Bare Naked Leaders - Real leaders, Real stories

Sylvia is the Regional President for Royal Canin Asia Pacific and Russia, a Mars company. She’s worked for Mars for over 27 years and is a truly inspiring leader.

The amazing owner of Overland shoes tells his story of his leadership journey and the lessons he learned along the way

Anna talks about her work in the people space helping people to flourish. Anna has had some big people roles with Zespri, the Warehouse and Mitre 10 as well as many director roles

Mark talks about customer and team pain points as well as being part of something bigger as well as a theme of curiosity being constantly weaved through everything he does

An interview with Deva who is leads Remedy Kombucha NZ. Deva talks about servant leadership, diversity and empowering others

Bryce is CEO for Farro fresh foods and talks about his doubts, his learning, imposter syndrome, his shift from a micro manager to empowering leader

Kate talks about that really annoying voice in your head that says your are not good enough’ as well as developing more self awareness and being open to opportunities that life throws you rather than preplanning your career

CEO of PaperPlus NZ Sam talks across imposter syndrome, vulnerabilities and how to deal with moving from a function where you are the expert to one where you know nothing. He also talks to the importance of building relationships and how people leadership will always trump technical expertise.

Alison started her FMCG career on the front line, filling shelves as a merchandiser for Pepsi Cola in Rotorua.

Of the 7 executive teams that she has sat on over the years, on 5 of them she has been the only female executive.  At Griffins they averaged 54% female representation at executive level over the period that she was CEO there - a statistic she is particularly proud of.

Despite having spent much of her executive years in marketing roles, she didn’t study marketing until she was in my late 20’s.  She got a degree in political science in the UK when she left school and then decided to study marketing at Auckland University while working as a trade marketing manager for Cerebos Greggs in the 1990’s, which then kickstarted her career in marketing.

An interview with Fiona Wikaira, a very inspiring Maori leader, currently GM operations at Moana fisheries. Learn about trust in leadership, empowering and recognising teams, clarity on purpose and imposter syndrome