Truth, Lies and Work
Truth, Lies & Work is the UK's #1 Management Podcast.Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, this award-winning podcast is where behavioural science meets workplace culture. Hosted by Chartered Occupational Psychologist Leanne Elliott and business owner Al Elliott, the show has reached #2 in the UK Business Podcast Charts and consistently ranks as a Top 10 trending business podcast globally.With a unique blend of evidence-based insight and lived experience, Leanne and Al simplify the science of people and culture to help leaders attract, engage, and retain great talent.Episodes drop twice a week. Tuesdays feature a global people and culture news...
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The Leadership Assessment Tool we're ALL using wrong, with Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Juliette Alban-Metcalfe
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the award-winning workplace podcast where behavioural science meets organisational culture.</p> <p>In the corporate world, we are obsessed with personality. We use DISC, Myers-Briggs, and Enneagrams to "colour-code" our colleagues and predict who will be a great leader. But what if we’ve been looking at the wrong data?</p> <p>In this episode, we sit down with Juliette Alban-Metcalfe, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and CEO of Real World Group. Juliette is at the forefront of leadership research, building on the groundbreaking work of her mother, Professor Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe.</p> <p>Juliette ar...
Gen-Z Office trends, unlimited holiday leave and silent disengagement. PLUS! Do people really leave managers, not jobs?
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the award-winning workplace podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture.</p> <p>This week, we explore the "silent disengagement" trend, the surprising truth about Gen Z and the office, and the psychological reason why the end of a project feels harder than the beginning. Plus, we settle the ultimate workplace debate: do people leave managers or jobs?</p> <p><br></p> <p>Stories Covered</p> <p>1. The Rise of "Silent Disengagement" Is office culture dying, or is it just getting quieter? We look at silent disengagement, where employees do the work but mentally...
What REALLY happens when you let A.I. run your workday, with The Economist's Boss Class Host, Andrew Palmer
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture.</p> <p>This week we’re diving into how AI is actually landing in the workplace — and what that means for managers, employees and the future of work.</p> <p>Our guest is Andrew Palmer, host of Boss Class from The Economist and author of the Bartleby management column. In Season 3 of Boss Class, Andrew goes hands-on with AI — not just talking about it, but living with it, testing it and asking the questions leaders need to answer as the technology transforms jobs and organisations. </p> <p>...
Is your career giving you the ick? PLUS! A.I. literacy for managers, finding hope and the verdict on NLP
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the award-winning workplace podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture. This week we explore career motivation, generative AI for leaders and the psychology of meaningful work. Plus we put Neuro-Linguistic Programming under the microscope and answer career questions from future business psychologists.</p> <p>🔥 Stories covered</p> <p>1. The rise of the “career comedown”motivation, engagement and the future of work.</p> <p>Have you ever hit a major career milestone and felt underwhelmed?</p> <p>Leanne introduces the term career comedown, coined by Stefanie Sword-Williams. It describes the emotional slump that can follow...
Why your 13th hire is like puberty (and what to do about it), with Steve Kemish
<p>What happens when a small, tight-knit team suddenly starts to grow fast?</p> <p>This week on Truth, Lies & Work, we’re joined by Steve Kemish to talk about the most uncomfortable phase of company growth. The moment when your business moves from a handful of people to a real organisation. Steve calls it the puberty of a company and if you have ever scaled a team, you will know exactly what he means.</p> <p>Steve has grown a marketing agency from a small team into a business approaching 50 people. In this conversation, he shares what leaders rarely ta...
Is this the internet’s most unsettling AI story? PLUS! Hiring Gen-Alpha, Career Destiny and the Truth About 'Matrescence'
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work, the podcast where behavioural science meets workplace culture.</p> <p>This week we’re asking: how prepared are workplaces for real life transitions, what happens when AI becomes your colleague, and does your name secretly shape your career?</p> <p><br></p> <p>🔥 Stories covered</p> <p>Matrescence: the workplace transition nobody plans for<br> Leanne introduces a word we should all know: matrescence. Similar to adolescence, it describes the emotional, psychological and identity shift that happens when someone becomes a mother.</p> <p>This is one of the most significant transitions in a wom...
What Taylor Swift can teach leaders about workplace change, with Hollywood screenwriter turned organisational psychologist, Lindsey Caplan
<p>Why do so many change initiatives, town halls and big launches create excitement and then fade with no real behaviour change?</p> <p>In this episode of Truth, Lies & Work, Al and Leanne speak with Lindsey Caplan, a former Hollywood screenwriter turned organisational psychologist, about why leaders struggle to influence groups at work and what actually works instead.</p> <p>Lindsey shares the MOVED Model, a practical framework for driving engagement, influencing behaviour and communicating change in a way that sticks. If you lead teams, present ideas, manage projects or drive transformation, this episode explains why information alone never...
What if work was about purpose, not survival? With Louise Hill, Founder of GoHenry, and Ruth Handcock OBE, CEO of Octopus Money
<p>A LinkedIn Live conversation on money confidence, risk and the future of careers</p> <p>Over the last few years, work has quietly shifted from ambition to survival.</p> <p>Rising living costs, economic uncertainty, layoffs and AI have changed how people make career decisions. Instead of taking risks or pursuing meaningful work, many are staying put not because they want to, but because it feels safer to stay. The media has called this the Big Stay or job-hugging.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Why these two perspectives together</p> <p>Louise and Ruth operate at different, but deeply...
"This Is and Will Always Be the Best Place I've Ever Worked", with Gemme & Xav from Studio XAG
<p>What happens when two art students fall in love, start freelancing together, and accidentally build one of the UK's happiest creative brand agencies?</p> <p>In this episode of Truth, Lies & Work, we're joined by Gemma Ruse and Xavier Shariff, the husband-and-wife co-founders of Studio Zag, a 60-person agency that designs and builds experiential installations for brands all over the world.</p> STUDIO XAG: https://studioxag.com/ Gemma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemma-ruse-646979a Xavier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-sheriff-49091132 Ellie Glason PR: https://ellieglasonpr.com/ <p>They met at 20 in a house share at Central Saint...
Is flexible work actually fair? PLUS! Corporate politics, motivating Gen X and the truth about learning styles
<p>Welcome back to Truth, Lies & Work — the podcast where behavioural science meets real working life.</p> <p>This week, we’re asking a simple question with uncomfortable answers: who really gets flexibility, who’s trusted around AI, and what psychology myths are still shaping work decisions?</p> <p><br></p> <p>🔥 Stories covered</p> <p>1. Who actually gets flexible work — and why</p> <p>Leanne introduces a new term this week: i-deals — short for idiosyncratic deals. These are personalised, one-to-one flexibility arrangements negotiated privately between employees and managers.</p> <p><br></p> <p>📄 Research source:<br>https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ep...
