S6 Ep8 Adam Milano on Teamwork as Ensemble Art

About this episode

Adam Milano discusses the parallels between high-performance teamwork and ensemble art.

What do theater, crisis response, military service, and social work have in common? More than you might guess. Adam Milano, faculty at UNC's School of Social Work, a military veteran, and theater-trained performer, joins Dan Dworkis to discuss how high-performance teamwork under pressure looks a lot like ensemble art. In this episode: You can't turn off the human part — and you shouldn't Invisible excellence: the best work goes unnoticed Your job is to make your teammates look brilliant Your third emergency today is someone else's first This conversation was released in partnership with The Emergency Mind Podcast and originally aired on February 16, 2026. If this conversation was useful, the best thing you can do is subscribe and leave a quick rating or review — it helps us reach the teams that need to hear these conversations most.

People in this episode

Host: Dan Dworkis

Guest: Adam Milano

Topics covered

• teamwork
• ensemble art
• high-performance
• crisis response
• military service
• social work

Keywords

• teamwork
• ensemble art
• crisis response
• military
• social work
• performance
• collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UNC's School of Social Work, The Emergency Mind Podcast

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