Organisation Development Pro Tips for Improving Performance - Part 2 - OrgDev Episode 90

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   S6 · E9 · 24 Feb 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

   Clear Leadership, Real change with Gervase Bushe - OrgDev Episode 95

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What if organisations can’t be engineered into better performance — only invited into change? We’re joined by Gervase Bushe, one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in Organisation Development and a leading voice in dialogic OD. For decades, many change efforts have assumed that if we design the right structure, define the right process and implement the right plan, performance will follow. Bushe’s work challenges that assumption. D...

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   S6 · E94 · 19 Feb 2026 · 43 min

   Design Your Organisation for an AI Driven Future - Omar Morales Microsoft - OrgDev Episode 94

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What does organisation development look like when AI, complexity and constant transformation become the norm rather than the exception? In this episode of the OrgDev Podcast, we’re joined by Omar Morales, Head of Organisation Development at Microsoft, to explore how organisations design for adaptability, leadership resilience, and sustained performance in fast-moving environments. Drawing on nearly two decades of global experience across organ...

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   S6 · E93 · 13 Feb 2026 · 48 min

   Understanding Complexity with Dave Snowden - OrgDev Episode 93

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! How to apply complexity thinking in your organisation If we can’t reliably predict what will happen in our organisations, can’t control outcomes in any simple way, and can’t even agree on what’s true – how do we lead? That’s the territory explored in this conversation with Dave Snowden. We move beyond tidy change models and into the realities of uncertainty, distributed knowledge and contested meaning. This episode challenges the instinct to s...

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   S6 · E92 · 23 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

   Essential Guide to High Growth and Strategy with Rupert Morrison - OrgDev Epsiode 92

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! Strategy is one of the most overused words in organisational life – and one of the least well understood. In this conversation with Rupert Morrison, we explore what strategy actually means, who really owns it, and why so many organisations struggle not with ambition, but with focus. We talk about why strategies so often turn into shopping lists, why prioritisation is harder than it looks, and how pace, culture, and execution collide once a stra...

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   S6 · E91 · 16 Jan 2026 · 55 min

   Stop Educating Start Learning - The Secret to Performance with Nick Shackleton-Jones OrgDev Episode 91

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! This week on the OrgDev Podcast we’re joined by the brilliantly provocative Nick Shackleton-Jones, a guest who never fails to challenge how organisations think about learning. Nick brings energy, clarity and a healthy dose of disruption as he unpicks why so much workplace learning fails to change behaviour and what actually works instead. He shares a rallying cry of resources not courses along with stories about simulations and onboarding...

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   S5 · E89 · 9 Jan 2026 · 36 min

   Organisation Development Pro Tips for Improving Performance - Part 1 - OrgDev Episode 89

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! op tips from leading Organisation Development and Design Experts This is a special highlights episode.This year has been a big one for us. We recorded 44 episodes, and the podcast reached listeners in 109 countries. Our guests joined us from as far afield as California, Spain and Australia – as well as Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden, and together we covered a broad spectrum of practice – from neuroscience and psychological safety, to syst...

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   S5 · E88 · 19 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 3 min

   Leading with Purpose, Not Control with Dr Louise Van Rhyn - OrgDev Episode 88

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What does leadership look like when it’s driven by purpose rather than control? In this episode of the OrgDev Podcast, we’re joined by Dr Louise Van Rhyn, social entrepreneur, leadership and organisation development practitioner, and founder of Symphonia. Louise shares powerful insights from more than four decades of practice working with leaders, organisations and large-scale social change initiatives across South Africa and beyond. We explore...

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   S5 · E86 · 9 Dec 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

   Why Transformation Fails - And What Works with Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie - OrgDev Episode 86

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! Why Do Transformations and Change Fail - And What Can Leaders Do About It? Where do leaders go when the map runs out – when the terrain ahead is shifting faster than they can chart it? Today on the OrgDev Podcast, we’re stepping into the space where the known meets the unknown, and where transformation takes root. In this episode. we’ll hear how Gwen blends rigour and relationality, why she believes leadership must be both human-centred a...

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   S5 · E87 · 9 Dec 2025 · 58 min

   Design Thinking for Real-World Workplace Problems with Giles Wright - OrgDev Episode 87

   We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! How Can Design Thinking Solve Your Organisation's Most Intractable Problems? Design thinking has transformed how we approach products and services - but what does it really look like when we apply it to people, culture, and organisations? How do we move from post-it notes and empathy maps to real organisational change? To explore the intersection between design thinking and organisation development, we’re joined by Giles Wright – an...

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    S5 · E85 · 28 Nov 2025 · 53 min

    Rethinking Leadership When the World Won't Behave with Professor Chris Mowles - OrgDev Episode 85

    We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! Is it time to rethink leadership and management? Many leaders work under the illusion that they can control what goes on but in reality organisations are messy, and unpredictable. So what does this Complexity really means for how organisations function, how leaders make decisions, and how people navigate uncertainty. One person who has challenged the neat models and tidy solutions we often reach for – instead opens up more real, human, a...