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Episode 32 - Leading healthy teams

Show Notes

Where do you go to half a fast-tracked career and make some quick cash? For Stephen Hunt, the answer turned out to be Internet advertising. But it was only ever a limited-time plan to create enough space for him to explore his real passion: music. Steve is the co-founder and COO of Music Health, a company improving mental health through music. Inspired by a 2014 film about music’s impact on people with dementia, Steve and his business partner Nick began work on an app that would do for dementia what Headspace and Calm have done for meditation.

Takeaways from Dan and Pia

  • Rather than list a set of values on the wall, what are the practices that will lead to behaviours?
  • When trying to work against the failure statistics of startups, it makes sense to prioritise mental and physical health.
  • Those short-term health choices can lead to longer-term positive consequences.

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Meet the guests

Stephen has led great teams that have done great things. He is a visionary leader with extensive experience in the healthcare, media, technology and music industries.
Having established one of the first programmatic media businesses in APAC, Stephen was instrumental in not only growing the business he represented but influencing the formation of the market itself. His experience combines the building of successful businesses from various stages (including genesis) with commercialising and strategising a variety of high-profile transactional websites and content driven media platforms. With proven success in executing complex transactions, relationship building, managing and motivating large teams, Stephen excel in fast-paced, dynamic environments, with a proven track record of exercising sound judgment in high-stakes situations.
Stephen's recent years were spent in the US where he was on-stage at NASDAQ as he took TubeMogul public. His US career started in New York where he was driving new business for TubeMogul as it launched the world's first Programmatic Buying Platform for Television (PTV). Success in NY led to an opportunity in Los Angeles where he was asked to lead the West Coast, responsible for sales and operations from LA to Texas and everything in between. Following Adobe's acquisition of TubeMogul, Stephen returned home to Sydney and landed a role Universal Music Group as Managing Director. There I reimagining the business through the pillars of Media, Content and Technology while driving innovative thinking through the organisation.
His time at UMG led him to meet Nicc Johnson who he later co-founded Music Health with. Music health are now on a mission to make music therapy universally understood and accessible. With a passion for effective management, online entertainment and the changing dynamics of new media, Stephen combines advanced business training with extensive experience to ensure revenue and other performance metrics are optimised.