Caroline Rawlinson is the CEO of Culture Amp, the global employee
experience platform trusted by more than 6,000 organisations and
25 million employees. Underpinned by people science and AI,
Culture Amp helps organisations build high-performing teams at
scale. Before joining Culture Amp, Caroline held executive
leadership roles at MYOB, Trade Me and Fletcher Building across
Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
In her first ever in-depth interview, Caroline shares the journey
behind becoming CEO of Culture Amp. She reflects on growing up in
Auckland, captaining hockey teams, meeting her husband at
McDonald's, landing a role at PwC despite knowing almost nothing
about finance, and the forgotten career goal she wrote down at
28: "I want to be CEO."
Vidit and Caroline explore the big learning in Shanghai when she
was a first time CFO that changed how she leads forever, the
partnership that made an international executive career possible,
succeeding Culture Amp's founder as CEO, balancing today's
business with an AI-native future, building high-performing
cultures at global scale, and why the closer she came to becoming
CEO, the harder it became to believe she could.
Please enjoy exploring your curiosity.
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00:00 Who is Caro?
00:03 Growing up in Auckland
00:10 Talking her way into PwC
00:16 The best commercial leaders
00:21 Designing a career with intent
00:24 "I want to be CEO"
00:28 Building confidence in others
00:30 Why direct conversations matter
00:34 The China lesson that changed
everything
00:43 Becoming CFO at 33
00:49 Ambition, marriage & family
00:56 From CFO to CEO
01:03 Taking over from Culture Amp's Founder at
the start of 2026
01:10 AI and the next era of software
01:16 Advice for future CEOs
01:18 Rapid Fire Sprint
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The High Flyers Podcast features in-depth interviews with the
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government and sport. Launched in 2020, it has ranked in the
global top ten for past three years, with listeners in 27
countries and over 200+ episodes released, and featured in
Forbes, Daily Telegraph, and at SXSW.
Our guests include -- Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of
Australia), Jason Collins (Head of BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad
Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings),
David Eckstein (CFO, Legora), Jesse Zhang (CEO, Decagon), Elena
Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner),
Jodie Auster (Uber's Global Head of Travel), Rob Giglio (CCO,
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Case (CRO, Vanta), Cristina Cordova (COO, Linear), Gautam Chari
(Head of Capital Commitments, Bank of America), John Haddock
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Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Peter Varghese
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