workshops work Podcast
This is a podcast about facilitation: the practice of creating conditions for people to think better together.
Whether you’re leading strategy, navigating change or developing leaders, the quality of your conversations shapes the quality of your decisions.
Hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes, behavioural economist, facilitator and founder of workshops.work, each episode explores the human dynamics of working together: how psychological safety is built, why some conversations lead to action while others stall, how leaders foster genuine participation, and what behavioural science can teach us about collaboration. Alongside these conversations, Dr Hadnes shares reflections from her own client work, offering practical insights from the realities of designing and facilitating workshops in organisations.
Recognised as the facilitation community’s most-recommended podcast in SessionLab’s State of Facilitation reports from 2024 to 2026, the show has grown into an archive of more than 350 conversations spanning the craft, the inner work, and the unexpected edges of facilitation. Whether you’re a facilitator, leader, consultant or L&D professional, you'll come away with sharper questions and a few ideas worth borrowing.
workshops work Podcast
332 - From Corporate Slides to Human Connection with Emanuele Mazzanti
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We are human beings, not human doings! So how did we find ourselves doing more, more, more, when all we’ve ever needed exists here within us?
Emanuele Mazzanti is here to remind us of this. As a facilitator alchemist for EY and an energy-giver at heart, he carves out space for authentic human experience, playfulness, and emotional depth, in a highly results-driven, corporate world.
His approach is simple: connection before content, curiosity before questions, and presence before perfection, as he shows leaders how to show up in new, deeply connecting ways.
So if you’re ready to swap the PPT for something that feels a little more personal, this one’s for you!
Find out about:
- How to make more space to just be, in a culture obsessed with doing
- How to foster emotional presence in corporate settings to enhance performance, decision-making and meaningful depth
- Resisting the facilitative urge to fill workshops with content, tools and structure
- And why real transformation comes from simple, stripped back, human moments
- The mindset leaders must nurture to show up with empathy and curiosity
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