Following the success of Compass's three-part dinner series with Australian women, Geraldine Doogue now turns her attention to men to find out what matters to them and what doesn't in the 21st century.

While the first Compass dinner series focused on women from different parts of Australia (Kellyville, Longreach and Melbourne), the men's series focuses on three phases of a man's life - fatherhood, career and retirement.

In the second episode Geraldine meets the big end of town - high flyers in the worlds of business, sport and media.

Home loans baron John Symond; sports powerbroker John O'Neill; broadcaster and journalist Mike Carlton; micro-financier Chris Cuffe; media buyer Harold Mitchell; and the late mobile phone king 'Crazy John' Ilhan* join Geraldine for dinner to talk about their success.

Is the search for meaning the same for those with power, wealth and/or influence? How do personal beliefs, ethics and morality influence their decisions at work?

The men are amazingly candid about their backgrounds, personal crises and beliefs.

*PLEASE NOTE: Compass presenter Geraldine Doogue will record the introduction and back-announce to this program prior to transmission. It will acknowledge John Ilhan, who died unexpectedly soon after the dinner was filmed.

Sunday, 02 March at 10:15PM on ABC