Voice Notes while the Data Loads is the podcast for anyone who's ever felt like they're winging it. Host Timmy Cheung reveals what People Analytics work actually looks like: dashboards that panic you, leaders who want data to confirm their biases, and moments when imposter syndrome hits hard. Each bite-sized episode (5-10 minutes) tackles real struggles with honesty, unprofessionalism, and no corporate speak. Solo rants and guest conversations covering everything from engagement surveys to coffee shop AI converts. Perfect for your commute, coffee break, or while your data loads!
Episode XX - Its not a gut feeling. Its a hypothesis
Season 2 ends where Season 3 begins - with rationality.
In this final episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by Ian Pinkett, Global People Analytics Director at Arcadis, for a conversation that will make you think differently about every senior stakeholder who's ever walked into your office with a hunch. Here's the thing about gut feel: it's not subjective noise. It's a hypothesis waiting to be tested. Ian shares why he actively encourages gut feel, how to build trust by serving the cheeseburger before selling the big mac, and why boiling the ocean leaves everyone unsatisfied.
A warm, geeky, genuinely insightful conversation between two people who love Marvel, people analytics, and asking better questions.
27 Jul 2026
Episode XIX - Radiators, Drains and the art of Mattering
What does it actually mean to matter? Not after retirement, not in theory, but right now, today, as a whole person?
In this episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by his beloved friend and people leader Katherine Billingham-Mohamed, who introduces the concept of mattering from Jennifer Breheny Wallace's book (feeling valued plus adding value equals mattering) and unpacks its five core principles: recognition, reliance, importance, ego extension, and attunement.
A warm, honest, and genuinely human conversation about leadership, belonging, doing good to feel good, and why the people who radiate energy are always worth keeping close.
20 Jul 2026
Episode XVIII - Measuring the mask, not the person
A UFC fighter who lost his father and still stepped into the octagon. A god who lost everything and kept showing up. And a man on the underground to Canary Wharf, blasting hard rock into his ears, tearing up, feeling completely hollow - and then walking through the door and switching it all off.
In this episode, Timmy Cheung asks the question most organisations are too focused on output to ever ask: what is actually happening behind the performance? Featuring Serghei Spivac, Thor, a dog named Shelby, and Andrew Marritt's central argument (featured in David Green's April 2026 curation) that the purpose of analysis is not insight. It is better decisions.
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