Welcome to the High Five podcast

Your regular dose of workplace insight: elevate standards, spark belonging, and make work feel brilliantly human.

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About the Podcast

The High Five Podcast
High Five is a podcast about the human side of work.
Your regular dose of workplace insight: elevate standards, spark belonging, and make work feel brilliantly human.

Where workplace experience, service excellence and culture collide. Hosted by Tristan Kelly and Mike Galea, each episode blends honest conversation, practical insights, and real-world stories from the front lines of workplaces, facilities, and real estate.

Expect behavioural science, leadership lessons, customer experience thinking and “steal-this” ideas you can use straight away. Plus guest interviews with people who are shaping how work feels, not just how it functions. If you care about creating places where people belong, perform and thrive, you’re in the right place.

About your hosts

Tristan Kelly

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Tristan Kelly is a UK-based marketing and management consultant with over two decades of experience across brand strategy, customer experience and workplace engagement. He helps real estate, workplace, and facilities organisations clarify what they stand for, communicate it with confidence, and create places where people feel welcome, valued, and motivated.

Tristan blends strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. He shapes messaging, campaigns and content, and turns insight into experiences that drive measurable outcomes. His work spans customer engagement programmes, digital communications, placemaking activations and partner-led initiatives that connect landlords, occupiers and service teams around a shared purpose. Clients value his calm, collaborative style and his ability to simplify complexity, align teams quickly, and turn ideas into practical plans that get delivered consistently.

He has led major projects across commercial offices, mixed-use portfolios, and destination assets, bringing together multiple stakeholders to elevate standards, strengthen relationships, and build a sense of community. Whether he’s designing a tenant engagement strategy, producing storytelling content, or building an experience calendar, Tristan focuses on the small behavioural moments that create trust.

Tristan co-hosts The High Five Podcast alongside Mike Galea, exploring the psychology of great service, the culture behind high-performing teams, and the everyday habits that make work feel brilliantly human.

His purpose is simple: to energise people and businesses so they can thrive with purpose, and to leave every organisation a little clearer, bolder and more connected than he found it.

Mike Galea

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Mike Galea is a Guest Experience Director with over 20 years’ experience spanning workplace experience, organisational development, and leadership and talent development. He’s known for blending creative thinking with a strategic, people-first mindset: designing cultures, service models and change programmes that connect human behaviour with business performance.

A Level 7 Executive Coach & Mentor, Mike is accredited across multiple leadership and psychometric frameworks and is trusted to coach leaders with clarity, depth, and impact. His work focuses on helping organisations develop high-performing teams, elevate guest and customer experience, and build environments where people can thrive.

In his current role within OCS’s Private Sector, Mike leads the evolution of a premium front-of-house brand across 23 locations, shaping service excellence and driving innovation in how teams engage clients and visitors. Previously, he held senior roles at ISS UK&I, including leading a global workplace experiment and delivering large-scale leadership and culture programmes for financial institutions.

Outside of work, Mike has served for 15 years in the Army Reserves as a Platoon Sergeant in the Royal Engineers, deploying on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in 2023 and returning in 2024, an experience that continues to shape his leadership ethos.

He is also the co-founder, writer, and co-presenter of the Bad Scripts podcast (60+ episodes), and co-hosts The High Five Podcast with Tristan Kelly, which explores the psychology of great service and the everyday behaviours that build culture, trust, and belonging.