Podcast Episode Show Notes

Adrian Gillman is a registered carpenter and owner of Kingsford Building and Carpentry in Melbourne, also vice president of the West Coburg Football Club. Here, Adrian shares 5 leadership lessons for trades business owners: leading through actions and attitude, understanding people before judging them, breaking the "grumpy tradie" culture, building culture from small things, and instructing the next generation of apprentices.

Aaron Ng founded The Good Builder, a media and intelligence platform built to give Australia's residential construction industry straight-talking insight, aimed at restoring trust and raising standards across the trade. Here, Az shares 5 leadership lessons for tradies: doing what you say you'll do, leaving ego out of leadership, a weekly self-reflection habit, why low trust traces back to poor leadership, and treating subbies like your team.

Kurt Checketts is a light-vehicle mechanic turned diesel fitter who spent 12 years in mining, the last five leading teams in one of the highest-stakes environments in the trades. Here, Kurt shares 5 leadership lessons: empowering people to be their best, leaning into your strengths, knowing people as individuals, why small standards slipping causes serious incidents, and why financial leadership is still leadership.

Matt Wyatt has spent over 30 years in the heavy vehicle industry, starting as an apprentice and working through operational and national leadership roles before spending the last 15 years developing people. Here, Matt shares 5 leadership lessons for tradies in manufacturing: setting standards, why a title doesn't earn respect, relationships over authority, fixing systems instead of firefighting, and empowering your team to bring solutions.