My guest on this episode of the podcast is Alexis Saussinan, who is the Group Head of People Data and Technology at Merck Group. The function he has built has become a bedrock of Merck's people strategy and consistently delivers value to the business and the global workforce at Merck. Alexis and I reflect on the journey of people analytics over the last five years at Merck and look forward to the future as Alexis' role has expanded to bring people data, analytics and technology together. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Karen Powell, Chief Talent and Learning Officer at IQVIA. Karen emphasises that talent marketplace goes far beyond being a technology solution, instead it is a far broader cultural shift that permeates across the organisation and enables a whole new way of thinking about talent. In our conversation, Karen and I discuss how HR and the business are working together to drive transformational change at IQVIA, with a skills-based talent strategy. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Ruslan Tovbulatov, who first saw how HR and people analytics could be a strategic enabler of innovation, during his time at Google. This inspired Ruslan to pivot towards the HR tech field, first by joining Arianna Huffington at Thrive Global, where he worked in senior product and marketing roles for four years before moving on to his current role as VP of Global Marketing at Gloat. The company that first coined the phrase talent marketplace. In this episode, Ruslan shares powerful examples of the business benefits of creating a talent marketplace. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week’s episode is Jeroen Wels, the Executive Vice President of HR at Unilever and the architect of Flex Experiences. Flex Experiences is Unilever's thriving, internal talent marketplace, which is currently used by 65,000 global employees who are able to share their skills and experience with people in other teams and in other countries. During their quarterly earnings call for the first quarter of 2020, Unilever CEO, Alan Jope, highlighted how by using Flex Experiences the company had been able to redeploy over 3000 people from parts of the business with low demand, to the areas that were seeing high demand due to the pandemic. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week’s episode is Ina Gantcheva, a Principle in Deloitte’s Human Capital Practice and a leading authority on talent marketplace. In Ina’s words, talent marketplace has the potential to change the way organisations think about three fundamentals. One, work, by fractionalising work for increased efficiency. Second, the workforce, by unlocking greater potential and value. And finally third, the workplace, by breaking down silos. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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The guest on this week’s episode of the podcast is Head of People Strategy and Analytics at Capital One, Guru Sethupathy, who presides over one of the leading people analytics functions in the world. During this, just shy of four year tenure, Guru has quadrupled the size of the team to around a hundred people and together with his team has delivered significant value to the business as well as Capital One's Associates. Guru is a deep thinker and has retained that passion for people analytics that I saw four years ago. I know that listeners will enjoy learning from Guru’s experience and vision for people analytics. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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The nature of work and workplaces was already changing, but the pandemic has fast-forwarded many aspects of the future of work. The guest on this week’s podcast is Ethan Bernstein, who is an Associate Professor in the Organisational Behaviour Unit at The Harvard Business School. Ethan studies the impact of workplace transparency, the observability of employee activities, routines, behaviours, output and performance on productivity. Together with others, Ethan has conducted research during the pandemic to understand the implications of working without an office, which sought to answer a number of questions. Paramount amongst them was what impact has working from home had on productivity and creativity? Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week’s episode is Wagner Denuzzo, who has a wonderful job title of Head of Capabilities for Future of Work, where he is leading the effort to design the organisation of the future at Prudential Financial. Wagner’s team is responsible for organisational design and capabilities and he is overseeing the development of an extraordinary end to end employee experience, as well as the transformation of learning, careers and skills development for the future and the creation of a talent marketplace. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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Skills is not just a challenge for organisations it is a challenge for entire countries and Singapore is setting a template that others could and perhaps should follow. My guest today is Wenshan Xu, Deputy Director of The Skills Development Group at SSG. The mission of SkillsFuture SG, or SSG for short, is to build a skills competitive Singapore and a nation of resilient and confident lifelong learners. Wenshan describes the unit as an intelligence unit for skills and as you are about to hear, the work they are doing is as fascinating as it is important. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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This week, we bring an esteemed panel of three experts together to debate the future of HR. Firstly, Brigette McInnis-Day Head of HR at Google Cloud, secondly, we have Dave Ulrich, Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the RBL Group and last but not least Rupert Morrison, who is leading the way in data-driven organisational planning as CEO at orgvue. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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In 2020, we learnt that the field of Human Resources is even more important than we thought it was, that People Analytics can save lives and that humans and the organisations they work for can adapt quickly in times of crises. What do the events of 2020 mean for HR though, as we set sail into 2021? I have been publishing an annual set of predictions since 2014 and the podcast’s producer, Ian Bailie, persuaded me that it would be fun to record a special episode of the podcast framed around my predictions for 2021. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Renil Kumar, Vice President and Global HR Head at Wipro. He is the personification of a modern HR Leader, Business focused, data-driven, technologically savvy, inclusive and collaborative. In our conversation Renil and I discuss how People Data and Analytics enables hyper-personalisation across Wipro’s 200,000 plus global employee workforce and how a powerful People Analytics project at Wipro delivered quantifiable value to the business, as well as revealing some interesting insights on the impact of team size and promotions. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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There should be little doubt that human capital is a firm's greatest asset, however, this isn't enough. Organisations must also ensure that individuals are relationally positioned for success. In other words, bringing in the best people is only part of the solution. Firms must also bring out the best in people and that requires us to more intentionally leverage social capital. Those are not my words, although I wholeheartedly agree with their sentiment, but of Michael Arena, my guest for this week's episode of The Digital HR Leaders podcast. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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My guest on this episode of the podcast is Daniel West. His 20 years of experience in HR Leadership roles at data-driven companies like Uber and Apple have taught him how analytics can drive business performance, improve customer outcomes and enrich employee experience and culture. Daniel is now the founder and CEO of Panalyt and the technology his firm provides is helping organisations bring together and democratise their people and business data and enrich it further with external and social capital data to drive decision-making. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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We are in the midst of the biggest global pandemic for a century, combine that with social unrest, an economic crisis, and at the same time, rapid business transformation, then the role of the HR function has never been so important. One company where HR has really come to the fore during the crisis is Bayer. My guest on this week’s episode of the podcast is Melissa Harper, Senior Vice President for HR Innovations at Bayer. With more than 30 years of HR experience, Melissa has been at the forefront of Bayer's response to the crises of 2020 and efforts to redefine the workplace around purpose, innovation, and culture. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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The guest on this week’s episode is Head of People Operations at Grab, Chin Yin Ong. With a background in sales and marketing, a psychology degree and a passion for using technology and analytics to drive better outcomes for the business and its workforce, Chin Yin is the epitome of the Chief People Officer as a catalyst for growth. Chin Yin combines her role as Head of People with running the technology solutions team, which as you will hear, capitalises on the technology Grab has developed for its customers to enhance the work experience for Grabbers, which is Grab's name for its employees. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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In the last episode of this series, my guest is Vidya Krishnan, Chief Learning Officer and Global Head of Learning and Development at Ericsson, who is at the cutting edge of driving a culture where learning is a habit that matters. When we were planning this episode Vidya and I quickly realised we had a mutual passion for people data and analytics. Vidya also shared with me a view that I found quite profound, she told me that learning is oxygen, invisible but necessary to survive and analytics will make it visible. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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In this episode of the podcast my guest is Simon Brown, Chief Learning Officer at Novartis, a company that is really setting the pace around the whole learning and skills agenda. Simon believes that curiosity is the greatest driver of value in the digital age and as well as being co-author of a fascinating new book, The Curious Advantage, Simon and his team have instigated curiosity month at Novartis, an integrated learning experience of 170 events throughout September featuring internal and external speakers. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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In this episode of the podcast, my guest is Kat Kennedy, the Chief Experience Officer of Degreed, where she has overall responsibility for product and technology. Kat was employee number three at Degreed and since she joined in 2012, the company has enjoyed phenomenal growth and created an entire new category in the HR technology market with its learning experience platform or LXP. As Kat outlines in our conversation, Covid-19 has accentuated the importance of re-skilling, up-skilling and learning. This episode is a must listen for anyone interested or involved in learning skills and the technology that supports it. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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In this episode of the podcast, my guest is Gianpiero Petriglieri, who is the Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. Gianpiero’s studies highlight the psychological, social and cultural functions of leadership development and his teaching methods provide an example of how to perform those functions purposely for the benefit of individuals, organisations and society at large. His research has appeared in academic journals, media and business journals, like the Harvard Business Review, where five of his essays have been included among the ideas that shaped management in the last decade. Click below to listen to this week’s episode or to read the full transcript.

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