For People & Culture leaders

Build the human skills technology cannot replace.

Future-ready teams, across every generation. We bring the people and the practice that make it happen.

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How’s Work?

Six questions on how work is actually going for your team, and one conversation worth having this week.

Communicating
Building trust
Ways of working
How you use your time
Connection and belonging

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Who’s behind it

Meet our founders

Two founders, one mission: make work more human and life more joyful.

Tom Kegode

Co-founder

Future of work strategist with sixteen years leading culture, innovation and people change inside large organisations, now a C-suite partner and executive coach. Tom designs the experiences that turn a room of leaders into a team that ships the change: the Work:Lab Method, future-ready executive programmes and multi-generation value exchange.

Bejay Mulenga MBE

Co-founder

Education and enterprise expert with more than 100,000 people trained over a decade, and an MBE for enterprise education and tackling food poverty. Bejay builds the rooms where unlikely people meet, from Breaking Bread dinners and Supa Campus to creative immersive experiences, and advises Google, Canva, Dr Martens and HM Government on reaching the next generation.

Who we’ve worked with

16 years: building moments that matter
100,000+: people trained over a decade
500+: senior leaders activated for transformation
9 cities: one UN hackathon, at the same time

What people say

Rooms that speak for themselves

“Wow, what a powerful talk. Exactly the kind of thinking we want to instil in our staff.”

Phoebe Dunne

Amazon EMEA, after a keynote to 3,000+ employees

“I always thought I was a good communicator. The session with Tom showed me there is opportunity to take it up a few levels. It has evolved my approach, and that has been met with wide approval from thousands of colleagues across my business.”

James Harrison

MD Consumer Channels, Lloyds Banking Group

“The ability to take a complex challenge and guide a room toward meaningful, practical solutions is nothing short of wizardry.”

Wendy Gupta

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Crisis

“The dinner you put on for us was one of the best things I have experienced in my career.”

Adam Meek

Chief Product Officer, Dr. Martens

Why now

What it costs when work doesn’t work

22%

of managers are engaged, down from 27% a year earlier.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026, p8

$10tn

lost to low engagement last year. That is 9% of global GDP.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026, p6

88% / 7%

of leaders say moving people faster is critical. Seven per cent are making progress.

Deloitte, 2026 Global Human Capital Trends, p42

Joy is an advantage.

Enjoyment, designed properly, produces high-performing, future-ready teams.

Gallup · Deloitte · Microsoft WorkLab

The shifts we make

Two things are changing work faster than anything else

AI landing in the workplace, and five generations working side by side.

Future of Work

Everyone bought the tools, and the work stayed the same

The AI landed, the ways of working didn’t move, and the time it promised never turned up.

Generations at Work

The bottom rung of the ladder is disappearing

AI is taking the jobs people used to learn on, so juniors are being asked to start senior and nobody has rethought how they grow.

The Joyful Collective

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