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I used to co-host The Outliers Inn. Here are that archive and my guest conversations about systems, leadership, consulting, and public services.
2026 · John Degnan · also listed as The Principal Podcast
Public-service transformation, building RedQuadrant, winning consulting work, and sustaining client relationships.
Open →Guest interview with Alan Wagner
The experience of founding and running a consultancy focused on public services.
Open →Cyb3rSyn Labs · Laksh Raghavan · 42 minutes
My route into systems thinking, consulting, human systems, and organisational complexity.
Open →Cyb3rSyn Labs · Laksh Raghavan · 34 minutes
A further conversation about cybernetics, maps, models, and practice.
Open →31 May 2024 · Martin Parr · 22 minutes
My route into consulting, seeing systems differently, and building public services around the people who use them.
Open →2025 · Pierre Neis · 37 minutes
Leading in uncertain times, the five core practices, and the balance between structure and self-organisation.
Open →24 November 2021 · episode 27 · 63 minutes
A conversation about public-service transformation and cybernetics.
Open →Professionalism, judgement, competence, and difficult truths.
Open →Service design in government and public services.
Open →Benjamin Taylor contributes to a discussion of organisational dysfunction and the results systems produce.
Open →A philosophical look at company culture.
Open →RedQuadrant’s approach to public-service improvement.
Open →A conversation on RedQuadrant’s approach.
Open →Exploring the ethical lines between facilitation and manipulation.
Open →A recorded conversation on values and leadership.
Open →I used to co-host The Outliers Inn with Joseph Paris. Conversations about operational excellence, organisations, and the occasional drink.
Open →A guest conversation on change and readiness.
Open →A recorded conversation on complexity.
Open →Differentiation, integration, and four dynamics of groups.
Open →Problems with Adaptive Leadership and consulting.
Open →The abundance and variety of systems traditions.
Open →Written interview · CompanySights
Joel Lister-Barker asks about frontline data, public-service transformation, and AI in consulting.
Open →2023 · written interview · TechFinitive
An interview with Tim Danton about the future of work and organisations.
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