The Mayvin Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Claire Newell Marketing Manager talks to Principal Consultant Tony Nicholls about his brand new book, Managing Change in Organizations in this podcast episode. Tony talks us through why he wrote the book. What led him to feeling that it was needed and what you can expect to find in it. Including practical tips and examples of how to manage the people side of change.  You don'...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode Mayvin Director Martin Saville interviews our client Dr Catherine Howe of Adur and Worthing Councils. We have been supporting her in relation to Organisation Design work.  Catherine is a researcher on change in the 21st century on digital and on civic engagement. She is also the chief executive of Adur and Worthing Councils in the South East of the UK. A po...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is all about using the self as an instrument . As discussed by Mayvin director Martin Saville and Principal Consultant, Carolyn Norgate. Within seconds of talking on the subject, both Martin and Carolyn mentioned Mee-yan Cheung-Judge.  Her name is so synonymous with this topic. Especially due to her seminal paper in 2001: The self as an instrument a cornerstone for th...

Send us Fan Mail The fertile void is one of the most read articles on our website. So we decided to delve deeper into the topic of making space for thinking time between one activity and another. In this podcast episode, James Trager and Tony Fraser, discussed the fertile void and Gestalt psychology in the context of organisations. Tony reflects that often in organisations, activity and action, or...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode is guest hosted by Richard Lang, introducing us to the Headless Way. The Headless way was first developed by Douglas Harding many years ago, Richard and Douglas were good friends. And so Douglas has spent the last 50 years sharing the Headless Way with people like ourselves. The Headless Way is method of becoming aware of your most private self, which the sugg...

Send us Fan Mail For many, the current approach to designing and implementing leadership and management development programmes isn't quite hitting the mark. Over the last 10 years Mayvin has delivered programmes across the private, public and third sectors. We have learnt a lot about how to design programmes that work receiving feedback such as: "the best learning I have attended in my w...

Send us Fan Mail Following on from a webinar we ran on check-ins as part of our Artful Inquiry series, Tony Nicholls, Claire Newell and Zoë Morrison had an in depth discussion about check-ins. Check-ins are part of every day life at Mayvin and our processes around them and the way that we check-in is constantly evolving as the company changes and the conversation reflects that. Thanks so much for...

Send us Fan Mail We have recently hosted two Artful sessions on the topic of embodiment. Sophie Tidman hosted one on Radical Rest and Tom Kenward hosted one on Living From Centre More of the Time . They were popular sessions and so we decided to explore the topic further. In this podcast Martin Saville and Sophie Tidman discuss what brought them to learn about Embodiment, how it relates to their w...

Send us Fan Mail There is much discussion these days about ‘speaking truth to power’. But what if power isn’t capable of listening?  Speaking truth to power is not just a question of the skill of the speaker. It might also be as much about the skill of the person being spoken to.  James Traeger and Tony Fraser hosted this group inquiry to explore: - How and why leaders avoid and suppress truthfuln...

Send us Fan Mail In January 2022 Sophie Tidman hosted an Artful Enquiry session "Embodiment Part 1: Radical Rest" for Mayvin's community. During the session Sophie took everyone through a Yoga Nidra meditation and we have shared it for you to listen to in this podcast episode.   Before you listen in, find somewhere comfortable to lie down, get cosy and relax!  Note: Don't liste...

Send us Fan Mail In a couple of months time Mayvin is starting it's new MA in People and Organisation Development Programme, which by now you probably know we are very excited about. It will give participants a post-graduate certificate after year 1 and the opportunity to take it all the way to a full MA after year 3. Programme Director James Traeger and Year 1 Lead Carolyn Norgate have been...

Send us Fan Mail Towards the end of last year we published an animation with a conversation between Carolyn Norgate and Sophie Tidman about what it is that makes us different and special. We’ve had some lovely feedback about it and so we thought we would share the full conversation in this Podcast Episode. Aside from saying yes to the mess, in this episode Carolyn and Sophie talk about the excitem...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk about development programmes and Action Learning. The Mayvin team has grown substantially over the last couple of years and includes a mix of OD practitioners and those that are not from an OD background but specialise in other areas such as Operations, Marketing and Business Development. At the beginning of 2021, we decided to run a development programme f...

Send us Fan Mail Today we’ve released a special one-off episode that our dear friends Rob and Paul at Unfinished Business Radio Harrow featured on their radio show a few weeks back.   In this episode, they interviewed our very own James Traeger and explored the need for empathy and love amongst other things.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to o...

Send us Fan Mail Event 1/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our first group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Tony Nicholls.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website  Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

Send us Fan Mail Event 2/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our second group inquiry event hosted by Sarah Fraser and Tony Nicholls.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website  Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

Send us Fan Mail Event 3/3. In this episode, we invite you to listen to our third group inquiry event hosted by Carolyn Norgate and Sarah Fraser.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailing list Visit our website  Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter

Send us Fan Mail Interview 3/3, Jennifer Hutton. In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Jennifer Hutton; Deputy Director of Organisational Development for the Church of England, who elaborates on the reality of the organisation adapting and letting new working patterns emerge in practice.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscribe to our mailin...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second in a series of 3 interviews with managers over mindfully moving towards new patterns of working.  In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Steve O’Donoghue; Director of Corporate Services at the Trade Remedies Authority, who invites us to explore an emergent approach to developing guiding principles and practices to support staff in developing new worki...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first in a series of 3 interviews with managers over mindfully moving towards new patterns of working In this episode, Director Sarah Fraser chats with Liz Maddocks Brown, a Senior programme Manager for the NHS who offers us a fascinating insight into working within the NHS during Covid.  Thanks so much for listening! Keep in touch: Email us on mail@mayvin.co.uk Subscr...