The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni
Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀
I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.
Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:
- BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridging vision, behavior, and delivery to generate exceptional ROI for boards, CEOs, and investors.
- SW Craftsmanship Dojo® 🥋 — born in the elite world of engineering excellence at Ferrari Formula 1 during the glorious Michael Schumacher era, evolved into a behavior-engineered continuous active learning system for elite software craftsmanship.
- Unicorns’ Ecosystem 🦄 — a predictable, holistic model born to fight the de-facto standard of mediocracy in IT, which kills more organizations than anything else. By fusing behavioral science, neuroscience, and organizational psychology, it combats the hidden killers while igniting elite IT performance.
Born from decades of research and experimentation, these models guarantee zero disruption and measurable outcomes. They have already guided thousands of developers, C-level leaders, and Fortune 500 organizations in industries ranging from finance and healthcare to transport and telecom.
Each episode of The Forge of Unicorns delivers:
- 🎙️ Bold conversations with CEOs, investors, and technical leaders.
- 🧭 Actionable strategies to escape failed transformations and achieve real evolution.
- 🤖 AI mastery without the hype — practical frameworks to harness AI for measurable outcomes, not inflated promises.
- 🧠 Behavioral insights rooted in 20+ years of research and practice.
- 💡 Survival toolkits for boards, managers, developers, and agilists facing burnout, disengagement, and stalled revenues.
In today’s volatile digital landscape, transformation alone is not enough. To survive, thrive, and secure the future, organizations need systems engineered for resilience, clarity, and exponential performance. That’s what this podcast is about.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
EP49- Want to Engineer Unicorns 🦄?
🎙️ Episode 49 - The Open-Source Playbook Investors Are Using to Engineer Unicorns 🚀
📰 Original Blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep-49-want-engineer-unicorns-open-source-playbook-already-briss…
EP48 - Fake Productivity: The Deadly Illusion of AI-Generated Code 💣
🎙️ EP 48 – Fake Productivity: The Deadly Illusion of AI-Generated Code 💣
📰 Original blog post with all the bibliography: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep48-fake-productivity-deadly-illusion-ai-genera…
EP47 - Lost Millions in IT?
🎙️💣 Lost Millions in IT? Here’s the 300% Stock Surge Playbook Auditors Loved 😍 🎙️
📰 Original article - HERE.
Hey digital warriors! ⚔️
In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we dive deep into an incre…
EP46 - Scaling Excellence: The OKR Lessons from a Bold CIO ✨
🎙️ EP46 - Scaling Excellence: The OKR Lessons from a Bold CIO 🎙️
📰 Orignal Blog Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ep46-scaling-excellence-okr-lessons-from-bold-cio-michele-brissoni-cbhef/?trackingI…
EP 45 - The Dojos' Ecosystem
🎙️ Episode 45
📇 From Mediocracy to Mastery: How the Dojos’ Ecosystem Became the Engine of Evolution 🌱
In the AI-driven economy, software excellence isn’t a luxury—it’s a competitive necessity. The rece…
EP 44 - Behind the Curtain
EP 44 - Behind the Curtain: The Digital Evolution That Redefined Excellence 🎭🚀
🔊 IT was a liability. Deployments were slow. Teams were burned out. Leadership was flying blind. Soun…
EP 43 - From Chaos to Gold
🎙️ Episode 43: From Chaos to Gold – How IT Can Rise Like a Phoenix
In this episode, we tackle a hard truth: most IT departments are treated as cost centers, shackled by inefficienc…
EP 42 - 70% of Transformations Fail at the Top
📰 Original Blog Post: HERE.
In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns 🦄, we uncover the #1 reason most digital transformations crash and burn—and it’s not what you think. It’s not IT teams, tech budget…
EP41 - From Desert 🌵 to Forest 🌳
Episode 41 - From Desert 🌵 to Forest 🌳: Turning IT Into a Goldmine of Opportunity 💰
In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we take you on a transformative journey, exploring how…
EP40 – Scaling IT Excellence: From Transformation to Evolution 🌱
🎧 Podcast Description: Episode 40 – Scaling IT Excellence: From Transformation to Evolution 🎙️🚀
📰 Original blog post HERE
In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we cut through the noise of buzzwords…
EP39 – 2024 A Year to Remember
🎧 Podcast Title: EP39 – A Year to Remember: Reflecting on 2024 and the Road Ahead 🌟
📰 Original Blog HERE
2024 was a year like no other for the IT world—marked by firsts, challenges, and transformative …
EP38 - The Rise of the Behavioral Engineer
🎙️ Episode 38: “The Rise of the Behavioral Engineer – How Data Fuels Transformation” 🚀
In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge field of behavioral engineering and its growing influence on the IT …
EP37 - A Real Story of Socio-Technical Evolution
🎙️ EP37 - A Real Story of Socio-Technical Evolution 🌱 The Unicorns’ Touch
How do you turn chaos into cohesion? In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we share a real-world story of transformation—w…
EP36 - Unlocking the Wisdom of #IAD24
🎙️ Episode 36: Unlocking the Wisdom of #IAD24 - Talks That Inspire Digital Transformation Success
In this episode of The Forge of Unicorns, we dive into the brilliance of the Italian Agile Day 2024 (#…
EP35 - The Change Strategy Revolutionizing Boardrooms
🎙️ Episode 35: The Change Strategy Revolutionizing Boardrooms—Our Unique Formula, Your Competitive Edge
💼 Why do over 90% of digital transformations fail? In this episode, we break down the real reaso…
EP34 - The Dangerous Myth of Harmless Behaviors
🎙️ Episode 34: The Dangerous Myth of Harmless Behaviors – Sabotaging High-Performance Organizations 🚨
In this episode of Forge of Unicorns, we explore the hidden impact of “harmless” behaviors in soft…
EP33 - Stop Transforming, Start Evolving at #IAD24
🎙️ Episode 33: Stop Transforming, Start Evolving – Reflections from IAD24 🎉
In this episode of Forge of Unicorns, we take you inside the Italian Agile Days 2024 conference, where transformation meets …
EP 32 - A Sneak Peek into Italian Agile Days 2024
🎙️ Episode 32: Stop Transforming, Start Evolving – Insights from IAD24 🎉
In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of Italian Agile Days 2024, a gathering of agile thinkers, digital transformers,…
EP31 - Think You’ve Budgeted Enough for Digital Transformation?
🎧 Episode 31 - Think You’ve Budgeted Enough for Digital Transformation? Think Again
In this final episode of our mini-series on digital transformation failures, we tackle one of the biggest pitfalls: …
EP 30 - Tech Is Only Half the Battle
Episode 30 - Tech Is Only Half the Battle: How to Nail Digital Transformation with Change Management
In this episode of the Forge of Unicorns podcast, we dive into the crucial missing piece of most di…