E284 How to create an award-winning culture with Kapitol Group’s Alice Hanna
Navigating the future needs great culture! Our guest this week has worked long and hard to create great cultures in male-dominated industries.
Alice Hanna is the People and Culture Manager at Melbourne based Kapitol Group, recent winner of a 2022 Best Place to Work award - the first time a construction company has ever topped the list. Kapitol’s award winning culture is no accident and Alice has leveraged her people, culture and psychology background to evolve a feedback rich workplace that is challenging industry norms.
Driven to leave places better than she found them, throughout her career Alice has gravitated towards traditionally male-dominated industries where she has championed diversity, normalised the conversation around mental health and leveled-up leadership skills around self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Alice shares how she approaches the challenges of male dominated industries with optimism, making small changes that have a big impact.?
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It’s not always easy being the trailblazer. To look around and see few people ‘like me’ can be a lonely and frightening path. As business leaders, not only do we need to recognise the bottom line value of diverse perspectives and backgrounds, we need to support the emotional need to do so too.
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About Alice Hanna
?Alice is an exceptional people-person who has been creating great places to work for more than 20 years. With qualifications in psychology, she takes pride in employee experience and promoting values that fortify a team.
Alice is passionate about diversity and inclusion. Coming from male dominated industries – construction, engineering, mining, aviation, and IT – she confidently tackles gender bias head on. She advocates comfortable, safe environments for women at work and is a committee member of Women in Design & Construction (WIDAC) in Melbourne.
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About your host,?Canberra leadership expert Zo? Routh:
Zo? Routh is a leadership futurist, podcaster, and multiple award-winning author. She works with leaders and teams to navigate future horizons. She has worked with individuals and teams internationally and in Australia since 1987. From wild Canadian rivers to the Australian Outback, and the Boardroom jungles, Zo? is an adventurist! She facilitates strategy and culture sessions with audacious teams. Zo?'s fourth leadership book, People Stuff - Beyond Personality Problems: An advanced handbook for leadership, won the Book of the Year at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2020. Her fifth book is a near future science fiction dystopian novel, The Olympus Project. Zo? is the producer of the Zo? Routh Leadership Podcast, dedicated to asking “What if…?” and sharing Big Ideas on the Future of Leadership. Zo? is an outdoor adventurist and enjoys telemark skiing, has run 6 marathons, is a one-time belly-dancer, has survived cancer, and loves hiking in the high country. She is married to a gorgeous Aussie and is a self-confessed dark chocolate addict.?