Mini Chief: Mike Schneider, Managing Director of Bunnings on the 4Hs of authentic leadership [Best of Series]

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“For me, the four H's were a very simple way of outlining what I stood for as a leader.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Mike Schneider, Managing Director of Bunnings Group.

His full episode is titled Career diversity, genuine empathy, and the 4Hs of authenticity.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Before being appointed to the top role, Mike was the Managing Director of Bunnings Australia & New Zealand and had also led the store operations teams, having joined Bunnings in 2005.

His career has seen him hold a range of senior operational, commercial and human resource roles, both in retail and financial services, most notably at Target, Westpac and The Warehouse Group.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of NSW and has completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, and the Advanced Strategic Management Program at IMD.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ How having a diverse career path has been to his benefit

✅ Why genuine empathy and being a consistent, not predictable, leader is vital to success

✅ What he means by an integrated life as opposed to work-life balance, and

✅ His 4Hs Framework that allows him to lead an authentic life.

Stay epic,

Greg

Connecting with Mike Schneider

You can reach Mike on LinkedIn.

Books and Resources

• World’s Best by Ric Charlesworth

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