Beyond the Boardroom: Leading with Purpose and Connection (formerly Germaneer Your Business)

About Beyond the Boardroom: Leading with Purpose and Connection (formerly Germaneer Your Business)

Hosted by Jen Demiri, Beyond the Boardroom is a podcast for purpose-driven leaders, hospitality professionals, and business change-makers ready to challenge the status quo and lead with heart. This is your space for real, raw, and powerful conversations that go deeper than strategy - because true leadership starts within. Whether you're a seasoned leader, an emerging entrepreneur, or someone passionate about doing business differently - you're invited to go beyond the surface, beyond the ego, and beyond the boardroom - connection, authenticity, and courage are your greatest leadership tools.

Publisher

JD Consulting AU

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Mar 2023

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Stabilise Your Capacity For High-Performing Leaders with Louise Siwicki

   Clarity isn't a thinking problem. It's a capacity problem. In this episode of Beyond the Boardroom, Jennifer Demiri sits down with Louise Siwicki, global Calm coach and workplace wellbeing strategist, for a conversation that reframes almost everything leaders are told about pressure, performance and personal development. Before this work, Louise spent more than 15 years in corporate leadership before her own body forced a different way. Six years of infertility, chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue and a celiac diagnosis brought her to a fertility specialist who told her "I don't believe you have the capacity to fall pregnant." Six months of boundaries, rest and rebuilding her internal capacity later, she was pregnant naturally. That experience became the foundation of the work she now does with leaders. Because what nearly broke her wasn't a lack of strategy, mindset or grit. It was a depleted nervous system quietly narrowing everything that once made her successful. In this conversation: Why pressure works until it doesn't, and how to spot the moment yours stops The difference between doing more and actually resolving the problem Why clarity, decision making and creativity all shrink when internal capacity narrows Calm as an operating system, not a personality trait The 90 second reset that interrupts the stress response in your body Micro moments of calm (why this language works when "self care" doesn't) How doers get stuck in their heads and disconnected from their bodies Why leaders try to solve capacity problems intellectually, and why that never works The addictive dopamine hit of urgency, and how to spot it in yourself A C suite executive's daily schedule that will feel uncomfortably familiar The early warning signs of burnout your body is already giving you If you have ever felt exhausted despite achieving, overwhelmed despite succeeding, or wondered why you don't quite feel like yourself anymore, this conversation may finally explain why. Connect with Louise: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisesiwicki/ - www.louisesiwicki.com

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Your Team Is a Mirror - The Leadership Truth Most CEOs Never See with Jessicka Anne

   When Your Team Becomes the Mirror What if the culture challenges, communication breakdowns and difficult team dynamics you're navigating aren't random, but reflections of something deeper? In this episode of Beyond the Boardroom, Jennifer Demiri is joined by Jessicka Anne, transformational leadership coach, speaker and founder of the Artemisia Alchemical College. Over the past 14 years, Jessicka has worked with more than 6,000 people worldwide, including eight figure founders, TEDx speakers and industry leaders, helping them uncover the unseen patterns that influence how they lead, communicate and build culture. This is a conversation for the curious. Whether you resonate with the language of shadow work or you're completely sceptical, Jessicka brings a grounded, practical lens to how our internal world shapes the external reality of our businesses. In this conversation: Why teams often become mirrors of the leader How the "need to be needed" pattern quietly recreates bottlenecks in your business What shadow work actually is, without the mysticism Why our greatest strengths (ambition, empathy, confidence, certainty) all cast shadows we need to understand How to work with curiosity and compassion when confronting yourself Why leaders instinctively try to fix the external world before doing the inner work Ken Wilbur's AQAL model as a way to diagnose whether a problem is a systems issue, a culture issue, an action issue or an internal one Why the next decade of leadership will be defined less by strategy and more by consciousness Jessicka shares stories from her work with a CEO whose team kept dropping problems on her desk, a leader wrestling with paranoia about a team member, and her own honest reflections on perfectionism and delegation. If you have ever felt like the same patterns keep showing up in your team, no matter how many restructures or KPIs you introduce, this episode invites you to explore a different explanation. Stay curious. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. Connect with Jessicka: https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/ (https://www.instagram.com/thejessickaanne/) https://jessickaanne.com/ (https://jessickaanne.com/) https://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts (https://jessickaanne.com/shadow-prompts)

3. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Leading Beyond Performance – Identity, Self-Awareness & Authentic Leadership with Joni Woods

   In this episode of Beyond the Boardroom: Leading with Purpose & Connection, I’m joined by Joni Woods for a deeply honest conversation about the leadership work that happens beneath the surface. Joni shares her personal journey of recognising how inherited patterns, nervous system responses, and early life experiences can shape the way we lead, communicate, and relate to others. We explore why many high achievers spend years performing leadership rather than truly embodying it, and what begins to change when self-awareness becomes a daily practice instead of a leadership buzzword. Together, we unpack the difference between reacting from old conditioning and responding from conscious leadership, the role of emotional safety in teams, and why authentic leadership requires courage, not perfection. This conversation is for leaders who want to move beyond external success and create leadership that feels aligned, grounded, and sustainable. If you’ve ever felt successful on paper but disconnected from yourself in the process, this episode will speak directly to you. Connect with Joni: WEB: joniwoods.com IG: journeylifecoaching.life

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