Audiem

Workplace Geeks

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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...

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Finding hidden performance levers | with Ben Waber 23.06.2023 1:03:56

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Chris and Ian are joined by Dr Ben Waber, co-founder and president of behavioural analytics firm Humanyze, and visiting scientist at (and alumni of) MIT Media Lab. The discussion explores how Humanyze combine wearable sensor analytics and organisational systems data to u...

Neurodiversity (pt.2) in search of better | with Jo Yarker 06.06.2023 1:07:03

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 The Workplace Geeks welcome back workplace health and wellbeing expert Dr Jo Yarker, Reader in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and Managing Partner of Affinity Health at Work, for the second part of their deep dive into neurodiversity. Chris and Ia...

Neurodiversity (pt.1) dignity & justice | with Josh Artus 23.05.2023 52:48

Chris and Ian are joined by Josh Artus, co-founder and director at Centric Lab, a research lab, which - in their own words - uses neuroscience and environmental data to identify how biological inequity contributes to poor health outcomes in neighbourhoods and peoples that have been racialised and marginalised. Centric Lab were the lead authors of a British Council for Offices report published May...

Seeing 'open plan' differently | with Kerstin Sailer 11.04.2023 1:07:24

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Chris and Ian are joined by Dr Kerstin Sailer, Professor of the Sociology of Architecture at The Bartlett School, University College London, researcher, space syntax ninja, and co-founder of workspace science and design think tank Brainybirdz. Kerstin brings TWO papers to sh...

Not fact, but truthfulness | with Gabriella Braun 29.03.2023 1:06:13

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Chris and Ian are joined by author, consultant and coach Gabriella Braun, to discuss her fascinating book, ‘All That We Are’, recently released in paperback. Gabriella specialises in psychoanalytic approaches and systems thinking to help people work better, together, and...

Naked apes & workplace zoos | with Nigel Oseland 14.03.2023 57:40

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Chris and Ian are joined by workplace researcher, author, speaker and consultant, Dr Nigel Oseland, as he gets back to his environmental psychologist roots in his recent book, 'Beyond the Workplace Zoo: Humanising the Office'. Nigel is a trusted voice of the UK wor...

Just call it 'work' | with Kate Lister 28.02.2023 1:04:14

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ The Workplace Geeks are finally back 🥳 and to start the second series off with a bang, Chris and Ian are joined by Kate Lister, future of work general counsel, researcher, and President of Global Workplace Analytics. Kate focuses on a recent study in collaboration with...

Confidence, capability & capacity | with Perry Timms 12.08.2022 1:09:11

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 In this final episode before a short break (details in the outro folks!) Chris and Ian welcome the inimitable Perry Timms, HR's most influential thinker of 2022 (according to HR magazine, as voted by peers 🏆) Perry heads up PTHR, a B Corp-certified organisational desig...

Employee engagement: evidence vs. HiPPOs | with Rob Briner 28.07.2022 1:20:41

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ In this mahoosive episode 13 (whoops 😬) Chris and Ian welcome Rob Briner, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Queen Mary University of London, researcher, teacher, and darling of CIPD, to Workplace Geeks. Rob takes an inspiring, provocative and critical perspectiv...

Placefulness and wellworking | with Alexi Marmot 13.07.2022 1:09:16

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Episode 12 welcomes workplace legend Alexi Marmot to Workplace Geeks. Amongst other things, Alexi is Professor Emeritus of Facility and Environment Management at the Bartlett, UCL; Professor of Architectural Science at University of Sydney; and Board Chair of AMA Alexi Marmo...

Post-occupancy what?! | with Jo Yarker 30.06.2022 1:05:46

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Episode 11 welcomes workplace health and wellbeing expert Dr Jo Yarker, Reader in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and Managing Partner of Affinity Health at Work. Chris, Ian and Jo explore her 2021 paper entitled 'Evaluation of a natural w...

Coworking secret sauce | with Imogen Privett 16.06.2022 1:10:54

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Episode 10 features workplace innovation consultant and senior research associate at UnWork/WORKTECH Academy, Dr. Imogen Privett, discussing the fascinating content and findings from her recent doctoral thesis, Experience Unbound: The Eﬀects of Coworking on Workplace Design...

Working alone: hobnobs & hummus | with Rebecca Seal 31.05.2022 1:03:31

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Today's show features journalist, TV presenter and author Rebecca Seal discussing her recent book, Solo: How To Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind). It's a discussion of two halves, where Chris and Ian first explore the process of researching and writing the bo...

Omni-fear or meta-opportunity? | with Sam Conniff 19.05.2022 59:47

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Chris and Ian are back in the virtual studio with serial social entrepreneur and purpose-driven pirate Sam Conniff, to explore his new project Uncertainty Experts. Described by Sam as an ‘interactive learning documentary’, their discussions explore the motivations behind his...

The Workplace Event 2022 LIVE! | with Dan Pilling 05.05.2022 1:01:44

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Chris and Ian are out and about for their very first LIVE episode, recorded at The Workplace Event, Birmingham NEC, UK in April 2022. For this special show they’re joined by Dan Pilling, workplace strategy consultant at TSK Group, and fellow workplace geek. Their discuss...

Original hybrid material | with Susan Halford 20.04.2022 1:07:25

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 After a humble apology and a dig into the #WorkplaceGeeks mailbag, Chris and Ian are joined by Susan Halford, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, to talk about a very special study indeed. Back in 2005, as Susan published research findings from her case stud...

Post-occupancy evaluation: the other 90% | with Harriet Shortt 05.04.2022 1:05:59

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ Chris and Ian return to Blighty to explore a novel approach to the ‘post-occupancy evaluation’ (or POE) of new workplaces with Dr Harriet Shortt, Associate Professor in Organisation Studies at the UWE Bristol. Harriet and her collaborators used a participatory visual tec...

The compadre of telework | with Jack Nilles 24.03.2022 1:02:13

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Chris and Ian cross seven time zones to learn from the father of teleworking and environmental activist, Jack Nilles, about the multi-disciplinary research project that led to his 1976 book ‘The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff: Options for Tomorrow’. The conversat...

Space for thought: one grey box | with Jeremy Myerson 08.03.2022 57:36

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ After another quick dip into the mailbag, Chris and Ian talk to WORKTECH Academy director, author and activist, professor emeritus Jeremy Myerson, about his award-winning research paper from 2011, ‘Space for thought: designing for knowledge workers’ (co-authored with lea...

Enabling creative communities | with Kursty Groves 23.02.2022 56:13

📣 Brand new FREE Audiem webinars featuring special guests | The 7 habits of AI-powered workplace leaders | register here 🤓 Chris and Ian get their first piece of mail :D then talk to adjunct professor, author, and workplace strategy consultant Kursty Groves about her book, ‘Spaces for Innovation: The Design and Science of Inspiring Environments’ (co-authored with Oliver Marlow). The conversation...

Workplace Geeks assemble | with Mark Eltringham & Matt Tucker 09.02.2022 46:28

📣 Audiem has been nominated for three IWFM 2024 Impact Awards, two in partnership with NatWest. Read the success story here ⚡️ In this launch episode, Chris and Ian explore what they mean by workplace research, then explore it with two very different ‘workplace experts’: Mark Eltringham from Workplace Insight, and Dr Matt Tucker from Liverpool John Moores University. Armed with new insights, the...