Workplace Geeks
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
71 episodes
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 surv...
S5 | E1 - AI is your co-worker. What changes? with Dave Coplin
AI 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, organisations face a fundamental question: if AI becomes our co-worker, wha...
From Blue Coats to Boardrooms: Workplace Leaders 2026. Live from the NEC
Five 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 during Workplace Leaders Top 50 2026, this special episode of...
Workplace Geeks needs you! 🫵🏼 (to take our listener survey)
💬 Take the survey 🗳️Four seasons, 67 episodes, and countless workplace conversations later, we thought it was time to turn the microphone around.This i...
2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #4 LIVE! | Emma Armstrong, Paul Hammond, Gurtake Singh & Simon Hilton
The 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 hea...
WORKTECH25 London preview | Full-spectrum leadership, self-driving orgs & spatial legibility
We'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 No...
2025 Workplace Leaders Top 50 #3 | Emma Swinnerton, Maddie Hayes, Sophie Robson & Christy Smith
The 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 ...
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...
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. Aut...
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 ...
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 ...
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 tic...
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 Insigh...
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 g...
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
Workplace wisdom and wordsmithery | with Matt Harvey
We've only just got cracking with season 4, and we’re already taking an unusual turn. In this episode, the Geeks enjoy their first ever workplace poety takeover with the brilliant, wise and genuinely witty author and poet
Can we reinvent the modern office? | with Jeremy Myerson & Philip Ross
The Workplace Geeks are back, and we're kicking off Series 4 with two heavyweights of the workplace world: Jere...
Biophilic design: buzzword or big deal? | a Workplace Geeks investigation™️
In our very first Workplace Geeks investigation™️ deep dive, Ian sets out to explore a question that's been on his mind:🔎 Is biophilic design just good design — or something we need to intentionally spotlight because of its uni...
Workplace Leaders Top 50 #5 | Bertie van Wyk, Kasia Maynard, Paul Urmston... & Chris Moriarty!
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 o...
Long live the survey? | with Kursty Groves (& Neil Usher)
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<...
Workplace Leaders Top 50 #4 | Naomi Sakamoto, Caroline Pontifex & Dan Wakelin
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 o...
Does hybrid work promote wellbeing? | with Gemma Dale & Hannah Wilson
In this, the 50th Workplace Geeks episode (woot woot 🎺) Chris and Ian are joined by Gemma Dale and Hannah Wilson from...
Workplace Leaders Top 50 #3 | Nicola Morris, Alistair Scott & Steph Welch
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 o...
