As leaders, we're taught to push through.
Work harder. Focus longer. Stay disciplined.
But what if resilience isn't built by endurance at all?
What if it's shaped in the small, almost invisible moments—how teams reset, reconnect, and rehumanize their work before exhaustion sets in?
In this episode of the Uncommon Leadership Roundtable Podcast, Michael Hunter from Uncommon Teams brings together a group of deeply respected practitioners to explore resilience not as a personal trait—but as a systemic capability.
What unfolds is an honest, experience-driven conversation about how leaders, teams, and organizations either preserve or quietly drain energy through everyday choices.
This isn't about wellness perks or productivity tricks.
It's about how work actually feels—and what helps people stay clear, creative, and engaged in complex environments.
In this conversation, you'll learn:
- Why resilience is built through micro-resets, not heroic recovery
- How short, intentional breaks unlock focus, creativity, and momentum
- Why movement and breath restore emotional and cognitive clarity faster than pushing through
- How joy, laughter, and human connection increase performance instead of distracting from it
- What leaders unintentionally do that shuts down energy and initiative
- Why vertical collaboration transforms trust, speed, and decision quality
- How curiosity and play fuel sustainable excellence in complex systems
- Why resilience must be designed into the system, not demanded from people
Resilience isn't about pushing harder—it's about creating conditions where people can recover, think, and adapt while doing the work.
Meet the Panel of Speakers
Paige Watson
Technical coach and community mentor focused on building cohesive, high-performing engineering teams through quality-first practices.
Fortune Buchholtz
Business agility practitioner and agile logician who blends systems thinking, emotional awareness, and facilitation to help teams build resilience and cognitive agility.
Johanna Rothman
Author and pragmatic management consultant helping leaders and teams navigate change, collaboration, and adaptive product development.
Tim Ottinger
Agile coach and Extreme Programming expert known for bringing curiosity, creativity, and human-centered thinking into software delivery.
Meet the Host
Michael Hunter
Michael Hunter went from debugging code to debugging people—and now helps people debug themselves. Through the Uncommon Leadership Podcast and his work with tech leaders, he explores the invisible cultural and emotional dynamics that stall change and drain teams.
His work focuses on resilience, clarity, and leading with the whole self.
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