The Nowhere Office

Feb 03 2025 73 ep. 32 mins 15

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How do we live and work? Join bestselling writers Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern as they discuss the latest news and views with key guests from around the world.

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My Working Life : Sam McAlister

Feb 03 2025 25 mins

For this My Working Life edition of the Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by Sam McAlister, the former Newsnight producer best known for securing the game-changing interview with Prince Andrew. She shares details of her background from working-class childhood to criminal barrister and her jump into TV. She talks about the joys of her newfound autonomy and t

The Business of Publishing with Whitefox Publishing

Jan 27 2025 33 mins

Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by John Bond, founder of Whitefox Publishing to discuss the business of publishing. We hear about how the industry has changed since the 1980s and 1990s when huge advances were handed out at the drop of a hat and books were acquired on professional instinct. That’s been replaced by data-driven metrics and a clearer understanding of what

Inaugurating Leaders, From Bad to Worse

Jan 20 2025 36 mins

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Stefan Stern and Julia Hobsbawm discuss leadership with Barbara Kellerman. Our My Working Life feature is an interview with American union organiser Jaz Brisack, who has been involved with movements at Nissan, Starbucks, and Tesla. This episode covers: Tulip Siddiq's resignation and what it reveals about the challenges facing the workplace th

The New HR Roadmap with Syreeta Brown

Jan 13 2025 35 mins

Julia Hobsbawm interviews Syreeta Brown, Group Chief People & Communications Officer at Virgin Money. They explore the huge changes that have taken place in the workforce in recent years, whether those changes can be unravelled and discuss how ripping up the rule book can help to get, grow and retain great talent. Also featured is a clip from an upcoming interview with Barbara Kel

A Tribute To Charles Handy

Dec 20 2024 48 mins

This is a tribute to a dear friend of The Nowhere Office, Charles Handy, the management writer, who died this week aged 92. Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by the FT’s Andrew Hill to discuss Handy's life and legacy, his extremely sharp predictions about work, the humanism at the heart of his thinking, and his unconventional practices like ‘empty chair’ exercises.

Global Trends and Quantum Leaps

Dec 12 2024 42 mins

Julia Hobsbawm speaks with Peter Miscovich, Executive Managing Director and Global Future of Work Leader at JLL, to explore the past, present, and future of offices around the world. They discuss the tech transformations in workplaces, quantum computing on the horizon and the massive changes in the past 50 years of work. In this episode's My Working Life segment, we hear from Bir

My Working Life: Iain Dale

Dec 05 2024 42 mins

For this My Working Life edition of the Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm is joined by Iain Dale to discuss his career as a broadcaster, author, publisher, editor, lobbyist and much more. This week’s My Working Life segment features Olivia Alexander, a SoulCycle instructor. Olivia shares how the pandemic disrupted her musical theatre career and how SoulCycle has not only "filled her

News from Nowhere: Media Special

Nov 29 2024 45 mins

In this News from Nowhere, we bring you a conversation from a recent Workathon event in London: How the Media Works. Ravi Mattu, managing editor of The New York Times' DealBook, and Matthew D’Ancona, editor of The New European, joined Julia Hobsbawm to discuss the state of the media. Stefan Stern talks to journalist Carole Cadwalladr about the Tortoise-Observer deal. Carole share

The Upside of Disruption

Nov 24 2024 32 mins

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm is joined by author and speaker Terence Mauri to discuss his new book The Upside of Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown. Terence explores the risks of standing still in an age of rapid change and shares how a serious accident reshaped his career and perspective. The conversation covers warm and cold AI,

Coaching for Performance

Nov 14 2024 28 mins

In this episode of The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern welcome leadership coach and author Tiffany Gaskell, who has updated Sir John Whitmore’s classic Coaching for Performance for its sixth edition. Since it was first published, the book has sold over one million copies. They explore coaching’s origins in sports, the evolution of leadership styles, the impact