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Your Path to CEO is a podcast for ambitious executives and emerging leaders ready to take the ultimate step in their careers.
Hosted by the Executive Search team at [axr] Recruitment & Search, Path to CEO offers rare, behind-the-scenes insight into what it truly takes to reach the top job.
Join us as we sit down with accomplished CEOs from the [axr] network to explore their career journeys, pivotal decisions, leadership philosophies, and the lessons they learned along the way. From navigating board relationships to building high-performing teams, each episode uncovers the realities of stepping into - and thriving in - the CEO role.
It’s the closest you’ll get to stepping inside the mind of a CEO.
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From a junior telecoms sales role to Head of ANZ at Zoom, Frank Skiffington joins host Mike Dickson to talk about a career built on saying yes to opportunities and learning from every move. Frank talks candidly about starting again after a long career with one company, why he believes you don’t need to be the boss to lead the business, and what he has learned about building teams people want to follow. His advice for aspiring leaders: say yes to opportunities, build teams not empires, and s...
From wanting to be a pilot to a career in luxury, Scott Bowie, Managing Director at Moët Hennessy ANZ, joins host Mike Dickson to talk about the winding route that has taken him from Adelaide to Asia and the US. Scott talks candidly about packing a suitcase for Shanghai having never been to China, why he swapped a CEO role at Sotheby’s for a marketing director job at LVMH, and what surprised him most about stepping into enterprise leadership. His advice for aspiring leaders: stay open to di...
From wanting to be an RAF pilot to nearly sleeping through the interview that changed the direction of his career, Paul Hinds, Managing Director at Circana, joins host Mike Dickson to talk about the wins, close calls and hard lessons behind two decades in data and insight. Paul talks candidly about the sliding doors moment that led him into the industry in the first place, the nerve-racking 'dragon's den' pitch that left him convinced he'd blown his shot at the top job, and the whirlwind of ...
Esme Borgelt spent eighteen years at Kellogg's, working her way from sales into managing director roles in New Zealand and then ANZ. Five years ago, she became CEO of Kinrise. Her first step up, into the managing director's chair, traced back to one direct question. An HR leader at Kellogg's asked her outright whether she wanted to be managing director, rather than accepting the modest, coy answer she was inclined to give. Naming that ambition, she says, is what built her the right sponsors a...
This is a special crossover episode between Your Path to CEO and Your Future in Sales and Marketing. Mike Dickson and Andrew Cannock sit down together with Colm Maguire, CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC). Colm's career has rarely gone in a straight line. He set out to join the Royal Australian Air Force, found his way into sports administration with Touch Football Australia, then spent years inside the highly regulated world of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, before takin...
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