The Performance Blueprint — Back Catalogue

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Season 03

Current season.

4 episodes

S03 · E04 — August 2026

Better Leaders, Better Teams: A Google Insider on AI

Former Google AI executive Mary Gourley on where AI genuinely buys back time — and the human edge it will never replace.

Mary Gourley — over a dozen years in an executive role at Google — joins Matt Elliott and Susan Pearse to separate what AI genuinely does for leaders from what it quietly costs them. The AI-to-AI loop that only looks like collaboration, real-world examples of AI done well (real-time fraud prevention, bushfire prediction), why prompting is a skill most leaders use at a fraction of its potential, and the line at the centre of the conversation: the biggest risk of AI isn't machines replacing people — it's people starting to act like machines.

Susan Pearse, Matt Elliott & Mary Gourley · 60 minWatch

S03 · E03 — July 2026

Real-Time Leadership

Deciding on the spot, staying calm under pressure, and leading when the game keeps changing.

Susan Pearse turns the tables on Matt Elliott and Anthony Minichiello — 302 games for the Roosters, 2005 Golden Boot winner and premiership-winning captain — to unpack what elite sport knows about leading in real time: the morning routines that set the day's state, making calls without all the information, training calm before you need it, and the collectively-owned daily standards that turn a team around mid-season.

Susan Pearse, Matt Elliott & Anthony Minichiello · 62 minWatch

S03 · E02 — May 2026

Winning the Second Half Together

The operating shift your most senior leaders need to do the best work of their careers.

Susan Pearse and Matt Elliott — co-authors of Winning the Second Half — on the operating-model shift you need to make from 40 onwards, and the small daily practices that turn the second half into the most powerful chapter of your life and career.

Susan Pearse & Matt Elliott · 58 minWatch

S03 · E01 — March 2026

The Leadership Edge: Impact, Influence, and the Science of Presence

Marking International Women's Day — the mindset shifts and behaviours that move leaders from capable to genuinely influential.

A practical conversation across executive experience, behavioural science, and front-line health leadership. Susan, Juliette and Jo unpack why the old model of leadership no longer holds, what separates managers from influencers, where leaders (particularly women) quietly shrink at the moment they should expand, and the taboo conversations — power, ambition, money — that senior rooms keep avoiding.

Susan Pearse, Dr Juliette Tobias-Webb & Jo Campbell · 60 minWatch

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