About Meanwhile At Work
Meanwhile at Work is about what happens while organisations are busy talking about what happens. Work has changed while we’ve been getting on with it.
Technology is reshaping jobs, expectations are shifting and almost everyone seems to be navigating another restructure, transformation or change programme. Yet the reality of experiencing and implementing that change is often very different from the confident version presented on a slide.
Meanwhile at Work explores that gap.
Laura Izard and Alex Vail bring together perspectives on people, data, culture and organisational life to examine everything from AI, recruitment and the skills we will need next to workplace vulnerability, difficult leadership decisions and why transformation can feel like creation to one person and destruction to another.
Produced by Rachael Clamp and Ardesey, these are intelligent but informal conversations for anyone with a hand in how work happens, but not complete control over it.
The sort of conversations you have over coffee or on the train home, once you have checked that nobody else from work is listening. No polished corporate answers. No five lessons squeezed into a downloadable framework. Just thoughtful, relatable conversations that help us make sense of how work actually works.
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Meet the hosts
Laura Izard
Rachael Clamp
Laura Izard
Laura is a leadership adviser, coach and founder of Organic Leadership. She works with leaders and organisations navigating growth, change and the increasingly complicated business of leading people well.
Her interest is in leadership as it is actually practised, rather than as it appears in a management textbook: the decisions, relationsh
Laura is a leadership adviser, coach and founder of Organic Leadership. She works with leaders and organisations navigating growth, change and the increasingly complicated business of leading people well.
Her interest is in leadership as it is actually practised, rather than as it appears in a management textbook: the decisions, relationships, behaviours and pressures that shape how people experience work.
As co-host of Meanwhile at Work, Laura brings a leadership and people perspective to the conversation, asking what sits underneath the way organisations behave and what it takes to change it.
Alex Vail
Rachael Clamp
Laura Izard
Alex is an experienced business leader with a career spanning organisations, teams and transformation. His perspective on work has been shaped by the practical realities of leading people, making decisions and trying to get things done when the answer is rarely as straightforward as it first appears.
He is interested in the gap between how
Alex is an experienced business leader with a career spanning organisations, teams and transformation. His perspective on work has been shaped by the practical realities of leading people, making decisions and trying to get things done when the answer is rarely as straightforward as it first appears.
He is interested in the gap between how organisations say they work and what actually happens inside them - from culture and communication to leadership, behaviour and the everyday choices that determine whether something works.
As co-host of Meanwhile at Work, Alex brings that operational lens to the conversation, with a healthy willingness to question received wisdom.
Rachael Clamp
Rachael Clamp
Rachael Clamp
Rachael is the founder of strategic communications consultancy Ardesey and the producer of Meanwhile at Work.
She has spent more than 25 years working with organisations and leaders on reputation, communication, influence and engagement, both in-house and as a consultant.
A former President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Ra
Rachael is the founder of strategic communications consultancy Ardesey and the producer of Meanwhile at Work.
She has spent more than 25 years working with organisations and leaders on reputation, communication, influence and engagement, both in-house and as a consultant.
A former President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, Rachael is particularly interested in what happens between strategy and reality: how organisations communicate, how people experience work and why apparently sensible ideas don’t always survive contact with actual humans.
She created Meanwhile at Work as a place to explore those questions properly, bringing together different perspectives on how work actually works.