People Managing People

How to Turn Employee Engagement Into a Business Case

HR has been told for years to “speak the language of the business,” usually as code for proving it deserves to be in the room. But Dr. Shindale Seale makes a stronger cas

HR Has the Skills to Lead the AI Era—But Will It?

There are two ways the AI transformation of work can go. We can hand the keys to the efficiency obsessives and spend the next decade trying to engineer the humanity out o

What AI Surveillance Can’t Tell You About Your Employees

Nobody sets out to build a workforce surveillance system. It usually arrives dressed up as optimization, productivity, wellness, or efficiency. But as AI makes it possibl

Why The EU Pay Transparency Directive Is More Than A Compliance Exercise

The EU Pay Transparency Directive isn’t just another reporting requirement. As pay reporting expert Tom Heys puts it, it’s closer to the UK gender pay gap regime “on ster

Why AI Isn’t Delivering The Productivity Gains We Expected

AI spending continues to hit record highs, yet most organizations are still struggling to translate that investment into better work. In this conversation, David Rice sit

The New Leadership Test: What Makes Someone AI-Native?

AI is quickly becoming the new test of executive credibility—but there's a growing gap between leaders who use AI and leaders who've fundamentally rebuilt how t

Why Traditional AI Risk Frameworks Are Breaking Down

AI adoption isn't slowing down—and neither are the risks. The challenge isn't that organizations don't know AI can create problems. It's that employee

The Team Habit That Separates High Performers From Everyone Else

AI isn't creating high-performing teams—it’s exposing the difference between teams that already know how to work well together and those that don’t. In this episode,

Why AI Usage Reports Don’t Mean Much

AI transformation doesn't fail because the technology isn't good enough. It fails because organizations try to layer it on top of cultures that were already str

Your Best Candidate Might Have The Worst Resume

Resumes still matter—but not for the reasons we think. In a world where AI can polish anyone’s experience into a compelling narrative, the traditional hiring signals many

AI Is Forcing Everyone To Become Their Own Economy

AI isn’t arriving as a gradual workplace evolution—it’s arriving as a societal shift that many leaders are still struggling to describe honestly. In this conversation, Da

Why Making Employees Work The Same Way Backfires

David Kolbe argues that most organizations are only measuring two-thirds of what drives performance. We assess what people know (skills) and how they tend to behave (pers

AI Is Rewarding The Loudest Employees

Most reward systems were built for a world where speed, volume, and visible output were reliable signals of performance. But AI now produces all three at scale. That leav

Your Employees Stop Thinking The Moment They Feel Unsafe

What if the leadership skills we've spent decades rewarding are no longer the ones that matter most? In this conversation, mediator, peacemaker, and author Douglas

AI Saved Oyster’s HR Team 400+ Hours a Year — Here’s How

AI promises efficiency, but the real question is what teams do with the time they get back. In this conversation from Transform in Las Vegas, Oyster’s Erin Goodey joins D

Is Leadership Experience Becoming a Liability?

Most leaders think they’re navigating another wave of disruption. Sara Loncka argues we’re in something far more unsettling: discontinuity. The old assumptions don’t just

Fewer Jobs, Higher Pay: The AI Compensation Paradox

Kyle Holm has spent 25 years advising companies on compensation, and right now he’s watching the logic of corporate hierarchy break in real time. Not because executives s

Community Is the New Buzzword—But We’re Doing It Wrong

Most companies say they’re building community. What they often mean is: they launched a Slack channel no one reads, hosted an event with a neon sign and a DJ, watched peo

AI Is Making People Decisions Worse—Here’s Why

AI is speeding up people decisions at exactly the moment those decisions require more care, more context, and frankly, more humility. In this episode, Matt Poepsel from T

Only 10% of Leaders Use AI—So Who’s Teaching Everyone Else?

Only 10% of senior leaders admit to using AI. Which raises an awkward question: if leadership isn’t really using the tools, who exactly is teaching everyone else how to w