Challenges That Change Us
58 {Jonathon Peatfield} How taking risks can lead to career success
23 Apr 2023
A huge thank you to Project Health Monitoring for powering this week's episode.PHM is a software company that provides digital solutions for industry, sport, and education, allowing you to focus on wellbeing, performance, and academic engagement in real time. This engagement helps you improve the mental health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes for all individuals. Click here to find out more!Jonathon (Jono) Peatfield is CEO of Life Ed NSW/ACT. He manages a team of 80 people delivering health and wellbeing programs to around 280,000 children right across NSW and the ACT, with support from the infamous mascot Healthy Harold. After graduating in Commerce/Psychology from Australian National University, Jono went on a varied and very unique career pathway that saw him move from being in sales leadership and national account management with national hardware business, Otter Group to Head of Partnerships at Batyr, a social enterprise that focuses on preventative education in the area of young people’s mental health. Recently, Jono has been working with the Thrive by Five movement to promote equitable, affordable and accessible access to early learning so that every child can thrive.In this episode Jono shares:- Why he made the unusual move into sales for a Hardware company after studying psychology- The lessons he learnt from working in a vibrant work culture- Why he moved to help launch Batyr- The challenges he encountered working in a start up- The active moves they made to ensure a healthy work culture at Batyr- Why he moved to Life EdKey Quotes“You should bring your true self to work and be able to enjoy yourself and have fun.”“We would purposely take the time to stop and celebrate and go and have some fun. If we couldn’t have fun, what was the point?”You can get involved with the podcast onlineOn facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.auFor her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.auOr you can follow them on Instagram:@Altitudefitnessarmidale@trialtitudeperformance Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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