98: Rewind - Building Better Teams, Dr. Tom O'Neill
Jun 24, 2026 · 49 min · 14 segments
Erik and Kris interview Dr. Tom O’Neill, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the…
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Jun 24, 2026 · 49 min · 14 segments
Erik and Kris interview Dr. Tom O’Neill, an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the…
Erik ChristiansenHost
Kris HansHost
So today we have for our interview is Tom O'Neill, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary.
So we'll just start it off with Tom, if you can just tell us a little bit about yourself and your background.
So I'm actually the director of the Industrial Organizational Psychology program.
We're within the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary.
We've got about 20 graduate students any given year, and they're being trained in applying psychological principles to improve the efficiency of the workplace, the effectiveness of the workplace, people's experiences, their satisfaction, their wellbeing, engage employees more, and just make work more enriching.
And within that, I'm one faculty member of five and I have a research lab called the Individual and Team Performance Lab.
And our goal is to influence as many people as possible by translating as well as creating leading scientific knowledge and then translating that into something that end users can benefit from.
And I've had a lot of funding to support that model and You know, that's government money that is being used to create ideally a difference in the world.
And we're trying to make our difference through helping people be better team players, helping leaders better understand how to lead team, helping students to develop better teamwork skills to help them in their career and helping students have a better teamwork experience so that, you know, they can learn more while they're here at the university.
So today we have for our interview is Tom O'Neill, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary.
So we'll just start it off with Tom, if you can just tell us a little bit about yourself and your background.
So I'm actually the director of the Industrial Organizational Psychology program.
We're within the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary.
We've got about 20 graduate students any given year, and they're being trained in applying psychological principles to improve the efficiency of the workplace, the effectiveness of the workplace, people's experiences, their satisfaction, their wellbeing, engage employees more, and just make work more enriching.
And within that, I'm one faculty member of five and I have a research lab called the Individual and Team Performance Lab.
And our goal is to influence as many people as possible by translating as well as creating leading scientific knowledge and then translating that into something that end users can benefit from.
And I've had a lot of funding to support that model and You know, that's government money that is being used to create ideally a difference in the world.
And we're trying to make our difference through helping people be better team players, helping leaders better understand how to lead team, helping students to develop better teamwork skills to help them in their career and helping students have a better teamwork experience so that, you know, they can learn more while they're here at the university.
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