The Mayvin Podcast

Send us Fan Mail What do organisations do with anger? Mostly, they manage it away. It's inconvenient, it's dangerous, it belongs in therapy or the exit interview, not the team meeting. We think that's a mistake.   In this conversation, Sophie and James sit with rage, the grief that usually sits beneath it, and the discipline of metabolising strong feeling rather than suppressing or...

Send us Fan Mail There's a particular kind of leader dominating the world right now — fast, certain, dominant, always with an answer. This podcast asks: what if that's exactly the wrong response to the moment we're in? In this episode, James and Carolyn dig into James's essay No More Heroes — an exploration of how heroic, hyper-masculine leadership has become the default settin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Sophie Tidman and Sarah Fraser explore Discernment in the Age of AI . The conversation builds on our December AI for Changemakers webinar, where a lively mix of enthusiasts and sceptics came together just before Christmas to grapple with what AI is really changing in organisations. Sophie and Sarah reflect on AI as a mirror for culture and power, the growing impor...

Send us Fan Mail This episode follows Mayvin’s November alumni event “Measuring in the Messiness” . A conversation that set out to talk about evaluation and somehow ended up being… surprisingly enjoyable. Sophie Tidman and Carolyn pick up where the event left off, exploring why evaluation so often feels heavy, awkward or quietly avoided. And what changes when you stop treating it as a final judgem...

Send us Fan Mail AI is moving fast. But the real challenge is not technical. It is human. In this episode of the Mayvin Podcast, Sophie Tidman is joined by Hugo Pickford-Wardle to explore where AI is leading us, and what it asks of us as humans at work. Together they unpack why AI can feel both unsettling and deeply empowering, how it acts as a trickster technology that exposes our assumptions abo...

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we dive into the evolving world of organisational development (OD) in the age of AI. In this episode, our hosts - Sarah Fraser, Tim Haynes and Markus Edgar Hormeß - reflect on a recent hands-on workshop where OD practitioners experimented with teaming alongside AI. We unpack the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI into the workplace, from building trust and n...

Send us Fan Mail So much of our technology promises us freedom from friction. One click, instant results, fewer awkward conversations with strangers. But what if friction—the messy, human kind—isn’t the problem to be solved, but the very thing that makes life worth living? In this episode, Sophie Tidman talks with Rob Chapman, co-founder of Neya, a young AI company with a countercultural aim: not...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of the Mayvin Research Hub podcast, young voices share their imaginative ideas about the future of work, think glass-filled homes, exciting tech, and careers that are both fun and meaningful. With a focus on happiness, creativity, and informal workplaces, they offer a playful yet thoughtful glimpse into what work could look like in years to come. Thanks so...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we have a very special treat as we are joined by Paul Kaushal, Learning and Development Manager at Hymans Robertson. Parul joined our Principal Consultant Ash Thomas to talk about their collaborative partnership,   helping leaders at all levels in the firm figure out their own ways to work well in complexity. They discuss taking  leaps of faith in Learning and...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is a recording of our recent mission-led government virtual event. Over the past six months we’ve been exploring with clients across the Civil Service what it takes to make mission-led government work, working with over 170 people. And so in today’s recording we share what we’re hearing and our insights, as well as hearing from you guys in the Mayvin community too....

Send us Fan Mail Leadership and the new chaos. It's not just you. Leaders everywhere are overwhelmed, and not because they're doing something wrong. The world has changed. Chaos isn't the exception anymore. It's the norm. In this episode, we explore how to lead when the map keeps redrawing itself under your feet. Carolyn Norgate and Carolyn Parker revisit and expand on their ea...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Fraser and Sophie Tidman discuss the varied responses to AI in organisations, noting a divide between those embracing it and those resistant. They highlight the importance of using AI as a stimulus for thinking rather than a replacement for human judgement.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our web...

Send us Fan Mail Our Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025, he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him, and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We're releasing these short 10 minute episodes for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to...

Send us Fan Mail Our Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025, he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him, and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We're releasing these short 10 minute episodes for the next eight weeks, which will take us up to...

Send us Fan Mail 'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight wee...

Send us Fan Mail 'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight wee...

Send us Fan Mail 'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight wee...

Send us Fan Mail Sophie Tidman and Anna Iles explore the potential of futures thinking in a BANI world.  Anna is a futurist life coach and facilitator supporting empowered mindsets and resilient strategies in challenging contexts. She's worked for over 10 years with sustainability and systems change consultancies, Forum for the Future and business for social responsibility, and authored two b...

Send us Fan Mail 'Our' Tony Nicholls has decided to stop working from the end of March 2025 he still finds it hard to use the R word, so we decided to make the most of him these last few weeks that we have him and try to bottle his wisdom and experience, slash milk him for content before he goes. We will be releasing one of these short 10 minute episodes every week for the next eight wee...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is part of a special new mini-series called Conversations with Tony.  'Our' lovely Tony Nicholls has decided to ‘stop working’ from the end of March 2025. (He still finds it hard to use the ‘r’ word...). So we decided to make the most of him for these last few weeks that we have him . and try to bottle his wisdom and experience / milk him for content before...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode you can listen back to highlights from our mission-led government event, hosted by Sophie Tidman and Carolyn Norgate. Who offered up our thoughts on the theory vs reality of a mission-led government, with some frameworks, techniques and methodology for how to begin implementing this new approach into the living system of the civil service and beyond. We were joi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are thrilled to be joined by Kerry Smith - Chief People Officer and Julie Jones - Director of Talent and Organisational Development at the British Heart Foundation, who talk to Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser about the BHF's 'Leading Our Future' leadership development programme. Mayvin is very proud to have worked with BHF in the innovative design an...

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Fraser and Ed Shrager discuss the integration of AI into organisational practices. Ed highlights AI's potential in streamlining data crunching and reducing human bias, emphasizing its role in enhancing human collaboration rather than replacing it. They explore AI's use in job description creation, leveraging generative AI with retrieval augmentation (RAG) to improv...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we have all the Carolyns, Carolyn Norgate and Carolyn Parker got together after our event leadership in a new era to discuss what came up and the insights we gleaned from it. We hosted the event just three weeks after the election, as we were already noticing a change in the ask from our clients with the new Labour government, our guests talked about feeli...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode our very own Operations Team talk about being a self-managed team. Our operations team cover a wide range of responsibilities (such as accounting, compliance, HR, programme accreditation and client management). They are the rhythm and base of Mayvin, which helps us to do our best work with clients. As Mayvin has grown, our operations team has grown too, and unti...