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Ep. 103 Rodrigo Ventre on emancipating 1,000 people (and himself) at a Brazilian waste-management company

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Release Date: 04/20/2026

Ep. 103 Rodrigo Ventre on emancipating 1,000 people (and himself) at a Brazilian waste-management company show art Ep. 103 Rodrigo Ventre on emancipating 1,000 people (and himself) at a Brazilian waste-management company

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If you ask employees at EPPO who the CEO is, they will answer: there is no CEO! In this episode, Rodrigo Ventre shares the story of transforming his father’s company into a self-managing organisation. We talk about his lifelong passion for human development and the increasingly radical experiments he has encouraged in the domains of business, culture, and governance. It was not an easy journey, but today EPPO is celebrated in Brazil for its innovative organisational model and being an inspiring place to work. This episode is a warts-and-all story including insights from a systems level, but...

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If you ask employees at EPPO who the CEO is, they will answer: there is no CEO! In this episode, Rodrigo Ventre shares the story of transforming his father’s company into a self-managing organisation. We talk about his lifelong passion for human development and the increasingly radical experiments he has encouraged in the domains of business, culture, and governance.

It was not an easy journey, but today EPPO is celebrated in Brazil for its innovative organisational model and being an inspiring place to work. This episode is a warts-and-all story including insights from a systems level, but also from Rodrigo as a father and a human being.

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