What does it take to turn a 300-year-old bank into the UK's biggest fintech? Sharon Doherty is Chief People and Places Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, and over the last four years she's been leading one of the most ambitious organisational transformations in British financial services - 300-year-old institution reinventing itself as the UK's biggest fintech. David and Sharon get into what transformation at that scale actually looks like from the inside -  the governance, the culture work, the AI strategy, and the tough calls that only leadership can make.

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Are your meetings actually working? Or has your calendar just become a system nobody knows how to switch off? David Green is joined by Rebecca Hinds, Stanford-trained organisational researcher, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done ; to discuss why organisations should treat meetings as a product, and what that actually means in practice.

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Most organisations are asking how to get more from their people. But what if the real question is how to get more from the time they spend at work? In this episode, David Green is joined by Joe O'Connor, founder of Work Time Revolution, and Jared Lindzon, future-of-work journalist and author, to explore the research-backed case for the four-day working week, and what it means for how HR leaders design, lead and transform work.

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What’s the value of employee experience if you can’t tie it to business performance results? In this special bonus episode, host David Green is joined Katarina Coppé and Jake Mealy, respectively Senior Partner and Chief Data Solutions Officer at Welliba. Drawing on new research analysing over 25 million data points across the S&P 500, they unpack the direct link between employee experience and financial performance, showing why companies with stronger employee sentiment consistently outperform the market.

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When your business is transforming, how do you make sure your people strategy is part of leading that change? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Mattijs Mol, VP of HR Technology, Strategy and Insights at Wärtsilä, to explore what it really takes to run a people analytics function inside a business undergoing fundamental change.

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AI, layoffs, reskilling - everyone’s reacting to the same headlines. The question is: are they making the right decisions because of them? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Kate O’Neill, Tech Humanist, keynote speaker, and author of What Matters Next, to explore how leaders can make more deliberate, context-aware decisions in a landscape shaped by constant change.

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What if HR is still thinking too small about AI? David Green is joined by Paul, Chief Evangelist and Talent Strategist at Visier, to explore why traditional transformation approaches may no longer be fit for purpose, and what HR needs to do differently to keep pace. Tune into this podcast as they tackle some of the biggest questions facing the function today.

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What does the next evolution of people analytics actually look like? As AI reshapes how organisations operate, people analytics is increasingly being drawn into more consultative, business-facing work - helping leaders think through decisions, guide adoption, and play a more active role in how work actually gets done. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Jamie Nevshehir, VP of HR Operations and People Analytics at NBCUniversal, to explore what that looks like in practice.

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Are organisations overlooking one of the most important drivers of employee experience and performance? For many, the workplace is still treated as a fixed asset - something to manage for cost and capacity, rather than something to actively design around how work actually happens. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Phil Kirschner, Workforce Experience Consultant and author of the famous newsletter, The Workline,  to explore why workplace strategy continues to sit outside of core HR and people analytics conversations - and why that needs to change.

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Are we at a point where traditional workplace learning no longer works? Organisations have long invested in platforms and programmes, yet much still feels disconnected from how people actually learn today—especially with AI enabling instant skill-building. So what does effective learning look like now, and how can organisations build an AI-ready workforce? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green speaks with Chris Eigeland, CEO of Go1, on how workplace learning must evolve.

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If parts of a role can be automated or augmented overnight, what does that mean for job design, career development, and the way organisations build the next generation of talent? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Hebba Youssef, Chief People Officer at Workweek and the Founder and creator of the widely followed newsletter I Hate It Here. Drawing on her experience building and leading HR teams, Hebba shares how she is approaching AI adoption inside her own organisation and what the rise of AI-powered teams means for the future of work. 

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Are we overlooking one of the biggest human consequences of AI at work? As organisations race to adopt AI, much of the conversation has focused on productivity, efficiency, and redesigning work. But far less attention has been given to how these technologies may reshape something just as important: the relationships people rely on at work. To unpack this, in this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green speaks with Connie Noonan Hadley, organisational psychologist, Thinkers50 Radar thinker, and Research Associate Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.

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Have we made the manager’s role more complex without making it easier to make good decisions?David Green speaks with Kenneth Matos, Director of Market Insights at HiBob, to explore what it takes to design better decision environments for modern organisations. Drawing on new global research involving 4,700 people managers, Ken shares why the time spent stitching together data and the lack of a unified HR–Finance view are undermining decision quality - and what leaders must do to enable managers to balance people fairness with financial discipline.

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Is employee experience due for a reset? For much of the past decade, employee experience has been framed as a competitive advantage - a way to attract talent, boost engagement, and strengthen culture. Yet in today’s environment, shaped by economic pressure, evolving workforce expectations, and the rapid rise of AI, many organisations are re-examining whether their approach is still sustainable - or whether, in trying to improve employee experience, they may have inadvertently diluted it. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green speaks with Jacob Morgan - author, keynote speaker, and Founder of The Future of Work Leaders - to explore what an employee experience reset looks like in 2026 and beyond.

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What can HR learn from private equity, where talent, culture, and leadership are part of the deal thesis from day one? In many organisations, the connection between people strategy and business outcomes is still taking shape. In private equity, however, that connection is immediate and unmistakable, with leadership quality, organisational design, workforce capability, and culture being central to the value-creation plan, with clear timelines, defined expectations, and measurable results. David Green speaks with Angela Geffre, Head of Human Capital at GrowthCurve Capital, together, they explore what it really means to run HR in a private equity environment, and what the broader HR profession can learn from it. 

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In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Vincent Barat, Founder and CEO of Albert, to explore whether organisations are thinking about Strategic Workforce Planning at the right level - and what it really means to make workforce planning truly strategic in today’s environment.

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What shifts when people analytics starts operating more like a product and less like a project function? In this episode, David Green is joined by Ashar Khan, Head of People Insights and Solution Design at Autodesk, to explore how the function evolves from delivering data to shaping choices at scale.

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How do organisations move from reacting to workforce change, to planning for it in a way that actually shapes business outcomes? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by David Edwards, strategic workforce planning practitioner, advisor, and author of The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook, to explore what it really takes to make strategic workforce planning work in practice.

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AI was supposed to make work more efficient. So why are people busier than ever? As organisations move into 2026, many leaders are realising that while technology has changed quickly, the fundamentals of how work gets done haven’t kept up. David is joined by Philip Arkcoll, CEO of Worklytics to unpack why activity is increasing, output is accelerating in some places - yet coordination, focus, and decision-making often feel more challenging than before.

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In this episode, host David Green sits down with Kristen to unpack what happens when fear quietly becomes the operating system inside organisations, why authoritarian leadership styles are becoming increasingly normalised, and how HR leaders can reclaim their agency in environments shaped by power, pressure, and public leadership behaviour.

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