Created in partnership with Limelight, Samuel Cairnduff‘s new podcast series explores arts and culture in our society with some of Australia’s leading executives, directors and artists.

Focused on the intersection between culture and society and grounded in his belief in the capacity of cultural institutions to transform lives and communities, Decoding Cultural Leadership is an evolution of research interviews with arts and culture thought leaders conducted for his PhD, Cairnduff tells Limelight.

Samuel Cairnduff

“They were really good conversations, but because it was for my PhD – which I am in the final stages of completing – I couldn’t use any of them publicly, as it was all anonymised.”

“I thought it was a real shame, because these people spoke so eloquently and passionately about what they did, I thought it would be really nice to do something that we could release publicly, because I don’t think we really hear leaders of arts organisations talking on one platform.”

Samuel Cairnduff interviews Fiona Allan, CEO of Opera Australia, for his podcast Decoding Cultural Leadership. Photo © Niloofar Pashmforoosh

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