The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni

By Michele Brissoni

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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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Subscribe to The Forge of Unicorns Newsletter 📰 for deep dives, case studies, and more: go.brix.consulting/ForgeOfUnicorns.


Stop merely following the herd of transformations by the book!

Start true evolution of your organization towards elite 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟


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Episode Date
🎙️EP82 - The Last Mile: Why AI Adoption Isn't Enough
Dec 02, 2025
🎙️ EP81 - The AI Readiness Gap
Nov 25, 2025
🎙️ EP80 - The AI Coding Illusion: Why Speed Without Fundamentals Is a Death Spiral
Nov 18, 2025
🎙️ EP79 - How to build the 1% Elite Developers!
Nov 11, 2025
🎙️ EP78 - The 1% Problem | Why AI Can't Save Your Company
Nov 04, 2025
🎙️EP77 - The $34 Billion SECRET VCs Don't Want You To Know
Oct 28, 2025
🎙️ EP76 - Karmapreneurship in the AI-era
Oct 21, 2025
🎙️ EP75 - Are Your Developers Ready for AI? The David vs Goliath Story
Oct 14, 2025
🎙️E74 - Why Only Soldier-Minded Teams Become Unicorns
Oct 07, 2025
🎙️ EP73 - AI Won’t Fix Us. It Amplifies Us!
Sep 30, 2025
🎙️ EP72 - Escaping the Industry Black Hole 🚀
Sep 23, 2025
🎙️ EP71 - Why Running a Company on Science Prevents Software’s Wild West
Sep 16, 2025
🎙️ EP70 - Can Ethical Investing Outlast Unicorns?
Sep 09, 2025
🎙️ EP69 - What If a Diesel Mechanic Just Outbuilt Your Tech Org?
Sep 02, 2025
🎙️ EP68 - Software Venture Capital Is Broken
Jul 22, 2025
🎙️ EP67 - How Do I Evolve My Company Without Losing My People?
Jul 15, 2025
🎙️ EP66 - The $1M AI Mercenary Problem
Jul 08, 2025
🎙️ EP65 - Vibe Coding: Beauty or Beast?
Jul 01, 2025
🎙️E64 - AI, Code, Care... When organizations stop guessing and start assessing.
Jun 24, 2025
🎙️ EP63 - Is the AI bubble coming? And if so… who do you trust to deal with it?
Jun 10, 2025
🎙️ EP62 - The Common Secret Behind Mining ⛏️, F1 🏎️ & MotoGP 🏍️ Evolution. Let’s Finally Bring It to Software!
Jun 03, 2025
🎙️ EP61 - The Hidden CEO Hiring Trap: Why Only 1 in 4,000 Make It
May 27, 2025
🎙️ EP60 - AI first is dead! 💀 Klarna, Babylon, Forward… Who’s Next? The Pattern Behind AI Failures
May 20, 2025
🎙️ EP59 - OKR – The Agile Resurrector 🧬
May 13, 2025
🎙️ EP58 - You Don’t Even Know What Good Looks Like. That’s Why Your Company is Stuck!
May 06, 2025
🎙️ EP57 - When Excellence Isn’t Optional: How Healthcare Mastery Exposes IT’s Compliance Illusion
Apr 29, 2025
🎙️EP 56 - Professionalism Isn’t Optional
Apr 22, 2025
🎙️ EP55 - From Mediocracy to Mastery 🧭 Rewiring Leadership
Apr 15, 2025
🎙️ EP54 - Mediocrity is a leadership choice!
Apr 08, 2025
🎙️ EP53 - VibeCoding Won’t Build Unicorns 🦄 … they are engineered 👷🏻‍♂️
Apr 01, 2025
🎙️ EP 52 - The Quantum Invasion Is Here: Why Your Software Won’t Survive What’s Coming
Mar 25, 2025
🎙️ EP 51 – Sam Palazzolo Confirms Our Research
Mar 20, 2025
EP 50 - 97.5% of IT Investments Are DOOMED 📉
Mar 18, 2025
EP49- Want to Engineer Unicorns 🦄?
Mar 11, 2025
EP48 - Fake Productivity: The Deadly Illusion of AI-Generated Code 💣
Mar 04, 2025
EP47 - Lost Millions in IT?
Feb 25, 2025
EP46 - Scaling Excellence: The OKR Lessons from a Bold CIO ✨
Feb 18, 2025
EP 45 - The Dojos' Ecosystem
Feb 11, 2025
EP 44 - Behind the Curtain
Feb 03, 2025
EP 43 - From Chaos to Gold
Jan 28, 2025
EP 42 - 70% of Transformations Fail at the Top
Jan 21, 2025
EP41 - From Desert 🌵 to Forest 🌳
Jan 14, 2025
EP40 – Scaling IT Excellence: From Transformation to Evolution 🌱
Jan 07, 2025
EP39 – 2024 A Year to Remember
Dec 30, 2024
EP38 - The Rise of the Behavioral Engineer
Dec 24, 2024
EP37 - A Real Story of Socio-Technical Evolution
Dec 17, 2024
EP36 - Unlocking the Wisdom of #IAD24
Dec 12, 2024
EP35 - The Change Strategy Revolutionizing Boardrooms
Dec 03, 2024
EP34 - The Dangerous Myth of Harmless Behaviors
Nov 28, 2024
EP33 - Stop Transforming, Start Evolving at #IAD24
Nov 19, 2024
EP 32 - A Sneak Peek into Italian Agile Days 2024
Nov 13, 2024
EP31 - Think You’ve Budgeted Enough for Digital Transformation?
Nov 05, 2024
EP 30 - Tech Is Only Half the Battle
Oct 29, 2024
EP29 - Why Underestimating Digital Transformation Could Sink Your Business
Oct 23, 2024
EP 28 - Unlock the Power of OKRs and DDD
Oct 16, 2024
EP 27 - The Hidden Connection Between Talent Drain and Digital Transformation Failure
Oct 15, 2024
EP 26 - Why Digital Transformations Keep Failing at a Massive Cost.
Oct 01, 2024
EP 25 - Volkswagen’s 20 Billion Software Disaster.
Sep 17, 2024
EP 24 - The Ugly Truth About AI Code Generators Exposed!
Sep 16, 2024
EP 23 - The Deadly Price of Cheap Code
Sep 10, 2024
EP22 - From Tech Lead to Top Speaker
Sep 03, 2024
EP 21 - Avoid Tech Disasters Like a Pro
Aug 27, 2024
EP20 - The Hidden Cause Behind Tech Disasters 💥
Aug 20, 2024
EP 19 - From Hype to Horror
Aug 13, 2024
EP18 - The Déjà Vu Disaster. When Will We Learn?
Aug 06, 2024
EP 17 - How a Tiny Bug Took Down the World
Jul 30, 2024
EP16 - The Future of Data in Digital Transformation
Jul 30, 2024
EP15 - Organizational Assessments
Jul 10, 2024
EP14 - SAFe Isn't the Problem
Jul 02, 2024
EP12: XP2024 Conference. The Post-Impressions
Jun 18, 2024
EP11: One Week for XP2024: Unveiling the Unicorns Ecosystem
Jun 11, 2024
EP10: Thus, Why is It Evolving?
May 28, 2024
EP9: STOP ✋ transforming 🚧. START 🌱 evolving 🔄!
May 21, 2024
EP8: Deep Dive into My Talk at the IT Revolution Enterprise Technical Leadership Summit Europe 2024
May 14, 2024
EP7: the post IT Revolution Tech Leadership Summit Europe 2024
May 07, 2024
EP6: Behind the Scenes of the IT Revolution Tech Leadership Summit
Apr 30, 2024
EP5: Empowering Leaders
Apr 21, 2024
EP4: Navigating the Talent Storm: A CXO's Battle Against Burnout, and Disengagement
Apr 18, 2024
EP3: Upskilling and Reskilling: Your Ticket to Thriving in the AI Era
Apr 16, 2024
EP2: Unlocking The Power of Behavior Engineering in Digital Transformation
Apr 11, 2024
EP1: AI won’t save you from failing in digital transformations.
Apr 09, 2024