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We won! 🎉 Click here to learn how Audiem and Natwest won the 2024 IWFM Impact Awards ‘Corporate Workplace Experience’ category 🥳

We’ve also won a Gold Drum Award for the Science of Service podcast from Mitie, with over 100k downloads to date! Click to listen🏅

Workplace Geeks are media partners for WORKTECH24 London Special Edition. For £150 off the usual ticket price, click here 🎟️

In this final episode of series 3, Chris and Ian are joined by first ever guest Kursty Groves to talk about her new book 'Workspace made easy' co-authored with Neil Usher.

Kursty is an author, workplace innovation consultant, founder of Shape, and adjunct professor at IE University. Neil is also an author, currently the VP for Places at SAGE, formerly Workplace Director of the award-winning Sky campus in West London, and for over a decade author of the now defunct Work Essence blog (still available with a little Wayback Machine digging...)

Neil's current work schedule sadly prevented him joining the discussion (although two past interviews with Ian still exist on Workplace Matters, way back from 2016 and 2018) so we spent a little time reflecting on his contribution to workplace knowledge and practice, before getting into the journey to this new book, and beyond, with Kursty.

Workplace Geeks will be back for series 4 in spring 2025. Get in touch with ideas and suggestions for the show. Meanwhile, look out for special Workplace Trends, Biophilic Design Conference, and Workplace Leaders Top 50 special episodes to help make those dark nights fly by...

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Send the Geeks a message, instantly!

We won! 🎉 Click here to learn how Audiem and Natwest won the 2024 IWFM Impact Awards ‘Corporate Workplace Experience’ category 🥳

We’ve also won a Gold Drum Award for the Science of Service podcast from Mitie, with over 100k downloads to date! Click to listen🏅

Workplace Geeks are media partners for WORKTECH24 London Special Edition. For £150 off the usual ticket price, click here 🎟️

The Workplace Event's Workplace Leaders Top 50 awards are in their second year, and the Geeks were honoured to be invited to speak to the winners. Each of these special episodes will feature small but perfectly formed chats with three winners.

In this fourth episode we turn from facilites management to the broader context of workplace strategy, change and experience. We're in conversation with an architect in the business of people, Naomi Sakamoto (Gensler), time-served workplace strategist Caroline Pontifex (Savills) and indie workplace experience and change guru Dr Dan Wakelin (isovist).

We asked each winner the same questions to learn about their career, how they got into the workpace sector, how it's changed, what it could do better, and what advice they have for folks coming in. These are human stories, personal anecdotes and revealing conversations into what these workplace leaders are thinking.

Thanks to obo for providing the Mute recording booth at The Workplace Event and to MJF Interiors for their excellent Workplace Geeks podcast lounge.

Learn more 🌱🧠

• The Workplace Leaders Top 50
• Gensler
• Savills
• isovist

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What do you think of the show? Any ideas, topic or guest suggestions? 🤔 Hit Chris and Ian up on LinkedIn, post comments using #WorkplaceGeeks, follow @WorkplaceGeeks, or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org 💬

Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ and brought to you by Audiem ⚡️To discover how AI-powered data insights can transform your employee workplace experience, get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

Send the Geeks a message, instantly!

We won! 🎉 Click here to learn how Audiem and Natwest won the 2024 IWFM Impact Awards ‘Corporate Workplace Experience’ category 🥳

We’ve also been shortlisted for a Drum Award 🥁 for The Science of Service podcast from Mitie, with over 100k downloads to date! Click to listen 🤞🏼

Workplace Geeks are media partners for WORKTECH24 London Special Edition. For £150 off the usual ticket price, click here 🎟️


In this, the 50th Workplace Geeks episode (woot woot 🎺) Chris and Ian are joined by Gemma Dale and Hannah Wilson from Liverpool John Moores University to discuss their recent paper from the International Journal of Workplace Health Management called “What is healthy hybrid work? Exploring employee perceptions on well-being and hybrid work arrangements”, co-authored with IFMA’s new Director of Research, Professor Matt Tucker.

Gem is a university lecturer, flexible and hybrid working specialist, author, coach, HR director and board advisor. Hannah is a Reader in Workplace Psychology, DBA Programme Leader, and also Gem’s Director of Studies for her own doctorate – of which this paper brings some key findings together. We learn that context is king, especially when it comes to hybrid, the perennially emotive topic where one man’s meat is another man’s poison (as the proverb goes).

Simon Iatrou from Magenta Associates is on reflection section duties to expose workplace aphorisms, while dutifully being accompanied by some noisy Brighton seagulls. 🩷

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What do you think of the show? Any ideas, topic or guest suggestions? 🤔 Hit Chris and Ian up on LinkedIn, post comments using #WorkplaceGeeks, follow @WorkplaceGeeks, or email us at hello@workplacegeeks.org 💬

Workplace Geeks is sponsored by 2468 Group ☕️ and brought to you by Audiem ⚡️To discover how AI-powered data insights can transform your employee workplace experience, get in touch 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼