Workplace Geeks

Chris Moriarty and Ian Ellison
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Workplace Geeks is the podcast on a mission to celebrate the most innovative workplace research in the world. Hosted by Chris Moriarty and Ian Ellison, each episode explores fascinating work with the authors themselves, capturing practical learning and business impacts. Join the Workplace Geeks to bridge the gap between academia and business as we explore the diverse elements that can affect workplace experience, employee value and business performance.

  1. The Watercooler Event 2025 | Part 1: ESG, Four-Day Weeks & Culture Change

    8月19日

    The Watercooler Event 2025 | Part 1: ESG, Four-Day Weeks & Culture Change

    Back at London ExCeL for another two-day special, the Workplace Geeks hit record from the heart of The Watercooler and The Office event, an event double-header focused on workplace wellbeing, culture, and space design. This year’s conversations dig even deeper. Chris and Ian bring you mini-interviews and reflections featuring fresh voices and provocative perspectives across workplace ESG strategy, new work models, and transformative culture design. In this episode: Matthew Blair, Principal at BVN Architecture, explores the big tensions and opportunities in ESG-led design, from embodied carbon and governance complexity to the subtle power of human-centered approaches.Maud Santamaria, Global Workplace Lead at GWI, offers a real-world look into a four-day week trial across global offices – from measuring team productivity to managing client expectations and communicating change.Paula Brockwell, founder of The Employee Experience Project, argues for a revolution in how we think about culture: not as a fluffy perk, but as a lever for strategic, behavioral transformation.Like past episodes, we’ve mixed fast-paced interviews with our own reflections to capture the buzz of the show and the ideas we encountered. ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    49 分钟
  2. Return of the (workplace) Jedi | with Rob Harris

    8月6日

    Return of the (workplace) Jedi | with Rob Harris

    After the two  event specials showcasing 2025's Workplace Leaders Top 50 winners, the Geeks are back in the studio with a guest who - with 40 years of professional practice under his belt - is practically part of the UK workplace lore. Author, consultant and workplace historian Dr Rob Harris returns to share insights from his latest book: A History of the Office and Office Work: From Castle to Condominium (Routledge, 2025). Rob first joined us just over a year ago to talk about London’s global office economy. This time, he takes us even further back... all the way to the 17th-century in fact, with the Great Fire of London, the insurance deals of London's coffee houses, and the financial revolution that shaped modern business. From clerical factories to corporate skyscrapers, digital revolutions to today’s networked era, Rob charts how office work, economics, and urban life have co-evolved across centuries. In this wide-ranging and fascinating conversation, we explore: Why the office is an overlooked but essential part of economic and urban historyHow events like the Great Fire of London and the rise of insurance reshaped workThe evolution from market-era offices to corporate empires and the digital ageBureaucracy, the management “demiurge” and the rise of white-collar cultureWhy generative AI and hybrid work are forcing us to rethink what offices are forAnd whether the future of workplace has come full circle, back to collaboration and social connectionNo reflection section guest for this one, but listen out for the winners of the S4E5 competition, where MillerKnoll's Mark Catchlove gave us three reprint copies of Robert Propst's classic treatise from 1968, The Office: A Facility Based on Change Oh, and a little Workplace Geeks mystery too... ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    59 分钟
  3. 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #2 | Krisztina Foster, Andy Daly, Sharon Slinger & Dana Pavel

    7月24日

    2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #2 | Krisztina Foster, Andy Daly, Sharon Slinger & Dana Pavel

    The Workplace Event's Workplace Leaders Top 50 awards are in their third year, and the Geeks were honoured to, once again, speak to the winners. Each of this year’s four special episodes feature small but perfectly formed chats with four winners. We start with the same questions for each guest and then see where the conversation takes us, learning about their career, how they got into the workplace sector, how it's changed, what it could do better, and what advice they have for new folks and those aspiring to advance their workplace careers. These are human stories, personal anecdotes and revealing conversations into what these amazing workplace champions are thinking. This episode turns towards the virtuous side of work and workplace, with a third sector and EDI focus, featuring the brilliant Krisztina Foster from World Animal Protection, the inspiring Andy Daly from Social Enterprise UK, the aspirational Sharon Slinger from Constructing Rainbows, and finally the driven Dana Pavel from Amnesty International. To help you dig deeper, here's the remote working network Kriztina mentioned, Running Remote, Duarte that Ian mentions, and the Workplace & Facilities Charity Network LinkedIn group that Dana chairs. Huge thanks to Matt Fogg and MAKO Commercial Interiors for providing the booth at the show to enable us to record there. ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    56 分钟
  4. 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #1 | Pleun van Deurssen, Toyin Aderiye, Fionnuala Byrne & Cat How

    7月10日

    2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #1 | Pleun van Deurssen, Toyin Aderiye, Fionnuala Byrne & Cat How

    The Workplace Event's Workplace Leaders Top 50 awards are in their third year, and the Geeks were honoured to, once again, speak to the winners. Each of this year’s four special episodes feature small but perfectly formed chats with four winners. We ask each guest the same questions to learn about their career, how they got into the workplace sector, how it's changed, what it could do better, and what advice they have for new folks and those aspiring to advance their workplace careers. These are human stories, personal anecdotes and revealing conversations into what these workplace leaders are thinking. To kick things off, we’ve got one academic I’ve never met before, Pleun van Deurssen, one I’ve known for almost 10 years, Dr Toyin Aderiye, one leader who’s spent almost 20 years at one of the most influential tech companies on the planet, Fionnuala Byrne, and finally one who’s involvement in the workplace sector is more peripheral, but whose own workplace embraces some radical ideas, Cat How. Huge thanks to Matt Fogg and MAKO Commercial Interiors for providing the booth at the show to enable us to record there. ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    1 小时 1 分钟
  5. WORKTECH25 New York & San Francisco preview | Flourishing, flexibility & delight

    6月26日

    WORKTECH25 New York & San Francisco preview | Flourishing, flexibility & delight

    We're back with another WORKTECH Events special, this time previewing not one, but two brilliant upcoming October 2025 conferences: WORKTECH25 New York and San Francisco. ✨Workplace Geeks listeners - save 20% off tickets to both events using code GEEKS2025 at checkout! 🎟️ WORKTECH Events bring together the brightest minds in work, workplace, technology and innovation across a global calendar, and we’ve got a sneak peek at some of the most thought-provoking sessions coming your way, with three conversations with featured speakers from both events: Co-founder of Future Forum, and Work Forward CEO Brian Elliott explores the data behind the Flex Index, the world’s most comprehensive look at how companies are actually implementing flexible work. With a clear-headed, evidence-based take, Brian reveals why the most extreme models - whether fully remote or fully office-bound - are the hardest to implement succesfully, and what well-considered hybrid can look like in practice. Prof. Gail Brager from UC Berkeley discusses her new book Experiential Design Schemas, co-authored with architect Prof. Mark DeKay. Together, they propose a 'design-strategic approach' to help workplaces move from generic experience toward delight, positivity and sensory richness. Geniant's CXO for Space, and returning WORKTECH favourite, architect David Dewane shares the latest evolution in his three-part series on workplace transformation. In this instalment, he explores the potential of measuring individual human flourishing — and how doing so could radically shift how we define, design and deliver workplace experience at team and organisational level. The Workplace Geeks - always caring about your workplace education... 🧠 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    1 小时 7 分钟
  6. Who's responsible for the cubicle? | with Mark Catchlove

    6月13日

    Who's responsible for the cubicle? | with Mark Catchlove

    Following a cracking chat with MillerKnoll's Ryan Anderson in the last episode, this time the Geeks sit down with Mark Catchlove, genuine workplace gentleman and Director of Insight at MillerKnoll, for a fascinating dive into the work and legacy of Robert Propst — Herman Miller’s pioneering Director of Research during the 1960s. Design polymath Propst’s seminal 1968 book, The office: A facility based on change, was ahead of its time. Designed as a field manual for workplace change, it tackled everything from change, human-centered design, visual display, privacy and involvement, conversation and interaction, health and movement, the role of technology, and leadership culture. And all in a surprisingly slim volume. In this educational chat Chris, Ian and Mark explore: How Propst became Director of Research for Herman MillerMark's involvement in bringing Propst's legacy back to lifeWhy The Office is still essential reading for anyone shaping workplace experienceWhat today’s workplace strategists can learn from Propst’s provocationsWhat a gorilla has to do with expression and personalisationWhether it's fair to call Propst 'the inventor of the cubicle' or not...And to top it off, Dr Dan Wakelin from Isovist is back with Ian on reflection section duties. Yay! Want to read it for yourself? The office isn't available digitally, and physical copies are increasingly hard to find. Good job that we have three free copies available for you lucky listeners, courtesy of MillerKnoll. YES! What do I have to do to get one? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. Go to the Workplace Geeks page on the iPhone or the desktop app, then scroll down to rate AND review the show. Lemon squeezy. Winners will be selected and announced in a future episode. 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    1 小时 1 分钟
  7. Relationship-based workplace wisdom | with Ryan Anderson

    5月28日

    Relationship-based workplace wisdom | with Ryan Anderson

    Four episodes in and the Geeks are cooking on gas! For this one, we're joined by the wise and insanely amiable Ryan Anderson, VP of Global Research and Planning at workplace furniture giant MillerKnoll, home of Herman Miller, Knoll, and a host of other iconic design brands. Ryan has lived and breathed workplace for over three decades in a wide range of roles. It's no surprise then that his thoughtful, considered perspectives on workplace design, strategy, experience and technology step beyond conventional wisdoms and overtraded ideas. We caught up with Ryan to talk furniture, industry research, post-pandemic strategies and how MillerKnoll's new concept of Relationship-Based Work developed after some recent research with Workplace Unlimited (and Audiem!) called Enticing Office. Highlights include: The Grand Rapids, Michigan furniture legacy and how it shaped Ryan’s careerWhat the sector got wrong pre-pandemic, and how to do better nowThe problem with trying to solve complex workplace challenges with cookie-cutter solutionsKey insights from Dr Nigel Oseland and Gary Raw’s Enticing Office researchThe importance of place-attachment for the 'return to office'Why 'life stage' and 'career stage' might be better thinking tools than generic generational classifiersDesigning for meaningful human interaction, not just work activitiesAlso featuring a rich Reflection Section with the always-fabulous Esme Banks Marr (BVN Architecture) exploring age demographics, the sociology of workplace interaction and motivation theories, with a healthy level of constructive critique! 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    1 小时 10 分钟
  8. One size misfits all | with Kay Sargent

    5月14日

    One size misfits all | with Kay Sargent

    Three episodes into season four and we're deep into important territory. In this episode the Geeks sit down with internationally renowned designer, researcher, and workplace changemaker Kay Sargent, director of thought leadership and interiors at global architecture firm HOK. Kay has spent the past eight years co-ordinating a major research initiative, culminating in a brand new book, Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces: Advancing Sensory Processing and Cognitive Well-Being in the Built Environment. What began as a curiosity-led research project has turned into a transformative design movement grounded in neuroscience, empathy, and research evidence. We caught up with Kay in person at HOK’s London office to explore her story, the book, and what it means to design workplaces that work for the full spectrum of human neurodiversity. In this fun and thought-provoking conversation, we learn: How one client question triggered eight years of global research and co-creationWhy it’s time to stop designing for 'the average', because no one is averageWhat hyper- and hypo-sensory experiences mean for workplace designHow sensory gradients, zoning and choice can help people feel in controlWhy this issue must transcend competitive advantageFeaturing a reflection section with returning guest Josh Artus from Centric Lab, connecting Kay’s insights to brain science, lived experience and the real-world barriers to inclusive change: "Kay's work, alongside our BCO report, show why employers and managers, alongside designers, developers, and landlords, need to come to terms with the lived experience of neurodivergent people and urban corporate work life. Understanding this will yield an intelligent and measured approach to a complex situation. And when you really understand the problem, the solution can be very straightforward" 🎙️Dialogue editing by David Crackles ☎️ Leave us a voicemail on the Workplace Geeks hotline — we might feature you on a future episode! 📩 Subscribe to our newsletter for more Geeky goodness 📅 Join our upcoming Audiem webinars (and catch up on-demand) 🌟 Like what you hear? Rate and review us Apple Podcasts, and recommend us to your workplace pals! 💬 Ideas, feedback, or guest suggestions? Connect with Chris and Ian, and follow @WorkplaceGeeks on LinkedIn Share your thoughts using #WorkplaceGeeks Email us directly at hello@workplacegeeks.org Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ Brought to you by Audiem ⚡️— powering smarter workplace decisions with AI-driven insights. Want to know more? Get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 🎧 Dialogue editing by David Crackles...

    1 小时 14 分钟
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Workplace Geeks is the podcast on a mission to celebrate the most innovative workplace research in the world. Hosted by Chris Moriarty and Ian Ellison, each episode explores fascinating work with the authors themselves, capturing practical learning and business impacts. Join the Workplace Geeks to bridge the gap between academia and business as we explore the diverse elements that can affect workplace experience, employee value and business performance.

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  • 创作者
    Chris Moriarty and Ian Ellison
  • 活跃年份
    2022年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    64
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © 2025 Workplace Geeks
  • 节目网站
    Workplace Geeks

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