The Mayvin Podcast
Mayvin is a Leadership and Organisation Development (OD) consultancy, founded in 2010. We are based in the South East of the UK and work globally across the public, private and third sectors. Our purpose is to make organisations more successful by helping them to: confront the complexity of organisational life, understand their people & what interests, motivates, worries and inspires them, work with human relationships to create meaningful & sustainable change (change management) and to develop leadership and management practice. We aspire to nurture the human spirit in organisations. We work with people to enable cultural change and build organisational wisdom. #HR #ChangeManagement #LeadershipDevelopment #OrganisationalDevelopment
Episodes
50 episodes
The Theory vs Reality of a Mission-led Government (Community Event)
In today’s episode you can listen back to highlights from our mission-led government event, hosted by Sophie Tidman and Carolyn Norgate. Who offered up our thoughts on the theory vs reality of a mission-led government, with some frameworks, tec...
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29:43
Client Stories - The British Heart Foundation
In this episode we are thrilled to be joined by Kerry Smith - Chief People Officer and Julie Jones - Director of Talent and Organisational Development at the British Heart Foundation, who talk to Mayvin Director Sarah Fraser about the BHF's 'Le...
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The Research Hub Podcast: AI and the Future of Work
Sarah Fraser and Ed Shrager discuss the integration of AI into organisational practices. Ed highlights AI's potential in streamlining data crunching and reducing human bias, emphasizing its role in enhancing human collaboration rather than repl...
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39:29
Post Election - Leadership in a New Era
In today's episode, we have all the Carolyns, Carolyn Norgate and Carolyn Parker got together after our event leadership in a new era to discuss what came up and the insights we gleaned from it. We hosted the event just three weeks after the el...
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36:00
Transitioning to self-management
In today’s episode our very own Operations Team talk about being a self-managed team.Our operations team cover a wide range of responsibilities (such as accounting, compliance, HR, programme accreditation and client management). They are...
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45:36
Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 3 - How Does the Hybrid Workplace Balance Productivity and Creativity?
Carolyn Norgate and James Traeger discussed the challenges of leading in a world with increasing ambiguity, particularly in the post-pandemic workplace. They emphasised the importance of trust, culture, and leadership in creating a productive a...
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34:55
How can you deliver impactful development when you don't have time?
In this episode Our Principal Consultants Tony Nicholls and Carolyn Norgate talk all things programmes – when is a programme not a programme? A client came to us recently saying ‘we don’t have time or budget for a traditional progra...
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Why OD - the importance of relationships, at our core we all want to connect
In this podcast episode, Carolyn Parker discusses her journey into OD and her excitement about joining the Mayvin team. She shares her background in psychology and HR, emphasizing the importance of pausing, reflecting, and fostering human conne...
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23:58
Why OD - For Ash it's about finding basic humanity in every situation
Today we're joined by Ash Thomas, previously with the British Heart Foundation and now a principal consultant at Mayvin. We're revisiting our mini-series "Why OD" to delve into Ash's unique journey into organisation development.
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25:22
The Future of Organising
Join Sarah Fraser and Steve Hearsum in this podcast episode as they talk about their time teaching a module on organisational change. They discuss the challenges of planning for the future when it's uncertain and touch on power dynamics, the ne...
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37:51
Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 2 - “Let Me Give You Some Feedback” - The Discomfort Of Positive Feedback
In our latest Mayvin Sofa Chats episode, Sophie Tidman and Tony Nicholls, are back for more talk about feedback. This time, they're chatting about how to handle positive feedback and why it can be tricky.
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Mayvin Sofa Chats: Episode 1 - "Let me give you some feedback" - Moving beyond the fear response
In our first Mayvin Sofa Chats episode, our principal consultants, Sophie Tidman and Tony Nicholls, sit down for a chat about feedback. They talk about how to give feedback, what it is, and share their own stories.
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MA in People & Org Dev - real stories of finding your tribe, career and personal growth
In today’s episode we are very grateful to be joined by two more of our current masters cohort – Jennie and Rachel. We asked if they would be up for sharing their experience of the Mayvin Masters programme with you and they sent us this. In thi...
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23:41
Reflections on EODF: AI in Org Dev and Design
Tony and Martin recently went to the EODF conference in Lisbon and in this short podcast episode they discuss the conference's energy, innovative ideas, and the harmony between technology and people. They talk about artificial intelligence and ...
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Changing with MA: Participant Insights
In today’s episode, Sebastien de Morelos and Andrew Grenfell, participants from our MA programme, had a chat about their experiences. They talked about how the programme changed their professional lives and made them think differently about wor...
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24:21
Practice Based Learning in times of continuing disruption
As promised Tony & Carolyn have recorded some exclusive content for you, our Alumni network. And as you might have guessed from the title, this particular piece is around Practice Based Learning in times of continuing disruption. If you hav...
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27:14
MA For Busy People: Balancing Life & Learning
In today's episode, James and Carolyn are going to be talking all things Mayvin Masters. As you may have heard, we're thrilled to be announcing the second cohort of our MA in people and organisation development starting March 2024.
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21:51
Managing Change in the Workplace
In this episode, we're lucky to be joined by client and now friend of Mayvin, Adrian Clarke, head of OD at Virgin Media O2. After Adrian read our Tony's book: "
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41:22
How to ACTUALLY make Workplaces LGBTQ+ Friendly
Hello, Suria here! To celebrate pride Month, myself and my dear friend and colleague Charlotte have teamed up to record a special episode for the Mayvin Podcast listeners on how to ACTUALLY make workplaces LGBTQ+ friendly. As ...
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24:54
Organisation Development Capability Building at Virgin Media - A Case Study
As head of Organisation Development at Virgin Media, (now Virgin Media O2), Adrian Clarke commissioned 3 cohorts of our Organisation Development (OD) capability building programme, during the pandemic and just before a big merger between Virgin...
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35:59
Find out how Mayvin's latest staff cohort feel about being in an action learning set
Here at Mayvin, we do our best to walk our talk. So we offer our employees the opportunity to participate in a development programme similar to the ones we deliver for our clients. It's great for them to experience an action learning set exampl...
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25:01
"The amount you discover about yourself and your practice is just enormous"
We recently hosted an online event in which we talked about the future of organisational learning. We feel a big part of that is practice-b...
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Why OD? Carolyn knew what she wanted to do, but it was 15 years before she found out it was called OD.
This is the 6th and final interview in our Podcast mini series – Why OD? In this episode we share an interview with Carolyn Norgate, Principa...
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