E18 - The Importance of Trust and Accountability in Leadership with Bashir Riachi

E18: Interview with Bashir Riachi

Bashir Riachi has established an impressive career in sales leadership and has worked for organisations that service some of Australia's biggest corporate clients. In this episode with Bashir, we talk about the importance of trust and accountability in not just leaderships, but relationships in general.

In our conversation we discussed a range of leadership lessons and the impact that we have on others as well as the impact that others have on us in leadership and life. Bashir spoke about really intently engaging with people to move into a space of influence and how that results in the ability to charge them with energy so as leaders, we can open the right doors up for them.

As a Lebanese Australian, Bashir also touched on how he navigated through his life and career and being different from most of the people around him. He spoke openly about some of the cultural biases that he has experienced and how he learned to find the beauty in being different. The interview finished with Bashir talking about how the art of listening, effective communication and understanding what you stand for, forms the foundation of his leadership focus.

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Basir Riachi Bio:

Bashir is a dynamic sales leader that has established an extensive and broad portfolio of sales (B2B & B2C - spanning across 18 years of experience ranging from globally recognised brands / fast moving consumer goods (The Coca-Cola Company) to industrial safety supply materials industry (Blackwoods) servicing Australia's biggest corporate clients.

Over the years, he has successfully stimulated stability, growth and business planning within his many roles by transmission of vision to reality, mission into achievements and philosophy into accomplishments. Prior to his successful sales Career, Bashir was a graduate of Edith Cowan University with a (Bachelor of Education) degree. He practised as a teacher for 4 years in both the public and private education sector, prior to embarking into the business world. In this business space he opened some of the south-wests most known hospitality venues and then launched into his corporate career with the Coca-Cola Company where he spent 14 years. This career started in Perth with him later relocating to Melbourne - where he now resides with his family.

His most recent professional role at Australia's biggest industrial safety supply business (Blackwoods – a Wesfarmers owned business) was as the National Sales Manager (Industrial, Mining, Retail & Government). Bashir has developed a strong reputation for gaining respect through exercising discretion, sound judgement and a professional hands-on approach.

Bashir's experience has seen a desire to create and implement strategies that are closely aligned to business goals and objectives, designed to achieve best practice management solutions for his external and internal stakeholders. Bashir's key strengths include P&L management, communication, strategic leadership/people development, problem solving, project management, relationship management, negotiation, achieving and exceeding desired business performance combined with a result driven / people first approach.

Bashir is a life partner to Kirsten, a step dad to Cale (14) and Beau (10). He is the captain of Beaumaris Lawn Tennis Club Men's division 9 pennants team and spends most of his weekends either on the tennis court or in the family kitchen. Bashir is a proud first generation Lebanese Australian and has called Australia home for 35 years.