Host Danielle Krischick has real conversations with leaders, industry experts and change-makers who share how they use stories to drive human connection in the workplace—beginning with the story of who they are.
Most of us were taught that high performance is the grind and enjoyment is the pizza party on Friday. Tom Kegode says we’ve had it backwards.
Tom spent 16 years at one of the UK’s oldest banks without ever holding one job for more than two years. He went from cashier to bank manager at 20, then to leading innovation, then to redesigning how an entire organization worked through the pandemic. When his curiosity outgrew one building, he left to explore, working from Thailand to Kenya, and co-founded Joyful Humanity. He joins Danielle for an energizing conversation about joy, change, and what stays human as everything else evolves.
This story will teach you:
How to take inventory of your week, asking what gives you energy and what drains it, and why small experiments inside the job you have can build the confidence for a bolder leap later.
Why “transformation” is a dead word and “evolution” is the mindset that matters now. Work in short bursts, take stock, and iterate, instead of burning out while you wait for a finish line that never comes.
The hybrid question leaders keep getting wrong. Stop asking how many days you’re in the office and start asking what kind of work your week holds.
What the shift from roles to missions means for your career, and why leadership becoming a chosen path could give us better leaders.
How pairing senior leaders with Gen Z coaches to make short-form videos turned a generational divide into an exchange, and turned one executive into a vlogger for thousands.
Why the more human you are when you use AI tools, the better the output gets.
The seven-minute “walk it out” meeting, a simple method that helps people solve their own problems side by side.
You’ll leave with a few practical ways to design more joy into your work, and a strong case for why you should.
Additional Resources:
Connect with Tom:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkegode/
Substack: https://tomkegode.substack.com/
Website: https://tomkegode.com
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