Chief People Officer × Cloud Infrastructure: How the Conversation Is Moving

BullishSimon speaks with clear enthusiasm about EY's 5-year learning strategy and personal excitement about AI's trajectory, calling it giving people 'superpowers.'

HR Leaders — How EY Is Upskilling 400,000 People for the Age of AI · Sep 2026

MixedThe hosts focus on managing an ongoing, unresolved industry challenge (grief/burnout) but offer constructive, hopeful strategies without a strong personal forward-looking claim about their own business trajectory.

Veterinary Viewfinder Podcast — We Help Clients Grieve. Who Helps the Vet Team? · Sep 2026

SkepticalConcerns dominate: 'this has been a rough year pharmaceutically' and 'pharmaceuticals are less and less reliably obtained' alongside visits being down ~2% year-to-date, tempering any optimism about the near-term ahead.

Veterinary Viewfinder Podcast — America’s 250th Means More Booms, More Noise, and More Vet Med Prep · Jun 2026

BullishOyer states 'I think the economy is really thriving across America because a lot of the growth that's happening in the data center industry.'

Energy Evolution — Discussing data centers' grid impacts with Amazon Web Services · Jun 2026

MixedOnly brief, balanced commentary: 'no matter what's going on economically, people indulge in certain things' alongside notes that big retailers reverse-engineer costs to squeeze 3PL margins—mixed, not strongly positive or negative.

The New Warehouse — Leading Well at a 3PL: Jim Heffernan of The Armstrong Company · Sep 2026

SkepticalBrief mention of COVID and geopolitical wars forcing supply chains to become resilient frames the external environment as uncertain/risky, though not deeply explored.

Art of Procurement — 882: Reengineering Procurement for Greater Impact W/ Polly DeSouza · Sep 2026

BullishSimon sees learning/L&D and professional services evolving positively with AI as an added skill layer, describing high adoption (130k people, 98% intend to keep using AI) and expanding client offerings like Maestro.

HR Leaders — How EY Is Upskilling 400,000 People for the Age of AI · Sep 2026

MixedOn HR/people-industry trajectory she cites real fear ('am I still relevant'), org design upheaval and task automation stats (25% AIable), balanced against proactive strategies like skills infrastructure—net a mixed, wait-and-see stance.

The Modern People Leader — 328 - Christy Lake (CAO, Twilio) on designing for a future nobody can see · Sep 2026

SkepticalThe hosts describe euthanasia-related emotional toll and 'suck it up' culture as a major, still-unaddressed contributor to burnout and attrition in veterinary medicine, indicating concern about the industry's current trajectory on this…

Veterinary Viewfinder Podcast — We Help Clients Grieve. Who Helps the Vet Team? · Sep 2026

BullishOverwhelmingly positive: 'the opportunity that AI can provide... if you can think of it now, then AI can build it for you,' with stats on time saved and enthusiastic personal anecdotes (home automation, coding).

HR Leaders — How EY Is Upskilling 400,000 People for the Age of AI · Sep 2026

MixedAI is called an exciting 'buzzword' they'll look into, but Austin gives it little weight in current operations and is skeptical of related concepts like humanoids, making this a balanced/mixed view.

The New Warehouse — Warehouse Flexibility: Inside Carhartt’s Automation Strategy · Sep 2026

SkepticalAI is mentioned mainly as a source of speed and overwhelm ('AI boom... feeling very overwhelming'), with no direct enthusiasm about its usefulness or capabilities.

Chief of Staff Network — Why Slowing Down is a Chief of Staff Superpower · Aug 2026

BullishStrong enthusiasm for new tools and experimentation, e.g., building custom agents, personal 'playground of 30 agents,' and embracing constant learning and curiosity as core to progress.

HR Leaders — How EY Is Upskilling 400,000 People for the Age of AI · Sep 2026

MixedMixed view on innovation: she cites a failed enterprise system as a cautionary tale ('increased a lot more workload') but also praises new frameworks (Hooked), behavioral design, and the entrepreneurial/content-creator wave as positive…

Chief of Staff Network — You Are the Product: Managing Yourself as a Chief of Staff · Aug 2026

SkepticalSkeptical of new monitoring tech ("we have never found one that we think is resilient enough," devices "just melt"), favoring traditional human inspection over new sensor-based innovation.

Industrial Talk — Jim Krochune with APM Steam · Jul 2026