Podcasts by Leadermorphosis
Leadermorphosis is a podcast exploring the emerging world of self-managing teams and progressive organisations. Hosted by Lisa Gill, who was named on the Thinkers50 Radar 2020 list, each episode features a guest thought leader or practitioner offering a unique perspective on new and innovative ways of working.
"Turning self-managed teams from a good idea into reality is a big challenge and Lisa Gill is leading the way in making it happen.”
– Thinkers50
Leadermorphosis is powered by Tuff Leadership Training, a team of consultants and coaches who specialise in transformational leadership training, shifting working climates and supporting organisations to become self-managing.
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Ep. 91 Miquel, Blanca and Pau from Deerns Spain on becoming a self-managing engineering company from 2023-09-26T09:01
Deerns Spain, a team of around 60 engineers, has been on a transformation journey since March 2020. Inspired by K2K Emocionando, they now work without managers which means that everyon...
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Ep. 90 adrienne maree brown on Emergent Strategy and being in right relationship with change from 2023-05-31T07:23
I'm thrilled to have adrienne maree brown on the podcast, someone who 'grows ideas in public' through her writing, her podcasts and her music. Ideas like Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Ac...
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Ep. 89 Ted Rau on parallels between Relationship Anarchy and self-management from 2023-05-10T07:27
What can the realm of self-management and new ways of working learn from the realm of polyamory, Relationship Anarchy and open relationships? And how can practices in self-organising w...
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Ep. 88 Jessica and Douglas Rauch from Aquadec on tradesmen and teal from 2023-04-25T09:12
Douglas Rauch was thinking of selling his construction business until he read Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux. After that, Aquadec went on a transformation journey to beco...
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Ep. 87 Kimberly Loh on Compassionate Conversations and understanding our patterns in conflicts from 2023-04-12T10:13
Kimberly Loh works in the worlds of conflict resolution, coaching, embodiment and mindfulness. She is also the co-author of ‘Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from t...
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Ep. 86 Sanjay Fernandes on Self-Organised Learning Environments in Colombia from 2023-03-23T07:14
Since 2014, Sanjay Fernandes and his colleagues at SOLE Colombia have been teaching citizens the principles of a Self-Organised Learning Environment. He is passionate about reimagining...
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Ep. 85 Bernadette Wesley on bridging inner and outer transformation from 2023-03-08T08:13
Bernadette Wesley’s work is all about bridging the world of inner development with the world of being in an organisation together. We talk about Deliberately Developmental Organisation...
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Ep. 84 Jon Alexander on the possibility of opening up a Citizen Future from 2023-02-22T15:51
Jon Alexander is the author of the hugely popular 2022 book ‘Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us’. He talks to me about the people he interviewed and the stories he...
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Ep. 83 Imandeep Kaur on reimagining social and civic infrastructures for the challenges of the 21st century from 2023-02-09T10:37
What would it look like to reimagine the systems of a whole city? To really involve citizens in addressing the huge challenges we face today? Imandeep Kaur reflects on what she has lea...
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Ep. 82 Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that’s Made Without Managers from 2023-01-11T09:49
Three authors of the book ‘Made Without Managers: One Company’s Journey to New Ways of Working’ join me to talk about what they have learned at Mayden, a cloud ba...
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Ep. 81 Erik Korsvik Østergaard on fragmented organisations and futures literacy from 2022-11-23T09:59
Erik is an executive advisor on transformation and the future of work, leadership, and collaboration, and the author of ‘Teal Dots in an Orange World.’ We talk ab...
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Ep. 80 Mette Aagaard on how a public sector organisation with 8,000 employees is exploring autonomous teams from 2022-09-20T14:17:31
For the past year, the Municipality of Slagelse in Denmark has been experimenting with autonomous teams. Of the 8,000 employees, some 25-30 units so far have opte...
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Ep. 79 Lina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in Lithuania from 2022-09-07T07:39:11
Lina shares the story of her time at Finnish commercial real estate company Technopolis where she led the transformation of the Lithuania business unit. Inspired ...
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Ep. 78 Sofia Reis and Luís Alberto Simões on experiments guided by autonomy and connection at Mindera from 2022-08-17T08:01:15
Sofia and Luís talk about the self-organisation journey at global software engineering company, Mindera. With 900+ employees and counting, they have evolved as a ...
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Ep. 77 Aaron Dignan on using software to help scale new ways of working from 2022-08-02T09:02:59
Aaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work and founder of The Ready, is back on the podcast, this time to talk about how his new software startup, Murmur, can help or...
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Ep. 76 Ria Baeck and J.D. Nasaw on trauma informed collaboration from 2022-06-29T13:31:33
Ria Baeck and J.D. Nasaw. Ria and J.D. are both coaches and facilitators who combine scientific research of trauma with embodied practices of collective intellige...
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Ep. 75 Alice Sheldon on needs understanding and the partnership paradigm from 2022-06-13T12:42:26
Alice Sheldon is the author of ‘Why Weren’t We Taught This at School?’ and the founder of Needs Understanding, an approach for finding creative solutions and buil...
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Ep. 74 Matt Perez on going from a fiat hierarchy to a radical company without bosses or employees from 2022-05-06T08:05:23
Matt Perez realised that his successful career as a boss in a Silicon Valley tech company had made him a worse person and so he co-founded Nearsoft in 2007 to be ...
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Ep. 73 Kate Beecroft on the critiques and possibilities of DAOs from 2022-02-24T08:23:12
Kate Beecroft works on ecosystem and community building at Centrifuge, the decentralised asset financing protocol. She has been involved in Decentralised Autonomo...
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Ep. 72 Swarnalakshmi Ravi on Inclusive Neighbourhood Children’s Parliaments from 2022-02-09T15:28:10
Swarnalakshmi Ravi is the former national prime minister of India's Inclusive Neighbourhood Children's Parliament. The children’s parliament movement is an example o...
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Ep. 71 Marwa Farouq on new ways of working, diversity, equity and inclusion at Teach for All from 2022-01-17T07:28:37
Marwa Farouq leads the Global Operations Circle in Teach for All, which is a global network of partner organisations developing collective leadership to improve e...
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Ep. 70 Ravi Resck on social systems that foster win-win-win relationships from 2022-01-04T09:39:29
Ravi Resck was born to hippy parents in Brazil, became a computer network engineer, and then travelled the world as a guitarist, discovering a love of facilitatio...
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Ep. 69 Jos de Blok on Buurtzorg and the virtues of humanising, not protocolising from 2021-12-05T10:07:11
Jos de Blok is the founder of Buurtzorg, a home care organisation in the Netherlands with 15,000 nurses and no managers. We talk about how their decentralised, hu...
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Ep. 68 Michael Bungay Stanier on the value of being more coach-like from 2021-11-22T09:57:44
Michael Bungay Stanier is on a mission to ‘un-weird coaching’ and make it a skill set available to anyone. His books have sold over a million copies and Michael h...
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Ep. 67 Andy Brogan and Helen Sanderson on reinventing performance management (for real!) from 2021-11-09T11:59:20
The current models for how we measure things in organisations tend to produce compliance at their best, and dysfunctions at their worst. Andy Brogan has developed...
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Ep. 66 Margaret Heffernan on how to act our way out of the status quo trap from 2021-10-12T10:16:37
Margaret Heffernan is an author, speaker, business leader and professor. She has written six books and her TED talks have been seen by more than 12 million people...
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Ep. 65 Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College from 2021-09-27T11:55:06
Pasteur Byabeza is the lead link of the Student Care Circle at Davis College, a higher learning institution in Rwanda. He is one of the pioneers who has been driv...
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Ep. 64 Bayo Akomolafe on generative incapacitation and embracing failure from 2021-09-10T12:56:33
Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian author, professor, chief curator of The Emergence Network and is often known for his poetic and provocative take on big topics such a...
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Ep. 63 Jocelyn Davis on leadership as influence and group development from 2021-07-01T12:10:51
“Command authority is a poor basis for life.” Jocelyn Davis is an author, speaker and the former head of R&D at global consultancy The Forum Corporation. We talk ...
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Ep. 62 Alex Barker and Sam Conniff on what we can learn from being more pirate from 2021-06-10T07:41:48
Sam Conniff and Alex Barker’s books ‘Be More Pirate’ and ‘How to Be More Pirate’ have sparked a movement of people around the world who want to shake things up, t...
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Ep. 61 Topi Jokinen on levelling up a construction firm with self-organisation from 2021-05-25T09:48:17
Topi Jokinen is one of the founders of a small Finnish company in the construction sector called Vertia. Since 2018, Topi has been leading a transformation in the...
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Ep. 60 Anna Thomson and David Baksh on Yoghurt Utopia and meaning at work from 2021-03-30T14:19:28
Filmmakers Anna Thomson and David Baksh talk to me about Yoghurt Utopia, their documentary about a yoghurt company whose mission is to provide work and accommodat...
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Ep. 59 Yuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lens from 2021-03-01T16:05:43
Yuji Yamada is the founder of EnFlow and is interested in exploring the differences between approaching organisational transformation from a ‘Western lens’ and a ...
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Ep. 58 Richard D. Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo from The Hum on going from a domination to a partnership society from 2021-02-15T08:43:04
Rich and Nati are the founders of collaboration consultancy The Hum and part of the Enspiral network. Between them, they have a background in activism, engineerin...
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Ep. 57 Nand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-management from 2021-02-02T16:12:40
Nand Kishore Chaudhary is the remarkable founder of Jaipur Rugs, a company employing 40,000 weavers in 600 villages selling beautiful carpets in 40 countries. The...
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Ep. 56 Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem from 2020-11-03T11:02:21
Anna Elgh is the CEO of Svenska Retursystem, a Swedish circular economy logistics company. We talk about the transformations she has led at the company since join...
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Ep. 55 Frederic Laloux with an invitation to reclaim integrity and aliveness from 2020-10-09T17:03:59
Frederic Laloux is the author of the book 'Reinventing Organisations' and one of the leading figures in the new ways of working movement, coining the term ‘teal o...
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Ep. 54 Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation from 2020-09-10T06:54:45
Bill Fischer is a Professor of Innovation Management at IMD and Simone Cicero is the cofounder of Boundaryless and co-creator of the Platform Design Toolkit. We t...
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Ep. 53 Jabi Salcedo and Dunia Reverter on K2K’s 10 keys to becoming a self-managing organisation from 2020-08-27T08:55:45
Jabi Salcedo and Dunia Reverter are coordinators at K2K Emocionando<...
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Ep. 52 Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines from 2020-07-02T09:08:36
Jorge Silva is the co-founder of 10Pines, a self-managing software development company in Argentina. We talk about three key practices they have as a horizontal o...
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Ep. 52 Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines from 2020-07-02T09:08:36
Jorge Silva is the co-founder of 10Pines, a self-managing software development company in Argentina. We talk about three key practices they have as a horizontal o...
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Ep. 51 Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis from 2020-06-16T08:27:24
Mark Eddleston, new ways of working consultant and coach and cofounder of the Reinventing Work movement, interviews L...
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Ep. 50 Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Robyn Katz on sacred leadership from 2020-06-03T13:11:06
Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng is a Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Traditional Owner from Central Queensland, Australia, and Robyn Katz is the founder of Talkpoint, which cura...
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Ep. 49 Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness from 2020-05-06T09:16:48
Peter Koenig has spent the last decade researching principles for how founders organise and materialise their enterprises, projects and initiatives – what he call...
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Ep. 48 Luz and Edwin from Ian Martin Group on adaptability in a crisis from 2020-04-29T07:34:19
Luz Iglesias, Director of Recruitment, and Edwin Jansen, Head of Corporate Development, work at Listen
Ep. 47 Skeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformation from 2020-04-17T11:17:44
Skeena Rathor, who co-leads the Vision Sensing circle in Extinction Rebellion, shares insights from inside this decentralised movement – how their Holacratic, Soc...
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Ep. 46 Learnlife learners on self-determined, lifelong learning from 2020-03-26T08:15:22
Devin Carberry, Director of Learning Programs, and two learners, 16-year-old Gerard Almenara, and 12-year-old Samir Shariputra Chopra, share their experiences of ...
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Ep. 45 Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work from 2020-03-10T10:48:26
Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and the author of “Teaming” and “The Fearless Organisation”. We ta...
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Ep. 44 Vivek Menon on ambidextrous organisations from 2020-02-20T08:49:39
Vivek Menon leads a high growth business unit at Danfoss Power Solutions called eSteering. Their purpose is to build the future steering solutions for off road ve...
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Ep. 43 Bonnitta Roy on sensemaking and open, participatory organisations from 2020-02-14T21:10:50
Bonnitta Roy is an author, trainer and creator of the OPO (Open Participatory Organisation), which is a framework people are using to experiment with more collabo...
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Ep. 42 Ved Krishna on self-management in an Indian paper factory from 2020-02-03T21:34:37
Ved Krishna is Strategy Head at Yash Pakka, a compostable tableware manufacturer based in Faizabad, India that has been experimenting with organisational self-man...
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Ep. 41 Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations from 2019-12-15T12:42:08
Michael Y. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD who researches novel and innovative ways of organising. After reading the paper he ...
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Ep. 40 Bryan Ungard on Decurion and Deliberately Developmental Organisations from 2019-11-06T07:52:02
Bryan Ungard is the Chief Purpose Officer at Decurion. Decurion is a parent company of a number of businesses, including movie theatres, real estate and senior li...
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Ep. 39 Beetroot’s founders on purpose, self-management, and shocking people with trust from 2019-10-14T13:55:21
Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman are the founders of Beetroot, a remarkable IT company set up in 2012 to create social impact in Ukraine. We talk about how cul...
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Ep. 38 Meg Lightheart on leadership, diversity and mindsets for self-management from 2019-09-30T19:11:36
Meg Lightheart is a leadership and presentation coach and helps organisations become more inclusive and agile. Meg shares what she’s learned from her research, wo...
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Ep. 37 Miki Kashtan on the three shifts needed for self-managing organisations to thrive from 2019-09-16T13:44:43
Miki Kashtan is an author and an international teacher and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication. In this conversation we talk about the three different places...
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Ep. 36 Manuel Küblböck on models for self-organisation at Gini from 2019-09-03T09:23:03
Manuel Küblböck is an org design and transformation coach at German fintech company Gini Listen
Ep. 35 Alanna Irving on leadership, decisions and money in bossless organisations from 2019-07-26T09:23:34
Alanna Irving is a facilitator, entrepreneur and community builder and is the Executive Director of Listen
Ep. 34 Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii from 2019-07-12T15:16:40
Edwin Jansen is Head of Marketing at Fitzii, a recruitment company based in Canada. We talk about the three stages of self-management adoption he’s noticed (Head,...
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Ep. 33 Margaret Wheatley on leadership and Warriors for the Human Spirit from 2019-04-07T09:39:11
Margaret Wheatley is an author known for bringing lenses like anthropology and quantum science to the fields of leadership and organisational design. In this thou...
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Ep. 32 Brian Robertson on Holacracy and self-managing organisations (Part 2) from 2019-03-27T07:38:40
In Part 2 of this conversation with Brian Robertson, Brian answers listeners’ questions from Twitter. Why does the Holacracy framework appear so rigid when other ...
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Ep. 31 Brian Robertson on Holacracy and self-managing organisations (Part 1) from 2019-03-26T08:15:03
Brian Roberston is the pioneer of Holacracy, a customisable self-management system used by over 1,000 organisations around the world. In Part 1 of this conversati...
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Ep. 30 Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz on acting your way into a new kind of organising with Liberating Structures from 2019-03-10T15:55:45
Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless are the authors of “The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures”. We talk about how Liberating Structures can help you “a...
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Ep. 29 Aaron Dignan on being complexity conscious and people positive from 2019-03-06T13:49:07
Aaron Dignan, founder of global organisational transformation and coaching practice The Re...
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Ep. 28 Tom van der Lubbe on salaries and purpose in self-managing organisations from 2019-02-24T10:34:17
Tom van der Lubbe, the co-founder of a small, Dutch mortgage advice company called Viisi Listen
Ep. 27 Ted Rau on running organisations as equals with Sociocracy from 2019-02-06T15:02:26
Ted Rau is the co-founder of Sociocracy for All Listen
Ep. 26 Buurtzorg and the power of self-managed teams of nurses from 2018-12-17T10:51:30
Buurtzorg is a remarkable organisation: 15,000 employees working in 850 self-managed teams to deliver home care to patients in the Netherlands. The results, inclu...
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Ep. 25 Edel Harris on transforming social care in Scotland from 2018-11-28T06:02:20
Learn about the remarkable transformation journey CEO Edel Harris has been leading with one of Scotland’s largest charities, Cornerstone. It began by taking three...
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Ep. 24 Sarah Houseman on new governance for the Anthropocene from 2018-11-08T18:18:42
Researcher and entrepreneur Sarah Houseman shares insights from her PhD research into new governance systems in not for profit organisations. Looking at the lived...
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Ep. 23 Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good from 2018-09-27T08:50
Gary Hamel is one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Professor at London Business School and director of The Management Lab. In this conversation, we talk ...
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Ep. 22 Chuck Blakeman on rehumanising organisations from 2018-08-15T08:12:07
Chuck Blakeman is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker passionate about giving people their brains back in organisations. Although we’ve left the technologies of ...
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Ep. 21 Zoe Nicholson from Here on reconnecting to an organisation’s purpose from 2018-07-12T06:35:46
Zoe Nicholson shares the role of Chief Executive at healthcare social enterprise Here<...
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Ep. 20 Anabel Montiel from Nearsoft on people development in a horizontal organisation from 2018-06-21T12:56:36
Anabel Montiel, psychologist and People Developer at Mexican IT company Nearsoft, shares how she has helped the company grow to 300+ people without sacrificing it...
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Ep. 19 Simon Mont from Harmonize on why changing the structures of organisations isn’t enough from 2018-06-04T13:18:28
Simon Mont, founder of Harmonize, talks ...
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Ep. 18 Edwin van der Geest from Incentro on being a self-managed learning organisation from 2018-05-17T13:32:28
Edwin van der Geest, former Managing Director and Self-Management Ambassador at IT company Listen
Ep. 17 Bjorn Lunden from BL Information on scrapping stupid rules in companies from 2018-05-02T08:55:07
Björn Lundén, the founder of Björn Lundén Information in Sweden, is an original rebel. He doesn’t believe in rules or bosses or ‘secret salaries’. We talk about h...
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Ep. 16 Marianne Osorio from Wondering School on liberating education from 2018-04-12T08:41:33
Marianne Osorio is researching “liberating education” and shares what she’s learnt so far from democratic schools in her home country, Brazil, and beyond. We also...
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Ep. 15 People from Hack and Paint on self-management in a remote team from 2018-03-27T13:21:51
Marin Petrov and Christian Haniszewski have worked at some of the most creative companies in the world but wanted to create their own company with freedom at its ...
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Ep. 14 Doug Kirkpatrick from The Self-Management Institute on principles for self-managing organisations from 2018-02-08T10:51:05
Doug Kirkpatrick, co-founder of The Self-Management Institute Listen
Ep. 13 Ed Gonsalves from The Cooplexity Institute on breaking paradigms through play from 2018-01-29T10:45:04
Ed Gonsalves has spent more than two decades studying the concept of play and specialises in designing senior executive programmes for high performance teams in e...
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Ep. 12 Karin Tenelius from Tuff Leadership Training on giving away the authority from 2017-12-08T10:09:41
Karin has been experimenting with employee-driven organisations and self-managing teams since the nineties. She shares the approach she’s developed which involves...
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Ep. 11 Lotta Croiset van Uchelen from Schuberg Philis on self-steering teams and wholeness from 2017-11-23T09:36:28
IT infrastructure company Schuberg Philis Listen
Ep. 10 Samantha Slade from Percolab on practicing self-management from 2017-10-30T09:22:08
Samantha Slade is the cofounder of Percolab...
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Ep. 9 Helen Sanderson from HSA on reinventing home care from 2017-10-11T07:45:42
Helen Sanderson is a leader of several social enterprises specialising in “person-centred care.” She shares her story of stepping back as CEO of her company Listen
Ep. 8 Paul Taylor from Bromford Labs on rethinking failure in your organisation from 2017-09-18T11:20:50
Paul Taylor, as a ‘Lab Coach’ at social enterprise Bromford Listen
Ep. 7 Joost Minnaar from Corporate Rebels on making work more fun from 2017-08-30T12:15:18
Joost Minnaar shares his insights from visiting more than 50 of the most inspiring workplaces around the world. Appalled by the statistic that only 13% of employe...
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Ep. 6 David Tomas from Cyberclick on the happiest company in the world from 2017-06-21T16:00
David is the cofounder of digital marketing company Cyberclick Listen
Ep. 5 Tom Nixon from Maptio on creative authority in self-managing companies from 2017-06-13T16:00
Tom Nixon is an entrepreneur and coach who works with founders to help them realise their ideas, and supports organisations to reconnect them to their purpose. We...
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Ep. 4 Francesca Pick from OuiShare on a lab for new ways of working from 2017-06-06T21:25:54
Francesca Pick is a project manager, consultant and speaker that works on how tech can change business, society and human interaction. She is a Connector at Listen
Ep. 3 Jurriaan Kamer from Agile CIO on agile organisations and beyond from 2017-05-30T11:53:41
This episode features Jurriaan Kamer, the founder of Agile CIO and member of The Ready. He helps organisations become ...
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Ep. 2 Susan Basterfield from Enspiral on self-management from 2017-05-24T15:37:23
Susan Basterfield is a Foundation Catalyst and Ambassador within the self-managing collective Enspiral and helps individuals and organisations worldwide expe...
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Ep. 1 Perry Timms from PTHR on reinventing HR and work from 2017-05-09T15:43:50
My guest this episode is Perry Timms, author of the book "Transformational HR" and a practitioner who has spent the last twenty years in technology, organisationa...
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