming new ideas? It’s not chaos — it’s different thinking st...
2.135 Building a Great Place to Work: How OnePointHealth Attracts and Grows Talent
In this episode of Find Grow Keep, Karen Kirton chats with Michael Todd, CEO of OnePointHealth Group, about how his team built a thriving culture that recently earned them recognition as one of Australia’s Best Places ...
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2.134 The 9 Hiring Mistakes That Cost You Time, Money and Team Morale
Hiring great people sounds simple — until it isn’t. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why a new hire didn’t work out, you’re not alone. From rushing the process to writing generic job ads, most hiring mistakes come down to one...