change so small that you don't need permission

29min | 07/08/2026

Description

Episode guest is Lisa Crispin: a tester, author, independent consultant, long-time Agile practitioner and DORA community guide.

In this episode, she shares how one software team moved from retrospectives as a complaint ritual to retrospectives as a place for visible problems, shared ownership and small experiments.

We talk about using tools what everyone already has, rethinking facilitation, psychological safety, testing bottlenecks, normal dysfunction, and communities.

Links from Lisa:
https://lisacrispin.com
https://agiletester.ca
https://agiletestingfellow.com
https://dora.community

Conscious Culture is hosted by Kris Corbus. She provides team trainings, coaching and consulting for organisations navigating culture, conflict and change.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Conscious Culture

Be a part of something meaningful: almost nobody in leadership wants to talk publicly about culture.

The reasons are obvious: the topic is sensitive, often political, sometimes charged.

If we want toxic cultures to stop, and the good ones to grow, we have to talk about what actually happens inside organisations.
Openly.
With the stories that matter.

That is why I am starting a podcast about organisational culture.

It is called Conscious Culture.

It will be about the moment someone in an organisation stops observing the culture and starts shaping it consciously.

How they did it.
What moved them.
Who came with them.
What it asked of them.
What changed once they stopped waiting for someone else to decide how this place was going to be.

If you have a story like this and have been looking for the right place to tell it, I would like to talk.

If your work helps leaders and teams find their own version of that moment, the same.

If you want to follow along as the show takes shape, you are welcome.

Audio only. Episodes in English, German and Latvian.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Conscious Culture

Be a part of something meaningful: almost nobody in leadership wants to talk publicly about culture.

The reasons are obvious: the topic is sensitive, often political, sometimes charged.

If we want toxic cultures to stop, and the good ones to grow, we have to talk about what actually happens inside organisations.
Openly.
With the stories that matter.

That is why I am starting a podcast about organisational culture.

It is called Conscious Culture.

It will be about the moment someone in an organisation stops observing the culture and starts shaping it consciously.

How they did it.
What moved them.
Who came with them.
What it asked of them.
What changed once they stopped waiting for someone else to decide how this place was going to be.

If you have a story like this and have been looking for the right place to tell it, I would like to talk.

If your work helps leaders and teams find their own version of that moment, the same.

If you want to follow along as the show takes shape, you are welcome.

Audio only. Episodes in English, German and Latvian.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Description

Episode guest is Lisa Crispin: a tester, author, independent consultant, long-time Agile practitioner and DORA community guide.

In this episode, she shares how one software team moved from retrospectives as a complaint ritual to retrospectives as a place for visible problems, shared ownership and small experiments.

We talk about using tools what everyone already has, rethinking facilitation, psychological safety, testing bottlenecks, normal dysfunction, and communities.

Links from Lisa:
https://lisacrispin.com
https://agiletester.ca
https://agiletestingfellow.com
https://dora.community

Conscious Culture is hosted by Kris Corbus. She provides team trainings, coaching and consulting for organisations navigating culture, conflict and change.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Conscious Culture

Be a part of something meaningful: almost nobody in leadership wants to talk publicly about culture.

The reasons are obvious: the topic is sensitive, often political, sometimes charged.

If we want toxic cultures to stop, and the good ones to grow, we have to talk about what actually happens inside organisations.
Openly.
With the stories that matter.

That is why I am starting a podcast about organisational culture.

It is called Conscious Culture.

It will be about the moment someone in an organisation stops observing the culture and starts shaping it consciously.

How they did it.
What moved them.
Who came with them.
What it asked of them.
What changed once they stopped waiting for someone else to decide how this place was going to be.

If you have a story like this and have been looking for the right place to tell it, I would like to talk.

If your work helps leaders and teams find their own version of that moment, the same.

If you want to follow along as the show takes shape, you are welcome.

Audio only. Episodes in English, German and Latvian.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

About Conscious Culture

Be a part of something meaningful: almost nobody in leadership wants to talk publicly about culture.

The reasons are obvious: the topic is sensitive, often political, sometimes charged.

If we want toxic cultures to stop, and the good ones to grow, we have to talk about what actually happens inside organisations.
Openly.
With the stories that matter.

That is why I am starting a podcast about organisational culture.

It is called Conscious Culture.

It will be about the moment someone in an organisation stops observing the culture and starts shaping it consciously.

How they did it.
What moved them.
Who came with them.
What it asked of them.
What changed once they stopped waiting for someone else to decide how this place was going to be.

If you have a story like this and have been looking for the right place to tell it, I would like to talk.

If your work helps leaders and teams find their own version of that moment, the same.

If you want to follow along as the show takes shape, you are welcome.

Audio only. Episodes in English, German and Latvian.

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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