About
Rob Browton
I am an occupational psychologist with twenty years in enterprise employee listening, organisational development and leadership facilitation — programmes running from a hundred people to a hundred thousand, across multiple countries and languages. My focus now is the shift to AI-supported work: turning something abstract and fast-moving into something professionals and teams can reason about, plan for and act on.
The work on this site looks scattered until you notice what it has in common. A culture platform for transformation leaders and a voice-first journal for the first year of parenthood are the same craft pointed at different rooms: ask better questions, structure what comes back, and give someone something they can actually use. Some of it is commercial, some of it is built for its own sake, and one strand of it is deliberately quiet.
I write about all of it on Substack, run The EX Institute, and build most of what you see here myself.
Background
- Discipline
- Occupational psychology. Twenty years of enterprise employee listening, organisational development and leadership facilitation.
- Qualifications
- MPsych(Org) in organisational psychology and an MBA, both Curtin University. BSc (Hons) in psychology, University of Western Australia.
- Accreditations
- Fellow of the RSA. OPQ and PRINCE2. Diploma in professional coach-mentoring and organisational leadership (OCM Educate), and a certified shadow work coach and facilitator.
- Track record
- Several hundred projects, advising chief executives, HR directors and safety directors. Co-founded and scaled an employee-listening implementation firm to roughly forty clients a year and a team of twelve across the UK, India and Australia. Earlier, enterprise engagement programmes at Korn Ferry.
- Teaching
- Faculty at CEDEP, Fontainebleau, and for the International Institute of Leadership and Safety Culture — executive programmes on leadership, psychological safety and safety culture for international cohorts.
- Practice
- People Work Life — the consultancy behind the client work, based in Ascot.
- Institute
- Founder of The EX Institute, the professional body for employee-experience listening.
- Writing
- Author of Brave New Bots (2026) and the People Work Life practitioner workbooks. Essays on Substack.
Get in touch
Consulting, speaking and facilitation enquiries are welcome, as is anyone who has used something here and wants to tell me what was wrong with it.