2026 is shaping up to be a volatility-rich year and for insurgent leaders, that means opportunity. In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, Matt and Rondo look ahead at what CEOs and leadership teams need to be preparing for as uncertainty becomes structural rather than cyclical. From geopolitical risk and economic pressure to shifting consumer behaviour and political polarisation, the old playbooks simply won’t hold.

The conversation explores three major forces squeezing organisations as we move into the year ahead: continued economic uncertainty, the shift from AI experimentation to real outcomes (and the growing fatigue that comes with it), and tightening labour dynamics. Rather than chasing certainty, the discussion centres on building pivot optionality, flexible business architectures, scenario planning, and decision-making models designed to absorb shocks rather than break under them.

The episode also dives into deal momentum, private equity dry powder, mid-market M&A opportunities (particularly in Australia), and why CEOs need to think now about enterprise value, cybersecurity readiness, and long-term positioning. The message is clear: 2026 is not a year to sit on the sidelines. In a world defined by volatility, the insurgent advantage belongs to leaders who move with intent, aggression, and discipline.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

As 2025 comes to a close, the biggest risk for leaders isn’t missing the next trend, it’s misunderstanding the ones that already reshaped the landscape. This episode is a strategic debrief on the patterns that quietly defined the year, separating short-term noise from signals that are still unfolding.

The conversation reflects on what 2025 revealed about productivity, technology adoption, cost pressure, leadership behaviour, and decision-making under uncertainty. Rather than predicting the future, it focuses on what these shifts exposed about how organisations are actually operating and where many are already falling behind.

Looking ahead to 2026, the episode challenges leaders to think differently about focus, execution, and resilience. The question isn’t what’s coming next, but whether organisations are structurally ready for a year that will reward clarity, discipline, and uncomfortable trade-offs.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

For years, Netflix defined what it meant to be an insurgent: rewriting the rules of distribution, attention, and pricing while legacy media scrambled to keep up. But as the battle for Warner Bros heats up, the lines between insurgent and incumbent are blurring fast. This episode unpacks what happens when the disruptor becomes the dominant force and why that shift matters far beyond Hollywood.

We explore the strategic, political, and regulatory implications of mega-mergers involving Netflix, Paramount, and the broader streaming ecosystem. From antitrust risk and market definition to the real impact on consumers, creators, and competition, this conversation goes deeper than headlines and deal values.

Most importantly, we pull out the lessons for leaders and founders everywhere: how to recognize when you’ve lost your insurgent edge, why defining your market is a strategic weapon, and what it really takes to keep leveling up when scale starts working against you.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

This episode explores the creation of Make It Easy, an emerging AI tool designed to simplify the world for people with low literacy, intellectual disability, or anyone overwhelmed by complexity. Sam and Jon Paior share how the app began with one powerful insight: if AI could decode dense content instantly for them, it could transform accessibility for millions who navigate the world with far greater barriers. 

Their story follows a deeply human path through lived experience, empathy, product design, and iteration at speed. The conversation highlights why staying close to users matters, what insurgent founders do differently, and how “fast over fear” became a guiding principle as they built, tested, and continuously refined their product. 

It’s a candid look at mid-career entrepreneurship, the realities of scaling a purpose-driven venture, and what it takes to challenge incumbents not through size, but through focus, authenticity, and clarity of mission.

You can find more info about Make It Easy, or connect directly with Sam and Jon here: 

Website: makeiteasy.com.au

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/makeiteasyglobal

Sam Paior LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paior/

Jon Paior LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jonpaior/

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, we take a closer look at what it really means for sales and marketing teams to operate like challengers in fast-moving, disrupted markets. Explore why high activity levels don’t automatically translate into insurgent behaviour, and how organizations can instead focus on differentiated customer engagement, smarter operating models, and creative approaches that generate meaningful leverage.

Through examples from pharmaceuticals, consumer products, education, and breakout brands like Dollar Shave Club and Liquid Death, the conversation reveals how companies can escape traditional playbooks and build commercial engines that stand out. See how to use AI and digital tools effectively, how co-creation and customer advocacy can accelerate growth, and how challenging long-held assumptions can reshape both sales and marketing strategy.

For leaders aiming to drive innovation, sharpen market impact, and outmaneuver entrenched competitors, this episode offers practical insight into building a more agile, differentiated, and high-performing go-to-market model.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

What happens when a construction leader applies lessons from manufacturing and technology to one of the world’s most traditional industries? In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, Ben Rijnbeek, founder and managing director of Beek Build, shares how he’s redefining construction through agility, digital transformation, and AI.

Ben explains how Beek Build’s agile model replaces rigid project hierarchies and endless paperwork with real-time digital collaboration and data-driven decision-making. He also discusses how his team maintains a 92% employee engagement rate, why AI is reshaping design and quality control, and what the rise of prefabrication and remote project management means for the future of building.

Whether you’re in construction, engineering, or business leadership, this episode reveals how insurgent thinking can transform even the most established industries.
You can connect with Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-rijnbeek-9b810b1a6/
You can read more about Beek Build on their website: https://www.beekbuild.com/

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, Matt and Rondo explore what it really takes to build an insurgent culture: one where teams move fast, challenge bureaucracy, and stay relentlessly focused on the customer. From Amazon’s “Day One” mentality to stories of non-profits innovating with limited resources, we unpack how organizations can learn to punch above their weight by reducing friction, empowering teams, and embedding experimentation into everyday decisions. 

The conversation dives into the tension between incumbent and insurgent mindsets, the leadership behaviors that keep a business on the front foot, and why culture must be deliberately designed, not left to evolve on its own. Perfect for leaders who want to create organizations that adapt, innovate, and thrive in disruption.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

Everyone’s talking about productivity but few truly understand it. In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, we unpack the global “productivity paradox”: why advanced economies like Australia are stagnating while the U.S. continues to surge ahead.

From the hidden drivers behind America’s innovation boom to the structural and cultural barriers holding others back, this conversation cuts through the noise to redefine what productivity really means not just output per hour, but value created per decision.

Discover why technology like AI hasn’t yet shown up in the data, how business leaders confuse efficiency with value creation, and what it actually takes to build a firm, or a nation, that turns effort into growth.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

#BusinessStrategy #Productivity #Leadership #Innovation #AI #StrategicAgility #ValueCreation #EconomicGrowth #TheInsurgentMindset

In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, we’re joined by Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor, best-selling author, and one of the world’s foremost voices on strategy and innovation.

Rita takes us inside her groundbreaking concept of discovery-driven planning, the idea that in times of uncertainty, leaders should plan to learn, not plan to be right. She shares stories from her famous “Flop File” of billion-dollar corporate missteps, what leaders can learn from them, and how to avoid falling into the trap of outdated assumptions.

From The End of Competitive Advantage to Seeing Around Corners, Rita has reshaped how leaders think about growth, inflection points, and customer proximity. In this conversation, she explains why staying close to the customer is the ultimate competitive edge and how organizations can break free from the incumbent mindset that holds so many back.

If you want to sharpen your strategic thinking and avoid the pitfalls of complacency, you won’t want to miss this conversation.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice

In this episode of The Insurgent Mindset, hosts Rondo Moses and Matt Tice sit down with Randall Makin a self-described “cowboy” of engineering and entrepreneurship. From his humble beginnings in rural Australia to building and selling RedEye, a cloud-based software company that disrupted the mining and energy sectors, Randall shares the highs, lows, and lessons of being a challenger founder.

Expect candid stories about raising capital, the reality of scaling a startup, the mindset shifts required for growth, and why building a “forever company” may be more powerful than chasing a quick exit. If you’re interested in entrepreneurship, startups, innovation, leadership, venture capital, SaaS, and the cowboy grit it takes to succeed, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

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Hosted by seasoned strategy consultants Matt Tice and Rondo Moses, with a combined 50 years of experience, this podcast will challenge you to transcend the status quo and reshape how you think about and approach competing in the business marketplace.  Learn more at www.insurgencegroup.com. 

Subscribe to “The Insurgent Mindset” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts or Youtube, and visit us as www.insurgencegroup.com to learn more. 

Have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in a future episode? Email us at [email protected].

This podcast is hosted by Matt Tice & Rondo Moses

Produced by Faith Moavenzadeh

Original Music by Caius Tice