workshops work

About workshops work

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.

Publisher

Dr Myriam Hadnes

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Mar 2019

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

496 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   356 - Great Facilitation Requires Professional Risk with Rob Evans

   What if being professional is sometimes the very thing that gets in the way of good facilitation? In this conversation, Myriam and Rob Evans explore what happens when we take off the professional armour and bring more of ourselves into the room. Rob shares how humour, warmth and genuine curiosity helped him win over a room of Lufthansa engineers — not because he had performed professionalism perfectly, but because he was the only consultant who seemed to be having any fun. From there, the con...

2. 

   20 Jul 2026

   UPDATE: The Workshops Work Podcast Has Its Own Feed Again

   Sometimes the best decisions only reveal themselves after we’ve made them. Six months ago, I merged my new podcast, Unprofessionalism, with the existing Workshops Work feed. It felt like the right move at the time. But the download statistics told a different story. Many listeners searching for Workshops Work kept finding only the episode titled “The Final Episode of Workshops Work” and understandably assumed the podcast had disappeared. In this short episode, I share why I decided to separat...

3. 

   7 Jul 2026

   026 - The Corporate Drag with Charlie Robertson

   This week's professional risk - inspired by Charlie Make the thing you've always kept furthest from work the centre of it. Description Charlie Robertson spent years keeping two lives carefully apart: the consultant at a well-respected firm, and Charlene Coco, the drag persona he performed in nightlife and mentioned to almost no one at work. Then he left the consulting career, went freelance as a facilitator, and — only about a year ago — did the thing that still makes him flinch when he posts...

Who has been a guest on workshops work

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Chedva Ludmir
• Jason Perelson
• Matt Homann
• Rob Lion
• Mohsin Memon

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

48,663

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

31 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

66

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

92

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