The world needs more metals, minerals, and natural resources to fuel the global economy, power the energy transition, and feed a growing population. As the CEO of the world’s largest mining company, BHP’s Mike Henry is redefining his business in a competitive industry which is projected to grow to $2.8 trillion by 2028. In today’s episode, Clarke digs into Mike’s leadership lessons and insights, including his career journey, his CEO transition in the midst of two major crises, and the advantages of being a global citizen living and working in multiple countries. Mike shares how he balances growth alongside risk, safety, and respecting communities in the company’s mining efforts. He also talks about the BHP Operating System, which serves as the foundation for how BHP’s 90,000 employees continuously improve and make decisions in the face of uncertainty on a day-to-day basis. Four things you’ll learn from this episode: How BHP is decarbonizing and becoming more sustainable while meeting growing global demand How an Operating System can help ground company culture and drive continuous improvement across the organization How to balance growth with risk, safety, and working with local governments and communities How technology and an internal venture capital arm can power a culture innovation If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these Redefiners episodes: Talking Transformational Leadership with RRA’s CEO Constantine Alexandrakis AI or Die: A Conversation with Coveo Chairman and CEO Louis Têtu Leadership Lounge: How to develop your personal leadership brand Waste In, Shareholder Value Out: A Conversation with WM President and CEO Jim Fish Putting Sustainability Talk into Action with former Enel CEO Francesco Starace Leadership Lounge: What do top-performing teams have in common? How the Barely Possible Can Overcome the Barely Solvable with First Mode’s Chris Voorhees
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Call them changemakers. Call them rule breakers.
We call them Redefiners. Join us in conversation with daring leaders who are creating extraordinary impact and driving change from around the globe.
Each episode gives you a fresh perspective on your leadership and career journey. I'm Hoda Tahun, a leadership advisor at Russell Reynolds.
I'm Clark Murphy, the former chief executive officer and a leadership advisor. And this is Redefiners. Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Redefiners. It's Clark Murphy here, a leadership advisor with Russell Reynolds Associates. Hoda's unable to join me today, so I'll be flying solo on this one.
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For our audio listeners, don't forget to rate Redefiners wherever you get your podcasts, and please share your feedback on each episode, as well as we'd love guest suggestions. We'd also just love to hear from you. Give us some feedback. It'd be great. Today, we're going to talk to a leader in the global mining market.
which was worth almost $2 trillion in 2023 and expected to grow to about $2.8 trillion by 2028. A big part of the mining market includes resources like copper, nickel, iron ore, potash, which are essential to building and powering our world, as importantly to help feed our population as food security becomes even more important.
Several Redefiner guests over the years have talked about the green energy transition, including electric vehicles. Well, resources like copper and nickel are key elements in that transition and critical when it comes to manufacturing EV batteries. Our guest today is a leader in this effort. Mike Henry is the CEO of Australia-based BHP. It's the world's largest mining company.
Mike leads a global workforce of 90,000 people with major operations and projects in Australia, North and South America, and Canada. Prior to becoming CEO in 2020, Mike was responsible for leading BHP's Australian minerals business. So you're probably asking, mining, what does that have to do given the dirty industry it's in and the crazy places in the globe that they are located?
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