The Workplace

NND attends the launch of creative studio space Arbeit Studios Lisson Grove and hears from the founder Nimrod Vardi, the architect Richard Brown, architectural designer Amrit Ubha and studio tenants, designer Holly Rollins, curator and producer Helen Starr and fine artist Lizzie Owen.#workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND is joined by Dr. Keetie Roelen, Senior Research Fellow in Poverty and Social Action and Deputy Director at the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSDG) at The Open University, author of The Empathy Fix: Why Poverty Persists and How To Change It and founder and host of the podcast Poverty Unpacked, who explores the impact of ‘in-work poverty’ (particularly on part-time workers, the self-employed, the differently-abled and vulnerable people), its practical implications and most importantly, what we can do about it, as we ask: is work really a main route out of poverty and what actually constitutes ‘work’?#workplacennd#InWorkPoverty‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In The Year In Review 2025, NND takes a thematic tour through last year, focusing on the programme’s main themes and sub-series, beginning with Health and Well-being At Work, featuring consultant Graham Pottie on How To Build Good Mental Health Culture At Work; Women’s Advancement In The Workplace, during the Women’s History Month 2025 series, featuring nutritional therapist Michele Scarr on Menopause and The Workplace; Leadership and Ethics, featuring leadership coach Laura Hartley  on Leadership In The BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible) World; Art and Artists, featuring artist and co-founder of TOMA (The Other MA) Emma Edmondson, on How To Set Up An Art School; and for the Black History Month UK 2025 series, history consultant, Kwaku on ‘British Black Music 2000-2025: What’s The Story?’#workplacennd #leadership #healthandwellbeing #womenshistorymonth #BlackHistoryMonth ‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge)Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Autumn-Winter 2025 Review, featuring Caitlin McAllister, group managing director for The Ministry of Sound and The Ministry on co-working space meets members’ club, The Ministry, its amenities and the added value it provides; PCS union representative Tahir Latif, on the history of trade unions, their accomplishments to date and their role for the future; history consultant, Kwaku on 'British Black Music 2000-2025: What's The Story?' and his tireless efforts with the genre; tech software developer and co-founder of SEPHEO (Self-employed People Helping Each Other), John Evans, on Co-Operative Freelancing and Freelancers and The Future of Work; and leadership coach and founder of The Scintilla Centre Laura Hartley, on Leadership In The BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, Incomprehensible) World.#workplacennd #futureofwork #cooperatives #freelancers ‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge)Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND discusses Leadership In The BANI World (Part 2), with leadership coach Laura Hartley, founder of The Scintilla Centre who re-visits the BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible) model framework and explains the crucial leadership skills needed for this era, including inner work as compass and inner work as culture work. Part 2 of 2. #workplacennd#leadership‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND discusses Leadership In The BANI World (Part 1), with leadership coach Laura Hartley, founder of The Scintilla Centre who provides her definition of leadership, explains the move from the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) to BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible) world framework and explores the idea of leadership in uncharted territory. Part 1 of 2. #workplacennd#leadership‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND discusses Systems Approaches To Transformational Leadership and Advocacy, with Management Consultant and Policy Implementation Specialist Rudi Page who operates through a system titled MCW Connectivity – Making Connections Work Connectivity – which fosters connections between people, institutions, communities and neighbourhoods and proposes that success depends on three principles: implementation is key to attainment, the workforce is the community and the community is the workforce and while means of communication may differ, needs are the same. #workplacennd#leadership#NHS‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND discusses Freelancers and The Future of Work with John Evans, co-founder of tech co-operative SEPHEO (Self-Employed People Helping Each Other), who provides a tech sector temperature check, profiles the typical SEPHEO member and explores his vision of the way forward with regard to freelancing. #workplacennd#futureofwork#freelancers ‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND discusses Co-operative Freelancing with John Evans, co-founder of tech co-operative SEPHEO (Self-Employed People Helping Each Other), who explains the worker co-operative concept, how it functions as a work-culture match-maker and provides network, administrative and other types of support for #freelancers. #workplacennd#futureofwork‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

PCS union representative Tahir Latif talks about the Trade Union International Year of Climate Action which launches with a workplace day for climate action and global day of protest on 14 and 15 November respectively. He also explains why climate change is not just an environmental, but also a working-class issue and what we can do differently to give us hope for the future: re-think the relationship between the climate and jobs, (particularly long-term future planning with renewable energy sources), and understand that the quest to improve the environment and to combat climate change is the lifeline for jobs for the future. Please visit www.cacctu.org.uk/ for more information. (Part 2 of 2.) #workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union representative, Tahir Latif, provides a brief overview of trade unions, their accomplishments to date and their role for the future, ahead of the upcoming workplace day against climate action and global day of protest against climate action taking place on 14 and 15 November respectively. Please visit www.cacctu.org.uk for more information.#workplacennd #climateaction‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the Black History Month UK 2025 series finale NND talks to entrepreneur and cultural activist Dr. Jak Beula, founder of Nubian Jak Community Trust (a plaque and culture scheme which aims to honour Britain’s diverse past), about Nursing A Nation, an anthology of the historic and ongoing roles played by dedicated professionals from Africa, The Caribbean and The Commonwealth, within Britain’s healthcare system.#workplacennd#BHMUK2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third episode in the Black History Month UK 2025 series NND talks to Matthew Johnson, CEO of ROTA (Race On The Agenda) about The Future of Work: The Moral, Ethical and Business Case for Racial Justice. #workplacennd#BHMUK2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second episode in the Black History Month UK 2025 series NND talks to history consultant Kwaku who discusses 'British Black Music 2000-2025: What’s The Story?' - a hybrid event which explores the British Black Music scene over the first twenty-five years of the twenty-first century. #workplacennd#BHM2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND launches the Black History Month UK 2025 series with a discussion about How To Be An Artist, with digital and mixed media artist Akin Okusami, aka Axematic who explores support systems for artists, knowing your worth as an artist and understanding the politics of making it as an artist. His current exhibition BMT Proud To Be – Axematic Solo Exhibition: Unveiled is on at Brixton Tate Library gallery space, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JQ, until 8 November 2025.#workplacennd#BHMUK2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caitlin McAllister, group managing director for The Ministry of Sound and The Ministry talks about the evolving work landscape, the evolution of co-working spaces and co-working space meets members’ club, The Ministry, its amenities and the added value it provides through creating connections and community.#workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To conclude a two-part episode on DEI Management, NND talks to Peter Mousaferiadis, the founder of Cultural Infusion, an inter-cultural organisation that created Diversity Atlas and Mario Chatzidamionos, R&D Strategic Partner and Cultural Ambassador (EU), at data-analytics platform Diversity Atlas www.diversityatlas.io about how successfully-managed diverse teams create economic, social and cultural value. Part 2 of 2.#workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Summer 2025 Review featuring: How To Build Good Mental Health Culture At Work, with consultant Graham Pottie; How To Set Up An Art School, with artist and TOMA co-founder Emma Edmondson; African Food Work, with chef Khadim Mane, founder of Senegalese restaurant Little Baobab; Managing Volunteers, with Marta Aparicio, Volunteer Services Manager at Voluntary Action Islington; and DEI Management (Part 1) with Peter Mousaferiadis and Mario Chatzidamianos, founder and strategic partner, respectively, of data-analytics platform Diversity Atlas .#workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro:Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first of a two-part episode on DEI Management, NND explores workplace diversity, the backlash against it and the significance of this in the context of global workforces, with Peter Mousaferiadis, founder of Cultural Infusion - an inter-cultural organisation that created data-analytics platform Diversity Atlas - and Mario Chatzidamianos, R&D Strategic Partner and Cultural Ambassador (EU). Part 1 of 2.#workplacennd‘The Workplace’ theme tune intro: Guitar and vocals by Markus Michelucci (Sound Refuge) Official Website: https://soundrefugemusic.com/epk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sound_refuge/?hl=en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A re-purposed 2022 interview with Leslie Manasseh, organiser and curator of the Brixton Blog & Bugle Summer Art Show, for the 2025 exhibition. Visit www.brixtonblog.com for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND observed Volunteers' Week 2025 by discussing Managing Volunteers with Marta Aparicio, Volunteer Services Manager at Voluntary Action Islington who explains how to effectively recruit and manage volunteers and crucially, how to address inappropriate conduct by a volunteer. She also shares key considerations when crafting one of the most valuable tools in a volunteer manager's toolkit - a volunteer policy. To find a volunteer service organisation near you, please visit www.londonplus.org#workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND observed Africa Day 2025 by discussing African Food Work with Khadim Mane, chef and founder of Little Baobab a Senegalese restaurant based at The Africa Centre Khadim talks about the rise of West African food in the UK and shares his inspirational journey from starting out in the UK not speaking a word of English, to opening up his restaurant and now training young chefs, to whom he imparts cooking skills, life skills and the value of community.#workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emma Edmondson, founder of TOMA (The Other MA), talks about the launch of a book she curated, titled How To Set Up An Art School. #workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Consultant Graham Pottie discusses How To Build Good Mental Health Culture At Work, explaining why it makes good business sense to do so. This episode was realised with the generous support of Investigo - the leading specialist recruitment agency that unlocks the power of people.#workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'The Workplace Extra' is a spin-off of my regular programme, 'The Workplace' – the programme about how to get into, get along and get ahead at work. The 'extra' bit contemplates situations and circumstances at work that take us out of the ordinary and require us to go that little bit further or do that little bit extra. In this episode, titled Lockdown Anniversary 5, I invited my guests to share their reflections five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic and initial lockdowns which took place in the year 2020.Includes contributions from someone who wished to remain anonymous, long-Covid campaigner Jonah Weisz who speaks about his experience of long Covid and the #thereforME and #fundtheplan campaigns, which have received cross-party political support and former 'The Workplace' guests, photographer Belinda Burton, employment solicitor Tessa Fry and the owner of Black Legacies London, Rod Westmaas.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nutrition Part 2. Nutritional therapist and vegan chef, Michele Scarr, shares Five Food Hacks. #workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nutrition Part 1. Nutritional therapist and vegan chef, Michele Scarr, talks about the gut-brain connection, the importance of maintaining blood sugar balance and pre- and probiotics. #workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Curator, Cindy Sissokho, discusses The Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition, Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights (on until 27 April 2025), which explores various forms of crucial, yet under-represented labour, in three main sections: the plantation, the street and the home and poses questions such as, what kind of work do we value and why and what is the impact of work on the body? #workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Katie Henry, Founder and CEO of Art In Offices, talks about the importance of art in offices, the impact of art on mental health and well-being and the free walking tour, Sculpture In The City, which covers 17 artworks displayed around the City.Listen, download, share and comment using #workplacennd. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Year In Review 2024, featuring Croydon’s first poet laureate, Shaniqua Benjamin, ESG consultant and founder of Radiant Tech, Shiv Challa, on Net Zero and The Workplace, BLOQS co-founder Al Parra, on Affordable Business Space For Creatives, personal effectiveness coach and founder of Ingenium Coaching Toyin Akande-Akinyemi, on Managing Change In The Workplace, founder of Calming Connections Jo Loly, on Workplace Well-being and actor Ashley Thomas (alias Bashy as a rapper), on the launch of his sophomore album, Being Poor Is Expensive.#workplacennd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NND concludes a discussion about Net Zero and The Workplace with ESG consultant and founder of Radiant Tech Shiv Challa who explores what will eventually change the hearts and minds of those who are sceptical either about the reality of the climate situation or measures to address it and how organisations should approach their net zero roadmap in the work-from-home/hybrid-working era.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ESG consultant and founder of Radiant Tech Shiv Challa talks about the importance of net zero, the net zero roadmap, what SMEs can do to achieve their aims (e.g. energy efficiency, waste reduction and supply chain selection) and scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To conclude a two-part episode about the art of design and storytelling in building brands, NND talks to designer Alexandra Lunn who discusses her creative journey and refining the design process for high-impact and data-driven results. Part 2 of 2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Graphic designer Alexandra Lunn, talks about the art of design and storytelling in building brands. She explains what constitutes storytelling in brand building, how storytelling is like having a North Star that shows where you’re going and encapsulates the vision, goals and objectives of a brand and how to prepare a brief to assist a graphic designer to grasp the concept of the brand in order to create a logo, typography and visuals that represent everything that relates to the brand narrative. Part 1of 2. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there a connection between the history of African enslavement, land domination and climate injustice? Andreann Asibey and Simmone Ahiaku discuss Climate Calling - an exhibition exploring the intersections between climate, health and race, created by Wood and Water and on show at The Africa Centre until 31 October 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ashley Thomas, (perhaps best known for his acting roles in critically acclaimed series such as THEM, 24, Great Expectations and global British hit, Top Boy) - aka Bashy as a rapper - discusses his pop-up exhibition, Made In Britain, which runs 22-24 October, 2024, at Jealous Gallery, in connection with his sophomore album, Being Poor Is Expensive. The pop-up showcases four visual artists, one of whom is Mark Anthony Gentles, aka Exhibit69, who also features in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Artists Tobias Laurent Belson and Ron Best talk about the Morley Gallery Exhibition, Generations Figures & Visions – an intergenerational exhibition of six West London artists of African Caribbean heritage, on until 26 October 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Isabelle Gapomo discusses The Wellcome Collection's Black History Month tours which are connected to Hard Graft a free major exhibition that explores the experiences of physical work and its impacts on health and the body. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

St. Lucia born artist Winston Branch whose career includes teaching at various prestigious art institutions and successful studio practice on both sides of the Atlantic, talks about his earliest influences, the attributes needed to make a career out of art and his first solo UK exhibition in 25 years, ‘Jasmines Blowing In The Wind’ - his inaugural exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery in conjunction with Varvara Roza Galleries  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Stephen Anderson, an enterprise coach at The Forward Trust, an organisation which helps people who have had challenging experiences to get their lives on track, explains how the service he provides helps people with a prison record to take the start-up or self-employed route into work employment.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Personal effectiveness coach and founder of Ingenium Coaching, Toyin Akande Akinyemi, talks about Managing Change In The Workplace: the reasons for change, how different personality types respond to change and best practices for communicating change within an organisation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Al Parra co-founding director at BLOQS https://bloqslondon.com/ discusses the pay-as-you-go open-access factory, co-working maker space, training provider (and much more!), that operates sustainably and which, by democratising resources, has revolutionised the way creatives, small and large, can do business. If you are a creative, looking for affordable business space, your search is officially over. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The autumn/winter 2023 season features a series of episodes focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has been realised with the generous support of ARC Club.In the first episode, NND speaks with Jennifer Wong, head of programming at Science Gallery London about the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?' - a collaboration with arts organisation Future Everything that brings together artists, researchers and young people to collectively interrogate AI through the lenses of care and the arts, taking a critical look at how this technology is unfolding in our lives today and highlighting the reality of its development in relation to where it might be going in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC-Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ In the first of a two-part discussion NND speaks with artist Wesley Goatley about his installation, Newly Forgotten Technologies, which engages in #AI myth-busting, uncovering the hidden #environmental costs and realities of technology and device consumption in the developed world and the shadow industry labour market in less developed countries that underpins it. Includes sounds from the machine learning voices of Alexa and Siri, with no other sound sources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC-Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ In this episode NND concludes a two-part discussion with artist Wesley Goatley about his installation, Newly Forgotten Technologies, which engages in AI myth-busting. Join us as we uncover the hidden impact of AI on communities, the cultural disconnect between this technology and the mechanisms that underpin it and the extent of behind-the-scenes human labour involved in the illusion of automation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?' In episode 4 NND talks to Irini Papadimitriou, creative director at arts organisation Future Everything, who explores the impact of AI in the arts, the role of artists in shaping this new technology and how AI has wrought a ‘new colonialism’. Also, we ask ChatGPT what is the role of human artists in society and whether AI will make human artists redundant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI season resumes with the generous support of Arc Club. In episode 5, AI in the Medical Field, NND talks to Annie Woodson, director at TripleDotMakers, Samantha Johnson, chief executive at ECHO Charity and Tareen Dawood, PhD researcher at Kings College London, about Heartificial Intelligence, their installation in the Science Gallery London exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ created in collaboration with artists and young people (aged 11-25), affected by heart conditions. The piece is an art machine which used AI to provide a visual representation of medical data garnered from patients, examine their health care journey with AI and explore their concerns around trust in AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AI season continues with the generous support of ARC Club as NND talks to PhD researcher Munkhtulga Battogtokh about Safe and Trusted AI in the context of his installation ‘What is Essence?’ in the Science Gallery London exhibition AI: Who’s Looking After Me? We explore the difference between humans and AI, how can art help us explore the limits of the human mind and how this can potentially impact the development of AI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the penultimate AI Season episode realised with the generous support of ARC Club, NND discusses Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Work with Dr. Tracey Wilen, a former visiting Stanford scholar, researcher and author on the impact of technology on society, work and careers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the final episode of a series dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and realised with the generous support of ARC Club, NND talks about AI and The Future of Law with Maya Markovich, who is a legal innovation consultant, start-up advisor and member of the advisory panel at LawTechUK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.