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Episodes about feedback culture

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Abhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith - Leadermorphosis episode 101: Abhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith from Codewave on scaling culture without hierarchy

Abhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith from Codewave on scaling culture without hierarchy

Abhijith HK and Vidhya Abhijith are co-founders of Codewave, a digital innovation company in India with over 200 employees and zero hierarchy. In this episode, we explore how they built a self-managing organisation from intuition, their peer-based feedback system called Peerly, and how they moved from "ruinous empathy" to radical candor. We also discuss scaling through "Fractas" (mini startups within the company), staying bootstrapped to protect culture, and the personal growth required of founders on this journey.

Ep. 101 21 Jan 2026
Eva Vilella, Trevor Hudson and Kajsa Thelander Sadio - Leadermorphosis episode 100: Eva, Trevor and Kajsa from Tuff on the messy beauty of working in a self-managing organisation

Eva, Trevor and Kajsa from Tuff on the messy beauty of working in a self-managing organisation

For episode 100, Lisa talks with her colleagues Eva Vilella, Trevor Hudson, and Kajsa Thelander Sadio from Tuff Leadership Training about what it's really like to work inside a self-managing organisation. They explore how working at Tuff has transformed each of them, their culture of continuous development with practices like "pebbles" and "mooseheads," and the genuine challenges alongside the beauty – from coordination difficulties to the loneliness of autonomy. A rare inside look at self-management with all its complexity, humor, and humanity.

Ep. 100 5 Dec 2025
Xavier Costa - Leadermorphosis episode 96: Xavier Costa on lessons from self-managing organisations in Spain

Xavier Costa on lessons from self-managing organisations in Spain

Why does Spain appear to be a hotbed for progressive organisations lately? Xavier Costa shares three hypotheses: the implementation of the NER self-management approach in over 100 companies, a rich history of cooperatives, and a culture of innovation in the boundaries of Spain. Xavi also discusses his work with Krysos, an investment fund that buys and transforms traditional companies into self-managed organizations, emphasizing the importance of healing workplace trauma and replacing fear-based leadership with love and trust.

Ep. 96 10 Jul 2025
Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga - Leadermorphosis episode 94: Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga on SINA, self-organisation and ‘freesponsibility’

Etienne Salborn and Tonny Wamboga on SINA, self-organisation and ‘freesponsibility’

SINA (Social Innovation Academy) is a network of social enterprise incubators in Uganda and neighbouring countries with a mission of supporting marginalised young people to create their own solutions to social problems in their communities.There are currently more than 10 SINA communities which have catalysed 70+ social enterprises and more than 500 jobs. The goal is to create a global movement of 1,000 SINAs and 100,000 social enterprises by 2035.

Ep. 94 28 Mar 2024
Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz - Leadermorphosis episode 93: Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc. on psychological safety, equity and inclusion

Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc. on psychological safety, equity and inclusion

In this episode with Tirzah Enumah and Mike Arauz from August Public Inc., we explore the nuanced difference between psychological safety and comfort, revealing how true psychological safety requires embracing discomfort rather than avoiding it. We discuss practical strategies for creating brave spaces where teams can engage in productive disagreement, the critical role of equity in determining who feels safe to speak up, and how subtle leadership behaviors can either build or erode trust.

Ep. 93 28 Feb 2024
Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle - Leadermorphosis episode 92: Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle from NGL on the capacity lens as a path to reinvent ourselves and our organisations

Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle from NGL on the capacity lens as a path to reinvent ourselves and our organisations

Miki is the seed founder and Emma a founding member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community (NGL), which runs entirely as a gift economy. They and NGL as a whole are knee-deep in visionary experimentation about what it would take to realign humanity with life through online and community living experiments. We explore the "capacity lens" - a framework for organizational transformation that starts with realistic assessment of where we are rather than forcing idealistic visions - and discuss how to honor individual and collective capacity limits, embrace baby steps over radical overnight changes, and replace coercion-based systems with willingness and authentic collaboration.

Ep. 92 1 Feb 2024
Miquel, Blanca and Pau - Leadermorphosis episode 91: Miquel, Blanca and Pau from Deerns Spain on becoming a self-managing engineering company

Miquel, Blanca and Pau from Deerns Spain on becoming a self-managing engineering company

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 everyone is “creating our company all the time”. I talked to Miquel Castellvi (General Coordinator), Blanca Capdevila (People & Culture) and Pau Riera (Commitment Coordinator) who shared stories about how they changed their organisational structure, their self-managing salary process, giving feedback and dealing with conflicts, and the role of the Values and Culture team.

Ep. 91 26 Sept 2023
Jessica and Douglas Rauch - Leadermorphosis episode 88: Jessica and Douglas Rauch from Aquadec on tradesmen and teal

Jessica and Douglas Rauch from Aquadec on tradesmen and teal

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 becoming a self-managing company. Douglas and his daughter Jessica share the ups and downs of this process over the last five years, including why their initial approach was a spectacular failure, why it was an inner shift that ended up making the difference, and something called “S**t Day.”

Ep. 88 25 Apr 2023
Ruth Waterfield and Taryn Burden and Philippa Kindon - Leadermorphosis episode 82: Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that's Made Without Managers

Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that's Made Without Managers

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 based health tech solutions organisation in the UK. Ruth Waterfield (developer and scrum master), Taryn Burden (product owner of Mayden’s new ways of working) and Philippa Kindon (coach) share how Mayden’s ways of working have evolved over the years, including what career progression looks like, the role of directors in a bossless organisation, and what have been their biggest challenges.

Ep. 82 11 Jan 2023
Lina Maskoliūnė - Leadermorphosis episode 79: Lina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in Lithuania

Lina Maskoliūnė on lessons from a self-managed business experiment in Lithuania

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 by Frederic Laloux's book Reinventing Organisations, she got the mandate from her boss to run her business unit of 20 people in a totally different way, with no managers. She shares the story of what her team learned, the challenges they faced, and the results they achieved.

Ep. 79 7 Sept 2022
Sofia Reis and Luís Alberto Simões - Leadermorphosis episode 78: Sofia Reis and Luís Alberto Simões on experiments guided by autonomy and connection at Mindera

Sofia Reis and Luís Alberto Simões on experiments guided by autonomy and connection at Mindera

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 company without managers through experiments guided by questions like: Will this bring more autonomy? Is it human friendly? This has resulted in some remarkable employee-designed processes, like their self-managed salary system, and their unique office space in Porto, Portugal.

Ep. 78 17 Aug 2022
Marwa Farouq - Leadermorphosis episode 71: Marwa Farouq on new ways of working, diversity, equity and inclusion at Teach for All

Marwa Farouq on new ways of working, diversity, equity and inclusion at Teach for All

Marwa Farouq leads the Global Operations Circle in Teach for All, which is a global network of partner organisations developing collective leadership to improve education and expand opportunity for all children. Marwa shares what she’s learned from exploring new ways of working at Teach for All, including dismantling the senior leadership team, moving decisions closer to the work, embracing tensions and liberating untapped leadership through their core value of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Ep. 71 17 Jan 2022
Ravi Resck - Leadermorphosis episode 70: Ravi Resck on social systems that foster win-win-win relationships

Ravi Resck on social systems that foster win-win-win relationships

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 facilitation and social design. Today he goes by tags like hacktivist, org designer, facilitator, and systems mapper, sharing social technologies with others in a fun and accessible way. He works as a consultant at Target Teal, a collective exploring new ways of working, including an open-source fork of Holacracy called Organic Organization (or O2). We talk about why he believes lessons from self-management and Sociocratic-inspired models benefit all organisations, not just the ‘already-converted’, and Ravi shares some of his favourite examples of organisations and communities at the cutting edge of new ways of collaborating. Ravi is definitely one to watch in the future of work space!

Ep. 70 4 Jan 2022
Pasteur Byabeza - Leadermorphosis episode 65: Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

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 driving the college’s transition to becoming a self-managed, Holacratic organisation. Though they are early in their journey, taking steps like disbanding the global council and replacing management hierarchies with distributed decision making have already had a huge impact on people’s engagement levels. Pasteur shares what he has learned so far with honesty and contagious passion.

Ep. 65 27 Sept 2021
Yuji Yamada - Leadermorphosis episode 59: Yuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lens

Yuji Yamada on Reinventing Organisations through a Japanese lens

Yuji Yamada is the founder of EnFlow and is interested in exploring the differences between approaching organisational transformation from a ‘Western lens’ and a Japanese lens. We talk about teal organisations from Frederic Laloux’s book ‘Reinventing Organisations’ (which has sold 100,000 copies in Japan) and Yuji’s homegrown concept of ‘Jinen management’. Could East Asian organisations be at an advantage in developing new ways of working by drawing on their ancient wisdom and inherent cultural paradigms of interconnectedness?

Ep. 59 1 Mar 2021
Anna Elgh - Leadermorphosis episode 56: Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem

Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem

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 joining in 2014, from Lean to nearly three years of moving towards self-managing teams. She shares what she has learned about transforming conflicts, distributed decision making, disbanding the management team, as well as leadership and the power of letting go.

Ep. 56 3 Nov 2020
Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Robyn Katz - Leadermorphosis episode 50: Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Robyn Katz on sacred leadership

Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Robyn Katz on sacred leadership

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 curates peer-to-peer learning experiences to humanise work. We talk about Tjanara’s PhD research which draws parallels between aboriginal culture and eldership, and Robert Kegan’s psychological development research and the idea of “sacred leadership”. Both women share what they have learned through their own personal transformation journeys, and what’s needed now in the world in terms of leadership development.

Ep. 50 3 Jun 2020
Skeena Rathor - Leadermorphosis episode 47: Skeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformation

Skeena Rathor on Extinction Rebellion, paradoxes and transformation

Skeena Rathor, who co-leads the Vision Sensing circle in Extinction Rebellion, shares insights from inside this decentralised movement – how their Holacratic, Sociocratic structures support its collective purpose, the work they’re doing with Miki Kashtan to transform power dynamics, and why Skeena’s dream is for XR to become a touchstone for the work of co-liberation. We also talk about how XR is responding to COVID-19 and their AloneTogether campaign.

Ep. 47 17 Apr 2020
Vivek Menon - Leadermorphosis episode 44: Vivek Menon on ambidextrous organisations

Vivek Menon on ambidextrous organisations

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 vehicles. He shares how eSteering works without managers and why he thinks the future of organisations, especially large ones, is building the capacity to be ambidextrous – creating ecosystems where traditionally structured and decentralised teams or units can coexist. Vivek believes there are three components to develop when it comes to self-management: structures, processes, and mindset and behaviours.

Ep. 44 20 Feb 2020
Ved Krishna - Leadermorphosis episode 42: Ved Krishna on self-management in an Indian paper factory

Ved Krishna on self-management in an Indian paper factory

Ved Krishna is Strategy Head at Yash Pakka, a compostable tableware manufacturer based in Faizabad, India that has been experimenting with organisational self-management since 1999. Ved talks with a lot of heart and honesty about his journey of taking over the family business, then firing himself as CEO and now working from a place of deeper purpose. He also shares the ups and downs of trying to develop self-management in a culture where hierarchy is very strongly ingrained.

Ep. 42 3 Feb 2020
Bryan Ungard - Leadermorphosis episode 40: Bryan Ungard on Decurion and Deliberately Developmental Organisations

Bryan Ungard on Decurion and Deliberately Developmental Organisations

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 living, but it's less famous for what it does and more for why and how it does it (as featured in the book “An Everyone Culture”). We talk about Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Bryan’s thoughts on why feedback can be dangerous, what he makes of the trend towards self-managing organisations, and how we can help our organisations become more conscious.

Ep. 40 6 Nov 2019
Edwin Jansen - Leadermorphosis episode 34: Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii

Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii

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, Heart, Habit) and why it’s so challenging for us human beings in the “messy middle” stage. Edwin also shares some practices that Fitzii has developed around “radical responsibility”, such as feedback, teal onboarding, and the Role Advice Process, as well as his own personal journey of transformation as a former manager.

Ep. 34 12 Jul 2019
Tom van der Lubbe - Leadermorphosis episode 28: Tom van der Lubbe on salaries and purpose in self-managing organisations

Tom van der Lubbe on salaries and purpose in self-managing organisations

Tom van der Lubbe, the co-founder of a small, Dutch mortgage advice company called Viisi, had an existential crisis at a young age and has been conscious of doing purposeful work ever since. We talk about the science of motivation and management and how Viisi has developed a simple but powerful approach to salaries. He also shares his thoughts on adapting the organisational self-management system Holacracy and how to create an honest feedback culture where the responsibility sits with teams and individuals, not managers.

Ep. 28 24 Feb 2019
Ted Rau - Leadermorphosis episode 27: Ted Rau on running organisations as equals with Sociocracy

Ted Rau on running organisations as equals with Sociocracy

Ted Rau is the co-founder of Sociocracy for All and co-author of the book Many Voices, One Song. In this conversation we talk about how we can distribute authority in organisations and relate to each other as equals using Sociocracy, the “power over, power under” tendencies we have as human beings, the paradoxes and shadow sides of Sociocracy to watch out for, and how we can implement such an approach without becoming "top-down". If you’re interested in transforming your organisation, but stepping into nothing feels daunting, or you’re curious about Sociocracy and what tools like consent-based decision making could make possible, then this episode is for you.

Ep. 27 6 Feb 2019
Edel Harris - Leadermorphosis episode 25: Edel Harris on transforming social care in Scotland

Edel Harris on transforming social care in Scotland

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 months out of the business to visit inspiring companies around the world like Southwest Airlines and Buurtzorg. Two years in, Cornerstone has lost nine layers of management in favour of nurturing self-managing local care and support teams. Austerity has made it painfully tough for the social care sector, but here’s a story of how one organisation has reinvented itself and found innovative ways to deliver person-centred care.

Ep. 25 28 Nov 2018
Marin Petrov, Christian Haniszewski, Martina Petkov, Miglena Chervenkova & Stefan Doychev - Leadermorphosis episode 15: People from Hack and Paint on self-management in a remote team

People from Hack and Paint on self-management in a remote team

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 core. Thus, Hack and Paint was born. I talked to Marin, Christian and three of their teammates, Martina Petkov, Miglena Chervenkova, and Stefan Doychev, about the challenges of working in a self-managing team, especially when no one is based in the same country. In particular, we talk about the importance of personal development, being human, and their experiences of Holacracy practices.

Ep. 15 27 Mar 2018
Ed Gonsalves - Leadermorphosis episode 13: Ed Gonsalves from The Cooplexity Institute on breaking paradigms through play

Ed Gonsalves from The Cooplexity Institute on breaking paradigms through play

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 entrepreneurial and large organisations. Is it possible to discover new paradigms of working and leading by incorporate unstructured play into our learning experiences? What do carnaval, prisons and nature have to do with self-managing teams? Ed, an associate professor at Toulouse Business School, Barcelona and the co-founder of The Cooplexity Institute, shares what he has learnt.

Ep. 13 29 Jan 2018
Helen Sanderson - Leadermorphosis episode 9: Helen Sanderson from HSA on reinventing home care

Helen Sanderson from HSA on reinventing home care

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 HSA to create a self-managing team and all the leadership and culture challenges they encountered along the way. Helen also announces a new and exciting project which involves self-managed well-being teams, à la Buurtzorg in the Netherlands, with an ambitious mission to scale from six to 600 in under three years. And beneath all of this is a deeply personal sense of purpose...

Ep. 9 11 Oct 2017