A conversation with Angela Davis about the craft of strategy, what it actually takes to build one that works, and whether AI can do the heavy lifting. Angela is a strategy consultant who has spent 20-plus years helping organisations find direction. She's also an emerging governance leader, an endurance walker, and someone who thinks deeply about what makes teams and organisations tick. This episode explores the tension between AI's growing capability and the irreplaceable human work at the heart of good strategy: listening, prioritising, and making the hard choices that no algorithm can make for you.

A conversation with Scott Arrol about what it really takes to build trust and collaboration across a complex health ecosystem. Scott's career spans more than two decades across health, disability, community services, and technology. He moved from business ownership into health leadership at Radius Health Group and Kindercare, spent five years running community services at Healthcare of New Zealand, then led NZHIT for nearly seven years where he turned it into the peak body for NZ's digital health sector. From there he was chief executive at Dementia NZ and then MND NZ, before returning to HiNZ as conference programme director and then interim CEO for 12 months. He's now a Life Member of HiNZ and works independently as a freelance executive, director, and advisor, with governance roles across telehealth, disability, and digital health. The thread through all of it is the same: connecting people who don't normally talk to each other and building something that holds. This conversation explores how Scott thinks about ecosystem leadership, the human skills that hold a sector together, and what digital health can teach the rest of us about leading through complexity.

This episode explores how the health workforce is navigating the collision of a finite, slow-to-train workforce with rapidly advancing AI tools that promise to reshape primary care delivery. Damon Campbell brings a unique vantage point as someone leading digital and operational strategy across Otago and Southland's primary care network, from rural sole-GP practices to large multi-site operations. Listeners will gain practical insight into where AI is already changing clinical practice, what is blocking broader adoption, and why human leadership is more important than ever.