Digital HR Leaders
Stefan Kesic
In this series, David Green will be speaking to a range of senior HR leaders who are pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda. There is an increasing need for HR professionals to become more digitally and numerically literate – to acquire the skills necessary to process, produce and leverage digital information to create business value. You'll hear from people leaders who are driving transformation in their organisations on how HR can prepare for the future and what HR leaders need to do to…
Recent Episodes
Inside Salesforce’s $166M Bet on HiBob’s Organisational Intelligence
Sep 15, 2026Ronni 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.
How People Intelligence Is Helping Shape Cisco’s AI Workforce Transformation
Sep 8, 2026Kelly 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.
The 100-Year Life: Rethinking Careers for a Longer Working Life
Sep 1, 2026Lynda 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.
How Allianz Is Building a Workforce Ready for Constant Change
Aug 25, 2026Bettina Dietsche, Group Chief People and Culture Officer at Allianz, discusses her unconventional path into HR after 25 years in IT and digital transformation, and how that background shapes her approach to workforce transformation in the AI era. She emphasizes that HR should challenge and nudge business leaders to own transformation rather than HR owning it directly, and shares Allianz's strategies for building a learning culture, developing adaptive leadership capabilities, and helping 156,000 employees navigate constant change through trust-based culture and daily AI adoption habits.
Your Team's AI Instincts: Why AI Adoption Succeeds or Fails on How You're Wired
Aug 4, 2026Paul Burgess, founder of Instinctive Drives, discusses with Mike Flanagan (Microsoft CVP of Customer Success) why AI adoption succeeds or fails based on how people are naturally wired. The episode explores Microsoft's partnership with Instinctive Drives and reveals that the biggest barrier to AI adoption is the mismatch between people's instinctive drives and the roles they're assigned, not technology itself. The conversation covers the four instinctive drives framework, why psychological safety matters, and how understanding natural instincts accelerates team performance and adoption outcomes.
How HR Can Lead AI and Workforce Transformation Across the Enterprise
Jul 28, 2026Eric Dozier, Chief People Officer at Eli Lilly, discusses the company's AI transformation journey over the past 4 years. He shares how Lilly, a 150-year-old pharmaceutical company, is integrating AI across the organization while preserving its core values and culture. Key topics include the company's approach to responsible AI, the evolving role of managers as coaches, and how HR is transforming both its own function and enabling enterprise-wide workforce adaptation.
What Neuroscience Reveals About Making Change Stick
Jul 21, 2026Travis Haley, Global Strategy and Transformation Lead at Salesforce and founder of Neurological Nomad, discusses how neuroscience explains resistance to change in organizations. He outlines six neurological barriers to change—routine, learning, exclusion, ambiguity, anxiety, and loss—and explains how leaders can reframe resistance as protective rather than oppositional. The conversation emphasizes practical applications for HR leaders managing AI adoption and workforce transformation.
🛠️ A skills-based organisation isn't built just by launching a new platform.
Jul 10, 2026❗⚠️ Why do so many transformations fail?
Jul 9, 2026How AI Coaching is Changing Talent Management and Workforce Transformation (with Parker Mitchell)
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