In this podcast and video series, David Green will be speaking to a range of senior HR leaders who are pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda. Click on an image to see an episode, or use the buttons below to find our show wherever you listen to your podcasts.
What changes when the people function is designed not as a collection of separate HR processes, but as part of the operating system of the company? David Green is joined by Jack Buckley, Chief People and Systems Officer at Roblox, to explore how measurement, people analytics, technology and workforce strategy come together inside one of the world’s best-known technology companies.
Read MoreYour organisation has committed to an AI strategy. But what does that commitment mean for the people who have to work differently because of it? AI adoption is moving into a more demanding phase. The challenge for HR and learning leaders is translating technology investment into new capabilities, different ways of working and measurable business outcomes.
In this special episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Mike Wynn, SVP, Academy Executive for AI Capabilities & Enterprise Learning Products at Bank of America, and Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone. Together, they explore what it takes to build an AI-ready workforce, combining the practical experience of capability building at scale with a broader perspective on workforce intelligence, skills and work redesign.
Read MoreWhat if the thing slowing down AI in HR isn't the technology at all, but the way the function is set up to deliver it? Most HR organisations already have access to AI. The bigger challenge is whether the way HR is structured, governed and measured is ready to turn that technology into sustainable business value. In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer, principal analyst and co-founder of Brandon Hall Group, to explore new research identifying six structural moves for building an AI-enabled HR operating model.
In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer, principal analyst and co-founder of Brandon Hall Group, to explore new research identifying six structural moves for building an AI-enabled HR operating model.
Read MoreAs AI reshapes work, the people function has an opportunity to play a much bigger role in how organisations navigate the transformation. At Snowflake, that starts with trusted data, strong people analytics and a clear view of what technology should automate, where it should augment human capability, and what should remain human. David Green is joined by Arnnon Geshuri, Chief People Officer at Snowflake. Drawing on a career that includes senior roles at Google, Tesla and Teladoc Health, Arnnon explains why data has become a common language between HR and the business, and how Snowflake is putting that philosophy into practice.
Read MoreA year ago, the challenge was getting people to use AI. Now, the harder task is turning widespread experimentation into redesigned work, stronger productivity and measurable business impact. David Green is joined by Ronni Zehavi, Co-Founder and CEO of HiBob, to explore what the company has learned from its own award-winning AI transformation. Ronni also shares an early, inside perspective on Salesforce’s $166 million investment in HiBob and why it represents an important next chapter in the company’s evolution towards an Organisational Intelligence platform, built on trusted workforce context to help organisations redesign work and make better decisions as people and AI increasingly work side by side.
Read MoreYour AI adoption numbers might be climbing. But what do they tell you about your people? Kelly Jones, Chief People Officer at Cisco, and her team set out to answer that question, and the findings are reshaping how Cisco thinks about engagement, performance, leadership, and the future of HR itself.
Read MoreIf you knew you might live to 100, how differently would you think about the career you are building today? Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, where she's taught for more than thirty years and leads the world's number one ranked programme in human resources. Lynda is also the bestselling co-author of the million selling The 100-Year Life.
Read MoreShould workforce transformation belong to HR? Bettina Dietsche, Group Chief People and Culture Officer at Allianz, doesn't think so. Bettina leads the people agenda for around 156,000 employees at Allianz. She came to HR after 25 years in IT and digital transformation, picking up the people function while serving as COO of Allianz Commercial during a company turnaround. That background shapes her view that HR's job is to challenge and push transformation onto the business agenda - not to own it.
Read MoreDo you know which of your people are wired to thrive in chaos, and which ones need certainty to do their best work? David is joined by Mike Flannagan, Corporate Vice President, Customer & Commercial Success at Microsoft, and Paul Burgess, founder of Instinctive Drives, to explore Microsoft's recent partnership with Instinctive Drives and what it reveals about the human side of AI transformation. Together they unpack why the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology itself, but the mismatch between people's natural instincts and the roles they're being asked to play.
Read MoreHow do you bring AI into an organisation without losing what's made it work for 150 years? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Eric Dozier, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Eli Lilly, to explore what it takes for HR to lead AI and workforce transformation at enterprise scale.
Read MoreWhat if the resistance you're seeing from your team isn't opposition at all?
David Green is joined by Travis Hahler, who leads global strategy and transformation at Salesforce and is also the founder of Neurological Nomad, where he applies neuroscience and neuropsychology to how leaders manage change. Travis is the author of the new book Rethink Resistance, and his central argument reframes almost everything: resistance isn't personal, it's protective.
Read MoreIs your HR function organised the way employees actually experience it, or just the way it's always been done?
In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Tony Truong, VP of People Strategy, Operations, Technology and Analytics at Chime, to unpack why most HR functions are still organised in silos, by specialty, while employees experience work as a series of moments: getting hired, being onboarded, going for a promotion. Tony has spent the last two years closing that gap, rebuilding Chime's people function from the ground up as the company has scaled into a public company.
Read MoreIn this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Parker Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Valence, the team behind the AI coaching platform Nadia, to discuss what it really takes for HR to prove value in an increasingly crowded AI market.
Read MoreIn this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Phil Lebrun and Jana Werner, Executives in Residence at Amazon Web Services and authors of The Octopus Organization, to explore why so many transformations fail to stick — and what a more adaptive, human approach to change actually looks like.
Read MoreIs purpose at work as straightforward as we've made it out to be? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green is joined by Jessica Zwaan, VP People Strategy and Operations at Leapsome and author of Built for People and Purpose and Work, to explore what the research actually tells us about purpose at work — and what that means for how HR shows up for people.
Read MoreHow do you rebuild a company's entire capability infrastructure — and fund the transformation through the savings it generates? Zaka Farhat is Global SVP for Talent, Learning, Organisation and Capability Development at GSK, where she leads the company's enterprise-wide skills, learning and capability agenda. In this episode, Zaka shares the full story of how GSK rebuilt its capability infrastructure in 18 months - retiring more than 20 legacy systems, building a single skills and learning ecosystem, and funding the transformation through the savings it generated.
Read MoreHow do the world's most forward-thinking organisations use skills intelligence, market intelligence and work intelligence together to stay ahead? In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by Mik Wornoo, co-founder and President of US at TechWolf, to explore how organisations are using three signals together to build a strategic workforce planning strategy that can keep pace with AI, and what that looks like in practice.
Read MoreWhat 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.
Read MoreAre 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.
Read MoreMost 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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