Listen in.
I’m a researcher, writer, and educator exploring how organisations are shaped by sound, silence, and voice. This corner of the internet is part of my wider project of listening otherwise: using music to surface what work and organisational life so often ignore - the cracks, the tensions, the voices that refuse to disappear.
The project began with pop songs of exhaustion, joy, resistance, and hope - tracks carrying the feelings that working life rarely lets us name. Through it, I came to see that “listening otherwise” doesn’t stop with music. Organisations are also shaped by everyday sounds - the hum of open-plan offices, the chime of Teams notifications, the rhythms of machines - and by silences: the words unsaid in meetings, the excluded voices, the pauses heavy with both potential and unease.
Why subscribe?
To explore how songs, sounds, and silences shape the ways we live, work, and organise.
To connect cultural and everyday listening with questions of power, care, resistance, and change.
To find language - and sometimes to let language go - in order to hear what otherwise gets dismissed as “noise.”
What you’ll recieve
Regular essays that start with a track, a soundscape, or a silence, and open out into questions about organisational life.
Reflections that bring together music, critical ideas, and lived experience.
A growing archive of posts to return to when you want to think, feel, or listen otherwise.
If you’ve ever heard a lyric that named your burnout, noticed the monotony of work that never stops, or felt the weight of silence in a room - this space is for you.
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