The Guest – Marko Maunula, CTO at BeeHealthy
Marko Maunula is the CTO at BeeHealthy, a Helsinki-based healthcare company providing digital tools to make patient care more accessible and efficient. In this episode, he joins us to talk about the importance of having diversity in software teams.
Marko shares insights from decades in tech leadership, reflecting on how to build high-performing, diverse teams in a regulated industry. From aligning organisational structure with product strategy to balancing compliance-minded engineers with boundary-pushing innovators, Marko offers a candid look at what makes teams click and where things can go wrong.
We also explore the ethical and technical challenges of embedding AI in healthcare, the realities of hiring for complexity, and why a little internal friction might be exactly what a strong team needs.
Some highlights of this episode include:
- Intentional Team Diversity
- Balancing Speed and Compliance
- AI Integration in Healthcare
- Hiring Philosophy and Process
- The Role of Conflict in High-Performing Teams
- Mixed Reception of AI Co-pilots in Engineering
Q: Do you naturally end up with quite diverse teams in terms of personality and working style?
“No, not at all. Building diverse teams requires active intervention. When teams are involved in the hiring process, there’s a natural tendency to choose candidates who think similarly, have comparable backgrounds, and share the same experiences. That’s why it’s important to guide the hiring process and encourage consideration of different profiles. In the short term, having a team with similar experiences can be highly efficient—but in the long term, diverse teams are far better equipped to solve complex problems and adapt to challenges.”
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