Mike Williams is an experienced leader in digital transformation, audience growth, and audio content strategy, specialising in high-impact audio experiences across multiple genres.

As Executive Producer at LiSTNR, he has played a key role in creating and refining digital-first workflows and systems while also spearheading the development, production, and growth of high profile podcasts.

Previously, he spent over a decade at the ABC, where he helped launch groundbreaking audio projects across documentary, news, music, and digital-first storytelling. Contributions include developing RN Drive with Waleed Aly, helping establish and launch Double J, co-creating The Real Thing — the ABC’s first podcast-first documentary show, leading triple j’s major outside broadcasts — including the Hottest 100, creating Inside The Big Day Out podcast, and producing a series in real time documenting his attempt to learn how to backflip. 

Mike’s audio documentaries have been broadcast and toured internationally, with accolades from Transom, Third Coast Festival, and Hearsay Audio Festival. He’s experimented with live audio documentary, performing in spaces around the world as well as a local sausage restaurant. The Australian said his work, “pushes local documentaries in a different direction… It sounds like Australia”. Guardian Australia describes it as “fast, self-deprecating, with a distinctly Australian flavour”.

By combining editorial leadership, audience insights, and a passion for diverse Australian storytelling, he is excited to help shape the future of on-demand audio.