Dr Myriam Hadnes
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Work without the professional mask.
Unprofessionalism is a reflective interview show about what happens when people stop performing the approved version of professionalism. Its conversations move through boardrooms, facilitation rooms, podcasts, finance roles, and business schools to ask where integrity, courage, and humanity actually live at work.
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Unprofessionalism is a business and leadership podcast about the moments when the professional mask stops helping. Its conversations ask what people lose when they over-edit themselves at work, and what becomes possible when they speak with more honesty. The show is not anti-excellence. It is interested in the difference between disciplined craft and anxious conformity. That distinction gives the series its shape. One episode reflects on voice masking, nervous expertise, and the temptation to sound impressive instead of listening well. Another considers courage as a practice of taking worthwhile risks while shrinking the fears that block action. Leanne Hughes brings the question into podcasting, claiming ideas before full readiness, and taking the work seriously even when the label of professional feels awkward. Martin Frederik Garbers frames the issue through finance, acquisition pressure, and the choice to treat people as more than inputs to a machine. Philippa White brings the language of humanity into business, challenging the assumption that money is the only useful measure. Rotem Kazir's episode centers on a boardroom moment where admitting uncertainty changes the power dynamic and opens better thinking. Jon Berghoff connects belonging and culture to business results without reducing the human part to decoration. Dr. Tieren Scott's conversation makes the stakes sharper, especially around race, tone, code-switching, and who is treated as the default professional. The show often begins with one concrete story. It then slows down. Instead of rushing toward a tidy lesson, it studies the cost underneath the behavior: fear, status, permission, dignity, shame, responsibility, and belonging. That patience matters. The best episodes feel like a professional debrief where the useful insight arrives only after the socially acceptable answer has been questioned. It is warm, but not soft. It is practical, but not trapped in tips. For entrepreneurs, facilitators, coaches, executives, and independent workers, the show offers a thoughtful way to examine authority without hiding behind polish. It is especially strong for listeners who care about leadership as a human practice, not just a performance of control.
Made for: For entrepreneurs, facilitators, coaches, executives, and reflective professionals who care about leadership, integrity, and belonging. It suits listeners who prefer thoughtful conversations over quick productivity advice.
What sets it apart: The show treats professionalism as a question of power, permission, and humanity, not just workplace manners. It keeps business outcomes in view while making room for the emotional and social costs behind them.
Professional performance is exhausting. Maintaining the mask. Editing ourselves. Pretending we know when we don't.This podcast is about people who dropped the performance. And what happened next.Each episode features someone who broke professional conventions and found something better on the other side: the executive who disclosed grief in a corporate setting and found it opened new ways of relating; the coach who realised her authority came from integrity, not compliance; the designer who ignored the 'approved tools' and saved thousands of hours.Conversations circle around three questions:What does it cost us to perform professionalism instead of showing...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Miriam makes professional authenticity concrete by testing courage, candor, and humane leadership against the pressures of real workplace decisions.
Unprofessionalism turns professional conduct into a practical question: when do standards support good work, and when does conformity get in the way? Miriam builds guest conversations around moments when candor, courage, or humane judgment carried professional risk.
Professionalism gets cross-examined here, so you can keep the standards and lose the costume.
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A reflective look at how status decides who gets to bend the rules at work.
Miriam Hapness treats professionalism as a status game, and the episode keeps circling who gets to set the rules. She starts with a personal account of being told she could get away with a lot, then widens out to work from home, cafe meetings, and the freedom to dress or behave…
A quiet case for courage when professionalism starts to look like armor.
Miriam Hapness and Roi Ben-Yehuda treat professionalism as something stricter than polish and less forgiving than a costume. The discussion moves from inner standards to outside expectations, then back to the pressure of real work: courage, overthinking, hard choices, and the…
A quiet argument for taking craft seriously before validation arrives.
Unprofessionalism treats professionalism less like polish and more like care: the willingness to take the work seriously even when the payoff is uncertain.
A measured look at leadership when care and performance stop agreeing.
The conversation centers on a CFO under acquisition pressure, but it reads less like a business case than a study in character. Martin recalls hearing that caring for people instead of pushing profit was treated as weakness, then connects that judgment to the point when he knew…
A farewell that argues for slower, more human work.
The episode treats the end of Workshops Work as a pause rather than a full stop, and it keeps returning to why facilitation matters. The host looks back on 355 regular episodes, plus a few bonus ones, and says the show changed her business, her understanding of facilitation, and…
A grounded look at how AI can reflect facilitation without taking over the human judgment at its center.
Holger Nauheimer's return gives the episode a clear center: what facilitation looks like once AI sits inside the process. The conversation moves from a book completed with help from Nix to a sharper question about whether an AI can surface the values behind a person's work, and…
A clear case for treating change as a conversation first.
Jeff Weatherholt and Miriam Hackness treat change as a conversation before it becomes a process, and that is the episode's strongest idea. It argues, plainly, that change work tends to fail when the messy, human part is skipped.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Rob Evans tells Miriam Hattness he won a 1996 total quality management contract with Lufthansa Technik's 20 engineers because he was 'the only one who had any fun.' He argues that professionals are paid to know, while his large-group workshops of 50 to 100 people rely on curiosity, discovery, and holding the room together until an answer emerges.
Host Miriam Hapness interviews Michael Bungay Stanier about the risks and rewards of showing up authentically in business, illustrated by a story of losing a major client due to his company's unconventional name.
Host Miriam Hapness reflects solo on 15 weeks of her podcast 'Unprofessionalism,' sharing personal stories from her time working in Vietnam and as a PhD student.
Professionalism has a public face and a private one.
Miriam Hapness opens with a challenge to the mask of professionalism.
Martin frames the conversation around a hard professional choice.
Philippa White's Return on Humanity makes the case that people-first businesses can be 23% more profitable than businesses that neglect employee connection and belonging.
A host interviews a founder who disclosed uncertainty to his board, leading to a collaborative problem-solving breakthrough.
Host Miriam Hapness interviews John about a time when being unprofessional was the best move, exploring the value of authenticity in business.
The host discusses how professionalism often requires masking one's true self, especially for marginalized groups, and introduces a guest to explore the role of race in professional expectations.
The host and guest discuss how professionalism can be oppressive, especially for minority groups, and explore the benefits of dropping the professional mask.
The host introduces the podcast's mission to explore what happens when people drop the mask of professionalism and show up authentically at work.
Myriam Hadnes hosts the final episode of her 355-episode podcast Workshops Work.
The host introduces a conversation about brave spaces and facilitating tough conversations, while announcing the show's rebrand to 'Unprofessionalism' focusing on authenticity at work.
Mirjam Hapnes interviews her fiancé Mirjam Leunissen about embodiment and how feeling sensations improves facilitation and coaching, while announcing the podcast's rebranding to Unprofessionalism.
Host Miriam Hapness speaks with returning guest Holger Nauheimer, a 30-year facilitation veteran who co-wrote a book with his AI collaborator 'Nix' (a customized ChatGPT instance) and is preparing to co-facilitate a live workshop with Nix at Rotterdam's Change Days in November.
Host Miriam Hapness interviews Jeff Wetherhold, a ProSci-accredited change management practitioner, on why 88% of organizational change projects fail to produce lasting results — a figure unchanged in the decade between a 2013 and a 2023 Harvard Business Review survey.
The host debunks misconceptions about corporate training and shares tips for making it engaging and scalable.
This episode explores how facilitation skills empower leaders to enhance collaboration and results in workshops, featuring a conversation with Rob Leon about his journey into facilitation and its intersection with leadership.
Host Miriam Hatnes interviews Mohsen Menon about his model derived from 20,000 games that helps teams explore blind spots and have difficult conversations.
Miriam Hattness interviews Marco Verland about navigating complexity and uncertainty in leadership and facilitation.