Why employee surveys only tell half the story of workplace culture with Dr Alex Gapud

Why employee surveys only tell half the story of workplace culture with Dr Alex Gapud

June 9, 2026 · 25 min · Season 7 · Episode 93

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The episode discusses the limitations of employee surveys in understanding workplace culture and emphasizes the importance of lived experiences.

In this episode of LEAP Listens, Sara and Roger are joined by organisational anthropologist Dr Alex Gapud to explore what organisations can learn when they look beyond surveys, spreadsheets and engagement scores. Drawing on his work studying workplace cultures from the inside, Alex explains why understanding people's lived experiences is essential for building authentic employee value propositions that employees genuinely recognise and trust. The conversation explores the gap between what org...

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