Enterprise change, made practical.
Digital Workplace Impact examines the hard work behind modern workplace transformation. Its conversations connect AI readiness, Microsoft Copilot, content governance, leadership behavior, and employee experience to the practical decisions organizations have to make under pressure.
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Digital Workplace Impact looks at the digital workplace through the lens of organizational readiness. It is an interview-led series with a measured, professional rhythm. The show’s recent run is heavily focused on AI, but its real subject is the enterprise machinery around AI: governance, literacy, leadership modeling, content quality, employee experience, and the ability to act before every answer is known. That makes it more grounded than a tool-by-tool technology program. A conversation about Microsoft Copilot becomes a discussion about dead links, site review cycles, automated governance, and the need to connect digital workplace projects to business goals. An episode on Vodafone’s AI work turns toward leader education, cross-system experiences, agents, and the importance of treating AI as transformation rather than a technical handoff. A Campbell’s conversation frames data as evidence for better experience management. Hearst Networks brings culture, values, storytelling, and adaptability into the same frame as AI adoption. DWG research episodes add structure around change agility, AI literacy, futuring, and the foundations organizations need before scaling new capabilities. The show is comfortable with enterprise language, but it is not merely procedural. It keeps returning to people: how leaders behave, how teams tolerate ambiguity, how employees learn, and how organizations keep purpose visible while systems and expectations shift. Its best value is synthesis. Instead of treating disruption as a slogan, it asks what governance patterns, feedback loops, research signals, and leadership choices make change sustainable. The listener gets case studies, research framing, and practical vocabulary for the next steering group, strategy session, or digital workplace roadmap discussion.
Made for: Designed for digital workplace, intranet, employee experience, communications, IT, and transformation leaders working inside complex organizations. It suits practitioners who already understand the terrain and want research-backed examples for decisions about AI, governance, content, data, and change.
What sets it apart: The show combines DWG research with practitioner case studies, keeping the conversation close to how enterprise teams actually govern, scale, and sustain workplace technology. Its focus is not AI excitement alone, but the readiness work underneath it.
The number 1 digital workplace podcast (as rated by Feedspot) where DWG's Nancy Goebel investigates and explores ideas, practices and people impacting the new digital worlds of work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nancy Goebel makes enterprise AI adoption concrete by connecting tools with governance, leadership behavior, and the daily work of organizational change.
Digital Workplace Impact turns workplace technology into a conversation about what organizations can actually do with it. Nancy Goebel keeps the focus on adoption, asking how leaders model new habits, how teams act before every uncertainty is resolved, and how governance becomes…
That PowerPoint Copilot demo meets actual use, and your rollout plan may need a second draft.
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A steady take on change agility, with a useful frame for acting before every answer is in.
Digital Workplace Impact treats change agility as a working problem rather than a buzzword, with Nancy Goebel and Shimrit Jain tracing how digital workplace teams can stay responsive as generative AI, restructurings, and shifting ways of working keep redefining the brief.
Copilot governance meets the everyday discipline of reviewing thousands of sites.
Digital Workplace Impact centers on governance at scale, with Susie Dean and AddIn365 making a clear case for Copilot's knowledge agent, deadlink checking, and rules that can archive or delete sites when reviews are missed.
Vodafone's AI push is framed as leadership work before it becomes technology work.
Vodafone's AI push is framed as a leadership and enablement effort rather than a narrow tooling project. It argues that new capabilities cannot sit with technology teams alone: leaders are expected to model the change, translate it into business terms, and back the education…
Hearst Networks ties curiosity, courage, and care to culture change and employee engagement.
Dean Pasanisky, Managing Director in EMEA, shapes the conversation around Hearst Networks' transformation through curiosity, courage, and care, linking those values to recruitment, the Val Awards, and a leadership approach that prefers example over slogan.
A clear-eyed Copilot check-in that keeps the focus on daily use, not demo polish.
The piece treats Mark Rackley's take on Microsoft Copilot as a sensible reality check: the tool is meant to help people work, not replace the work itself.
Linux talk with a maintenance instinct.
Gamification beyond points, badges, and novelty.
Indian startup stories with operating detail.
Accessible design, priced and explained clearly.
Nancy Goebel opens with a contrast between classical music and jazz.
The episode opens on governance inside the digital workplace.
Nancy Goebel and Elizabeth Marsh discuss how to elevate an organization's AI literacy and readiness for an AI-driven workforce.
It starts at the top.
DWG's 2026 research focus on building coherent AI capabilities and foundations for organizational readiness.
Nancy Goebel interviews James Crick about Campbell's award-winning data-led digital workplace transformation.
Dean Pasanisky keeps the conversation anchored on three values.
A DWG member discusses a practical guide to futuring for digital workplaces, blending science and art to interpret trends and signals.
Mark Rackley joins Digital Workplace Impact to talk through his experience with Microsoft Copilot over the past year.
An exploration of digital inclusivity in the workplace, discussing barriers, the importance of addressing exclusion, and principles for creating an inclusive digital environment.