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A leadership journey is a path with many turns
Cameron Schwab’s leadership journey started with football. He grew up around footie. It’s all he ever wanted to do - run a football club. At the age of 24 he became the CEO of Richmond Football Club, and his real education began. 25 years as CEO, including at other clubs Melbourne and Fremantle, with the ups and downs in public life (like getting sacked), Cameron knows a lot about failure and rising again. He has struggled with mental health, parenting a transgender kid, and more recently, getting through cancer. His is a life of leadership deeply layered, rich and textured. Enjoy!
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Why you should listen: leadership principles when you’re down
How to avoid the mistakes of ego and lack of humility in decision making
Why you need to embrace the teacher in your leadership
Why leadership needs to be the full expression of who you are
We explore leadership strengths
The best recruitment question: “Have you ever taught yourself anything?”
How to define leadership success as performance against expectations
How to answer the question, “what does success look like when you’re not winning?”
Purpose, Meaning, and Connection as three pillars for leadership strength
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SHOWNOTES:
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - audiobook narrated by Donald Sutherland
Legacy - What the All Blacks can teach us about the business of life by James Kderr
About Cameron Schwab:
Leadership coach and strategist, Cameron Schwab
Cameron is a CEO, leadership coach and strategist. He works with CEOs and emerging leaders to achieve high levels of trust - personally, culturally, strategically and organisationally - as the basis of high performance.
After cutting his teeth as a recruiter at the Melbourne Football Club when the Demons made the finals for the first time in 23 years, Cameron was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club at age 24, the youngest in the history of the game.
For most of the next 25 years, he was CEO of Richmond, Melbourne and Fremantle, when those clubs were at their lowest ebb, both on and off the field. He is the second longest serving CEO in the modern game.
Having taken on some of the sport's most difficult and daunting challenges, Cameron established a track record of building teams and organisations, unifying groups while navigating periods of genuine adversity and complexity.
He is a legacy-focused leader who has bounced back from setbacks, taking on the sport’s most challenging leadership roles.
Cameron holds an MBA and Master of Marketing from the Melbourne Business School. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School and is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow of the Centre of Ethical Leadership at University of Melbourne. He received his Coaching Certification from the Columbia Business School in New York.
His articles on sport and leadership have been published in The Age newspaper.
Cameron is also an artist and illustrator, studying Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
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About your podcast host, leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted stuff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.