Digital HR Leaders

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Recent Episodes

1. Data Inspired: Turning People Analytics Into Better Business Decisions

   Nov 3, 2026

   Sebastian Wernicke, partner at the economics consultancy Oxera and author of *Data Inspired*, discusses why more data rarely changes decisions on its own. The conversation covers the difference between being data-driven and data-inspired, how dashboards and targets can reinforce the status quo, and the role of psychological safety, decision-making culture, and purpose-first analytics. Wernicke also addresses Goodhart's law, the limits of simplifying workforce data into single scores, and how HR and technology leaders can work together on better decisions.

2. How to Turn Skills Intelligence Into Business Value

   Oct 27, 2026

   Loïc Michel, co-founder and CEO of 365Talents, a Docebo company, returns to the Digital HR Leaders podcast to discuss combining skills intelligence with learning and workforce strategy. The conversation covers why skills and learning technology grew up separately, how to measure whether capability gaps are closing, and why skills initiatives stall at the mapping stage without a clear business problem. Guest and host also discuss use cases such as reducing reliance on subcontractors at SNCF, the potential of AI agents in HR, and the need to keep people in the lead on workforce decisions.

3. Why Relationships Matter More as AI Reshapes Work

   Oct 20, 2026

   David Green hosts Michael Arena and Greg Pryor, co-founders of the Connected Commons and co-authors of the forthcoming book The New Social Code, for a discussion of why relationships matter more as AI makes knowledge widely available. They cover network research on performance and career success, the risks of overly large networks, and the idea of social agility, moving between deep trust and broader connections. The conversation also addresses how HR and talent teams can build networks into onboarding and career practices, and how experimentation can prepare people for roles not yet defined.

4. How Roblox Is Rethinking People, Systems and Workforce Strategy

   Oct 13, 2026

   Jack Buckley, Chief People and Systems Officer at Roblox, joins David Green to discuss how people analytics, measurement, and technology fit into the company's people function. The conversation covers his path from the US Navy and academic applied statistics through federal assessment work to Roblox, where he built a people science and analytics team during hypergrowth. They also explore the Roblox operating system, build-versus-buy decisions, workforce planning, and how AI is changing recruiting, assessment, and governance.

5. How Bank of America and Cornerstone Are Building an AI-Ready Workforce

   Oct 6, 2026

   This special episode features Mike Wynn, SVP Academy Executive for AI Capabilities & Enterprise Learning Products at Bank of America, and Himanshu Palsule, CEO of Cornerstone, discussing how to build an AI-ready workforce. Mike shares Bank of America's practical approach to scaling AI capability across all career stages through self-paced learning, social forums, structured pathways, and experiential workshops—all anchored to human skills like judgment and critical thinking. Himanshu provides a broader perspective on workforce transformation, introducing Cornerstone's Domain-Work-Task-Skills (DWTS) framework and workforce intelligence platform to help organizations connect AI strategy with workforce strategy by understanding how jobs, tasks, and skills are changing.

6. How to Build an AI-Enabled HR Operating Model

   Sep 29, 2026

   Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Brandon Hall Group, discusses research on building an AI-enabled HR operating model. The conversation explores six structural moves for HR transformation, including shifting from running programs to owning workforce products, standardizing the right processes while maintaining flexibility, and restructuring around business-facing talent pods, product teams, and centers of excellence. Rochelle argues that the operating model itself—not technology—is often the constraint on AI adoption, and that HR must evolve from an enabler to a catalyst for workforce transformation.

7. How Snowflake Is Using People Analytics to Lead AI Transformation

   Sep 22, 2026

   Arnnon Geshuri, Chief People Officer at Snowflake, discusses how the people function can lead organizational transformation in the AI era. Drawing on experience at Google, Tesla, and Teladoc Health, Geshuri explains Snowflake's framework for deciding what to automate, augment, and keep human—and how trusted data and people analytics enable HR to influence business strategy. The episode covers Snowflake's talent acquisition team building its own AI tools (including a job description generator that reduced hours of work to minutes), achieving 20% productivity gains, and the critical capabilities aspiring CPOs need: analytics, systems thinking, and change management.

8. Inside Salesforce’s $166M Bet on HiBob’s Organisational Intelligence

   Sep 15, 2026

   Ronni Zehavi, Co-Founder and CEO of HiBob, discusses the company's $166 million Series investment led by Salesforce and HiBob's own AI transformation journey. The episode explores how HiBob has evolved from focusing on AI adoption and experimentation to measuring business impact, productivity, and organizational redesign. Ronni shares insights from HiBob's award-winning internal AI transformation program, including lessons about manager enablement, skills redesign, and the shift toward organizational intelligence as the foundation for human-AI collaboration.

9. How People Intelligence Is Helping Shape Cisco’s AI Workforce Transformation

   Sep 8, 2026

   Kelly Jones, Chief People Officer at Cisco, discusses findings from Cisco's People Intelligence team research on AI workforce transformation. The study examined how AI adoption impacts employee engagement, performance, career growth, and leadership, revealing that AI users report higher engagement and perform better, but also uncovering challenges including team trust erosion when adoption is uneven across teams. Jones explores how HR must evolve from a service function to an intelligence layer driving business strategy, requiring leaders to combine technical fluency with emotional intelligence.

10. The 100-Year Life: Rethinking Careers for a Longer Working Life

    Sep 1, 2026

    Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, discusses her new book Living the 100-Year Life: How to Build a Career that Lasts and a Life You Love, a follow-up to her bestselling The 100-Year Life. She introduces a framework of eight threads—mastery, cooperation, knowing, amplification, friendship, intimacy, calm, and adventure—that individuals can weave together to build resilient careers spanning 50-60 years. The conversation explores how longer lifespans are breaking traditional education-work-retirement models, why calm is the most neglected thread in modern workplaces, and how AI and technology reshape work at the task level rather than eliminating jobs entirely.