Join Dtec and Minara for a session with Tommi Raitio, Founder of Minara and leadership development specialist, on why founding teams that start strong often begin to crack as they grow. Using Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, one of the world’s most widely used team effectiveness models, Tommi will walk through the patterns that quietly erode trust, commitment, and accountability in small teams. The session includes a discussion on what founding teams can practically do about it.

• The Five Dysfunctions Model – Why most team problems are not about people being difficult. They are about missing foundations.
• The Trust Problem – What real trust looks like in a founding team. It has nothing to do with team-building exercises.
• Productive Conflict – How avoiding hard conversations between co-founders actually kills startups faster than having them.
• Commitment and Accountability – Why everyone nods in meetings but nobody follows through, and what to do about it.
• What Teams Can Do Next – A look at the structured team development programmes available for teams that want to go deeper after the session.

• ✔️ Startup founders and co-founding teams
• ✔️ CEOs and leadership teams of growing companies
• ✔️ Operations and team leads managing rapid scaling
• ✔️ DTEC community members building their teams

Tommi Raitio is the founder of Minara, a Dubai-based leadership development and AI training practice. Before starting Minara, he spent over 35 years in senior leadership positions, including serving as General Manager for Intel’s Middle East, Turkey, and Africa operations, and as Managing Director of Unikie MEA in Abu Dhabi, where he led a team of 40 engineers in autonomous systems and AI. Prior to his corporate career, Tommi served 12 years in the Finnish Defence Forces as a platoon leader and company commander in the Marines.

He is a certified facilitator of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team and Working Genius, Korn Ferry 360 assessments, and the Birkman Method. He has delivered leadership development programmes on three continents and has been based in the UAE since 2012.