Data science and machine learning have become very popular recently and some of the “magical black-box” methods such as deep-learning became common buzz-words in tech industry slang. But in moving from data science towards leading people, you suddenly realize that there are things that you cannot apply directly from online courses. To make this transition smoother, I propose to “transfer learn” machine learning jargon into team management. In this talk I’ll share a few machine learning concepts that can help you understand team behaviour better and explain how to deal with the “dropout” of your team members and avoid “overfitting” your approach to team management.