Workplace Geeks
by Audiem
Latest episode
S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once
S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 77 episodes
- S5 | Act 1 - Reflection Section: When everything changes at once · 16 min · Season 5 Episode 6What happens when conversations about AI, hybrid work, trust and leadership start pointing towards the same questions? The Reflection Section returns to Workplace Geeks, this…
- Are we still asking the wrong questions? | Workplace Leaders 2026 #3 · 58 minThe 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…
- S5 | E5 - We Can’t Solve a How Problem with a Where Solution with Amanda Schneider · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 5For 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…
- S5 | E4 - The Headlines, the Hype and the Reality of Work with Brian Elliott · 53 min · Season 5 Episode 4The 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…
- From Experimentation to Expertise | Workplace Leaders 2026 #2 · 58 minFive workplace leaders. Five very different sectors. One surprisingly consistent message: the future belongs to organisations that never stop learning. Sponsored by Rhino…
- S5 | E3 - Willful Blindness, AI and the Crisis of Leadership with Margaret Heffernan · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 3What 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…
- S5 | E2 - The Nowhere Office, AI and the Future of Work with Julia Hobsbawm · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 2The 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…
- S5 | E1 - AI is your co-worker. What changes? with Dave Coplin · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 1AI is rapidly moving from something we use to something we work alongside. As tools become more capable, more autonomous and increasingly embedded in our working lives…
- From Blue Coats to Boardrooms | Workplace Leaders 2026 #1 Live from the NEC · 59 min · Season 5 Episode 1Five workplace leaders. Five completely different career journeys. One industry still trying to figure out what the future of work actually looks like. Recorded live at the NEC…
- Workplace Geeks needs you! 🫵🏼 (to take our listener survey) · 3 min · Season 4 Episode 14💬 Take the survey 🗳️ Four seasons, 67 episodes, and countless workplace conversations later, we thought it was time to turn the microphone around. This isn’t a regular episode…
- 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #4 LIVE! | Emma Armstrong, Paul Hammond, Gurtake Singh & Simon Hilton · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 13The Workplace Event’s Workplace Leaders Top 50 awards are now in their third year, and once again the Geeks were honoured to sit down with winners to hear their stories. Across…
- WORKTECH25 London preview | Full-spectrum leadership, self-driving orgs & spatial legibility · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 12We're back with a WORKTECH Events special, this time previewing one of our favourite workplace events of the year: WORKTECH London, taking place this year on 18 and 19 November…
- 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #3 | Emma Swinnerton, Maddie Hayes, Sophie Robson & Christy Smith · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 11The Workplace Event's Workplace Leaders Top 50 awards are in their third year, and the Geeks were honoured, once again, to speak to the winners. Each of this year’s four special…
- The Watercooler Event 2025 | Part 1: ESG, Four-Day Weeks & Culture Change · 47 min · Season 4 Episode 10Back 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…
- Return of the (workplace) Jedi | with Rob Harris · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 9After 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…
- 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #2 | Krisztina Foster, Andy Daly, Sharon Slinger & Dana Pavel · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 8The 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…
- 2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #1 | Pleun van Deurssen, Toyin Aderiye, Fionnuala Byrne & Cat How · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 7The 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…
- WORKTECH25 New York & San Francisco preview | Flourishing, flexibility & delight · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 6We'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…
- Who's responsible for the cubicle? | with Mark Catchlove · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 5Following 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…
- Relationship-based workplace wisdom | with Ryan Anderson · 1 h 8 min · Season 4 Episode 4Four 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…
