We Not Me Podcast

Episode 50 - The four-day-a-week team

When you don’t have a good work/life balance, you can begin to lose your identity outside of work. Joe Ryle discovered this during his work with the Labour...

Episode 49 - Connecting together in 2023

Is the balance of power shifting from employee to employer? Is AI in danger of reducing our willingness to connect as humans, or could it give us more...

Episode 48 - The importance of place

The workplace needs a rebrand. Design lead Doug Shapiro asked himself “If we didn’t feel like we had to drag ourselves to an office, would we feel differently...

Episode 47 - Creating a movement

Communities need a common goal to work towards. And even with that goal in place, how can we galvanise people together to help them achieve it? These are some...

Episode 46 - Courage of teams

When we’re buried in our todo lists, we can lack the courage to take bolder choices. Amy Riley discovered this first-hand through her work helping leaders...

Episode 45 - What can we learn from other animals?

When Dr Beki Hooper began to study rhesus macaques, she found less-than-flattering similarities between monkey behaviour and human team structure.In this...

Episode 44 - Team leadership at altitude

For mountain guide Tania Noakes, leadership isn’t about giving commands, but is about collaborating.Tania is an adventurer and climber who works with teams to...

Episode 43 - The power of inclusion

We all believe diversity, equity and inclusion to be important, but bridging the gap between the intent and the positive outcomes it brings is no easy task....

Episode 42 - Getting outside

What happens when you grow a company from the ground up, and are then asked to leave? For entrepreneur Bart Foster, it meant reassessing his identity, and...

Episode 41 - Building psychological safety: a how-to guide

Episode 40 - How to hybrid: tips from a long-distance team

For the first time in over a thousand days of Squadify and forty episodes of the podcast, Dan and Pia are in the same room, and are joined by Dan’s wife...

Episode 39 - Curiosity in teams

Effective dialogue is the one thing getting in the way of senior teams. Listening is a fundamental part of team communication, and it begins with curiosity....

Episode 38 - Building trust for when you really need it

Community policing runs on trust, no matter the location. That trust flows both ways, and can have its basis in something as simple as a common interest.New...

Episode 37 - Season 3 review: head, heart and guts

Leadership is equal parts head, heart, and guts. Joining Dan and Pia to look back on an inspirational third season of We Not Me is CEO of LIW, Dan Meek.

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Episode 36 - Breaking out of the box – neurodiversity and...

Undiagnosed autism can feel like a constant struggle to understand, and to be understood. For autism campaigner Ross Fraser, this led to him hiding away for...

Episode 35 - Emotional intelligence in teams

Human beings are designed to connect. Lockdowns showed us how much we valued connection, but also how vital our habits were to helping us stabilise. But while...

Episode 34 - Engaging communities

When Becky Malby discovered that her local water provider was dumping raw sewage into the nearby river on a regular basis, she was outraged. So she helped...

Episode 33 - Emergency room teams

Accident and emergency nursing involves managing and working with ever-shifting teams, with people joining temporarily who bring skill and knowledge, but...

Episode 32 - Leading healthy teams

Where do you go to half a fast-tracked career and make some quick cash? For Stephen Hunt, the answer turned out to be Internet advertising. But it was only...

Episode 31 - Bringing our baggage to teams

We all carry our psychological histories on our backs, and the weight of those feelings can affect how we work within a team. We Not Me producer Mark Steadman...

Episode 30 - Generative leadership in teams

There is a void of leadership following the pandemic, and everything feels uncertain. That uncertainty – precarity – is an area of study for generative...

Episode 29 - Happiness in Teams

If you look after your employees, your customers will be happier, and you’ll make more money. That’s the hypothesis Matt Phelan took, inspired by Richard...

Episode 28 - Connecting to Heal

Husband-and-wife team Kristy and James Thomas have both suffered profound and untimely loss in their lives. But from that grief, they have been able to create...

Episode 27 - Coaching challenging teams

Jackie Weaver became an Internet sensation in February 2022, when her handling of a parish council meeting – and the councillors’ reaction to it – went viral....

Episode 26 - Teams in disaster relief

Expertise can allow us to flourish in our comfort zones, but when thrust into a new environment, we have to rely on others. For Janet and Reid Boswell, what...

Episode 25 - Season 2 Retrospective

• Episode 22 – Data from...

Episode 24 - The Great Retention: how teams get people to...

For Chief HR Officer Suni Lobo, psychological safety is key to teams feeling like they belong. It was put to the test during the pandemic, but her company’s...

Episode 23 - Community teams

If one member of a team isn’t working towards the common goal, they won’t succeed. Social entrepreneur David Burns sees that in the work he does to help...

Episode 22 - Data from the heart

How do we create moments to reset? Just like a Formula 1 car pulling into a pitstop, slowing down and stopping completely in order to win a race – how can we...

Episode 21 - Individual identity in teams

James Prior, Global Head of Leadership Development at Gilead Pharmaceuticals, join Dan and Pia to explore the symbiotic relationship between the individual and...

Episode 20 - Critical Teams

Episode 19 - From the frontline of firefighting

Pia and Dan are joined by former corporate worker and now voluntary firefighter Sandy Quirinale.After her second son became interested in the fire service as a...

Episode 18 - Building the right team culture

Dan and Pia explore creating safe cultures for people to thrive, with consultant Kevin Brownsey.Kevin is the CEO of Red Pill Consulting, a company that tries...

Episode 17 - Teams in adversity: lessons from war and...

Jim Molan spent 40 years in the army from the age of 17. Since retiring from the army in 2008 as a Major General, he has written a book about his time in Iraq,...

Episode 16 - Teams in the Metaverse

Dan and Pia explore meetings in the metaverse, with the help of freelance technologist Ian Smith. What is the future of remote team collaboration? Do we...

Episode 15 - Mental health in teams

For over a year Chuck Anderson underwent a battery of tests to find out why he was feeling so physically unwell. After moving from the US to Sydney and still...

Episode 14 - The jazz ensemble: the ultimate team?

Professional double-bassist Craig Scott of the Sydney Conservatorium joins Dan and Pia to discuss the ultimate team: the jazz ensemble.

“There’s probably no...

Episode 13 - Season 1 review and the Conditions for Success...

In their first episode of season two, Dan and Pia explore the three Cs needed for success: clarity, climate and competence with the help of Dr Jessica Tonissen.

Episode 12 - Compassion, Actually

Episode 11 - Diversity in Teams

Episode 10 - Customer-centric teams

Episode 9 - Agile teams

Episode 8 - Team work on set

Episode 7 - What teams can learn from sport

Episode 6 - Bringing head and heart to teams

For civil engineering General Manager Lucy Hovanec, purpose can breathe life into teams, and in order to lead, self-knowledge is crucial. In this discussion,...

Episode 5 - Clarity at speed

Google iterates in 30-minute increments, which is part of why this massive company is able to innovate so quickly at scale. This involves making mistakes, but...

Episode 4 - Three things sales teams need to do to be more...

Why rockstar sales teams not solo sales rockstars?

• The pace of change is faster than ever. Companies, teams and individuals need to adapt, flex and pivot more...

Episode 3 - Psychological safety in teams

“Psychological safety describes the belief that neither the formal nor informal consequences of interpersonal risks, like asking for help or admitting a...

Episode 2 - Teams in a work from anywhere world

Empathic leadership is what's needed in a globally-distributed workforce, and replacing water-cooler moments isn't as simple as organising more mandatory Zoom...

Episode 1 - Why teams?

Dan and Pia speak to Rob Metcalfe – a former commando and now leadership consultant and executive team coach – about significant performance challenges, how...