Designing Disruption-Proof Teams with Dr. Vijay Pendakur

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld talks with Dr. Vijay Pendakur, author of The Alchemy of Talent and founder of Vijay Pendakur Consulting, about how to build teams that can thrive through constant disruption. Vijay shares how his early work in student experience design and later executive roles in tech shaped his belief that teams are the true “micro-ecosystems” of performance.

Together, they explore why so many change initiatives fail, how risk aversion keeps organizations stuck, and why small, behavior-based experiments at the team level often outperform top-down plans. Vijay offers practical tools leaders can use right away, from novelty-based rituals and recognition practices to his “disruption-proof team” maturity model that helps leaders understand where their teams are today and what to do next.

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