We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Velocity’s Edge, EPSD’s new podcast premiering this Wednesday.

Velocity’s Edge brings you to the pivotal point where speed meets strategy—that critical spot where the wrong decision can capsize your organization, while the right one propels you forward. Each 20-minute episode delivers insights from battle-tested experts who’ve guided C-suites and boards through moments when they’ve needed to navigate crises with speed and authority.

Alternating hosts Nicko Goncharoff and Nick Selby sit down with EPSD’s partners and trusted advisors to explore the real-world decisions that separate nimble organizations developing with well-managed risk from those that crash and burn trying to keep up. There are no sales pitches, no theoretical frameworks, just proven strategies from people who know how to move fast and iterate on the bleeding edge.

Season 1 Episodes: Expert Conversations That Matter

Strategy (Season Premiere): Nicko and Sarah Wells explore engineering strategies that scale. Sarah led the Financial Times from 12 to 20,000 releases per year and authored “Enabling Microservices Success.” She knows how to build systems that accelerate rather than constrain growth.

CISO Leadership: Nicko and Dr. Pablo Breuer explore what it takes to lead cybersecurity at scale. Pablo’s 22-year Navy career included leadership roles at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, plus he co-created the DISARM Framework used internationally to combat disinformation.

Technical Debt: Nicko and Huw Rogers tackle the hidden costs of shortcuts. With two decades of experience driving fintech transformation across electronic markets, FX, and crypto, Huw has seen how technical debt compounds—and how to manage it strategically.

Crisis Engineering: Carla Geisser, Chris Swan, and Nick discuss keeping systems running when everything’s on fire. Carla, an EPSD advisor and partner in Layer Aleph, pioneered Google’s SRE principles, led the effort to rescue Healthcare.gov during its 2014 crisis, and led Fastly’s recovery from their global outage. Chris, an EPSD advisor and Engineer at Atsign, brings CTO experience from UBS and Credit Suisse, while Nick’s background spans leadership at the NYPD and fintech, insurance, and tech-firm executive roles.

Cultural Change: Nicko and Sarah return to explore the human side of transformation—how culture changes when you’re moving fast and the stakes are high.

Decision Records: Thomas Dullien (a.k.a. Halvar Flake), Chris Swan, and Nick examine how to document decisions that matter. Thomas founded companies acquired by Google and Elastic, bringing deep expertise in efficiency and cloud economics.

Strategic Communications: Nicko and Melanie Ensign dive into high-stakes communication. An EPSD advisor and founder of EPSD partner Discernible Communications, Melanie led security communications for Facebook, Uber, and AT&T, and ran DEF CON’s press operations for a decade—she knows how to communicate when the world is watching.

Factionalism (Season Finale): As companies see decreasing margins and increased churn and contraction, some of the first steps are reducing spending. These reductions can pressure departmental and team leaders, who see the game as zero-sum: your win is my loss. And this creates factions within your teams that can grow quickly into damaging internecine struggles. Nicko and Nick explore how organizations can address factionalism and restore strong, working relationships that cultivate velocity.

Why Velocity’s Edge Matters Now

Competitive advantage comes from moving fast without breaking things. Executives need practical intelligence from people who’ve navigated these challenges at scale.

Velocity’s Edge delivers actionable intelligence that protects both revenue and reputation, featuring specialists who know how to help organizations accelerate secure growth while managing risk effectively.

Our hosts and guests have led unicorns through organization-wide transformations that rebuilt engineering effectiveness; helped organizations respond to and recover from nation-state attacks, regulatory crises, and high-growth scaling challenges.

Velocity’s Edge launches Wednesday, 13 August 2025. You can download it from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.