HR Mixtape

Pizza Won't Save You: Daily Leader Habits That Keep People From Quitting

Most companies know turnover is expensive. Plenty of them still answer it with a pizza party on Friday and call that culture. Dr. Sharon Grossman, Retention Strategist a

The CEO's View: Toby Williams on AI and What's Next for HCM

Every HR leader is being told to adopt AI faster than they can evaluate it. The harder question isn't whether to use it. It's whether the company behind it can be trusted

Change the World Tuesday: Rethinking Recruiting for the Age of AI and Flexibility

Pay used to decide who took the job. Now the first question most candidates ask is whether they can work from home, and companies still writing postings around salary alo

Speaking CFO: Winning the Budget Conversation with Finance

HR asks for a new system, more headcount, a bigger training budget. Finance says no. The instinct is to assume the idea wasn't good enough. John Sansoucie, Founder and C

Leave Doesn't Wait: Managing Absence When Volume Rises and Headcount Doesn't

Leave of absence looks like paperwork until you're the one holding it. A request lands, and you're reading federal, state, local, and company policy against each other wh

Too Little Too Late: Why HR's Most Important Conversations Can't Wait

Retention sits near the top of almost every HR priority list. The main tool most organizations use to understand it is a conversation with someone who has already quit.

Work Slop: What SHRM's Research Says About AI Guardrails and the Skills Gap

A little less than half of workers now use AI regularly on the job. Of that group, 44% admit the output looks finished on the surface and holds nothing underneath. SHRM h

Vibe Teaming: How HR Turns AI Experiments into Real Adoption

Most HR teams have already run their AI experiments. A pilot here, a policy draft there. Turning that scattered activity into something people actually use on a Tuesday i

Excess Deference: The Retirement Plan Role HR Often Gets Wrong

Most HR professionals treat the annual retirement plan review like a status update. The advisor presents, the team nods, and everyone gets back to the work they actually

The Disengagement Tax: Turning Employee Listening into Revenue

Most founders treat culture as a launch-phase item: define the values, hire people who believe in the mission, and trust that early momentum carries it forward. It does,

Profit Doctor: When Revenue Grows but Profit Doesn't

Revenue growth is the metric every business celebrates. Record quarters become press releases, and the top line becomes a proxy for health. But when the revenue line on a

Trust at Speed: Hiring Fraud, Deepfakes, and the Identity Risks CHROs Can't Ignore

Most CHROs have a fraud problem they didn't sign up for. Deepfakes in video interviews. Synthetic IDs at the application stage. AI-generated credentials that pass every a

Name It, Tame It: Trauma-Informed Leadership and Felt Safety at Work

When performance problems show up at work, most organizations respond by adding something: a new policy, more training, another initiative. But those problems usually are

Story First: Why Information Alone Can't Drive Change

Most change initiatives fail not because the strategy was wrong but because the communication didn't move anyone. HR leaders deliver their message, check the box, and won

Shatter the Limit: Building Resilient Leaders Who Thrive in the Uncomfortable

Most organizations assume they have resilient teams. What they actually have, in a lot of cases, are teams that have gotten good at tolerating hard things. The two aren't

Global by Design: The Culture Playbook for Distributed Workforces

Most organizations solve the wrong problem when they go global. They get the infrastructure right, find the talent, and figure out the cost model. Then the offshore team

Back of House: People-First HR in High-Turnover Hospitality

In most industries, culture lives in your annual engagement survey. In hospitality, it walks out to the dining room every single night. It shows up in how your server han

Meeting Makeover: Treating Your Meetings Like a Product

Most organizations treat meetings as the default answer to everything, but that's costing you more than you think. Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean,

EQ Is the OS: Leading with Emotional Intelligence in an AI World

Most high performers don't get passed over because of what they know. They get passed over because of how they lead. In this episode, Dr. Bushra Khan makes the case that

Grey Area: HR Strategy for Blue and White Collar Workforces

What does it really take to hire and retain people across a workforce that's part office, part shop floor? Jason Lerner, HR Director at Groundwater Treatment and Technolo