‘Get comfortable being uncomfortable,’ urges Medtronic VP and Managing Director

The leadership compass is being recalibrated as the old coordinates give way to complexity, contradiction and change. For Liz Carnabuci, Vice President and Managing Director of Medtronic ANZ, the past year has been a reminder that senior leaders must stay willing to challenge their own assumptions.

After almost seven years leading the Medtronic ANZ business, Carnabuci joins the Health Industry Hub Senior Leadership Series to explore a ‘decade of disorientation’ defined by competing forces, shifting expectations and new tensions shaping the future of leadership.

For medtech leaders, the challenge is not simply navigating change, it is making sense of the collisions happening around it. Global complexity meets local expectations. Organisational purpose meets individual priorities. Corporate responsibility meets the need for a genuine, personal voice.

Carnabuci explores how organisations can build cohesion in a time of increasing diversity in values, expectations and definitions of work. As the workforce becomes more varied in what it seeks from leadership, workplaces and each other, how do leaders create connection without demanding conformity?

The conversation also examines the growing challenge of trust. In healthcare, where decisions carry profound impact, public confidence and trust is not simply a reputation issue. It is foundational to how organisations connect with communities, partners and the people they serve.

The ‘Grounded Leader’ archetype is best positioned to lead teams in today’s ambient uncertainty. Not disconnected from change, but anchored to navigate it. Not immune to complexity, but able to move through it with clarity.

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