Organizational Intelligence (OI) is a series of real conversations about how work actually works inside modern organizations - how decisions get made, how trust is built (or broken), how information flows, and how teams adapt under pressure. Each episode unpacks one sharp idea about the invisible operating system: leadership, meetings, communication, decision-making, psychological safety, learning, accountability.. that determines whether people and organizations thrive.
A podcast about People, Practice and Possibilities at work.
From Pressure to Purpose: Re-Designing Work for Humans - Amazon & Headspace
Can organizations be relentlessly high-performing without sacrificing the wellbeing of their people? In this episode of Organizational Intelligence, I sit down with Fay Kallel, a product and technology leader whose career has taken her from Amazon Prime Video to Headspace. Amazon is known for its operational discipline, leadership principles, written narratives, and decision-making mechanisms. Headspace brings a different perspective, grounded in mindfulness, empathy, and psychological wellbe...
22 Oct 2026
Why Change Gets Started But Never Finished
Why Change Fizzles Out: Resistance, Loss, and the Work Leaders Must Do Most change initiatives don’t officially fail. They slowly disappear. The meetings become less frequent. Updates get shorter. Something more urgent takes over. People return to old ways of working. And eventually we explain it with words like resistance, lack of buy-in, or change fatigue. But what if resistance is actually information? In this episode, Yosr Najjar sits down with Patrice Dawkins-Jackson, Founder of Finish W...
14 Oct 2026
How Decisions Get Made: Governance, Strategy & Lessons from the UAE | Salma Bin Breik
In this episode of Organizational Intelligence, I sit down with Salma Bin Breik, an Emirati strategy executive at AD Ports, with more than 20 years of experience across strategy, operations, advisory, and transformation in the UAE and wider region. We talk about something I’m increasingly obsessed with: why organizations can be full of smart, capable people and still struggle to make decisions and get things moving. We unpack meetings that feel productive but lead nowhere, the difference be...
23 Sept 2026
When the Plan Stops Working: How Future-Ready Teams Adapt and Move Under Pressure
Why do capable people stop performing under pressure — and why doesn't better planning fix it? In this episode of Organizational Intelligence, I sit down with Natalie Gleeson, VP of Human Capital at Pure Harvest Smart Farms, to talk about pressure as an operating-system problem, not a people problem. Natalie has spent more than 20 years leading HR across the UAE, and she brings a background in the psychology of work and neuroscience to how she thinks about leadership and culture. She's also...
3 Sept 2026
Beyond Strategy, TalenT and Hard Work: The Practices That Unlock Performance & Growth
What if your organization doesn’t have a talent problem, a strategy problem, or even an effort problem? What if work is hard because of… how work actually works? In this episode of Organizational Intelligence, I sit down with Karina Mangu-Ward, author of Teams That Meet the Moment and Partner at August, to unpack the everyday habits that quietly determine whether teams move, stall, learn, adapt—or simply compensate for bad systems by working harder. We talk about why “going above and beyon...
19 Aug 2026
Employee Behavior is a System Output - Not the Problem!
Performance dips. Leadership reacts: a survey goes out, a manager gets replaced, a training gets rolled out. Things improve for a quarter, then the same problems come back wearing different clothes. Why? In this episode of the Organizational Intelligence Podcast, I sit down with Dustin Snyder, founder of Way Forward and author of Sink or Swim, who spent 20 years building the case that behavior inside organizations isn't the cause of dysfunction — it's the output of it. Together, we explore ...
18 Aug 2026
The Future of Work Isn't New. We Just Forgot the Basics.
The future of work may not need another shiny new idea. It may need fewer bad meetings, clearer decisions, better access to information, more intentional ways of working—and leaders willing to do less. In this episode of the Organizational Intelligence Podcast, Yosr Najjar sits down with Sam Spurlin, founder of Deliberate Works and former Principal Consultant and Head of Special Projects at The Ready. Together, they explore why organizations hire smart people and then place them inside sys...
1 Aug 2026
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Organizational Intelligence (OI) is a series of real conversations about how work actually works inside modern organizations - how decisions get made, how trust is built (or broken), how information flows, and how teams adapt under pressure. Each episode unpacks one sharp idea about the invisible operating system: leadership, meetings, communication, decision-making, psychological safety, learning, accountability.. that determines whether people and organizations thrive. 🎙 ORGAN...
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