Today we are joined by Dr Jana Matthews, Director and Professor at the Australian Centre for Business Growth at the University of South Australia. Since launching in 2014 the Centre has worked with more than 400 Australian companies to help accelerate their growth and improve performance, with impressive results. Our story starts back at a young Jana growing up in small town USA loving reading and curious about the much, much wider world, then going on to study at the University of London and Yale University and completing her doctorate at Harvard. Jana has written eight books, published in 17 languages. In 2018, Forbes listed her book Leading at the Speed of Growth at the top of the CEO reading list for technology entrepreneurs. In Australia in 2018 Jana was listed in the Australian Financial Review as one of '100 women of influence' in Australia. Having served on seven boards and five companies of her own, she has much wisdom to share. Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player. Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave. Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/ Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/ Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/