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Recorded talks, interviews, and public sessions with Benjamin P Taylor.

Interviews

2026 · John Degnan · also listed as The Principal Podcast

Consulting Leaders: transforming public-sector organisations through systems thinking

Public-service transformation, building RedQuadrant, winning consulting work, and sustaining client relationships.

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Guest interview with Alan Wagner

FoundersHQ: Benjamin Taylor, RedQuadrant

The experience of founding and running a consultancy focused on public services.

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Cyb3rSyn Labs · Laksh Raghavan · 42 minutes

Cybernetics is not the banana: part one

My route into systems thinking, consulting, human systems, and organisational complexity.

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Cyb3rSyn Labs · Laksh Raghavan · 34 minutes

Cybernetics is not the banana: part two

A further conversation about cybernetics, maps, models, and practice.

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2025 · Pierre Neis · 37 minutes

We, me and us 04: culture, clarity and conversations

Leading in uncertain times, the five core practices, and the balance between structure and self-organisation.

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Public talks and sessions

2022 · SCiO recording

Systems leadership, change, theory and practice

A presentation on systems leadership and systems change, followed by questions.

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2021 · SCiO recording

The four quadrants of thinking threats

If systems thinking offers great power, what does responsibility look like?

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2017 · SCiO recording

Introduction to the Viable System Model

An introduction to Stafford Beer’s model, delivered at the January 2017 London Open Day.

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WCoMC and SCiO · recorded panel

Systems thinking and consultancy

A discussion hosted by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants with SCiO practitioners.

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WCoMC and SCiO · recorded panel

Systems thinking and consultancy: questions and answers

Audience questions and panel discussion following the systems thinking and consultancy session.

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2022 · Stretch Conference · 45 minutes

Five core practices for effective organisation

A conference talk on the practices that support effective leadership and organisation.

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2023 · StretchCon at Compass Tech Summit · 38 minutes

Cadenced culture: high-performing teams based on trust

Building the conditions for trust and effective work in teams.

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Skore · Tool Shed session · 24 minutes

The five worlds

The different perspectives that people bring to a process and the work around it.

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RedQuadrant · 92 minutes

All about the people: five core leadership practices for OpEx

A detailed session on people, leadership practices, and operational excellence.

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Earlier public recording

The future of commissioning and transformation

A presentation on commissioning and public-service transformation.

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Earlier public recording

Public Service: State of Transformation survey results 2019

A presentation of the 2019 survey findings.

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Earlier public recording

Gurteen Knowledge Cafe - public service transformation

A conversation about public-service transformation.

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October 2017 · SCiO · 61 minutes

Meta-contextuality through the medium of Bongard games

A presentation on pattern, context and the limits of method.

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13 July 2022 · Future of Work Scotland · 85 minutes

The future of work is: no jobs

A public talk and discussion on the future of work.

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27 October 2020 · Pierre Neis · 113 minutes

Management cybernetics and the Force in organisational life

Organisational dynamics, culture, the five worlds, and the Viable System Model.

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Pierre Neis · recorded conversation · 177 minutes

Co-creating new realities

A long-form public conversation with Benjamin P Taylor.

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Yak Collective · Ben Mosior · 12 minutes

Reboot #yakmeet: organising for human needs

A conversation with Ben Mosior about human needs, organisational dynamics, and the practices that help people work together.

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2021 · Ecology of Systems Thinking · panel discussion

Diversity and universality in systems thinking

A discussion with Nora Bateson, Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera, Peter Jones, Gerald Midgley, and Benjamin Taylor about diversity and universality in systems thinking.

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