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In Episode 029 of The Good Drop - A Water Industry Flavoured Podcast, we interviewed Rob Welke who is the Managing Director of “Water Pumping Institute” which is an international body committed to education in sustainable pumping for water pipeline systems.
Rob is a true inspiration. At 76yrs young, he has racked up over 5 decades of experience, more than both of us combined - simply amazing.
In our conversation, we discuss Rob's passion for energy efficiency and sustainability, and talk about his training program which is the conduit for sharing his knowledge.
Rob is also a mad keen motorbike enthusiast - and we hear about how this love has played a massive part in shaping his water engineering journey.
Definitely a true gentleman and an inspiration for us to learn from.
Enjoy the episode !!
Hawkes & AD
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Episode 028 is with Felicity Furey – who is generating a real impact on the careers of many. She is an award-winning business leader, engineer and entrepreneur, who has made a career out of making the ‘impossible’, possible.
Felicity has led multi-million dollar engineering projects across Australia, founded several successful businesses including WeAspire and Power of Engineering and secured partnerships with the likes of Qantas, Toyota and Energy Australia to bring her vision to life.
Felicity is on a mission to transform leadership and foster intergenerational collaboration. As the co-founder and CEO of WeAspire she’s aiming to train 1 million emerging leaders to ‘do the impossible’ and become professional, diverse and global leaders by 2030. Felicity helps find hidden leadership talent, mentors high-performing teams and equips current and emerging leaders across every industry with the skills they need to make an impact and drive meaningful change.
Some other of her amazing accolades, by age 26, Felicity was named one of AFR’s 100 Women of Influence and Boss Magazine’s Young Executive of The Year.
Felicity is also a host of the podcast called “Promoted” which is the definitive podcast for ambitious professionals ready to ascend the corporate ladder, And just to wrap up, she is also undertaking a PhD in emerging leadership.
Hope you enjoy here interview !!
Hawkes & AD
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In Episode 027, we spoke with Mark Trembath who is a Corporate Partnerships Manager for Water Aid Australia.
For those that don’t know much about WaterAid, Well WaterAid is an international Not for Profit Non Government Organisation who provides water, sanitation and hygiene to the world’s most impoverished and marginalised communities.
Mark has had a wonderful career, particularly in BusinessDevelopment and Sales. He has also been heavily involved in several industry associations, such as Australian Water Association, where he is former Qld committee member, and former NSW Branch president. He has also been active with the Qld Water, Directorate, Water Industry Operators Association, Water NZ, and many many more.
It was great to learn more about Mark's incredible career and his dedication and love of giving back to the water industry.
Enjoy the interview.
Hawkes and AD
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In our first episode for 2024, we kick start the year off by interviewing the 2023 Australian Water Association's (QLD) Young Water Professional (YWP) of the Year - Amber Craig.
Amber is a Senior Project Officer & Hydro-climate analyst at the Murray Darling Basin Authority.
From her interview you will see that she is an extremely passionate and enthusiastic Water Professional, who is deeply involved in extracurricular activities, giving back to the industry through her involvement with Homeward Bound, an international leadership program focusing on the development of women in STEM and working together for a more sustainable and equitable world. She also carries on her passion from her Earth Science, majoring in Geology background as a ‘digger’ with Dinosaur Dreaming, in conjunction with the Melbourne Museum and Monash University.
It was Amber's first ever podcast, but you would never know - she did a wonderful job. She definitely has a wonderful and extremely bright future in front of her.
It was a pleasure to hear about her journey and career.
Enjoy !!!
Hawkes & AD
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To finish off the 2023 year, The Good Drop Podcast goes international.
In this episode, AD goes solo (due to his partner-in-crime Simon Hawkes being unable to make it due to a last minute personal commitment) in interviewing Rolf Schweizer, who is the Chief Executive Officer for The Hidrostal Group which is a leading global manufacturer of centrifugal pumps.
Rolf dialled in from Neunkirch, Switzerland. Please try not to laugh at AD's attempt at pronouncing Neunkirch.
AD first met Rolf earlier this year, and he tells the story of how a little, or should we say a big piece of chocolate was the catalyst for this interview occurring.
Hope you all enjoy listening to Rolf who talks about his interesting career journey, and shares some wonderful words of wisdom about leadership and strategy!!
Hawkes & AD
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In Episode 024 - we interview a Man of Steel, no not Superman, but a man who has spent his career moulding steel across a variety of industries.
Our guest is Bruce Gawler – Bruce is a mechanical engineer with almost forty years experience. For the last 30yrs, Bruce has worked in steel pipe manufacturing and has had employment with Tubemakers of Australia, Tyco Water, Pentair and now Steel Mains. For the last 14 years, he has been the Engineering Services Manager at Steel Mains where he Oversees a team of Mechanical Engineers and Draftsman responsible for customer product drawings, production plant design, tooling, production support and technical product customer support. He is truly the Godfather of Steel Pipe Manufacturing in Australia.
What makes Bruce special is simple. He cares and is passionate about what he does, plus he is willing to help and share knowledge.
We covered a wide range of topics, such as Bruce's wide career (we are not going to say anymore), his pipe making journey, as well as touching on the importance of Faith - which is an essential part of who Bruce is.
Sit back and enjoy the episode - it's a beauty !!
Hawkes & AD.
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We know it’s very much out of left field, and a real change of pace from our normal engineering or water flavoured focus, but with footy grand finals for AFL and NRL coming up, The Good Drop podcast wanted to delve into the world of sport, specifically, Strategy in sport.
But before we go further, firstly our apologies that this episode has been issued a little later than usual due to extenuating circumstances – but its fitting that this episode (our 23rd) pays homage to the importance of the number 23 in sport, most famously worn by Michael Jordan as well as the great cricketing icon in Shane Warne.
Our Guest today was Strategic Consultant and CEO of Strategem Holdings, Andrew Larratt. Stratagem Holdings has worked with a diverse client base, with many sporting and non-sporting organisations to develop and implement a winning strategy, and transform teams and organisations to maximise their potential.
Andrew has provided advice to large sporting organisations such as Athletics Australia, the Australian Sports Commission, Rugby Australia and Cricket Australia, and has built a career on understanding an organisation’s needs and a path to success.
Our crossing paths with Andrew was, as interesting encounters sometimes are, by pure chance – a serendipitous moment. During AWA’s OzWater conference in Sydney this year, we took time out for dinner to discuss the Good Drop podcast and its future plans for guests.
Our discussion points with Andrew were wide reaching. Some of the key issues we discussed was about how he goes about helping sporting organisations be more creative, how he drives change, both of which are aimed at achieving a different future. We also touched on how to measure success, and how to overcome the diversity issue in elite sports.
Andrew was an incredible communicator, a big picture thinker – and this resulted in a wonderful conversation.
Enjoy his story and be inspired by his genuine, down to earth words of wisdom.
Hawkes & AD…
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In this episode, we spoke with Process Engineer and the current Australian Water Association’s (AWA) 2022 South Australian Young Water Professional of the Year – Loreline Kerlidou.
Loreline was born in France, just outside of Paris, and has been living and working in Adelaide for over 10 years. She is currently working for the environmental, engineering and strategic consulting company - Ricardo plc.
Loreline’s been involved in managing pilot plant operations to assess process innovations, developed industry guidelines for the water utility sector and reviewed the performance and compliance of water assets for municipal and mining water providers all throughout Australia.
Loreline is extremely passionate about giving back to the water industry. She has been (and still is) involved in the AWA SA Young Water Professional committee for over 7 years, and was the former Chair of the committee for 2 years. She was also a dedicated member and the former Vice Chair of the WaterAid SA Committee, who has been committed to raising awareness to enable the world's poorest people to gain access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene.
It was great to talk with her about her early years and career journey, the importance of promoting Women in Engineering, as well as getting her opinions on the implementation of using gender equality key-performance indicators (KPI’s) to achieve a diverse and inclusive work environment.
Hope you enjoy the interview!!
Hawkes & AD
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Richard Savage currently works for Aurecon as a Director in their Environment and Planning Section (Brisbane).
Richard is well admired and a true gentlemen in the water industry. AD first came across Richard during his time sitting on the AWA Qld Branch Committee.
Richard served on the branch committee for almost a decade – which is a wonderful feat. And as a result of all his great industry involvement and activities, he obtained the Qld AWA Water Professional of the year ward in 2018.
We discussed his early years growing up in South Africa, his career journey, and his passion for committing to providing a safer, more sustainable and enjoyable world.It was really a great chat - we learnt so much about this wonderful individual.
Enjoy the interview !!
Hawkes & AD
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In this 20th edition of The Good Drop Podcast, Hawkes & AD had the great pleasure of speaking with the Immediate Past President of the Australian Water Association - Louise Dudley.
For 10yrs (between 2012 and 2022), Louise was also the Chief Executive Officer for Urban Utilities, Qld’s largest water utility service provider which services over 1.4 million people in South East Queensland.
She is also a member of Chief Executive Women and her contribution to the engineering profession was acknowledged with the Engineering Executive title, conferred by Engineers Australia in 2021. She is also a director on the boards of WaterAID Australia and WaterStart.
We had a wide ranging conversation discussing the topic of change - her recent movement out of her role as CEO of Urban Utilities, change within industry, change as a leader.
Louise gave us an interesting insight into new technologies she has been exposed to in her role as Board Member of the non-profit organisation Waterstart, which provides funding to new water industry technology startups
It was also great to hear her perspective on some key water issues being faced by the industry.
Enjoy the episode!!
Hawkes & AD
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In Episode 019 of The Good Drop Podcast, Hawkes & AD sat down with Marlon Pritchard who works for Downer Group in Brisbane. Marlon is also the Commissioning Lead on the Logan Water Partnership.
Marlon's skill-set is amazing. He brings so much to the table - he is literally like a Swiss pocket knife, multiple functions in one, i.e. design input skills, construction know-how and the best commissioning operator who is respected by all who work with him.
Marlon has been heavily involved in the commissioning of Logan Water's Biosolids Gasification Facility project, which picked up the National Innovation & Excellence Metro Award at the Australian Water Association's (AWA) Ozwater Conference held in Sydney earlier this month.
We hope you enjoy listening to his amazing story, and be inspired by his problem solving and his desire to help people in need.
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In Episode 018 of “The Good Drop Podcast”, Hawkes and AD discuss the C word - Confidence. How do you build it? Can it be learned? But also importantly how do you avoid that demon of self-doubt that can easily eat away at your confidence level?
The guest on the podcast is Tracey Leslie. Now, Tracey is a former Civil Engineer who has recently pursued a path as a Life Coach. She spent a career spanning over 20 years within the engineering sector in Water, before recently deciding that helping others was her calling. She is passionate in this pursuit, and is attuned with helping others find their full potential.
AD first met Tracy in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010, when he presented at New Zealand’s National Water Conference. How time has gone by so fast. Now as fate would have it, Tracey ended up working with both Simon and AD for a couple of years at Logan Water, before she decided to move South to Melbourne, where she now resides.
Simon and AD were so excited to learn about her career transformation and picked up some pearls of wisdom from her on how to become more resilient and confident.
Hope you enjoy the episode !!!
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Our guest is Civil Engineer, and now retired former Technical Director at Aurecon - Rob Ayre.
Rob has worked in flood hydrology for the entirety of his career (almost 40yrs) and has worked in public and private Sectors. He has been responsible for directing the flood operations (during his tenure with Sunwater) of Ross River Dam, Scrivener Dam, North Pine Dam, Somerset Dam and Wivenhoe Dam all of which are gated dams. Throughout his career, Rob has been involved in the operation of over 60 flood events.
Now, one of the big topics, that we discussed with Rob today is the January 2011 flood event (where Rob was part of the team that controlled the operation of dam releases), and the subsequent flood inquiry.
As you can imagine, there was lots to unpack and talk about.
We hope you enjoy Episode 017 as much as we did.
Hawkes & AD
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Episode 016's guest is former engineer Phil Selmes - who Simon & AD worked alongside for many years on the Logan Water Alliance. Phil has worked in the water industry for 25yrs, and has had roles in local government such as Sydney Water, Albert Shire Council, Gold Coast City and also as an engineering consultant (Parsons Brinckerhoff). But despite such an incredible engineering career, Phil left the profession, changed direction completely and followed his dreams – he is now an award winning videographer making independent nature documentaries.
In 2013 (whilst being on a year long sabbatical travelling around Australia with his partner Joan), he won Best Film in the Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival “Essence of Tasmania” category for his documentary Tasmania Look Closer.
In 2018, Phil and his partner Joan, created “Into the Wild Films” (http://intothewildfilms.com/). In Phil’s own words “Into the Wild Films has been a decade long journey. A fusion of two passions, the first is a love of Australia’s landscapes and wildlife, the second is a love for the art of film making.”
As a testament to his new craft, his incredible work has been screened on ABC, SBS, NITV, Channel 9, Discovery, Channel 4 UK + commercial TV in Korea and France.
We thoroughly enjoyed re-uniting with Phil. It was just so fascinating to hear about his amazing journey. We strongly recommend you check out his Youtube channel @Intothewildfilms. You will love it.
Enjoy the interview !!
Hawkes & AD
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In their first interview for 2023, Hawkes & AD start their year off by discussing a very important topic - Mental Health.
So, what's the reason behind discussing Mental Health. Well, the last couple of years have been challenging, COVID-19, home-schooling, floods, fires, job security, rising interest rates, Ukraine etc, all of which have really impacted families and communities. The pair wanted to shine a light on the importance of having mental fitness in your life.
In the episode, the duo spent some quality time with Gotcha4Life founder, and media personality Gus Worland.
Gus founded Gotcha4Life in 2017, which is a non-for-profit foundation taking action to promote the concept of, and build, mental fitness in individuals and communities throughout Australia. This foundation proactively encourage Aussies to speak up, express their emotions and ensure they all have a close friend in life that they can go to when times are tough. Gotcha4Life also believes in the power of prevention through connection and champions the idea of proactively building mental fitness.
Enjoy the interview with Gus, and be inspired by his incredible work that is saving lives.
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Our final guest on "The Good Drop with Hawkes & AD" for 2022 is Joseph (or Joe) Tam. Joe is currently the Principal Supply Engineer for Seqwater where he leads the development of supply options and securing land to increase water supply certainty for South East Queensland. He also conducts high-level strategic planning for a possible augmentation.
Joe’s has had an interesting career that has spanned over 40 years, where half of his time has been on engineering works and half on people engineering. His experience covers a broader spectrum – that is civil, structural, water and control systems from planning, design, construction, O&M, incident management, disaster recovery and asset management and optimisation.
He is a real champion of promoting Engineering and has given so much back to the industry via his tremendous volunteer work for Engineers Australia. This commitment to the cause has resulted in Joe being recently appointed as Queensland President, Engineers Australia. Congratulations on the new role Joe !!!
It was great to talk with Joe about his amazing career journey and to discuss his new role with Engineers Australia, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Hawkes & AD
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In this episode, we sat down with Civil Engineer, Master of Wine (MW), and grandfather - Andrew Corrigan MW.
Andrew has had an incredible engineering career, but in a way, it has been somewhat overshadowed by his incredible work in the wine industry, in particular his qualification as a Master of Wine. It is important to acknowledge that MW is a rare qualification - there are currently 416 Masters of Wine world wide and Australia has only 24. Andrew is also the manager and part owner of Hidden Creek Winery in the Granite Belt region which is about 200km outside of Brisbane. He is also the President of the Queensland Wine Industry Association. Andrew is also a wine consultant, educator, writer, and judges in Australian and international wine shows. He has also published a book “Table Talk” in 2012 on the social aspects of wine.
As mentioned above, it’s not all just about wine with Andrew. One which is not often discussed and we thoroughly enjoyed learning about. And that is his engineering career which we were so excited to shine some light on. Andrew is an accomplished Civil Engineer. Andrew graduated from Sydney University in 1977 and has experience in civil engineering, structural engineering and commercial building construction in both design and construction management. He has also worked in construction both throughout Australia and internationally. He is now currently a Director of Gould Development Solutions Pty Ltd based in Brisbane and a part time sessional Tribunal Member of the Qld Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).
We know this episode is a long one, but when you stop and think about it, we are really interviewing a coin with two incredible sides.
We thoroughly enjoyed this interview, and we hope you get a buzz out of it too !!
Hawkes & AD
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In this episode, Hawkes and AD sit down for a conversation with Luisa Maria Panuccio who is a qualified Civil and Architectural Engineer who graduated from the University of Adelaide. Luisa is now currently working in Melbourne as a Senior Project Manager with Arup. Luisa has an Italian background, and like most Italians, she is passionate. In particular, passionate about promoting STEM (which stands for Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) - and this is was a key theme that we talked to her about.
Luisa’s career to date has been so interesting. She has been an Ambassador for Engineers Australia, Engineers Without Borders Australia, Google, Children’s University Australia and the University of Adelaide. Not to mention Luisa also entered Miss Universe Australia as a way of promoting to fellow engineers that you can be and do anything you want, and not be stereotyped.
Despite still being in early in her career Lu has already achieved many awards - just a few to touch on:
In 2019, Luisa received the National Association of Women in Construction Graduate of the Year Award for her role in managing a complex program of works for the South Australian Department for Infrastructure and Transport. In 2021, Luisa was the recipient of the James McWha Rising Star Award in the University of Adelaide's 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awards. The James McWha Rising Star Award honours the highest accomplishments and achievements of young alumni who are making a significant contribution as emerging leaders within their profession and community.We hope you enjoy the interview.
Hawkes & AD
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In this episode Hawkes & AD reflected on their first ten podcast episodes. After setting a goal when we commenced to complete 6 podcasts before the end of the year (2022), we have exceeded this, notching up the first 10 episodes several months ahead.
We both wanted to reflect back on the first ten episodes and consider our learnings, what some of the great takeaways were for each of us in speaking to our esteemed guests. Both of us have come across some real pearls of wisdom through these conversations, which we both feel have impacted our lives (personal and professional) and how we look at things now.
We've reflected on what some of these key takeways were for each of our guests. If you're new to the podcast, it might be a good summary of some of the key points we took from the conversations with our respective guests (and our own introductory episodes).
Hope you enjoy...
Hawkes & AD
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Our interview guest for Episode 10 is a little different than our previous guests (as he is not an engineer nor is he involved in the water industry), but he is someone who really packs a punch and is incredibly motivating - that person is Noel Peters. Noel is 61yrs of age, lives in Hobart, is a bricklayer by day, and 6th Dan Karate instructor and Kyoshi (or Professor) by night. For over 40 years, Noel has trained in Goju-Ryu (one of the four traditional styles of Karate), and he is now Tasmania’s karate master.
AD met Noel on a plane trip to Melbourne a few years ago, and was so impacted by Noel, that he couldn’t wait to reconnect with him and learn more about Noel’s life, especially in relation to his ongoing commitment to Kaizen (Japanese for “continual improvement”).
In this episode, Noel talks to us about his early years and upbringing in Hobart, and his karate journey. He also shares valuable insights (and inspirational messages) on how we all can find self improvement and find our way in life. We also talk about one of Noel’s special achievements where he converted an old Hobart church to a Dojo (a place to study 'The Way').
Both of us truly enjoyed our conversation with Noel, I am sure you all will too.
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