In previous episodes we had Annabelle Chauncy, the founder of School For Life on to talk about her journey and challenges with the foundation.

This time we are going a step further and talking to Janepher Nansunga, one of the other founding team members of School For life.

Jan’s story is not just hard yards in leadership but also hard yards in life.

Jan is the feet on the ground person in Uganda who was literally the first teacher and first leader of this extraordinary organisation.

In this episode Janepher shares:

• Her path to becoming a teacher and joining School For Life
• The challenge of having her parents die when she was young
• Some of the early challenges working at an international school
• Some of the big challenges that came in starting the school
• The roadblocks that existed that made it hard to get teachers
• Her worst experience in the first few months of starting the school
• How they had to make the school a rescue centre to protect mothers and children from abusive fathers
• The times she realised she personally had to take a different approach
• The challenge of having to manage people who had some qualifications higher than hers
• How she managed herself first before changing how she managed her disruptive team members
• Some of the next big opportunities and challenges for school to life

Key Quotes

“I felt like my ideas were no longer welcome."

“I think becoming a community and owning what we are doing bonded us together and helped us work through the challenges.”

“If the dream does not scare you then it's not big enough.”

If you want to find out more about Janepher and school for life

If you want to support school for life you can find their website here: https://www.schoolforlife.org.au/

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This week we have possibly our smartest guest on the podcast. Tamara Davis is a Sydney born and bred Astrophysicist and someone I have personally known since childhood.

She has skyrocketed through the fields of academia and has experienced leadership in a way many of us may not have been through before.

Managing teams of authors, balancing egos and ensuring people get the support to develop and achieve in the academic space takes skill and Tamara has that in spades.

In this episode Tamara shares:

• How she was a shy kid who followed he path of academics
• The many hard yards of gaining her qualifications and building status and recognition
• How she first developed leadership skills through sport
• How she worked on an extraordinary research piece that had her coordinate no less that 156 authors
• The sort of things that can cause conflict in a team of academics
• How she ensures that no one is left feeling left out

Key Quotes

“Everyone is gonna have their different strengths and weaknesses. As a leader your job is to figure out what those are and play to everybody’s strengths.”

“A lot of leadership is just telling people where and when to show up and making a decision so that things happen.”

If you want to find out more about what Wayne does, check out his business via the website:

https://www.curiousleaderscircle.com/

Or you can follow him on socials:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-reuben-engage4performance/

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This year I am joining some incredible coaches and guest speakers in hosting a 3 day High Performance Leadership Summit from March 8th to 10th.
We'll be empowering elite leaders through an immersive 3-day transformational journey, our mission is to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to High Performance leadership. In an exclusive and intimate setting, we unlock unparalleled insights from military precision, cutting-edge psychology, high-performance sports, and dynamic business leadership.

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To give you insights into what to expect, over the next few weeks I'll be giving you some bonus mini chats with some of the coaches and pairing them with a replay of an old interview I have done with them.

This weeks episode is with Ali Flynn

If you haven't caught her episode yet, after studying and working as a psychologist, the shift to motherhood left Ali with uncertainty around her future career. A suggestion from a friend prompted her to try her hand at personal training but before things could get too far disaster struck when she had a stroke and was hospitalised with a long road to recovery.

But that didn’t stop her and she went on to launch and run 3 businesses with a team of 23 all while battling health disasters in her family and her own growing serious health complications.

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