Performance Intelligence

Holly Ransom has interviewed some of the world's biggest names including Barack and Michelle Obama, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Condoleezza Rice, Billy Jean King and Adam Grant. Hard to pin down with an exact title, she is a leading speaker, activist, disruptor, author, board director for Port Adelaide Football Club, Chair of Pride Cup Australia and is devoted to challenging LGBTQI discrimination within sporting clubs 
Recognised as a global expert in disruption and leadership, Holly was named by the AFR as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women. Her leadership consulting firm, Emergent, works with companies in the corporate sector, non-profits, public sector and elite sport.
In this episode Andrew and Holly discuss:
5:30 The question "who are you?' and the immediacy of working in sport
12:30 Challenging 'normal' stereotypes and pushing yourself to feel uncomfortable at work
16:40 Dealing with feedback, Holly’s biggest strengths, and her failed stand up comedy attempt
24:00 Preparing for big interviews (Performance Moments) and Adam Grant’s method of providing immediate feedback
30:30 How to build rapport and Holly’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama
36:35 Holly’s worst and best interviews, and her learnings from each example
45:00 Self-Reflection and Performance Uncovered
57:45 Andrew and The Wizard’s reflections
 
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Show Notes

Holly Ransom is a global force in leadership and performance. She’s interviewed the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, Adam Grant, Condoleezza Rice, and Richard Branson — and she brings that same intensity and insight to every area of her work.

Holly is a speaker, author, Chair of Pride Cup, and a board director at Port Adelaide Football Club. Named one of AFR’s 100 Most Influential Women, she’s redefining what it means to lead in the modern world.

In this episode Andrew and Holly discuss:
5:30 The question "who are you?' and the immediacy of working in sport
12:30 Challenging 'normal' stereotypes and pushing yourself to feel uncomfortable at work
16:40 Dealing with feedback, Holly’s biggest strengths, and her failed stand up comedy attempt
24:00 Preparing for big interviews (Performance Moments) and Adam Grant’s method of providing immediate feedback
30:30 How to build rapport and Holly’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama
36:35 Holly’s worst and best interviews, and her learnings from each example
45:00 Self-Reflection and Performance Uncovered
57:45 Andrew and The Wizard’s reflections
 
Follow Holly on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyransom/

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What is Performance Intelligence?

There's IQ. There's EQ. Introducing PQ. All things human performance with PQ founder, Andrew May, exploring the latest in human performance with an all-star cast of subject matter experts covering physical and psychological wellbeing, performance psychology, sport, business, entertainment, the performing arts, leadership, and science.

Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to optimising performance in your personal and professional life. Performance Intelligence applies to the way we turn up in relationships and the way we turn up at work, it applies to the way we perform in front of 10,000 people and the way we perform in front of one.