Workplace Geeks

Audiem
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Workplace Geeks is the podcast from Audiem, exploring the people, ideas and evidence shaping the future of work.Hosted by Chris Moriarty, each episode features conversations with leading researchers, authors, workplace practitioners and business leaders, uncovering practical insights on workplace experience, organisational performance, technology, leadership and the changing nature of work.From groundbreaking academic research to real-world workplace challenges, Workplace Geeks helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, bringing fresh thinking to the people creating better workplaces and better organisations.

  1. Nov 5

    S5 | E6 - Finding agency without all the answers with Sam Conniff

    How do we find room to act when everything seems to be changing at once?  Act Two of this series opens with Sam Conniff, author of Be More Pirate and co-founder of Uncertainty Experts, to explore our relationship with uncertainty and what it means for the decisions we make at work. Sam describes a revealing question from his research: would you rather look decisive if it led to a bad outcome, or tolerate looking indecisive if it led to a good one? The responses open up a conversation about the expectations organisations create, the discomfort of not knowing, and what we recognise as strong leadership. From there, Chris and Sam explore the different ways people describe the uncertainties ahead of them, including what they believe they can influence. AI brings these questions into everyday working life: how can the same technology look like an opportunity to one person and a threat to another? The conversation leaves room for optimism, connection and a little productive procrastination. It also raises a question that carries through this next act: how might getting more comfortable with uncertainty help us find a greater sense of agency? Learn more: We discuss Why uncertainty is an emotional experience as well as a planning problem.The pressure to look decisive and the behaviours organisations reward.How people describe the systems around them and what they can influence.Different responses to AI, and the space for human judgement alongside it.Connection, optimism and the possibility of productive procrastination. Learn more: Explore further Uncertainty Experts: https://www.uncertaintyexperts.com/aboutThe Decisiveness Crisis report: https://www.uncertaintyexperts.com/decisiveness-crisis-reportThe Economist, “The quality you should most wish for your children”, 27 August 2026: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/27/the-quality-you-should-most-wish-for-your-children Companion audiem advert for the Sam Conniff episode 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | E6 - Finding agency without all the answers with Sam Conniff

  2. Sep 24

    S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once

    What happens when conversations about AI, hybrid work, trust and leadership start pointing towards the same questions? The Reflection Section returns to Workplace Geeks, this time with an episode of its own. As Act One of Series Five closes, Chris Moriarty revisits conversations with Dave Coplin, Julia Hobsbawm, Margaret Heffernan, Brian Elliott and Amanda Schneider to explore what becomes clearer when we listen to them together. Their subjects may differ, but the changes they describe arrive together in people’s working lives. Chris reflects on the pull towards control when the future feels uncertain, why visible activity can become a substitute for understanding good work, and the growing importance of judgement, trust and the human side of management. There is also a question for the workplace conversation itself: are we making room for uncertainty, or tidying complicated realities into confident predictions? The episode closes with a look towards Act Two and a shift in emphasis. Having explored what is changing, what does it take to work, lead and make decisions while that change is happening around us? Companion audiem advert for the Sam Conniff episode 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once

  3. Sep 10

    Are we still asking the wrong questions? | Workplace Leaders 2026 #3

    The workplace profession has spent years debating how often people should come to the office, how much space organisations need and which new technologies might help. But are these the questions that will actually move us forward? In the third episode of our Workplace Leaders series, Chris Moriarty speaks with Loren Cooper Gold, Saskia Lorrenson, Steve Henigan, Chiv De la Hoyde and Chris Coathe. Across five conversations, they explore the distance between workplace data and genuine understanding, the struggle to explain why people should gather in person, and the strange persistence of supposedly new workplace debates. Along the way, they reflect on their own unconventional routes into the profession and offer advice for the people who will lead it next. From an activity-based-working presentation that survived both eight years and a pandemic, to the boardroom calculations still built around a five-day week, this episode asks whether workplace teams need more answers or the courage to reframe the problem. Workplace Leaders is produced by Workplace Geeks in partnership with Rhino Interiors Group. 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    Are we still asking the wrong questions? | Workplace Leaders 2026 #3

  4. Aug 27

    S5 | E5 - We Can’t Solve a How Problem with a Where Solution with Amanda Schneider

    For years, much of the workplace debate has focused on one question: where should people work? Amanda Schneider thinks there’s a more important one underneath it. How should work actually work? Amanda is the founder and president of ThinkLab and author of Work for What’s Next. Her research explores what happens when human expectations begin to outgrow the systems and structures built around them. As she puts it, we’re operating with “analog era rules in a digital speed world”. In this conversation, Chris and Amanda explore why generational differences can be more useful as signals than stereotypes, and what Gen Z might reveal about changes that will eventually affect all of us. They get into “phygital” work, the difference between genuinely digital-first experiences and simply digitising old ones, trust across different forms of communication, and why employees increasingly experience manager culture rather than company culture. But one idea keeps bringing the conversation back to workplace strategy: moving people doesn’t necessarily change how work happens. Or, in Amanda’s words, “We can't solve a how problem with a where solution.” Perhaps the next phase of workplace thinking starts there. 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | E5 - We Can’t Solve a How Problem with a Where Solution with Amanda Schneider

  5. Aug 13

    S5 | E4 - The Headlines, the Hype and the Reality of Work with Brian Elliott

    The headlines tell us work is broken. One week it’s return-to-office mandates. The next it’s artificial intelligence. Then it’s another study claiming to have found the answer. But what happens if the headlines are only telling part of the story? In this episode of Workplace Geeks, Chris Moriarty is joined by Brian Elliott, CEO of Work Forward and publisher of the Flex Index, one of the world’s most widely referenced sources of data on workplace flexibility. Together they explore why so many workplace debates become polarised, why leaders need to look beyond the headlines, and how organisations can make better decisions in a world where AI, hybrid working and employee expectations are all evolving at the same time. Along the way, they discuss: Why research should start conversations, not end themWhat leaders often misunderstand about hybrid workingHow AI is changing organisations beyond simple productivity gainsWhy there are very few universal answers in the future of workHow organisations can balance flexibility, trust and performanceWhat the best leaders do when the world refuses to stand stillIf you’ve been following this series, Brian’s conversation builds naturally on the ideas explored with Dave Coplin, Julia Hobsbawm and Margaret Heffernan, shifting the discussion from why work is changing to how organisations can respond. Companion audiem advert for the Sam Conniff episode 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | E4 - The Headlines, the Hype and the Reality of Work with Brian Elliott

  6. Jul 30

    From Experimentation to Expertise | Workplace Leaders 2026 #2

    Five workplace leaders. Five very different sectors. One surprisingly consistent message: the future belongs to organisations that never stop learning. Sponsored by Rhino Interiors Group, this is the second episode in our special series celebrating the Workplace Leaders Top 50 2026, bringing together conversations with some of the people shaping workplaces across technology, banking, telecommunications, higher education and health & safety. From Salesforce to Mastercard, VodafoneThree, the University of Salford and Sage, these conversations explore how leaders are adapting to a world where artificial intelligence, hybrid working and changing expectations are rewriting the rules faster than organisations can keep up. Along the way, we get into: How AI is disrupting the traditional route to expertiseWhy experimentation is becoming a core leadership skillThe challenge of developing people in a rapidly changing worldHow universities are rethinking the purpose of their estatesThe hidden impacts hybrid working continues to have on organisationsWhy curiosity, connection and continuous learning matter more than everThe advice today’s leaders would give the next generationFeaturing: Elaine Du Preez, SalesforceCatherine Murphy, MastercardScott Wilson, VodafoneThreeFiona Stewart, University of SalfordClaire Goody, Sage📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    From Experimentation to Expertise | Workplace Leaders 2026 #2

  7. Jul 16

    S5 | E3 - Willful Blindness, AI and the Crisis of Leadership with Margaret Heffernan

    What makes a good leader? It’s a deceptively simple question. We often talk about vision, communication or decisiveness. But beneath all of those sits something more fundamental: judgement. At a time when organisations have access to more information than ever before, making good decisions should, in theory, be getting easier. Yet leaders are navigating growing uncertainty, increasingly complex organisations and a wave of technologies promising to remove ambiguity altogether. So what happens when certainty itself becomes the goal? In this episode of Workplace Geeks, Chris Moriarty is joined by Margaret Heffernan, entrepreneur, author of Willful Blindness and one of the most thoughtful voices on leadership, decision-making and organisational behaviour. Together they explore why smart people still make poor decisions, how power can distort judgement, why organisations have become increasingly uncomfortable with uncertainty and what leaders risk when they outsource thinking to machines. The conversation also examines the growing role of AI in leadership. Not as a debate about the technology itself, but as a discussion about trust, legitimacy and accountability. If a leader cannot explain how a decision was reached, why should anyone have confidence in it? Along the way, Margaret reflects on creativity, storytelling, learning from failure and the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are prepared to challenge your thinking rather than reinforce it. It’s a wide-ranging conversation, but one that continually returns to a simple idea. Leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about creating the conditions to make thoughtful decisions when certainty simply isn’t available. Companion audiem advert for the Sam Conniff episode 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | E3 - Willful Blindness, AI and the Crisis of Leadership with Margaret Heffernan

  8. Jul 2

    S5 | E2 - The Nowhere Office, AI and the Future of Work with Julia Hobsbawm

    The pandemic felt like a moment of reckoning for work. Almost overnight, organisations were forced to rethink where work happened, how it happened, and the relationship between employers and employees. Long-held assumptions that had survived for decades suddenly looked open to challenge. For a while, it felt as though everything was up for debate. But changing work has proved harder than many expected. Before we'd really settled on what the future of work might look like, AI arrived and introduced a whole new set of opportunities, risks and questions. Alongside geopolitical uncertainty, demographic shifts and changing expectations of work itself, leaders now find themselves navigating a landscape where multiple forces are reshaping organisations at the same time. In this episode of Workplace Geeks, Chris Moriarty is joined by Julia Hobsbawm, author of The Nowhere Office and one of the most thoughtful commentators on the changing nature of work. Together they explore why the debate was never really about offices, how the pandemic accelerated wider questions about work and society, the pushback that followed, and why understanding the future may require us to revisit some of the assumptions we've inherited from the past. It's a wide-ranging conversation covering workplace culture, technology, leadership, AI, organisational design and the challenge of creating organisations that are fit for an increasingly uncertain future. Companion audiem advert for the Sam Conniff episode 📩 Subscribe for new episodes, events and workplace insight from the Geeks community. ⭐️ Enjoying the show? Follow, rate and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It genuinely helps more people discover us. 💬 Got an idea, guest suggestion, or workplace topic we should explore? Follow Workplace Geeks on LinkedIn Join the conversation using #WorkplaceGeeks Or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is brought to you by Audiem ⚡️ Helping organisations make better workplace decisions through AI-powered insight and employee feedback. Supported by 2468 Group ☕️ 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles

    S5 | E2 - The Nowhere Office, AI and the Future of Work with Julia Hobsbawm
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Workplace Geeks is the podcast from Audiem, exploring the people, ideas and evidence shaping the future of work.Hosted by Chris Moriarty, each episode features conversations with leading researchers, authors, workplace practitioners and business leaders, uncovering practical insights on workplace experience, organisational performance, technology, leadership and the changing nature of work.From groundbreaking academic research to real-world workplace challenges, Workplace Geeks helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, bringing fresh thinking to the people creating better workplaces and better organisations.

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  • Creator
    Audiem
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    78
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Workplace Geeks
  • Show Website
    Workplace Geeks

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