Intelligent Teams Podcast

Amir Atzmon is a playback theatre and improv artist, a somatic psychotherapist and a translator of psychoanalytic theory based out of Tel Aviv. I met Amir in December 2025 at a Jewish cultural festival and experienced some of the playful spaces he facilitates, and I wanted to share some of Amir’s experience and knowledge with my podcast audience. We discuss playback theatre, creating safe spaces f...

Nisha Joshi is an executive coach and transformation leader with over two decades of experience driving impactful change across industries, from logistics and retail to broadcast media and startups. She specialises in aligning culture, leadership and execution to help organisations achieve strategic clarity and high-performing teams without friction or burnout. Nisha is a treasure trove of experie...

James Pereira KC is a lawyer and a coach practising in London. He has been practising as a barrister since 1996 and a Queen’s (now King’s) Council since 2014, meaning that he’s really top notch. He is also a practising coach across a number of modalities, practicing under the Libra Partnership . In this conversation we explore how he brings his coaching practice to his work in the law. James is th...

This week’s guest on Intelligent Teams is Simon Huss . Simon is an Executive and Life Coach and a good friend. Simon and I often connect about bringing the body and emotions into the workplace, and I’m excited to share Simon’s world view with the Intelligent Teams audience. Intelligent Teams is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or pa...

This week’s guest on the Intelligent Teams podcast is Systemic Constellations Facilitator, Coach, Teacher, Trauma Therapist and Writer Zita Tulyahikayo. Zita and I met fortuitously or - as Zita puts it, systemically - in early 2025 in our local North West London gym sauna. We got into a fascinating conversation about ancestral trauma and ancestral gifts, and when she shared that she does systemic...

This week’s guest on the Intelligent Teams podcast is author, consultant and creator Emily Webber. Emily has been helping technical teams and organisations thrive for well over a decade and has created countless tools and frameworks. In this episode we discussed her work building communities of practice and capabilities, as well as a whistle-stop tour of some of her creations. Practitioners like E...

This week’s guest is master facilitator and facilitator of learning Charles-Louis de Maere . Charles-Louis is a dear friend and always a source of wisdom and perspective for me personally and for others who are working to help teams collaborate better. This episode is full of practical and theoretical insight into how to facilitate groups and facilitate learning. Some links and resources from the...

This week’s guest on the Intelligent Teams Podcast is Philosopher, Neuroscientist and Podcaster Andrea Hiott . Andrea is the host of the Love and Philosophy - Beyond Dichotomy podcast, where she interviews some of the worlds most eminent thinkers about mind, cognition and experience. Andrea is a researcher at Universität Heidelberg in Utrecht developing her philosophy of Waymaking. I stumbled acro...

This week’s guest on the Intelligent Teams podcast is Behavioural Consultant, Coach and Neuroscience Masters student, Ceri Newton-Sargunar . Ceri and I riffed on: * Why leaders should care about emotions * Metaphors to help team understanding * Neuroscientific models for teams * Team cultures * Neurodiversity and Ceri’s own experience with ADHD * Navigating organisational dynamics and contexts * S...

This week’s guest on the Agile On The Mind podcast is my dear friend Yon Borthwick. Yon is a team coach who has worked with teams and individuals within different coaching modalities including Integral Development Coaching, Internal Family Systems, ORSC (Organisational Relational Systems Coaching) and many others. He is currently working as a senior team coach at the Boston Consulting Group. As we...

Jenny is an independent trainer and facilitator in product development and innovation techniques and behaviours of high performing teams. She works with teams of all kinds, helping them unlock their individual and collective potential. Jenny is passionate about inclusivity and fascinated by all kinds of brains. She delivers immersive and playful learning experiences and workshops which are designe...

In this episode of Agile On The Mind I was delighted to welcome Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta to the podcast. Mazviita is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of award winning The Brain Abstracted (available for free at that link). I heard Mazviita being interviewed on the Brain Inspired podcast and invited her to join me in conversation about the philosophy of s...

This week I was delighted to welcome my first honest-to-God Cognitive Scientist onto the programme - Professor Fred Cummins . Fred is an associate professor at the school of computer science and informatics at University College Dublin  where he co-directs the postgraduate cognitive science programme. I encountered Fred through his excellent introduction to cognitive science series on Youtube. As...

Dr Caitlin Walker has over 30 years of facilitating diverse groups to work effectively together. She's an expert in clean language interviewing and the developer of Systemic Modelling, an approach for creating intelligent self-organising teams. She's author of two books, From Contempt to Curiosity, creating the conditions for groups to collaborate and So, you want to be DramaFree. Caitlin’s Clean...

This week’s guest is Michael Lloyd. Michael is a scrum master and agile coach who has been helping teams deliver value for over a decade. Michael is the Founder and Head of Global Agility at Honest Agile and the creator of Dysfunction Mapping.  I’ve followed Michael’s posts on LinkedIn for a few years and I’ve admired his authentic thoughtful approach to working with teams and organisation as he h...

This week’s guest is Professor Dave Snowden. Dave is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Co. and Director of the Cynefin Centre for Applied Complexity. His international work covers government and industry, looking at complex strategic, organisational, and decision-making issues. He has pioneered a science-based approach, drawing on anthropology, the cognitive sciences, and com...

Tobias Mayer is an iconoclast. I’ve long seen him as a kind of prophetic figure in the fray of conversation about how to be human at work, how to build high performing teams, and how to create effective human centred organisations. Tobias is a Scrum trainer with thousands of students having passed through his classes. Tobias is also a practicing Christian, and we have connected in the past about w...

This week’s guest is Adam Boxer. Adam is an old friend, and I’ve been privileged to see his rocket-like career trajectory from humble London chemistry teacher to entrepreneurial multimodel powerhouse. Adam is a science teacher, EdTech start-up founder and educational consultant. He is an internationally recognised expert in practical pedagogy and has written several books about teaching . Adam is...

‘‘Great writing is about noticing. It’s about really picking up the details and the nuance. That’s where the stories are.’’ Today’s episode is sponsored by Embodied Agility. Embodied Agility is the vehicle through which you can work with me in your team. I run training, I coach people and I help teams collaborate better and build better products. To find out more, visit embodiedagility.co.uk and b...

This week’s episode is sponsored by… me! In the guise of my consultancy Embodied Agility. Embodied Agility helps your teams collaborate better by providing training, coaching and mentoring for your leaders and teams. Wherever your organisation is in it’s lifecycle from startup to supergiant, better collaboration helps you build better products, quicker, cheaper and easier and Embodied Agility is h...

In this week’s episode of the Agile On The Mind Podcast I talk to Vitaly Sharovatov, developer advocate and mentor at Qase. Vitaly and I explore philosophy, religion, approaches to management and - of course - cognitive science. Vitaly can be found on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsharovatov/ where he writes about pedagogy, software, science, philosophy and management. If you liked this...

Today’s episode is an audio of yesterday’s post Tuning The Lute. We explore opponent processing - how it works and what it could mean for a team. If you enjoy the episode, please do give it a like on Substack and subscribe for future posts and episodes. If this is up your street, you might like a couple of the talks I’m giving next week about the 4 Ps of Knowledge * Agile Northants Meetup Tuesday...

If you’re reading this Substack it’s probably because you’re interested in building more effective teams. In this podcast I’ll introduce (reintroduce?) the premise of my work here, which is thinking beyond Complexity and into Intelligence as a way of helping our teams sensemake in the world. If you’ve been keeping up to date this won’t be anything new, but if you want to think about how to build b...