Rob Browton

Rob Browton · Occupational psychologist

Helping professionals understand and adjust to the new world of AI-supported work.

I’m an occupational psychologist with twenty years in enterprise employee listening, organisational development, and leadership facilitation. 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.

What follows is most of what I make: books and tools for professionals facing the AI shift, platforms for the organisations I consult to, quieter work on the inner life, voice-first ways of keeping family stories, and some things built purely out of curiosity.

Work & AI

Making the shift to AI-supported work something you can act on.

book

Brave New Bots

Keeping ahead professionally in a world of agents, bots, and AI slop.

A practical guide to the agent era for professionals who are not engineers. Put agents to work in fifteen-minute experiments, keep the skills that feed your judgement, and never ship slop.

  • Paperback
  • Kindle
  • 121 pages
app

Unvarnished

The honest truth about AI and your career.

A free, personalised assessment of how AI will really affect your work — task-by-task analysis and a real action plan, without the sugarcoating.

  • Next.js
  • Claude
  • Free

All 3 in work & ai

Organisations

Platforms built for consultants and the leaders they work with.

app

MaturityMap

The culture management platform for transformation leaders.

The culture you need for the performance you want — measurable, shared and owned. Nine models covering listening maturity, cultural safety, wellbeing and integration risk.

  • Next.js
  • Assessment
  • Culture
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JourneyMap

Map experiences. Extract insights. Run workshops.

Journey mapping and strategy canvases built for consultants rather than for enterprise procurement.

  • Next.js
  • Workshops
  • Canvases

All 3 in organisations

Inner life

Depth psychology, made practical and safe to use alone.

app

Understand Your Shadow

Meet the parts of yourself you learned to hide.

The twelve Shadow Types map the parts of ourselves we put away early — and the gift buried inside each one. Take the assessment, work with a certified practitioner, or bring it to a team.

  • Assessment
  • Practitioners
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Shadow Work Guide

Meet your hidden self, at your own pace.

A structured, safety-first path through shadow work you can walk alone, with articles and a facilitator route when you want company.

  • Guided practice
  • Safety-first

All 3 in inner life

Family & memory

Voice-first ways of keeping what would otherwise be lost.

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WisdomWeave

Save the story, not just the photo.

An audio-first way to capture the stories your parents and grandparents have never quite been asked the right question about. Family listen; you download a typeset PDF.

  • Voice-first
  • PDF export
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LittleWeave

What they sounded like at three. Kept.

A voice-first childhood journal. Research-grounded prompts help you keep your child's actual voice — the things they said and the way they said them — from nought to twelve.

  • Voice-first
  • Childhood

All 4 in family & memory

Curiosity

Long-form interactive work and live data, made for its own sake.

exploration

Data Explorations

Scrollytelling explorations of the forces shaping society.

Deep-dive interactive pieces pairing scholarly narrative with D3 — the phone-based childhood, 140 years of organisational thinking, 2,500 years of ideas about the good life.

  • D3
  • Framer Motion
  • Long-form

More on curiosity

Ventures

The businesses behind the work, rather than the things I have built.

Founder

The EX Institute

The professional body for the discipline of employee-experience listening — credentials, a body of knowledge, and a standard for the practice.

Platform

pindrop

The practice platform for employee-experience listening, recognised by the Institute.

Consulting practice

People Work Life

The consultancy behind the work — employee experience, organisational development and leadership facilitation.