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Teamcast

by Mission Critical Team Institute

Dr. Preston Cline, Dr. Dan Dworkis, Dr. Art Finch and Harry Moffit of the Mission Critical Team Institute share research and explore the questions vexing the most elite teams in the world, from Special Operations soldiers to Firefighters, from Trauma Medics to Professional Athletes, and from Astronauts to Tactical Law Enforcement.

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S6 Ep19 Dr. Derek Donegan on Orthopedic Trauma & Metacognition

Dr. Derek Donegan is an orthopedic trauma surgeon and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a healthcare entrepreneur, co-founder of ORtelligence, and a

Sep 21
40 min

S6 Ep18 Harry & Peter Ward on SOG Selection, Leadership, and Fatigue (Recast)

Recorded in 2020 during Melbourne's COVID lockdowns, this episode opens on what that stretch demanded of a tactical policing workforce that couldn't pause: fatigue manage

Sep 7
57 min

S6 Ep17 The Myth of Suffering at Work

Diane Malaspina is a psychologist, performance coach, and longtime yoga teacher who specializes in stress and burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, and optimal per

Aug 24
43 min

S6 Ep16 Dr. Anna Simons: The Anthropology of Mission Critical Teams (Recast)

This week we're recasting Preston's conversation with Dr. Anna Simons from May 2023. Anna retired as a Professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. She

Aug 10
1 h 19 min

S6 Ep15 Sara (Mills) Kerr - Once a Bushfire Volunteer, Now an AI Researcher

Sara (Mills) Kerr is a firefighter with Fire and Rescue New South Wales and a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, researching the trustworthiness of AI-generate

Jul 27
52 min

S6 Ep14 A Better Approach to After-Action Reviews

A few years ago, senior FBI SWAT team leader Matt Hoffman called Preston after a fatal operation. To assist the team in working through the loss, Preston and Matt used a

Jul 13
55 min

S6 Ep13 Christine Stead on Systems of Innovation in ECMO

Christine Stead is the CEO of ELSO: the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. ELSO is the premier global nonprofit for ECMO and ECLS, connecting providers, researcher

Jun 29
43 min

S6 Ep12 The Neuroscience of Operator Development (Recast)

This conversation originally aired December 6, 2022. Dr. Michael Platt is a Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania and ho

Jun 15
49 min

S6 Ep11 Marius Aleksa on Why Curiosity is Key for Human Performance

We're continuing our conversation on human performance by asking why some performers keep improving under pressure while others hit a ceiling. One of the most powerful an

Jun 1
37 min

S6 Ep10 Character, Creativity, and the Machine

Andy Walshe has spent his career at the frontier of human performance, from Australia's post-Sydney Games high-performance system, through a decade at Red Bull, to his cu

May 18
52 min

S6 Ep9 Denis Leary on Residue, Six Years On

Six years ago this week, on May 7, 2020, we released our first Teamcast on Residue. In that episode, Preston shared a conversation with Coleman Ruiz on the psychological

May 4
57 min

S6 Ep8 Adam Milano on Teamwork as Ensemble Art

What do theater, crisis response, military service, and social work have in common? More than you might guess. Adam Milano, faculty at UNC's School of Social Work, a mili

Apr 20
43 min

S6 Ep7 Coach, Don't Profess: Theory-to-Practice Transfer in Mental Performance

Ceci Craft has worked inside two of the most demanding performance cultures in the world — Army Special Operations and Major League Baseball. She's currently the Philadel

Apr 6
1 h 11 min

S6 Special Episode: Commander Reid Wiseman on Transitioning from Training to Action (Recast)

To celebrate NASA’s Artemis II test flight, scheduled for launch on Wednesday, April 1st, we're re-casting Preston's conversation with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman from Ma

Mar 31
1 h 04 min

S6 E6 Paddy Steinfort, The Cognitive Coach (Recast)

This week’s Recast is from Oct 2021. The episode explores how high-pressure performers can train, maintain, and recover their mental skills, with emphasis on using the ri

Mar 23
59 min

S6 Ep5 The Fourth Generation of Military Special Operations Selection & Assessment

In this episode of the Teamcast, Dr. Preston Cline and Dr. Art Finch discuss MCTI's most recent paper, “The Fourth Generation of Military Special Operations Selection and

Mar 9
1 h 05 min

S6 Ep4 Swarms, X-Teams, and Routine vs. Critical Communication (Recast)

This week’s Recast is from April 2020. Why This Episode Matters Now: In 2022, the war in Ukraine revealed something our partners had been experiencing but we hadn't fu

Feb 23
46 min

S6 Ep3 ECMO, Expertise, and Trust

When a patient's heart or lungs fail, ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) technology can keep them alive—but only if the team operating it works flawlessly under p

Feb 9
48 min

S6 Ep2 How Teams Decide in Crisis

What happens when life-and-death decisions must be made by a team rather than an individual? In this episode, Dr. Mark Ramzy — cardiothoracic intensivist, emergency physi

Jan 26
45 min

S6 Ep1 Team Cohesion in Extreme Environments with Dr. Dawn Kernagis

In this episode, Preston discusses mission critical teams with Dr. Dawn Kernagis, the Scientific Director at DEEP. DEEP is an extreme environment technology and explorati

Jan 12
1 h 25 min

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What listeners say

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Preston and the MCTI team have done amazing work and share it here for all to learn from. 10/10. This is not just a show for them to talk, but every conversation is backed by work, experience and dedication of study to make MCTIs better.

Bull973 · Sep 2025

Love this podcast. Wish I’d had access to this knowledge while I was still in the military. Should be required listening to service members, especially those in combat arms. Keep up the great work.

crabe001 · Jan 2023

Fascinating interviews and conversations surrounding important topics that need to be talked about. Great balance of cerebral and real approach to interviews with fascinating individuals. As a person who does not work in the Mission Critical Team world, the pod is still very relatable and worth every episode.

Dr. Dunnski · May 2020

Being a business owner I understand our decisions doesn’t result in loss of life, just money. The topics and guests still provide a load of useful insight into how to respond and manage business relations and situations.

lbanchor · Jul 2020

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