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The Culture Whisperer - a podcast for HR, Communications and Business Leaders everywhere!Leading Change in a High-Tech, Low-Trust World with Tom KegodeIn this episode of The Culture Whisperer, Dawn Smedley is joined by Tom Kegode former People and Places Transformation Lead at Lloyds Banking Group and founder of SparkShift — a self-described friendly disruptor who helps organisations turn big transformation into small, practical cultural change.Together, they explore why “transformation” might be the wrong word for the world we’re in, and why leaders need to think more about evolution than end points. They talk about the power of small signals, grassroots change and the role of storytelling in a high-tech, low-trust world.From hybrid working and ways of...
2026-01-2545 min
Culture in ActionDriving Culture Change Through CommunityIn this episode, Workplace Innovator and Transformation Leader Tom Kegode joins Luke Fisher to reflect on his three-year journey driving major culture shifts at Lloyd's Banking Group and the lessons he's taking into his new chapter. With experience ranging from branch cashier to designing hybrid work and leading transformation, Tom unpacks the power of human-centered change.Tom introduces the Work Lab, a 30-day sprint methodology for accelerating change, and shares how he grew a grassroots movement of 7,000 "catalysts" to drive momentum. He reveals the surprising impact of introducing short-form video storytelling...
2025-12-1144 min
Work's Not Working... Let's Fix It!The Transformation Myth: Why Big Change Fails in Real Life - Tom KegodeIn this episode of Work’s Not Working… Let’s Fix It!, Siân Harrington sits down with Tom Kegode – former People & Places Culture Transformation Lead at Lloyds Banking Group – to challenge one of the most overused ideas in corporate life: transformation.Despite the slide decks, the roadmaps and the change programmes most organisations aren’t actually transforming. They’re stuck in cycles of exhaustion, over-promising and initiative-fatigue. Tom argues that the real fix lies somewhere very different: evolution.Across his career – from innovation teams to workforce design to hybrid work strategy –Tom has learned that change doesn’t...
2025-12-0244 min
Poetry To Your Ears30 - Lyra Festival ft Hollie McNish, Michael Pederson, Malaika Kegode & Kat LyonsIn this episode, we reflect on Bristol city poets, the Bristol City of Words exhibition and talk to Michael Pederson, author of Boy Friends (Faber), Hollie McNish, Sunday Times bestseller and author of Slug, Malaika Kegode, Festival poet and Kat Lyons, current Bristol city poet. This incredible line-up should be enough to get you to listen or watch this episode, but if you need more incentive, you can hear us talk about friendship, translating dogging to French, starting Milk poetry, changing gender identity after writing a spoken word show, and some advice on starting your journey as a poet!
2023-05-1732 min
Innovation RockstarsThe Toolbox for High-Impact Hybrid Work - Tom Kegode @Lloyds Banking Group“I would describe myself as a friendly disruptor. And the people I probably give the most trouble to are those who are very set in their ways and their fixed mindset zone where innovation is hardly possible.”
Today we are joined by Tom Kegode from the Lloyds Banking Group. Calling himself a “friendly disruptor”, Tom is an expert in harnessing human innovation and the power of community to create a more inclusive workplace.
With Tom, we'll explore how to make work a place of passion, the importance of communication, and tools to make hybrid working as impactful as possible for both sid...
2023-04-1836 min
Spatial AttractionHow to create a ‘destination office’? with Tom Kegode, Lloyds Banking GroupWhat if you could have a ‘destination office’ rather than a bland office that people dread coming into? How do you create spaces at work that energize people? How do you make people look forward to their days in the office? It’s not just hitting KPIs that creates value at work. Connection, community, and collaboration create immeasurable value. Tom Kegode and Kursty discuss how to use office spaces to grow social capital and why social capital is a necessary form of productivity.Tom Kegode is the Work:Lab Lead at Lloyd’s Banking Gro...
2022-10-0443 min
The Nick Elston ShowThe Nick Elston Show - 5.0 - Episode 8 - Tom KegodeHey everyone and welcome to The Nick Elston Show!Nick Elston (www.nickelston.com) is a leading Inspirational Speaker, Transformational Speaking Coach & Founder of Forging People ‘Transformation Through Speaking’ (www.forgingpeople.com) - empowering, inspiring and educating people to step up, find their voice & truly be heard in life, in education, in leadership, in influencing & in business.The Nick Elston Show brings you the people who inspire, motivate, educate & engage in all walks of life - sharing their insights & experiences honestly, unfiltered & off script!This week, in the 8th episode of Season 5, Nick speaks to t...
2022-09-2048 min
Delete Delete EngageHighlights from my chat with Tom KegodeLloyds Banking Group's future of work expert on hybrid engagement Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-2201 minDelete Delete EngageTom Kegode Quickfire QuestionsLloyds Banking Group's future of work expert answers six comms questions in under 90 seconds Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-07-2202 minDelete Delete EngageLloyds Banking Group Work:Lab lead Tom Kegode on hybrid engagementTom Kegode leads Lloyds Banking Group’s Work:Lab, which tests propositions for the future of work; including remote working, hybrid engagement and the power of employee community and innovation.These were the headlines from our conversation. 3:22 On making innovation part of everyone’s job at Lloyds BG.4:21 On setting up the Work Lab and its vital role in helping Lloyds BG test, learn and shape the workplace and ways of working for 60,000 e.5:23 On Lloyds Banking Group’s new org structure and change of strategic focus.
2022-07-2147 min
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace cultureHome/Hub/Hybrid - How Lloyds Bank are creating workplace 'pull'Last year I did a few episodes looking to see how firms were tackling the return to the office (the return to work - THE PLACE) but they were all small workplaces. Organisations that could make nimble actions, I wanted to see how a big firm handled these things. I contacted Tom Kegode, the lead for Work:Lab at Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds employs 70000 people across hundreds of sites. It is logistically intense to make hybrid work for them.Tom is a brilliant bright leader intent on creating something sustainable and special in the bank. He...
2022-02-2851 min
Front RowLisa Dwan on Beckett's Happy Days, the winner of the Walter Scott PrizeWe announce and speak to the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Peggy Ashcroft said that Winnie, in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, ‘is one of those parts…that actresses will want to play in the way that actors aim at Hamlet – a ‘summit’ part’. She was right, several great actresses, Ashcroft herself, Billie Whitelaw and Maxine Peake, have – while buried above the waist, then up to the neck, in a mound - scaled that summit. In Front Row, Samira Ahmed talks to two more, Juliet Stevenson, an acclaimed Winnie in 2015 and Lisa Dwan, in the 60th an...
2021-06-1728 min
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace cultureTesting the New Work ManifestoAround 12 months ago myself and Sue Todd created the new work manifesto. It was an attempt to start the debate about simple things that we can change. You can find it on the podcast website eatsleepworkrepeat.fm.It's had a briliant response, research companies have asked to help validate it, different professions like doctors and police have been in touch asking if they can adapt it for their working. Lots of companies have told me they've been trying it out with their teams.One person contacted me and offered to share the experience a...
2018-07-0235 min