Scalpels, Sailors & Coaching: A Surgeon’s Journey into Leadership Psychology with Dr Martin Richardson
Dr. Martin Richardson is a highly decorated Orthopaedic Surgeon with over three decades of clinical, educational, and military service. His roles have ranged from Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Royal Melbourne Hospital to Co-Director of the Fundamentals of Clinical Coaching at Monash University. As a Surgeon Commander in the Royal Australian Navy, he’s served in Afghanistan, participated in humanitarian missions across the Pacific, and played a pivotal role in Navy Health Training. In 2024, he completed a Master of Science in Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney, deepening his commitment to leadership development and organisational coaching across healthcare and defence sectors. Today we talk about why he chose this unusual path, what it gave him and how he is working with the Australian Navy as a leadership advisor. And a little bit on singing…!
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Coaching for Hope: Clive Leach on Leadership, Youth and Burnout
Clive Leach had an extensive background in teaching, youth services and University education in the UK. Then, while teaching in Bangkok, he discovered he was spending more time on assisting students with life choice points and decisions than in their education, but he enjoyed it. That led to a search to find a degree that would support his personal education and in 2008 Clive graduated from University of Sydney. Clive collaborated in writing an important paper positioning positive psychology in assisting disaffected youth and youth workers with Dr. Anthony Grant and Dr Suzy Green, when studying in Sydney. He has since built a career in organisational based coaching with a specific interest in positive psychology.
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Beyond the Shortlist: Rethinking Leadership Succession with Dr. Ingo Susing
Dr Ingo Susing is a former investment and private equity banker turned Executive coach and leadership succession specialist. During the GFC he decided to study the Masters of Coaching Psychology rather than do an MBA. He says this changed his life. In fact he loved the degree so much he continued on and completed a PhD with Gordon Spence as his supervisor at UOW. He shares his findings on leadership and CEO succession and the role Boards play. We talk about the failure rates of external hires relative to internal candidates and how coaches can help their leader clients think about succession planning more thoroughly.
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Building Coaching Cultures That Scale: The story of Standard Chartered Bank with Katie Hasson
Katie Hasson is the Global Lead for Team Ignite at Standard Chartered Bank. She built a world-class internal coaching culture — scaling from just 9 coaches to more than 240 across 35 countries, saving millions in coaching investment, and delivering measurable, lasting impact for thousands of employees and leaders.In this conversation, we'll dive into the reasons the bank started on this journey, why they focused on having coaching report into the Strategy department, the challenges Katie faced, the strategies she and her team crafted, the lessons learned, and the future Katie envisions for coaching inside large organisations.
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Spreading positivity and joy with Dr. Suzy Green
Dr Suzy Green is the CEO & Founder of The Positivity Institute, a positively deviant organisation dedicated to the research and application of Positive Psychology in workplaces and schools. Whilst she is best known to students of Sydney University for setting up and teaching the Positive Psychology subject in the Masters degree, she is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of East London. Suzy also holds honorary academic positions at the Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne and the Black Dog Institute. Suzy is also an affiliate of the Institute for Wellbeing at Cambridge University.In this episode we discuss the early years of teaching at Sydney University and the changes in the field of positive psychology since then. Suzy shares her own evolution as a practitioner and how that has impacted her life personally and professionally. Finally, we also discuss the future of coaching in a world influenced by AI.
The University of Sydney established the world’s first Masters of coaching psychology degree in 2001. USCMA (University of Sydney Coaching and Mentoring Association) was set up a year later as the place for students of the degree to meet up, share ideas, organise guest speakers, establish peer supervision groups and conferences.
Almost 25 years later the degree has close to 1000 graduates and USCMA continues to be the place for students and graduates to congregate.
In our post pandemic world, USCMA has established this podcast as a way to connect its members together and back to the source.
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