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.
Workplace Geeks
Workplace Leaders Top 50 #4 | Naomi Sakamoto, Caroline Pontifex & Dan Wakelin
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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.
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Transcript:
Before we go back to the episode, a quick word about Audium. When people think about workplace feedback, they tend to think about surveys, but some of the richest workplace insight is often hiding in places organizations rarely look. Take FM helpdesk tickets. Every day, employees leave thousands of comments about buildings, technology, catering, cleaning, temperature, meeting rooms, and dozens of other workplace issues. Individually, they're just tickets
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