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Scaling teams in the age of AI may seem like a race in efficiency, but the truth is - teams can’t make it without empathy. In the launch episode of The Future Is Human podcast, host Naomi sits down with Meri Williams, seasoned CTO and chair of LeadDev, to explore what makes teams truly successful.

In this episode of The Future is Human podcast, host, Ella McCann-Tomlin, welcomes Ally Mitchell, Chief of Staff at Mews, to explore how pregnancy, birth, maternity leave and pregnancy loss intersect with career ambition, mental health and organisational culture. Becoming a parent changes everything - even the way you work. In this episode of The Future is Human podcast, host, Ella McCann-Tomlin, welcomes Ally Mitchell, Chief of Staff at Mews, to explore how pregnancy, birth, maternity leave and pregnancy loss intersect with career ambition, mental health and organisational culture. Drawing on her 15+ years in people operations, Ally shares raw, vulnerable insights into the isolation of being locked out of your work life while on maternity leave, managing anxiety and perfectionism and what leaders and organisations must do to genuinely support working parents.

Building deeply human teams in an increasingly automated world may sound like an oxymoron - but it isn’t. In fact, it should be #1 on your priority list. In this episode of The Future is Human, host Naomi Trickey welcomes Brandon Sammut, Chief People and AI Transformation Officer at Zapier, to explore why maintaining human connection is your competitive advantage, how to design AI adoption that enhances rather than replaces human creativity and the leadership behaviors that scale culture across 900+ distributed team members. From Zapier's three-pillar impact model (efficiency, quality, employee experience) to practical approaches for remote-first cultures that thrive, this episode unpacks it all.

What if the communities built to keep us safe don't always get it right? And what if the workplaces committed to inclusion don't always go far enough? In this eye-opening and candid episode of The Future Is Human by Mews, host Ella McCann-Tomlin welcomes Samir Habbad-Khaira, Customer Onboarding Manager at Mews, to explore identity, belonging and resilience at the intersection of race, sexuality and culture. Together they examine racism within LGBTQ+ spaces, the emotional toll of activism and DEI work, political anxiety's impact on mental health and why creating psychologically safe workplaces is a business imperative - not a nice-to-have.

What do fun, curiosity and human connection have to do with scaling technology teams successfully? As James Stanier, CTO, Veterinary at Nordhealth reveals in this episode of The Future of Human podcast - everything. Tune in as he and host, Naomi Trickey, explore why hiring for mindset matters more than experience, how to maintain trust and collaboration across remote teams and the critical strategies for keeping your organization human-centered as AI transforms the workplace. It turns out - if the question is how to lead teams that don't just build great products, but grow great people, the answer lies in making fun part of the workplace again.