Teamcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

S5 Ep18 Residue (Recast)

This week’s episode is a Recast as we review a fundamental conversation between Preston and Coleman Ruiz (MCTI’s co-founder and former Director of Performance) on the con