Can You Feel It - Creating Workplace Culture with Peter Greedy

What makes a workplace culture healthy, compelling, and sustainable = and when does it tip into something toxic?Highly RelationalSeason 4 - Episode 1Can You Feel It - Creating Workplace Culturewith Peter GreedyIn this episode, host Robert Digings speaks with Peter Greedy, leadership coach, consultant, Belbin practitioner, and Ikigai trainer. With over 35 years of experience in healthcare and leadership development, Peter brings a deeply personal perspective: as a young man studying in London, he was recruited into a cult. What began as belonging and meaning turned into control and harm. That experience now profoundly informs his work on workplace culture, leadership, and his current doctoral research in coaching psychology.Together, Robert and Peter explore:🌱 Why culture is best understood as what it feels like to be in the workplace🔍 How cult-like tendencies—binary thinking, exclusion, control—can also appear in subtle ways inside organisations🧭 Why self-awareness in leaders is essential for shaping the culture of their teams📊 Peter’s development of the Workplace Culture Index—a new way to assess and improve culture at team and organisational levels💡 How values, psychological safety, and “moral ambition” can transform teams and organisations🚫 Where toxicity comes from, and how leaders can face into it with curiosity, honesty, and courage✔️ Practical steps you can take in your next meeting to make your team culture healthier and more humanPeter’s message is clear: great culture is possible, but it requires intention, effort, and values-driven leadership.Peter Greedy:www.linkedin.com/in/petergreedywww.petergreedy.comRobert Digings:www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigingsTeam Development Consultant and Executive CoachRobert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years. He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.Production credits:Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie ScraggPost Production - Shaun LawsonSeries Producer - Julie Allen© 2025 Highly Relational LimitedFind Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTubeIf you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.