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Hosted by Kate Swade and Mark Walton · society · EN
Corporate Bodies asks: why are organisations so weird? And what could we do to make them better?After all, most of us have worked in companies at some point in our lives and know one thing for sure: working life is odd. The dynamics are messy, the hierarchies are often unjust, and when things go wrong, people start acting very strangely indeed.Hosts Kate Swade and Mark Walton – the co-creators of Shared Assets – talk to people with a range of perspectives on organisational weirdness, providing practical examples of how we can make this relationship between people and organisations better.Join us on the journey as we turn and face the strange! corporatebodies.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchCorporate Bodies asks: why are organisations so weird? And what could we do to make them better? After all, most of us have worked in companies at some point in our lives and know one thing for sure: working life is odd.
Corporate Bodies is hosted by Kate Swade and Mark Walton. The show has published 12 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 11: Brainwaves" (10 July 2025, 35 minutes), "Episode 10: Composting" (3 July 2025, 51 minutes), and "Episode 9: Death" (26 June 2025, 63 minutes).
Corporate Bodies publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 12 episodes.
Booking probability for Corporate Bodies is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Corporate Bodies requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Corporate Bodies's contact route on record: verified email.
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Kate Swade and Mark Walton hosts Corporate Bodies, a society podcast with 12 episodes published.
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Episode #11
<p>Join Mark and Kate as they look back over the last ten episodes of Corporate Bodies and talk about what they’ve learned. They particularly talk about how their thinking about legal personhood and the other “original...
Episode #10
<p>What might lie beyond the corporation?</p><p>In the previous episode (Death, with Louise Armstrong) we explored how the end of an organisation could liberate the people and resources within it to do new things. In...
Episode #9
<p>What does it mean for an organisation to die? It’s relatively straightforward to close a company down and take it off the Companies House register – but emotionally, it’s much more complex. In this episode, Kate and...
Episode #8
<p>There is something ineffable in the life of an organisation that is essential to its definition or character, but is different from its culture, vision, purpose or activities. But what is it, who holds it, and how is...
Episode #7
<p>Humans have always co-operated with each other. And formal co-operatives have been around almost since the emergence of the modern corporation, creating structures where people can work together for mutual benefit...
Episode #6
<p>What happens when things go wrong at work? Inevitably in any organisation we have to deal with issues such as redundancy, grievance and poor performance. How do we make sure we have the policies and procedures that...
Episode #5
<p>If the organisation is a body made up of real people, then where or who is its heart? What really is the work that needs to be done? How do we bring our whole selves to it? What is the leadership we need to address...
Corporate Bodies
<p>How do we create the culture within an organisation? What does it mean to be able to bring your whole self to work… and who gets to do it?</p><p>In this fourth episode of Corporate Bodies, Kate and Mark explore...
Episode #3
<p>What happens when you accept an employment contract? What are the unspoken and unexamined things that happen when a new person is recruited into an organisation? In this third episode of Corporate Bodies, Mark and...
Episode #2
<p>How do decisions get made in an organisation? Who has power and control – and are they the same people who bear the consequences of their decisions? In this second episode of Corporate Bodies, we explore governance...
Episode #1
<p>What does it mean to set up an organisation? In this first episode of Corporate Bodies, we explore incorporation – the creation of the corporate body – and we hear from Mark Walton and Kate Swade about who they are...
Corporate Bodies
<p>Most of us have worked in companies at some point in our lives, and know one thing for sure: working life is odd. The dynamics are messy, the hierarchies are often unjust and, when things go wrong, people start...
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